Chapter 86 - 85: Conning the Con Artist
Yang Yi could have transferred Chris to the maximum-security area if he wanted and if he was willing to pay a certain price.
Why did Yang Yi want Chris transferred to join him in the maximum-security area? Because Yang Yi felt that he could actually learn a lot from a con artist.
The information Yang Yi had gotten from Owen was confirmed: Chris had indeed smoothly deceived many people, but eventually, while in the midst of a big deal that had been largely successful, he slipped up.
However, Chris did lie about one thing: he was not as harmless as he had described himself. In fact, when a former accomplice tried to extort him, Chris didn’t choose to avoid disaster by losing wealth or use money to shut the informer up. Instead, he chose the most decisive method—murdering the accomplice who was blackmailing him.
Chris had successfully gotten rid of the person extorting him, but nobody knew how he had done it. Moreover, nobody knew whether the betrayer was dead or alive.
Chris was betrayed after he had killed; his accomplice had arranged a contingency plan, so that if Chris didn’t pay or if he was killed by Chris, someone would leak Chris’s dark past to the police.
The person extorting Chris disappeared, but Chris’s accomplice successfully exposed him, leading to the police arresting Chris and accusing him of a series of crimes, including murder and fraud.
Chris admitted to the fraud—denial was futile given the solid evidence against him—but he firmly denied having killed his own accomplice. The police, for their part, couldn’t find any evidence to charge him with murder.
The person who exposed Chris vanished into thin air, never returning from the agreed-upon location to collect the money. There was no body, no bloodstains, nothing left behind, a complete disappearance.
In the end, Chris went to jail for fraud. His pregnant girlfriend left him, and his furious would-be father-in-law wished he could kill him. All this was true. Incidentally, at the time of these events, Chris was just twenty-two years old, and to some extent, when Chris said he was a genius among con artists, he wasn’t wrong.