It's perfectly normal for servants to bring home things that their employers don't want.
What the master doesn't want is still a good thing to the servant.
Almost all the servants did this.
After the Grand Master arrived, he started working on this aspect.
After working with several collectors and auction houses, he transformed the items his servants brought home into valuable works of art.
The specific method is very simple: just forge a few auction records and certificates of authenticity.
Strictly speaking, this doesn't even qualify as a forgery.
They have real records of fund flows, and these records are from several years ago, even more than a decade ago.
As long as you have money, none of these things are a problem.
After their manipulation, each of those items was worth over a million dollars.
Under Los Angeles law, theft of more than $50,000 can result in a maximum sentence of 12.5 years in prison and a fine of $150,000.
That million dollars won't be coming out for at least 10 years, and they'll be fined until they're bankrupt.
Once inside, the lives of these people were entirely in the hands of the host family.
With a little money and some bribing around in prison, killing them is incredibly easy.
Or, instead of letting them die, cripple them, making them suffer even more than if they were dead.
In US prisons, there are far too many people doing this kind of shady work.
There was a popular line that went, "Being rich means you can do whatever you want."
Actually, this line wouldn't be too problematic in the US.
With those two chickens killed, the remaining monkeys became very well-behaved.
Sophia didn't even need to replace them, yet they became even more loyal than before.
After the memorial service, the group headed to the cemetery.
Cao Kun and Sophia were in the same car.
Sofia said, "If some idiots in our family come to provoke you, don't bother with them."
Cao Kun said calmly, "I never argue with the dead."
Sofia immediately understood: "I will warn them."
The burial site for Sofia's father was not a public cemetery, of course.
It is their family's private cemetery.
There are already more than a dozen graves here, all belonging to members of the Potter family.
They even hired people to guard the place.
Three pits had already been dug inside the cemetery.
Once everyone has arrived, the burial will begin.
Sofia's family claims she is the only person in the family, but this refers to her close relatives.
There are still quite a few distant relatives.
Now, the group has arrived at the cemetery in a grand procession, numbering several hundred people.
A white-haired priest stood before the three coffins and proclaimed loudly:
"Merciful Father! We entrust the souls of the three of us into Your hands..."
The priest muttered a lot of things, and Cao Kun began to regret agreeing to Sophia's request to attend the funeral.
Fortunately, the funeral will be over soon.
He endured it.
Just then, a dangerous intuition suddenly arose in Cao Kun's mind.
He didn't have time to think too much. He reached out and grabbed Sophia's waist, then leaped up like a soaring bird, landing hundreds of meters away.
Boom boom boom...
They had just left when a violent explosion rang out, and flames shot into the sky.
"ah!"
"ah!"
"ah!"
...
A series of shrill screams rang out.
Many people were killed on the spot.
But many others, whose parts were blown off, were not yet dead and were desperately wailing in pain.
Sofia stared blankly in that direction, unable to react for a moment.
Cao Kun secretly thought to himself, "That was close!"
This is why, after breaking through to the Evil Core realm and gaining spiritual awareness, he could detect such dangers well in advance.
Similarly, this is a scene that Cao Kun tries his best to avoid.
He was constantly worried that someone had planted dozens of kilograms of explosives, waiting for him to arrive.
Once he steps into the trap and the explosives detonate, he'll be badly injured, if not killed.
Explosives are dead before they explode.
Given Cao Kun's previous level of skill, it would have been difficult for him to perceive the danger.
Now that I have spiritual awareness, things are much better.
However, this time the explosives didn't amount to several tens of kilograms.
Otherwise, apart from Cao Kun and Sophia, none of the people present would have escaped.
Cao Kun estimated that it weighed at most only a few kilograms.
At this moment, Sofia finally realized what was happening.
Instead of panicking, she took out her phone and called the police.
After reporting the incident to the police, she called the lawyer again and asked him a few questions over the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Sophia said to Cao Kun, "This is very likely aimed at me."
"Nonsense," Cao Kun said irritably, "If you really wanted to deal with me, you wouldn't have planted so little explosives."
Sophia: "They saw that I was the only one left in the Potter family, so they planned to kill me and seize the Potter family's inheritance."
Cao Kun commented: "It's a very melodramatic, yet very reasonable plot."
Sofia turned her head to look at the crowd.
Her gaze was focused on those who, upon her death, would be entitled to inherit her estate and who were unharmed.
After Sophia explained her line of thought, she asked Cao Kun, "Aren't they the prime suspects?"
Cao Kun: "They are indeed highly suspicious, but the injured person cannot be exonerated either. Do you know what a self-inflicted injury ploy is?"
After Cao Kun explained what the "bitter trick" meant, Sophia was immediately at a loss.
This makes finding the suspect a huge undertaking.
Cao Kun added, "There are still people who haven't arrived; they are also suspects."
Sophia: "Master Cao Kun, can you help me find the murderer? I only trust you now."
Just as Cao Kun was about to refuse, Sophia added, "Two million US dollars."
Cao Kun changed his tune and said, "No problem."
Suddenly, the sound of sirens came from afar; the police had finally arrived.
After a flurry of activity, the injured were all taken to the town hospital.
The town's medical resources were suddenly overwhelmed.
Sofia paid for a group of doctors and nurses to come and provide support.
While the hospital was busy, at the same time, Sofia's three relatives were finally laid to rest at the cemetery.
Sofia insisted on being buried today, without changing the date.
This decisiveness made Cao Kun think even more highly of her.
In the afternoon, the basic statistical results came out.
At the cemetery, as many as seven people were killed instantly by the explosion.
These seven people were all standing relatively close to Sofia.
If Cao Kun hadn't taken Sophia away back then, she would definitely be dead by now.
Four people died en route to the hospital.
Two people died after arriving at the hospital despite resuscitation efforts.
There are 32 injured people remaining.
Three of them are still in critical condition.
Seven people will require amputation.
The remaining people sustained varying degrees of injury.
In other words, as of now, 13 people have died and 32 have been injured, for a total of 45 people.
The entire town of Potter was shocked by such a terrible incident.
The mayor and the newly appointed sheriff, Gamat, assured Sofia that they would definitely catch the murderer.
That evening, Cao Kun appeared in Sophia's room.
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