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At half past six in the morning, the elder Edmund came out of his home and drove away from his home on Lower Wood Street to the British Museum of Natural History, where he worked.

The British Museum of Natural History, located on Exhibition Street in South Kensington, southwest London, is at least half an hour's drive from his house.

Fortunately, I came out early in the morning, the road was not congested, and old Edmund even had time to buy a breakfast at McDonald's on the street.

Eating and driving to the place where I worked, the damn museum, the Ice Age exhibition in the winter, it was so special, and so stingy, that I didn't even want to increase some redundant manpower, all relying on some old employees like myself, and I had to set up the venue, clean and clean, and maintain order in the venue during the day.

A salary of more than ten pounds an hour, those well-fed aristocratic lords, usually except for playing drunk in the House of Lords, they especially play with girls on the side of the financial street, and they don't know anything else to do.

Old Edmund complained and cursed as he drove to breakfast.

He has been working at the British Museum of Natural History for decades, and he is about to reach retirement age and can go home to receive a pension to live in his old age, who knew that two years ago, a government decree actually extended the retirement period, which meant that he had to work for a few more years.

It's really special, so many young people can't find jobs, and they don't let our old bones retire, they just don't want to pay us pensions in time, and in my opinion, we might as well leave the EU. So as not to be dragged down by the gang of junks in the EU.

As a subject of the imperial capital of the British Empire. The elder Edmund had a political consciousness no less than that of a taxi driver in China's imperial capital. Although he has the opportunity to participate in politics in his lifetime, that is, to vote in an election year, it has not affected his attention to national politics at all.

In recent years, the British economy has been sluggish, the number of unemployed has soared, and the retirement period has been extended, which has made him complain.

Because these have seriously affected his life, to be honest he envies his cousins who work at the British Museum.

Speaking of the British Natural History Museum where he works now, it is actually between the British Museum and the British Museum. It also belongs to the relationship of cousins.

In the early days, the British Museum of Natural History was actually part of the British Museum, but later, one hundred years after the establishment of the British Museum, in 1853, Chad, then the director of the British Museum's History and Nature Branch. Sir Owen, believing that the History and Nature Branch as part of the British Museum had no way to reflect its importance, persuaded the government to separate the branch from the British Museum.

So the government was on Exhibition Street in South Kensington. The new British Museum of History and Nature was built, covering an area of more than 40,000 square meters. Today, the museum has a collection of more than 70 million pieces and more than 7 million paleontological fossils, making it one of the most famous history and nature museums in the world.

Old Edmund should be proud to work in such a large museum of history and natural history, but the thought of the Ice Age exhibition that is now taking place makes Old Edmund not happy.

The British Museum of History and Nature is not the same as the British Museum, the British Museum has treasures, with the world's major civilizations, exquisite antiques and artifacts from various historical periods, and the value of those treasures is priceless.

Therefore, the British government attaches great importance to that museum, and the annual funding is very sufficient, even if it cannot meet the needs of the British Museum to maintain its operation, there will be many rich people who donate to the museum, and there are many funds, venture capital, and organizations behind the museum to raise funds for that museum.

So the British Museum never has to worry about funding, but the British Museum of Natural History is different, although it also has more than 70 million specimens, but there are more than 28 million insect specimens, and more than 7 million incomplete fossils, although it can also attract many visitors every day.

But who wants to pay a lot of money to see these specimens and bones? Although the government will also allocate funds to them every year, but that amount of funds, compared with the funding for the British Museum, is simply a special treatment for a stepmother.

As a result, the British Museum of Natural History was underfunded, and the staff was cut repeatedly, and now Edmund Sr. had learned from his work that the elderly were used as young people, and women were used as men, and overtime was frequent, and if it was not voluntary, it was to be made redundant.

Once you are laid off, it will be miserable, it means that you will not receive the original generous pension, although you can still receive a little unemployment benefit from the government, but compared with the pension, the loss is great.

So despite being mean to the museum and complaining a lot, old Edmund still has to go to work on time and on time every day, and even sometimes 'voluntarily' work overtime.

For example, this damn Ice Age exhibition, for this exhibition, he had to arrive an hour early every morning and walk an hour late in the evening.

