Chen Shanhe put the evidence aside and he smiled eager to hear more and i i did not disappoint. On top of the well preserved dollar bills, she had a tiny note book in which she had written the different dates on which Mo Chenyu had crossed paths with her, acting all shady.
"What cri was he arrested for by the way? The more I know the better I can help." She looked around for a chair and she sat down.
This prompted the lawyers and everyone else to sit down and listen. The eager reporters were disappointed and surprised when the doors to the station were closed again.
"Smuggling ivory and antiques." Chen Shanhe said.
"I knew it!" i i’s voice was as loud a thunderclap. "You should check and see how many waterlons he imported into the country under the guise of business. I an, who imports waterlon!!!!! On his twenty third birthday, I was relegated to kitchen duty as usual and I found sothing strange in one of the waterlons."
She opened her bag and pulled out a tiny bronze cat with ruby eyes also in an evidence bag. "I was too afraid to get it appraised because I was worried that it would be traced back to but this was inside a waterlon."
Pi Lejun grabbed the evidence bag with the cat quickly and held it up. "Does anyone know what this cat is."
"I believe that it is the lost Bastet, a gift that was given by an Egyptian king to Emperor Li Chen in the thirteenth century. If it is real, it is worth about...."
"One hundred sixty nine million yuan." Another voice called out eagerly. The police officer who shared this was on his computer looking up images of bronze cats with red eyes.
"Actually three hundred sixty million yuan or Thirty seven, six hundred twenty thousand pounds." Jingzhe contributed to the topic. "This was the price suggested at the last appraisal of the Bastet cat in the British empire six years ago at the Manchester Museum. A private owner was looking to sell it. But before the sale could be concluded, the cat was stolen again." He looked at i i and said, "The Bastet cat is our empire’s antique which has been stolen the most in history."
"I am not going to ask how you know that." Chen Shanhe said. "Can we get an expert here to verify if this cat is real." He told the police chief.
"No need, just switch off all the lights and close the blinds." Jingzhe said.
"Do it." Pi Lejun commanded.
Officers scrambled around closing every window and blind. They handcuffed the criminals to the desks to keep them from escaping. All interrogation were closed electronically after a warning was sounded and then the lights were switched off, plunging the room into darkness.
"I can’t see anything." Chen Shanhe loudly said.
" too." Pi Lejun said.
There was disappointnt in the air as everyone had been hoping to see sothing extraordinary.
"You need to rub water on the ruby eyes." Jingzhe explained, doing exactly that.
And then, sothing changed. The eyes of the cat started to glow. Not only did they glow with an eerie red light but they projected images of an oasis with cats. A place that looked like a cat heaven atop a pyramid.
"Woah!!" i i exclaid. She had held onto the cat for five years, not knowing what it was or how extraordinary it was.
Cries of ow ca from so of the images, startling everyone. Many of them had just one question. How was this achieved by the ancient people? What magic or technology did they use?
"Now you know why so people say the pyramids were built by aliens." Pi Lejun muttered. He was one of those people that watched the history channel and he had watched a docuntary on ancient Egypt and their lost pyramids. "Lights on."
Everyone settled down and the precious cat was snatched out of Jingzhe’s hands by Chen Shanhe. "I will be keeping that, thank you."
Jingzhe shrugged. "The British appraiser was wrong, the value of this cat should be in billions. Firstly, it was a gift from one emperor to another. Sothing like that carries weight in so circles like a painting once owned by an emperor.
Secondly, it was...or is the mold of a cat god believed to give blessings. Not many original statues or images of ancient gods are left in the world. The historical significance of the cat is high, there is much we could learn from it.
Thirdly, the rubies themselves are precious. They are rare crimson rubies with a purple lining curved into star shapes, one of a kind. Only two of them exist in the whole world.
Fourth the body of the cat is actually gold and not bronze. It was painted bronze because attempts to steal it started on the very night that Emperor Li Chen received it and the emperor thought that if it was less shiny, less people would try to steal it.
The fifth reason is that the Bastet cat is not an ordinary antique it is considered to be a relic with religious significance. It was nad a sacred artifact. Relics are worth more than antiques in value.
The last reason is because of the images that we have all witnessed. It is unexplainable how ancient people put holograms in these ruby eyes. The only way to know is to smash the rubies...."
"Are you crazy?"
"Woah! woah! whoa!!"
"Stop right there."
Many voices jumped in to cut off Junjie’s suggestion. Nobody was touching the precious relic which he had said was worth billions.
"I was walking around with cat god worth billions in my bag!!" i i wailed.
Chen Shanhe frowned at her. "How could you be so careless. What if your bag was stolen?"
"Hey she found the cat and kept it safe for five years so do not bla her." Jingzhe defended i i imdiately. "You would not have the cat if it was not for her."
Chen Shanhe apologize to i i. He blad excitent for his tone of voice.
"Great, now give us back our cat." Jingzhe extended his hand out. "The rules of treasure hunts in the empire say finders keepers. i i found the cat, it belongs to her."
"Wait...it is not her cat is is mine." Mo Tian shouted.
"It is the emperor’s cat." Pi Lejun said with disbelief in his voice that soone would try to claim it. "It was a gift from one emperor to another so it makes sense for the current emperor to own the cat. It is a royal treasure."
"Emperor Li and Emperor Long are not connected. Different emperors of different dynasties. The cat has so royal significance but it is not technically owned by the imperial Long family." Tangning pointed out.
"It is a national treasure that was stolen!!" Chen Shanhe raised his irritated voice. "It belongs to the nation."
"I am sure that the last owner who is a British citizen will disagree." Jingzhe shrugged.
"So who owns the cat?" A detective asked.
"We should ask the lawyers what they think. There are over a dozen of them with us here. Who owns the cat?" Pi Lejun and all of the officers of the law and criminals looked at the lawyers.
"ilin does." Xu Shan answered instantly. If i i wanted the cat then legal or questionable, as her lawyer it was her duty to argue in that direction.
"Err...in that case, can Tangning take a picture with the cat?" Tangning’s agent asked.
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