Chapter 39 Section 2 Carriage

  The appraisal work had been going on for two afternoons when a truly fake item finally appeared.

  Several experts took turns to examine this two-handed sword from the Crusades, which was exquisitely crafted and well-preserved, making it a particularly valuable piece among the batch of artifacts. The only flaw was that the hilt had minor damage.

  Including Professor Lang, everyone was silent and pensive, in a state of careful consideration.

  Lu Ziyuan rubbed his lips with his hand and asked Chen Yi, "Are you sure it's not a knight sword from the 12th or 13th century?"

  "The middle part of the hilt here, definitely isn't." Chen Yi shrugged his shoulders, thinking to himself that it was at least a product from the 18th century.

  "How can the Vatican produce such a thing." Lu Zai Yu's native dialect scolded. These two days he followed all the way, and was quite convinced of this young man's judgment, although his mouth had no hair, but his judgment was more accurate than a cat's whiskers.

  Furthermore, after Chen Yi raised his doubts, the professional and slow instrument identification also provided strong evidence for his conjecture. The entire heavy sword, both the upper and lower parts were from 900 years ago, only the part connected to the hilt was a fake made in the 18th century.

  In other words, it was a church member or a certain noble who made a forgery hundreds of years ago and then had it included in the collection.

  Even a German professor shook his head in disbelief: "If they had systematically restored artifacts in the 18th century, there should be some record of it, but spending huge sums to fake it is not reasonable. Restoring it with the technology at that time would have been really difficult."

  He turned the knight's sword over and over, as a descendant of the Germans, Karl liked knightly weapons very much, although they had used them to attack the Papal States back then.

  Professor Lang said with great habituation: "Deception is a common human sentiment."

  He waited for a while for the instrument report, and then he flipped through it again, saying: "From a good perspective, except for this heavy sword, all other cultural relics are considered genuine. Whether to report or not is up to Director Lu himself."

  They found some items with inconsistent dates or non-uniform styles, but all within understandable variations. Only this knight's sword is floating too far off the mark. 18th-century restoration pieces and original perfect 12th-century knightly broadswords have essential differences, and the insured price will make a clear distinction.

  However, Lu Zaiyuan didn't have too much worry, he just sighed and said: "It's another pile of paperwork, I guess they'll just pretend they never heard about this."

  In the end, he still has to write the report.

  The masters who had been in this line for a long time smiled understandingly, took a short rest, and the crowd continued to appraise the remaining antiques. Only Chen Yi's mind was absent-minded, glanced at it, glanced at it, and then casually threw it away...

  Lu Fan's eyes shone with envy, thinking: How can people be so different? He doesn't even need to look carefully and he won't make any mistakes. No matter how I look at it or think about it, I just can't figure it out.

  At 5:30 pm, before the museum closed, the management of Jiangning Museum all appeared to formally receive artifacts from the Vatican, and among the members of the delegation, there was a handsome foreigner.

  Chen Yi gave Stanik a strange smile, and then whispered to Professor Lang: "Professor, I want a fossil of the same era as Archaeopteryx. Director Lu promised me before, you have to help me make it happen."

  "No problem, a fossil, what do you want?"

  "Within the scope of definition, close to Archaeopteryx?"

  "This request made Professor Lang scratch his head, he shifted his body to avoid the gaze of the representatives who were in the middle of a handover, and thought for half a day before saying: 'Strictly speaking, Pterosaurs are the most similar in biological form, but they are relatively far apart in terms of era, and such fossils are also relatively rare...'"

  "How precious is it?" As soon as he heard the two words "Wing Dragon", Chen Yi had a feeling that it was useful.

  "Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, but Lu Zhiyuan can't decide on the sale of fossils." Professor Lang saw through Chen Yi's thoughts and said: "Internationally, the price of fossil collecting is not high, and the research value of named fossils is not great. If you have a mind to do so, you can completely buy one from some institutions, I'll help you get an ordinary fossil, how about that? The kind that's worth tens of thousands, he won't be stingy."

  Chen Yi wanted to fossilize, because on the paper scraps picked up in the subway, there were footprints of Archaeopteryx, he wanted to try and see what was special about it. Whether any ordinary fossil could achieve this purpose, it's hard to say.

  He hesitated for a moment, then said: "How about this? We'll discuss an exchange with Director Lu. First, I'll spend money to buy a roughly equivalent dragon fossil, and then he can use the money to buy a collection of equal value. That way, it won't be considered a purely commercial transaction, right? The total value will be controlled within 500,000 yuan, how's that?"

  "You're really impatient." This method of operation is not Chen Yi's invention. If it were someone else, it would take a lot of effort to complete, but for Professor Lang, as long as he is willing, it can be easily achieved.

  He didn't decline either, nodded and agreed.

  When the handover was completed, Professor Lang said to Lu Zaiyuan, who hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement.

  But the foreign handsome guy had very sharp ears and seemed to have heard words like "fossil" from far away, he didn't know why, but his gaze was fixed on Chen Yi's face.

  Chen Yi didn't mind either, what's the point of knowing anyway. There are many people in this world who have become fossils, but those who can travel to the magical world, probably only himself.

  10:30 PM

  Chen Yi was like a family moving, he had two large bags slung over his shoulders, one half-person-high thick box in his left hand and another half-person-high thick box in his right hand, nearly 500 catties of things were dragged and pulled by him into the subway.

  He didn't flatten out the stuff until he looked inside, then he opened the trunk and leaned it against the door, ready to wait for Santgio.

  Unexpectedly, this subway turned out to be surprisingly slow, and Chen Yi even thought he had taken the wrong train.

  At this time, his backpack suddenly lit up, and the partition door at the front of the subway was also flashing with light.

  Fossil!

  Chen Yi thought of this point and quickly untied his backpack. The only somewhat special thing he carried with him was the 15-kilogram Pterosaur fossil he had just obtained.

  It seems that 270,000 yuan was not spent in vain.

  The body shape of pterosaurs varies greatly, the smallest forest pterosaur is equivalent to modern birds, and the largest Hatzegopteryx has a wingspan of up to 12 meters. The fossils he chose were mostly intact, originally looking somewhat grayish and not easy to find the skeleton, but now they are shining all over, bringing a dinosaur to life in front of him.

  Without much consideration, Chen Yi held the fossil and arrived at the shining isolation door. His hand slightly moved forward, and he felt a huge suction force.

  The pterosaur skeleton on the fossil gradually separated and reassembled in mid-air into a flying posture, then slowly flew forward.

  At the same time, a line of words also appeared on the glass of the isolation door: 10 times 110% satisfaction transaction, 1% gene completion, two-stage opening.

  The first part, Chen Yi is understandable, not counting this time, he has come and gone to the Sacred Empire of Qiao 10 times. The so-called 110% satisfaction transaction roughly explains the degree of satisfaction between the two parties.

  However, what is gene complementation and two-hybrid screening?

  Just as he was thinking about it, the gate had already sucked all the Winged Dragons that had been drawn out into the distance, leaving behind some scattered rock fragments on the ground.

  Chen Yi subconsciously glanced at the ground and when he raised his head again, the partition in front of him had vanished without a trace, as if it had never existed.

  He thought unconsciously, if thieves could have such skills, they would become rich and it's not worth complaining about.

  In front of me was another smooth subway car.

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