Night at the Museum
I haven't been out for a few months, and the streets look even worse and more chaotic. There are fewer and fewer people. Even when I go out at night, there are very few people on the streets. Everyone basically stays around their homes.
Jiang Miao was driving a Hummer SUV on the relatively quiet street. Although the moonlight was very bright, the pedestrians around him could not tell through the privacy glass that there was a girl sitting inside. They just felt that anyone who could afford a Hummer in the doomsday was definitely not someone that small characters like them could afford to mess with, so they avoided her with envy and fear.
Driving all the way to the city center, the Lanwan community was originally on the First Ring Road, only a ten-minute drive from the library in the city center. Now there are no traffic lights and speed limit cameras, so the speed is even faster.
Jiang Miao drove the car onto the sidewalk and parked it in a shop that had been looted.
There are few residential areas in the city center, and commercial streets and landmark buildings account for the majority. The library and the museum are next to each other. Jiang Miao wants to try to see if he can take care of both places at once.
Libraries were hailed as retirement units before the end of the world. Now, the fragmented time in people's lives is occupied by games and short videos. How can they spare the time to go to the library to borrow books and read them?
By the end of the world, the defenses here were not even as good as the commercial office buildings Jiang Miao had visited before. The glass door of the library had long been cracked by the fierce sun and shattered to the ground with a slight touch.
Jiang Miao was surprised. Has no one ever come in here?
But on second thought, in order to prevent mosquitoes, rats and ants from damaging the books, it is forbidden to bring any food and drinks into the library. Since there are no available supplies to collect, and these bulky books are tiring and useless to move, naturally no one would be willing to come to the city library. Even the staff who work here are unwilling to make a trip in the hot weather.
Starting with the periodicals, documents and newspapers on the underground first floor, Jiang Miao put the books into the space along with the bookshelves. There were literary masterpieces from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign, on the first floor, electronic machinery, technology and medicine on the second floor, paintings, music, chess and art works on the third floor, professional books from all walks of life on the fourth floor, and all kinds of miscellaneous books on the fifth floor. He accepted everything and put them in his pocket.
The collection here went so smoothly, we arrived an hour earlier than expected, so we naturally had more time to go to the museum with ease.
Jiang Miao came out of the library and put the computer into the space when passing by the librarian's window.
There are at least hundreds of thousands of books here. It would be too troublesome and time-consuming to compile a catalog one by one. It would be better to bring a computer with you. As long as the search system in it can be used normally, it will be much more convenient for Jiang Miao to find and use books.
From a distance, Jiang Miao saw the museum's emergency lights were conspicuously bright at night, and felt a little regretful.
It’s not that she likes those priceless treasures, but if those calligraphy and paintings are not moved to a safe place in time after a few months, they will have to soak in water for more than a year. By then, even the world's most powerful cultural relic restoration master will not be able to remedy the damage.
When she died in her previous life, it was almost impossible to tell that this world had ever experienced urban civilization. It was even worse than the late Qing Dynasty of the Republic of China. The whole world was in ruins and culture and technology had regressed three hundred years. It was really difficult to develop into the state before the apocalypse.
After thinking about it, Jiang Miao decided to follow his heart. Since he was already here, he might as well go and take a look.
The apocalypse was fraught with danger, and unless she happened to be passing by, she would not come to the museum again on purpose to save the calligraphy and painting relics.
Compared to the library where no one cares, there are security teams on duty in the museum even in the end times.
It’s just that the temperature at night was so high in the past few months that almost no one was outdoors at night. The museum did not have a mandatory requirement for security guards to be on duty, and they could just monitor in the monitoring room.
Jiang Miao lowered the brim of his hat and roughly observed the buildings around the museum on the offline map. He chose to start from the garage and prepare to break through from the underground first floor.
Unexpectedly, by coincidence, Jiang Miao seemed to have encountered a professional thief gang who were modifying the program in front of the electronic door in front.
This group of people also thought that the unbearable high temperature had just passed, and when the temperature dropped a little, they could go out and move around. Of course, they would take this opportunity to do something big! Although gold is expensive in troubled times and antiques are worthless, it is impossible for people to live in troubled times for decades. Didn't Zhuge Liang also say that long separation will eventually lead to reunion and long reunion will eventually lead to separation?
There were three people in total in the theft gang. Only the one holding the computer was a little smaller. The other two were strong and might have some martial arts skills.
That was a great help.
Jiang Miao and others watched them invade the museum's surveillance program control system, and then followed them into the museum.
In order to ensure the temperature and humidity of the cultural relics and prevent theft gangs from maliciously cutting off power and stealing the cultural relics, the museum is equipped with the most advanced temperature and humidity control system and a large power storage room. These things are still working diligently until doomsday.
As soon as she entered the museum, Jiang Miao felt the long-lost 24 degrees Celsius of spring. The sudden drop in temperature made goose bumps appear on her skin involuntarily. In order to avoid catching a cold, she quickly found a coat in the space and put it on outside.
