Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest-Chapter 1147: True Proof (23)

For Wang Chen, scoring first in the grade again at the start of school meant more than just waiving the tuition and securing a school place.

It meant he received the real treatment of a top student.

In most schools, academically excellent students have privileges, such as being able to enter experimental classes, rocket classes, top-tier universities classes, etc., enjoying higher educational resources and quality teaching from teachers.

In daily life, top students are also a key protected group, and small mistakes can be forgiven.

Even if there is a conflict with ordinary students, the school and teachers usually tend to side with the top students under normal circumstances.

As a rare top-tier universities prospect from No. 5 Middle School over many years, the benefits Wang Chen could enjoy were even greater.

For example, after the start-of-term exams, when class 2-1 was rearranging seats, he was the first to pick his seat.

Nevertheless, Wang Chen still chose his original seat.

He was used to it.

As a result, that very afternoon, the trash can at the back of the classroom for class 2(1) was removed, and the one in the front was replaced with a double-bin, simply solving the problem.

Additionally, his application for commuting to school was approved, and he even secured permission to skip evening self-study.

The condition was that his monthly exam scores had to remain in the top three of the year.

As for other benefits, if all were listed, it would fill a whole page.

Many things are invisible, can’t be seen or touched, but they are indeed attached to Wang Chen.

Every teacher treated him kindly, including the grade director!

This was a world of difference from Wang Chen’s circumstances in class 1-15 during his freshman year.

And this also filled a small regret for Wang Chen.

In his previous life in high school, he was a poor student for the first two years, only catching up in the senior year, thus never enjoying such good treatment.

Back then, Wang Chen actually envied the students in the experimental class.

Wang Chen’s subsequent school life actually became easier.

However, the rumor of demolition in Shangma Village where he lived kept intensifying, and a few more households moved to the new village, making it increasingly desolate, somewhat eerie at night.

But Wang Chen felt that this situation was for the best, as any unusual noise from practicing Spiritual Energy wouldn’t be easily noticed.

And he could also proceed with his next move.

That was treasure hunting!

There are treasures hidden in Shangma Old Village.

Nobody knows about this now except for Wang Chen, including the villagers of Shangma Village.

This matter would not be exposed until three years later, when the demolition plan along the banks of Flying Horse River, after repeated seesaws, finally settled, and the demolition team entered massively, starting the vigorous demolition work.

It turned out that in Shangma Old Village, a digger dug down and pulled up, and shiny silver currency and golden bars fell down like raindrops.

At that time, besides the demolition team, many villagers who were watching the excitement were also present.

This immediately caused a huge uproar, leading to a temporary halt to the demolition work!

By then, Wang Chen was attending college in another city and learned about the situation through social media, including videos.

According to the official statement, because of the conflict over the treasure unearthed between the demolition team and the local villagers, a bloody incident occurred that resulted in one death and five injuries.

Meanwhile, the word of mouth claimed that at least three people died and dozens were injured!

No matter which statement is true, the treasure buried in Shangma Village undoubtedly brought disaster to people.

In the end, neither party got the advantage, and all the silver currency and the gold bars were confiscated by the state.

After graduating from college, Wang Chen returned to the provincial city and even made a special trip to the provincial museum to see these confiscated treasures of gold and silver.

Wang Chen was deeply impressed by this event.

It was also the reason he rented a house in Shangma Village.

The silver currencies and gold bars were unclaimed, Wang Chen took them without guilt, one could even say he was doing a good deed!

He preemptively prevented a tragedy from happening.

As for the fantasy that sprang up in his mind during his museum visit, thinking "how great it would be if I knew to secretly dig these things out earlier," that’s completely unimportant.

Really unimportant!

But the only trouble with treasure hunting was that Wang Chen could not precisely Lock-On the locations where the silver currencies and gold bars were hidden.

After all, Shangma Old Village was large, and the videos he watched only helped to demarcate a rough area.

But for Wang Chen now, that was enough.

Under the cover of night, he left his residence quietly and arrived in the village.

The surroundings were pitch black, with only a street lamp shining on a nearby village road, the majority of the houses swallowed by darkness, not even a dog’s bark could be heard, exuding an air of dead silence.

Wang Chen activated his Spiritual Energy.

His Spiritual Energy was continuously growing stronger, but to advance from Third Ring to Fourth Ring still required a considerable amount of time.

And enough opportunity.

Even with just Third Ring Spiritual Energy, it was enough for Wang Chen to Insight within a few hundred meters of any matter.

The released Spiritual Energy even penetrated the soil, scanning and detecting like radar sonar.

Wang Chen thus engaged in a carpet-style search and quickly found a suspected target underground.

This target was located under the wall of a stone-tiled house; Wang Chen walked above it, bent down, pressed his hands on the ground, used Spiritual Energy to move aside the thick soil, and dug out a Blue and White Porcelain Large Jar!

Wang Chen picked up the Blue and White Porcelain Jar, and again activated his Spiritual Energy to fill in the hole he had dug, then returned to his residence without disturbing anyone.

He turned on the light, placed the Blue and White Porcelain Large Jar on the table, then cleaned the mud adhering to its surface, as well as the seal mud at the mouth of the jar.

This Blue and White Porcelain Large Jar was about twenty centimeters tall, roughly the same in belly diameter, decorated with patterns of swimming fish and algae in blue, the painting style was nuanced, rich, bold, yet elegant.

Although Wang Chen didn’t know much about antiques, he could recognize its value.

Wang Chen also knew its name, Blue and White Porcelain Fish-Algae Pattern Large Jar, a premium piece from the late Ming dynasty, very rare and precious.

The one Wang Chen saw in his previous life in the museum was a broken piece of it.

Because the demolition team’s shovel broke the whole jar, the cultural relics experts only restored about half of it.

As for its value, if intact, it definitely exceeded the silver currencies and gold bars stored inside!

Wang Chen quietly admired it for a moment, then took out the gold and silver items inside the jar.

The silver currencies he had seen before, one after another, were placed on the table, quickly covering most of the tabletop.

Then he also took out twenty-seven small gold bars!

All of these small gold bars were stamped with a serial number, fineness, and weight, and also had the words and pattern "Made by Central Mint," not some privately minted wares.

A small gold bar weighed 31.25 grams; twenty-seven of them amounted to 843.75 grams. If calculated by the current gold price, the value was no less than three hundred thousand.

But their actual value is much higher than the gold price!

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