Chapter 193 - Chapter 193: Chapter 158: This Web Novel Writer is Very Skilled! (Please Subscribe)_2 (1/2)
Chapter 193: Chapter 158: This Web Novel Writer is Very Skilled! (Please Subscribe)_2
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“The fish has bitten the hook.”
Youyou’s face lit up with joy. She looked at Lin Chuan’s focused face, a strange glint passing through her eyes as she thought to herself, confident and serious guys are really handsome.
Lin Chuan, while looking at the private message box, replied, “What do you think?”
“Delete the video. You name your price.”
The other party responded.
“Are you talking about buying the exclusive rights to the entire video?” Lin Chuan typed back lightly, simultaneously chatting with the other party and using his skills to search for the other party’s network IP address.
“Yes, exclusive rights,” the other party replied, “Whatever you think it’s worth, just name a price and we’ll have no issues in the future.”
“Any price?” Lin Chuan deliberately led the other party on.
The account on the other end was also using virtual IP technology, but they were dealing with Lin Chuan, a world-class hacker. The virtual IP technology did not provide the imagined effect.
In less than five minutes,
Lin Chuan had traced the IP address used by the other account, and immediately began to prepare to breach the IP, extract its data, and follow the trail to gather relevant personal information.
In the end, most of the information associated with this account began pointing to one person: Gao Qinglin.
“So it was him?”
Lin Chuan furrowed his brows.
“Gao Qinglin, the lead expert of Modu Museum, is the one behind the scenes!”
A look of astonishment flashed across Youyou’s face.
“He even wanted to have lunch with Old Lin today,” Old Bai commented with a frown.
Old Bai’s words added to the puzzled look between Lin Chuan’s eyebrows.
The lunch was facilitated by Hu Shu, but Gao Qinglin had shown great respect for Hu Shu at the table, even going so far as to act somewhat deferentially towards him.
A thought flashed through Lin Chuan’s mind: if Gao Qinglin showed such reverence for Hu Shu, then… Hu Shu was perhaps the mastermind behind it all.
All of a sudden!
Lin Chuan seemed to understand everything.
“So from the beginning, it was aimed at me!” Lin Chuan murmured.
Youyou was taken aback, “What’s wrong?”
Lin Chuan then said, “Do you remember Chief Editor Zhang taking the Douli Bowl I gave him to Hu Shu for appraisal?”
“I remember.”
Youyou nodded, “Is there a connection between the two?”
“If I were to say that Mr. Hu is actually the shadowy figure behind the Antique Forgery Gang, would you still think the accidents we encountered were just accidents?” Lin Chuan speculated.
Youyou’s eyes widened, her mouth slightly open, her expression full of surprise.
If Mr. Hu were the shadowy figure behind the forgery gang…
Then, his repeated offers of an olive branch and assistance to Lin Chuan could be seen as part of a scheme.
A scheme that targeted both Lin Chuan and the thin-walled jade vase.
The unexpected power outage, the broken surveillance, Lin Chuan’s and her own sudden fall.
Subsequently, Hu Shu offered Lin Chuan an olive branch, strongly recommending Lin Chuan for artifact restoration, and even donating in Lin Chuan’s name to the Cultural Relics Bureau, ultimately leading Lin Chuan to the Ancient Moon private museum.
All with the aim of recruiting Lin Chuan into the Antique Forgery Gang.
Because Lin Chuan had top-notch forging skills.
This scheme filled Youyou with dread.
If someone else, unaware that the Qing dynasty Chinese tangled branch pattern thin-walled jade vase was a fake, then Hu Shu’s plan would have been flawless.
Without any way of breaking it apart.
“It’s terrifying.”
Youyou’s heart pounded, her demeanor somewhat unsettled.
Lin Chuan was equally shocked; this plan had nearly ensnared him.
Indeed, none in the antiques circle who can move through it with such ease are simple characters.
Liu Qing was one such person.
Hu Shu, even more so.
Both had a strong capability to scheme: Liu Qing used beauty traps to lure in naive newbies like Bai, while Hu Shu employed near flawless schemes to attract skilled talents.
Whew—
Lin Chuan took a deep breath, calming the turmoil in his heart.
By this time, the location of Gao Qinglin’s network IP address was already pinpointed.
Sure enough.
—Ancient Moon Museum.
Lin Chuan did not hesitate, immediately pulling out his phone to make a call.
‘Beep beep beep—’
The urgent ringing of the phone passed through the device.
Beep, the call connected.
“Lin, is there a new discovery?” asked the deep voice of Director Zhao from the police station on the phone.