"Do you know what I have been busy with these days?" Lin Xiao also looked up at the solemn and majestic stone statue standing above him, and started a topic for the first time.
Baili Xin shook his head: "I don't know."
Please start your speech.
Lin Xiao: "In addition to investigating this museum and those suspects, I also took a look at the development history of this country."
"This country is now full of warmth and romance, the people are free and unrestrained, and most people live here with ease."
"Heavy and complicated pleated skirts, exquisitely beaded headdresses, fragrant red wine, a dazzling array of exquisite utensils, and strict etiquette standards... This country is labeled as 'elegant and noble'."
"But a hundred years ago, this was still a barbaric country that was constantly conquering and plundering others."
"Look at the countries they plundered. Some of them are still struggling to survive. The economy is stagnant or even regressing, and can only recover bit by bit. While they are eating bran to fill their stomachs, the people of this country are feasting on delicious food. While they are wearing tattered linen clothes, people here are wearing gorgeous clothes and holding banquets..."
“I sometimes wonder if it weren’t for the plunder of these barbaric robbers, those countries wouldn’t have fallen into this state.”
"When the people of this country laugh at other countries' backwardness, they forget who caused their backwardness."
Lin Xiao placed his pale hand on the stone statue, and the pale hand almost blended into the color of the plaster. "The barbarians gained a lot of capital through plundering and looting, and then transformed themselves into elegant and noble people by putting on fancy clothes to cover up their ugly nature?"
Lin Xiao raised his head, "Listen, there are wailing sounds in this museum."
Baili Xin didn't hear any wailing sound at the physiological level, but he knew what Lin Xiao was talking about.
The "sounds of woe" that Lin Xiao mentioned should be referring to the wailing and accusations of the looted cultural relics.
Lin Xiao continued: "Every year, many countries ask this country to return their looted cultural relics, but they are all rejected."
"What was the reason given was 'civilization belongs to all mankind, they are just doing a great cause to better preserve the various civilizations of mankind'."
"Since civilization belongs to the whole world, why can't it be displayed in its homeland? In the final analysis, it's just a high-sounding excuse. Elegant people who have evolved over hundreds of years are still despicable thieves at heart. They have never changed and are still just trying to seize treasures that do not belong to them that they have plundered from others."
"…" Baili Xin waited for a while, and when he found that Lin Xiao had stopped talking, he said, "This is the first time I've heard you talk so much."
Lin Xiao retracted his hand, and his body tensed up and turned back into the robot look: "I just suddenly thought of some past events. This is just a virtual challenge copy, I don't have any special thoughts about it."
Baili Xin: "Yeah."
I don’t believe that you still have no idea after saying so much.
"Fortunately, our ancestors died early," Lin Xiao shook off the dust on his body. "If they knew that outsiders had taken away the remains of their civilization in later generations, their graves would be filled with rage."
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Studio.
I got this sentence.
I even want to say, "History always repeats itself in an amazing way."
So, people should not be too kind. We are humble to others, but we cannot hide the fact that they are not human beings but hyenas. As a result, the hyenas took the wealth and became divine dogs, but in turn despised the victims for their poverty and ugliness.
Fuck, man, I'm so angry after hearing what you said. While they are living happily with our things, we are in dire straits, and yet they still laugh at us for being backward and look down on us. What kind of disgusting robbery is this? If it weren't for their looting, it's not certain who would be backward!
Therefore, the fist must be hard!!! We have no intention of hurting others. If the other party insists on violence, then we can only fight violence with violence!!! There is no need to reason with robbers.
Never go through such a dark moment again, really.
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As time went by, more and more people came to visit the museum.
Baili Xin and Lin Xiao were like two nimble fish, weaving through the crowd and arriving in front of a semi-open exhibition hall decorated in gold.
There were a few more golden words on the wall: Exhibition Hall 35.
It is peak time now and there are many people in the exhibition hall.
Baili Xin saw a glass cover in the middle of the museum at a glance.
The glass cover was empty inside, and there were two signs in front of the glass, which seemed to have something written on them.
Because there is nothing in the glass cover, there are not many tourists around it compared to other exhibits around it.
Baili Xin walked through the crowd and came to the glass cover, and saw the contents of the two signs clearly.
On the left is an introduction to the exhibits, with the main attraction being of course "Kiss of the Sun".
Baili Xin had already read the introduction of this crown in the book in Dijia's room. The introduction on the sign was basically the same and there was nothing special about it.
As for the other sign, it said that "Kiss of the Sun" was temporarily put away for routine maintenance and would be displayed again at a later date.
