Chapter 369
Sophia took out the notebook and saw the list made by Woody which consisted of the names of the
people who knew about what had happened to her mother, Annabel.
Knowing that the Mitchell Family would learn that the money had already been taken away sooner or
later, she had to get thetest updates on the people in the list because they might have started
investigating Annabel after watching Cooper’s video.
It was only a matter of time before they linked the matter to her and hence, she had to know their next
move so that she could do some preparation in advance.
Back at The Imperial, Sophia went to the basement with her notebook and started running some
searches in the database created by Abel. She keyed in the names of the people included in Woody’s list
into the database in order to get more information about their identities.
There were eight people in total on Woody’s list and all of them were Elders at the time everything
happened. As it had been twenty years since then, the youngest of them was already sixty years old
and most of them had passed away.
Two of them who had retired were suffering from dementia just like Woody. Afterpleting her search,
she noticed that Abel was still trying to track down Cooper. He had listed around a hundred suspects in
the database and he was now trying to inspect them one by one. Anyone who had some simrities with
Cooper would make that list.
Suddenly, she walked to the back and said to Abel, “You should stop searching for Cooper because our
priority now is to look for the Phantom Wolf’s leader.”
Abel was puzzled. “Don’t you want to look for him since he’s your father?”
“There are only two possiblities which can exin why he didn’t reappear up until now: firstly, he really
died in that ident and secondly, he is still alive but he really doesn’t want to appear in public again. No
matter which one of the two is the truth, I don’t see the point in carrying on the search,” Sophia said.
Right now, Sophia had already deemed Cooper as a dead man. However, Abel didn’t share the same
sentiment.
Cooper was someone very important to him and he had to track him down because he knew there was
no way he could have died. Also, Cooper was one of the very few people who had seen Phantom Wolf’s
leader in person before and he had even met him in two different phases.
Therefore, Abel was of the opinion that as long as they managed to locate Cooper, they would be able to
locate Phantom Wolf’s leader too! That was the reason why he couldn’t give up searching for Cooper!
“I’m merely carrying out Boss’s instruction and he wanted me to get to him regardless of whether he is
alive or dead. Also, he’s a very crucial clue that can lead us to Phantom Wolf’s leader.”
Abel then continued his investigation on the list of suspects. Meanwhile, his men were carrying out field
investigations everywhere in the world and they had been constantly uploading all the information they
managed to glean to the database. So, Abel’s task was to analyze the plethora of information to see
whether there was anything useful.
Standing behind Abel, Sophia watched him as he analyzed the identity of a pianist named William
ording to the information provided in the database. He was a pianist from a very influential
background who was an enthusiast of calligraphy and was well-versed in Cethosian culture. Clues like
these were important in deciding whether he was likely to be Cooper.
A video of William performing at a piano concert was transferred to the database. Judging from the
timestamp, the video was taken yesterday and it was clear enough for them to look at his most up-to-
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Abel scrutinized the video, careful not to miss out any detail so that he could spot the simrities William
might share with Cooper. William’stest handwritings, contour and thumbprintter appeared in the
database so that aparison could be then done between his information and Cooper’s.
At that juncture came Sophia’s uninterested voice, “This man isn’t Cooper.”
Abel turned round and queried, “How can you be sure of that?”
Staring at William in the video, Sophiamented, “I observed how Cooper yed piano in videos very
carefully before but the man in this video doesn’t have the same vibe. So, he can’t be Cooper.”
Abel decided to eliminate William from the list of suspects since Sophia had said so. For the next few
guys he analyzed, Sophia was able to give him the answer.
“This man can’t be him because his eyes are very different from Cooper’s and he doesn’t exude his
aura.”
“This is not him too because Cooper couldn’t be a man like this.”
In fact, Sophia was taken aback by how good her judgment was too. Back when she first learnt about
Cooper, she had instinctively made him his role model and she had gathered his information and his
performance videos in order to learn from him.
She had never expected she would be so intrigued by him and never in her wildest dreams did she think
that he could be her father.
At the moment, she was forming her judgement purely based on her memory of how Cooper looked in
those videos as well as on Woody’s facial features.
Despite his old age and his mental condition, he was still Cooper’s father after all, so the two must share
some simrities. It took her only half an hour to eliminate around thirty men from the list because she
was able to dismiss some of them by just one nce.
Suddenly, a photo caught her attention. In the very blurry photo was a young man who seemed to be in
his thirties. He looked suave but the photo only revealed the side of his body in a suit but not his facial
features. While all other men in the list had theirtest videos taken, the only information about the man
was that photo.
ording to the information provided in the database, his name was Fass Michel and he was the person
who was managing the Michel Group behind the scenes and the family head of the Michel Family in
Eastern Europe. Staring at the name for a long time, Sophia asked, “Who’s this guy? Why are you
investigating him?”
“This man is the family head of a very ancient family in Eastern Europe. Although he doesn’t fit in terms
of his age and race, he’s just too simr with Cooper in terms of his talent in doing business,” Abel
answered.
“He was born in Eastern Europe and he has always been very mysterious. He started his business in
North America and the information indicates that he’s doing some mining business in Africa at the
moment. Also, Michel Group is now one of the top ten electronic technologypanies in the world.
As this man has never attended any public event, no one has ever captured his photo. It took one of our
men quite some effort to snap this one but he was nearly caught by his bodyguards for doing that.”
Sophia kept on staring at the man’s name with a frown on her head for a long time, which puzzled Abel.
After some time, Sophia exined, “Focus your effort on studying this guy because I have a feeling that
he is Cooper!”
“His first name, ‘Fass’ means barrel in German, which is very simr to ‘Cooper’ which has the meaning
of barrel maker. Besides, his surname ‘Michel’ is the French spelling for Mitchell.”
It was to everyone’s utter surprise that the man’s name actually carried a secret meaning. However, the
man looked so young and he might only be in histe twenties. How could he be Cooper, who was a
man in his forties? On top of that, he was the family head of the Michel Family in Eastern Europe, and he
was born there. There was no way he could be Cooper!
Perhaps, the man’s name was just a mere coincidence. Also, the investigation on him would not be any
less challenging than the one on Phantom Wolf’s leader. However, Abel decided to trust Sophia’s
judgment by making Fass Michel the target of their thorough investigation next round.
In fact, they only needed to inform the man of the news that the money in Kuwait had been taken out to
know whether he was Cooper. If he was Cooper, he would certainly make a move.
After leaving the basement, Sophia first took a deep breath before returning to her room to read a book.
At the moment, there was nothing she could do except trying her best to develop, enrich and strengthen
herself.
Later at night when Michael just came back home from the set, the doorbell rang. As soon as Maria
opened the door, a little boy made a dash in and wrapped his arms around Michael’s thigh.
“Uncle Michael, you can’t sabotage me in this way! You didn’t pick up any of my calls and I couldn’t even
find you on set! Do you still remember that the final round of the Esports World Championship will be
held the day after tomorrow?
Now that Sirius is nowhere to be found, I can’t handle it on my own without you! Uncle Michael, you have
to log on tonight and you have to be there the day after tomorrow or I’ll kill myself in front of you! Sob,
sob…”