The cultural relic restoration room looks like a laboratory or a factory workshop, with strange-shaped machines everywhere.

Several restoration experts, wearing white coats and masks, were busy coming and going.

Not only do they have to clean the dirt and mud on the surface of the cultural relics, but they also have to piece the fragments together. This work is very delicate, requires high technical skills, and requires a lot of work.

A team of bodyguards are constantly on duty inside and outside the restoration room, not only to prevent criminals from breaking in, but also to monitor the experts to prevent them from being careless and secretly taking away cultural relics. It seems that the curator was right, the security measures here are indeed up to standard.

"Hello, I'm the leader of the restoration team, Wang Wen." A tall and thin man came up to them, shook hands with Ye Qing and Li Yuebai, and led them on a tour: "Our museum attaches great importance to this batch of cultural relics, so we specially invited a team of cultural relics restoration experts from the Capital Museum to come..."

"Hello, Team Leader Wang, it's really hard work to lead a project like this!" Li Yuebai said with emotion.

"No, no, officer, you should tell the experts this. I'm just an errand boy. I don't have much power, and I'm not a leader." Team leader Wang smiled modestly, pointing to the experts working at their desks and introducing them one by one: "This expert Li once restored the Longevity Silk in the Forbidden City. That sister Zhang is a master in jade restoration. After she put the jade fragments together, not even a trace of cracks can be seen..."

Li Yuebai listened to his introduction casually while scanning the entire repair room.

Some of those priceless gold and jade articles were placed on the operating table for careful cleaning, some were quietly placed in glass cabinets, and others were being carefully held in the hands of experts for observation.

After searching for a long time, I finally saw a few gray clay figurines on a table in the corner of the room.

And the ugly little wood sculpture was nowhere to be seen.

"Does the police officer also study cultural relics?" asked Team Leader Wang.

"I haven't studied it and I don't understand it at all." Li Yuebai answered honestly.

"That police officer is really a strange person." Wang Wen laughed, "If an ordinary person came to visit the restoration room, his eyes would definitely be fixed on the gold and jade artifacts without moving away. However, the police officer just glanced at them and kept looking at the pottery puppets intentionally or unintentionally. He didn't even look at the jade and gold artifacts. He is really different."

"No, I just want to ask, Team Leader Wang, are there any special things among those clay puppets?" Seeing that Team Leader Wang had said so much, Li Yuebai simply followed his words and asked tentatively.

"This..." Wang Wen thought for a moment, and finally stopped talking: "Sorry, I can't say this."

Li Yuebai stared at his face, trying to find the reason from his expression.

Wang Wen should also know the existence of the little ugly wood sculpture, but for some reason, he couldn't say where it was.

"Team Leader Wang, please trust us." Ye Qing smiled.

"It's not that I don't trust the police comrades, it's just... the interpersonal relationships in our repair team are not easy to handle, and some things are hard to say." Wang Wen sighed.

When a group of technical people get together, will their interpersonal relationships be difficult to handle? This is simply the biggest joke Li Yuebai has ever heard.

Everyone knows that since ancient times, the places where interpersonal relationships are the most complicated and where intrigue is the most prevalent are government offices, places where politics is the focus, not technology.

In this cultural relic restoration team, everyone is busy doing practical work, just like programmers. What can be difficult to handle? Wang Wen also looks like a humble gentleman who knows how to take care of others and handle things. How can he not handle it?

Just when Li Yuebai was confused, he heard a burst of cursing from the repair room.

"Stupid X, have you opened your eyes? Where is the glue sticking? I tell you, this thing in your hand is worth 10 million, and I can't afford it even if I sell you! Intern, intern, you are a piece of trash, and you are worthy of being an intern here? The ones in the kindergarten are much better than you, what the hell, hurry up and go home to farm and do whatever you need to do, don't mess around here!"

The string of curses was so crisp and unpleasant, in the typical tone of a Beijing thug, that it made Li Yuebai's scalp tingle.

