rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 470 The clown is actually Chen Li himself

At the end of August 1999, a bizarre theft occurred at No. 126 Maple Street in Munich, Germany.

An apartment building here suddenly erupted in smoke for some inexplicable and unknown reason that day.

The smoke was so intense that it even exceeded the intensity of a fire.

But in fact, after inspections by fire fighters and police, no signs of burning were found in the apartment building.

Later, after inspection by the chemical protection department, the source of the thick smoke was found. It was most likely a professional smoke bomb.

The reason why it is possible but not certain is because the composition of the thick smoke at the scene is different from that of the currently known smoke bombs.

In addition, there were not many clues and traces left at the scene, and no residual items were found, so these can only be speculations.

If there was just smoke, then it would be a prank at most.

But immediately afterwards, someone discovered that someone’s door had been broken into, and a theft was suspected.

In fact, when this result was obtained, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Because if it was just a simple theft case, then the importance of this accident would not be that high.

To put it bluntly, as long as it's not just a theft, it doesn't matter whether it's solvable or not.

But when the old man named Gullit woke up in the hospital for the second time, he told the police that he had lost some paintings.

Those paintings were paintings by himself and some friends. Although they were not particularly valuable, due to the large number, the total value was as high as several hundred thousand marks.

In addition, Gurlitt also said that among his lost paintings, there were two Picasso manuscripts, which were worth hundreds of thousands of marks.

The total of the two amounts to more than one million marks, which is already considered a major case.

When Chen Li heard this, he was actually a little stunned.

But after he listened to Bars's story, he almost went crazy.

In fact, long before Chen Li decided to take on this task, he had anticipated what might happen after the incident was exposed.

In particular, Chen Li had thought about whether Gurlitt, a descendant of the assassin, would tell the police about the treasure.

The worst possibility is that Gullit told the police exactly what happened. In that case, Chen Li estimates that it will be difficult for him to leave Germany for the time being.

That is a treasure worth 1 billion euros. Even if it is 1999, it must be worth at least several hundred million euros.

Several hundred million euros in 1999. What is the concept?

If Chen Li had this money, most of his planned plans could be implemented directly.

Of course, it is estimated that the system will not allow him to get so much money so easily. Otherwise, the system will not create a large percentage wheel to distribute rewards.

But even 1% of the minimum reward is almost 10 million euros, and the worst is several million euros.

Converted into Chinese coins, that's tens of millions.

And Chen Li didn't think his luck was really that bad, so he just went for the lowest percentage.

If you are lucky, what if you throw away 99%? As for the remaining 1%, just treat it like buying candies for Xiaomeng.

Ahem~ Okay~ This is all imagination. It doesn’t cost money to imagine, so naturally it will be more wonderful.

In short! The value of these ** treasures is definitely an astronomical figure, an astronomical figure that if the police knew about it, they would never let it go so easily.

But Chen Li estimated that Gullit would not be so honest.

After all, the origin of this batch of artworks meant that it would be difficult for Gurlitt to tell the police the truth.

So Chen Li estimated that Gullit would find other excuses for himself, such as...

Lost other valuable items~or simply refused to admit that the items were lost.

Anyway, Chen Li had made a lot of assumptions at the time, and he had even thought that Gurlit would name a few of the artworks in that batch.

Because if Gurlitt wants to use the police to recover these works of art, he needs to give his lost items a certain value.

The concept of losing a few thousand marks is different from that of losing millions or tens of millions of marks.

Major cases must have higher priority than petty thefts.

This rule actually applies all over the world.

And the fact is, just as Chen Li guessed, Gurlitt did use this method.

He said that he had lost two Picasso manuscripts and some other paintings worth hundreds of thousands of marks. He actually wanted to tell the police that the value of his lost items was very high.

As for what surprised Chen Li, there were actually two things.

First, he just found out that there were Picasso's manuscripts in this batch of artworks?

That's Picasso!

Even if Chen Li knows nothing about the art of painting, it does not prevent him from knowing Picasso's name.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, their understanding of Picasso is roughly the following two points.

First of all~ Picasso is a painter!

