In the blink of an eye, it was about half past two in the afternoon.

The open-air market of Porte de la Porte de la Porte de la Botcese in Rome is in an unprecedented panic, and all the stall owners and antique shopkeepers who run the antique business here are in constant fear!

And it was Ye Tian who created this panic who frantically swept the Bot Saimen open-air market.

By this time he had swept three streets, and had led Betty and the others to the last and longest street of the Porte Gate Souk, and had been walking around it for a while, and it had been very fruitful!

Just now, five or six minutes ago, two medium-sized helicopters responsible for transporting the loot took off again and flew to the Vatican with a large number of valuable antique artworks.

Looking at the two medium-sized helicopters roaring away, the many antique dealers in the Botesaimen open-air market all had faces as black as the bottom of a pot, and they were about to faint to death in distress.

For Ye Tian, each of them hated it to the root of their teeth, but they were afraid to the core, and they were extremely admired.

As people in the industry, they all know in their hearts that this industry is all about eyesight, knowledge, and capital!

Steven's greedy bastard is not only extremely sharp-eyed, but he also seems to know everything, knows everything, and more importantly, he still has an inexhaustible supply of dollars in his pocket, which is terrible!

In the face of such a guy, everyone would feel extremely frustrated, and they could not even raise the slightest will to resist, so they could only watch as that bastard ransacked the Botesai Gate Market.

Not at the Porte de Porte Bote, but always keeping an eye on the many Italian antique art collectors here, everyone is gasping and bleeding!

Some guys have even started to take action in order to stop Ye Tian's crazy act of ransacking the Botesai Souk as soon as possible, and keep some treasures for Rome, even if it's just one!

At the same time, Ye Tian and the others walked into a medium-sized antique shop on the side of the street, and began to appreciate the many antique artworks displayed in this antique store with great interest.

The owner of this antique shop is an Italian man in his fifties, with a thin body, long gray hair, tied into a ponytail, and he looks quite artistic.

However, when he saw Ye Tian walking into his antique shop, the fluttering and free and easy immediately disappeared and disappeared without a trace.

Instead, there was an unusually solemn expression, and his eyes were full of jealousy, and even a little frightened!

However, this antique shopkeeper is an old fritter after all, he quickly cleaned up his emotions, put on a smile that was more ugly than crying, and quickly greeted Ye Tian and them,

After meeting each other and getting to know each other, the antique shopkeeper accompanied Ye Tian and them to visit in fear, and took the initiative to introduce the many antique artworks displayed in the store.

"Steven, these cubist paintings in front of me are all the work of the same painter, this painter is a rising star in art, and his paintings are highly regarded by many people, you might as well consider it!"

With the introduction of the antique shop owner, Ye Tian and the others stopped and looked at several cubist paintings hanging on a display wall in front of them.

Pretending to appreciate it seriously for a moment, Ye Tian smiled and nodded and said:

"These paintings are really good, the author's painting techniques are very skillful and thoughtful, but unfortunately I am not a collector and I am not very interested in cubism, so I have no intention of collecting these paintings"

Hearing this, a trace of disappointment immediately flashed in the antique shop owner's eyes, and it was fleeting.

After admiring for a while, Ye Tian and the others moved forward and looked at the other antique artworks in the store, or suspected antique artworks.

Next, they admired some of the antique artworks on display one after another, and gradually walked into the depths of the antique shop.

During this process, Ye Tian kept a bright smile on his face, and nodded frequently, seemingly interested in every antique artwork in this store.

However, he did not take any real action, and he did not even ask about the price.

Seeing his performance, the owner of the antique shop couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, a lot of relaxation, but a little bit of resentment!

Could it be that I don't even have a good thing in this antique shop, and all antique artworks can't get into your eyes, no?

Just as the antique shop owner was secretly complaining, Ye Tian suddenly stopped and looked at a badly mutilated statue and a pile of broken marble blocks of different sizes on the ground.

In fact, this badly mutilated marble statue was barely pieced together, with only the right half of the torso of the body and half of the right arm broken at the elbow.

And this statue is surrounded by terrifying cracks of different sizes and lengths, some of which are so wide that you can even insert your fingers, and it looks like they could fall apart at any moment!