Following the sound of cursing, I looked towards the center of the repair room and saw a young man with dyed red hair, sitting with his legs crossed and cursing.

Red Hair was also wearing a white coat, but it looked awkward on him. The buttons were not buttoned properly, and he was wearing what looked like a black T-shirt underneath. He also wore a necklace of some exaggerated shape, and he looked like a rogue.

The person being scolded was an intern, a small boy who wore black-framed glasses. He had a cute look and a timid expression. As the red-haired man's scolding became louder, the intern shrank his neck in fear, looking very pitiful.

The other experts acted as if they didn't hear anything and continued with their work, as if they were used to it.

But Wang Wen, as the leader of the repair team, couldn't just stand by and watch, so he immediately stepped forward to persuade them: "Hey, hey, Master Zhuo, can you please stop being so angry? There are police officers visiting here, and it would have a bad impact if the news got out...Calm down, calm down."

Then Wang Wen frowned and criticized the intern in a low voice: "Xiao Yang, this is your fault. You have been learning from the experts for several days, why are you still so clumsy? You can't be careless when it comes to cultural relics. You must keep working hard!"

Such an obvious bias is really unfair.

What's more, the red-haired guy didn't buy it at all. He turned around and pointed his spear at Wang Wen, and started to curse arrogantly: "Team Leader Wang, don't pretend to be a good person here! What the hell, you are just using chicken feathers as a token of authority. You know nothing about cultural relics. You have no skills and no education. You are just a small team leader assigned temporarily? You are qualified to talk to me about influence? This is my temper. Even if the influence is not good, what can you do about it?"

Li Yuebai felt a little pain in his Taiyang acupoint.

Wang Wen was indeed the appointed team leader. No matter how unreasonable and bossy Red Hair was, he never got angry. He calmed the situation down with a few words, and then brought Li Yuebai and Ye Qing over. He introduced Red Hair to them: "This is Zhuo Zhuo, the technical backbone of our repair team."

The name Zhuo Zhuo was indeed quite appropriate. Li Yuebai felt that he was about to be blinded by his red hair.

It seems that this man has a reason for being arrogant and domineering. His technical level is so high that others naturally give him some leeway.

Outsiders may not imagine that a person with such a high level of technical skills can have such a bad temper and character, and can curse people so harshly. The only explanation is that even geniuses are difficult to serve.

Zhuo Zhuo turned his head with a proud look and looked Ye Qing and Li Yuebai up and down: "From the Public Security Bureau? Do you have a certificate?"

Ye Qing calmly flicked the badge with his slender fingers.

Zhuo Zhuo rolled his eyes and barely let him pass, but when he turned around and saw Li Yuebai, his expression immediately exploded again.

"Oh my! I thought they were some police officers visiting here, but they turned out to be famous people!" Zhuo Zhuo stared at Li Yuebai and recalled: "Aren't you the Gu...Gu Caesar who was in the news? The one who killed someone, and you haven't been to prison yet?"

The news that Gu Xisha shot Gao Chengyu to death with one shot was indeed widely spread, but people who were not sensitive to the news would not know about it. For example, the curator, the secretary, Team Leader Wang and others all knew that it happened, but they could not recognize Gu Xisha's face at all, so they were not surprised. However, Zhuo Zhuo had a sharp eye and was very sensitive to the news, so he recognized him at once.

"Not yet. Sorry to disappoint you." Li Yuebai gave him a more arrogant smile.

In terms of strong character, Gu Xisha has never lost to anyone.

"How can we feel at ease letting someone like you come here to visit? What if you get unhappy and shoot Team Leader Wang?" Zhuo Zhuo snorted.

No matter how good-tempered Wang Wen was, he couldn't stand being bullied like this.

"Expert Zhuo, the public security comrade has a question for you." Wang Wen simply threw the question to Zhuo Zhuo: "Is there anything special in these clay puppets?"

