If it is handed over to the Deep Gray Science Museum for incubation in the final stage, Maoxiong can completely include himself and his trusted scientific researchers in the research and development.

Under the current situation, if the Deep Gray Science Museum really wants to announce the results, Mao Xiong will definitely only sign Li Ke's name in the margins, making people think that he is just an auxiliary R&D personnel doing marginal work.

"Are you okay?" Meng Ai looked him up and down with her pure eyes.

"It's okay. At least nothing will happen to you."

He once again expressed his gratitude solemnly, took back all the Pokémon, put the packed skeleton fossil pterosaur into the lamb, and drove only this car to Yuhong City.

You can return the pterosaur skeleton and just keep the egg.

As long as the egg is successfully hatched, and there is no involvement of the Deep Gray Science Museum in the research data, and they had previously rejected Li Ke's project application materials, the final results will belong to Li Ke alone.

The setting sun dyed the clouds red, and Shen Qi's little lamb stopped in front of the Yuhong City Police Station.

In the end, I checked in at the police station in a new city.

"It's Shen Qi, right?"

In the hall, Junsha, who had been notified in advance, was waiting.

This investigation is of great importance and involves the Deep Gray Science Museum. Mao Xiong is a well-known figure in the collecting and scientific research fields. He often cooperates with Yuhong University, and the higher-ups have attached great importance to it.

"Yes, I'm Shen Qi."

"Come with us to the conference room."

Normally, record-taking and investigation are conducted in the interrogation room.

As for the big shots involved in this incident, Yuhong City was quite polite to Director Maoxiong and the accompanying researchers, and specially opened a meeting room to discuss the matter.

In the conference room, Li Ke had obviously had an argument with a group of people led by Mao Xiong. His face was red and his head was downcast, his eyes were bloodshot and tears were faintly visible.

The man who is able to firmly advance scientific research when faced with difficult projects and is not understood and ridiculed by other colleagues shows signs of crying at this time.

After all, Li Ke is a down-to-earth scientific researcher, and is far inferior to Maoxiong in terms of intrigue.

"Shen Qi, why don't you tell us about the theft of the pterosaur skeleton?"

When he saw the person coming, Maoxiong slammed the table, the fat on his cheeks trembled slightly, and a few strands of hair fell down from his shiny slicked-back hair, making his bald head, which was already difficult to hide, even more conspicuous.

How could Shen Qi be frightened by the local rich man's majestic appearance?

"I just received a notice from Mr. Li Ke that an important scientific research object fell outside the spring race track. In order to prevent the scientific research department from suffering losses, I gave up the competition and transported the fossils back. How can it be theft?"

In fact, the Deep Gray Science Museum also couldn’t figure out why the giant fossil flew away. Just now they asked Li Ke, but Li Ke couldn’t answer either.

Only Shen Qi knew that it was the clay doll from thousands of years ago who fell in love with the fossil he was guarding, and would evolve in the catastrophe, infusing his last energy into the evolutionary stone, especially the heart.

Therefore, after the pterosaur skeleton came into close contact with the fossil heart, it seemed to be "awakened".

The fossil pterosaur had actually died hundreds of millions of years ago, but the energy factor of the clay giant and the residual soul of probability contained in its body drove its ability to fly.

The Clay Giant, this bulky ground + ghost type guy, can really fly.

That's all. After the remaining energy factors and soul fluctuations of the clay giant dissipate, everything will return to ordinary dead objects.

Fortunately, Shen Qi and Li Ke worked together to ensure that this unique life showed signs of continuing today.

"Okay, hand over the big fossils in our museum, and also hand over your research and manipulation of the fossils."

Maoxiong muttered, "How can you use someone else's test subject for experimentation and claim it as your own?"

The Deep Gray Science Museum has been displaying the pterosaur skeleton as an exhibit for several years, purely as a means of attracting attention and making money. In their eyes, it has no research value anymore.

Now they call it an "experimental subject" in a high-sounding manner, but this is just a prelude to subsequently monopolizing Li Ke's scientific research results.

"The fossils are in my trunk. As for the scientific research results..." Shen Qi spread his hands, "I'm just a racing driver. How would I know what scientific research results exist?"

If Li Ke didn't say anything and Shen Qi didn't admit it, who would have thought that a clay giant egg could be resurrected from the skeleton of a fossil pterosaur.

Not to mention the clay giant, the possibility of directly resurrecting a fossil pterosaur from that body was proven to be impossible several years ago.

