My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!
Chapter 624 - 400: Secret Anecdotes and Unofficial Histories

Chapter 624: Chapter 400: Secret Anecdotes and Unofficial Histories

At that moment, the screen on the phone changed again.

This time, it was positioned at a 45° downward angle toward the office entrance, appearing to be from a surveillance camera in the corner of the ceiling.

At that moment on the screen, Li Haitao was bitterly seeing two people out of his office.

The original surveillance feed was quite blurry, and it was unclear how Zero had done it, but after a refresh, it instantly turned into high-definition 4K.

Meng Lang could finally see Iwazaki’s true face...

"Zero, check this person out," Meng Lang said.

The next moment, a small red frame locked onto the young man who was smiling while saying goodbye to Li Haitao.

[Ding! Face recognition complete, searching in big data... Search complete!]

[Iwazaki Yuhei, male, 26 years old, a resident of Capital City in Fusang...]

...

"Young Master, he’s just a mere Director, do we need to talk so much with him?"

"This guy is obviously a pushover, and we have leverage over him; we can just threaten and bribe him, there’s no way he won’t comply!"

After exiting the museum’s office area, the man in the suit who looked like a bodyguard asked Iwazaki with some confusion.

"Hmph! Fool, it seems you still don’t realize the seriousness of the situation!" Iwazaki coldly huffed, his eyes somewhat sinister.

"Ah! My ignorance," the man in the suit quickly bowed his head in admission.

"The other party just said that the police have already started to intensify the security for the Buddha head, yet they didn’t mention any other artifacts. What does that tell you?"

"It suggests that they might already know that your last target was the Buddha head!

You and those two who got caught were confident of your plans, little did you know our real target had been exposed long ago!"

"Ah? This..."

"Since we’ve already startled the snake by beating the grass, if we want to continue, we need a plausible reason.

Otherwise, our repeated meticulous attempts to posses it will make even an idiot suspicious of the Buddha head’s value!

I’ve seen too many officials like Li Haitao, all of them slick and inherently suspicious. If you don’t ease their minds, how can you expect them to follow our commands willingly?"

"At this point, hiding our identities is futile; revealing them, on the other hand, will make our actions more convenient.

"As long as that guy finds out about the power of the Iwazaki family, I doubt he will dare to play any tricks with us!

"As the military strategy says, anticipate defeat before anticipating victory, anticipate loss before anticipating gain!

"If Li Haitao proves unreliable and our plans leak, those in the know will only think that the Iwazaki family is trying to retrieve the original, obsessed with this Buddha head, and they won’t consider other possibilities."

"Genius!" The suit-clad man looked on with admiration.

"No wonder the Family Head specifically had Yuhei accompany this mission; Young Master, your foresight is admirable!"

A slight smile crossed Iwazaki Yuhei’s lips before he quickly composed himself.

"How’s the preparation for the substitute you were supposed to prepare?"

"It’s almost ready; in another couple of days, we should have a completed product," the man in the suit respectfully answered.

"What about the craftsmanship... to what extent can it be done?"

"This... Due to the rushed timeline, although we hired our country’s master craftsmen to observe and emulate, ordinary people absolutely cannot tell the difference.

However, if it ends up in the hands of some expert who’s well-versed in this, there’s still a chance it might be recognized."

Iwazaki Yuhei was unconcerned.

"No matter, as long as it deceives them temporarily; once we return to our country, everything will naturally settle down.

Not to mention that Director Li will actively cover for us; even if they discover the discrepancy later, given their bureaucratic style, they definitely won’t make it public and will rather swallow the bitter pill.

Huaxia has a saying: ’When the false is taken for true, the true also becomes false,’ which is exactly the point, heh!"

As the most favored direct successor of the Iwazaki Family Head, Iwazaki Yuhei was deeply cunning, his grasp on human nature no less than those old foxes within the family.

"But... if something goes wrong later, won’t Li Haitao betray us?"

"Heh! Then when the time comes, we’ll make sure he can’t speak..." A cold glint flashed in Iwazaki Yuhei’s eyes.

"Ah! I understand now!"

The two conversed in Fusangese, but they didn’t immediately leave the museum. Instead, they blended in like regular tourists, heading straight to an exhibition hall on the third floor...

Palace lanterns, ceremonial robes, frescoes... anyone with a slight knowledge of history could tell, this was an exhibition themed around the Tang Dynasty era.

"Is this the Buddha head..."

Iwazaki Yuhei gazed at the Buddha head encased in bulletproof glass that seemed to radiate a jade-like glow under the spotlight, his eyes filled with an indiscernible emotion.

’Young Master, what’s so remarkable about this Buddha head that makes the Family Head, upon hearing its news, instructs us to obtain it at all costs?"

The suit-clad man curiously asked.

Iwazaki Yuhei glanced at the man, causing him to shudder and quickly lower his head.

"I apologize for speaking out of turn, Young Master!"

"It doesn’t matter. Grandfather has spent his life studying Huaxia culture. To us laypeople, this Buddha head is nothing more than a clay sculpture.

"But in his eyes, it’s worth a fortune," Iwazaki Yuhei casually remarked.

Indeed, he was curious himself.

Iwazaki Hanzo, the current Iwazaki Family Head.

Since he could remember, he knew his grandfather had an immense obsession with Huaxia culture, particularly with Tang Dynasty Buddhism artifacts and scriptures.

Perhaps due to the family heritage, his study was always filled with various Huaxia ancient books and scriptures.