Ball Ball Cultivation

Chapter 307 Modern Mountain God 51

Three days later, we arrived at the next location to attend a lockdown auction. The organizer agreed to broadcast it live to the public, and all participants told the truth. Those who did not want to go on the border could wear masks and be automatically blurred.

The auction was unusually large, with several older generations from established families in attendance. The auction featured famous paintings and calligraphy, antiques, and jade treasures. The tour group, under the guise of a charity, had all ten guests bid on items, with all proceeds going to charity.

Qiuqiu really didn’t have anything good, so Wen Yuan took out a set of mother-and-child bracelets, and the child bracelets were provided by Wen Na.

The mother-and-child bracelet, made of fine jade from the same piece, features interconnected patterns, a truly novel design. It had been carefully cared for by Wen Yuan for over a year, demonstrating its immense benefits to the wearer. It was purchased by a foreign owner who preferred not to reveal his face.

During the handover, Qiuqiu noticed that it was Assistant Zhang, Qin Xiao's assistant, who came forward to negotiate. Qiuqiu's face had been changed and her makeup had altered her personality and behavior, which had previously been similar to Wen Na's. Now, she was displaying her own personality traits. Assistant Zhang would definitely not recognize her.

Seeing Qin Xiao waiting on the side, Qiuqiu asked, "There is also a jade ring that comes with these two bracelets. Are you interested?"

Qin Xiao: "Can you show me? To be honest, this pair of mother-and-child bracelets is for my wife and our one-year-old daughter. A men's ring would be even better."

Wen Yuan also recognized Qin Xiao, who was indeed a man of luck. Although these three jade pieces were only of top quality, after being nurtured for a year by Wen Yuan, who possessed the essence of the five-colored blessed soil, their value would triple or even five times, and people would still be vying for them.

Wen Yuan took out the ring and placed it next to the mother-and-child bracelet. They were clearly carved from a single piece of jade, with similar patterns and a unified style. The price was comparable to the high price of a single bracelet.

Wen Yuan: "It's all fate."

Back at the auction house, when it came to the final item, Qiuqiu saw that He Dao Gu had won the bid for a small double-sided embroidered screen made of ebony after several rounds of competition.

A calligrapher took a photo of a bamboo slip in seal script from over 2,000 years ago. Wang Fugui, who had a very low profile, was also the guest who took the photo of the final lot, a bronze tripod.

No one else left the venue. At night, they stayed at the hotel and displayed three items for auction in the conference hall on the top floor. Special personnel then came to investigate.

Qiuqiu asked Ji Changze next to him. He was one of the organizers and therefore had more inside information, "What are you doing? Are you doubting the authenticity of these things? Or are you identifying the age?"

Ji Changze: "Looking for clues for the next step." After all, his daughter was saved by someone else, so he tried his best to reveal what he could.

Soon, some clues were found from the ears of the bronze tripod, but no results were found from the calligraphy and paintings and the screen.

Director Li took over the only clue from the young guest and said, "Xiao Zhou, this is incomplete. I can't tell anything at all."

Xiao Zhou is a martial arts star by profession, a ghost hunter by trade, and a hobby of deciphering and exploring. He's a semi-distinguished descendant of the Mohist School of Mechanical Engineering. "Uncle Li, we haven't found any clues to those two yet. Grandpa Wang couldn't bear to destroy the calligraphy, and the screen was a private photo taken by Grandma He. This is the only thing we can tinker with."

To put it bluntly, if you let me research, you have to give me greater power, even to the point of damaging the treasure.

Taoist nun He: "This double-sided embroidery is very rare. The base is made of Yunshui ebony. It would be a pity to destroy it." The implication is that she hopes you will not destroy it but explore the results.

Calligraphy master Wang: "There are six suspicious clues, perhaps the clue lies in the remaining three. This calligraphy is mounted very ordinary, it doesn't seem to contain any hidden secrets."

Director Li: "No one is willing to part with it. The organization is short of funds and has no money to buy these luxury goods." Just as he was feeling a headache, he saw the calm Wen Yuan: "Mr. Wen, can you see if you have any clues? Although Xiaozhou is a professional, he is still young after all."

Xiao Zhou, who is in his thirties, is in a state of isolation.

Wen Yuan took it and looked at it carefully. After reading it, he passed it to Qiuqiu next to him. After studying it carefully for half an hour, he was about to shake his head when he saw Qiuqiu, with a pale face, asking Xiaozhou for paper and pen.

Qiuqiu couldn't see any clues, so he used his spiritual sense to investigate as usual and found several nodes in the calligraphy. After the nodes were activated, some unfamiliar totem characters appeared.

Xiaozhou immediately started to decipher it after receiving it. Qiuqiu said: "I can't investigate this screen today. I need to rest for three days at the earliest."

Director Li: "It's okay. We have three cultural relics that have been lost, and we still have time to recover them one by one."

He Daogu saw Qiuqiu's expression and felt a little sorry: "It doesn't matter if the screen is damaged, as long as the result can be found."

Qiuqiu shook his head slightly: "When I used my mental power to explore the calligraphy, I accidentally activated a few points, and that's how the clues appeared. If the embroidery also uses this kind of exploration, it will be useless even if I dismantle it."

Taoist nun He: "Xiao Zhou, how did you find out the information hidden in the bronze tripod?"

Xiao Zhou: "I can't release my mental power, but I have a detector. It has a similar effect to mental power. When activated, it shows pictures and texts, and I can decipher it."

Director Li: "Don't play around. Use the detector to activate the double-sided embroidery."

He Daoist Nun: "I'll put it here. You guys can try it slowly. As long as you can find a clue, it'll be fine. I'll take the girl to rest."

Three days later, Qiuqiu only depicted the internal picture of the double-sided embroidery. It seemed that Xiaozhou had completed the task of activating several key points. He just didn't want to destroy the double-sided embroidery, and was afraid of being caught by outsiders, so he didn't destroy it violently.

In conjunction with the program's travel, they found two more cultural relics. With the help of Qiuqiu, they deciphered all the clues and arrived at Anshi, the final destination of this operation. According to the deciphered map, they searched for the real underground palace. Meanwhile, another gang was also operating in secret.

The car drove into the desolate mountains, and the program's external theme was: looking for the ultimate treasure.

Following the clues provided by the program team, they explored step by step and finally entered an underground maze after completing the test.

Qiuqiu's team is led by master calligrapher Wang, who slowly explores the underground maze, while the other accompanying personnel carry out their tasks separately.

When they reached the third underground floor, the live broadcast equipment was completely unusable, and Qiuqiu also learned about the entire plan.

While Qiuqiu was recovering from his injury, Director Li was still tracking down the remaining forces. He accidentally learned that a group of people were tracking down a batch of cultural relics unearthed in Anling more than 30 years ago. He used Wen Yuan's mind-reading ability to find out:

The clues to the real underground palace were hidden in the cultural relics. They held an auction directly and used the cultural relics to lure the enemy into the trap. Three of the six cultural relics were obtained, and the remaining three were changed hands many times and were obtained by the mastermind behind the scenes. They were unable to find any specific clues, and the cultural relics were passed back to Director Li.

Now that the map of the underground palace treasures is complete, the gang is about to actually go down to the underground palace. According to the clues provided by the Scholar Ghost King, this is the base camp of the ghost world.

As shown on the map, the group traveled quite smoothly under the guise of tourism, and the program's ratings reached the standard for satellite television.