Thanks to the Yuan Rong Sword incident, Xu Shenxing had some understanding of the layout of the exhibition hall, so he was not completely clueless.
If he remembered correctly, the two stolen items were a fist-sized pottery bowl that was claimed to be an antique from the Yuan Dynasty, but its age was unknown, and a small bronze cauldron from the Warring States Period.
The former was said to have been stolen from the tomb robbers in the Xiaxia area 20 years ago. They had tried various methods but failed to determine its age. In the end, the local research institute handed it over to the exhibition to prevent it from occupying the research resources. After all, there were quite a lot of ancient tombs in the Xiaxia area, and one could find an antique just by taking a few steps in the wild. The local archaeological research institute had long been filled with all kinds of things to be studied.
The latter used to be an antique passed down from ancient times in a Taoist temple in the suburbs of Xianyang City. Later, during the Four Olds period, the Taoist temple was smashed, and the things inside were burned, smashed, and robbed. This antique was also lost among the people. In the end, because the original owner felt sorry for it, he donated it to the country when he could not find the temple.
Because there was no professional identification certificate, the valuations of the two items were not high. They were the kind of things that had a certain historical value but were actually worthless. If the robber had not made such a big move like the criminal notice, it would not have caused such a big uproar even if it was lost.
However, one could not just look at the surface. According to Qin Xingyan, who had seen the photos of the two stolen items, the former was the small pottery bowl. Although she could not recognize it, the bronze cauldron that was smaller than a washbasin was a real Taoist relic.
Many of the things that looked like patterns on it were, in fact, encrypted words in the Taoist scriptures. According to the description, it should be a treasure that was originally used to store elixirs in the Taoist temple.
However, since it was smashed by some mortals, it meant that the orthodoxy of the Taoist temple was likely to have been lost long ago.
Then there was the last item, which was announced to be taken away today.
It was a mahogany carving, about 20 centimeters high, of the Heavenly Lord Yuanshi holding the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi Scepter.
This thing was also not an antique. It was said that it was just a casual work of a slightly famous sculptor in the Republic of China who was entrusted by a certain Taoist temple. The evaluation of this thing by experts was that it had a certain historical value and artistic value. Although there was no room for appreciation, it could be collected and admired. It was very tactfully pointed out that this thing could not be sold for money.
Xu Shenxing sat cross-legged under the display case, staring at the statue.
After turning into a cat, although her strength was limited to a certain extent because she was not used to this body (even the Blessing of the Ten Thousand Races, which allowed her to understand language, had disappeared), her senses had become much sharper.
Even so, he still couldn't sense what was so special about this thing.
Could it be that the thief really didn't have any other motives and just wanted to make a big news?
In this world, there shouldn't be such a joker, right?
Xu Shenxing wagged his tail uncertainly and racked his brains.
Then, like a real cat, he got up lightly and nimbly went around the booth, avoiding the police who were trying to catch him from behind.
Next, he would go to see the two exhibition halls that had been stolen.
Among the crowd, people were shouting, "Where is it going?", "Hurry up and stop it … No, it's going to slip away!", "The cat, the cat is drifting!", "This is! The legendary Whirlwind Charging Tornado! "," So fast, are all Jiang Jin's cats monsters?! " In the midst of the commotion, Xu Shenxing happily made a decision and easily got rid of the police. He came to the exhibition hall where the pottery pot had been placed before.
In this exhibition hall, he still couldn't sense the aura of magic or supernatural power, but considering that the theft had happened two days ago, the weak aura might have disappeared long ago.
"Meow (Well, wait a minute) …"
Just as Xu Shenxing was about to leave, he vaguely felt that something was wrong with his cat's intuition.
So he carefully went around the exhibition hall that was too big for his current body, looking for the source of this strange feeling.
More than half an hour later, while avoiding the police who came to look for him, Xu Shenxing also found something — in a corner of the exhibition hall, there was a small hole that looked like a mouse hole.
If he hadn't become small now, maybe it would have been really difficult to find this hole.
Although the hole wasn't big, it was still big enough to fit the stolen pottery bowl — that was to say, it was very likely that the stolen pottery bowl was taken from here?
Xu Shenxing thought for a moment and felt that it was useless to just think about it. So, like a cat sharpening its claws, he pulled the hole a little bigger. Then, he lowered his body and crawled in. He dug the soil to expand the hole as he slowly moved forward.
Fortunately, after passing through the hole, the tunnel in the hole was still quite spacious, otherwise, Xu Shenxing would have been stuck in it … If he wanted to come out, he would have to make a lot of noise.
After going in for a while, the front suddenly opened up.
Xu Shenxing then noticed that he seemed to have gone under the museum.
Because it was located in the suburbs, the exhibition hall didn't spend money to dig an underground garage. Instead, it circled a piece of land in front of it as a parking lot, which also meant that there was nothing under the museum.
"Meow (Holy sh * t) …"
However, what appeared in front of Xu Shenxing was a space about the size of an indoor basketball court, maybe slightly shorter. In the center, there was a small village. The houses in this village were about the size of a microwave oven, and the residents were humanoid creatures similar in size to mice.
Because they were hardly exposed to the sun, their skin showed a pale color, and their faces were somewhat similar to a race called "goblin" that Xu Shenxing had encountered in another world before. However, compared to the goblin, these creatures were obviously much smaller, and they had a tumor-like organ on their forehead.
It was worth mentioning that the only light source in this underground village was the crystal-clear luminous mushrooms cultivated by some unknown method, and the fields that these humanoid creatures "cultivated" only had various kinds of mushrooms or wood ears.
From the function of their clothes, which were similar to clothes, but in fact, were grown from fungi, it could be seen that these little creatures' technology seemed to have been invested in the cultivation of fungi.
Because the scene in front of him was so incredible, even Xu Shenxing was stunned for a while before he realized what was going on — a group of unknown supernatural creatures had actually settled in Jiang Jin under his nose without anyone noticing?
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