QT- I’m Almost Died
Chapter 250. Fan Jialuo: My Judgment Has Never Failed
After the pen holder entered the scanning chamber, a dark blue cylindrical object appeared on the scanner’s display screen.
No one knew what the two were up to. The technician in charge of the machine ran over angrily, slammed the power button, and made the conveyor belt return the pen holder.
Fan Jialuo slowly put on white gloves, picked up the pen holder, and sensed it slightly.
Song Rui pointed to the display screen and said, “A beam of light shines on it, revealing a deep blue color——porcelain is an inorganic material, and inorganic materials will appear blue when exposed to X-rays. The scene that Teacher Fan saw during his spiritual communication corresponds to an X-ray scanner.”
“So what? Does the X-ray scan have anything to do with the results of this assessment?” The technician took out a piece of velvet cloth and carefully wiped the machine’s control panel, as if the machine would be defiled if Song Rui touched it.
Fan Jialuo took a pack of disinfectant wipes out of his pocket and handed it to Dr. Song, saying gently, “Wipe your hands.” Finally, he handed the pen holder to another technician, saying calmly, “Give it a thermoluminescence analysis.”
The technician didn’t take the pen holder; instead, he retorted sarcastically, “What right do you have to order me around? The stuff in our lab isn’t your toy.”
Fan Jialuo showed no anger whatsoever, and slowly said, “Would you believe me if I said this pen holder is four thousand years old?”
“Huh? Are you out of your mind? How about we send a car to take you to the mental hospital? Our lab will cover all the expenses.” The technician spoke very politely, but his expression was anything but. He raised his eyebrows, his lips drooped, and his eyes, hidden behind his eyelashes, were full of disdain and contempt.
Fan Jialuo’s expression remained calm. He turned to Chief Yan and said gently, “If you want the truth, have someone test this pen holder. I’m right here, can’t run away. After the test, I’ll take full responsibility.”
Chief Yan was moved by the sincerity in his eyes. Others might not know what kind of person Teacher Fan was, but he did. Words like alarmist, making a mountain out of a molehill, and seeking fame were completely irrelevant to him. On the contrary, he was a broad-minded, pure-hearted, and sincere person who would never utter a lie.
Anyway, it’s just a test, it won’t take much time.
With that thought in mind, Chief Yan waved his hand and said, “Test it!”
He had the highest authority in the laboratory, and although the technician was full of complaints, he could not refuse any longer. He could only take the pen holder and put it into the machine’s scanning chamber.
“A pen holder with a four-thousand-year history this joke is enough to make me laugh for a whole year. Look what’s written on it———’The harder you work, the luckier you get.’ So this motivational saying was already popular four thousand years ago? Hahaha……”
While awaiting the test results, the technician spoke with nothing but sarcasm. Director Sun and the others also curled their lips into disdainful smiles.
“The combined expertise of dozens of experts, along with dozens of state-of-the-art appraisal machines, can’t compare to a single sentence from you. Who do you think you are? A god? Do you know the immense risks involved in transporting so many national treasures around? How much manpower, resources, and money will it cost? Perhaps you are indeed capable, but don’t overestimate yourself. Ultimately, whether your abilities are genuine remains to be verified——”
The technician’s incessant chatter abruptly turned into an unspeakable silence when the test results appeared. He stared wide-eyed and mouth agape at the display screen in disbelief.
Director Sun and dozens of experts stood behind him. When they bent down to take a look, they all gasped in shock.
The display screen showed a number that no one could have imagined——four thousand years! The modern-looking pen holder, engraved with ‘The harder you work, the luckier you get,’ had inexplicably acquired a history of four thousand years after being scanned by the machine!
“How……how could this be?” The technician was so shocked that his tongue almost flew out.
“No, no, the scan results must be wrong! I bought this pen holder at the supermarket. There were dozens of them in a row. It’s a wholesale product, definitely not an antique!” The pen holder’s owner hurriedly explained.
Chief Yan was stunned, dozens of experts were stunned, and the smug expressions on Director Sun and Deputy Director Liu’s faces were completely frozen.
Fan Jialuo casually handed a ceramic water cup from the desk to Dr. Song and said gently, “Try scanning another one.”
Song Rui placed the water cup on the conveyor belt and pressed the start button.
A few dozen seconds later, Fan Jialuo picked up the water cup, sensed it, and handed it to the technician whose jaw was almost falling off, saying calmly, “Do you believe me if I say this cup is three thousand years old?”
The technician couldn’t utter a single sarcastic remark, he simply took the water cup with a blank expression and placed it into the testing chamber.
Not long after, the test results came out. The water cup, which was covered with pink pigs and had the word ‘sweety’ written on it, was found to be three thousand years old according to the machine test.
