Almighty Genius

"The Green Gang..."

However, hearing the name of The Green Gang, even Tang Cheng couldn't help feeling a bit uneasy.

The people of the Tang Sect have been isolated from the world for a long time, at most they can only be considered powerful individual martial artists and not much of a threat, but The Green Gang is different. These people are local power players in Jiangzhou, and if they join, it would become quite troublesome.

Not to mention anything else, these local power players have infiltrated various parts of Jiangzhou in a frightening manner, one might say that The Green Gang's informants are everywhere, completely undetectable.

For example, at the National Exhibition Center here, even Tang Cheng can't be certain that none of the staff here are informants for The Green Gang...

Perhaps they weren't before, but now that The Green Gang is involved, who can guarantee that these people haven't been bought out?

"I understand this matter..."

Tang Cheng's expression wasn't looking good, but the information Qin Fang provided was very important and quite timely. He also needed to make some preparations to anticipate any emergency situations.

"Brother Tang, I'll let you get busy then, and I'll wander around..."

Seeing that Tang Cheng was busy with these matters, Qin Fang didn't disturb him further, greeted Tang Cheng, and went off alone to scout the exhibited items.

Since the exhibition is about to start, the venue is almost set up, with each item displayed properly.

Of course, these items are placed inside individual vacuum glass cases, and the glass cases are not ordinary, made of very sturdy bulletproof tempered glass. Trying to break the glass by violent means would be quite difficult.

The more precious the treasure, the more security measures are in place. For instance, the glass case prepared for the Orchid Pavilion Preface was layered with three layers of incredibly thick glass.

Based on Qin Fang's judgment, with such protective measures, it would be tough to break it even with a rocket-propelled grenade.

Of course, unless someone intends to destroy it on purpose, it's unlikely that heavy weapons would be used to blast through this tempered glass.

Although the glass is quite thick, it's for protecting these precious items. Since Qin Fang isn't here to steal or destroy them, he naturally doesn't mind.

His scouting skill isn't affected by this thick tempered glass, which certainly puts his mind at ease...

This antique exhibition naturally consists of more than just a few items. There are actually quite a few antiques, accumulating to hundreds in total.

Of course, there are only a dozen or so truly valuable items, all of which are precious artifacts rated national second grade or above, including several national treasures.

The majority are relatively ordinary antiques. Although there are exquisite rare pieces among them that could fetch astronomical prices at auction,

they still fall short compared to the dozen or so treasures...

Qin Fang is now appraising each antique with his scouting skill. Determining authenticity obviously holds little significance, as almost all pieces in this exhibition are genuine. Even if some fakes were made excellently, resembling the real thing, they are unlikely to escape the sharp eyes of those renowned experts.

So Qin Fang need not worry about this. What he aims to find out is which item Tang Huaiyuan has set his eyes on so that Qin Fang can be prepared for it.

"This antique doesn't have anything special about it; it shouldn't be the one!"

Qin Fang examined each piece, continuously using his scouting skill to look for any anomalies in these antiques.

And this anomaly might be the reason Tang Huaiyuan wants to rob it, so Qin Fang dares not overlook any item.

"This one doesn't have any anomalies either; it's not the one..."

"This also isn't it!"

"This still isn't..."

With a total of hundreds of items, Qin Fang can only identify them one by one, wasting time and dealing with exhaustion and fatigue.

The entire process is extremely dull and tedious. Persisting for an extended period even gives Qin Fang an impulse to vomit...

But time is quite tight now. If he can't find that item before Tang Huaiyuan makes a move, it would be very difficult for Qin Fang to guard against it.

Qin Fang, considered a formidable genius, is still not a match for Tang Huaiyuan. Going head-to-head is not a wise choice, so Qin Fang resorts to using intelligence...

Since intelligence is the strategy, finding Tang Huaiyuan's target is most important!

If he knows what treasure Tang Huaiyuan intends to seize, he can lie in wait and catch him. Though Tang Huaiyuan is formidable, Qin Fang, lying in ambush, is not someone to be trifled with either.

In a straightforward fight, Qin Fang wouldn't be able to beat Tang Huaiyuan, but lying in wait and setting an ambush is a different story, Qin Fang wouldn't shy away from anyone...

Never mind a Grandmaster-level expert, even at Great Grandmaster Level, Qin Fang wouldn't fear them!

"What a damn tedious job!"

Though he understood this well, it still required him alone to painstakingly identify the hundreds of antiques, an exhausting task known only to himself.

Yet this task fell solely on him, as others couldn't assist him even if they wanted to, given that only he had the scouting skill.

"Oh... this Blood Coral seems to have an issue!"

Now, by sheer coincidence, after appraising over a hundred items and wasting more than two hours, just as Qin Fang was about to take a break and continue later, his eyes were suddenly drawn to this piece of Blood Coral in front of him...

Or rather, not only drawn to it, but Qin Fang found a problem with this Blood Coral, and it wasn't an ordinary problem; it was quite substantial...

"Could it be that Tang Huaiyuan is after this?"

Almost at that moment, Qin Fang couldn't help but have this thought pop into his mind! (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to vote for it at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation.)