Originally, Qian Lao meant to stop there. After all, for them at this level, it was a competition of mutual compromise. Unexpectedly, other incidents happened on the merchant ship. Now the public opinion outside has become out of control, and the scale of the case is simply shocking.
So he had already decided that he should try to hide as much as possible and let other people who were eager for merit deal with it.
At 7:30 in the morning, Li Mo and Sima Haotian's cars slowly stopped on the shore of Jinmen Port. The merchant ship not far away was still blocked, and many people had gathered at this moment.
"Professor Li is here."
Zheng Bin said hello, and others came over to greet him.
The people who came were all acquaintances, belonging to the young and middle-aged generation, and they had worked with Li Mo many times.
"Professor Li, let's come here to help you first. Professor Zhu and the others have more important arrangements, so they didn't come with them this time."
Li Mo knew what Professor Zhu and the others were going to do. The tomb robbers were all killed last night. From their mouths, they would learn the addresses of many stolen tombs, which needed to be rescued and excavated.
If no unexpected special circumstances had occurred last night, he would have transported those antiques directly back to Kyoto and participated in the trial of those tomb robbers today.
Now that things are getting louder and louder, it might as well be made known to the world in the name of 'righteousness'.
"Come aboard."
Along the way, the police officers on duty saluted one after another, and Li Mo also returned the salute. After all, in addition to his identity as a professor at Beijing University, he also had the identity of the Central Security Bureau.
"We are divided into three teams. I, Professor Sima, and Associate Professor Zheng lead a team respectively. This way the work efficiency will be higher. If you feel that the weight of the box is obviously heavy when carrying it, you must tell it first to avoid accidentally falling from the steel frame. In case of accidents, please be careful."
"Understood, Professor Li."
Because of teamwork, the inventory and sorting of antique cultural relics is also much faster.
Pieces of bronze vessels emerge from the darkness into light.
I was busy until 12 noon, and the boxes on the last section of the steel frame were not counted.
"Boss, the food is ready. Let's eat first. There isn't much left anyway, so don't rush it for a few hours." Brown Bear ordered a lot of food, all of which were five-star level. It would be a pity to let them go cold.
"OK."
Sima Haotian walked up to him and said: "Currently, a total of one hundred and fifty-four bronzes have been counted, all of which have inscriptions. The earliest can be traced back to the late Shang Dynasty, and the latest can be traced back to the middle and late Warring States Period. Those thieves are really disgusting, I don’t know how many Shang and Zhou tombs were stolen.”
"I guess these are not all. There should be more bronzes hidden in some mysterious place, waiting to be secretly transported out later." Li Mo thought of more, so he was so worried.
"From what you say, the situation is more serious than we thought."
"Go and eat. Only with a full stomach can you have the strength to fight against the evil forces."
Li Mo and the others were eating in the cabin canteen. Before they had a few bites, they received a call from Qin Yali. He hurriedly walked out to answer the call and heard the caller say: "Xiao Mo, when will your end be over?"
"And the last bit, you can stay here without me."
"Then you return to Kyoto immediately. There is a deadlock in the trial of the case here. The boss of the tomb robbers has to meet you first before he will answer our questions."
"Meet me?" Although Li Mo didn't understand why the boss of the tomb robbers who had never met him insisted on meeting him first, but anyway, things here are basically over, and it would be of little use for him to stay. Sima Haotian is enough to take charge, "I'll eat Rush back after dinner."
"good."
"Professor Li, are you going back to Kyoto?"
Zheng Bin served him a bowl of beef soup.
"The leader of that group of tomb robbers insists on meeting me first. You and Professor Sima will be in charge this afternoon. Chen Xiaojun will cooperate with you."
"Okay, this is all a trivial matter. Then eat more. Those thieves probably have more evil in their hearts."
Li Mo and Brown Bear quickly ate their stomachs and drove back to Kyoto. At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the car turned into the city bureau compound.
Qin Yali, Zhu Changping and others were venturing outside in boredom. From the time they arrived at the scene in the morning, they had gone through many battles but still could not pry open their mouths and get any useful information. It can be seen that all of them are old men. At this time, they can only hold on to the end without knowing anything.
