ebookland Chapter 156 They're all back!
Chapter 156 They're all back!
Ren Liang distributed the guns that Gu Xixi had given him to everyone, hoping to buy Gu Xixi and the others more time during the resistance. He then took Gu Xixi to the Zhengda Guangming Hall to have the contract stamped.
The moment the seal was affixed, the system notified that the contract had been signed. Gu Xixi nodded to Tong Yue, "We can begin as planned."
Tong Yue immediately gave hand signals to direct the team members to begin their work.
[Brother Tongzi, you can now deploy the supply delivery machines according to the planned coordinates. Fifteen machines.]
[Fifteen material pickup and delivery machines have been installed and deployed for you. The deployment locations are as follows...]
Right under Ren Liang's nose, a huge supply delivery machine, three people tall and five people wide, suddenly appeared in the Zhengda Guangming Hall.
Pressing the transport button, the machine started running, making a faint sound. Gu Xixi simply picked up a vase from inside the hall and placed it on the machine. The vase was quickly transported inside and disappeared.
The counter above the machine displays: 1.
That represented the number of artifacts successfully transmitted back to the modern era. Ren Liang then went to the back of the machine to check, but none of the items that had been put in fell out from the back.
Is this the legendary teleportation array of immortals?
Indeed, there are not only extraordinary people in this world, but also immortals!
His worldview was refreshed once again, so he helped Gu Xixi and the others move anything of value in the hall to the upper level for teleportation.
The machine is huge; it can hold more than a dozen vases at a time. They just keep putting them on, as if there's nothing the machine can't handle or "swallow."
With only nine hours left before the invaders occupied the garden, Ren Liang was getting anxious. "Miss, there are over 100,000 treasures registered in this garden by the Imperial Household Department. Your small group is probably not enough. I'll go find some villagers to help move them so they can leave tomorrow morning."
Gu Xixi also did the math: the items were placed at varying distances, and one group of people was responsible for covering several palaces.
The items come in all sizes; some are small enough to be carried in one hand, while others require several people to move just one. Furthermore, the artifacts need to be protected.
So even if they travel at a fast pace, with 34 people moving one item every 5 minutes, they can only move about 20,000 cultural relics per hour, and only 400,000+ items in 18 hours.
Ren Liang was referring to treasures that were precious to the royal family, but the number of treasures they possessed was far greater. Furthermore, according to later calculations, there were over 100,000 listed items, over 100,000 buried underground, and those overseas, bringing the total number to at least a million.
Even if there aren't a million items, hundreds of thousands are inevitable, so even if they don't eat or drink for the rest of the time, they still can't possibly finish moving everything.
Gu Xixi readily agreed to his suggestion, "Alright, thank you very much, Commander Ren. But this time is very dangerous. Please make sure to send everyone back first thing tomorrow morning to avoid being implicated."
"Of course." Ren Liang turned and ran away quickly.
Chu Feng glanced at the progress here and said, "Xi Xi, I'll go and check on each group to see everyone's average speed. You stay here and don't wander off."
"Okay, of course." Gu Xixi was busy. She would put anything she saw that looked good into the machine, without even having time to see what it was.
The same applies to others; whatever they are, they will all be cultural relics and treasures a hundred years from now.
Meanwhile, modern.
After Gu Xixi and her group traveled through time, several national museums in Kyoto were urgently summoned to mobilize a group of staff. After signing a confidentiality agreement, they all came to the backyard of the Fa Da Cai Supermarket and stood in front of a row of material pick-up and drop-off machines to wait.
They were all wearing gloves, and behind them were countless packing papers and boxes used to pack cultural relics.
They were confused, and the officials didn't say much, only that they were there to pack up donated cultural relics, and there were many items.
They watched the material delivery machine for a full four hours, until they were numb and wondering to themselves, "Does that mean that if we stand here, the cultural relics will be directly delivered to us from more than a hundred years ago?"
However, in the next second, the material delivery machine started up, emitting a glowing green light, and items came out of the machine's conveyor belt one by one.
Everyone:! ! !
What kind of sci-fi movie is unfolding right before my eyes?
Several professors specializing in cultural relics rushed over with a roar.
"What are you all standing there for? Pack carefully and quickly, but be gentle. This is a long battle, so everyone must persevere. Take turns resting with the soldiers every four hours."
"Old Yu, this is a large jade mountain from the Qianlong era!" A professor carefully held up a piece of Hetian jade carving that was nearly 60 centimeters high and about 1 meter long.
The stone carving is made of green and white Xinjiang Hetian jade, radiating a cool gray-green luster, which looks as if it has special effects. On it is also a copy of the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion" written by Wang Xizhi, which was personally carved by Emperor Qianlong.
It was once the world's largest existing jade carving, but now it's the crown jewel of the Minneapolis Museum of Art. Now, it's finally back home.
"The Yuanmingyuan seal has also arrived. They're really helpful! They brought back the Baohe Taihe seal and the Qingyu Square Seal together. This was originally in the Oriental Museum in Paris, France."
“This is a bronze gilded pagoda. It should be in the Flower Kingdom Pavilion in Danfeng Bailu right now. It is indeed two meters tall, and the entire structure is inlaid with layers of emeralds. It is so exquisite.”
"Look, these are the bronze statues of the twelve zodiac animal heads! Ox head, monkey head, tiger head... a complete set."
……
Chu Anguo stood on the upper floor of the supermarket and watched as the bustling scene before him, resembling a morning market, unfolded: goods were being passed, packaged, sorted, and transported to the country's secret warehouse—a remarkably smooth assembly line.
They're all back! They're all back! I hope Gu Xixi and the others are safe and sound.
Inside the Yuanmingyuan Garden.
The moon was already high in the sky, radiating a cool, clear light. More than two hours had passed since the start of moving the cultural relics. Ren Liang returned with a dozen or so people, who were then dispersed to various locations to help out.
Among them was that third cousin.
He was still afraid of Gu Xixi and the others, but he didn't say a word. He just obediently moved the cultural relics into the conveyor belt and didn't ask any questions.
With the help of the common people, everyone moved faster. Ren Liang went to the main gate of Wanchun Garden and found the other brothers on duty.
One of them immediately chirped at him, "Hey, we're the only ones left in this garden now. Are those people here to take away the treasure? But they didn't say they would send anyone to transport the treasure. It's been an hour, and we haven't seen any carriages coming to pick up the goods."
“Yes, it’s too strange.” Another guard stepped forward. Ren Liang looked at his brothers who had been with him for many years and had no choice but to explain everything he had experienced and the origins of Gu Xixi and the others.
After Ren Liang's repeated assurances, the group went to various palaces to look at the special forces soldiers and Ren Xuan's face, which was almost identical to Ren Liang's. In the end, they had no choice but to believe him.
So everyone joined the effort to rescue the cultural relics, leaving only six people to stand guard at the three main palace gates and keep watch.