Fan Jialuo could accurately report the machine’s identification result simply by touching the pottery with his hand, even though both pieces were clearly products of modern industry and had absolutely no possibility of originating from antiquity. So, is this machine reliable? Why would it come to such an absurd conclusion?
Everyone was stunned, except for Song Rui, who pointed to the X-ray scanner and calmly revealed the answer, “When exposed to X-rays, the thermoluminescence dating results are interfered with. The pen holder was exposed to X-rays for forty seconds and was found to be four thousand years old, the water cup was exposed for thirty seconds and was found to be three thousand years old. This shows that placing porcelain under X-rays can age it by a hundred years in just one second. If you master this technique, as long as you make the imitation 100% realistic, put it in the X-ray scanner, and set the appropriate time, it can pass the thermoluminescence test without any problems.”
Song Rui slowly walked to the famille-rose ‘God of Longevity’ porcelain vase and sighed, “The counterfeiters have already cracked what you call the most advanced technology. Whether this vase is real or fake still needs further examination.”
Fan Jialuo picked up another water glass and said calmly, “Would you like to try it a few more times?”
Faced with the undeniable facts, these technicians, who had been so arrogant, including the experts who had spoken with absolute certainty, were now speechless, panicked, and disoriented.
“No, no need to try anymore. We’ll conduct further testing on this porcelain vase immediately. But the problem is, we’ve used all the non-destructive testing methods available, yet we still can’t get a definitive result.” The technician, who had just been 100% confident in his judgment, now denied all the previous assessment work.
He glanced at Fan Jialuo, his eyes filled with unspeakable awe. To be able to capture so much hidden information simply by sensing with his hand, even surpassing the world’s most advanced scientific instruments, was this person even human? His abilities were simply terrifying!
The technician looked away, composed himself, and continued, “To further determine the authenticity of this porcelain vase, we must examine its trace elements. However, trace element testing requires sampling, which necessitates destroying the vase’s integrity. We do not have the authority to do that.”
After saying that, he looked at Chief Yan.
Chief Yan gritted his teeth and thought for a moment before finally saying decisively, “Collect samples—conduct trace element analysis!” Without a certain amount of courage, he wouldn’t have reached his current position.
“Okay.” The technician, already awestruck by Fan Jialuo’s divine prophecy, buried himself in taking samples. Another technician, who had contributed a water cup and a pen holder, volunteered to be his assistant.
While the two men were busy, Fan Jialuo approached the two bronze tripods cauldrons and asked, “Why are you so certain that they are genuine?”
The technician in charge of testing the two bronze tripods had long since suppressed his disdain and contempt, explaining, “We took a sample of the rust, analyzed its chemical composition, and determined that it is exactly the same as bronze tripods from the same period.”
“Where did you get the rust from?” Song Rui pressed.
“From the handle.”
Song Rui’s eyes flashed, and he was about to speak when the expert in charge of visually authenticating the two tripods interrupted him, “I know you’re going to bring up the issue of them being pieced together and fake again, but you’re overthinking it. These two tripods are absolutely genuine. We have complete data on them, including thousands of photos and hundreds of videos.”
“We compared these data and conducted an extremely detailed examination of the two tripods. The result is definitely correct. They were cast using the mold-making method, and many mold lines are left on their surface. We compared each mold line with a magnifying glass and found no errors.”
“Their weights are 876.23 kg and 696.71 kg respectively, exactly as recorded in the data, and their volume remains unchanged.”
“The most direct evidence is these rust spots. If you wipe them with a cotton swab, you’ll find that they all have rust roots, completely integrated with the body of the tripod, rather than just a layer on the surface. You should understand what that means, right?”
Song Rui was very knowledgeable and naturally understood what the expert was saying.
Seeing that Fan Jialuo was completely clueless, he couldn’t help but curl the corners of his lips and explained, “What he means is that these two tripods are definitely original. The presence of a distinct mold line is a positive sign, indicating that the objects were cast from an original mold. A feat that counterfeiters can achieve, though it presents a significant challenge.”
“Look at their weight. Due to thousands of years of oxidation and corrosion, bronze artifacts of the same volume would definitely be lighter than them. This is something no counterfeiter could do.”
“For counterfeiters to ensure that the size of the imitation is the same as the genuine article, they cannot maintain the weight, to ensure the weight is the same, they must increase the volume. These two things cannot be done at the same time, thus eliminating the possibility of counterfeiting. Look at these X-ray scans. The density of these two tripods is very uniform, without any cavities. Chemical element analysis also shows that they are indeed made of bronze. The density is fine, the material is fine, so they are genuine.”
Fan Jialuo understood and asked further, “Of two bronze artifacts of the same volume, the one with a longer history will definitely be lighter than the one made more recently. This is something that cannot be achieved without the polishing of time, right?”