"Xiao Mo, things are not going well here. Is everything going well at Jinmen Port?" Zhu Changping put out his cigarette butt and asked with a smile.
"It went very well over there. We can transfer all the stolen bronzes to Kyoto today. Teacher, tell me briefly about the situation of the tomb robber boss."
"He is an old thief who has already risked his life. Since he wants to see you first, you should go directly to meet him."
Li Mo looked at Qin Yali, who also nodded.
"Then I'll go over."
In a separate interrogation room, there was a thin man with gray hair sitting quietly with his eyes closed and not knowing what he was thinking. Judging from his figure, he looks a bit frail.
When Li Mo walked into the interrogation room, the man suddenly opened his eyes, and there was an extremely sharp light in his eyes, like a sword piercing the bone.
This one is a butcher with blood on his hands.
"Are you the famous Li Mo?"
Li Mo sat opposite him, smiling slightly and looking at him calmly. Judging from his appearance, he looks about fifty years old, but judging from his hair and body shape, he looks more than ten years older.
"Since you strongly requested to see me first, I can't understand what you said just now. Should I answer 'yes', or should I joke with you and say 'no'."
The man looked at Li Mo for more than ten seconds, then suddenly grinned and said with a sinister smile: "Young people really like to talk."
"In terms of ability, I'm really not good at talking. Zhou Jiadong, I'm here. What do you want to ask me?"
"I want to make a deal with you."
"Trade?" Li Mo suddenly laughed and said after a while, "If you want to make a trade, you just need to explain the problem honestly. Why do you have to trade with me, a person who is not in the system?"
Zhou Jiadong seemed very calm, and his eyes became sharper. He waited until Li Mo's laughter stopped and then said calmly: "I don't trust any of them. As long as you agree, I believe you will fulfill your promise."
The faces of a group of big-blocked people watching in the next office showed indignation, and they were all slapped hard in the face.
In the interrogation room, Li Mo became serious and said after hesitation: "Can you tell me the contents of your transaction first?"
"I also hid a batch of cultural relics stolen from the tomb in a place, and I laid out many destruction devices in that hidden place. You, Li Mo, are known as the gods, as long as you can find that place and leave smoothly Go in and safely take out the batch of cultural relics, and I will tell you the addresses of all the tombs that have not yet been stolen, and I will also tell you a shocking secret."
Li Mo's eyes moved slightly, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "You couldn't have planted the explosive device in the container full of bronzes at Jinmen Port yourself, right?"
Unexpectedly, Zhou Jiadong curled his lips contemptuously: "That has nothing to do with me. That's because they can't afford it, so they arranged to destroy the corpses in case of an accident. People in our line of work, although they have already risked their lives, can do everything. Leave a line for yourself.”
Li Mo gave him a thumbs up.
"But it sounds like you didn't get any advantage in this deal of yours."
Zhou Jiadong's eyes did not restrain the naked murderous intent at all: "You are very confident in yourself, but sometimes confidence is not enough. If you agree to the deal I proposed, there is a half chance that you will die in it, which can be regarded as a disguised form of doing something for us. Find a backup in advance and take revenge. If you can still show up here alive, you will not only find a large number of precious cultural relics, but also have more opportunities to dig out more cultural relics from those large tombs. "
"If you don't tell me, can your other accomplices also survive?"
"Of course they can't stand it, but they are all my new team members in the past two years, so their knowledge is limited. Those old team members have all been reported below one after another, so no matter how hard you try, you won't get much useful information from them. .”
This Zhou Jiadong is very smart. He bluntly stated his purpose in person, which is to fight for the half chance of missing.
"I seem to have to accept your deal, but you should give me a scope to search within. Otherwise, I won't be able to find it all in my lifetime, so the deal we are talking about now doesn't make much sense, right?"
"I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, but I am just here. Li Mo, remember this sentence, and then I will give you a week. By then, either you will be dead or I will be dead."
"Do you have anything else to say? If not, I'll leave first." Li Mo stood up and prepared to leave.
"You agreed?"
