Hiding at home with nothing to do, while letting others go out to carry out tasks - this feeling, both Li Yuebai and Ye Qing felt very uncomfortable.
It's like going from being a hero saving the world to being a rare protected plant that needs to be carefully cared for in a greenhouse, covered in a glass cover, and locked with several combination locks.
After receiving the notification from the system in the morning, Ye Qing reviewed the entire incident of the Yongfeng Company robbery and reported the situation to the bureau.
The content of the report is that a group of robbers are planning to break into the headquarters of SinoPac Corporation at gunpoint this afternoon to carry out a robbery, and there are dormant vampires in the warehouse of SinoPac Corporation, so special attention needs to be paid.
When reporting, Ye Qing certainly would not say that all this information came from the system, nor would he say that he was a time traveler. Anyway, he had the identity of a computer genius as a cover, so no matter what the information was, he would just say that he had intercepted it from someone else's server.
Since Ye Qing solved several vampire-related cases in succession, his reports were of course taken seriously by the higher-ups, who immediately dispatched a large force to guard the place.
"So I managed to get away with it this time?" Li Yuebai always felt that the matter was too easy to resolve this time: "This is the first time I've encountered a situation where I can resolve it by just sitting at home and not running around..."
He lay down on the sofa and hugged the pillow: "Ah... Is this the feeling of safety? Teacher, I haven't felt this for a long time..."
"I am the only one who is safe for now." Ye Qing reminded him calmly: "Gao Chengyu's men may come back to seek revenge on you at any time, so you are not safe..."
Li Yuebai had no choice but to throw down the pillow and sit up again. He smoothed his hair and sighed, "Xiaoye, can't you let me be happy for a while?"
There was no choice but to get up and continue reasoning.
According to their previous speculation, Gao Chengyu should be in Europe now.
Domestic affairs were naturally handed over to his remnant faction.
It's strange to say, Gao Chengyu has some roots in this city and a lot of people under him, so why is it that none of these people have come to cause trouble for Gu Xisha (Li Yuebai) until now?
Gu Xisha had originally collected a lot of criminal data on Gao Chengyu, enough to fill up an entire bookcase. Later, in order to avoid danger, Li Yuebai read through all the data on his subordinates and memorized it in his mind.
Up to now, these people have been quiet and have not caused any trouble.
Are you waiting for something?
Li Yuebai was lost in thought while holding the documents. Before long, his eyes were attracted by Ye Qing's computer screen.
The city’s breaking news was playing on Ye Qing’s computer screen.
"Hello, fellow citizens! This afternoon, a group of newly unearthed Ming Dynasty cultural relics will be exhibited at the Municipal Museum!" On the screen, the female host had a bright smile on her face and her voice was very exciting: "This batch of cultural relics was unearthed in the suburbs of this city not long ago. The era belongs to the Longqing period in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. There are inscribed gold ingots, kingfisher crowns, jade plaques, jade hairpins... gold wine jugs, etc..."
Ming Dynasty cultural relics... Li Yuebai looked at them for a few more times and couldn't help but think of the book "Blood Charm" in his hand.
The photographer did not disappoint, and the camera provided a dazzling array of photos of cultural relics, which were very attractive. Li Yuebai seemed to have seen the scene where people were eager to buy tickets to watch them.
With the experience of the previous cases, they became nervous as soon as they heard the word "cultural relics". Ye Qing tapped the keyboard slightly, and other information about the exhibition appeared on the screen.
Pictures, videos...interviews with the archaeological team...
I looked through them one by one, but didn't find anything suspicious.
"Is there anything else?" Li Yuebai was not reassured: "The official video did not show all the cultural relics. If there were paparazzi or something..."
"Yes." Ye Qing found a freelance journalist's blog.
The blogger is a freelance journalist who runs very fast. Whenever there is big news, he will try his best to sneak in and take photos, and then publish them on his blog. Because his blog is relatively private and not many people see it, it has not been closed down. This time, he was able to take photos of some unpublished cultural relics.
The photo is very large and clear. It seems to have been taken secretly at the cleaning site after the excavation. The archaeological team members put all the items together and took a group photo - they are indeed all genuine and good things, with a wide variety of gold and jade. The most eye-catching ones are the gold pots and jade plaques announced by the official.
There are several pottery figurines placed on the side, which makes it look much simpler, not to mention that there is also something among the pottery figurines that seems to be carved out of wood, which is even simpler.
The thing was the size of a palm, colorful, and looked like a human figure.
"Zoom in here." Li Yuebai jumped up from the sofa and pointed at the human figure.
"This is really just a statue, not a dormant body." Ye Qing frowned, but still obediently paused and magnified. He could see clearly that this was really not a dormant body.
These past few days, the two of them have been having trouble with dormant bodies, looking for them in videos every day. I'm afraid Li Yuebai has become overly sensitive and thinks that any human figure he sees is a dormant body.
"No, teacher, am I that stupid?" Li Yuebai said speechlessly: "I know this is just a wood carving, but the problem is that the style of this wood carving is obviously wrong!"
After enlarging it and doing some clarifying processing, the image of the wood carving finally appeared clearly in front of the two people.
