Chapter 478: Chapter 745
So, he would craft it nearly perfectly, allowing her to truly live here and spend some time from her fantasies.
In the afternoon, Lu Xiao went to reinforce the door of the cabin.
He had brought back a piece of synthetic leather from town and began to nail it onto the inside of the door after measuring it.
He started by nailing the four corners, wrapping all corners of the door to prevent drafts and provide aesthetic reinforcement.
Inside the cabin, there was a small ladder leading straight to the loft.
While Lu Xiao was busy, suddenly, a phone call came in.
He paused his movement and answered the phone.
“Hello, Captain Lu, we’ve discovered the trail of a strange person,” the person on the other end said.
Lu Xiao furrowed his brows, “What person?”
“This person has been seen around here lately, looking quite ragged and a bit insane, but he’s scared of people. As soon as he sees our men, he immediately runs away. He doesn’t completely look like a local.” The person on the phone paused, then continued, “We had some suspicions about his identity so we covertly tracked him. Today, when he left his place, we sneaked in and found a jewelry necklace under his bed in a broken jar. It looks quite old, like an antiquity. Could this man be a tomb raider who steals relics?”
And had someone else discovered him, forcing him to hide in this vast, uninhabited northwest region?
At these words, Lu Xiao’s heart suddenly jolted.
It seemed to instantly connect with some previous information.
The undercover agent he had sent in had also mentioned a missing piece of jewelry, saying someone had absconded with the artifact. Li Tingze came to the west in search of that priceless piece of jewelry.
Could it be that the artifact Li Tingze was looking for was the very necklace his men had found?
When Lu Xiao spoke again, he said directly, “Take a picture and send it to me; I’m going to contact an expert for an appraisal.”
He had escorted several archaeologists before and still had their contact information.
The photo was sent quickly, and Lu Xiao forwarded it to the expert for appraisal.
If it really was an artifact, an expert could tell at a glance which dynasty it came from and where it was unearthed.
Sure enough, within two minutes, the archaeologist immediately called back urgently.
Lu Xiao answered the phone and heard the expert’s eager voice on the other end, “Captain Lu, where did you learn about this item? This necklace is extraordinary. I believe it should be a relic unearthed from Xi’an. The rarity of this jewelry suggests that it belonged to an ancient princess or perhaps was a burial accessory of a princess, with immense research value.”
It’s clearly been plundered by tomb raiders.
Upon hearing this, Lu Xiao fell quiet, then said thank you and added, “It’s just a photo for now; we don’t know where this item is.”
He didn’t say much more before hanging up the phone.
It seems that this item indeed could very well be the very thing Li Tingze was looking for, almost certainly.
That’s also why he couldn’t disclose the location of the necklace.
In the end, Lu Xiao had only one instruction for his men: “Bring back the person and the necklace.”
Anyone who stole relics and fell into Li Tingze’s hands would face only one fate—death.
Lu Xiao continued his work, mulling over the task deployment, and at that moment—