Chen Mo and his two companions had left, but the entire Imperial Household of Japan was in chaos.
Although they had not discovered the theft from the gold vault, the Imperial Museum had been completely emptied. For a time, the Tokyo police and the military surrounded the entire museum, subjecting the weeping security guards to a barrage of interrogations.
Naturally, these yielded no results. Concluding that such a massive quantity of antiques and artifacts could only have been removed by a large, organized group, they placed all of Japan’s ports, airports, and customs checkpoints under strict surveillance.
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