Animal Detective

Chapter 213 Humans Can't Grow Wings and Fly Away
Enter the monitoring room.

"Did you call the police?" Shen Xin asked, turning his head.

Tang Hualong shook his head with an embarrassed smile and said, "No, I just found a computer repairman nearby to take a look. He said the computer was fine and there was nothing wrong, so I didn't bother with it."

"All the videos from that point onward are fine; I've kept them all."

Shen Xin made a note of this and asked the security guard to pull up the video footage, starting from last night.

The security camera diagonally opposite Bai Jifei's house can capture the front door.

At 9:47 p.m., Bai Jifei took several dogs out.

He had previously stated that he would walk the dogs in shifts.

Shen Xin checked the surveillance footage at the entrance of the residential area again. A few minutes later, Bai Jifei walked by with his dog, and there was nothing wrong.

About forty minutes later, Bai Jifei returned with the dog.

Soon, the camera panned upwards and saw that the lights in his house went out, indicating that the lights had been turned off.

The time is 11:31 PM.

Fast forward, it's all normal throughout the night.

Then, just as Bai Jifei described, at 5:31 a.m. the next morning, he took his dog out.

At 6:12, he was photographed returning from the main gate of the residential area with his dog.

I got home at 6:19.

Then he opened the door normally.

"Stop for a moment, back up a little."

Shen Xin looked back and saw that Bai Jifei had indeed taken out his key to open the door.

If Shen Xin remembered correctly, Bai Jifei had described seeing the door ajar, rushing inside, and then discovering that the villa had lost power.

His description is incorrect.

Or perhaps the ajar gate he described wasn't the gate to the yard, but rather the entrance door to the villa.

"continue."

Shen Xin continued watching the video.

Not long after, Bai Jifei rushed out.

"Then he came here to check the surveillance footage," the security guard said, pointing to the screen.

Shen Xin nodded, signaling him to switch to the back door surveillance.

There were signs that the surveillance cameras at the back door had been tampered with.

However, to Shen Xin's surprise, the surveillance camera closest to Bai Jifei's back door had been pointing in a different direction since last night.

This means that the surveillance footage had already been tampered with when Jiang Qi disappeared that morning.

"Keep tilting forward."

Shen Xin gestured to keep moving forward and watched all the videos saved by the camera in one go. He found that the camera was always pointing in the wrong direction and couldn't capture the back door.

That means if someone moved the camera, it was before the property management's surveillance video mysteriously disappeared on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

Shen Xin pointed at the screen and asked, "Didn't you notice that this surveillance camera has been moved?"

Tang Hualong leaned over to take a look, and asked with a blank expression, "Has it been touched?"
The security guards watching the surveillance footage had the same reaction.

“Look at the direction the camera is facing. It’s not facing the same direction as the other cameras. It’s obvious that it’s been tampered with.”

Moreover, the purpose of installing this camera was probably to capture footage of the back door of Building 26.

Tang Hualong patted the security guard watching the surveillance camera and gave him an inquiring look.

The security guard shook his head slightly as he looked at the surveillance footage, silently indicating that he didn't know.

Seeing their reaction, Shen Xin knew they definitely hadn't noticed.

This is perfectly normal.

He said he was here to watch the surveillance footage, but actually he just sat down here at the appointed time, played on his phone, and went to sleep.

Even if the surveillance camera is moved or broken, he probably wouldn't notice.

Shen Xin crossed his arms and thought for a moment.

In this case, does that mean they came to scout the location beforehand?

They then managed to delete the surveillance video.

Shen Xin looked around the monitoring room; there were cameras there too.

I asked Tang Hualong, and he said there are staff working in two shifts, 24 hours a day.

That's what he said, but only the security guard who watched the surveillance footage probably knows the specifics.

It's normal to go outside for a stroll after sitting for so long.

This presents an opportunity to exploit the vulnerability and manipulate the program to delete the video.

Shen Xin pulled up the surveillance footage from the monitoring room.

I reviewed everything from the four days, and sure enough, I found nothing.

However, on the evening of the eighth day of the lunar new year, I saw several security guards eating and drinking in the monitoring room.

Tang Hualong glared at the security guard.

Shen Xin then reviewed all the surveillance footage surrounding Building 26.

With only four days of video left, it seems to be going by quickly.

Nothing much was discovered.

Just like yesterday, Bai Jifei did the same thing: he went out to walk the dog. In the afternoon, he drove out for a bit and came back in a little over an hour.

Apart from that, there was nothing unusual.

Shen Xin asked, "Manager Tang, your community only has one entrance and exit, right?"

Tang Hualong nodded and said, "We all have detached houses with ground-level parking garages, and there aren't many residents in the community, so one entrance is more than enough. And don't worry, we register and record all vehicles except for residents' cars."

After he finished speaking, his expression became somewhat unnatural.

Shen Xin's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "Don't tell me that all the access control records before the sixth day of the Lunar New Year are also gone."

Tang Hualong's expression froze, and he gave an awkward smile.

Then he immediately said, "This is really strange, but I asked the computer repairman, and he said it might be due to a sudden change in voltage that caused the system to restart abnormally and delete the saved data."

Shen Xin looked him up and down.

He's in his forties or fifties, so he probably doesn't know much about computers.

Shen Xin, for one, did not believe such nonsense.

Someone definitely tampered with the computer; we need to investigate.

The main unit of the access control system is located in the guard booth.

