Traces left behind by an unknown Gu worm could be seen on the Autumn Mountain Picture.
During the three-day preview, many people noticed this. Combined with the news that Xu Jiunian had the Longevity Gu, it caused the painting to be fought over like crazy.
In the end, Wang Yuanbai stepped in on behalf of headquarters, forcing everyone else to back down.
As for whether the Longevity Gu was truly in the painting, that depended on whether Xu Jiunian was the Good Wealth Boy.
Yan Xiu felt that he wasn't. However, in everyone else's eyes, Xu Jiunian had long since become a down-and-out nobody who couldn't make it in respectable circles. They might very well think he was.
After getting into the car, Wang Yuanbai immediately opened the Autumn Mountain Picture. He poured all the liquid he had requested from headquarters' research department over it. The liquid had a coloring effect on semi-finished Longevity Gu.
A few minutes later, large patches of purple, spiderweb-like traces appeared on the ancient painting.
Wang Yuanbai's heart skipped several beats, but soon the traces faded away.
"Fuck!" Wang Yuanbai couldn't help cursing.
There were indeed traces left by the Longevity Gu, but they were extremely faint, and no Longevity Gu remained alive. In other words, it was worthless. The more than ten million he had spent had all gone down the drain.
Then he remembered that he could originally have spent only a little over eight million, but Yan Xiu had forcibly driven the price up to more than ten million. His mood immediately worsened.
"This... The Longevity Gu isn't in this painting, so how are we going to explain this to headquarters?" The man in the driver's seat asked awkwardly.
Wang Yuanbai tossed the ruined painting to the female assistant beside him. After