Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 643: Mummified Seated Buddha

The next day, after getting up, Chen Yiyang instructed Gena to help contact the Russian tycoon mentioned in the deal intelligence while going with Gena to meet people from Yandex.

All the preliminary matters of this transaction had already been negotiated.

So this time, Chen Yiyang merely needed to come over and sign his name.

The two parties went through the process, took photos, held a press conference, and signed the contract.

Once everything was concluded, Chen Yiyang shook hands with the executive opposite him and left.

The consortium behind Yandex is extremely complex, and befriending just one or two of them doesn't hold much significance.

Therefore, Chen Yiyang had no intention of forming a deep connection with the other party.

After obtaining the authorization and technology, Chen Yiyang's side also needed to make significant modifications to Yandex's technology to better suit domestic needs.

"Good brother, I've found the person you asked me to find." Gena quickly brought some good news.

"Indeed, there's a tycoon in Moscow selling his collections.

This tycoon used to specialize in foreign trade. After the war started, he lost his cash flow and now has to rely on selling his collections to make a living.

But how did you know about this?"

Gena was quite puzzled. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Typically, even if such a tycoon were to sell his collections, he would first inquire within his own small circle to see if anyone wanted to take them on.

It's only the unsellable items that would be taken to an auction.

Yet, before things even reached the auction, Chen Yiyang already had the scoop.

"You know, Huaxia people are everywhere on Earth, so it's normal for me to have a bit more information."

Of course, Chen Yiyang wouldn't tell the truth, so he found an excuse to brush it off.

But this excuse made Gena believe him completely.

This is one of the advantages of a populous country.

Similar topics have been discussed on some domestic social networking platforms.

Many compatriots traveling to remote small countries, sometimes when they lose their wallets or encounter problems,

would post on social media asking if any fellow countrymen nearby could lend a hand.

Help is usually received.

When traveling abroad, sometimes knowing Chinese and posting on Chinese social networks can bring more help than knowing English.

A friend of Chen Yiyang's once experienced this.

When traveling to a small Georgian town where English was not widely spoken,

he found that his debit card had expired two days earlier, preventing him from withdrawing money at the ATM, and there were no electronic payment channels locally, making it impossible to use a credit card at restaurants and hotels.

He posted on social media with the location's IP, asking if there were any fellow countrymen in town who could help him exchange some money.

In less than half a day, a tourist in the town contacted him, and after agreeing on a meeting place, directly transferred RMB to him via a wealth app, exchanging it for local Georgian currency cash.

Of course, even if no one could be contacted, there was no need to panic.

By finding posts from people in the same place, it's usually easy to discover a few Huaxia-run restaurants in any city.

Just go directly and exchange through Weixin or the wealth app.

"Coincidentally, that tycoon is known to a friend of mine, so we can go directly to his house to buy the items."

Gena called a friend, who cheerfully agreed to bring Gena and Chen Yiyang over.

So the two got in the car and went straight to the tycoon's house.

"Back when I had money, I bought a bunch of items from all sorts of miscellaneous channels, but now I have to sell them at several discounts just to get them out."

Upon arriving at the house, the man in his fifties grumbled while showing his collection to Chen Yiyang and Gena,

"All my items are in this collection room. To be honest, if it weren't for my incompetent children, I really wouldn't want to sell my collections."

His daughter was present when he said this.

This daughter, who appeared to be in her twenties and was adorned head to toe in luxury goods, shouted at him upon hearing his words,

"That's because you can't make money anymore; what does it have to do with us?"

"I sent you abroad for studies, but all you learned was how to spend money.

I can't make money anymore, but you've also reached the age where you should be earning.

If your grades were half as good as your Huaxia roommate's during your studies, you wouldn't be unable to find a job now."

Seizing the opportunity while the tycoon and his daughter argued, Chen Yiyang hurried into the collection room to look at the items.

The tycoon wasn't wrong; he indeed had a heap of assorted items.

From various countries and regions, there were cultural artifacts and antiques with no apparent order.

It was simply collecting for the sake of collecting.

Chen Yiyang first picked out a few items suspected to have originated from his home country.

Then he carefully searched for the "Flesh Body Buddha" mentioned in the deal intelligence.

But after searching all over without finding anything resembling a corpse or a "Flesh Body Buddha,"

could it be that the item wasn't displayed, or was it already sold?

It wouldn't do to directly ask the tycoon if he collected corpses, as that would sound too bizarre.

Yet, after much scrutinizing, Chen Yiyang discovered that the collection included an ancient Buddha statue.

This ancient Buddha statue depicted a seated Buddha.

Judging by its size, it was slightly larger than an average person.

Chen Yiyang reached out to touch it and discovered its exterior was metallic.

A peculiar thought suddenly occurred to him.

Could it be that the "Flesh Body Buddha" mentioned in the intelligence was hidden inside this statue?

With this in mind, Chen Yiyang called the historian to inquire if such hiding practices occurred domestically.

"Yes," responded the historian immediately, "just recently, we were dealing with retrieving one.

In 1995, a Zhanggong Patriarch's "Flesh Body Seated Buddha" was stolen from Fujian.

This "Flesh Body Buddha" was indeed hidden inside an ancient Buddha statue.

In 2015, when a museum in the Netherlands exhibited this ancient Buddha statue, they felt something was peculiar.

So, they conducted an X-ray CT scan of the statue, revealing a body inside.

The news reached the newspapers, catching our attention.

Upon investigation, we confirmed that the statue was indeed the one stolen in '95.

We've pursued its return through legal avenues.

The first and second hearings have concluded, and the court has ruled that the statue must be returned to us.

However, the other party has delayed, keeping us occupied for quite some time."

The Zhanggong Patriarch's "Flesh Body Seated Buddha," a "Flesh Body Buddha" sealed inside an ancient Buddhist statue.

With the historian's words, Chen Yiyang confirmed his suspicion.

The "Flesh Body Seated Buddha" mentioned in the intelligence was indeed hidden inside this ancient Buddha statue.

Chen Yiyang promptly went to the Russian tycoon to inquire about the price.