The tourists were somewhat disappointed that they did not see the crown worn by the legendary queen, but there were many other treasures in the museum besides the Kiss of the Sun. The regretful tourists quickly calmed down and moved to other display cabinets.
There were patrolling guards standing all around. Baili Xin and the other man did not stay in front of the empty glass cabinet for too long, and soon stopped in front of a scepter.
Baili Xin pretended to admire the beautifully carved scepter, but his eyes were fixed on the sun-kissed glass cover in front of him.
Lin Xiao said calmly: "Did you find anything?"
Baili Xin pursed his lips: "Nothing found? Tourists come and go now, even if there were clues, they would have been destroyed long ago. Are you really sure that the twenty people in those ten minutes are innocent?"
Lin Xiao: "I checked it three times, and the underwear was completely stripped. And it wasn't just me who checked it, the other eight players also checked it several times. If there was any problem, it would have been discovered long ago."
Baili Xin looked at the sharp-edged glass cover and asked, "Were there really only those twenty people who appeared there in those ten minutes?"
Lin Xiao glanced at Baili Xin and said, "I have also investigated this. In fact, do you still remember the tickets we bought when we entered the museum just now?"
Baili Xin nodded.
"Everyone's ticket is different," Lin Xiao took out the ticket from his pocket and spread it out to show Baili Xin: "Look at the logo on the upper right corner. Mine is numbered s1887-02-04-00000345, which means the tourist ticket numbered 345 on February 4, s1887. When we enter the gate and check our tickets, the camera at the gate will take a picture of our appearance and match it one-to-one with the ticket. The camera is a quick shot. Once one end takes a picture, the other end will quickly produce a picture without our knowledge. The picture will be stamped with this unique number and entry time."
"Every day the museum staff will group these photos and archive them according to time periods."
Baili Xin was a little puzzled: "Why is it so troublesome?"
Lin Xiao: "I asked about this, and they said it was for the safety of the museum. In the 120 years since the Imperial Capital Museum of Antiquities was opened, there have been tens of thousands of thefts. In order to protect the safety of the treasures, they finally decided to register every visitor for comparison."
"It is said that every guard here is carefully selected. They have a keen observation and memory of appearance, so they can remember every visitor who enters the exhibition hall."
“That’s why the museum still managed to find the 20 of us even though there was no surveillance.”
"After the Sun Kiss was lost, the guards in each exhibition hall used their memories to come up with the appearances of the visitors in their respective exhibition halls. After elimination and screening, they picked out the twenty of us from the pile of photos."
Baili Xin glanced at the guard in the corner, whose eyes kept scanning the exhibition hall. Baili Xin didn't think anything of it at first, but after hearing what Lin Xiao said, he looked at the guards again, and a word came to his mind: humanoid surveillance.
Why would a guard who could be as precise as a machine make such a low-level mistake as leaving his post vacant for ten minutes
Baili Xin was wandering around the exhibition hall absentmindedly, and before he knew it, it was time for his appointment with Dr. Garner.
As agreed, the two came to the stone statue of the queen, where the elegant Dr. Ghana was already waiting.
He looked around, took out his pocket watch from time to time to check the time, walked back and forth, and his fingers touched his thighs intentionally or unintentionally.
"Sorry for the long wait." Baili Xin walked past him and greeted him familiarly. "Thank you for your hard work. Is there any progress, Doctor Garner?"
Doctor Garner then put away his pocket watch and said, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. I only got some marginal information after asking around."
"It's a bit strange. I think I was deceived."
Baili Xin's curiosity was aroused: "Hmm?"
Dr. Garner: "I found the captain of the guards who was in charge of patrolling other exhibition halls that day. He was very familiar with the two teams of guards who were involved in the crime. There was a period of time after the crime that the two teams had not been taken away. So he secretly asked about the reason for the mistake at that time."
"According to the information we know, there was a problem with the handover between the two teams, which resulted in a ten-minute gap. But the clue he got was that the two teams had different stories."
"Each guard patrol team has four people, you know this, right? And when changing shifts, they need to complete the handover before the previous team can leave."
"But the four people in the previous team said with certainty that they had indeed completed the handover. They waited for the guard team to replace them before leaving."
"But the latter guards were also very confident. When they arrived at the exhibition hall, there was no trace of the guards at all. At the same time, they also found the missing Sun Kiss."
"The two teams have different opinions. One of them must be lying." Garner rubbed his brow and felt a headache. "Could it be that this is haunted?"
As soon as he finished saying this, he saw Baili Xin look at him meaningfully, and then he opened his lips and said, "Maybe, you have seen it before."
Doctor Garner: "… "
Damn it, this is damn it, can you please not say such a scary thing in a lighthearted tone like "I'm thirsty"? !