Secondly~ Picasso’s paintings are very valuable!

So while Chen Li was surprised that there were paintings by Picasso among the artworks, he was also a little confused about the valuation given by Gurlitt.

So it’s a Picasso painting~ What? It’s just a manuscript? Even if it’s a manuscript, shouldn’t it be worth tens of millions of dollars?

After all, that’s Picasso!

Okay~! For Chen Li, who is not even a layman, discussing the value of works of art with him is definitely talking to an ox.

In fact, Picasso was a very prolific painter.

According to statistics, the total number of his oil paintings, sketches, prints, lithographs and other works is estimated to be nearly 37,000.

And the value of artworks from different periods, different styles, and different sizes is also different.

Just like Picasso, his painting "Women of Algiers" was directly auctioned for 160 million U.S. dollars in a previous life. Plus commissions and other handling fees, the final actual transaction price was as high as 179 million U.S. dollars.

But not every painting painted by Picasso will be so valuable.

For example, Picasso once painted a ballpoint pen painting in 1953, and the subsequent transaction price of this ballpoint pen painting was only US$150.

Of course, what art should be worth and what it should cost is a matter between the appraiser and the buyer.

For Chen Li, who knew nothing about it, what came to his mind subconsciously after hearing the name Picasso was that his paintings were very valuable, starting at least tens of millions of dollars.

There are also famous painters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Van Gogh who have the same treatment as Picasso.

As soon as the names of these people appear on a certain painting, ordinary people will think that this painting is worth their money.

In fact, there are people like this in China, such as Qi Baishi~Zhang Daqian and others.

In his previous life, Chen Li saw a painting by Qi Baishi from a wealthy second-generation man. At that time, Chen Li felt that his family must be crazy.

But later Chen Li heard from this rich second generation that his mother only spent 150,000 yuan on that painting.

Chen Li's first reaction at that time was that the painting was fake.

Isn’t this a joke~! Qi Baishi’s paintings are only worth 150,000 yuan?

Therefore, Chen Li in his previous life thought that Qi Baishi's painting must be fake until he was reborn!

No~ Strictly speaking, even now after rebirth, Chen Li doesn't think that Qi Baishi's painting is real.

The reason is also very simple ~ Chen Li really doesn’t understand!

Therefore, Chen Li was very confused as to why Gullit said he had lost two Picasso paintings, but why the estimated value was only several hundred thousand marks.

The second thing that surprised Chen Li was that Gurlitt said he had lost property worth up to one million marks, but why didn't the police come to find him?

Even if Chen Li is very sure that he has not revealed anything, the police should investigate him no matter what!

But this question was soon explained!

Just last night, Lucas' lawyer and Barrs went to the police station and, after learning about the relevant situation in detail, tried to help Chen Li rule out suspicion.

So they used some connections and saw the surveillance at the scene of the incident!

What? Monitoring, wasn’t the monitoring deleted?

Okay~ The surveillance inside the apartment building has indeed been deleted, but there is also surveillance outside the apartment building.

According to the surveillance outside, Chen Li entered the apartment building empty-handed.

And when he came out, his hands were empty.

Another issue that puzzled the police was that when Gurlitt described his lost property, he said that he had lost several boxes of paintings.

Note~ It was stolen even with the box.

There are several boxes there, and it would be impossible for most people to move them.

And according to external surveillance, no one took any boxes from the apartment building.

And Chen Li had actually guessed this a long time ago, and this was actually part of his plan.

If he wanted to take away Gurlitt's treasure, he would naturally have to enter the building. If he wanted to get rid of his own suspicion while entering the building, then "rescuing people" would be a good reason.

But there is a disadvantage in doing this, that is, when the police cannot find the suspect, they will subconsciously regard Chen Li and others who entered the apartment building to rescue people as suspects.

In fact, everyone who entered and exited the apartment building that day was a suspect in this case.

Compared with those who remained in the apartment building after the accident, Chen Li's suspicion was not that serious.

Because Chen Li has witnesses.

After Chen Li followed Bals to view the apartment, he entered the apartment building twice to rescue people after thick smoke began to rise from the apartment building.

