rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 461 Cornelius Gullit

When Chen Li, Bals and his entourage appeared at the entrance of the apartment building again, a burst of thunderous applause suddenly broke out from the crowd gathered around them.

From the perspective of others, everyone who calmly rushed towards the building with billowing smoke was a hero.

Especially Chen Li, who took the lead in the charge, was a hero among heroes.

Of course, they didn't know that Chen Li was sure that the smoke-belching building in front of him was not dangerous, so he dared to rush up.

In their eyes, Chen Li, who was the first to jump out and say that he wanted to enter the building to help others, was full of light.

Because this is Germany.

One of the stereotypes people have about Germans is that they are indifferent.

Although this stereotype is somewhat exaggerated, since this impression exists, it somewhat means that people here may not be so enthusiastic.

Of course~ In fact, no matter which country you are in, when facing danger, whether you should watch or help, there are generally more people who choose the former than the latter.

After all, that’s facing danger!

It is precisely for this reason that the actions of Chen Li and others are even more commendable.

"Huh~ Are you sure there's no one on the fourth floor?"

Chen Li was slightly out of breath, not because of the amount of exercise he had done in this short period of time, but because his nerves and emotions had been in a state of high tension.

Especially when he infiltrated, no, he broke into Cornelius Gurlitt, it can be said that Chen Li's heart was in his throat.

There is no way~ Chen Li is not James Bond, nor is he a habitual criminal. The first time he did this kind of thing, he was just a little fussy, which was already pretty good.

In this highly stressful state, Chen Li's first feeling was that he was tired!

"Huh~ There should be no one on the fourth floor. Where is the fifth floor?"

The person who answered Chen Li was a German young man who followed him into the apartment. Although this young man only entered once, he still looked a little embarrassed because of his nervousness.

There is no way~ When human beings face unknown situations, they will always tighten their nerves subconsciously. When the nerves are tightened and then relaxed, they will become very tired.

"There is no one on the fifth floor, so it seems that there is no one in the building."

"Did any of you discover the origin of the accident?"

"What's going on with such a big smoke?"

"I didn't see where the fire started at all."

The person who answered this time was Baars. He and Chen Li investigated the fifth floor. Except for the old man he carried down, no one else was found on the fifth floor.

When an accident occurs suddenly, apart from bystanders, the first thing people involved in it pay attention to is almost all life itself.

So at the beginning, the people involved would not pay attention to how much wealth would be lost if the apartment smoked, but would pay attention to the fact that there were no humans in the building.

But when human safety is guaranteed, everyone's attention will naturally turn to the accident itself.

For example, what happened in this accident?

"I don't know~!"

"We didn't find any fire on the fourth floor."

"Yes, there is definitely no fire on the fourth floor, but I found that the smoke on the fourth floor seems to be bigger than on other floors."

"No, actually the smoke on the fifth floor is the biggest. The smoke on the fifth floor is so thick that people can hardly be seen, but there seems to be no open flames."

The latter sentence was said by Chen Li, who also participated in everyone's chat.

But in fact, Chen Li's attention at this moment was focused on an old man with silver hair in the crowd on the right front.

Because just when everyone mentioned that there seemed to be no open fire upstairs, Chen Li accidentally noticed that the old man's expression suddenly changed, and then the old man turned around and walked towards the apartment.

The old man is not very fast, but judging from his age, he is actually running.

At the beginning, no one noticed it, but when the old man crossed the crowd and walked towards the entrance of the apartment alone, he became more conspicuous.

"Hey~ man, what are you doing?"

"There's still smoke coming out of it, and the danger hasn't passed yet. You'd better not go up there."

In the crowd, someone about the same age as the old man shouted.

But the old man seemed not to have heard anything and just "ran" towards the entrance of the apartment in a daze.

"Hey, man, it's dangerous up there."

The people behind seemed to want to dissuade him, but the old man didn't react at all like a deaf man.

At this moment, this scene clearly attracted the attention of the surrounding audience.

Earlier, Chen Li and other young people rushed to the building to save people, so Chen Li and other young people received applause when they came back.

But at this moment, the old man "ran" towards the building, and everyone was obviously very confused.

If the behavior of Chen Li and others rushing towards the building is positive, it is even worthy of praise.

Then the old man's behavior at this moment is undoubtedly negative, and it is purely the kind that causes trouble for others.

