Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion
Chapter 253: The Dark Shadow Outside the WindowThud, thud, thud!
In the bedroom of Hotel B25, Link Baker was sleeping when he heard a clear knocking sound from outside. He yawned, turned over in bed, casually picked up the wristwatch from his bedside, and glanced at it, 6:10 AM.
He drew back the curtains, and the early morning golden dawn streamed through the towering spires of the Tower Bridge, hitting the floor-to-ceiling windows, clear as water, carrying a hint of early autumn chill.
Outside the window, the Thames flowed quietly, as through it had flowed through countless ages, and today was just another extraordinarily ordinary day in its long life.
Link tied the sash of his robe and walked to the coat rack to open the door. Standing at the door were Franco, Anna, Simon, Wallace, Paul, the hotel manager, and two hotel security guards.
Just as he was about to speak, Franco gestured with his finger for him to stay silent.
Immediately, the hotel security guards took out a metal detector and meticulously scanned around the door frame. At a corner, they pried out a listening device the size of a thumb.
"Fuck!"
Link couldn’t help but curse when he saw the device.
He had seen one just like it in Wallace’s pocket when he had checked into the hotel. Yesterday, the hotel staff had conducted a search and found two more. After returning from his match yesterday, he had specifically asked Wallace and Bob to search the room again, but they hadn’t found anything.Yet here was another one hidden.
The British paparazzi were indeed insane, worthy of a nation that could produce a James Bond. If Bond’s skills as a spy were so poor that he couldn’t even outdo these paparazzi, he wouldn’t have made a name for himself out of Britain.
"Can someone tell me what’s happened?"
Link asked with an air of incredulity.
"Mr. Baker, this was an oversight on our hotel’s part, and we have failed to protect your privacy. We are willing to take full responsibility,"
The hotel manager said with a face full of apologies.
"Now is not the time to assign blame. I need to know what has happened."
Link closed the bedroom door and invited the group into the living room to sit.
The hotel manager along with Franco, Anna, and Simon walked in.
Anna opened her laptop, launched Google, entered ’Link Baker’ into the search bar, and clicked to search. Instantly, the screen displayed numerous news links. Stay updated with
The top link read ’Caught in the act: Thief arrested during attempted burglary, claims to have seen Link Baker dating a beauty in a hotel (with photos)’
The second was ’Link Baker cheating in London during competition? British media abuzz (with photos)’
The third read ’Who is Link Baker dating? "The Sun" journalist captures side profile of mysterious lady (with photos)’
All the first page results were related news stories, not one reporting his victory as the dual world champion for both WBA and WBC organizations.
Link clicked on the first search link, which was from the British "The Sun," authored by journalist Bernard Gary.
In the article, Gary narrated the events from a first-person perspective.
After work last night, he was strolling along the Thames Riverside. Around 9:40 PM, suddenly someone pointed across the river at the Tower Hotel and shouted, ’Look, there’s someone there.’
Gary hurriedly looked up to see a person in a black coat, hanging outside the window of a room in the hotel, secured by a rope, resembling Spider-Man.
(Image 1)
The image was quite blurry, but with the help of the riverside lights, one could faintly see a figure hanging outside the sixth floor’s floor-to-ceiling window of the Tower Hotel in London. The curtains of the window were drawn, casting a dim light that made the figure’s position even more noticeable.
Reporter Gary continued to explain, thinking it was a hotel employee doing some maintenance work on the air conditioning or something, he didn’t plan to pay any attention to it.
But after waiting for more than ten minutes and seeing that the person was still there, he felt that something was unusual, so he quickly took out his phone to call the police.
Latter, the police arrived at the scene, and with the assistance of the hotel, they captured the unidentified individual.
After being arrested, the unidentified person claimed he was a fan of Link Baker, wanting to enter through the window to talk with Link. He even mentioned that he had a signed album from Link, which could completely prove his fandom.
However, upon investigation, the police discovered that the individual was named Kulo Biggs, a parolee who was arrested three years ago for breaking and entering, and had participated in multiple bank, vault, and jewelry store heists ten years ago, making him a habitual criminal.
(Image two)
A photo of the suspect, Kulo Biggs, along with the signed album Link Baker gave to Biggs.
Upon seeing the photo, Link immediately recognized him as the guy with bad teeth he had encountered in the hotel lobby the day before yesterday. The album even had the inscription, "To Alice, grow up healthy, be a brave girl—Link Baker."
After a sudden interrogation by the police, suspect Kulo Biggs confessed to the motive and process of the crime.
Not long ago, he had seen through the news that world boxing champion Link Baker was coming to London for the WBA-WBC championship fight, hearing that Link earns tens of millions of US dollars per match, and being a famous singer, his net worth is several hundred million dollars.
Kulo Biggs, seeing an opportunity to make a quick buck, decided to exploit Link.
This was the motive of the crime.
The crime process was quite complex. According to the suspect Kulo Biggs, after hearing that Link had checked into the Tower Hotel, he took the chance to check in too and sneaked into Link’s room while he was out, installing three eavesdropping devices.
Unfortunately, hotel personnel spotted him through surveillance, and two of the devices were dismantled, leaving only one near the door.
His original plan was to steal valuable personal items from Link, but after seeing news that Link Baker would meet Emma Watson in London, he changed his plan to secretly photograph Link and Emma Watson during their date and extort money from Link.
He had been staying at the hotel for the past two days, monitoring the situation in Link’s room.
Just yesterday afternoon, he heard through the listening device that a woman entered Link’s room and mistook her for Emma Watson.
To capture a photo of their date, he bought a Spider-Man suit, planning to dangle from the rooftop to outside the hotel room window to take the shot from the floor-to-ceiling window.
Everything went according to plan initially.
But as he dangled outside the window, he found all the curtains drawn. To take the photos, he needed to open the curtains, so he took out a glass cutter to break through the window.
Regrettably, during the act, his drug addiction kicked in, causing him to fumble the glass cutter, which fell to the ground below.
As his addiction made him weak and unable to return to the rooftop, he was left hanging outside the window, unable to move up or down, until eventually, the police saved him using a safety rope.
The above details the entire course of the crime.
Link put down his laptop and went back to his bedroom, pulling all the curtains open.
Indeed, on the floor-to-ceiling window, he saw a round cut, and with a flick of his finger, a piece the size of a bowl fell to the ground below, making a clanging noise.
"shit!"
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