Chapter 22: Night of the Museum of Horror

The corridor of the museum is very spacious, and even though it is 12 o'clock in the evening, the light on the side of the road illuminates the whole museum through the glass, and this space of light and shadow is like a huge cage, just like my current situation.

I was in the shadows of the museum, carefully observing everything around me, and I didn't notice anything unusual on the third floor, not even the patrolling police. Aside from the motionless cameras, I couldn't even detect the security here.

I walked against the dark wall, wearing a white T-shirt that could reveal my whereabouts at any moment. I cautiously made my way to the other side of the floor, at the exit of Hall 2, which I hoped would be a little easier to break through than the locked entrance door.

I began to imagine the tight security in the exhibition hall, the laser alarm network arranged like in the movie, as soon as I touched the laser, the information would be transmitted to the building headquarters, and then a large number of police would come and patrol. It's even more difficult than robbing a tomb, and the underground vault may be like that.

I walked out of the darkness of the hallway, only to find me shocked to find two people lying crookedly at the exit of Room 2, while the door was open. I quickly retreated in fright, and it was a few minutes before I realized that the two men might have fallen before I dared to step forward.

I came to the two men and found them two men in police uniforms, holding batons in their hands, they were not dying, and there were no obvious injuries on their bodies, and they were lying quietly as if they were asleep. I didn't linger here, I retreated into the shadows, and I felt as if something was going on here.

What's going on, did someone knock them down and enter the exhibition hall to steal? I am afraid that it is not ordinary people who dare to commit such a theft in a museum by the square in the center of the city, and I can't think of anyone who is so bold as anyone from another time and space other than me.

Maybe it's organized crime, and they're obviously very clever in their methods, and they shouldn't be new to it like me. Why did they come, is it for the cultural relics in it, in addition to the Eternal Heart Diamond, the second exhibition hall is full of some holy relics, famous cultural relics, and documents, which are probably not easy to sell on the black market, after all, they are too famous.

I think most of them came for the eternal heart, maybe some rich man hired a professional thief to steal the diamond. I'm starting to get a little excited, and if that's the case, wouldn't it have helped me by taking their Eternal Hearts and I taking my Luminous Gems.

I'm not sure if they've left here now, but in the face of this open exit door, I decided to go inside and find out. With each small step I took carefully, I slowly walked into the darkened exhibition hall.

I entered through the exit of Hall 2, it was all dark, there were no lights, and there was no laser alarm system as I imagined, I took out my phone, turned the lights to the lowest, and then tried to remember the path I had traveled during the day, I was going to find the noctilucent meteorite. It took me about ten minutes before I finally came to the area where the magic triangle was placed.

Around the corner I stopped and turned off the lights. The back of the corner was already filled with a faint green light, which must have been the glow of a noctilucent meteorite. I looked at the partition wall surrounded by green light, and suddenly realized that there were still figures on the wall, hadn't the thieves gone yet?

I leaned against the partition wall and poked my head out cautiously. I saw a luminous meteorite glowing with a mysterious green light, and under this green light, the heart of eternity also glowed brightly in the center of the triangle. In front of the booth where the ancient Qur'an was placed, six men dressed in black were kneeling on the ground performing some kind of ritual, perhaps praying.

I was stunned by what I saw, and their goal was not the Eternal Heart, but this ancient scripture, perhaps related to some kind of religious ritual. But obviously the problem now is that I could be discovered by them at any time, and their goals are so closely tied to what I want. If they just took the scriptures and left the wooden box, it would have been better. But if they take the wooden box with them, then I won't be able to get the meteorite.

I leaned against the wall, not daring to make any noise, which would have become so loud in the dark of night in the museum exhibition hall. Suddenly, I heard a voice from the other side of the wall, not the sound of them talking, but the sound of breaking glass. I didn't have a probe to go out, and I started to get nervous, and I was likely to be found out soon by them if I should leave first.

There was darkness in front of me, a faint green light behind me, and I saw that the figures on the wall were moving, and then even the green light began to flicker, and they must have taken out the wooden box and the scriptures. Then the green light disappeared and the room went dark, and I realized the danger and I began to walk cautiously forward, hoping to leave the hall before they noticed me.

After walking a few steps, suddenly there was a light in front of me, and it was clear that the light was coming from behind me. I froze, standing motionless, and I noticed the light slowly approaching me. I turned around abruptly and found that the masked men in black were staring at me, they were shining flashlights in my eyes, I tried to open my eyes, and I was about to shout, when suddenly I saw a man in black raise his hand, he seemed to be holding something in his hand.

Before I could see anything, I suddenly felt a momentary tingling pain in my arm, and then I immediately became weak, and I fell to the ground, I didn't even have the strength to open my eyes, I could only see a few figures walking past me through the slight gap, and soon, I lost consciousness.

When I woke up again, it was already the morning of August 16, and I was woken up by the ringing of my mobile phone as scheduled.

I sat on my bed and thought about what had happened the previous night. I may have been anesthetized by the man in black with some anesthetic, just like the policeman who fell to the ground at the door. Who the hell were those six people, so bold and so professional, their methods could not be said to be cruel, and their actions did not even touch a drop of blood.

They asked for the Quran, the same prayer they prayed in front of the booth, and I think they probably came from a religious extremist group, or even a terrorist group. They never said a word, not even to themselves, and they acted quickly and efficiently. How did they break through the museum's security system and enter the museum in the heart of the city, even though it was already twelve o'clock, but the outside of the museum was still brightly lit and there were many vehicles and pedestrians on the road; The museum also has so many cameras and possible alarm systems in the exhibition halls that they just put down two police officers in the museum without being detected.

I may have been involved in a theft that shocked the world, and what worries me even more is that what they stole was the noctilucent meteorite I was looking for. Can I get the meteorite before they do, judging from yesterday's situation, the museum's security system may not be as difficult to breach as I thought.

I put on a black T-shirt and walked out of the house again to get on the subway to the museum, I need to check the whole museum in detail, and today I will strike first to get the luminous meteorite before the man in black. Men in black, take your scriptures, and I will take my jewels, and we will not invade each other.

I was in front of the tall and majestic museum again, and I looked up at this huge one-piece glass building, and my heart was full of mixed feelings.