At this time, in the eyes of others, the old man's behavior may be that the old man heard that no open flame was found in the apartment building, so the old man may want to go back to confirm that there seems to be property damage.

But this is obviously not a very rational behavior. After all, there is still smoke upstairs at this moment, although the smoke seems to be getting smaller and smaller.

A middle-aged man in the crowd ran out of the crowd and stopped the old man.

These middle-aged men did not follow Chen Li into the smoking apartment building before, but this is understandable.

Especially those who have a family to support, they need to consider the consequences clearly no matter what they do.

On the other hand, the three young men who followed Chen Li into the building probably didn't think so much because of their age.

Entering the building is very dangerous, but it is very simple to stop people before entering the building.

So the old man who "ran away" first, even though he was very reluctant and even seemed to be cursing, was "fighted" back by a strong middle-aged man.

"Let me go, let me go. You guys"

What the old man said at the moment was very dirty, which made the middle-aged man who brought him back very dissatisfied.

"Hey, I'm saving you."

"The fire brigade and police are on the way."

While the middle-aged man was talking, two police cars and a fire truck arrived one after another.

To be honest, this efficiency is actually not very high.

But this is not to say that the German police are inefficient, but that something was a bit unlucky today.

This is one of the more upscale communities in Munich. The police force here is usually sufficient, but there was an accident today.

Just half an hour ago, a car accident occurred three streets away from this community.

The reason why the police arrived so late was because they had just gone to the site of the car accident to evacuate traffic and brought over the blocked fire truck.

I don’t know why, but when the police car showed up, the silver-haired old man who had been cursing suddenly shut up.

And this scene happened to catch Chen Li, who had already begun to enjoy the coffee specially delivered by the cafe.

"Is it him?" Chen Li muttered in his heart.

If he guessed correctly, this silver-haired old man should be Cornelius Gurlitt.

That is, the original holder of those boxes of treasures in the Chenli system space. Please note that he is the original holder, not the owner.

After the treasures of the previous life were discovered, the origins of some of the artworks were actually very clear.

Later, a large part of the reason why Germany encountered an image crisis was because Germany was unwilling to return that part of the artwork.

Some people must be unhappy with this, especially some descendants of famous painters or art collectors during World War II.

Some of these people are doing very poorly now, but there are also a large number of people who are doing very well and are very energetic.

It was these people who attacked, causing great loss to the German government at that time.

After this incident in the previous life was exposed, it once caused a great impact on public opinion.

One of the most controversial issues is the ownership of this batch of artworks.

It is said that although German government personnel had a search warrant when they entered Cornelius's apartment, the original intention of the search warrant was just to investigate whether Cornelius Guli had engaged in tax evasion.

Later, the German government seized the artworks, but in fact there were no relevant legal documents.

In addition, according to the law, there is a 30-year statute of limitations for claiming stolen property, but Cornelius Gurlitt has owned these artworks for more than 40 years.

Therefore, there was a debate at that time. The point of debate was whether the German government should return the artwork to the owner or Cornelius Gurlitt according to the law.

If the law is strictly followed, it is very likely that these works of art will be returned to Cornelius Gurlitt.

But this is obviously unlikely to be accepted by everyone.

Although there is evidence that Cornelius Gurlitt himself did not commit any illegal crime, it is an indisputable fact that these works of art were left over from the Japanese government.

So this incident caused a big fuss, but Chen Li has no memory of how it was resolved.

There is no way~ Chen Li in his previous life didn't like to pay attention to this kind of thing.

At that time, Chen Li lamented at the beginning why these treasures worth 1 billion euros were not discovered by himself, but quickly put this information behind him.

As for the quarrel between those descendants and the German government, I don't bother to pay attention.

If he has that kind of time, he might as well play a few ranked games in League of Legends.

If he had paid more attention to this information in his previous life, he would not have been unable to recognize whether the silver-haired old man in front of him was Cornelius Gurlitt.

However, although Chen Li had no evidence, he was actually quite sure in his heart that this silver-haired old man was Cornelius Gurlitt.

Especially since this guy immediately stopped and gave up the idea of ​​entering the apartment building after the police arrived, this actually speaks volumes.

You know, although Cornelius Gurlitt did nothing illegal, his matter is definitely shady.

