You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

In the conference room, everyone's eyes were focused on Lin Chen, waiting for his evaluation.

Li Mingyu crossed his arms, raised his chin slightly, and a sneer of certainty played on his lips.

He had prepared a whole host of things to say, just waiting for Lin Chen to say something like "not bad" or "very good" so he could then be "modest" and show off his professional skills.

However, Lin Chen simply twirled the pen in his hand slowly.

The pen tip left afterimages in the air.

He didn't even lift his eyelids, but simply hummed four words softly from his nose.

"mediocre."

"And foolish."

The air seemed to have been sucked out in that instant.

The smile on Li Mingyu's face froze instantly, and then, as if splashed with sulfuric acid, it quickly twisted and collapsed!

"What did you say?!"

He slammed his hand on the table, jumping up from his chair.

Perhaps due to excessive excitement, his voice became shrill and thin, and the roars he squeezed out were out of tune, making them sound particularly comical.

The entire task force was startled and fell silent.

Lin Chen finally stopped twirling the pen.

He slowly stood up, put one hand in his pocket, and strolled to the huge electronic screen.

That was Li Mingyu's proud "iron bucket formation" defense map, with red and blue lines intersecting densely, making it look truly indestructible.

"The magician's greatest skill is not thieving techniques."

Lin Chen's voice wasn't loud, but it was like a pebble thrown into roaring boiling water, instantly silencing all the noise.

Li Mingyu's roar caught in his throat, and everyone in the conference room subconsciously held their breath and looked at him.

"It's psychological manipulation and a smokescreen."

He stretched out his finger and casually drew a circle on the dense outer defense line on the screen.

"The more people there are, the more chaotic the scene becomes, and the more restless people's hearts become."

"Among your three hundred men, there's just one mole he planted beforehand, or a fool he temporarily hypnotized or bribed through some means."

Lin Chen turned his gaze to Li Mingyu, whose face was ashen, and a mocking smile appeared on his lips.

"What you call an iron bucket has become a sieve that leaks air everywhere."

Then, he moved his finger up and pointed to the architectural structure diagram of the exhibition center, specifically the central air conditioning and ventilation system that connected the entire building.

"You've secured the ground, and you've secured all the entrances."

"But can you defend against the sky?"

Li Mingyu's face had turned a deep purplish-red. He was speechless after being silenced by Lin Chen's words, but he still managed to maintain his last shred of dignity and let out a cold laugh.

"Easy for you to say! Then tell me, what should we do?!"

"Are we just going to leave him with nothing and hand over the diamonds?!"

Lin Chen ignored his shouts.

His gaze swept over the crowd and landed on the woman who had been sitting quietly in the main seat the whole time, her eyes fixed on him.

Ye Qingcheng.

"Withdraw at least two hundred police officers from the outer perimeter."

Lin Chen's voice was resolute.

"Leave only the most elite mobile squads to conduct covert surveillance."

These words shocked everyone present!

Li Mingyu felt as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, and was about to open his mouth to mock him.

Ye Qingcheng's voice rang out, clear and cold, leaving no room for argument.

"Listen to Consultant Lin."

Five simple words, like five resounding slaps, landed hard on Li Mingyu's face!

Li Mingyu panicked completely and shouted at Ye Qingcheng:

"Mr. Ye! This is against the rules! This is playing with a national treasure worth three hundred million US dollars! If something happens, who can take responsibility!"

Ye Qingcheng slowly turned her head, her cold phoenix eyes sweeping coldly over Li Mingyu's face.

"I'll take responsibility."

She paused, then spoke each word clearly and distinctly.

"I believe in Lin Chen."

All of Li Mingyu's professionalism, pride, and dignity were shattered at this moment by Ye Qingcheng's nonchalant words, "I believe in Lin Chen!"

In a corner of the conference room, Su Qingge watched this scene and a strange sense of satisfaction rose in her heart.

But then, an even stronger, sour feeling welled up in my heart.

Ye Qingcheng's trust in Lin Chen went beyond the relationship between employer and consultant.

It was an almost blind, unreserved entrustment.

On what grounds?

……

Half an hour later, Lin Chen officially took over the security command of the entire exhibition center.

Under his orders, the large police force on the perimeter was quickly withdrawn and replaced by several plainclothes squads composed of elite special police officers, who blended into the surrounding environment like ghosts.

Inside the exhibition hall, Lin Chen made sweeping changes to the original defenses.

He removed several monitoring points that Li Mingyu considered crucial, but installed hidden pinhole cameras in some inconspicuous corners, such as cleaning rooms and fire exits.

He even deliberately left a 30-second gap in the patrol schedule during shift changes.

Li Mingyu followed behind with a dark expression the whole time. He couldn't understand Lin Chen's actions at all and felt that this amateur had made a mess of everything.

"Hmph, just making a fuss over nothing."

He mocked his subordinates relentlessly.

"I'll see what he's up to! Once the diamonds are gone, let's see how he gets out of this mess!"

Lin Chen heard his mutterings, but just smiled and remained silent.

The bait has been cast.

Now, all that's left is for that self-important big fish to swim into this net that was tailor-made for him.

This is a trap.

Night fell quietly.

There are only twelve hours left until the time indicated in the "Magician" teaser.

The exhibition center closed early and cleared out all irrelevant personnel, plunging the huge venue into a deathly silence, with only the sound of patrol team footsteps echoing in the empty hall.

Lin Chen declined the lounge arranged by Ye Qingcheng and instead toured the core exhibition hall alone.

[Divine Insight], fully activated!

In his view, the entire world was transformed into a sophisticated model composed of countless data streams.

The trail of every dust particle in the air, the current in every cable under the floor, are all clearly visible.

Sudden.

Lin Chen stopped in his tracks.

His gaze fell on the ventilation duct that had been reinforced with alloy railings, diagonally above the display case.

The repairs look flawless.

But in his godlike vision, in an inconspicuous blind spot of the surveillance, there was a hexagonal screw used to secure the fence.

The metallic luster of that screw, compared to its companions covered in fine dust, possessed an extremely subtle, almost imperceptible "sense of novelty".

After it was repaired, someone unscrewed it from the inside again.

Just then, Lin Chen's ears twitched slightly.

His gaze passed through the heavy exhibition hall doors and landed on the freight corridor in the distance.

A group of workers in blue overalls were slowly pushing several huge spare display racks toward the storage room.