The Greatest Prodigy of the Past Five Hundred Years!

"Indeed, one piece is missing!"

The middle-aged man nodded, then continued, "At the time, I wanted to summon you to look into the situation, and debated whether to go question Great Grandmaster Ning himself to see if he had hidden that item or somehow lost it somewhere."

"However, the detailed dossier on Great Grandmaster Ning that I had ordered my subordinates to compile happened to arrive just then, and a detail within it made me temporarily abandon that idea."

"Director, what did you discover?"

Gu Ziyu asked curiously.

Instead of answering directly, the middle-aged man said, "Flip to the third page from the back of the dossier in your hand; there are three pictures on it."

"The object in the left picture is the missing piece..."

At these words, Gu Ziyu hurriedly turned to the third page from the back and indeed saw three photographs arranged side by side.

Those three pictures were unmistakably photographs of an incomplete bronze mask. The one on the left showed only the left half of the face, with the forehead section missing.

The one on the right encompassed the forehead section and the vast majority of the right half of the face.

As for the middle picture, it showed the two pieces spliced together. The seam in this picture was practically seamless and fit together so perfectly that anyone could tell at a glance that the two halves were originally meant to be together—they were originally the same mask split into two.

Only, the spliced mask still lacked a piece at the bottom right corner of the chin...

Gu Ziyu looked at these photographs and could not help raising her head to ask, "Director, these pictures..."

The middle-aged man said, "As I just mentioned, the bronze mask on the left half is the missing