Ahem~ Yes, despite the fact that Cornelius Gurlitt holds this part of **Treasure 035, in fact, he has not done anything illegal or criminal.

But now this guy became so honest as soon as he saw the police, which is obviously not normal.

Generally speaking, only those who are repeat offenders or people with evil intentions will do this.

But Cornelius Gullit's abnormality did not attract the attention of others, because at this time everyone focused on the police and fire fighters.

Needless to say, the firemen started working as soon as they arrived, while the police walked directly towards Chen Li.

Of course, the police did not come to find Chen Li. They wanted to know the situation, so they naturally came in the direction of Chen Li.

There was no way~ Because of the previous actions of Chen Li, Bals and others, almost all the onlookers at the scene were concentrated in Chen Li's direction.

Soon, a staff member from the apartment management office came forward to chat with the police, and then the police appeared in front of Chen Li.

This time, these two policemen really came to see Chen Li.

"Island people?"

When one of the policemen saw Chen Li, he hesitated for a moment, and then asked tentatively.

"You're a damn island native!"

Chen Li's expression changed and he subconsciously shouted back.

For Chinese people, the biggest discrimination is that some people regard themselves as islanders.

"Oh~ man~ don't get excited!"

"terribly sorry!"

"Looking at your big reaction, you must be from China."

"I'm just saying that people from the island country shouldn't be as big as you."

The policeman seemed to be a bit talkative and spoke very fast. If Chen Li's German had not reached a very high level, he might not have been able to understand what the other party was saying.

Although the policeman was obviously making fun of the islanders when he said they were not as big as Chen Li, but when he was making fun of the islanders, Chen Li thought that the policeman was pretty good!

"Sorry, man!"

"You know, there are too few Chinese people in Germany."

"And in my opinion, many Easterners actually look similar."

"What is this called?"

"Yes~prosopagnosia!"

This guy is obviously a policeman, but his words are almost like those of a crosstalk talker.

He obviously came here to ask something, but he ended up talking to Chen Li about "face blindness".

Chen Li could only express his dissatisfaction by rolling his eyes!

"Ahem~!"

Seemingly realizing that he had strayed off topic, the policeman quickly dropped the subject and began to ask about the business.

"I heard that you just went to rescue a few people from the building?"

"Man~nice job!"

"I have to thank you. If there are casualties in this incident, my job will become very troublesome."

"I"

This policeman was so talkative that Chen Li seriously suspected that this guy was definitely not a native of Germany, but an immigrant.

I talked a lot, but actually I didn't talk about my purpose at all.

"Mr. Police Officer~ I think I have to remind you that you should pay more attention to the work in front of you now."

At this time, Bals appeared.

At this moment, Bals's face was a little embarrassed because of the smoke, and the shirt on his body even looked a little wrinkled.

But when Bars said these words with a serious face, it still gave people a somewhat majestic feeling.

Hmm~Okay! Even if Bars is just a work assistant, it depends on whose assistant it is.

Lucas's father can let Bars serve as Lucas' assistant, so Bars' work ability is naturally beyond words.

This guy had a serious face. It seemed like that was the case.

Although Chen Li felt nothing, the policeman clearly felt something.

"Uh~Okay, sir!"

"I came here to ask if you found anything after entering the apartment building just now?"

This time the police stopped talking nonsense and directly explained their purpose.

This also made Chen Li confirm again. This guy is definitely not a German, he is definitely an immigrant!

With the rigorous character of the Germans, at this time, you should ask Chen Li this question as soon as possible, instead of arguing with Chen Li for a long time.

"Discover?"

"I'm sorry, officer!"

"I was looking for someone before, but I didn't find anything."

"However, I feel that the smoke is the biggest on the fourth and fifth floors."

"If there is any problem, I think it is most likely to happen on the fourth and fifth floors."

Because the smoke bomb was recovered, Chen Li was not worried about what would happen to the other party at this moment, so he directly informed the other party of the truth.

"Yes~ Officer, I can also testify to this."

“Fourth and fifth floors”

Chen Li was not the only person who had entered the apartment building, and there were also people nearby who helped answer questions.

At this moment, Chen Li discovered that the silver-haired old man who was suspected to be Cornelius Gullit was looking in his direction, with an expression on his face that seemed

A bit gloomy!

(End of chapter)