Age of Elves:Return of the King

"An earthquake? This..."

He Shuming, who was interrupted, came back to his senses and said with a panicked look on his face.

"It's not an earthquake. An earthquake won't only last for such a short period of time, and there won't be an explosion."

Yun Xiao calmly denied.

"The sound of the explosion came from downstairs. It should be something happened downstairs."

"What happened downstairs..."

He Shuming repeated it, and suddenly his eyes widened!

"Oops! Fossils!"

"Let's go down and take a look."

Yun Xiao pulled him and entered the elevator directly to the second floor of the museum.

As soon as the elevator door opened, thick black smoke rushed in, completely blocking the view in front of the two of them, making it even difficult to breathe.

"What the hell is going on... The cells under the twin eggs are balls, use the power of mind to blow away this fog for me!"

He Shuming frowned and threw out the elf ball. A green elf like a cell appeared in the air, and a blue light suddenly lit up on its body.

The black mist on the entire floor was dispersed by his mind power, and the two of them could clearly see the scene in front of them.

The window on the left side of the second floor no longer exists, replaced by a huge hole, which seems to be the reason for the explosion just now.

"Fossil! My fossil!"

He Shuming suddenly let out a heartbreaking cry. He strode to the exhibition cabinets, only to find that all the ancient fossils displayed on the second floor had disappeared.

"Don't worry about the fossils for now, let's see what happens to these tourists!"

Yun Xiao's face looked a little ugly.

At this moment, the tourists who were originally watching the fossils on the second floor had collapsed on the ground. No one was still awake, and their lives and deaths were uncertain.

Fortunately, He Shuming and Yun Xiao quickly went up to check on a few people and found that their breathing was still slow and there was no danger to their lives. It was probably because the black fog just caused these people to lose oxygen and fainted.

"It's just difficulty breathing. I'll call the doctor. You call the police."

After Yun Xiao finished speaking, he immediately took out the illustrated book, called the alliance's emergency number, contacted the nearest hospital, and asked them to send someone over.

He Shuming had also contacted the alliance's law enforcement department. After putting down the phone, he leaned against the wall like mud and slid to the ground.

"It's over...my fossils...my research...is all over."

"The last step... is to extract the genes contained in these fossils that I carefully selected, but now they are all gone..."

He seemed to have suffered a huge blow and his face turned blue.

Yun Xiao directly pulled him up from the ground, frowned and said:

"Now is not the time to say these depressing words. We still have a chance to recover the fossils. We must first find a way to figure out what happened just now."

He raised his head and looked around, pointed at a still intact camera in the corner and said:

"Where can I see the monitoring records on this level?"

He Shuming listened to Yun Xiao's words. Although his face was still ugly, he cheered up a little and hesitated:

"First floor.. Surveillance records are in the security room on the first floor."

"Take me, let's go."

Yun Xiaodao.

The two came to the first floor through the stairs and found that the situation here was not much better than upstairs, except that the black smoke covering it was a little less, and the crowd had already fled out of the museum in panic.

When He Shuming and Yun Xiao entered the control room, they found that the two security guards on the seats had fallen into a coma and were leaning on their chairs. They could not be woken up no matter what.

The two of them had to call up the surveillance on the second floor themselves.

Yun Xiao looked at the surveillance footage and his heart sank.

In the picture, before the explosion, everything was normal on the second floor, and tourists were visiting the fossil exhibits normally.

The surveillance camera didn't even capture what happened, as black smoke obscured the view, followed by violent fire and an explosion.

"The surveillance record... didn't capture anything... what should I do?"

He Shuming looked desperate.

If you don’t know what happened through surveillance, how can you recover those lost fossils?

Yun Xiao, who was beside him, suddenly stretched out his hand and adjusted the monitoring back to the time period before the explosion. He repeated it twice and paused the picture at a certain moment.

"Look at this."

He pointed to an inconspicuous corner of the screen and pressed the play button.

The next moment, the screen began to flow, and several people in black uniforms suddenly appeared out of thin air in the corner.

Then, the smoke spreads and an explosion occurs.

"This... what just happened was done by these people!"

Seeing this scene, He Shuming also reacted and stared at the people in black uniforms on the screen.

"It's almost certainly them because they're from Team Rocket."

Yun Xiao's expression at this moment was a bit complicated, because the uniforms worn by those people all had a bright red letter "R" printed on them.

This is the logo of Team Rocket!

"Team Rocket?"

He Shuming was stunned.

"A large-scale criminal group spread all over the world. It is one of the most troublesome opponents of the alliance. If they are eyeing your fossil, it would not be surprising."

Yun Xiao looked at the sudden appearance of Team Rocket members on the screen, frowned, and added:

"This group of people should have suddenly appeared on the second floor through the teleportation of super-powered elves, then released gas smoke to obscure their vision, stole all the fossils, and then left using teleportation."

"How...how do you know this is how they came? And if they moved away instantly, why did they blow such a big hole in the wall?"

He Shuming was stunned when he heard this and asked.

"I'm not sure. It may have been done randomly, or it may have been a cover-up. If there were strong security personnel in the museum, after discovering this hole, they would definitely chase them out to find them."

Yun Xiao shook his head and continued.

"But none of that matters anymore. If this has anything to do with Team Rocket, those fossils of yours..."

He didn't finish what he said next, but He Shuming naturally understood what he meant, and a look of despair and pain immediately appeared on his face.

"It's over...why is it at this time...it's all over, my research...for so many years, only the last step is left...so much effort..."

"Those fossils are unique in the world... It took me decades to find them, but now..."

Looking at He Shuming who was in despair, Yun Xiao was silent for a few seconds and suddenly took out two things from his backpack.

"Although I can't help what happened just now, but why don't you take a look, can these two pieces be okay?"

"...Um?"

He Shuming subconsciously took what Yun Xiao handed him, but after seeing clearly what it was, he couldn't help but widen his eyes and said in silence:

"This...this is an active fossil!"

"How do you have such a thing?!"