Rebirth starts with small money

At the end of August 1999, a bizarre theft occurred at 8 Maple Leaf Street in Munich, Germany.

An apartment building here suddenly burst into thick smoke for some inexplicable reason that day.

The intensity of the smoke was even greater than that of the fire.

But in fact, after investigation by the fire department and the police, there were no traces of burning in the apartment building.

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

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

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 it's just smoke, it's a prank at best.

But then~someone discovered that the door of someone's room was broken, and it was suspected that there was a theft.

In fact, when this result was reached, 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 an attack on a robbery, whether it's broken or not isn't that important.

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 made by himself and some friends. Although they were not particularly valuable, the total value was as high as hundreds of thousands of marks because of the large number.

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

The sum of these two is almost more than 100 million marks, which is already considered a big deal.

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

But after he listened to Baer's narration, he was almost dumbfounded.

In fact, long before Chen Li decided to do this task, he had envisioned what might happen after the incident.

Especially regarding whether Gullit, a descendant of the Communist Party, would tell the police about the private treasure, Chen Li had imagined it many times.

The worst possibility~ In fact, Gullit told the police about the matter. If that happened, Chen Li estimated that it would be difficult for him to leave Germany for the time being.

That is a treasure worth 10 billion euros, even if it is now in [-], it is worth at least hundreds of millions of euros.

Hundreds of millions of euros in [-]. What kind of concept is that?

If Chen Li had this money, most of the plans he envisioned 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 if it is 1% of the minimum reward, it is almost 1000 million euros, and the worst is several million euros.

Converted into Huaxia currency, it would be tens of millions.

Moreover, Chen Li didn't think that his luck was really that bad, so he directly came to the lowest percentage.

If you are lucky, what if you throw 99%?As for the remaining 1%, it will be eaten as candy for Xiaomeng.

Ahem~Okay~This is all imagination, anyway, imagination doesn't cost money, so it's natural to think about it more beautifully.

...

Anyway!The value of this batch of ** treasures is definitely an astronomical figure, an astronomical figure that the police will never let go so easily if they know about it.

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

After all, the source of these works of art is destined to be difficult for Gullit to tell the police the truth.

So Chen Li estimated that Gullit would find some other excuses for himself, such as.
Lost other valuables ~ or simply refused to admit the loss of items.

Anyway, Chen Li made a lot of assumptions at the time, and he even thought that Gullit would name some of the works of art in that batch.

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

Throwing a few thousand marks~ is different from throwing millions or tens of millions of marks. The concept is different.

Big eucalyptus must be eucalyptus ~ the priority must be higher than those petty thefts.

This rule actually applies all over the world.

And the fact. Just as Chen Li guessed, Gullit really used this method.

He said that he had lost two Picasso manuscripts and some other paintings worth hundreds of thousands of marks, in fact trying to tell the police that his lost items were of high value.

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

One is that he knew that there were Picasso's manuscripts in this batch of artworks?
That's Picasso!
Even if Chen Li doesn't know anything about painting art, it doesn't prevent him from knowing Picasso's name.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, their understanding of Picasso probably has the following two points.

First of all ~ Picasso was a painter!
Secondly ~ Picasso's paintings are very valuable!

So while Chen Li was surprised that Picasso's paintings were included in the batch of artworks, he was also a little puzzled by Gullit's estimate.

That's a Picasso painting~ what?Just the manuscript?Even the manuscript should be worth tens of millions of dollars, right?

After all~ that's Picasso!

ok~!For Chen Li, who is not even a layman, discussing the value of artwork with him is definitely playing against the cow.

In fact ~ Picasso was a very prolific painter.

According to statistics, his oil paintings ~ sketches ~ prints ~ lithographs and other works are estimated to add up to nearly [-] pieces.

The value of works of art in different periods~different styles~different sizes is also different.

Just like Picasso, his painting "The Woman of Algiers" was directly auctioned for 1.6 million US dollars in his previous life, plus commissions and other handling fees, and the final actual transaction price was as high as 1.79 million US dollars.

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

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

Of course~ What price should a work of art be worth? That is the matter of the appraiser and the buyer.

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

With the same treatment as Picasso, there are also well-known painters such as Da Vinci~Van Gogh.

As long as the names of these people appear on a certain painting, ordinary people will think that this painting is worth the old nose's money.

...

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

In his previous life, Chen Li had seen a painting by Qi Baishi at a rich second generation. At that time, Chen Li thought that the guy's family must be a dick.

But later, Chen Li heard from the rich second generation that his mother only spent 15 yuan for that painting.

