Chapter 298: The Unbelievable Illusion!

Just as Wesley finished this sentence, the door to the conference room was knocked upon.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"Please come in!"

As the words fell, the conference room door was pushed open by a male Detective in plain clothes: "Wesley, their people have arrived."

After greeting them, the male Detective invited Zhou Yun, Chen Xiong, and several blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigners into the room.

"Dr. Li."

"Teacher Liu."

After the two met with the Expert Group, Wesley and his assistant also stood up one after another to greet them.

Wesley and David were previously long-time viewers of "Simulated Crime," so he was quite familiar with these two Pursuit Captains; he had not only watched their live streams but had also scrolled through many clips about them.

As a professional criminal investigator, in Wesley's view, the professional capabilities of these two Pursuit Captains were indeed worthy of affirmation.

It was only because their opponent was too powerful that it lowered his upper limit.

Without waiting for Liu Xuemin and the others to introduce them, Wesley stepped forward to the two of them first: "You must be Team Captain Zhou and Team Captain Chen, right?"

"Who are you?" asked Zhou Yun, who was standing at the very front.

"I am the person in charge of the London side for your Yingguo operation. My name is Wesley, and this is my assistant, David."

Zhou Yun: "Oh, hello, hello!"

Chen Xiong: "Hello, Detective Wesley!"

After the two shook hands, everyone turned their gaze toward their party.

Liu Xuemin was the first to ask: "Team Captain Zhou, who are these people?"

"Oh, let me introduce them to you." Zhou Yun stepped aside, invited a blond-haired, blue-eyed lady standing behind him to the front, and introduced her to everyone: "This is Margaret, a female criminal investigator from the Paris Police Headquarters' External Operations Group."

"Hello, everyone."

Margaret was only in her twenties this year and looked very young; compared to the group of veteran criminal investigators in the room, there was a very obvious sense of contrast.

Immediately after, Zhou Yun pointed to a man next to her and said: "This is Brandon, her deputy."

"Hello everyone, nice to meet you, please take care of me," said Brandon.

Everyone nodded to acknowledge him.

After introducing the two, Zhou Yun looked at a middle-aged man standing behind them; this man was none other than Kevin, an eyewitness to the Las Vegas magic show.

"At the time, it was he who cooperated with Chu Chen to complete that magic trick. We investigated his social background and personal situation, but didn't find any problems. He had no social intersection with Chu Chen whatsoever; the two didn't even know each other before."

Hearing that Kevin was that eyewitness, several experts were very excited and turned their heads to look at him one after another.

Just as Zhou Yun finished speaking, Liu Xuemin stood up and stared at him, asking: "Did you really travel from the stage in Las Vegas to the vault of the French National Bank?"

Kevin's brain went a bit blank from the question; he shrugged, not knowing how to answer:

"Uh, I don't know either. Maybe? Otherwise, how else could all this be explained?"

"Can you describe to us what it felt like at the time?" Liu Xuemin continued to ask.

Kevin thought for a moment and said: "A dizzying feeling, like I hadn't slept for three days and three nights and had just been woken up right after falling asleep. It felt very strange. And then, suddenly, everything went black before my eyes. By the time I reacted, I was already inside the bank's vault... It was indeed a vault; regarding this point, I can guarantee to you all, I saw a lot, a lot of money..."

"How are you sure that it was a bank vault?" Wesley suddenly spoke up to ask.

Kevin was stunned by his question: "Aren't bank vaults all like that?"

"Is there any concrete evidence?"

"My signature is the evidence. It really appeared inside the bank vault..."

Hearing this, Wesley nodded, not denying his words:

"Then how did you leave that place?" He asked in a deep voice while exhaling smoke rings.

"I don't remember. I really don't remember this. I don't know why, but I don't have this memory in my mind..."

"No memory of it?" Wesley's expression was somewhat strange.

Kevin nodded and said: "Mm..."

After receiving a definitive answer, Wesley walked up to him with his pipe in his mouth and stared into his eyes for a good while.

"Buddy, you might have been hypnotized..."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present was shocked and cast surprised looks at Wesley!

The next second, Li Changyu said: "Hypnosis?"

In this world, there wasn't much understanding of hypnosis; everyone had only heard of it from books and some literary works, and no one had ever seen it in reality!

"This is a top-tier illusion technique that can manipulate a person's subconscious at will. Before this, I had only heard of its existence in some novels and movies. I never imagined that someone in reality would actually understand this kind of illusion!"

Hearing Kevin say this, the barrage in the live stream exploded once again:

【Holy crap, Chu God can actually hypnotize!】

【So that's how it is!】

【Too awesome, manipulating people's subconscious at will. Brothers, I have a bold idea!】

【So you're saying he didn't actually go to Paris, but was hypnotized and had hallucinations?】

【Brother Chen is really too strong, he even knows hypnosis!】

【Holy crap, it's terrifying when you think about it. If someone really knows this kind of illusion, wouldn't they be able to do whatever they want?】

【Isn't he already doing whatever he wants now? The Expert Group doesn't have a single trick against him!】

Following that, Wesley continued: "Everyone, we might be in big trouble this time."

"Previously, when I was watching the videotape, I noticed a detail that puzzled me greatly. When he was invited onto the stage, some of Chu Chen's body movements were very strange, such as clapping, snapping his fingers, patting his back, and so on. Now it seems these strange body movements were not the performance actions of a magician at all, but were done by him intentionally..."

After this explanation from Wesley, all the experts present were instantly enlightened!

Especially Margaret and Brandon; they were the first to come into contact with this case. At the time, they felt Kevin's mental state was not quite right and suspected he had a history of drug use, but in reality, he hadn't taken any hallucinogenic drugs at all. The reason he displayed this state was simply that he had been hypnotized!

This is too unbelievable!

At this very moment, everyone present realized the severity of this problem!

If Chu Chen used hypnosis to deal with them, the difficulty of subsequent arrest operations would increase significantly!

Because this skill was simply too buggy!

In the face of it, anyone executing an operational plan would be highly likely to become a puppet of Chu Chen, just like Kevin!