Chapter 508: Chapter 508: Ji Hanyu’s Expression Suddenly Changed
The mountaintop villa had already turned into a ruin. Ji Hanyu and Bai Haoxue arrived there before Xiao Bei.
At first glance, they didn’t notice the experimental bottles that Li Mingmo and his team had dug up related to the laboratory.
What caught their eyes was a pile of miscellaneous items, including porcelain, furniture, jade Buddhas, and valuable paintings, all scattered on the ground as if they were displayed at a street market.
But none of these items were intact. Most of the paintings were nearly burned to ashes, and the jade Buddhas, porcelain, and furniture were mostly blown to pieces, with occasionally a slightly more intact piece found.
Bai Haoxue was puzzled, "Li Mingmo, why did you guys dig up all this stuff?"
Li Mingmo: "..."
That question was rather awkward. He didn’t know either!
After all, he couldn’t just say that his brothers were too poor.
Fortunately, Xiao Bei arrived at that moment too.
Li Mingmo quickly led Xiao Bei to see the experimental bottles they had dug up, which were mainly test tube racks, test tubes, beakers, and reagent bottles.
Li Mingmo, like a proud treasure hunter, cautiously handed Xiao Bei a perfectly intact reagent.
"This is the only intact one I found. From its appearance, it looks very similar to the color of the virus they injected into Ji Hanyu back then."
The reagent bottle contained a strikingly blue liquid, looking quite beautiful.
But something so beautiful was more terrifying than poison; it made life worse than death.
Xiao Bei carefully placed it in the box he had brought along.
Li Mingmo also led Xiao Bei to the place where they discovered the laboratory, "Take a thorough look at these and see if there’s anything we might have missed."
After all, they were all amateurs — and quite a rough bunch at that.
Li Mingmo said, "Looking at these racks and glass shards, it’s not hard to tell that this used to be a laboratory."
Xiao Bei nodded, put on gloves, and squatted down to inspect the shards piece by piece. Many of them still had residues of brightly colored liquids.
Bai Haoxue also followed along, picking up and examining things here and there.
Ji Hanyu just stood there like an emperor, calm and composed, while others rushed around.
Li Mingmo’s brothers were busy picking out the best goods they could from the pile of porcelain and furniture they had painstakingly dug up.
They even shouted out to Li Mingmo, "Colonel, I think this teapot might be worth a fortune. It seems like a top-grade purple clay pot. Should we take it back?"
Li Mingmo: "..."
"Boss..." This time the speaker was Ding, someone Li Mingmo had known since his underworld days, so he still called Li Mingmo boss.
Ding said excitedly, "Boss, this is a blue-and-white porcelain piece, and there’s still more than half left. I’ve heard that even fragments of valuable porcelain are worth a lot. And this jade Buddha, though it’s in two parts, we could take it to a jade repair shop and have a master fix it. We could even inlay gold in the middle, turning it into ’gold inlaid jade.’
Li Mingmo: "..."
"Go, go, go." Another person chimed in, "What gold inlaid jade? This jade piece is large enough and doesn’t need repair. Carving it into a pendant is valuable enough."
Li Mingmo: "..."
Seeing his brothers becoming more and more money-minded, Li Mingmo rubbed his forehead, feeling too embarrassed to face them. He quickly went over to join Xiao Bei and Bai Haoxue before Ji Hanyu could start mocking him.
Ji Hanyu was about to step over when something caught his eye out of the corner of it in that pile of miscellaneous items...
