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

Lin Chen's words, "A disgrace to the entire cultural and museum community in Beijing," resounded like a thunderclap in the deathly silent Exhibition Hall No. 1.

Every word was like an invisible yet powerful slap, striking the old curator and the several white-haired experts hard across their faces.

Their faces went from flushed to deathly pale, then from deathly pale to ashen, and finally only a deathly dejection remained.

"You...you..."

The old man with gold-rimmed glasses pointed at Lin Chen, his fingers trembling like leaves in the autumn wind. He hesitated for a long time, but couldn't utter a single word.

Yes, what else can be said?

Their decades of professional knowledge, which they were so proud of, and their pitiful seniority, were utterly crushed in the face of this young person's science popularization, which was like a game-changer.

In less than three minutes, they saw through the truth that they had been arguing about for three days and three nights without any result.

This wasn't just a slap in the face; it was like shoving their faces into the ground, rubbing them repeatedly with the sole of a shoe, and finally spitting on them.

"Advisor Lin...Advisor Lin..."

Li Mingyu swallowed hard, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Lin Chen could no longer be described as worship.

He finally understood why Su Qingge and the bigwigs in the bureau trusted this young man so much.

"Then... what should we do now?"

Li Mingyu's voice trembled slightly with urgency.

"Since the genuine article was switched three days ago, wouldn't it have already... already been leaked overseas?"

This problem also cast a shadow over the hearts of everyone present.

If the theft of national treasures is only discovered three days later, the entire Beijing police and cultural heritage community will become an international laughing stock!

"What's the rush?"

Lin Chen, however, acted as if nothing had happened. He slowly walked to the side, picked up an unopened bottle of mineral water from a technician's survey kit, twisted it open, and took a sip.

His nonchalant attitude contrasted sharply with the tense atmosphere around him, which was so heavy it was almost dripping with tension.

"Since the thief left a 'challenge letter,' it means he wants to continue playing this game."

Lin Chen's gaze swept over the pile of scrap metal, and a playful sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.

"This method of using 'shape memory alloys' to create alibis and confusion is not something a small street workshop could produce."

"The sources of this level of special alloys, especially those that require the addition of rhenium, a rare metal that is dozens of times more valuable than gold, are extremely limited globally, and every transaction leaves traces on certain shady networks."

Lin Chen casually placed the half-empty water bottle on the display case, turned to Li Mingyu and said:

"Take me to the monitoring room."

"Huh? Oh! Okay!"

Although Li Mingyu didn't fully understand, he nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice and quickly led the way.

Su Qingge silently followed Lin Chen, asking no questions, because she knew that when this man started to get serious, that was the moment when all the mysteries would be revealed.

The group quickly arrived at the museum's central monitoring room.

In the monitoring room, several cyber police officers were frowning at a pile of complex code, clearly at a loss.

"Get out of the way."

Lin Chen walked up to the control panel without any hesitation. The cyber police captain in charge was about to say something when Li Mingyu glared at him and stopped him.

Lin Chen plopped down, his graceful movements making it seem as if this were his private office.

Instead of looking at the surveillance footage that had been thoroughly reviewed, he pulled the keyboard directly in front of him.

[God-level Hacking Skills]! Activated!

[God-level Internet Tracking Techniques]! Activated!

The next second, Lin Chen's hands transformed into a blur, dancing wildly across the keyboard.

"Crackling and popping—"

The dense, storm-like pounding sound instantly reverberated throughout the entire monitoring room.

The police officers present, including the experts who had come to watch the commotion, were all dumbfounded.

They couldn't see Lin Chen's fingers at all; they could only see countless afterimages jumping across the keyboard. The code on the main screen was scrolling and refreshing at a speed that exceeded the limits of human comprehension!

This isn't coding at all.

This is clearly a silent war!

In Lin Chen's eyes, the entire Internet had become a vast ocean composed of countless data streams.

He disregarded conventional firewalls and data barriers, directly gaining access to the deepest levels of privileges and infiltrating the world's largest dark web for trading specialty metals.

"Found them. The underground supplier codenamed 'Alchemist' had a shipment of 30 kilograms of rhenium-titanium-nickel-based shape memory alloy enter Beijing through irregular channels a month ago."

Lin Chen's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears.

Just one minute!

The dark web transaction records that the cyber police team had spent three days searching for without any results were easily uncovered by him!

"This...this is impossible! The 'Alchemist's' servers are located overseas, with at least seven layers of physical isolation and dynamic encryption. We can't even find the entrance..."

The cyber police captain gasped in shock, looking at Lin Chen as if he had seen a ghost.

Lin Chen ignored him completely, his fingers continuing their movements without pause.

"Having materials alone is not enough; you also need extremely precise processing equipment and facilities."

With a light swipe of his fingers across the keyboard, the data stream on the screen instantly changed direction, frantically grabbing rental, electricity, and network traffic data from all industrial zones in the western suburbs of Beijing.

"Got it."

Less than a minute later, a map coordinate system with a red box appeared on the screen.

"In the western suburbs, in the abandoned Seventh Textile Factory, there is an unregistered, independent warehouse on the third basement level."

"In the past month, industrial electricity consumption here has been 130 times the normal level, and there are high-power encrypted network signal sources."

Lin Chen lightly tapped the Enter key, and the internal structure diagram of the underground warehouse instantly popped up on the screen, clearly marking the location of every ventilation duct and load-bearing column.

"This theft gang, codenamed 'Phantom,' is a top international art thief who is adept at using high technology and psychology to set up schemes."

Lin Chen stood up, clapped his hands, as if he had only done a trivial thing.

He turned to look at Su Qingge and Li Mingyu, who were completely petrified, and said in an unquestionable, commanding tone:

"Qingge, Li Mingyu, take your men and raid their stronghold."

"Remember, that replica of the Simuwu Ding was merely a 'consumable' item for them to raise funds."

"Their real target is probably still in that warehouse."

After saying that, Lin Chen picked up the bottle of mineral water again and took another sip, as if the shocking mystery that he had solved in less than five minutes was less important than quenching his thirst.

The entire monitoring room was completely silent, except for the heavy breathing of everyone and the pounding of the hearts of the senior experts.

As they watched Lin Chen's leisurely strolling figure, only one thought remained in their minds.

Is this...is this even human?!