Chapter 297: Wesley's Discovery!

After gaining a general understanding of the case, Wesley took the records from his assistant David, puffing on his pipe while analyzing the situation with a furrowed brow.

At this moment, the Expert Group sitting across from them all fixed their gazes upon him.

After a while, Wesley put down his pipe and finally murmured, "Interesting... This guy is definitely the craziest criminal I have ever seen... If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really couldn't imagine where he came up with these wild, imaginative ideas..."

Regarding Wesley's question, the Expert Group looked at each other, unable to provide an answer.

Immediately after, he continued:

"A criminal who dares to openly issue an invitation to the police is either insane or setting a trap. Since he dares to challenge you like this, he must have made foolproof preparations; otherwise, he would never take such a huge risk... After all, exposing one's own location is a very foolish act..."

Wesley said every word clearly.

"Mr. Wesley, that is also the reason we have come to Yingguo. No matter how foolproof his preparations are, since we know this clue, we must go all out." Before he could continue, Liu Xuemin spoke up.

Hearing this, Wesley nodded: "If I were you, I would do the same, but solving a case cannot be achieved by passion alone... How about this, tell me your thoughts, and how do you want us to cooperate with you?"

Liu Xuemin said: "Since we cannot yet determine his specific plan for his next move, we can only adopt relatively passive investigative methods—waiting for the rabbit to hit the tree. We will first conduct tight surveillance on Trafalgar Square to see if we can lock onto his whereabouts."

Hearing this, Wesley nodded: "That is no problem. I can apply to the headquarters to deploy enough police force to cooperate with you. But..."

As he finished, Wesley stopped mid-sentence, as if he still wanted to say something.

Seeing his expression, Li Changyu smiled slightly: "Mr. Wesley, please feel free to say whatever is on your mind."

"Actually, it's nothing..." Wesley said: "I just feel that by doing this, aren't we being a bit too passive? If we do as you say and wait for the rabbit, we will only be led by the nose by him in the end. Just like you were before."

"Then what do you mean?" Liu Xuemin asked.

Wesley shrugged: "I don't mean anything else; I just feel that we need more clues and more plans, rather than just blindly setting up surveillance. Doing this, as you know, is not a wise choice."

"Mr. Wesley, we have also considered this issue."

Hearing Wesley's suggestion, Li Changyu took over the conversation and stated his own point of view:

"Before we came to Yingguo, two Pursuit Captains had already rushed to France to investigate his whereabouts and clues. When we got off the plane, we had already made contact with them. They, along with the French police, the parties involved at the time, and the management of the French National Bank, are on their way. We believe it won't be long before they join us, and we want to use this as a breakthrough to continue the investigation."

Hearing this, Wesley nodded, expressing his agreement with Li Changyu's point of view.

Because at the moment, there was no better way.

"I heard that when the second competition just started, this guy left four Tarot Cards in the contestant preparation room?"

"Yes, that's correct."

Chen Zijin, who had not spoken until now, suddenly said: "We also brought these four Tarot Cards. Do you have any research on this?"

After all, Tarot Cards are a product of the West, and Wesley was more than familiar with them.

But he was not a witch, and he had little exposure to these divination arts and metaphysics, so he could not provide any special insights.

"My daughter likes these things very much; I really can't muster any interest in these medieval witchcrafts."

Seeing this, Chen Zijin continued: "These four cards represent the Lovers, the Hermit, the High Priestess, and Death, respectively. After thorough analysis within our team, we believe that these four cards should correspond to one crime each."

"Each corresponds to one crime?" Wesley asked in return.

"That's right. This is similar to the Extreme Eight Items he proposed earlier, and this has always been his style of doing things. But now, because the clues are limited, we don't yet know the deeper meanings contained within them."

Looking at the four Tarot Cards, Wesley fell into deep thought.

After a while, he suddenly seemed to remember something and said: "By the way, the videotape he sent you—did you bring it?"

"We brought it, Zhuang Yan." Liu Xuemin called out to Zhuang Yan, signaling her to hand the videotape to Wesley.

Taking the videotape handed over by Zhuang Yan, Wesley said to his assistant David:

"David, play it."

There was nothing much to say about the content at the beginning of the videotape; it was just the footage of Chu Chen in Las Vegas that day. The focus was on the latter part.

After watching it repeatedly, Wesley finally discovered a clue that the Expert Group had not noticed before!

"David, rewind and take another look."

The next second, the image quickly returned to the moment Chu Chen first walked in front of the camera.

"Okay, right here."

The image froze, with beige curtains in the background.

"Zoom in on this frame."

Hearing this, assistant David immediately did as told.

"Move the angle a little more to the left. Okay, stop, right here."

After some operation, a very inconspicuous and extremely blurry black pattern on the curtain appeared on the big screen.

"What is this?" Liu Xuemin asked first.

Wesley lit his pipe again, took a deep puff, and said while exhaling: "This pattern is the logo of the Sheraton Hotel in Leicester Square. I once went there for a case, and when I saw these beige curtains, I felt they looked familiar..."

Hearing Wesley's analysis, the experts looked at each other with joy.

Subsequently, Li Changyu asked: "So you mean, there is a high probability that his video was recorded at this hotel?"

"That should be the case." Wesley explained while smoking: "But what I want to say is, this guy is not an ordinary criminal after all. If we can discover such a detail, could he not have discovered it himself?"

Wesley's words made the Expert Group's hearts, which had just been ignited, turn cold again.

"So, you mean this clue was left for us to see on purpose?" Li Changyu asked.

Hearing this, Wesley shook his head: "That is possible, but it is too early to draw a conclusion now. However, I think that no matter what, we must go there ourselves!"