Chapter 21: The Institute of Ancient Artifacts

  It's been ten days since I last entered the movie world, and after this period of busy work, Muxin Xing and several others have completed the enhancement process for their own heterogeneity. Even Athena's full-body metal bone coverage with Edelmann alloy was fully completed yesterday afternoon.

  Athena has now reached the realm of being truly indestructible. Although her physical weight has increased significantly, her attack power has become even more formidable. Her fists, thoroughly strengthened by Edel's alloy, can easily shatter hard rocks without suffering any damage. If she were to hit a person with that kind of force, Muyun Xing believes it would be an absolutely lethal attack.

  Since the conversation between Muxun Xing and Xia Linxue in the garden, they have come to understand each other's thoughts. Their relationship has undergone some changes, although it hasn't reached the romantic relationship that Lao Xia had hoped for. However, seeing their current situation, Lao Xia is clearly delighted.

  The food problem of these guys was previously handled by Mudan Xing, but now it has completely changed. Athena and Charlottes are also actively helping him prepare meals every day. Although Athena can't cook, she's quite good at chopping vegetables with a knife, so all the dishes that have passed through her hands are in a standard size and shape, which may be an advantage of being a robot!

  Mudustar lay on the sofa in the living room, at this time he was casually watching the news program on TV, during this period of time everyone started to busy themselves with their own things.

  Lao Zhou and Lao Xia now spend most of their time, apart from a few hours of research every day, cultivating their superpowers to reach the level of the original ability owners in the movies.

  Xia Lin Yue, who has just joined this special family, is now shopping with Athena in the city. It seems that women's love for shopping is not easily forgotten even after losing their memory.

  Seeing the international news reporting, the accident that happened in northern Germany last night, Muxin Xing thought maliciously: "What kind of strange natural phenomenon is this? Won't it be that the Germans secretly developed some powerful weapon again and ended up causing an explosion?"

  Mudanxing had read posts online and knew that the Germans' scientific research level was extremely high. During World War II, the most advanced technology in the world, aside from America, was Germany's at the time. Even if they came up with some strange weapon now, Mudanxing wouldn't be surprised at all.

  As soon as the news was over, Old Xia walked out of his room with a pot of Longjing tea and saw Mudan Xing lying on the sofa. He smiled and asked: "Want to have a cup of Longjing tea? You look quite bored!"

  "Alright, since there's nothing much to do now, let's go take a look at the news together. They just reported on that huge light pillar that suddenly appeared in Germany and all major media outlets are focusing on this story."

  Lao Xia walked towards the kitchen to make tea while smiling and replied: "Those media reports are not entirely trustworthy..."

  A doorbell rang at this moment, interrupting Lao Xia's next words. Mu Chenxing had no choice but to get up from the sofa and go open the door to see who it was. Anyway, it wasn't Xialin Yue or Yadiana, women didn't return that quickly after going shopping.

  When Lao Xia had made the tea and sat down on the sofa, he saw Muxin Xing walking over with two packages in his hands. He casually asked: "So your parents have sent you gifts again!"

  Mudan Xing nodded, his parents often mailed back some historical trinkets from various countries from time to time, and Lao Xia and Lao Zhou had seen them several times before.

  Mudan Xing smiled and first untied the long, rectangular package that was obviously a stick-like object, while using his mind to place another small package on the table in front of Old Xia.

  In order to exercise his mental power, now Muxu Xing is using it at any time and anywhere to move various objects. As the wrapping paper outside continues to fall off, the object inside finally reveals its true identity, which turns out to be a long snake-headed spear.

  Mudanxing curiously held the object in his hand and observed it carefully for a while, discovering that this thing should be made of gold mixed with other metals, and the weight in his hand was different.

  Lao Xia, who was standing beside him, immediately widened his eyes when he saw the snake-headed staff in Mudan Xing's hand. After glancing at the small package in front of him, he couldn't help but tear it open without Mudan Xing's consent.

  Looking at the four gold and silver alloy ancient Egyptian artifacts on the table, Old Xia said with admiration: "Mù Xiǎozi, what kind of people are your parents?! They can even mail these five obvious ancient artifacts back to you and get them through customs smoothly. Although I'm not an expert in archaeology, the patterns on these things are absolutely from the Middle Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt, which is around 1991-1786 BC. Just think about the value of these five things in front of us now, they are definitely national treasures, but your parents still managed to get them back as a gift, I really have to admire their ability!"

  After hearing Old Xia's words, Muxun Xing finally understood the value of the items in front of him. Originally, these things were just valuable cultural relics to him, and his parents had been conducting archaeological excavations abroad for many years, often mailing back strange objects. He usually put those things in a storage room in the basement.

  Mudan Xing stroked the snake-head cane in his hand and said bluntly, "If Old Xia hadn't told me about the value of these things, I really wouldn't have known that they were all national treasure-level cultural relics. All along, I thought the various items my parents mailed back were just ordinary artifacts. As for how they managed to transport these things back into the country through safe channels, that's not very clear."

  Muxin Xing thought for a moment before asking Lao Xia, "Lao Xia, how did you recognize the excavation date and value of these artifacts at a glance? You don't seem to be an expert in history, this knowledge is usually only known by professionals!"

  Lao Xia spoke to Muxin Xing in a bad mood: "Although I'm not an expert in this field, on an occasional trip to Egypt for tourism, I met a local historian and became friends with him. He told me some knowledge about this aspect."

  Lao Zhou also walked out of his laboratory at this time, walking towards the sofa where Lao Xia and Muxin Xing were. However, his attention was quickly drawn to the several artifacts from Egypt on the table, and in an instant, he picked up the scorpion ring and began to examine it carefully.

