Chapter 228: The Shadow Outside the Window

Knock, knock, knock!

In the bedroom of B25 Hotel, Link was sleeping. Hearing a clear knock on the door, he yawned, turned over and got out of bed, casually picking up the watch on the bedside table to glance at it. It was 6:10 in the morning.

Pulling open the curtains, a golden morning ray, through the towering spire of Tower Bridge, shone on the floor-to-ceiling window, clear as water, with a slight early autumn chill.

Outside the window, the Thames still flowed quietly, as it had for countless years. Today was just an ordinary day in its long life.

Link tied the sash of his pajamas and went to the door to open it. Franco, Anna, Simon, Wallace, Paul, the hotel manager, and two hotel security guards were standing at the door.

He was about to speak when Franco gestured with his finger for him to remain silent.

Immediately, the hotel security guards took metal detectors and carefully scanned the area around the door, finding a thumb-sized listening device in the corner.

"Fuck!"

Seeing this thing, Link couldn't help but curse.

He had seen one of these things in Wallace's pocket when he first checked in. Yesterday, the hotel sent someone to check and found two more. After the match yesterday, he specifically asked Wallace and Bob to search the room again, but they didn't find anything.

Unexpectedly, there was still one hidden here.

The paparazzi in the UK were indeed crazy. No wonder it was the place that could cultivate James Bond. If Bond's skills as a spy were too poor to even surpass these paparazzi, he wouldn't have been able to make a name for himself from the UK.

"Can someone tell me what happened?"

Link asked with a displeased expression.

"Mr. Baker, this is a negligence on our hotel's part. We failed to protect your privacy, and we are willing to take responsibility."

The hotel manager said apologetically.

"Now is not the time to pursue responsibility. I need to know what happened."

Link closed the bedroom door and invited everyone to sit in the living room.

The hotel manager, Franco, Anna, and Simon walked in.

Anna opened her laptop, clicked on Google, entered the name 'Link', and clicked search. Instantly, many related news links appeared on the page.

The top one was 'Thief Caught Attempting to Break In, Claims to Have Witnessed Link Baker Dating a Beauty at Hotel (With Pictures)'.

The second was 'Link Baker Cheating in London During Competition? British Media in Uproar (With Pictures)'.

The third was 'Who is Link Baker Dating? The Sun Reporter Captures Side Profile of Mysterious Woman (With Pictures)'.

The entire first page of the search was filled with related news, with not a single article reporting on him becoming the double champion of both the WBA and WBC.

Link clicked on the first search link. The platform that published the article was the British newspaper The Sun, and the author was journalist Bernard Gary.

In the article, journalist Gary explained the incident from the perspective of the person involved.

Last night after work, he was strolling along the Thames. At around 9:40 pm, he suddenly heard someone pointing at the London Tower Hotel across the river and shouting, 'Look, there's someone there.'

Journalist Gary quickly looked over and saw a person wearing a black jacket, tied to a rope, hanging outside the floor-to-ceiling window of a hotel room, like Spider-Man.

(Picture 1)

The picture was blurry. With the help of the lights on the riverbank, a black shadow could vaguely be seen hanging outside the sixth-floor floor-to-ceiling window of the London Tower Hotel. The curtains on the sixth floor were drawn, revealing a dim light, making the black shadow's position more conspicuous.

Journalist Gary continued to explain that he initially thought it was a hotel staff member conducting maintenance work on the air conditioner or something and didn't intend to pay attention.

But after waiting for more than ten minutes, he noticed the person was still there and felt something was unusual. He quickly took out his phone and called the police.

The police arrived at the scene and, with the assistance of the hotel, apprehended the unidentified person.

After being arrested, the unidentified person claimed to be a fan of Link and wanted to go through the window to chat with Link. He also said he had an autographed record from Link, which could fully prove he was a fan.

However, after a police investigation, it was found that the person's name was Kuro Biggs, a parolee who had been arrested for burglary three years ago and had been involved in multiple bank, vault, and jewelry store robberies ten years ago. He was a habitual offender.

(Picture 2)

A picture of the suspect, Kuro Biggs, and the autographed record given to him by Link.

Seeing this person's photo, Link immediately recognized him as the guy with rotten teeth he had met in the hotel lobby the day before yesterday. The inscription on the record read, 'To Alice, grow up healthy and be a brave girl - Link Baker.'

After a police interrogation, the suspect, Kuro Biggs, truthfully confessed his criminal motive and process.

Not long ago, he saw news that the world boxing champion, Link Baker, was coming to London to participate in the WBA-WBC boxing championship match. He heard that Link earned tens of millions of dollars per match and was also a famous singer, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Kuro Biggs was tempted by the wealth and wanted to make a fortune from Link.

This was the criminal motive.

The criminal process was more complicated. According to the suspect, Kuro Biggs, after hearing that Link was staying at the London Tower Hotel, he also took the opportunity to check in and secretly sneaked into his room while Link was out, installing three listening devices.

Unfortunately, the hotel staff saw him through surveillance, and two of the devices were removed, leaving only one at the door.

His original plan was to steal Link's valuables, but he saw in the news that Link Baker would be dating Emma Watson during his time in London.

So he changed his plan and prepared to secretly photograph Link and Emma Watson on a date to extort money from Link.

He had been staying at the hotel for the past two days, monitoring Link's room.

Yesterday afternoon, he heard a woman enter Link's room through the listening device and mistakenly thought it was Emma Watson.

In order to capture photos of the two on a date, he bought a Spider-Man suit and planned to hang down from the roof to the hotel room, preparing to shoot through the floor-to-ceiling window.

After the operation began, everything went smoothly.

But when he hung outside the floor-to-ceiling window, he found all the curtains were drawn. To take photos, he needed to open the curtains, so he took out a glass cutter, preparing to cut the floor-to-ceiling window.

Unfortunately, during the operation, he suddenly had a drug relapse, and the glass cutter accidentally fell downstairs.

With his drug relapse, his limbs were weak, and he couldn't climb back to the roof. He could only hang outside the floor-to-ceiling window, unable to go up or down, and was later rescued by the police with a safety rope.

This was the entire process of the incident.

Link put down the laptop and returned to the bedroom, pulling open all the curtains.

Sure enough, he saw a round cut on the floor-to-ceiling window. He poked it with his finger, and with a clang, a bowl-sized piece of glass fell to the floor below.

"Shit!"

(End of Chapter)