Chapter 316: Chapter 170: The 2nd Item
Yan Fei deliberately feigned weakness to entice South Korean Taekwondo experts to challenge him, and set the bet at three billion US dollars, one of the purposes being to launder a portion of the dirty money from the Assassin Sect for the development of Dream Technology. However, Yan Fei knew his abilities were limited, and it would be impossible to launder all of the more than one hundred billion US dollars of dirty money, so he planned to share the news of this windfall with Lu Pingping.
Compared to Yan Fei’s naivety in finance, Lu Pingping was the true expert, knowledgeable in all the operational techniques of financial dealings. If they were in China, due to the strict control over finance, Lu Pingping would be restrained and naturally unable to launder all of the money. However, in Europe, where financial transactions were frequent and both overt and covert methods were prevalent, Lu Pingping could use various means to quickly launder this dirty money, turning it into legitimate assets for Dream Technology.
Yan Fei contemplated his next move as the car they were in entered Paris downtown. Paris is both a modern and traditional city, with an encompassing and powerful influence. Regardless of who one is, upon entering Paris, one can find their own place and position in life, truly an amazing city.
The hotel Lu Pingping had booked for the company employees was the Ritz Hotel in Paris, situated along the Seine River and one of the most famous hotels. Known for its understated luxury, it was the preferred choice of many celebrities. The group arrived at the Ritz Hotel and then handed their passports to the guide arranged by the company to check in at the front desk, while others rested on the sofas. Some who had never been to Paris were curiously observing the distinctively different Western architectural styles outside the hotel.
Sitting on the sofa in the hotel lobby, Yan Fei was lost in thought, inadvertently watching the large LCD screen in front of him. The television was broadcasting a local French news report. Journalists reported that an art collector from France who lived in Britain had passed away and bequeathed his lifelong collection of artworks to the Louvre Museum in Paris.
On the TV news, the process of the collector’s donation of his art collection was being shown, along with his artworks. Yan Fei had no interest in these artworks at all, merely watching them subconsciously while thinking about other matters in his mind.
When Yan Fei’s eyes caught sight of a rusty disc on the television screen, the Auxiliary Brain transmitted a message: “Special item detected, Drone Upgrade essential items.” In the database of the Auxiliary Brain, an image of the rusty disc appeared.
Yan Fei was initially shocked, then immediately overjoyed. Previously, at the Assassin Sect Headquarters, with a reminder from the Auxiliary Brain, he had acquired one of the Drone Upgrade essential items—a rusty chain that was mistreated as a weapon. The number of Drone Upgrade essential items then became 1/3, indicating he had secured one of the necessary items for the drone upgrade, but two more items were still needed to meet the upgrade conditions.
Yan Fei didn’t understand what the Drone Upgrade essential items were, why they could enable a drone upgrade, nor how to acquire these items or where the remaining two essential items were located. Without the essential items, even if he met the requirements for Merit Points and raw materials, the drone couldn’t be upgraded again. Just when he was anxious about where to find the next Drone Upgrade essential items, the French news gave him a surprise by revealing the second essential item—the rusty disc.
Seeing the rusty disc on the television, Yan Fei made up his mind that he had to get that rusty disc at all costs. Yes, Yan Fei’s plan was to steal it, not to acquire it through any legitimate means. The Louvre Museum was a French museum, displaying a large number of cultural relics, but the vast majority of these relics were not the possessions of the French people but rather obtained by them through the use of martial force from various countries around the world, including a significant number of Chinese cultural relics. For Yan Fei, taking a rusty disc from here was merely taking back some interest for the Chinese cultural relics taken away, and he felt no shame about it.
Hence, Yan Fei focused his attention and paid more notice to the news report, only to find that when the rusty disc appeared on the television screen, the reporter did not introduce what it was. Perhaps even the collector had no clue what it was, which would explain the lack of information about it. After the rusty disc, other artworks unfamiliar to Yan Fei came on the screen, but all these pieces were accompanied by detailed explanations and introductions.
Once all the artworks had been presented, the reporter said that the donation ceremony for the art collection had ended, all the artworks would arrive at the Louvre Museum tomorrow, and the day after, the artworks would be on display, inviting the public to come and see them. Then, the news ended.
Yan Fei had discovered something he urgently needed, but his face did not show it, as if he had not seen the news at all. However, in secret, he had already activated the drone 300 kilometers away and had the Auxiliary Brain connect to the Network World through the Quantum Radar once again to start searching for information about that French emigrant art collector.