Age of Elves: The Return of the King

"Earthquake? This"

He Shuming, who was interrupted, came back to his senses and said in panic.

"It's not an earthquake. The earthquake won't only shake for such a short period of time, let alone the sound of an explosion."

Yun Xiao calmly denied it.

"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 have a look."

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

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

"What the hell is going on here? The ball of cells under the double egg, use the power of thought to blow away the fog for me!"

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

The black mist on the entire floor was dispelled by his thoughts, and the two of them saw the scene in front of them clearly.

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 heart-piercing cry. He strode to the display cabinets, only to find that the entire second-floor exhibition of ancient fossils had disappeared.

"Forget about the fossils, let's see what happens to these tourists!"

Yun Xiao's face was a little ugly.

At this moment, the tourists who were watching the fossils on the second floor have fallen to the ground in disorder, none of them are still awake, and their life and death are uncertain.

Fortunately, He Shuming and Yun Xiao quickly went up to check on a few people, and found that their breathing was still calm, and their lives were not in danger. It should be that the black fog just caused these people to lose oxygen before they passed out.

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

After Yun Xiao finished speaking, she immediately took out the illustration book, dialed the emergency number of the alliance, contacted the nearest hospital, and asked them to send someone over.

He Shuming has also contacted the law enforcement department of the alliance. After putting down the phone, he slumped against the wall like mud and sat on the ground.

"It's over.. My fossils and my research are all over."

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

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

Yun Xiao directly pulled him up from the ground, frowned and said:
"Now is not the time to say these frustrating words. We still have a chance to retrieve the fossils. We must first find a way to figure out what happened just now."

He looked up and looked around, pointed to 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, but he cheered up a little bit, hesitatingly said:

"On the first floor.. the surveillance records are in the security room on the first floor."

"Take me there, let's go."

Yun Xiao said.

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

When He Shuming and Yun Xiao entered the monitoring room, they found that the two security guards on the seat had fallen into a coma, leaning on the chair, unable to wake up no matter what.

The two had to call out the surveillance on the second floor by themselves.

Yun Xiao looked at the screen in the surveillance, and his heart sank.

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

The surveillance didn't even capture what happened, and the sight was obscured by black smoke, followed by a violent fire and an explosion.

"Surveillance records.. nothing was captured.. what should I do?"

He Shuming looked desperate.

If you don't know what happened through monitoring, how can you find those disappeared fossils?
Yun Xiao who was beside him suddenly stretched out his hand, switched the monitoring back to the time period before the explosion, repeated it twice, and paused the screen 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 in the corner out of thin air.

Then, the smoke spread and the explosion occurred.

"These people did what happened just now!"

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

"It's almost certainly them because they're from the Rockets."

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

This is the Rockets logo!
"Team Rocket?"

He Shuming was stunned.

"A large-scale criminal group all over the world, one of the alliance's most troublesome opponents, if they are eyeing your fossils, then it is not surprising."

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

"This group of people should have suddenly appeared on the second floor through the teleportation of the psychic spirits, and then released gas smoke to cover their vision, stole all the fossils, and then used teleportation to leave."

"How do you know that's how they came? And, if they teleported away, why did they blow such a big hole in the wall?"

He Shuming was stunned when he heard the words, and asked.

"I'm not sure. It may be random, or it may be a cover-up. If there are strong security personnel in the museum, after discovering this hole, they will definitely chase them out to find them."

Yun Xiao shook his head, and continued.

"But none of that matters. If it's about the Rockets, your fossils."

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

"It's over..Why is this time..It's all over. After so many years of research, I only need the last step and so much hard work."

"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, then suddenly took out two things from the backpack.

"Although I can't do anything about what happened just now, but why don't you take a look, can these two pieces work?"

".Um?"

He Shuming subconsciously took what Yun Xiao handed him, but after seeing what it was, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, and lost his voice:
"This is an active fossil!"

"How do you have such a thing?!"