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"Sleeping face down..." Cao Gui rolled her eyes. Her breasts were already small; what if they got crushed?

Cao Gui gently turned her around, but as soon as he touched her, Beth woke up quickly.

"Cao, what's wrong?" Beth rubbed her eyes and asked in confusion.

"It's alright now."

"Oh... ah~~" Beth yawned and asked in confusion, "Are you going back now?"

"No rush." ​​Cao Gui shrugged. "Gwen went to study the reptilians' cells, so there's no need to rush."

"No wonder you have time to keep me company." Beth rolled her eyes and complained. Then, she suddenly straightened up, her eyes wide open, as if she had thought of something. She immediately got up and started to get dressed.

"what happened?"

“Honey, I found some great stuff yesterday,” Beth said with a smile, then got out of bed and started rummaging through the items.

"What is that?" Cao Gui asked in confusion. Could it be a new style of stockings?

“Here it is.” Beth took out a jade urn from a gift box… a jade jar, slightly yellowish in color, warm and soft, somewhat like Hetian jade, and the jade looked to be of very good quality.

Cao Gui hadn't studied it and could only make out a rough idea, but... this thing was clearly from ancient Egypt.

The lid of this jade urn is a jade sculpture with a wolf's head and a human body.

"What is this?" Cao Gui looked at it from left to right. The jar was a single piece, impossible to open, without a single gap.

"Jade artifacts," Beth said with a smile.

"I've heard that the people of the Celestial Empire really love jade. In your five thousand years of civilization, jade culture has permeated everything. From ancient times to the present, jade has always been the highest-grade luxury item and ornament."

“Uh…you’re right.” Cao Gui took the jade urn from her hand, examined it again, and confirmed its origin:

"But isn't this from ancient Egypt?"

“They’re both jade.” Beth looked at Cao Gui, somewhat puzzled. Were the same things from these two places different?

Cao Gui: "???"

It is indeed jade, but this jade is from ancient Egypt.

"..."

"..."

The two stared at each other, speechless for a long time, the air inexplicably awkward.

"Cough, it's nothing." Cao Gui tossed the jade urn in his hand: "Although it's from ancient Egypt, it's quite beautiful."

"Uh... darling, you don't like it?" Beth frowned slightly, feeling cheated, not by Cao Gui, but by the person who sold her the things.

"No, that's not it." Cao Gui shook his head, hugged her, and explained in a serious tone:

"Jade is too complicated. Most people can't tell the difference between good and bad. The Chinese do like jade very much, but in general, a lot of it is fake. So we rarely buy jade on our own. We usually get jade passed down from our elders."

"So that's how it is." Beth seemed to understand, but not quite.

"Where did this come from?" Cao Gui rested his chin on her shoulder, tapping the jade urn in his hand repeatedly. Although Cao Gui was knowledgeable about jade, it did feel very good and was worth collecting.

“I bought it from an explorer,” Beth whispered, nuzzling Cao Gui’s face.

"Explorer?" Cao Gui frowned. This so-called explorer could generally be translated as an antique dealer, tomb raider, or robber.

Too many things from Dunhuang were stolen by these so-called explorers and have never been returned home.

“Yes, an explorer dressed as a cowboy.” Beth tapped her chin with her index finger, recalling briefly:

"He was filthy, covered in yellow sand, and carrying several revolvers. I was strolling around Chinatown with Whitney when we bumped into him. I saw some nice things and bought them."

"Clad in yellow sand? A Western cowboy? And carrying a revolver?" Cao Gui frowned slightly, feeling inexplicably uneasy.

"Yeah, but it seems he was arrested by the NYPD later," Beth nodded and said.

"He was carrying four revolvers, and the patrol officers disarmed him on the spot. Luckily, he was white..."

Upon hearing this, Cao Gui picked up the phone and called Harry:

"Harry, help me check the NYPD yesterday..."

"Around 11 a.m.," Beth whispered in Cao Gui's ear.

"At 11 a.m., they arrested a white man with a gun in Chinatown. Yes, he was carrying four handguns... Good."

"Cao, is there something wrong with that person?" Beth asked suspiciously, feeling that Cao Gui's reaction was a bit off.

"No, I'm just curious where this thing came from."

Cao Gui gave a perfunctory answer. He didn't know what to say. He couldn't very well say that the gift Beth bought for him made him feel uneasy, could he?

A short while later, Harry received a notification on his phone and quickly sent back the message.

Seeing this, Beth quickly leaned closer, also curious. But soon, her expression changed drastically, as if she had seen something unbelievable.

Cao Gui's expression was equally grave. The man had indeed been arrested by the NYPD, but Beth had spent $100,000 on the jade urn. After paying the money, the NYPD quickly released him and even got him a gun license.

After this person came out of the NYPD, he only had $60,000 left out of his $100,000. For some reason, he didn't care and happily took the money into a luxury hotel.

