Chapter 2072: Chapter 1975: Blue Fatty Is Missing
A deal of fifteen thousand in exchange for a million, Fucheng Cultural Relics Bureau certainly wouldn’t be foolish enough to refuse such an offer.
They just wanted to keep Huo Sining, so as long as her requests were not excessive, they had no choice but to agree obediently.
Huo Sining was well aware of this, because she knew clearly that Fucheng Cultural Relics Bureau would not dare to refuse her requests.
The passage had already been excavated, and the staff quickly entered the interior of the ancient tomb.
Because this tomb was so well concealed and hadn’t been visited by tomb robbers beforehand, its internal structure remained relatively intact, and the archaeological staff faced no danger upon entry.
Soon, batch after batch of artifacts was moved out from inside, swiftly sealed and transferred.
This sort of task Huo Sining had done before in Yunling, but this time it was the staff from Fucheng Cultural Relics Bureau who were handling it.
These minor employees spend their days sitting in office at the Cultural Relics Bureau with hardly any archaeological fieldwork to participate in. Although civil servants by contract, in reality they were in a department where they just muddle through. Now, having finally gotten such a rare opportunity, these minor employees couldn’t wait to compete to get to the front lines, into the first archaeological scene.
You know, being able to enter the site and participate in the archaeological work, when the Witch Lord Han Tomb exhibition hall is built in the future, their names will be recorded in the archives. Moreover, this could add a glorious achievement to their resumes and may well be the key factor in their future promotions and success.
Huo Sining had no mind for such politically significant archaeological work. Once she confirmed that the excavation of the Han Tomb was proceeding smoothly, she prepared to hand over her tasks and then planned to return to the Imperial Capital.
Zhou Shitao also planned to return, as the remaining work was not difficult. He directly tossed it to Ji Kun, and Huo Sining also handed Ji Kun a matter to handle: getting her senior brother to negotiate with the Cultural Relics Bureau so that after the exhibition hall is built, they could construct an enclosed shrine inside to provide a resting place for those wrongfully deceased souls.
If the Cultural Relics Bureau didn’t want to fund it, she was willing to pay out of her own pocket, as long as they granted her a piece of land.
Huo Sining had helped Fucheng Cultural Relics Bureau so much, believing that if the bureau had any sense, they would not reject her request.
After handing over the work, Huo Sining along with Wu Jun, Gu Xu, and others returned to the hotel, and planned to book a flight back to the Imperial Capital that evening.
Unexpectedly, upon returning to the hotel, they saw Yue Shuwen running out with a panicked expression, her face filled with anxiety and confusion.
"What’s wrong?" Seeing Yue Shuwen’s expression was off, Huo Sining couldn’t help but ask.
Yue Shuwen was almost in tears, anxiously rambling, "I... I saw that Niuniu was asleep, so I went out to buy some things... When I came back, she was gone... I couldn’t find her anywhere..."
Upon hearing this, Huo Sining’s expression changed immediately. She had been busy these past few days, leaving Blue Fatty in Yue Shuwen’s care. On one hand, the little one and Yue Shuwen were of a similar kind, making it easier for her to take care of. On the other, Huo Sining noticed how much Yue Shuwen liked the little fellow, trusting that she would be careful in taking care of the child.
Yet unexpectedly, things had gone awry, and the child was missing.
The first thought that came to Huo Sining’s mind was that the little chubby had hidden herself.
That little creature wasn’t as harmless as Wu Jun and Yue Shuwen seemed to be on the surface. She was like a Lady of Tianshan, a monster with an infant’s appearance but nearly an adult’s mind, probably just toying with them. The possibility of being truly lost was unlikely.
With this thought, Huo Sining almost instinctively told the others, "Open all of your rooms and check if there’s anyone inside."
This kind of hiding, making them search anxiously everywhere, was the kind of game that mischievous girl would play.
This sort of game, in recent times in the hotel room, Huo Sining had played with this Blue Fatty, though mostly in her own room, thinking the chubby one was tired of their previous games and wanted a new one.
But this time, she guessed wrong. After turning inside out the rooms of Wu Jun, Yue Shuwen, Ji Kun, and even Zhou Shitao, they still couldn’t find the child.
"Let’s call the police!" Gu Xu suggested first.
Huo Sining hesitated: "If we call the police, the media might find out about this, and then the news would be all over the place. I’m afraid everyone would find out about this child, and they might even suspect that she’s our illegitimate child."
Gu Xu frowned: "But compared to that, the child’s safety is more important. If those media start making baseless speculations, let them. We’ve already married; the media can’t cause much trouble."
Huo Sining said nothing. Truthfully, she wasn’t worried about the little girl’s safety at all because she knew well what the little chubby could do. Even someone like Wu Jun, a special forces Soldier King, would get zapped unconscious by her with a mere touch. Others wouldn’t fare any better and would likely be the ones tricked by her.
"How about we look for the hotel manager and check the surveillance footage to see what’s happening? Maybe the child is still in the hotel and just accidentally walked out and got lost,"
Wu Jun suggested, seeing the disagreement between Huo Sining and Gu Xu.
Huo Sining and Gu Xu both agreed with this suggestion, so they hurriedly went to find the hotel manager. Soon, the manager brought them to the monitoring room.
Retrieving the surveillance footage was easy enough, and with the approximate time provided by Yue Shuwen, they extracted the footage from the camera in the hallway of Huo Sining’s floor.
That camera was directly facing the entire hallway of the hotel, conveniently capturing Huo Sining’s room.
Soon, they noticed something unusual. Less than ten minutes after Yue Shuwen left the room, a man wearing a down jacket and a peaked cap suddenly appeared in the hotel’s hallway. He cautiously looked around before stealthily approaching Huo Sining’s room and knocking on her door.
After waiting a whole minute, just as that person was about to lose patience and preparing to take out something to open the door, suddenly, the door was opened from the inside.
Standing at the door was none other than the little chubby Niuniu they had been searching for.
