Chapter 38: Chen Zijin's Discovery!

Liu Xuemin was right.

From the beginning of the program until now, their investigative work had indeed been very passive; they had been led by the nose by Chu Chen almost the entire time!

Right now, even the proper rhythm of the investigation had been completely disrupted!

If they hadn't received the tip that Chu Chen had already begun his crimes, they would still have thought Chu Chen was lurking in Yanjing!

Only now did everyone realize it in hindsight!

If his premonition was correct, this guy might have already left Yanjing long ago.

The dragnet they had laid out in Yanjing during this time was a complete waste of police resources.

It was highly likely that Chu Chen had never even entered their encirclement from the very beginning!

From here on out, even if they really dug three feet into the ground across all of Yanjing, they probably wouldn't find any valuable clues!

At this moment, Chu Chen had already begun his second challenge.

Yet they hadn't even figured out the criminal's crime location; they had absolutely no idea where he was!

Thinking about it carefully, this case was truly frustrating to solve!

As one of the famous Criminal Investigation Eight Tigers of Huaxia, Liu Xuemin had solved many major and important cases in his life, but no case had ever left him as speechless as today!

Forget clues; he didn't even have a lead!

The next second, while Liu Xuemin was deep in thought, Chen Zijin suddenly walked over, looking haggard but holding a piece of draft paper with excitement, and said:

"I understand what he is going to do!"

Hearing this, all the experts turned their gazes toward him.

After looking at everyone, Chen Zijin walked straight to the whiteboard and wrote down Chu Chen's Extreme Eight Items one by one!

During this time, in order to find clues for the next step of the investigation and to predict Chu Chen's next crime in advance, Chen Zijin had been in seclusion studying Chu Chen's "Extreme Eight Items"!

Except for eating and sleeping, he had been at it 24 hours a day without interruption.

At this moment, Chen Zijin had long since lost his former elegance; he was disheveled, his face covered in stubble, and he looked extremely haggard!

He didn't look like a famous writer at all.

"The eight challenges he proposed should be the peak challenges of eight extreme sports! Each of these challenges is a ceiling that humans would have to exhaust their entire lives to have a chance of completing!"

"Based on this, every challenge here is almost associated with the most extreme and harshest places on Earth!"

"Take the previous Earth Awakening for example; I checked online, and the Swallow Cave in Mexico is the deepest, smallest, and most complex sinkhole in the world. For the extreme sport of Fixed-point Parachuting, this is undoubtedly the best place for a challenge!"

Chen Zijin's words instantly piqued the interest of the other four experts.

Just then, Lin Xu suddenly said: "You mean his next crime location should be one of the most dangerous places within Huaxia?"

Chen Zijin nodded:

"That's right! But not just Huaxia! As long as we find all similar places around the world and then use the process of elimination to compare them with his eight challenges, it will be easy to deduce his next challenge location!"

"Earth Awakening is an extreme sport closely related to 'Earth,' and the challenge location is the mysterious Swallow Cave."

"Reasoning from this, Birth of Heaven is likely a challenge closely linked to 'Heaven,' and the challenge location is highly likely to be at a high altitude, or a place that has some special connection to the keyword 'high altitude'."

"Wind Surge is a challenge inseparable from wind, and Water Spirit is a challenge associated with water! As for the final Master of Fate and Ultimate Trust... they are highly likely to be a thrilling challenge in the true sense of the word, a life-and-death struggle against heaven and earth!"

After Chen Zijin finished speaking, there was a deathly silence in the entire conference room!

After a while, he continued:

"On the vast land of Huaxia, there are plenty of challenge locations that meet the requirements of those eight challenges. But as long as we hold firmly onto this key clue, we will definitely be able to follow the vine to find his tracks, and even accurately predict his every subsequent crime!"

Chen Zijin's words awakened the dreamer!

He was right.

If they could really figure out the challenge location for each of the Extreme Eight Items, they could occupy the absolute initiative in the pursuit!

"According to my preliminary investigation over the past few days, there are many places in Huaxia that meet these requirements: the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, Mount Everest and the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in the Tibetan region, Hulunbuir in Inner Mongolia, Mount Hua of the Five Great Mountains, Lop Nur in Xinjiang, and so on and so forth! If he wants to complete his eight challenges, these places are definitely his top choices..."

Loess Plateau, Mount Everest, Yarlung Tsangpo, Hulunbuir, the perilous Mount Hua, the no-man's-land of Lop Nur...

Hearing these place names recited by Chen Zijin, everyone present couldn't help but be shocked!

Without exception, these places he mentioned were almost all forbidden zones for life!

Just hearing them made one's heart tremble!

Everything was just as Chen Zijin said; if Chu Chen really wanted to challenge the limits of humanity, these places were definitely not to be missed!

Thinking of this, Liu Xuemin immediately had Lin Xu go online to check these places one by one, wanting to see if there were any necessary conditions that matched the theme of this crime!

Before long.

After some searching, the prestigious Himalayan Art Exhibition finally came into everyone's view!

This art exhibition was no ordinary art exhibition.

Everything on display was a priceless treasure!

If Chu Chen's challenge target was really Mount Everest, this art exhibition was likely his best choice to complete the theme!

After the target was confirmed, Lin Xu immediately used technical means to pull up the surveillance of the entire Tibetan region from the past three days!

As a result, as expected, they really found a trace of Chu Chen!

Seeing this, Liu Xuemin immediately gave the order to the Pursuit Team, telling them to rush to the Tibetan region and carry out the arrest of Chu Chen!

At this moment, in the live broadcast room.

When they saw that the Expert Group had finally discovered the key to the problem, the audience also realized the severity of the issue and sent out barrage comments one after another:

【What's there to challenge about Mount Everest? He doesn't want to climb it, does he?】

【Climb it?! Impossible, unless he's really crazy!?】

【Brother, can you use your brain when you talk? Is that a mountain a human can climb?】

【I really don't believe he can climb it!】

【I don't believe it either; even web novels wouldn't dare to write it like that!】

【I have to say, the Expert Group really has some skills; they were actually able to discover the key to the problem!】

【I said it long ago, these people in the Expert Group are the top tier in the criminal investigation circle, their ability is not bad; you all think they are bad only because Chu Chen is too strong!】

【Old Chen still has some substance!】

【Watching experts trade blows is truly satisfying!】