"Captain Wang is trying to recruit the police as his allies." Zhuo Zhuo sneered, "Of course there are special things, but what can I show you?"

After hearing what he said and looking at his expression, Li Yuebai must have known the inside story.

"We have received a tip that a criminal gang is very interested in a wood carving among the unearthed cultural relics and is likely to come and rob it." Li Yuebai said sternly, "This is no small matter. I hope everyone can cooperate and tell us the relevant information in detail."

In fact, there was no criminal gang or any intelligence at all. Li Yuebai just suspected that there was a dormant body inside the ugly little wood sculpture, so he chose such a high-sounding excuse.

"From what you said, you want us to hand over the wood carving to you?" Zhuo Zhuo sneered, "Get it clear, you are not a police officer now, but a murderer on bail. Besides, even if the police officer next to you, Ye, comes to me to ask for it, I can't give it to you! These cultural relics are now in the museum. Generally speaking, they belong to the country! Why should we hand them over to a small city bureau like you?"

"Expert Zhuo, calm down. The police comrades are not asking us for the wood carvings. They are just asking about the situation..." Wang Wen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Can you just casually talk about the secrets of cultural relics? Are the police so great?" Zhuo Zhuo insisted: "Besides, do you have the documents from the higher-ups? Do you have a search warrant?"

After a long exchange of verbal sniping, Li Yuebai finally understood what was going on.

That ugly little wood sculpture is indeed in the restoration room now, but it cannot be seen. The reason is that it has been hidden by Zhuo Zhuo.

There is also a small room in the repair room with a safe inside, which is specially used by their repair expert team. It is divided into many compartments, one for each person, and everyone has his or her own password. They can store their valuables in it without worrying about losing them.

A few days ago, when the restoration expert team saw these unearthed cultural relics, they were quickly attracted by the ugly little wood carving.

The experts all specialized in local cultural relics from the Ming and Qing dynasties and were indeed unfamiliar with some of the imported items, especially the ugly little wood carving, which was obviously a foreign import. They all wanted to get closer to take a closer look, but Zhuo Zhuo, for some reason, went crazy and arbitrarily locked the ugly little wood carving into his own insurance box.

The other experts had worked with him for several years and knew that he had a bad temper and was not easy to deal with, so they did not bother with him and were busy restoring other cultural relics.

Wang Wen couldn't stand it and argued with him several times, but all failed.

Therefore, this little ugly wood sculpture is still quietly locked in Zhuo Zhuo's safe.

This is also the reason why Wang Wen said to Li Yuebai at the beginning, "Our interpersonal relationships are complicated." Wang Wen was shy and felt that exposing this matter in front of the public security comrades would make it seem that the repair team was particularly disunited, that the experts were particularly unreasonable, and that he, as the team leader, had particularly poor management ability... In fact, when it comes down to it, the so-called complicated interpersonal relationships are just because Zhuo Zhuo, this troublemaker, is difficult to deal with.

"Master Zhuo, can you just listen to my advice?" Wang Wen was helpless: "The exhibition will start at 3 pm, and you are still holding on to that wood sculpture. Isn't that inappropriate?"

"Tsk, do you think I don't know? The exhibition promotion didn't mention the ugly little wood sculpture at all, it doesn't have to be exhibited at all!" Zhuo Zhuo insisted: "The real cultural relics haven't been completely restored yet, who would care about that? Team leader Wang, don't be stubborn with me here, I'm saying this, the ugly little wood sculpture can only be left with me, I don't trust anyone else to put it!"

Wang Wen shook his head and walked away.

"It's locked in my cabinet, what can go wrong? No one can open that cabinet except me." Zhuo Zhuo was still arguing with Li Yuebai: "You want to take it back for research? Do you understand cultural relics? What can you find out? I tell you, without a search warrant, don't even think about taking a piece of dirt from me!"

Zhuo Zhuo's attitude really makes people suspicious - is his brain controlled by the dormant body in the ugly wood carving?