Chapter 329: Site Checking (Part 2)

"Dear guests, my name is Nose Ring, I will take you to your new vault."

The house elf with a red nose said so.

Mike also showed a surprised look on his face and asked:

"Nose Ring? Who is Griphook to you?"

"Griphook? That's my distant cousin." Nose Ring said contemptuously, "A poor and despicable goblin! Do you know him, guests?"

"Yes, he has always taken me to the vault before."

"Then you are too unfortunate, Griphook's driving skills are notoriously poor." Nose Ring patted his chest and said proudly, "I am the goblin with the best driving skills in the entire Gringotts!"

Franklin and Benjamin had never owned a private vault before, so they were confused when they heard it, and didn't quite understand why Nose Ring, a bank employee, was proud of his excellent driving skills.

Mike recalled the memories of depositing and withdrawing gold Jialong in the past, and couldn't help but feel nauseous.

He really didn't understand why Gringotts, such a large monopoly enterprise, didn't improve the user experience?

What era is this? The passage to the underground vault is still a backward mine cart!

Is it really that difficult to learn from the Ministry of Magic to build a magic elevator?

Perhaps this is why the Muggle society has to establish antitrust laws!

Mike thought so, followed Nose Ring through the door in the hall and came to the mine cart.

At the same time, he also had a little expectation for Nose Ring's driving skills.

However, when Nose Ring started the mine cart, Mike understood that driving the mine cart on the track was not practical at all.

Especially when the mine cart track was in disrepair.

The mine cart began to speed up like a group of wild horses that had broken free from their reins. Because the speed was too fast, the connection between the mine cart and the track kept rubbing out bright sparks, and coupled with the screams of Franklin and Benjamin, this scene was like a scene in a horror movie!

But screaming was screaming, Benjamin and Franklin still did not forget their work this time.

They were sitting on the bumpy mine cart, holding the handle with one hand and holding their glasses with the other hand to prevent them from flying out.

At the same time, they kept looking around to ensure that the magic glasses could record as many images as possible.

The small mine cart kept speeding on the maze-like track, and all around them were narrow passages.

After an unknown amount of time, the mine cart suddenly opened up and came to a huge underground space. The slightly fresh air with the smell of sulfur slapped on everyone's face, which made Benjamin, who had read many science fiction novels, have some bad associations.

'Diagon Alley has long been rumored that the space under Gringotts has been dug all the way to the center of the earth. Now with this strong smell of sulfur, could the legend be true? '

Thinking of this, Benjamin unconsciously began to look under the mine cart, but as soon as he took a look, he gasped.

Fire dragon!

Several fire dragons that looked about the size of ants were lying deep underground, spewing flames of different colors.

Benjamin hurriedly grabbed his glasses with both hands, trying to carefully record the distribution of the fire dragons.

However, the next moment, a stream of cold water poured on his head, cooling him down!

"Shit!"

Benjamin cursed while eagerly wiping his glasses with the shirt that was still dry inside his suit.

Seeing this, Nose Ring laughed and explained:

"Guest, that's the anti-thief waterfall! It can wash away all spells and magical disguises, and it is one of our Gringotts' defense measures!"

"You really should take it down, the experience of this thing is really bad! I don't believe you don't have other measures to recognize the true identity of the user!"

Benjamin complained, but he kept looking back at the small waterfall, and silently wrote down Nose Ring's words.

In the face of Benjamin's complaints, Nose Ring did not respond at all, and continued to concentrate on driving the mine cart, as if he wanted to show off his driving skills in front of Mike, the real boss.

Under Nose Ring's 'superb driving skills', everyone finally arrived at Mike's original secondary vault with sparks and lightning.

When the mine cart stopped on the platform, Benjamin and Franklin both breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time cast sympathetic and admiring eyes at Mike. It was hard for them to imagine how much suffering Mike had suffered when he had always been riding in the mine cart driven by Griphook, whose driving skills were even worse than Nose Ring.