It was a smiling human figure, colorful, with a pointed hat on its head, pointed shoes on its feet, and loose and funny clothes on its body. Its nose was high, pointed and slightly hooked, and when it smiled, its mouth stretched to its entire face. There were strange patterns carved on its face, and it looked a little scary.
"This is not a Chinese cultural relic at all." Li Yuebai asserted.
Literature and history are inseparable. Although he is not a professional researcher in this field, he can still judge the difference in style. No matter how you look at this wood carving, it is an image of an ugly little guy from the late Middle Ages in Europe.
Xiao Chou, also known as Joker or Fool, is a character in ancient courts that is used for the rulers to make fun of and entertain themselves. He is often a dwarf monster and is sometimes translated as "Jester".
There was also a video in the freelance journalist’s blog, and Ye Qing also clicked on it to take a look.
The video is very blurry. The general content is that archaeologists routinely scanned the pile of cultural relics with a metal detector. Whenever the instrument detected a metal cultural relic, such as swords, gold and silver wine jugs, the instrument would make a dripping sound.
The ugly little wood carving was placed together with other pottery figurines. Strangely, when the metal detector scanned them, it also made a faint dripping sound, which soon disappeared, and the archaeologists did not pay attention to it.
"Very suspicious." Ye Qing admitted.
Could it be that there are some metal components hidden inside the ugly wood sculpture?
"It's nine in the morning now." Li Yuebai looked at his watch. "The news said that the exhibition at the city museum will start at three in the afternoon. There's plenty of time. We can make it in time."
"Three o'clock in the afternoon?" Ye Qing was a little puzzled: "There is something wrong with this time."
"What's the problem?"
"I just checked the city museum's internal website and found that their original exhibition time was 2pm, but it was later changed to 3pm before the announcement."
"Postponed?" Li Yuebai thought for a moment and said, "Logically, it's normal to postpone a meeting due to lack of preparation... but it still feels a bit strange..."
This matter is strange in every way, we must go to the scene to investigate.
A large part of the city bureau's forces had already gone to guard the Yongfeng Company, so of course I had to deal with the museum's affairs myself.
"Let's go, take your weapons and go to the museum." Li Yuebai called Ye Qing.
"Going out?" Ye Qing frowned in confusion: "Aren't you afraid of encountering danger?"
Just now, Li Yuebai was still telling Ye Qing with great sorrow and anguish to stay at home, not to go out and cause trouble, and not to give the dormant body a chance to invade him.
"It's not that we can't move, but we can't move alone." Li Yuebai thought seriously: "It will be safer if we are together."
In his life of more than 20 years, Li Yuebai has always been taking a passive defensive route. He would not move unless the enemy moved. But in this world, this is no longer feasible. Something might very likely happen in the museum, and after something happens, he would encounter more troubles. It is better to take the initiative and go there to stop things that shouldn't happen.
At ten o'clock in the morning, they arrived at the City Museum.
The city museum is very large. After entering the gate, there is a clean small square. There are three exhibition halls with simple and elegant architectural styles. There is also a building behind the three exhibition halls, which is an office building with very good security measures.
There were very few people coming this morning and it was deserted everywhere.
Ye Qing and Li Yuebai quickly found the curator.
The museum director was about to retire and had an exhibition to worry about in the afternoon, so he had not originally planned to meet the visitor. However, when he heard from the secretary that it was the public security comrade who had called last time, he decisively decided to meet him.
"After thinking it over, I feel sorry for causing you trouble with what I said on the phone last time." The curator looked elegant, and despite his age, he was still graceful. "This kind of minor incident with no loss of life or property is really not worth wasting your police force. I'm sorry, public security comrade."
"No, no," Li Yuebai said solemnly, "Although there is no loss of life or property for the time being, there is no guarantee that there will not be subsequent reactions, so we will thoroughly investigate the matter and give you a satisfactory answer when the time comes."
"That's good, that's good." The curator said, "The two of you came here this time for..."
"We received intelligence about the exhibition this afternoon that some criminals might have attempted to take the cultural relics on display." Li Yue made up a story without blinking, "So I wanted to consult the curator about the specific situation of the cultural relics."
"Oh." The curator frowned. "This batch of unearthed cultural relics from the Ming Dynasty tombs are indeed valuable, but our security measures are also quite strict. Of course, it would be even better if we could get help and support from the Municipal Public Security Bureau."
"I have a question that I would like to ask the curator." Li Yuebai took out the data: "The data shows that the previous exhibitions held by the city museum all started at 2 pm. Why does today's exhibition start at 3 pm?"
"Oh, that's nothing." The curator replied, "Because it is a newly unearthed cultural relic, it is quite damaged, so we temporarily invited experts from the National Museum to do the restoration work. Since the restoration work still needs some finishing touches, the exhibition time has been postponed for one hour."
Restoration work...
Li Yuebai's heart tightened again.
When the cultural relics were unearthed, the archaeologists had no unusual news.
If there is a dormant organism in that ugly little wood carving, it should also look for a host. Since it did not choose an archaeologist as a host... then its next target is likely to be the restoration expert closest to it.
"Can we visit the cultural relics restoration process? It will also be convenient to provide better assistance for the protection of cultural relics this afternoon." Li Yuebai suggested.
The curator agreed readily.