According to the spending records sent by Harry, this person had all the good food and fun things done at the hotel, and even ordered three Korean semi-permanent makeup treatments.

But none of that matters. The important thing is: he's dead!

Not only did he die, but the three Korean semi-permanent makeup artists also died, their deaths were extremely tragic, their bodies were withered and looked like skeletons, and their skin was even peeled off while they were still alive.

The corpse was nothing but white, hardened protein fibers; no one would believe it was meat.

The three Korean semi-permanent makeup artists were similar to him; all of them had their skin completely dried out. The difference was that their skin was still intact, unlike his, which had been peeled off.

The NYPD has launched an investigation. This happened in the very heart of New York, in the bustling Trump Tower... you know, such a serious incident cannot be taken lightly.

According to police investigation records, they found six .45 ACP bullet heads in the room, which were fired from the man's revolver, indicating that he had resisted.

The problem is that there were no traces of human tissue on the bullet, and the surveillance video did not show anyone entering his room.

Upon seeing this, Cao Gui and Beth's expressions turned serious. Clearly, the jade urn in their hands was not a good thing.

"Cao, what do we do now?" Beth asked with some worry.

Cao Gui scrolled through his phone and showed her a picture of an elderly man wearing a doctoral gown and cap: "Let's go find him!"

"The dead man was a veteran who had been employed by this doctor to go abroad. They returned to New York together two days ago."

"Okay...wait, how did you know about this?"

"It was mentioned in Harry's message that he not only checked the NYPD database but also the customs database."

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Chapter 214 A 3,000-year-old zongzi!

Beep-!

On a New York road, a Lamborghini was weaving through traffic, its horn blaring incessantly, the sound echoing as it sped along.

On the road, many drivers were furious, and some even grabbed weapons to start a fight, but when they saw that it was a Lamborghini, they could only suppress their anger.

Even some NYPD police officers turn a blind eye to this; there's no way around it, in this country, money means everything.

"Cao, slow down...you look terrible."

In the passenger seat, Beth's face was slightly pale, while Cao Gui beside her had a gloomy expression. The last time she saw Cao Gui with this expression was when Gwen and Lucy disappeared in West Virginia.

Beth probably came to her senses and realized that the jade urn in her hand was really no good thing.

“Cao, this jade urn…” Beth held the warm, smooth jade urn in her hands, feeling as if she were holding a hot potato.

“Something from ancient Egypt,” Cao Gui said in a deep voice. “It should contain the internal organs of some mummy.”

"What?" Beth was startled and threw the thing away, but luckily Cao Gui caught the jade urn in time.

If I'm not mistaken, he'll soon be facing Imhotep.

That ancient rice dumpling that has lived for over three thousand years!

“The bizarre death case last night…” Beth’s face turned pale. Following Cao Gui, she had seen many things beyond the realm of science.

Ogres, vampires, mutated monsters.

“That’s right, they must have been killed by the things that followed them.” Cao Gui nodded, confirming her guess.

Cao Gui originally didn't want to bring Beth, because Imhotep probably hadn't fully returned to human form yet, and he looked creepy.

However, Cao Gui wasn't sure if Imhotep would come after Beth, so it was safer for her to stay by his side.

During the conversation, a residential area nestled in a dense forest came into view.

Manhattan, Quincy.

This is an upscale residential area comparable to the Upper East Side, where the doctor who returned from Egypt lives.

The security guards here heard the car, glanced at the surveillance footage, and then stopped paying attention. The Lamborghini was very much in line with the status of the people living here. There was no need to stop it; if someone got upset and sent a lawyer's letter, they would be finished.

With a creak, the Lamborghini came to a steady stop in front of a villa. In America, a rich person is not necessarily a PhD, but a PhD is definitely a rich person.

Cao Gui, holding Beth's hand, barged directly into the villa.

In the living room, a middle-aged man with slightly graying hair was grimacing as he pried open a black book.

He is Dr. Allen Chamberlain, an expert on ancient Egyptian culture.

"Damn it, how do I open this thing... Is it only possible with a key?" Dr. Chamberlain angrily threw it down.

He tried for a long time but still couldn't open it, so he had to try another method.

"Hey, Daniels, where are you... What? You're at the hotel?"

Chamberlain was so angry his nose was crooked. "I'm working hard on my research here, and you two bodyguards are out having fun."

"Damn it, you're back in ten minutes, or I'm firing you!" Chamberlain roared angrily.

"And what about Henderson... You don't know? Damn it... Come back right now, or I'll have my lawyer talk to you about the spirit of contracts... Shit, who are you guys?"

Chamberlain was berating his bodyguards when he was startled to see two people burst into the living room.

On the other end of the phone, Daniels snorted angrily and reluctantly got out of bed. Although he was very dissatisfied, he could not disobey his employer.

In the villa.