The reborn policewoman's dog solves numerous major cases, shocking the nation.

Chapter 108: Sending a dog to investigate antiques? That doesn't seem very reasonable, does it?

The atmosphere inside the private room reached an eerie boiling point because of Qi Gaowei's bold statement about "the vast universe".

These three top experts from different academic fields have their worldviews on the verge of collapse!
They are all absolute authorities in their respective fields, accustomed to using logic, data, and rigorous scientific methods to understand the world.

But now, a living, breathing "BUG" dressed in a husky costume is rubbing their entire theoretical system into the ground repeatedly!
"Old Qi, you..."

Professor Zhou opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found his vocabulary to be so limited at that moment.

In the end, he could only shake his head with a wry smile, "I give up, I'm completely convinced! How come it feels... even smarter than the artificial intelligence I've been researching!"

Director Wang was so excited that his hands trembled. He picked up his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp, as if trying to calm the turmoil in his heart with alcohol.

Only physicist Li, after the initial shock, no longer saw confusion in his eyes, but rather a near-fervent thirst for knowledge.

He stared intently at Qi Gaowei and pressed, "Gaowei, was the 'Cobalt-60' incident you mentioned on the phone also discovered by it?"

"Could you explain in more detail? I just can't figure it out. Nuclear radiation is a high-energy particle stream, colorless and odorless. Theoretically, no living organism's olfactory organs should be able to detect it. How... how does it manage to do that?"

This question has once again drawn everyone's attention back.

That's right, commanding a pack of dogs to win a special operation, although it's absurd, can still be attributed to the dog's extraordinary intelligence and leadership!
Nuclear radiation can be smelled...

This touches on the very foundation of physics and is truly "unscientific"!
Seeing the researcher Li's eager-to-learn expression, Qi Gaowei felt a great sense of satisfaction from showing off.

He cleared his throat and recounted, embellishing the events that had occurred at the border checkpoint.

"...At the time, more than a dozen of the top-notch, meritorious drug-sniffing dogs sniffed the truck upside down, but found nothing! Everyone was about to give up, but this one! It 'didn't dismantle' it, walked around for a bit, and immediately gave a warning under the truck!"

"I thought it had made a mistake, so I tried to saw the lead box open, but it wouldn't let me! It bit my clothes and tried to take the saw from me, just wouldn't let me touch it! If it hadn't stopped us, all of us dozens of people would probably be starting to recombine our DNA by now!"

As Qi Gaowei spoke, he patted his chest, still feeling a lingering sense of unease.

Researcher Li listened intently, tracing lines on the table with his finger and muttering to himself, "No...no...the lead box can effectively shield gamma rays; it couldn't possibly smell the cobalt-60 inside..."

"However, any radioactive isotope, during its decay process, causes the surrounding air to ionize, producing trace amounts of ozone and other ions..."

"Could it be that its sense of smell has become so acute that it can distinguish this special odor produced by ionization, with a concentration of less than one part per billion? My God, what an incredible olfactory nervous system that must require..."

He became more and more excited as he spoke, as if he had discovered a brand new research topic and couldn't wait to rush to the police dog base to give Chu Sheng a comprehensive "non-invasive" test.

Just then, Director Wang, who had been silent all along, suddenly had a glint in his eyes. As if he had thought of something, he slapped his thigh!
"and many more!"

His shout drew everyone's attention.

"Old Li is right! If it can smell even a fraction of a billionth of the changes that radioactive decay causes to the surrounding environment... then... then can it smell the traces left by 'time'?!"

"Time?" Professor Zhou was taken aback. "Old Wang, what you're saying is too mysterious."

“It’s no mystery!” Director Wang waved his hand, his expression becoming extremely serious and anxious. “You have no idea, our provincial museum has recently run into a big problem!” “Some time ago, we managed to salvage a batch of bronze and pottery from the Warring States period through overseas channels. It is said to have come from a large tomb.”

"But once we got our hands on the items, we assembled some of the nation's top appraisal experts and used every available technological means, but... no one could be sure whether these items were genuine or not!"

Qi Gaowei also became interested: "Oh? Even you guys aren't sure? Counterfeiting technology is that advanced now?"

"It's more than just high-level!" Director Wang explained with a bitter expression, "If these are indeed fakes, then the person who made them must be a top-tier genius across multiple disciplines!"

"First of all, the material is wrong!"

“We used X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to analyze the bronzes and found that the alloy composition of those bronzes matched perfectly with all the known Warring States period bronzes in our database, without any discrepancies! We also did thermoluminescence dating on those pottery pieces, which showed that they were all around two thousand years old!”

Researcher Li interjected, "Thermoluminescence dating can be faked. By irradiating pottery with X-rays beforehand, false dating information can be fabricated."

"Of course we thought of that too!"

Director Wang sighed, "But the problem is, the forgers used 'old soil'! It was soil that was actually dug out from the strata of the Warring States period!"

"He used this old clay to refire pottery, and then irradiated it to age it! In this way, thermoluminescence dating only shows the age of that batch of clay itself, and it is impossible to determine the age of the artifacts! This technique is so subtle that it leaves no trace!"

"As for those bronzes, it's even more incredible! We suspect that the forgers obtained a batch of broken bronzes from the same period but of low value, melted them down, and recast them into these high-value ritual vessels!"

"In this way, whether it's carbon-14 dating or lead isotope ratio determination, the results will be 'true'! Because the material itself is genuine!"

After hearing Director Wang's explanation, everyone present fell silent.

This is indeed a dead end.

When counterfeiters use "genuine materials" and "high-tech methods" to forge history, traditional authentication methods become almost completely ineffective.

"so……"

Director Wang looked at Qi Gaowei with a desperate, almost reckless, hope in his eyes:

"Old Qi, you said... if it can smell the traces of nuclear radiation even if it's not dismantled, then... can it smell the unique 'patina' that has accumulated over two thousand years on these things?"

"Or is it that 'freshly unearthed' smell, a mixture of the burial site, soil, and metal rust, that only exists on newly unearthed artifacts?"

"This...this..."

Qi Gaowei was taken aback by the question.

Isn't this crossover a bit too outrageous?
Let a decorated police dog appraise national treasures? Who would believe that? A dog doesn't know anything about the Warring States period or bronze artifacts; what could it possibly smell?
Professor Zhou and Researcher Li also felt that this idea was a bit too far-fetched.

(End of this chapter)