Once the power of money was unleashed, even Ghosts and Gods would submit. You could do whatever you wanted, and every obstacle and hardship would turn into a smooth road.
As long as you found the right person and paid enough money, you could naturally obtain whatever a temple worshipped.
However, Yam had already clashed with the old monk before and had exposed himself. If he showed up, it might cause unnecessary trouble. The most important thing now was to get that jade artifact.
So Fei Charlie took charge of making contact. Through a few connections, he gradually approached Ruilai. For a thug like Ruilai, money alone would be enough to lure him in. In the end, Fei Charlie naturally led him toward the idea of making a big score.
Although Ruilai was in charge of gray-market business, he was merely a middleman and earned very little from it. He craved money intensely. The leader above him enjoyed all kinds of fine wine and luxuries, while he had to work himself to the bone and still received little in the end. How could that not make Ruilai think about cutting someone else out of the profits?
Based on that, Fei Charlie exploited Ruilai's mindset and placed the task in his hands. As long as he found a way to get that jade artifact, he would be paid one million US dollars.
Ruilai was also quite clever. Having run with people in the underworld since childhood, judging people and acting accordingly was one of his skills.
Originally, he had been rather hostile toward Westerners like Fei Charlie, mainly because he disliked them. Cambodia had once been a protectorate of France, so most Cambodians still held considerable resentment toward these White Skins.
Moreover, the task was to steal a jade artifact worshipped