When passing by Kensington, looking at the mansions in the grassy garden, old Edmund couldn't help but scold his mother.

Lao Tzu earns more than 100 pounds a day, but this amount of money is not enough to feed the dogs raised by the Broadman who lives here, and a friend of his who works as a housekeeper here for the Broadman's family told him that these Broadman's dogs, to shear once, will cost no less than sixty pounds.

Fuck you, damn the British government, damn the bastards of the House of Lords!

Old Edmund snorted and drove his old Ford to the door of the British Natural History Museum, and when he was far away, he saw the door in the distance suddenly flash, as if someone had come out of it.

But I didn't see anyone actually coming out of it, what was going on? He rubbed his eyes, the door just now did move, but why didn't he see a figure?

Forget it, maybe it's my own dazzle!

He stopped the car and turned off the engine, then walked to the gate, came to the door and pulled the door, huh! Why didn't you lock the door?

Chris, that idiot, must have forgotten to lock the door, old Edmund shook his head, then pushed the door open and walked in.

The area of this museum is not small, but the things stored in it are some animal bones, or fossils or something, which are not very valuable, so the museum does not pay much attention to security.

After all, the security situation here has been good since the establishment of the museum, and no one will have the idea of beating these bones now, right?

So don't talk about electronic surveillance here, even the security guard on duty at night is also worth arranging a person, and the one on duty yesterday was Edmund's old friend Chris, a sixty-two-year-old retired policeman.

Edmund pushed open the door and walked into the hall, without looking up, he went directly into the tool room on the left-hand side, where there are a lot of cleaning tools, because he can't afford to hire a cleaner, so the sanitation work here is done by the museum's own personnel.

Old Edmund Sr. 'volunteered' an hour of overtime every morning to come here to do hygiene.

Pushing a small cart with a bucket and mop, out of the tool room, old Edmund came to the gate of the guild hall, and just as he was about to start mopping the floor, he felt that something was not right.

He looked up and couldn't help but froze.

This Ice Age Crafts Exhibition was organized by the British Museum of History and Nature in conjunction with many European natural history museums, and many of the exhibits came to various European natural history museums.

And to attract attention, at the front of the exhibition hall is a prehistoric mammoth giant elephant borrowed from the Russian Museum of Natural History, this mammoth giant elephant is not a mammoth fossil of that kind.

Rather, it was a giant frozen mammoth found in Zaraysk, Russia, which is about 20,000 years old.

This prehistoric beast, about four meters tall, is 20,000 years old, but after being made into a specimen, it is still lifelike and looks hideous and terrifying.

It's just that the most important part of its head seems to be missing now, and that is the tusks of two prehistoric beasts!!

"Oh! O my God! How so!? ”

The mop in Edmund's hand fell to the ground, and he covered his head with both hands, looking at the giant elephant without its tusks, and exclaimed!

The root of the mammoth's teeth was flat, and even traces of sawing could be seen, apparently someone had used a saw to cut the ivory of the mammoth giant......

Old Edmund couldn't believe what he had seen, what was it that dared to come back here and steal the elephant's tusks?

At this time, he suddenly remembered something, and his ass wanted to be kicked in the back, and rushed into the exhibition hall at a speed that was absolutely inappropriate for his age, and then saw it...... Broken glass all over the floor......

The Ice Age craft exhibits that were originally in the display case are all gone......

For example, the mammoth ivory carving found in Montastrüc, France, the mammoth-shaped spear thrower, and the Paleolithic bone carved horse, also found in France, and the mammoth tusk carved from the tusks of the mammoth, also found in Montastrüc, depicting the scene of two reindeer crossing the river "swimming reindeer".

Also from Zaraysk, Russia, a mammoth ivory bison, a statue of a "lion man" found in the Stadel Cave in Horenstein, Germany, and a mammoth carved from mammoth ivory found in the Vogelherd Cave in southern Germany.

and the primitive flute made from the wing bones of a vulture found in Britain itself, and the most famous "Venus of Lower Westnice", a 26,000-year-old statue that is considered to be the earliest example of abstract art.

These exhibits have all disappeared without a trace! (To be continued......)