No wonder the municipal government has no plans to move the cultural relics out of the museum. They are indeed preserved much better here than in other places.
If it weren't for the sudden torrential rain that flooded the eighth floor in two days, these cultural relics would have been well protected here. What a pity.
The theft gang broke through the security system and the surveillance footage froze at 1:22 a.m. If you didn't look closely at the time in the upper right corner, you wouldn't notice anything unusual about the surveillance.
The three security guards in the monitoring room were playing Landlord and they really didn't look closely. After all, the temperature outside was about 48 or 49 degrees Celsius at night. Who would dare to come out and seek death?
Jiang Miao followed the three people with light steps. The cultural relics on the basement and first floor were not valuable, so the theft gang did not stay there for long. She did not care about the price of the cultural relics, so she collected all those that came into her sight.
Until the second and third floors, many valuable cultural relics were locked in glass cabinets. If they were maliciously broken, an alarm would be sounded. The three thieves began to crack the password of the security lock.
"Hurry up, we won't be able to hide if the security guards come to patrol the building!" When the security guards were patrolling the building, there was no footage of the security guards patrolling in the surveillance camera, so it was easy to find that something was wrong.
"It's almost done. The firewall of this security system is not top-notch. Give me two more minutes!"
While they were busy on the second floor, Jiang Miao had already packed up his things and went around to the third floor, waiting for the glass lock to click, and then transferred all the cultural relics in the glass cabinet on the third floor into the space, and then went to the fourth floor.
The museum is themed on history. The higher the floor, the older the items are and the more valuable they are. However, there are always a few famous things from every dynasty collected in the museum. The theft gang packed up several rare cultural relics on the second floor and immediately went to the third floor.
But when I got up there, I was dumbfounded.
The bright moonlight and the dim night lights complemented each other, and all the glass cabinet doors on the third floor were opened wide, revealing nothing inside!
"Go, the fourth floor!" Chen Wan immediately rushed to the fourth floor. The combination lock was just about to be broken. It was impossible for someone to come here before them. Or maybe the treasures on the second floor were more valuable than the many cultural relics on the third floor. Why was the third floor empty while the second floor was intact? So the people must still be in the museum!
The three of them hurried to the fourth floor, and Jiang Miao quickly hid into the darkness after hearing the footsteps.
She obviously forgot that the purpose of the thieves was different from hers, so they would not take all the stolen goods, so she misjudged the time.
The glazed jade crown, which was known as the treasure of the museum and was located in the center of the fourth floor, was nowhere to be seen. The glass cabinet was mostly opened, and the person must still be inside!
"Come out." Chen Wan and Chen Qian both took out their guns and pointed their flashlights at the ceiling to increase the brightness in the space. People's shadows were also more obvious in the empty exhibition hall, and the slightest movement would be noticed.
"My fellow thieves, this is not the way to do things. We worked so hard to get the key to the security system, and you guys didn't pay anything and still want to get the good stuff before us. Isn't that a bit unethical?"
Chen Wan signaled to Chen Qian with his eyes, and the two of them split into two groups and began a detailed search from the stairs to the left and right of the exhibition hall.
"We are not unreasonable people. We are all brothers in the same business. We should discuss everything together. If we wait until we find the person, we will not hesitate to kill him."
Chen Wan lowered his guard as he spoke, and slowly searched for someone in the exhibition hall with a gun.
He was certain that this group of people did not confront him head-on because they did not have guns. Otherwise, judging by the speed at which they had just emptied the exhibition hall on the third floor, there were at least five or six people in the gang. How could they hide and not dare to confront them head-on!
"Brothers, please say a few words. It's embarrassing for me to be the only one doing this monologue here."
Jiang Miao huddled under the display stand of the Glazed Jade Crown. She had just received the item when she heard footsteps coming up the stairs and had to hide temporarily.
The hand and the gun are already in hand. There are still some cultural relics here that have not been collected into the space. If the charge/gun is used, the scene will definitely be severely damaged.
However, through the reflection of the exhibition hall's glass, Jiang Miao saw that both of them had weapons in their hands. After thinking for a while, he finally changed to a submachine gun.
There was no way she would put these artifacts before her own life.
"It looks like you are planning to adopt a non-violent non-cooperative approach?" Chen Wan seemed to see a shadow swaying, and immediately gestured to inform Chen Qian. They were twin brothers and naturally had a tacit understanding. Even their footsteps were perfectly coordinated, making it impossible for people to notice that there were two people approaching this side!
Jiang Miao held his breath, standing still in the narrow, dark display cabinet, his sharp eyes fixed on the shadow slowly approaching on the ground, waiting for it to reach the target he had in his mind before suddenly firing a volley of bullets!
"Don't move!" The enemy suddenly shouted. Jiang Miao felt a tingling sensation on his back and subconsciously wanted to raise his gun and shoot, but surprisingly there was no one around.
What's going on?
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