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

This is not a joke~!Qi Baishi's paintings are only worth 15 yuan?
So ~ 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 puzzled why Gullit said he had lost two Picasso paintings, but why the estimated value was only a few hundred thousand marks.

The second thing that surprised Chen Li was why the police didn't come to him when Gullit said that he had lost property worth a million marks.

Even if Chen Li was sure that he didn't show any flaws, the police should investigate him no matter what!
But soon this question was explained!

Just last night, Lucas' lawyer and Bales went to the police station, and after learning about the situation in detail, they tried to help Chen Li get rid of the suspicion.

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

What?Monitoring, isn't the monitoring deleted?
Well~ The surveillance inside the apartment building was indeed deleted, but the outside of that apartment building was also monitored.

According to the monitoring outside, when Chen Li entered the apartment building, he went in empty-handed.

And when he came out, there was nothing in his hands.

And a question that confuses the police is that when Gullit described his lost property, he said that he had lost several boxes of paintings.

Note that even the box was stolen.

There were several boxes, and it was impossible for ordinary people to move them away.

And no boxes were taken from the apartment complex, according to outside surveillance.

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

If he wanted to take away Gullit's treasure, he would naturally enter the building, and if he wanted to get rid of his suspicions while entering the building, then "saving people" was a good reason.

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

In fact, everyone who entered and exited the apartment building that day was the subject of suspicion for this case.

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

Because Chen Li has witnesses.

Chen Li entered the apartment building twice to save people after watching the house with Bals and after the apartment building started to emit thick smoke.

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

To move a few boxes was obviously something that Chen Li could not do by himself.

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Therefore, according to the time interval checked by the external monitoring and the testimony of witnesses, although Chen Li cannot be completely cleared of the suspicion, the suspicion should not be serious.

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

Unless the Lucas family puts pressure on the police, perhaps Chen Li can leave Germany directly without being suspected.

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

Mr. Cornelius Gullit who claimed to have lost a huge amount of property.
disappeared!
This is actually the reason why the police did not contact Chen Li later, and even Bals and Lucas did not contact Chen Li last night.

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

At that time, after Cornelius Gullit informed 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 looked a little messy because Chen Li took the box.

Then Cornelius Gullit disappeared!
That night, when the police went to Cornelius Gullit's residence and were about to ask him for details, they found that he was nowhere to be found.

And according to the monitoring that has just been repaired, after that Cornelius Gullit returned to his home, several burly men came soon, and then those burly men directly gave Cole Nelius Gullit has a big move.

They took away more than a dozen boxes, and at the same time, Cornelius Gullit also left the apartment with those burly men.

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

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

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

After all~ If that Cornelius Gullit was really just the owner of the lost property, it is certainly impossible to choose to leave without saying goodbye at this time.

So, the police immediately started to investigate, and then found that the two trucks disappeared not far from Maple Leaf Avenue.

Because the person concerned could not 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 knowing about this matter, it eventually turned into a so-called oolong.

But this oolong made Chen Li "crazy".

"Chen~ are you okay?"

"List?"

Seeing Chen Li who was stunned, Lucas stretched out his hand and patted Chen Li on the shoulder.

"Uh, it's okay!"

"I just didn't expect so much to happen last night."

"You didn't contact me yesterday, it should be because the signal of my mobile phone is 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 he failed.

...

This... no way!
After all, it is [-], although Chen Li has opened the international roaming service, but I'm sorry~ His mobile phone signal here is very poor.

Usually, Chen Li would use a public phone booth to make calls, which happened to save some phone bills.

Uh~ After perfunctory Lucas, Chen Li spread his whole body on the back of the seat.

It looks like he is relaxing, but actually...he has entered the system space.

"Xiaomeng~Xiaomeng~!"

"This batch of treasures."

Chen Li only spoke half of what he said, because he had already found out that the mission "**Treasure No. 035" he had accepted had failed!
Seeing this scene~ Chen Li already realized what happened.

He was "deceived" by that Gullit.

In fact, it can't be said that he was cheated. To be precise, it was Chen Li's own problem.

He has no experience in this field, and he has little knowledge of so-called works of art.

At that time, when he opened the boxes and found many well-preserved drawings and canvases inside, he subconsciously thought that the so-called treasures were contained in those boxes.

In fact, Chen Li also suspected later, why this Cornelius Gullit was so courageous, he just hid the treasure in the box in his bedroom.

At that time, Chen Li thought that this guy might be doing something like "the most dangerous place is the safest place", so he made a blackout under the lights.

After getting the "treasure", Chen Li felt emotional for a while, but now...
The clown was actually Chen Li himself!

Rebirth starts with small money