Chapter 290: A New Main Quest!

While the Pursuit Team was heading to France to investigate and collect evidence, the heated online discussion regarding Chu Chen's latest crime not only failed to cease but instead intensified, even reaching a point of madness!

As the popularity fermented and the police investigation deepened, the sequence of events for the entire case gradually became clear in the public eye!

The various capital moguls in Las Vegas and the kidnapped Mei Mei also successfully entered the sights of the French police!

At first, the French police assumed Chu Chen had been hired by those moguls for a large sum of money.

The purpose was to put on a show for the newly opened Sphere to attract tourists.

Because, judging by the current level of popularity, if this magic show were truly a marketing stunt, it would be an absolutely successful one, gathering the eyes of the entire world here!

However, after investigation, the French police did not unearth any useful evidence to prove that they were directly involved in the matter.

These guys, just like Kevin, were all outsiders who had no understanding of the inside story at all.

In this magic show, they were all merely pawns of Chu Chen.

Because they could not find evidence, Margaret and Brandon eventually had to give up the investigation and look for other clues again!

The stagnation of the case investigation caused people's views on this magic show to once again diverge severely.

It was impossible to reach a consensus.

The debate between magic and sorcery also continued to chatter on endlessly on the internet!

Even those top-tier magicians could not explain what exactly was going on.

But during this period, Chu Chen had not appeared in the livestream room at all.

Nor did anyone know where he had gone.

Even the Program Team's Sky Eye cameras had not captured his trail.

Yet even so, during this time, the popularity of the livestream room did not drop, consistently maintaining around ten billion!

Except for the official Huaxia livestream room, the livestreaming platforms of the other five continental television networks were the same; all the livestream data was explosive, constantly refreshing historical highs!

These past few days, Chu Chen had not left Las Vegas; he had been staying in a hotel at the MGM, planning his next crime!

After successfully completing the previous Main Quest, the system did not give him any time to catch his breath at all and issued a new Main Quest!

This mission was a hundred times harder than emptying a bank vault—to steal the entire British Museum, return all the cultural relics inside to their original countries of origin, and simultaneously harvest 2 billion in Shock Value!

If he failed, not only would all his Shock Value be wiped to zero, but all his skill levels would also be downgraded to primary!

Upon seeing this mission, Chu Chen was stunned!

What kind of place was the British Museum?

One of the four great museums of the world!

Its various security measures were extremely perfect; from its founding until today, no serious theft incident had ever occurred.

Not only was surveillance comprehensively covered, but all the cameras were also Sky Eye-level ultra-blue-light cameras!

As long as one entered the surveillance range, the cameras' built-in facial recognition function could immediately lock onto every tourist attempting to approach the artifacts!

During this time, once an abnormal person engaged in any suspicious behavior, the alarm system would immediately provide feedback!

Under these circumstances, let alone stealing all the artifacts, even approaching them was a problem!

In order to successfully complete this mission, Chu Chen did not have a shred of slack; from the day he received the mission, he had been preparing for this matter.

On the night he checked in, he spent a large amount of Shock Value to purchase a fire evacuation map of the British Museum and posted this map inside his hotel room!

After several days of preparation, the originally clean evacuation map was now covered in his handwriting, and it was also plastered with various photos and sticky notes, connected by many red lines, looking extremely complex!