  Old Zhou was so absorbed in these ancient Egyptian artifacts, Old Xia pointed at the objects on the table and laughed: "I didn't expect you to also be interested in these artifacts, how did you already discover their differences?"

  Lao Zhou spoke very seriously: "I haven't heard much about the research on cultural relics, but these cultural relics are indeed very interesting. I feel that there is a special ability attached to them."

  Lao Xia immediately picked up a golden amulet and looked at it for half a day before asking in confusion, "Special energy, how come I don't feel anything?"

  Lao Zhou saw Lao Xia's appearance and smiled, saying: "You certainly can't feel it, this is a kind of energy similar to spiritual power. Mu Xiaozi, try concentrating your spiritual sense!"

  He glanced at Old Zhou and then at the snake-shaped staff in his hand, hesitated for a moment, closed his eyes, and activated his spiritual sense. Not long after, he opened his eyes with a surprised expression and said: "Not bad, I also felt that kind of power just now, but it's extremely weak. If I hadn't concentrated my mind to feel it, I wouldn't have been able to detect the existence of this energy! Old Zhou, your spiritual sense has increased significantly!"

  As soon as Mudan Xing finished speaking, a sudden ringtone of his mobile phone rang out, and he immediately took out the phone to answer it.

  The phone call just now was to inform Mu Chenxing that the renovation of the abandoned factory building in the mountainous area had been completely completed, and he could go and take a look at any time. As soon as Lao Zhou and Lao Xia heard this good news, they couldn't sit still and were preparing to rush there at noon to see their own large research institute.

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  At a little past noon, more than 50 kilometers away from the city of Lushan, in a mountainous area, Muxin Xing and Old Zhou and Old Xia, all four of them came to this relatively remote place.

  In order to get to the research institute as soon as possible, Muxin and his team directly activated the stealth mode of their X-Wing jet and flew towards their destination. As for flying the plane, it was handled by Athena, an all-around driver, while the co-pilot was surprisingly Xia Linxiao. Muxin and his team did not expect her to be able to fly a plane either, apparently she was also a versatile person before losing her memory.

  After parking the jet in a deserted open space, Mochizuki and his team immediately rushed towards the factories in the distance. Athena remained on the still-invisible jet to prevent any other unexpected situations from occurring.

  Qitian Lie who was waiting for Muxu Dust to arrive saw them and immediately went up to them with a smile, saying: "Little Mu, you've arrived so quickly! Who are these people?"

  "Let me introduce you," said Mu Chen Xing immediately. "Uncle Qiao, this is Old Zhou, the technical advisor I invited, and this is Old Xia, who's in charge of sales, along with his daughter, Miss Xia Lin Yue."

  "Hello, hello"

  Mudanxing saw that both sides had already introduced each other, so he said: "Uncle Qi, then take us to see those several renovated factory buildings now."

  Qitian Lie nodded and began leading the way forward, followed by Muxu Xing and others as they started to tour this place that would soon become their newest research institute.

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  After returning to the villa in the afternoon, Old Xia and Old Zhou were very satisfied with that place. Not only was the environment elegant, but the surrounding area was also relatively sparse. Moreover, the area of the factory district was also very spacious, making it very suitable for their various experiments in the future.

  At the same time, those laboratories converted from factory buildings were also very good. Lao Xia and Lao Zhou immediately proposed to Mu Chenxing that they wanted to move all the experimental equipment in the villa to there tomorrow.

  Anyway, now they are moving house and it's very convenient. All the experimental equipment here can be easily lifted and suspended in mid-air by Lao Xia using his special abilities, without having to move them one by one like before. And the storage ring on Muxun Xing's hand can hold all these numerous experimental devices at once, so when the time comes, a few people can take the jet plane to the new institute, which is really very time-saving and labor-saving.

  Mudan Xing saw that the two were so anxious and had no choice but to agree to their request, however, Xia Lin Yue brought up something they had almost forgotten.

  "If you guys are really going to live there for a long time, then you should prepare some other daily necessities in advance. You can't just fly back to the city every few days to buy things."

  Indeed, Lao Xia, Lao Zhou and Mu Chen Xing were all thinking about how to transport the experimental equipment over, but they hadn't considered logistical matters at all. Fortunately, Xia Lin Yue was meticulous and immediately discovered this problem.

  Lao Xia immediately proudly said to Mu Chen Xing and Lao Zhou, "Look at my daughter, she's so meticulous, just like me!"

  For Lao Xia's boastful words, Muxun Xing and Lao Zhou exchanged a glance before immediately casting him a disdainful look.

  Mudan Xing and Xia Linyue drove to the city in the afternoon, taking advantage of the early time. They casually purchased nearly 100 million yuan worth of living supplies, including grains, vegetables, meats, canned goods, and more, enough to fill a large warehouse, which would be sufficient for Mudan Xing and his group to eat for several years. Xia Linyue also carefully bought many other daily necessities such as TVs, sofas, beds, etc., so that they could easily set up their entire home there without any problems.

  That night, when Mu Chen and the others returned from their purchases, Lao Zhou and the others had already packed all the small items with Athena's help, just waiting to put them in the wristbands. As for some other large equipment, they unanimously decided that it would not be late to clean up tomorrow, so the few people who were busy all day began to return to their rooms to rest.

  At night, when the stardust was falling, they had all entered the dreamland. At this time, a large number of meteorites in outer space were rushing towards the unprepared Earth at high speed.