If it were according to the character of the original owner, Gu Xisha, he would have dragged Zhuo Zhuo out and given him a beating long ago, either by coercion or inducement, or by intimidation and deception, to force him to hand over the ugly little wood sculpture.
But Li Yuebai did not choose this path.
He called Ye Qing out, and the two of them quietly exchanged views in the corridor.
"Zhuo Zhuo is very suspicious. I have three suspicions now." Li Yuebai said: "First, he is controlled by a dormant body."
This idea is easy to understand. So far, they have seen several people whose minds were controlled by dormant bodies. All of them became very stubborn and abnormal, and would not listen to anyone's advice.
"Second, he knew the inside story, knew about the dormant body, and out of a self-seeking desire, he wanted to become a vampire." Li Yuebai uttered the shocking words: "He hid the ugly little wood carving, hoping to find an opportunity to secretly open it and be possessed."
According to the setting, if a vampire is not killed, he can live forever.
It is easy to imagine how powerful the word "eternal life" is. As the first emperor, Qin Shihuang, after taking control of the world, spent a whole half of his life and used the whole country's strength to pursue eternal life.
The successive rulers who came after him sought immortality and went to great lengths to pursue eternal life.
It is conceivable that in the previous life, when the secret of vampires was revealed, many humans fell into madness.
Eternal life! Eternal life!
Please possess me!
After a brief frenzy, most people calmed down.
Although vampires can live forever, their appearance will change to some extent. They need to suck blood, don't like sunlight, are afraid of garlic and pure silver... These are not so difficult to deal with. The most important thing is that they will be hunted by police all over the world, hunted by vampire hunters, and abandoned by their relatives and friends.
It's said to be eternal life, but it's very likely that a silver bullet will hit it and end everything.
You say you have eternal life, but how do you know that after being possessed by a dormant body, you are still yourself? Maybe your self-consciousness is gone.
Therefore, many ordinary people still honestly choose the conservative avoidance route.
On the other hand, there are also many people who are willing to take risks for eternal life, especially those who already have a certain amount of power.
They are strong, aggressive, fearful of death, love power and money, want to be in control, and have enough confidence to fight against vampire hunters.
So in the original plot, humans would be caught in a bitter struggle with vampires - because too many high-ranking human elites joined the vampire camp in pursuit of immortality.
Right now, the situation is still unclear, and the vast majority of people still know nothing about vampires.
But it can also be predicted that among the very few people who know about the existence of dormant vampires, there must be a few who hope to be possessed by the dormant body and hope to become vampires!
Zhuo Zhuo may be one of them.
He is an expert in cultural relics and is very sensitive to news. Several previous cases were related to cultural relics and were not announced to the public. Perhaps Zhuo Zhuo knew the inside story through some channel.
"Is there a third possibility?"
"The third possibility is." Li Yuebai paused: "He is Gao Chengyu's subordinate."
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"Think about it from Gao Chengyu's perspective," Li Yuebai said, "You are Vlad III, the king of vampires, with great power and immortality. You are not in the country, but your old party members are all in the country. There are some ownerless dormant bodies scattered in the country... Then why don't you send your own party members to collect these dormant bodies? Thinking further, maybe you are willing to organize a vampire army..."
"Put yourself in the shoes of Gao Chengyu's gang. The leader you have followed for many years suddenly becomes Vlad III. As a desperate criminal, would you work even harder for him? Would you think becoming a vampire is a big temptation? Would you decide to do something big?" Li Yuebai said, "So they didn't come to hunt me down, because they were busy collecting dormant bodies, waiting to turn themselves into vampires. By that time, I would be vulnerable in their eyes."
"But Zhuo Zhuo is too high-profile." Ye Qing said.
"That's because his personality has always been like this." Li Yuebai nodded. "When everyone is used to his high profile and arrogance, they won't think what's happening now is unusual. Did you pay attention to the other restoration experts just now? They have worked with Zhuo Zhuo for a long time, and they are familiar with him and trust him. They don't think it's strange for him to occupy cultural relics... So everyone is busy with their own work and won't be surprised at all."
"If we hadn't arrived in time, the news would never have spread." Ye Qing said.
"Yes, the restoration experts usually don't tell others about Zhuo Zhuo's behavior. Team Leader Wang is too shy to say it... Besides, the ugly woodcarving is not on display." Li Yuebai sighed: "If we hadn't come, Zhuo Zhuo would have found a chance to avoid other people's eyes and secretly take away the dormant body in the ugly woodcarving."
If the third possibility is true, then Zhuo Zhuo must not have expected that Gu Xisha and Ye Qing would come to him in person.
The Municipal Bureau is so busy with its duties, how could they possibly notice an ugly little wood sculpture that has not been announced to the public?
The well-planned plan was seen by the two of them, but Zhuo Zhuo did not panic. Instead, he just threw in the towel and acted arrogantly. His personality remained consistent throughout.
Anyway, he has plenty of ways to escape. Even if he is abducted and captured in the end, he can blame it on the dormant body, saying that it was the dormant body that confused his brain.
"Zhuo Zhuo will change his plan next." Ye Qing said: "Now that we are here, he will definitely deal with it."
