Louvre.

In 1204, this great palace was inaugurated by Philip Auguste II. It was here that Louis XIV, the Sun King, ascended the throne, built a square courtyard and collected works of art from all over Europe. The French Revolution, the first guillotine was built in the courtyard of the Louvre, which became a museum open to the public, and has carried endless glory for 700 years......

Qin Beiyang came to the gate of the Louvre. A month ago, it was here that he subdued the Four-Winged Angel Town Tomb Beast, separated from Ouyang Anna, and followed Dr. Holstein to Versailles Airport. To avoid being recognized, he wore a mustache and a top hat and stole an old suit from the laundromat, as if he had aged ten years overnight.

He saw a carriage stop, and the little county king of Ordos Doro was the first to get out of the carriage, helping a girl out of the carriage like a gentleman.

Ouyang Anna, although there were bustling tourists in front of her, she recognized Qin Beiyang at first sight.

The nineteen-year-old girl, carrying her skirt, galloped away and embraced him in the shadow of the cloister.

The little king walked behind them, and the scholar shrugged his shoulders and said enviously, "I won't put candles between you." ”

Then he turned and left, and went to the sun by the Seine, where he struck up flowers and grass, and accosted the French girl.

Qin Beiyang has been living in seclusion for a month in the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Every night, dozens of stone elf monsters and two grave beasts accompany him. Qin Beiyang was so anxious that he used various methods to repair the wounds of Jiushi, and found aluminum plates, pig iron, and even stainless steel, but he could only stop bleeding "blood".

The nine colors are slowly getting colder, will it really "die"?

On this day, the Chinese delegation was informed by the French government that, according to the order of Prime Minister Clemenceau, the ten-horned seven-headed tomb beast had been sent to the Louvre Museum for preservation. Gu Weijun sent Ouyang Anna to the Louvre on behalf of the Chinese government, even if he couldn't bring back the ten corners and seven heads, at least he had to verify his identity and confirm that this thing was a tomb beast, not an imposter with a crown and a li.

It just so happened that the Louvre and Notre Dame Cathedral were close at hand, and Anna and Qin Beiyang agreed to meet here.

"Are you alright?"

"Anna, I'm fine."

In fact, Qin Beiyang was already weak, but he was just pretending to be strong and healthy.

The two entered the Louvre arm in arm, like a newlywed. Walking through stairs, palace doors, and corners is like opening pages of history, oil paintings, and statues......

They first saw ancient Egyptian artifacts, from mummies to sculptures in temples. Then there is the "Code of Hammurabi", a cuneiform code carved into stone pillars. Then there is the ancient Greek and Roman art, the Venus of Milos, with a crisp chest and a half-naked chest, a spring shirt slipping off, and a mutilated arm. Qin Beiyang glanced at Anna again, and his cheeks flushed with embarrassment. Ouyang Anna beat him in the chest with her fist: "Don't look at indecent acts!" ”

Then there is the statue of the goddess of victory, which seems to fall from the sky on the bow of a ship in the Aegean Sea, with fluttering clothes and clear lines. This headless statue also lost its arms, but there was a pair of strong wings and wings behind it—Qin Beiyang naturally reminded him of the Four-Winged Angel Tomb Beast.

Enter the Renaissance Promenade and see the soul of the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. When Ouyang Anna was studying in Shanghai, she had heard of this masterpiece, and when she saw the real work, she found that it was so small, no more than 70 centimeters high, and the lady in the oil painting seemed to be hiding in the frame and looking at her. Who is the Mona Lisa? A certain elegant Italian lady? The humble Cinderella maid? Or is it a man the painter is in love with? Anna pleaded with God for forgiveness. The woman in the portrait sits quietly, the yellow light spilling on her skin, as if she has been smeared with a layer of oil, as if it is a blasphemy to look at it more......

"I think of the women in the murals of the Tang Dynasty." Qin Beiyang leaned close to Anna's ear, "God-like eyes." ”

Ouyang Anna turned to look at him, her glass-colored eyes widened: "Like me?" ”

After that, she giggled and dragged Qin Beiyang through the Italian Renaissance corridor, and saw Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna of the Rocks" along the way, Raphael's "Madonna in the Garden", and Michelangelo's "Slave......

Eventually, they arrived at the door of the Louvre's treasury and were intercepted by two security guards. Anna presented an official letter from the Chinese Legation in France, requesting to meet with the great sinologist Bo Xihe.

Walking into the warehouse, as soon as the great French sinologist saw Anna, he wanted to hug him warmly, but she shy dodged away.

A month ago, Birch had just returned from his post as military attaché and vice-minister of the French legation in China, retired from active service as an army officer, and was elected a member of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters.

A young and beautiful Chinese girl who is proficient in French, how can she not let him treat her with hospitality? Anna was able to work as a translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanks to the letters of recommendation written by Birch.

Qin Beiyang stood in front of Anna, but saw Bo Xi and the Chinese young man behind him, and after a short trance, he pronounced a name: "Li Longsheng? ”

"Hello, Qin Beiyang."

The handsome and dashing Dr. Cambridge, less than thirty years old, wears a white suit and a crimson tie, is tall and slender, and has a face like a work of art. The Ph.D. in physics at the University of Cambridge and winner of the inaugural World Intelligence Contest arrived in France a few weeks ago on board with the second Chinese diplomatic delegation.

Li Longsheng's eyes were very vicious, and he recognized Qin Beiyang with a mustache at a glance, and stretched out his hand with a top hat. Qin Beiyang subconsciously shook his hand, then withdrew his hand ashamedly, and whispered, "You also came to see the tomb beast." ”

They turned to the other side of the warehouse and gazed at the Louvre's new collection, a satanic monster.

"Ten-horned seven-headed tomb beast."

Bo Xihe, the greatest sinologist in the Western world, the discoverer and thief of the Dunhuang testament, could not praise this relic in any words.

Unfortunately, it has been vandalized, mechanized and made undescript and ugly......

Li Longsheng also exclaimed: "Ten corners and seven heads, what a great masterpiece of the Tang Dynasty." ”

The tomb beast has completed the second round of mechanization, and has an extra piece of armor bulge on its back, like a king shell, which can accommodate a person to hide in it - just as a knight is to a war horse, and a pilot is to a fighter. This must be the masterpiece of Dr. Holstein, as well as the help of his father, Qin Customs.

Last year, at the Fangshan Tomb in Beijing, Bo Xihe hurriedly met Qin Beiyang, and of course he couldn't recognize him in disguise. Anna falsely claimed that he was also a colleague in the Chinese delegation.