"Why should I agree? What does it have to do with me whether you like to talk or not? After you die, those big tombs that you have stolen will sleep forever, and the cultural relics that you secretly hidden... they should have been Those buried deep in the earth, if you hadn't been so diligent, they might not have been born until the planet exploded, and then they would have gradually disappeared into the long river of time."
"Look at me now, I have a respected professor status, endless money, a beautiful and virtuous wife, a cute, lively and healthy daughter, and many, many things that you don't have. I am already content, and I want to Eat and wait to die. I heard that you insisted on seeing me, and I thought you admired me too much, so you wanted to see my true face first. Okay, you can figure it out for yourself, I don’t have time to talk to you."
"I also know a piece of gossip about Jiuding, which was passed down from generation to generation from my ancestor."
Li Mo didn't even look at him. He opened the door and walked out to the office next door.
"Xiao Mo, fortunately you didn't agree. He just wanted you to die." Qin Yali could not help but stop them from continuing to talk. Li Mo had just escaped death once, how could he let him continue as soon as he turned around? To risk your life. "
"Li Mo, what are you thinking?" Professor Zhu Changping still knows a little about his cheap apprentice. Once he catches a clue about something, he will pursue it.
"I know very well that Zhou Jiadong is playing tricks on me. He treats trading as a game, just to see who is unlucky. But since it is a game, we should go directly to the topic, why waste time guessing riddles."
"Actually, what I'm most concerned about at the moment is his last words."
"You mean Jiuding?"
Li Mo nodded, picked up a bottle of mineral water on the table and drank: "Teacher, do you think Jiuding still exists in the world?"
"In the most ancient times, the Jiuding was a symbol of the supremacy of royal power and the unity and prosperity of the country. The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties regarded it as a national treasure symbolizing state power. Historical records indicate that during the Warring States Period, both Qin and Chu launched armies. I went to Luoyi, the capital of Zhou Dynasty, to seek the tripod. During the reign of King Xian of Zhou Dynasty, the tripod disappeared under the Si River. Later emperors attached great importance to the symbol of power and significance of the tripod, and they recast it many times. Wu Zetian and Huizong of the Song Dynasty also cast the tripod."
"The Jiuding, which represents the artifact of the Nine Provinces, has disappeared in the long river of history for more than 2,400 years. Maybe they exist in the world, but what is left are only remains and cannot be identified, but it is most likely that they have disappeared long ago."
Jiuding, which has appeared since the beginning of Xia Dynasty, is the crystallization of the origin of Chinese civilization and represents the true artifact of national destiny. Li Mo had never thought about this, but when he suddenly heard the word 'Jiuding' just now, his heart suddenly became hot.
"In this way, I won't show up again. You can go in and talk to him again. It would be best if you can get more information. As long as I find the secret place he mentioned, I am still 100% sure that I can exit safely."
"Xiao Mo, this is still too risky." Qin Yali refused directly, joking, how could she let him be involved in danger again, not even at the slightest risk.
"Let's talk about it first. That guy is playing tricks on us, and we can only play tricks on him. We are not in a hurry to agree to any of his conditions. If he wants to use me as a backstop, he will definitely let go. For example, let's He first told a few useful large tombs, and we need to go to the site to verify them first. Let him not hold on to the idea of empty wolves, no one is stupid, and only when the benefits are large enough, we will consider trading with him. "
Zhu Changping's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands and said, "You still have a flexible mind and many ideas, so we will slowly spend time with them. In fact, to put it bluntly, what you did this time is already great, and you saved thirty-five people." An innocent woman has prevented a human tragedy from happening. I don’t think the other things are very important. No one in the world can take all the credit."
Qin Yali nodded. It was right not to participate in such nonsense. There was no need to take risks anymore.
"Teacher, aunt, I'm going home first."
"Sirui and the others should be at the Qin family compound today. You should contact her first so as not to miss out when you go home."
"good."
Li Mo walked out of the city bureau and called Qin Sirui. After the call was answered, Sisi and Ruirui's giggles could be heard on the phone.
"Xiao Mo, have you returned to Kyoto?"
"Well, are you at home?"
"Grandpa is here. Come directly over. Several old men are here."
"wait for me."
(End of chapter)