Mao Xiong stared at Shen Qi with his cloudy eyes, then turned around and gave instructions to the researchers around him.

"Let's go check if there's anything wrong with the big fossil!"

Chapter 489 Accountability

"How did the fossil become like this?!"

Looking at the petrified skeleton in the trunk of the car, Maoxiong first asked people to take the things back, and then shouted harshly.

If you don't know him, you might think he is the director of the police station.

"How should I know? It was like this when I found it." Shen Qi asked back, "You, the Deep Gray Science Museum, didn't take good care of the exhibits. How dare you question the person who actually found it?"

Most fossils are set in rocks called "country rocks."

It is very difficult to clean the fossils from the surrounding rocks. Either they have to be scraped off bit by bit with a knife or a needle, or carefully proportioned acetic acid is used to slowly erode the outer rock and then deacidify the fossils.

Some traces of feathers and internal organs remain on the surface of the rock and there is no need to remove them, so most of the paleontological fossils we see are on stone slabs.

The museum would probably be laughing to death at the fact that they could peel off the skeleton of a pterosaur so beautifully.

After several rounds of conversation, Maoxiong realized that Shen Qi was a very smooth and unyielding person.

Moreover, during the spring competition, large fossils did fall from the sky, and Shen Qi drove over specifically to pick them up. How can this behavior be considered stealing fossils from the Deep Gray Science Museum?

At most, you may find something but don't know who the owner is. You can just return it normally when the owner comes.

Unable to put any pressure on Shen Qi, Mao Xiong once again turned his attention to Li Ke.

In fact, the value of the fossil itself is nothing. Maoxiong has the financial resources to buy more complete fossils from other places.

What he really valued was the conclusion that Li Ke had drawn from the strange and automatically flying fossils. It was a priceless treasure, and he didn't know how much honor and funds it would attract after it was named after him.

"Li Ke, what kind of research did you do with the fossils in our museum? You can't take the responsibility for destroying the fossils and ruining the scientific research results."

Shen Qi brought back the skeleton fossils he found. The police station no longer had any intention of investigating the theft, so Mao Xiong immediately changed the point of accountability to "destroying property" and secretly hiding the research.

Faced with the questioning, Li Ke's already red face turned even redder.

"Li Ke..."

Next to Maoxiong, a delicate little girl called out.

She was a very pretty girl. Even though Shen Qi was worried before coming here, his eyes couldn't help but stay on her for two seconds longer when he entered the room.

The fair and delicate face is already a very good foundation, matched with the naturally charming sleepy eyes. The eye waves are like spring water blowing up the lake surface with scattered petals, which is captivating. Every curve of the plump lips and words makes people stare.

There are still beautiful girls in the research institute.

The woman gently persuaded, "Don't be stubborn, I will help you plead with your godfather."

No wonder other researchers didn't dare to interrupt when Maoxiong was speaking, but the woman was the director's goddaughter.

"Hinako, this is a matter concerning the reputation of researchers. It's a matter of principle."

"Don't be so rigid." Hinako came closer and gently pulled Li Ke's sleeve.

The front of the white researcher's coat was unbuttoned, and a glimpse of the scenery made Li Ke turn his head away with a twinkling look in his eyes.

"No, that would be the equivalent of..."

"No need to say more to this rigid guy." Mao Xiong interrupted the conversation, "Li Ke! If you don't hand over the research results, you will have to pay a huge amount of liquidated damages and test product damage fees!"

Having ruled out theft, the guards were still troubled as to whether the fossils were damaged or not.

If we say that the fossil is not damaged, it is beautifully separated, not damaged in the conventional sense;

But if you say it is broken, it is definitely not in its original intact state.

It is like the owner has a beautiful rough gemstone in his hands, and someone cuts it into a beautiful shape without permission. If the owner says that this is an act of damage, it is completely justified.

It depends on whether Director Maoxiong is willing to let Li Ke go.

"Oh, godfather~~"

Hinako's half-coquettish, half-reproachful murmur softened Shigeo's eyes a little, and the two male researchers behind him swallowed unconsciously.

"Godfather, Li Ke is a scholar with strong research ability in our museum. He still has 4 years left on his contract. He has to bear the penalty for breach of contract. What if he becomes depressed and can't do any research in the future?"

"My daughter...what you said makes some sense, but this research is of great importance. We must ask him to hand over what he has researched so far!"