Shen Xin went over to take a look.

From 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., not a single car entered. Only two cars left.

One Panamera, belonging to Building 8.

An S-Class, belonging to a resident of Building 12.

The security cameras at the gate also captured video of the two cars leaving.

The Panamera is owned by a woman. The security guard at the gate still remembers her because she is very beautiful and lives alone in Building 8. However, she is not the registered owner of the apartment. They all guess that she is a mistress being kept by a sugar daddy.

She left at 6:33.

The S-Class left even earlier, at 5:52 AM.

In the surveillance video, the security guard also admitted that the person was a resident of Building 12. He said the person was a nice guy, apparently a building materials dealer, who would occasionally deliver packages to his door and would even offer him cigarettes. He was at least a Da Su (a famous brand of cigarettes).

Shen Xin frowned.

During the period when Jiang Qi was missing, only two cars left, and the residential area only had this one exit.

Since people can't move, they can't just climb over the wall to get out.

The fence has an electronic fence, and no alarm was triggered all night.

Entry by non-residents is recorded.

That's really rare. A perfectly healthy person just vanished into thin air like that?
Shen Xin looked at the security guards and asked, "You should be very familiar with the residents of this community, right?"

The occupancy rate is low, there are only so many people, and security guards patrol back and forth. To be honest, they know exactly what kind of situation the owners are in.

They know everything about the intimate matters between men and women.

The three security guards exchanged glances and looked at Tang Hualong.

“This is an investigation; just say what you know,” Shen Xin said.

Tang Hualong quickly waved his hand, signaling him to speak boldly.

One of the young security guards said, "There's nothing special about the one in Building 26. It's just a kennel, and people often come to see the dogs."

"As for his wife, it seems she's sick and has been in a wheelchair, but I don't know exactly what illness she has."

Another security guard said, "I remember one night around the time of the Lunar New Year, the two of them seemed to have a fight."

"I happened to be patrolling over there when I heard the man open the door and come out. I quickly left, and when I got some distance away, I saw him smoking outside. It was obvious they had been arguing."

Shen Xin interrupted him, saying, "So, according to you, the relationship between the husband and wife isn't very good."

The last security guard shook his head and said, "No, they have a good relationship."

"You're late, so you don't know. Last year, that man often pushed the woman around the neighborhood, chatting and laughing. They seemed like a very loving couple."

"It's just that the woman's condition seems to have worsened in the past few months, so we haven't seen the two of them going out for walks much."

Shen Xin nodded and asked them if there were any other issues.

The three security guards thought for a moment, and one of them said, "Right, it was the afternoon of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. It seems like their dog went missing. The man even came to the property management office to check the surveillance footage, watched it, and then left. I don't know if they ever found it."

Is it the sixth day of the lunar new year again?

Shen Xin raised an eyebrow. Quite a few things happened on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

Shen Xin asked the three of them to recall what else had happened on the sixth day of the lunar new year.

The three shook their heads, indicating that nothing special had happened.

Shen Xin then asked Tang Hualong to inquire with the other security guards, especially those on duty on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, to see if there was anything unusual, and whether they knew anything special about Bai Jifei's family.

Tang Hualong ran out and asked around, then made a phone call, and his answer was similar to that of the three security guards.

Everyone knows the woman is sick and can only use a wheelchair.

And the couple's relationship was quite good.

Just then, Chen Chao arrived with reinforcements.

They brought DouDou with them.

Since the person is missing, we should investigate as a missing persons case.

Shen Xin didn't rush to tell people what he had discovered; he wanted to find someone first.

Technical reconnaissance personnel were deployed first.

Yu Xiaoping found a few of Jiang Qi's clothes and Shen Xin let Dou Dou smell them.

Not far away, Bai Jifei watched nervously.

"Did you remember?" Shen Xin squatted down and asked.

Remembered

I heard DouDou's inner thoughts.

Shen Xin immediately took Dou Dou's hand and began searching.

Let's start from the back door.

The front door surveillance camera was working normally and found nothing.

That can only be a blind spot in the back door's surveillance system.

It's actually quite unusual that the surveillance camera directly facing the back door was moved, while the cameras on the outside were not.

During the time of the incident, other surveillance cameras did not capture any strangers, Jiang Qi, or even vehicles.

So even if someone took Jiang Qi away through the back door, it should have been captured on the external surveillance cameras.

But no, so it's incredible.

DouDou lingered at the back door.

She sniffed very carefully.

【where】

【No】

Shen Xin kept hearing her inner thoughts.

She kept pacing around the back door, constantly glancing towards the villa.

She turned to look at Shen Xin, her eyes saying there was a smell inside.

"Shen Xin, what's wrong with Dou Dou? Didn't you notice?" Chen Chao asked curiously.

In the past, when DouDou took action, she was always successful and could quickly find clues.

Shen Xin, holding Dou Dou's hand, searched around the villa's perimeter and then told Chen Chao what he had found.

"In other words, during the time Jiang Qi was missing, only two cars left, the community's electronic fence was not triggered, and the surveillance cameras did not capture any abnormal situations."

"This person seems to have grown wings and flown away."

Chen Chao looked up at Bai Jifei, who was waiting in the distance, his gaze sharpening.

Humans don't grow wings and fly away.

In this situation, there can only be one explanation: Jiang Qi did not disappear, or rather, she did not disappear today.

(End of this chapter)