Shen Le: I Turned Myself Into Radar?

With countless green strands helping him, Shen Le's restoration work progressed by leaps and bounds.

He only needed to handle the tasks that required a human touch—inspection, leveling, applying glue—and the workload had been reduced by far more than ninety percent!

The green strands handled the polishing, the application of gold foil, and afterward, the painstaking smoothing with cotton balls. All those tedious little tasks could be handed over to them.

As for what the finished result looked like—well, the green strands enjoyed themselves, and the Buddha statue seemed quite satisfied too.

Wasn't that enough?

In just five days, he covered every part of the statue that needed gilding with three to five layers of gold foil, wrapping it in dazzling golden splendor.

Then he began considering how to repair its missing head and arms. Of course, if he could recover them, that would undoubtedly be best...

Shen Le first took out his phone and snapped a pile of photos from every angle, then sent them to the landlady of Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant.

Along with the photos, he sent a folded-hands bowing emoji:

"Do you have any news? About the Buddha head and hands—does the person who entrusted the statue to you have any clues?"

The reply came quickly. The landlady responded so fast that Shen Le thought she had prepared the answer in advance, just waiting for him to ask:

"No. I asked him. He mobilized people to look for them, but they didn't find anything that looked like a Buddha head or hands. I'm afraid... we'll have to trouble you to make replacements."

Making replacements was the last resort. If the Buddha head and hands could be recovered, that would be ideal. Since the original owner had no news, Shen Le could only try his own method.

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