If it weren't for a white plaster frame to support and support, this mutilated figure sculpture would not have been able to stand up, and it would have been scattered on the ground long ago.

Apart from the horrific cracks, the surface of the mutilated statue is also mottled.

The right half of his body and half of his right arm were pitted, as if he had been smashed countless times with a hammer, dense, like a beehive, and there were many stains of different shades of color.

Judging from these two points alone, it can be basically determined that this statue is an unearthed antique cultural relic, which has been buried deep underground for I don't know how many years, and the unearthed time is not too long, it should not be more than a hundred years!

And this statue has obviously gone through countless hardships, and there may be many untold stories behind it, as evidenced by those horrific scars.

Even if the statue is so mutilated that it is impossible to tell who the figure is, it is still certain that it is a female body sculpture by the soft curve of the statue's torso and right arm.

As for the rest of the statue, such as the skull, the left torso and left arm, the front half of the right arm, as well as the legs and pedestals of the statue, and other parts, are no longer in place.

Needless to say, these parts of the statue must have been shattered into pieces of marble of various sizes.

The pile of marble fragments next to the statue should be part of it, but judging from the body proportions of the statue, there are many marble fragments from this statue that are not here.

If as expected, the marble fragments are missing, and it may be possible to get them back, but more likely, they will never be recovered.

Standing in front of this statue and admiring it for a moment, Ye Tian turned his head to look at the antique shopkeeper, and said with a smile:

"Rossini, tell us about this marble sculpture, how did it break like this? Why don't you put the marble pieces on the ground together, and where do the rest of the marble pieces go?

And one more thing, what is the theme of this marble sculpture, who is the character of the sculpture? Obviously, there are a lot of stories behind this marble sculpture, and I would love to know about it!"

Rossini, the owner of the antique shop, did not respond immediately, he first glanced deeply at Ye Tian, and then looked at the mutilated marble sculpture and the stones piled on the ground with suspicion.

After a moment's hesitation, Rossini nodded and said:

"I don't know much about this broken marble sculpture, which I bought this summer from the open-air market outside my door, from a guy who has been setting up a stall here all year round.

When the sculpture was received, it was just a pile of marble fragments of various sizes and shapes, only the half of the right arm was still intact, and the rest of the sculpture could not be distinguished at all.

Later, with a few friends, it took me a long time and effort to put the sculpture together in its current form, fix it with a plaster cast, and erect it.

But that's the limit, and we couldn't put the pieces of marble together that we couldn't put together, and we didn't even know where they belonged to the sculpture.

The main reason for this is that the sculpture is so badly damaged, and many of the marble fragments from this sculpture have been lost, and it is impossible to completely restore it."

"That's true, these marble fragments on the ground, basically can't see the original shape, and it's hard to tell which part of the statue they belong to, it's too broken!"

Ye Tian nodded lightly and agreed, with a bit of regret in his tone.

After a pause, Rossini continued:

"We had no choice but to let go and put the broken sculpture and the marble fragments here to see if we could meet someone who liked them and was interested in them.

Although it is not possible to restore this marble sculpture to its original state, it can be seen from the fragments of the body that have been pieced together that the sculpture is of a high artistic standard and the carving techniques are quite high.

From this sculpture, there seems to be a bit of ancient Greek idealism, just like the famous sculpture "Remnant" in the Vatican Museums, but it is even more damaged.

The guy who sold the pile of marble shards once said that the marble sculpture seemed to come from Greece and had been shipped to Catania, Italy, in the early fifties.

After much deliberation, the marble fragments eventually fell into his possession, and he sold them to me, and in the meantime, many of them must have been lost in various places, and it was difficult to find them.

This statement also confirms my inference that it is probably an ancient Greek sculpture, but unfortunately it is so badly damaged that there is almost no possibility of restoring it to its original state.

As for what the theme of this sculpture is, who the characters of the sculpture are, and whether there are other stories hidden behind it, I don't know, it may be a mystery for the ages!"

Hearing this, Ye Tian's eyes couldn't help but flash a hint of a smile.

"A mystery through the ages! That's for you, and for me, this marble sculpture is priceless, and it's clear which sculptor it came from!"