Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 307 Paris "Disaster"

Li Xiang also reaped a rich harvest - a bronze square tripod with taotie pattern from the Shang Dynasty, a gold and silver inlaid tiger talisman from the Warring States Period, a blue-glazed plum vase with white dragon pattern from the Yuan Dynasty... a total of thousands of precious Chinese cultural relics.

This is only what was found where the seven crowns were located, and does not include the 30,000 pieces in the Louvre.

After returning to Irene's ancestral home, Li Xiang took out each item one by one on the lawn under the oak tree in the large garden, and carefully appreciated and played with them. These cultural relics had been flowing with the charm of thousands of years in the morning light, making people unable to put them down.

In his warehouse, in addition to Chinese cultural relics, there are hundreds of thousands of cultural relics from other countries. It is impossible to look at them one by one. If you really want to look at them all, it will take years to finish.

If you connect with a treasure appraiser blogger who likes to listen to "Spring Courtyard Snow" and ask him to appreciate the treasure, I guess this blogger will jump up and scream wildly: "Open the door, open the door, open the door too much!"

Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that there are fakes among them, but at least more than 80% of them are “open”!
But Li Xiang couldn't connect with the other party for fear of scaring the world.

Li Xiang has acquired so many cultural relics. Apart from other things, his "eagle eyes and golden pupils" have been initially developed. When he looks at a cultural relic again, he can tell the authenticity of the cultural relic at a glance. It's because he has seen so many.

He selected hundreds of precious artifacts unique to France and gave them to Irene.

"Mr. Armor is so generous." Irene accepted it with a smile. Even though she was the last descendant of the Merovingian dynasty and had inherited a large family legacy, these hundreds of cultural relics were still a considerable fortune for her.

Li Xiang has always been a generous and magnanimous person. What's more, these cultural relics were purchased for free, so there is no question of whether he is reluctant to part with them.

I eat and live in someone else's house, so how can I not share some of the profits?

"Just consider it as accommodation and living expenses." Li Xiang joked.

Irene wiped the cultural relics that Li Xiang had given her, such as the Rococo-style gilded clock and Byzantine icons, cleaned them one by one and placed them in the living room and study, which looked elegant.

Since they were both extraordinary beings, they inevitably exchanged their cultivation experiences and competed with each other. After all, Li Xiang was only at the tenth level, and his various supernatural powers were too abnormal. Irene was no match for him at all.

Although Irene can manipulate metal, she cannot manipulate Li Xiang's spiritual weapons such as the Giant Whale Holy Armor and the White Jade Golden Hook Stick. After all, these extraordinary items are all kept in the vortex of spiritual power by Li Xiang. They are closely connected with his spiritual body and mental power and cannot be shaken by outsiders.

Li Xiang had rich combat experience and taught Irene some fighting skills, which helped Irene improve quickly. Irene's training system was very different from that of Middle-earth, which allowed Li Xiang to learn a lot by analogy.

"You drink your good wine every day, why don't you try my spiritual wine?" During dinner, Li Xiang took out a gourd of spiritual wine to share with Irene. Although Irene could drink a lot, she usually drank low-alcohol wine like wine. She could not withstand Li Xiang's 58-degree high-alcohol liquor, which also contained abundant spiritual power. Then, she got drunk and passed out.

Li Xiang carried her to the bedroom and then left.

Irene: “…” This drunk is just pretending.

Finally the weekend arrived, and as expected, most of the police, museum staff, and security personnel were on vacation. After all, the cultural relics belong to the country, but vacation is yours.

Li Xiang planned an operation in the middle of the night that was bound to sweep across the whole of Paris.

Irene hugged him from behind: "Mr. Armor, can you take your little Princess Irene with you on your adventure?"

Li Xiang pondered for a moment, then gave her a set of obsidian armor that could cover her eyes and ears.

Irene actually also had her own alchemical armor, which was a creation of Western classical alchemy, but its features were too obvious, and it was not as high-level as his obsidian armor. He left after the looting, but Irene still had to continue living in France in the future, and Li Xiang could not cause trouble for her.

"Thank you, Mr. Armor, this set of armor is so beautiful, I like it so much." Irene put on the armor given by Li Xiang and twisted in front of the dressing mirror, showing her graceful curves. Because this set of armor is a thin female version, designed for women with good figures.

The two of them acted together. Li Xiang took her to visit the major museums they had visited before, including the Guimet National Museum of Asian Art, the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Cernuschi Museum, the Red House, and the Quai Branly Museum, and hundreds of thousands of cultural relics were received.

Among them, the Guimet National Museum of Asian Art has about 20,000 Chinese cultural relics, second only to the Louvre, covering Buddhist art, bronzes, ceramics, etc.

For example, the Liangzhu culture jade cong (4500 years ago), the Shang Dynasty bronze elephant vase (the treasure of the Guimet Museum and the largest animal-shaped bronze vase in the world), the Dunhuang silk paintings (such as "Amitabha's Western Pure Land Transformation", which was looted by Pelliot), the Western Han Dynasty gold-inlaid bronze decorative plaques, the Sui Dynasty white marble Ananda statue, and so on.