But when they looked at Mike, they found that Mike's instrument was no different from before. Looking at themselves, the custom-made suit on their body was completely soaked, and Benjamin's proud big back hair was also soaked and messy.

Mike suppressed his smile and took out the key to open the vault.

At this time, the gold galleons in Mike's vault had already piled up like a mountain with the crazy expansion of the Los Santos Group. It was no wonder that Gringotts suggested Mike to change a vault.

When Franklin and Benjamin entered the vault, they were stunned. No one could remain unmoved in front of the mountain of gold that reached the ceiling.

Of course, I'm talking about people, not goblins.

Nose Ring's expression was quite indifferent. It worked silently without making a sound, using the magic of the goblins to collect all the gold galleons into a small bag, and then led everyone back to the mine cart, ready to go to the most heavily guarded area of ​​the entire Gringotts, the first-level vault group!

This vault group specially prepared for ancient pure-blood families and top dignitaries is located at the bottom of the entire underground space, that is, next to the fire dragon and sphinx breeding area.

When the mine cart stopped again, Benjamin, Franklin and others finally had the opportunity to observe these monster guards up close.

There are still some creatures with advanced intelligence like the sphinx, and those fire dragons are really miserable.

The huge rusty iron chain directly penetrated into their bodies, imprisoning them firmly on the ground. Because they have not seen the sun for many years, their scales are abnormally white, and there are a lot of scars on them.

But despite this, they are still very fierce.

As soon as they heard the brakes of the mine cart, they opened their bloody mouths and pounced over.

Nose Ring frowned slightly upon seeing this, then calmly took out a string of iron sheets and started shaking them.

As a very special crisp sound was heard, the originally fierce fire dragons all showed painful expressions and quickly retreated, shrinking back to their own corners.

"Oh, these untamed beasts!"

Nose Ring looked at the fire dragons with disdain, raised his head, and proudly led everyone to continue walking forward.

Benjamin, Franklin and others looked at each other, and were very shocked.

They were not fools, and they also had a certain understanding of domesticating animals.

The performance of the fire dragons just now was obviously an instinct for the sound of iron sheets. This instinct needs to be trained by very inhumane means. Only in this way can the fire dragons recall the pain when they were tortured when they heard the sound.

Although the space where the first-level vault group is located is extremely large, even larger than the entire second-level and third-level vault groups combined, it is obviously not fully utilized.

Led by Nose Ring, Mike and his companions walked for nearly ten minutes before they arrived at a smooth stone door. In these ten minutes, they did not see any other stone doors!

"Sir, this is your vault. In addition to the full set of forbidden protection we provide, you can also choose other services, such as engraving your family or personal unique emblem or mark on the stone door, or you can also let us add more magical restrictions, such as we can attach triggered copying spells and fire spells to the treasures in your vault. Anyone who touches them illegally will be burned and crushed to death by the constantly copied treasures." Nose Ring rubbed his hands and smiled flatteringly, "Of course, these services require additional charges!"

"Give me everything that can be done!"

Mike's heroic speech made Nose Ring the whole goblin happy. It clapped its hands excitedly, and then took out a bill and handed it to Mike.

1500 gold galleons.

This is the full set of fees mentioned by Nose Ring.

I have to say that the price is a bit expensive. The goblins are suspected of ripping him off. But Mike really doesn't care about the money now. What he cares about is how to get Gringotts' defense system from Nose Ring.

"I can sign the name. But you can't cut corners on all the security measures. Do you understand?"

"Of course! We are Gringotts! Our service has always been the best!"

Mike thought of the previous mine cart, curled his lips, and was too lazy to complain. He continued:

"I'm too lazy to understand these things. My secretary will discuss it with you."

Mike handed the entire bill to Benjamin, and took Franklin to visit the dragon and the Sphinx.

Looking at the densely packed forbidden catalog on the bill, Benjamin frowned.

