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Chapter 233 Bloodstains Discovered, Cat Thief's Escape Route Reconstructed
The surveillance footage started from the time when the complainant, Huang Qian, went to bed.

It was almost 1 a.m. by then.

Cats are nocturnal animals and prefer to be active at night. Apart from the front door, all the other doors in the complainant's house were open, including the small cat door leading to the terrace.

The community's surveillance cameras can capture some footage of the terraces.

At 2 a.m., you can still see the little cat patrolling its territory occasionally appearing in the surveillance footage.

But around 3 p.m., for the next half hour, there was no sign of the kitten.

Huang Qian said angrily, "I checked the home security camera footage before calling the police. I didn't see it come back from the balcony after 3 a.m., so it must have disappeared around that time!"

The community staff then began to retrieve surveillance footage from other parts of the community.

At three in the morning, when it was darkest and people were sleeping the most soundly, the surveillance footage showed that apart from a few lights, everything else was pitch black, with only occasional breezes and swaying tree shadows.

Nearly ten pairs of eyes stared at the screen, but they couldn't find even a single person.

It wasn't until after 4 a.m. that lights occasionally came on in the buildings of the community, for residents who needed to get up early for work.

As it approached five o'clock, the sky began to brighten, and people started to go out.

Some walked out with backpacks, some rode electric bikes or small vehicles, and some drove out of the underground parking garage. Except for those who walked out empty-handed, everyone else could easily hide a kitten.

Jiang Hanying immediately paused the video, stood up and checked the time. Even if she fast-forwarded through the surveillance footage, more than an hour had passed. "We won't be able to find anything by continuing to watch. Let's just go to your house and take a look."

Huang Qian nodded in despair. She had thought she could use the police's authority to find the cat thief in the surveillance cameras that covered the entire community, but she found nothing.

If the cat thief has already quietly taken Hawthorn out of the neighborhood... no, this is very likely already happened!

But giving up is out of the question!

She forced herself to cheer up and led the group back to her home.

[I never expected to see the young lady and Shanzha's home in the "Absolute Experience" live stream.]

Just by looking at the decorations in this house, you can tell how much this young lady loves hawthorns!

[It's no exaggeration to say that the cat toys and appliances alone here would cost tens of thousands of yuan. Compared to that, my cat lives in a slum.]

[Seriously, is it possible to get the hawthorns back?]

[It's hard to say. The surveillance footage yielded nothing; they only managed to roughly deduce when Hawthorn disappeared, but that's almost ten hours ago. If they were going to investigate, they would have dealt with it long ago.]

What other clues can Jiang Hanying find at the young lady's house?

The group walked through the living room and went directly to the terrace.

The terrace wasn't large, only about 30 square meters, and as Huang Qian said, the railings were indeed covered with wire mesh that was more than a meter high.

The gaps in the wire mesh were so tight that even a thumb couldn't fit through them, let alone a cat. It looked very sturdy, with no signs of damage.

Jiang Hanying walked along the barbed wire fence to take a look.

As I reached a corner, I suddenly paused.

Chi Song was the first to notice her pause. He had been checking another area, but upon seeing her, he walked over without thinking. "Did you find anything?"

Before Jiang Hanying could even reply to the question, Huang Qian rushed over, her eyes full of hope, "Did you find something?"

Do you have any rope?

"Would imitation hemp rope work? I have a lot of it, leftovers from making swings for hawthorns."

"can."

Huang Qian quickly went back into the house and brought out a large bundle of rope.

Jiang Hanying took the rope, grabbed one end, threw the rest of the rope over the wire fence, tied the other end to the railing, and then climbed over the fence while holding onto the rope with one hand.

Without a second's hesitation.

Huang Qian exclaimed in surprise.

The live stream camera also shook slightly.

The viewers in the live stream were also startled. Chi Song's expression changed, but he was the calmest person present. He stepped forward, grabbed the railing, and looked down. He saw Jiang Hanying holding onto a rope to secure herself in mid-air, looking down as if searching for something.

"What are you looking at?"

"Cotton swabs".

Huang Qian had just seen Jiang Hanying's condition and was so frightened that her face turned pale. Upon hearing the sound, she didn't even ask what the cotton swabs were for, and hurriedly went back into the house to grab a handful, then rushed back.

Jiang Hanying: "...One is enough!"

Taking the cotton swab handed to her, Jiang Hanying wiped the wire mesh in front of her.

The camera trembled as it panned across the screen, and suddenly captured a small amount of red stain on the originally white cotton swab tip.

What is that? Rust?

Why wipe away rust?

[Scratching off the rust is obviously useless; it's perfectly normal for iron exposed to the elements to rust over time. We all know Jiang Hanying couldn't possibly be unaware of this, so could it be blood?]

"No way, this barbed wire is so dark, and it's on the outside. How did she find it? She can't have X-ray vision, can she?"

I remember Jiang Hanying had a very sensitive nose.

So, it smelled blood?

While viewers in the live stream were still making their speculations in the chat, Chi Song carefully took the cotton swab and asked Huang Qian to find an unused plastic bag to put the cotton swab in.

Seeing his series of actions, the audience became even more certain that the cotton swab was stained with blood.

Could the blood on this be from the cat thief?

[Could it be that he was bitten or scratched by hawthorn while stealing the cat?]

[Very likely, he deserved it!]

[Will the cat thief get a rabies vaccination just to be on the safe side?]

You could check if any nearby hospitals have recently offered rabies vaccinations.

[We should be able to find some clues through blood tests.]

Chi Songchao extended a hand over the railing, hoping that Jiang Hanying could grab his hand and make it easier for her to climb up.

But then the man loosened his grip on the rope and slid down to the ground floor.

The staff member in charge of filming: "..."

This time, there's really no way to keep up!

"Go to the monitoring room and call me."

When Chi Song met Jiang Hanying's gaze as she looked up, he immediately understood and returned to the monitoring room without saying a word.

The group of people left behind stared at each other blankly for a moment, still not quite understanding what was happening. It was the one who was filming Jiang Hanying who slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Could she be trying to replicate the route the cat thief took after stealing the cat?"

If you're not familiar with the community's surveillance system, you'll definitely have to avoid all of them. But if you have Chi Song directing and correcting you in front of the cameras, you might be able to evade all the cameras like a cat thief.

As soon as he finished speaking, he hurriedly went downstairs.

Without saying a word, Huang Qian and the rest of her team followed her pet home.

The group caught up with Jiang Hanying but didn't dare to disturb her, so they followed silently from behind.

After more than ten minutes, with Chi Song constantly reminding her over the phone, Jiang Hanying avoided the community's security cameras and finally stood in a corner of a green belt.

After that, no matter where he went, he would be captured on surveillance cameras.

She glanced down at a few fresh, green leaves that shouldn't have fallen at her feet. "Check the security cameras around here. See how many people were on the cameras after daybreak today."

[What does this mean? Did the cat thief hide in this corner after stealing the cat, only to quietly emerge at dawn and join the morning crowd?]

Look at those few leaves on the ground; they're so green, they definitely couldn't have fallen on their own. They were probably accidentally rubbed off!

[Shouldn't that eliminate about 90% of the people?]