Chapter 41: Corpse-Infiltrating Moss

"Oh my god!"
"What am I looking at?"
In the duty room, Liang Jingyi's eyes shone brightly!
She slowly extended her wrist, revealing a jade bracelet glowing with emerald green: "This was passed down to me by my mom!"
"I had a friend who deals in jade take a look at it."
"He said this piece, with decent ice texture and green floating, is worth around three hundred thousand right now!"
"If it were the high-ice full-green variety, it could be worth millions!"
"And there's that glass-species green!"
"The kind of green you find inside a coffin—Imperial Green!"
"That one can be worth nearly ten million!"
Little Lv: "Holy crap!"
"So expensive?"
Despite her shock, Lin Yue looked at her with confusion: "Didn't Zhang Xuan say a single piece is worth a small target?"
"Why does it sound different from what Sister Liang said?"
Liang Jingyi shook her head: "I don't understand either, I'm just repeating what I heard."
Fang Youcai, standing nearby, chimed in: "Perhaps we also have to factor in the intrinsic value of the Jade Burial Suit itself!"
"That is, after all, an ancient jade from a Warring States tomb!"
"It's tainted with corpse aura!"
Liang Jingyi's eyes lit up: "Captain Fang makes a valid point!"
Fang Youcai glanced at the time. There was no astonishment on his face; instead, it was replaced by a trace of worry: "There is still no news from Director Yang's side."
"This Imperial Green Jade Burial Suit... I'm afraid it's going to meet a bad end!"
Hearing this, Little Lv slapped his thigh: "Exactly!"
"Just now, the voices of those grave robbers changed, and their eyes were glowing with green light!"
"Let alone grave robbers, wouldn't any normal person be tempted when faced with the crown jewel of national treasures?"
"That's something worth hundreds of billions!"
"Even though nobody has that kind of money to buy it!"
"There are still plenty of foreign tycoons who would fight tooth and nail to pay billions for it!"
Liang Jingyi looked at Fang Youcai: "Then what should we do?"
Fang Youcai shook his head. Though worried, he was completely out of ideas.
Lin Yue, however, felt a bit strange: "Those tomb raiders might not necessarily make a move."
"Didn't Zhang Xuan say earlier that there's something wrong with this Jade Burial Suit?"
"The grave robbers trust him a lot right now."
The other three wore strange expressions upon hearing this.
Little Lv asked in surprise, "Captain Lin, haven't you always suspected Zhang Xuan's motives?"
"Why are you suddenly trusting him now?"
Lin Yue shrugged: "I'm not blind. After watching for so long, can't I tell whether he's a good guy or a bad guy?"
As she spoke, she pointed two fingers at her own eyes: "I am the first female captain in the history of the Qingzhou Criminal Police Detachment, bad guys can't escape my eyes!"
"My goodness..."

Yang Yuming, holding his phone and talking with Professor Shen, was left utterly dumbfounded as he stared at the screen!
The emerald-green radiance cast a greenish glow over his entire face.
"Director Yang?"
"Are you alright?"
Professor Shen's puzzled voice came through the phone.
"I'm fine..."
Yang Yuming's eyes were fixed, his expression rigid.
"Professor Shen..."
"You're not watching the livestream, are you?"
The other end of the line paused for a moment: "Huh?"
"Did you hear something?"
"Ahem, I'm out for a night jog..."
Yang Yuming was momentarily stunned as well, before he snapped back to reality: "I think I'm seeing something unbelievable."
"An Imperial Green Jade Burial Suit..."
Professor Shen: "A Jade Burial Suit?"
"And an Imperial Green one?"
"Are you in a jade shop?"
Yang Yuming took a deep breath: "I can't talk to you anymore, you'll see once you watch the livestream!"
"I need to call Captain Yang Jian!"
"If we're any later, this supreme national treasure is going to be gone!"
Professor Shen: "Oh, tap tap tap..."
"Huh, you haven't hung up yet?"
Yang Yuming: "..."
He picked up the phone, then suddenly froze: "No, I still need to notify the dean first!"