“That’s right.” Song Rui nodded and continued, “Look at this rust. It grew out of the body of the tripod little by little, like a tree. Even after wiping away the bark, you can still see the inside. It has taken root. But imitation bronzes can’t do this because the greenish-blue rust on their surface is dyed with corrosive chemicals. It can be wiped off with a single touch, without any roots.”
Dozens of experts and scholars had already gathered around the two bronze tripods. Upon hearing Song Rui’s words, they immediately added, “The growth of rust is like the growth of trees, it must go through the accumulation of time. Tree roots grow once a year, while the rust on bronze artifacts grows once every hundred years. Such thick rust could not have been achieved without thousands of years of accumulation, which is why we dare to conclude that these two bronze tripods are genuine.”
Only then did the ever-silent Elder Lu sigh, “Although the development of science and technology has indeed enriched the methods of authenticating antiques and cultural relics, the skill of visual inspection will never be lost. The judgments made by our eyes are often irreplaceable by machines. Teacher Fan, you really misjudged this time.”
Fan Jialuo gently stroked the rust roots deeply embedded in the cauldron with his fingertips clad in white gloves, and shook his head, saying, “My eyes, from birth until now, have never misjudged a person, thing, or event. I have always trusted my own judgment.”
“You’re being way too arrogant! We might have mistaken that porcelain vase, but we’d swear on our lives that these two tripods are absolutely genuine! Their weight, size, and patina alone are enough for us to make that judgment. The entire academic community of cultural relics agrees on this point. You’re just an amateur, you can’t even understand what we’re saying. What gives you the right to question us?” The young expert, who had just been stunned by the authentication results of the pen holder and water cup, now stood up again, retorting defiantly.
Fan Jialuo slowly removed his gloves and said slowly, “If I said I could make a piece of new copper grow rust that would take thousands of years to form in just a few minutes, would you believe me?”
The young expert initially intended to belittle or ridicule him, but then suddenly remembered his two earlier questions ——If I said this pen holder is four thousand years old, would you believe me? If I said this cup is three thousand years old, would you believe me?
Nobody believed it at the time, but after the results came out, everyone’s faces burned with embarrassment.
The young expert gasped for breath, unable to refute this utterly absurd statement.
Director Sun pushed him away and sneered, “I don’t believe it! You try it and show us! Making a piece of new copper grow rust that’s thousands of years old in just a few minutes, do you think you’re a god?”
Fan Jialuo was not annoyed, but instead stretched out his hand to Chief Yan, “Give me a piece of new copper, preferably 1 Kg.”
Chief Yan immediately ordered preparations to be made.
A dozen minutes later, a technician brought over a piece of new, bright yellow copper.
Fan Jialuo took it and asked, “Do you have an electronic scale?”
Another technician immediately brought over an electronic scale.
Fan Jialuo placed the square copper block on the electronic scale, bent down to look at the display screen, and reminded, “Look carefully, it weighs 1000 grams now. I will not only make it grow rust roots that take thousands of years to form, but I will also control its weight to 988.88 grams.”
His words were utterly absurd, drawing skepticism from everyone. Director Sun and Deputy Director Liu even snorted, their expressions utterly disdainful. They were waiting to see Fan Jialuo make a fool of himself!
Fan Jialuo didn’t care about the reactions of others. He simply used Ma You’s ability to create a transparent space, envelop the new copper, and then poured his own magnetic field into the space, gradually compressing it.
His magnetic field was inherently corrosive, its effects no less than those of rain, snow, wind, and frost in nature. Due to the confinement and pressure of space, it maintained a certain concentration and thickness, pushing this destructiveness to a level that had existed for thousands of years in just a few minutes.
Thus, in everyone’s eyes, the new copper was visibly growing green rust. It spread inch by inch, thickening layer by layer, overlapping each other, and soon merged with the copper block, becoming a rust root that could never be removed.
Meanwhile, the numbers on the electronic scale’s display screen were decreasing little by little, first to 999.99, then to 999.98…… When the number reached 988.88, Fan Jialuo withdrew his hands, and the copper block remained unchanged.
A few minutes ago, it was a bright, shiny, and solid yellow, a few minutes later, it was covered with the marks of time. Its entire body was covered with greenish rust, and it had lost its former luster, also losing some weight due to oxidation and corrosion.
Without seeing the truth firsthand, nobody would have believed that it’s actually just newly cast copper
The experts and technicians were all speechless at that moment, their mouths agape and eyes wide, unable to utter a single word. The facts were undeniable, leaving them no room for disbelief or rebuttal. When a person’s power surpasses technology, imagination, and common sense, ordinary people can no longer judge them using their own ways of thinking, or even have the right to converse with them.
Chief Yan’s heart sank, knowing that something terrible had happened.
Fan Jialuo gently stroked the rusty bronze block and asserted, “See? Only someone like me can create bronze artifacts that are indistinguishable from the real thing. Therefore, the mastermind behind this case must be someone from the Taoist sect. What you consider impossible can become possible here.”
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