"Yes." Li Yuebai looked through the window and looked directly at the situation in the repair room.
There were too many restoration experts, not to mention the security team watching here - the security guards were also afraid that Zhuo Zhuo would secretly take the cultural relic away, so the only thing Zhuo Zhuo could do was to lock the ugly wood carving in the safe in front of everyone, and he had no chance to touch it alone.
What Zhuo Zhuo has to do next is probably to strive for an opportunity for private contact, or even a chance to escape.
Of course, Li Yuebai could just go up and beat the aggressive criminals, but this is the restoration room, the restoration team's territory. As an expert, Zhuo Zhuo has the right to temporarily keep the cultural relics. If Li Yuebai goes up to him and forces him to tell the safe password, it would be illegal.
Li Yuebai was not in a hurry, so he took Ye Qing back to the repair room, found a chair to sit down, and continued to observe leisurely.
Zhuo Zhuo was even less anxious than him. He still sat at the table with his legs crossed, giving orders and cursing at the same time.
The restoration of the cultural relic has reached the final stage and is about to be completed, but the atmosphere in the restoration room is filled with low pressure.
Seeing that everyone had unfriendly looks, Team Leader Wang was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.
Wang Wen was a team leader temporarily assigned by the museum. He did not have the technical skills to repair cultural relics and was not on the same page as experts like Zhuo Zhuo. Although he had only worked with Zhuo Zhuo for a few days, he was tortured a lot.
Now we were about to send this plague god away, but unexpectedly he had offended the police again.
Looking at this situation, Wang Wen was really worried that a gunfight might break out here.
Anyway, the repair work is almost finished, and he, as the team leader, has nothing to do. He should comfort the public security comrades.
Wang Wengan coughed twice, pulled a table over, sat opposite Li Yuebai and Ye Qing, and waved to the intern: "Xiaotian, make some good tea."
The intern wearing black-framed glasses hurriedly escaped from Zhuo Zhuo's clutches, found three Jingdezhen porcelain cups from the cabinet, washed them, brewed tea in them and brought them over.
The whole set of movements was neat and skillful, not as clumsy as other graduates. No wonder, after working with Zhuo Zhuo and being scolded by him every day, she should have mastered this technique long ago.
"How long has Xiaotian been working here?" Li Yuebai asked casually after taking the tea.
"Just a few days." Oda put down his teacup shyly and nodded: "I came here through internship recruitment. It's just a few days. I have to go back to class after I finish my work."
"It must be hard to work with that expert?" Li Yuebai talked more and more gossiping, feeling like a gossipmonger, but there was nothing he could do. In order to get more information about Zhuo Zhuo, he had to do this.
"Nothing, nothing, not hard, not hard." Oda waved his hands hastily: "The expert teacher has a high level of professionalism and very strict requirements. I can learn a lot from the teacher."
He was well-behaved. He knew Zhuo Zhuo could hear him, so he didn't dare to say anything bad.
Li Yuebai took out a pen and paper from his folder and changed the conversation to written one.
From Zhuo Zhuo's perspective, it was impossible to see what they were writing.
Li Yuebai wrote: Did Zhuo Zhuo have any abnormal behavior?
When Oda saw this line of words, he was stunned and a trace of panic flashed across his face.
After all, he was just an intern and no one dared to offend him, but he had to answer the police's questions.
Oda glanced at Team Leader Wang tentatively, and seeing that Team Leader Wang did not object, he carefully wrote on the paper: A little, hard to say.
The written conversation between the two went very slowly. After Li Yuebai inquired again and again, he learned from Xiaotian that Zhuo Zhuo was a little abnormal and seemed to be in contact with someone privately.
Contact with Gao Chengyu? Li Yuebai guessed naturally.
He was so focused on writing that he had no time to drink his tea. Just as he picked up the cup, he heard a loud noise from behind.
I was already nervous, and when I heard the voice, I threw the cup away and turned around to fight...
It turned out to be just the sound of something shutting down.
"Nothing unusual happened. Don't be nervous." Ye Qing looked down on him calmly.
“…” Li Yuebai was embarrassed.
When he turned around again, he found that something even more embarrassing had happened - the cup of tea he had just poured out was all over Team Leader Wang.
"It's no problem, it's no problem..." Team leader Wang was very nervous. He picked up a tissue from the table and wiped the water off his clothes vigorously. He was not a restoration expert and was not wearing a white coat. He was only wearing a thin shirt, which was splashed with tea and became transparent.
Li Yuebai helplessly held his forehead, feeling that he was comparable to the idiot housekeeper in the TV drama. Gu Xisha's character had long been ruined.
After all this commotion, Zhuo Zhuo looked over here a few more times, thinking that Li Yuebai was up to something again.
Li Yuebai felt ashamed and felt that he did not deserve the villain's attention.
Time passed by minute by minute, and soon it was 12 noon.
Ye Qing was getting impatient and had already taken out his computer and had been typing for a while.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door and the secretary came in.
"Zhuo Zhuo, the reply from above has come down." The secretary held up a red-headed document in his hand: "It is agreed that the wood carving can be sent away."
Zhuo Zhuo raised his eyebrows and smiled triumphantly.