With Hinako's intervention, the atmosphere was not as tense as before, and Li Ke's red face looked much better as he calmed down.

He suddenly clapped his hands and said, "Director, your statement is a little inappropriate."

"What's wrong?!"

"The research report I submitted was clearly rejected, so this is my personal research and has nothing to do with the Deep Gray Science Museum."

"What a joke! You didn't say you wanted to use the fossils in our museum for research." Maoxiong rubbed his fat palms together. "How can you say that it's your personal research project to secretly use the research materials in the museum?!"

When Li Ke said this, Shen Qi also felt strange.

If it was so easy to excuse himself, Li Ke would have fought back directly on the phone long ago. There would be no need for him to hide.

The discovery of the pterosaur fossil skeleton had been secretly conducted as an experiment without the knowledge of the Deep Gray Science Museum, or the real owner.

If the secret was kept secret and the egg was hatched, the research data would only be recorded by Li Ke, and it could be said to be a personal research result. Now that the real owner has come out to ask for the experimental products and derivatives, he should not be able to refuse.

"Director Maoxiong, you have a large business, with more than one Deep Gray Science Museum. You haven't paid much attention to the origins of this large fossil, right?"

"How...what?"

Maoxiong's eyes rolled, unable to guess what Li Ke was going to say.

At this time, a researcher in his forties or fifties stepped forward and whispered something in Maoxiong's ear, and he was stunned.

Li Ke finally regained some of his pride, "The big fossil... doesn't belong to the Deep Gray Science Museum, right? It's a product that a collector entrusted to our museum for exhibition."

Just like the Fossil Museum and Meteorite Museum in Qiuye Town, some collectors will cooperate with the museums to display the exhibits in the country.

For example, Li Yizi's racing car that was smashed by a meteorite belongs to the collector who bought the car, not to the meteorite museum.

Having said that, large fossils do not belong to the Deep Gray Science Museum, and the curator Mao Xiong did not approve Li Ke to use the fossils for experiments, so the experimental results have nothing to do with the Deep Gray Science Museum.

Only when the real owner of the fossils comes forward can they demand the fossils back and ask to see the scientific research results obtained using the fossils as research materials.

Even if it is identified as damaged property, the person Li Ke actually needs to compensate is the owner of the fossil, not the Deep Gray Science Museum.

In this way, Li Ke did not betray his own museum or breach of contract, he just used other people's fossils for personal experiments.

If there is any accountability, it should be held by the owner of the fossil.

Chapter 490 Doesn’t Belong to You

There is such a thing...

In the game, the pterosaur skeleton fossil is on display in the Deep Gray Science Museum. Shen Qi doesn't know whether it is the museum's property or deposited by someone else.

Li Ke said this, and together with the conversation between the senior researcher and Mao Xiong, it can be confirmed that the real owner is someone else.

Li Ke actually just remembered such an important thing. Shen Qi was really worried for him, but fortunately he remembered it. Things were turning around a bit.

For the time being, Maoxiong is not qualified to be held accountable.

The things did not belong to his family, and they were lost when he was in power. Now Shen Qi and Li Ke found them, but they did not return them to the original owner. Instead, they used them for some kind of experiment. If they really have to bear compensation liability, they should compensate the original owner.

"You!" Maoxiong's face turned red with anger. He turned around and asked the researcher in his 40s or 50s, "How many years did the collector who placed the fossils here sign a contract with us for? How much money does he have to pay us?"

"Director..." the researcher responded somewhat embarrassedly, "They put their things in our museum, giving us an extra exhibit. We should have paid them."

Although his business was growing, Maoxiong was still thinking about spending some management fees.

"So...when will the other party ask for the big fossil back?"

"No, he just allowed us to keep it as an exhibit in the Deep Gray Science Museum as a token of friendship. He can take it back anytime."

"Contact the owner of the fossil and tell them we want to buy it!"

As a businessman, Maoxiong's mind works very quickly.

There is no way to cause trouble to Li Ke now, but buying the fossils will make the difference. The fossils will truly belong to the Deep Gray Science Museum. Li Ke is also a researcher of the museum, so we can control him with a two-pronged approach!

"Yes, I'll contact you right away."

"Damn it, don't get complacent too soon. It's not easy to play tricks when you work under me."

After saying that, Mao Xiong suddenly smiled and said to Miss Junsha, "Thank you very much for the cooperation of the Security Bureau, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to call these two guys up quickly."

"Mr. Maoxiong, your case does not meet the conditions for filing a case."

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