Chapter 195: Why is it this pervert again?

On the road leaving the convention and heading to the museum.

Xu Mo also deliberately avoided all the surveillance on the road.

This was also his first time, since arriving in Sakura Country, actively evading the road's surveillance.

Because from now on, for the next several hours, he must not be exposed to surveillance.

Otherwise the arrangements he made earlier would be completely wasted.

10:58.

Xu Mo arrived at his destination—the museum.

Because of his previous experience impersonating a police officer.

Xu Mo knew the museum's security measures like the back of his hand.

He had a way to deal with the surveillance, alarms, guards, and even the glass display cabinets that locked the treasures.

He spent two minutes preparing at the entrance.

During those two minutes, Xu Mo put on a headgear, gloves, and custom shoe covers, then slipped silently into the museum; the time was now exactly 11:00.

Because it was night, the museum would have no one inside except the guards.

The footage captured by the cameras would explain everything.

If a person appeared on the surveillance, it would have to be a criminal.

If no one is seen, it means everything is peaceful.

Therefore, the guards do not need to patrol the museum continuously.

They only need to watch the feeds in the Monitoring Room, and every half hour send a few people to make a round patrol inside the museum.

Until 11:30, the surveillance showed no abnormalities.

But according to the rule that a patrol must go out every half hour, a Team One of guards left the Monitoring Room to patrol.

However, the guards who left the Monitoring Room were instantly stunned.

The display cabinets are empty!

And it's not just one cabinet that's empty.

All the display cabinets throughout the museum are completely empty!

The guards widened their eyes and rubbed them hard several times.

For a moment, they could hardly believe the scene their eyes were seeing.

But no matter how wide they stared or how much they rubbed, it was of no use.

All the museum's display cabinets had indeed been opened, and the treasures inside had all vanished without a trace!

These guards were temporary police officers assigned to museum security.

Realizing the seriousness, they immediately reported the situation to their superiors as soon as they recovered.

At the same time, a counterfeit‑plated truck left the museum, heading toward the seaside.

At 12:08 a. m., Xu Mo avoided the surveillance along the way and returned to that comic convention.

The convention, which only started that evening, had been running for several hours and was now nearing its end.

By now most people, seeing that it was about to end, had already left.

The coser girls changed into their everyday clothes, planning to leave the convention and go home; of course, some were too lazy to change and headed straight back.

Xu Mo timed it right and slipped behind a few cosers!

However, after only a couple of steps, he was discovered.

Several coser girls gave Xu Mo a disdainful look.

How unlucky.

Why is it this pervert again?

She immediately shouted.

In an instant, dozens of flower‑guarding escorts surrounded him.

They stared at Xu Mo very unfriendly.

Seeing this, Xu Mo gave an awkward smile.

Under the gaze of more than ten people, he turned and left the convention.

Drive, return to the hotel, shower, sleep.

A night without a word.

……

The next day.

A news report shook all of Sakura Country.

Over a hundred museum artifacts vanished overnight!

Countless citizens of Sakura Country were stunned.

Not long ago a massive fire burned the Jin Country Divine Toilet, and now the museum's collections have all disappeared.

One after another—when will it end?

Could this also be the work of West Eight Country people?

Hard to say, but probably yes.

Because the last incident involved West Eight Country, and the peoples of the two nations have been spouting insults online ever since.

Moreover, West Eight Country has a flashy nickname—'Thief Nation'!

Who else could it be but them?

……

At the same time.

Museum.

Today's museum didn't open its doors to welcome visitors; instead, the Police cordoned it off with a warning line.

The person urgently dispatched to handle this extremely heinous museum artifact theft case is named Shenhu Yi.

Shenhu Yi has previously handled many major investigations.

He has almost never failed.

"Is the scene sealed off?" Shenhu Yi asked, looking at the Bald Man, who has been in charge of museum security these past two days.

"After discovering the missing artifacts last night, we sealed the area immediately; the scene was not disturbed."

Shenhu Yi nodded, then spoke again.

"Were any traces at the scene collected? Hair, skin fragments, footprints, or fingerprints left by the culprit?"

Hearing that, the Bald Man's complexion changed.

If effective traces could be obtained, he could lead a team to solve the case himself; why bother having Shenhu Yi help?

He fell silent for two seconds.

The Bald Man waved to a police officer under his command.

The officer brought over several documents.

He took the documents, handed them to Shenhu Yi, and the Bald Man explained the current findings.

"Before you arrived, we thoroughly inspected the museum floor and collected some hair and skin fragments, but… after review, they all came from the night‑shift guard."

"We didn't collect any fingerprints. As for shoe prints, we actually gathered many; most match the night‑shift guard, except for one set of footprints…"

While the Bald Man spoke, Shenhu Yi also examined the documents he handed over.

After a quick skim, Shenhu Yi tossed the documents back to the Bald Man.

"No need to say more; that set of shoe prints is worthless. A size‑48 print with a plain sole—either a custom shoe or a custom shoe cover. This information is useless; I need to go inside and see the scene."

Saying that, Shenhu Yi strode rapidly toward the interior of the museum.

He wasn't at all concerned about contaminating the scene, not even wearing shoe covers or gloves.

Because the scene yielded no useful clues.

The hair and skin fragments belong to the guard, no fingerprints were collected, most shoe prints were left by the guard, and the sole remaining set of prints holds little value.

Seeing Shenhu Yi already go inside, the Bald Man immediately led the police officers in pursuit.

"The culprit was very cautious; before acting, he must have wrapped himself tightly, otherwise there's no reason no hair or skin fragments were left," Shenhu Yi said.

He then shifted his tone.

"But there's another possibility: perhaps there was no real culprit at all. The hair, skin fragments, and footprints all came from the guards, so they hold some suspicion. Have those night‑shift guards been detained?"

"They've all been detained," the Bald Man said. "My team is interrogating them, but I don't think it's them; guards patrol and leaving traces is normal."

Shenhu Yi said nothing.

He also thought it unlikely.

But there was nothing else; the scene only had the guards' traces, and without new leads, the guards remain the prime suspects.

He gave the museum a quick glance.

Shenhu Yi pointed at a camera facing a Display Cabinet.

"Have you checked the surveillance? I just looked; every Display Cabinet has a camera directly above it. If the culprit took something from a cabinet, the overhead camera couldn't have missed it."