Inside the ancient tomb, Zhang Xuan's words added a hint of hesitation to the four excited individuals.
Taili shook his head: "A vassal king was still a king, could he not afford jade?"
The tall, thin man also chimed in: "I've seen those guys who go to Myanmar to flip jade, their necks, hands, and foreheads are covered in green jade!"
"They probably wish they could shove a piece of jade up their asses and plug it after taking a dump!"
Zhou Cheng glared at him: "Can you be any more vulgar?"
The tall, thin man retorted: "I'm just saying, those Burmese guys can get you so much jade, it's not impossible for a vassal king to have a jade burial suit, right?"
Zhou Zeyu shook his head: "Do you really think Imperial Green is everywhere on the streets?"
"The stuff those Burmese guys wear on them is all dyed fake merchandise, specially meant to scam ignorant folks like you!"
He looked toward the emerald-green jade burial suit inside the coffin, a trace of burning desire still flickering in his eyes: "However... even if there is something wrong with it, it's still enough to trade for a lifetime of luxury and wealth for us!"
He looked at Zhou Cheng: "Turn it off."
Zhou Cheng: "Huh?"
The tall, thin man lowered his voice and said to him, "You're not actually going to make a move in front of a livestream with hundreds of thousands of people watching..."
Only then did Zhou Cheng snap back to his senses. In a panic, he lifted his phone above his head and shook it around haphazardly: "Oh no, Brother Xuan, my phone is running out of battery..."
He could have hung up directly, but for some reason, as long as Zhang Xuan didn't speak, he felt hesitant to press the button, as if deeply wary of Zhang Xuan.
"Hmm..."
Zhang Xuan's emotionless voice came through.
Only then did he let out a sigh of relief: "Then I'll hang up first, haha..."
Zhang Xuan: "That is corpse-mold moss!"
"To be able to dye jade to this shade, it's probably almost finished cultivating."
"Say hello to it when you're stripping it off."
"If it's unhappy, it'll come out and kill you guys."
"Alright, hang up."
"I've been tired all day, it's time for me to get off work..."
Zhou Cheng's finger hovered, his gaze locked fixedly on Zhang Xuan: "Wh-what corpse-mold moss?"
Zhang Xuan on the screen looked at him in puzzlement: "It's already twelve o'clock, why haven't you hung up yet?"
"I'm waiting to get off the broadcast and go get a foot massage."
Zhou Cheng: "Right..."
But Zhou Zeyu suddenly grabbed his hand, his fingers pinching his bones hard enough to ache.
"Wait, little brother Zhang!"
Zhou Cheng snapped back: "My third uncle has something to tell you, Brother Xuan, please don't hang up!"
Zhang Xuan in the livestream yawned: " Weren't you guys planning to sneakily strip the guy's clothes off behind my back?"
"And didn't want me to find out."
"Goodness, you truly deserve to be grave robbers, you've mastered the art of abandoning morality at the sight of profit!"
"No, wait, we never had any morality to begin with!"
"I must condemn you on behalf of the viewers in the livestream and in the name of justice!"
"These guys are just too wicked!"
"I shouldn't have been meddling, I should've let the old buddy inside tear you guys apart like shredded chicken!"
Danmu (bullet comments): "The anchor really has a way of scolding people, not a single curse word used, but every single sentence is deeply satisfying!"
"Those crafty and cunning grave robbers are way too sneaky, Brother Xuan was right after all, you can't be too polite with them!"
"I've finally witnessed the craftiness of tomb raiders. I wouldn't say anything if they stole other things, but this is the crown jewel of national treasures!"
"What's there to be surprised about? The leaders of the archaeological team would want to hide good things for themselves too, let alone grave robbers. If they don't rob antiques, are they supposed to drink northwest wind?"
"..."
Zhou Zeyu: "..."
"Little brother Zhang, don't misunderstand, I was only afraid of causing a negative impact on you."
"As long as you're willing to guide us, from now on we'll split the profits from grave robbing fifty-fifty, how about that?"
"Little brother Zhang?"
"Why aren't you speaking?"