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Chapter 99 Whale Hunting

Chen Fan and Yuan Haoyun parted ways at the intersection of Causeway Bay Street.

Yuan Haoyun got back into his beat-up car. Before leaving, he rolled down the window, stuck half his head out, and shouted something.

"Wait for my news. I'll let you know as soon as I find that photographer."

Chen Fan nodded from the roadside and saw the car off.

Then he turned and walked in another direction, taking out his phone as he went and dialing Fang Jiexia's number.

"Brother Fan?"

Fang Jiexia's voice was low, the background was very quiet, and the rustling sound of turning over papers could be faintly heard.

"Busy?"

Chen Fan slowed down and leaned against a lamppost on the side of the street.

"It's with the teacher."

Fang Jiexia paused, her voice tinged with barely suppressed excitement.

"Brother Fan, my teacher is taking V's case very seriously. He has had several conference calls with some criminal psychology experts in Europe these past few days to specifically study V's movements and modus operandi."

"Oh? Any progress?"

Chen Fan raised an eyebrow and asked.

"have!"

Fang Jiexia's speech quickened.

"The teacher believes that V has an extremely strong desire to perform and control. His choice of television as a channel for dissemination is not accidental. He is deliberately creating a persona of a judge."

Moreover, every action he took was premeditated. The Magellan and Hou Shaorong incidents, in terms of timing, location, and pacing, all showed signs of meticulous planning.

Chen Fan listened silently, a slight smile playing on his lips, without interrupting her.

"The teacher has compiled V's behavior patterns and decision-making logic into a psychological profile report, which he said will be completed in a few days."

Fang Jiexia's voice was filled with confidence, "Brother Fan, we will definitely be able to catch him."

"Yes, thank you for your hard work."

Chen Fan asked calmly, "Are you still coming over to the task force?"

"I'm not coming!"

Fang Jiexia's tone became somewhat helpless and angry.

"After Superintendent Li divided everyone into groups, he rarely paid attention to them. Each group was busy with their own things, which wasn't a proper work attitude at all!"

Chen Fan was not surprised by this situation.

Li Wenbin never placed his bets on this task force from the beginning. The group's gathering seemed more like a show for outsiders; he was actually using his own people to handle the real work.

"Okay, you can continue with your work. Contact me anytime if anything comes up."

"Brother Fan, you too, be careful."

Chen Fan hung up the phone, put it back in his pocket, and looked up at the sky.

It was already evening, the clouds were low, and the hazy sunlight leaked through the gaps between the tall buildings, enveloping the entire street in a dim halo.

I should go check on the company.

Li Wenbin stood in the corridor outside the conference room, straightening his tie.

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This meeting room is located on the top floor of the Wan Chai Police Station headquarters. The heavy oak door is closed, and two police officers are standing at the door.

Seeing him approach, one of them reached out and opened the door for him.

The conference room was much larger than the one used by the task force, and people were sitting on both sides of the long table.

The row of people by the window were several foreign executives in suits, with different skin tones and hair colors.

On the other side were several familiar faces, including the commander of the Flying Tigers.

At the head of the table at the far end, Police Commissioner Lawrence was looking down at a document.

His hair was completely white, and his blue eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses were mostly obscured by documents, revealing only a pair of thick gray eyebrows.

The deputy director was sitting to his right, writing something in his notebook.

Fang Jiexia's teacher, Gu Zonghan, was sitting on the left side against the wall, also looking through documents.

Li Wenbin walked to the empty seat reserved for him, pulled out a chair, and sat down.

"Everyone is here."

Lawrence closed the file, looked up, and glanced around the long table.

"Let's begin, Wenbin. Tell me your proposal."

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Li Wenbin stood up and walked to the whiteboard at the front of the conference room.

He didn't take any documents or turn on the projector; he simply pulled a black marker from the pen holder.

"V has made three public appearances so far."

He appeared on television twice, once at the Brocade Garden. His actions were meticulously planned, leaving virtually no flaws.

He took the pen cap off and wrote a few lines on the whiteboard.

"Moreover, V is not alone; he has helpers."

A low murmur arose in the conference room.

Li Wenbin drew a circle next to the three characters "Magellan" and then drew a line down from it.

"Magellan was kidnapped on his way to work early Thursday morning last week."

We conducted repeated investigations of the scene afterward and found that the kidnappers were highly professional.

The way they chose the routes and the way they subdued the drivers showed that they had undergone rigorous training and were extremely disciplined!

"The big circle?"

"One of the police superintendents interjected."

"Yes, it was a group of large-scale circus treatments that had just arrived in Hong Kong. They disappeared after the treatments were completed."

Li Wenbin wrote the words "big circle" below, and then drew an arrow pointing to the code V.

The meeting room fell silent.

Gu Zonghan pushed up his glasses, his gaze falling on the string of arrows and circles on the whiteboard.

"So the whole incident should be reconstructed like this."

Li Wenbin turned around and tapped the whiteboard with his pen. "V himself or his organization learned about the inside story of the organ smuggling case at St. Mary's Hospital through some channel."

He hired a gang to kidnap Magellan, extract evidence and lists from Magellan, and then killed Magellan to silence him.

After obtaining the evidence, he then conducted a public trial on television to create public pressure.

Finally, taking advantage of a lull in the police's all-out search, they sneaked into the Jinxiu Garden and took away Magellan's hidden ledgers and Hou Shaorong himself.

"This person is very smart. He knows very well that he alone cannot shake the entire port city."

Therefore, he chose an extreme path—using violence and terror to portray himself as a judge who is above the law.

"I know all of this."

Lawrence spoke up, his voice low, "What I need is a solution, not a case analysis."

"I already have a plan."

Li Wenbin put down his pen and turned to face the long table.

"The reason we can't catch V is because we're always chasing after him."

We were a step behind in the Magellan case, we were caught off guard in the TV station incident, and we were completely outmaneuvered by him that night at Jinxiu Garden.

If this continues, even if we investigate for another month, we still won't find any results.

He paused.

"So my plan is to stop pursuing it."

"Aren't you going to pursue it anymore?"

The Flying Tigers commander frowned and asked in return.

"Yes, let's not chase him! Instead of searching the whole port for a masked man who's hiding somewhere, let's make him come to us."

Li Wenbin pulled a photo out of his suit pocket and stuck it on the whiteboard.

The photo shows a telephoto camera mounted on a tripod, with the lens pointed at a blurry expanse of sea.

"I have already released information that on the day Magellan was arrested, a photographer was taking pictures there and happened to capture the scene of them fighting."

After saying that, he placed his hand on the table.

"Whether it's true or not, as long as we have this photographer, V will definitely come. This is Professor Gu's judgment after conducting a psychological profile, and I trust his experience!"

"So, I've codenamed this operation 'Whaling'!"

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