Gringotts has been able to run for so many years, and Benjamin only took a cursory look at the things on this bill and could see the difficulty.

But as the president, Mike has already issued an order, so Benjamin can only face the challenge.

"Mr. Nose Ring, according to the bill, the vault door can only be opened by goblins, right?"

"Yes, Mr. Secretary." Nose Ring replied, "All the vault doors here are attached with unique magic. If you are not a goblin, you cannot open the vault door even if you have the key."

"What if someone tries to break in by force?"

"Don't worry at all. Our doors are extremely strong and will never be broken by force. And the intruder will be sucked into the door and suffocated to death the moment he touches the door. We will open the vault door once every ten years to check if there is a corpse inside."

Nose Ring said proudly, and Benjamin heard the key in his words and hurriedly looked through the catalog on the bill.

After a while, Benjamin smiled.

"Mr. Nose Ring, I saw the restriction of anti-apparition spell on the list. Then can this restriction restrict goblins and house elves?" "

Of course, if there is no such restriction, we will not use mine carts as a means of transportation." "Then

what about the door key?"

The smile on Nose Ring's face suddenly froze.

"Of course!"

"Oh? Is that true?"

"Of course! We are Gringotts! Do you think a large enterprise like us would not even think of such a thing?"

Nose Ring roared in anger, and Benjamin's smile became even brighter.

"Well, Mr. Nose Ring, let's skip this question and go directly to the next one."

...

Three hours later, Benjamin closed the bill and said to Nose Ring with a serious expression:

"Mr. Nose Ring, considering the security measures of your bank, I think the price of 1,500 gold galleons is too high. 1,000 gold galleons is the correct price."

Nose Ring, who was opposite Benjamin, was already haggard. In the past three hours, the hateful secretary in front of him asked almost every item on the list. If it was just like this, it would be fine, but this secretary was completely nitpicking. Even if the measures were perfect, he could find shortcomings in them!

This really exhausted Nose Ring!

Now he had no desire to continue to tangle with Benjamin, even if Benjamin bargained a little bit, it didn't care at the moment.

Waving his hands, Nose Ring said weakly:

"I listen to you, all the same!"

Hearing this, Benjamin was overjoyed, and hurriedly tore the bill in his hand into pieces, and re-drafted a bill of 1,000 gold galleons with Nose Ring, and then handed the new bill to Mike with a proud face.

"Oh, is it so much?" Mike looked at the number on the bill and said to Benjamin in surprise, "But I'm not short of money, I'll give you the 500 gold galleons saved as a bonus."

"Thank you, boss!"

Benjamin hurriedly bowed to thank him, and laughed so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes. Nose

Ring, who was standing beside him, was so angry that his nose was crooked when he saw this, and he finally understood.

Why did the secretary in front of him bargain so hard? It seems that his boss is a rich man, and the money he bargained for will eventually go into his pocket.

Suddenly, Nose Ring felt that he had lost 100 million.

Mike signed the bill readily, handed the money to Nose Ring and Benjamin on the spot, then turned and walked towards the mine car.

Benjamin counted out 100 gold coins from the 500 gold Galleons and secretly stuffed them into a corner where no one could see.

As soon as the heavy bag was in his hand, the indignation on Nose Ring's face disappeared, replaced by extreme astonishment.

"Mr. Nose Ring, this is a tip for you." Benjamin blinked at Nose Ring and said, "I will come here often to help our boss deposit and withdraw gold Galleons in the future. Please take care of me in the future."

Nose Ring is an old employee of Gringotts. Just by weighing it, he knew that the gold coins in his bag would not be small. After hearing Benjamin say this, a smile appeared on his face instantly. The original disgust and hatred for Benjamin turned into sincere joy under the attack of this bag of gold Galleons.

"You are quite sensible!" Nose Ring patted Benjamin's arm and said, "Don't worry, leave all these small things to me!"