You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Just as Lin Chen was enjoying the "harem garden" he had created and living a carefree life, the arrival of an uninvited guest broke the tranquility.

That afternoon, Lin Chen was lying in a rocking chair under the lush ginkgo tree in the backyard, leisurely closing his eyes to rest.

Su Qingge and Ye Qingcheng were handling work, Jiang Tingxue went to the forensic center, and only the lively and active Su Ke'er accompanied him, taking selfies frantically with her phone among the exotic flowers and plants in the garden.

The entire courtyard was immersed in a peaceful and serene atmosphere.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang urgently.

"Who is it? How rude!"

Su Ke'er muttered something and ran to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, Li Mingyu stood there with huge dark circles under his eyes, looking extremely anxious. His police uniform was wrinkled, as if he hadn't slept for days.

"Hello, Ms. Su..."

When Li Mingyu saw Su Ke'er, he first greeted her awkwardly, and then eagerly peeked into the yard.

"Um...is Consultant Lin here? I have something extremely urgent to discuss with him!"

"Captain Li? What are you up to now?"

Lin Chen didn't even open his eyes before his lazy voice came from the backyard.

Upon hearing the sound, Li Mingyu felt as if he had been granted a pardon. He disregarded all etiquette and rushed into the backyard in three steps at a time.

When he saw the sea of ​​flowers in front of him, which looked like a fairyland, he was stunned and stumbled, almost falling over.

"Holy crap... Advisor Lin, have you brought down the Imperial Garden from the Heavenly Palace?"

Li Mingyu stared wide-eyed, feeling his mind reeling. How could Lin Chen's courtyard house have changed so much in just a few days?

"Spit it out."

Lin Chen waved his hand impatiently. He was enjoying a rare moment of peace and quiet and didn't want to be bothered by such troublesome matters.

Li Mingyu finally came to his senses. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and his face showed an expression that was even more unsightly than crying.

"Consultant Lin, I had no other choice but to disturb your rest."

He took a document out of his briefcase and handed it over.

"The General Administration received an extremely difficult case; it's driving us all crazy!"

Lin Chen was too lazy to get up, so he just tilted his head to the side.

Su Ke'er sensibly took the document and unfolded it in front of Lin Chen.

Li Mingyu nervously explained from the side:

"Last night, a bizarre theft occurred at the Beijing Museum! A replica of the national treasure-level Western Zhou bronze vessel—the Simuwu Ding—inexplicably...inexplicably turned into a pile of scrap metal in the most secure exhibition hall number one!"

"A counterfeit?"

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow, grasping the key word.

"Yes, it's a replica, but it's meticulously crafted to a 1:1 scale using genuine materials, and it's priceless! The real Simuwu Ding is in the National Museum of China, and this is one of the museum's most prized possessions!"

Li Mingyu quickly explained.

"The key issue isn't whether it's true or false, but rather how bizarre the process was!"

He pointed to the on-site photos in the document, his voice trembling slightly.

"Look, the security system in the exhibition hall is the latest model imported from Switzerland. It has infrared, pressure sensing, and 24-hour high-definition monitoring. Even a fly flying in will trigger an alarm."

"At the time of the incident, no alarms were triggered, and there were no suspicious figures in the surveillance footage."

"But the next morning, when the security guards were on patrol, they discovered that the once majestic bronze cauldron, inside its sealed bulletproof glass display case, had been reduced to a pile of rusty lumps of iron!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen finally slowly opened his eyes.

He recalled how he had helped Ye Qingcheng deal with the fake antiques from the Xiao family in Jiangbei City.

At the time, the other party used chemical methods to make a batch of counterfeit products "age" in a short period of time, making them indistinguishable from the real thing.

This time, the method sounds much more sophisticated.

Turning into scrap metal out of thin air?

interesting.

Lin Chen activated his [God-level Insight] and his gaze fell on Li Mingyu's face, which was filled with fatigue and anxiety.

"You checked the surveillance footage and found nothing?"

"Yes!"

Li Mingyu nodded vigorously.

"We've watched the surveillance footage no less than fifty times, and we even had technical experts perform slow-motion and frame-by-frame analysis. We can confirm with 100% certainty that from the time the museum closed until it reopened the next day, no one touched that display case in any way!"

"So, what's your conclusion now?"

Lin Chen asked.

Li Mingyu's face immediately fell, and he scratched his head awkwardly.

"Well... the curator and several of the invited senior experts got into a huge argument."

"Some say it was switched by some notorious thief using some incredible skill; others say the bronze cauldron itself was faulty, that a violent chemical reaction occurred inside and it weathered away; and there's an even more outrageous theory that it's haunted..."

Upon hearing the word "ghostly," Lin Chen almost burst out laughing.

These so-called experts are still stuck in feudal society.

He sat up from the rocking chair, stretched, and his bones cracked and popped.

"Alright, stop making a fool of yourself here."

Lin Chen put down the scissors and patted the dust off his hands.

"Come on, take me to see it."

A glint of interest flashed in his eyes.

"Let's go see which fool is so reckless as to dare to perform magic tricks on my turf."