Chapter 1308 - 1307: Why Is It So Hard to Find a Way Out These Days?

Chapter 1308: Chapter 1307: Why Is It So Hard to Find a Way Out These Days?

Sheng Guoliang thought Qiao Chenyi’s work report was finished and was just about to find an excuse to forgive Gu Tong.

Qiao Chenyi considerately added, "Although the appraisal result isn’t complete, this morning the people from the appraisal department provided detailed information, which I find very helpful."

Sheng Guoliang raised his eyebrows and said, "What information?"

In an even tone, Qiao Chenyi explained, "Information about our investigative direction! Previously, we only knew that the national treasure was a Buddha statue, but we didn’t know exactly which statues, so that also restricted the direction of our investigation.

Now that we’ve obtained this Buddha statue, based on the research results, we’ve preliminarily narrowed it down to Dharma Mother statues."

Sheng Guoliang asked doubtfully, "Dharma Mother?"

Qiao Chenyi nodded and said, "Yes, the Dharma Mother. According to our research, this set of Buddha statues was a tribute from the Qing Plateau, and there are a total of twenty-one statues. If we go by that, the current Twenty-one Dharma Mother Statues from the plateau fit this description very well."

Qiao Chenyi took out a photograph and pointed at it, saying, "What we have here is the Twenty-one Dharma Mother Diagram. The statue we have found has an eighty percent chance of being the White Dharma Mother. According to legend, the White Dharma Mother has seven eyes—three on her face, and one on each palm and sole—so she is also called the ’Seven-Eyed Buddha Mother.’ All the statues we’ve recovered so far share the characteristics of this Dharma Mother."

Li Yan was the first to speak. He frowned and said, "If that’s the case, we can track the whereabouts of the remaining national treasures according to the deities corresponding to each statue."

It had to be said that identifying them this way could indeed reduce many errors and make their targets much more specific.

One had to know that when they first launched the ’Seizing the Statues’ mission, they were constantly rushing all over the place, and they never skipped any Buddha statue or deity statue that might be a mission target.

They were terrified of missing the real national treasure!

Qiao Chenyi nodded and said, "Yes! If this line of reasoning is correct, we can narrow the scope of our search for the statues. We can use this method to eliminate candidates one by one and also search for the national treasures more effectively."

As he spoke about this solution for the ’Seizing the Statues’ plan, he also acknowledged how convenient it was and even implied it could be generalized.

"Very good! If so, our mission will proceed much more smoothly." Delighted, Sheng Guoliang turned to Gu Tong and said, "This time counts as a merit for you! Your merits cancel out your mistakes, so I won’t hold it against you anymore!"

Finally—he managed to get those words out.

These days, why is it so hard to find someone a way to save face?

"Thank you, Old Sheng~" Gu Tong stuck out her tongue.

Having successfully passed the buck, Sheng Guoliang laughed and said, "Chenyi, I’ll leave the detailed research on the Buddha statues to you. You must handle it well; this is a big deal."

Qiao Chenyi replied evenly, "Don’t worry, Old Sheng." This matter was already his to handle, so of course he would see it through to the end. Besides, the reason he brought it up just now was simply to give Sheng Guoliang a way to forgive Gu Tong.

Thinking about it, being such a good subordinate and good "big brother," Qiao Chenyi really had it tough.

Everything had more or less been arranged.

Sheng Guoliang also no longer intended to keep scolding Gu Tong.

Only then did Gu Tong ask, "How are things in Shoucheng?"

She hadn’t been in Shoucheng these past few days, so she didn’t know how the situation there had developed.