And the people Chen Li rescued can completely prove that Chen Li had no time to do those things.

Moving a few boxes was obviously something that Chen Li simply couldn't do on his own.

Therefore, based on the time intervals observed by external surveillance and witness testimony, although Chen Li cannot be completely cleared of suspicion, the suspicion should not be large.

Of course, since the suspicion cannot be completely eliminated, it should be difficult for Chen Li to leave Germany now.

Unless the Lucas family puts pressure on the police, Chen Li may be able to leave Germany directly without suspicion.

And just when Barrs and the lawyer were planning to contact Chen Li to help him clear away the suspicion, an unexpected situation occurred.

That Mr. Cornelius Gurlitt who claimed that he had lost a huge amount of property.

disappeared!

This is actually the reason why the police did not contact Chen Li later, and even Bales and Lucas did not contact Chen Li last night.

Because the police discovered that they might have been deceived by Cornelius Gurlitt.

At that time, after Cornelius Gurlitt told the police that he had lost property worth up to one million marks, he returned to his home to clean up the damaged door and the room that was a little messy because Chen Li had taken away the boxes.

Then Cornelius Gullit disappeared!

That night, the police went to the residence of Cornelius Gurlitt and were about to find him to learn more about the situation, but found that he could not be found.

According to the surveillance video that had just been repaired, several burly men came to Cornelius Gullit's house soon after he returned to his home, and then those burly men came directly to Cole.

Nelius Gullit has made a big move.

They took away more than a dozen boxes, and similarly, Cornelius Gurlitt also followed those burly men and left the apartment.

At the same time, the police discovered a cubicle behind a certain wall in Cornelius Gurlitt's apartment.

According to the traces inside, there should have been some things stored in this compartment, but now those things have been moved away.

At this time, the police seemed to realize that they might have missed something.

After all, if that Cornelius Gurlitt was really just the owner of lost property, he would definitely not have chosen to leave without saying goodbye at this time.

As a result, the police immediately began to investigate and found that the two trucks disappeared not far from Maple Street.

Since the person involved cannot be found and the matter has evolved into what it is now, the so-called loss of property is naturally meaningless.

In short, without Chen Li's knowledge, this matter eventually turned into a so-called own mistake.

But this mistake made Chen Li go "crazy".

"Chen~ are you okay?"

"List?"

Lucas saw the stunned Chen Li and reached out to pat Chen Li on the shoulder.

"Uh it's okay!"

"I just didn't expect so many things happened last night."

"You couldn't contact me yesterday, probably because the signal on my mobile phone was not very good."

Chen Li, who was awakened by Lucas, gave his own explanation.

In fact, after Bals returned to Munich last night, he tried to contact Chen Li, but failed to get in touch.

There is no way!

After all, it is now 1999. Although Chen Li has opened an international roaming service, I'm sorry~ The signal of his mobile phone here is very poor.

Chen Li usually calls from public phone booths, which happens to save some money on phone bills.

Uh~ After perfunctoryly dealing with Lucas, Chen Li sat down on the back of the seat.

It looked like he was relaxing, but in fact, he had entered the system space.

"Xiao Meng~Xiao Meng~!"

"This treasure."

Chen Li only said half of what he said, because he had already discovered that the "**Treasure No. 035" mission he accepted had failed!

Seeing this scene, Chen Li already realized what happened.

He was so damn "lied" by that Gurlitt.

In fact, it cannot be said that he was deceived. To be precise, it was Chen Li's own problem.

He has no experience in this area and has little understanding of so-called works of art.

When he opened the box and found that there were many well-preserved drawings and canvases inside, he subconsciously thought that those boxes contained so-called treasures.

In fact, Chen Li also later wondered why Cornelius Gurlitt was so bold to hide the treasure in a box in his bedroom.

At that time, Chen Li thought that this guy might be doing the "the most dangerous place is the safest place" thing, so he did a dark thing under the light.

After getting the "treasure", Chen Li sighed for a while, but now.

The clown is actually Chen Li himself!

(End of chapter)