Many Chinese people have never seen these cultural relics, but in the West, they can be seen by the world. Some luxury goods companies have also borrowed "fashion elements" from these cultural relics, and the products they designed are all hot sellers and highly sought after.

The Chinese Pavilion at the Palace of Fontainebleau was built specifically to store the lost cultural relics from the Old Summer Palace. It was established by Empress Eugenie of Napoleon III in 1863. The key cultural relics inside include the gilded Buddha Relic Pagoda (originally from the Savatthi Palace of the Old Summer Palace, inlaid with emeralds), the brocaded Buddha Statue (a relic of the royal Buddhist temple of the Qing Dynasty, with extremely high craftsmanship value), the cloisonné enamel unicorn (private collection of Empress Eugenie), etc.

The word "Fontainebleau" was translated by Mr. Zhu Ziqing. The original word is "fontainebleau", which evolved from "fontaine belle eau", meaning "beautiful spring water". It is just a very common word in French, but after being translated by Zhu Ziqing, the "artistic conception" immediately improved.

This translation not only retains the original French meaning of "beautiful spring water", but also gives the place name a poetic beauty through the imagery of "red maple leaves and dewdrops".

Li Xiang's "blitzkrieg" was a quick and decisive battle, sweeping through the five major museums in Paris overnight. It can be said that he "dug three feet into the ground and left no treasure behind." This time, it not only caused an uproar in Paris and France, but also triggered widespread public opinion throughout Europe and even the world.

CNN was broadcasting a live protest in front of the Palace of Versailles, and an old professor fainted while holding an empty display case.

The director of the Guimet Museum pointed to the hole in the dome of the exhibition hall and roared: "Even the 16th-century dome frescoes have been scraped away! This is artistic terrorism!"

Li Xiang couldn't help but sneer when he saw these news footages: "It was obviously you who blew it away a hundred years ago. Come and fight back if you have the guts!"

Parisians marched holding signs that read "Return the Mona Lisa". Yes, Li Xiang also took away the original Mona Lisa, so you can experience the feeling of having a treasure looted.

A certain internet celebrity photoshopped the mysterious armored man into Santa Claus carrying a sack, and captioned, "This year's gift is a souvenir from the Louvre." This person is truly amazing, and he guessed what would happen to Li Xiang.

Because that was what Li Xiang planned, of course not at Christmas, but during the Spring Festival, he would give some of the antiques he had looted here as year-end bonuses to his many confidants.

Not too many, just one or two per person, all of them are European cultural relics, full of exotic style, and they are taken back as decorations.

As for Chinese cultural relics, he thinks that they should be kept in his own warehouse for the time being, and when the storm has passed, he will see whether it is necessary to hand them over to the country.

However, the end of the world is approaching, and it is useless to hand it over to the country. It is better to keep it in your own warehouse in another dimension and display it after the world is at peace.

Cultural relics, to a certain extent, represent a country's history and heritage and are the "road to the past". If they are not exhibited for the public to observe and learn from, but are kept in a warehouse in another dimension, then they will not have much meaning.

A hot post was born on Reddit: "On the Correct Way to Open French Civilization."

There is a very funny comment in the post. One netizen suggested "install a vending machine on the Eiffel Tower, where you can insert coins to get a blind box of stolen cultural relics!" The accompanying picture shows the Venus de Milo holding a QR code to beg.

There is another post with a funny picture. The title is "On the French police's new ideas for preventing theft", and the text is "It is recommended to install a revolving door in the Eiffel Tower and check tickets three times an hour!" The picture shows Mona Lisa holding a sign that says "No Teleportation".

Twitter trend #ArtHeist#, Spanish netizens made a short video: the scaffolding of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia was automatically dismantled, with the caption "Thanks to the robbers for saving time to complete the construction!"

A Berlin art blogger photoshopped a picture: the Brandenburg Gate was turned into a giant courier box, with the doorposts covered with "fragile" labels and the caption "already scheduled for next-day delivery".

TikTok's popular challenge: #文物佚消消舞# Participants suddenly disappear out of thin air, and when they reappear, they hold a toilet plunger as a "mysterious oriental scepter."

Front page of Le Figaro: A photo of the Minister of Culture kneeling in front of an empty display case was photoshopped with a dialogue box: "In fact, we have prepared a 3D printed replica..."

Hot post on Seoul forum: "The mysterious man's ancestral home is South Jeolla Province! Evidence: The way he steals cultural relics is exactly the same as the steps for pickling kimchi!"

An Indian netizen commented: "Lord Shiva appeared in my dream last night. France should use the water of the Ganges to purify the cursed museum!"

Some people in China also set the tone, with the trending search #Mysterious Man Return Countdown#: "Dunhuang Research Institute has prepared a constant temperature display cabinet!" It received 238 million likes, and the top comment was: "It is recommended to use the special customs channel and pay the freight on delivery!"

The Weibo topic #Please ask a mysterious person to send the cultural relics to the Forbidden City# has been read over 1 billion times!

However, not long after, these short videos and posts were deleted, and the relevant bloggers were summoned for talks.

Li Xiang felt a great sense of accomplishment, a bit like "don't forget to tell your father about the family sacrifices". Of course, there are still a large number of cultural relics lost throughout Europe, such as the British Museum.

(End of this chapter)