Reborn a day later, I emptied my enemy's possessions beforehand.

Sun Guiying's voice was high-pitched and fast:

"All the pharmaceutical company's surveillance footage has been taken away, so what evidence do we have left?"

But he came to see us yesterday. After we saw him, we inexplicably fell asleep. When we woke up, we found our house had been emptied, and our faces were—”

She subconsciously touched her swollen cheeks and gasped, "My face looks like this now."

Moreover, he came to the pharmaceutical factory last night and told all the security guards on duty to go home and rest. After he left, the pharmaceutical factory was emptied out.

He's unreachable now, his phone is switched off. If it wasn't him, who else could it be?

Wang Jinshan added from the back: "Yes, he must have planned it all along."

He went to my house first yesterday, and then to his own house—no, I can't remember which house he went to first, but he went to both houses anyway.

After he found us, we all inexplicably fell asleep, and when we woke up, this was the scene before us.

Captain Fang finished writing down the last few words in his notebook, closed it, glanced at them, and didn't say anything.

His professional training told him that the case was much more complicated than he had anticipated.

He hesitated for a moment, then said, "The pharmaceutical factory's surveillance equipment is also missing?"

"They're all gone," Old Liu chimed in from the side.

"The hard drive recorder, the monitor, and even the control panel in the monitoring room were all taken away. Nothing was left."

Captain Fang thought for a moment and said, "The pharmaceutical factory's surveillance footage is gone, but you and you—"

He glanced at Sun Guiying and Wang Jinshan, "The surveillance cameras at the entrances and exits of your respective residential communities are definitely still there."

If Zhou Haibing really emptied both of your villas, with so many things going in and out, it's impossible that there wasn't a record on the surveillance cameras.

We'll go check the security camera footage in your neighborhood first.

Sun Guiying, Wang Jinshan, and Zhao Shuzhen exchanged glances and nodded.

The group walked out of the factory area.

Sun Guiying, Wang Jinshan, and Zhao Shuzhen got into the police car.

Captain Fang let them squeeze into the police SUV. Lao Ma and Lao Liu stood at the factory gate and watched the police car drive away. The two cars did not turn on their red and blue lights and silently turned out of the industrial area.

The first police car led the way, followed by Captain Fang's car, heading towards the residential area where Sun Guiying's villa was located.

When they arrived at the entrance of the residential area, the security guard saw the police car, paused for a moment, and then quickly ran out of the guardhouse.

Sun Guiying leaned out of the car window, her face swollen. The security guard recognized her, opened his mouth as if to say something, but then didn't dare to.

Captain Fang got out of the car, showed his credentials, and explained his purpose to the security guard.

The security guard didn't dare to delay and quickly led them into the community, jogging all the way to the monitoring room behind the property management office.

The monitoring room is small, with a row of monitors on the wall displaying real-time footage of various corners of the community.

A young technician was sitting at the control panel when he saw the police enter, and he quickly stood up.

Captain Fang asked Sun Guiying:

When was the last time you saw Zhou Haibing? What time did he get home?

Sun Guiying stood in the monitoring room, barefoot in men's slippers, her toes curling nervously on the ground.

She thought for a moment and said, "Yesterday morning. Around nine o'clock, almost ten o'clock."

I was about to leave when he stopped me and said he wanted to talk to me about company matters.

Later... later I don't remember anything at all.

Team leader turned to the technician:

"Please check the surveillance footage of the community entrances and exits between 9:00 and 10:00 AM yesterday."

The technician tapped a few times on the keyboard, and the surveillance playback appeared on the screen.

The timecode in the upper left corner of the screen is flashing—

At 9:41 a.m., a black Mercedes-Benz S-Class appeared at the entrance of the residential area, and its license plate was clearly captured by the camera.

Zhou Haibing sat alone in the driver's seat, the window was half open, the sliding door was open, and the car drove in.

"Is this Zhou Haibing's car?" Captain Fang asked.

Sun Guiying nodded: "Yes."

The video continues to play.

The time jumped to 10:15, and the same car drove out of the community exit again.

The car windows were closed, so you couldn't see the people inside, but the license plate number was the same.

After the car left the residential area, it turned onto the main road and disappeared from the view.

Captain Fang instructed the technicians to rewind the timeline, all the way back to this morning.

He asked the security guard next to him:

"Has this car come in again after 10:15 AM yesterday?"

The security guard shook his head and said with certainty:

"I don't think so. Our community has electronic records for all vehicles entering and exiting; I can check."

The technician retrieved the vehicle entry and exit records for the entire community yesterday.

A long list on the screen, with time, license plate number, and direction of entry and exit, is displayed clearly.

Zhou Haibing's license plate number only appeared twice yesterday after 9 a.m.

Entered at 9:41 AM and left at 10:15 AM.

They never appeared again after that.

Captain Fang turned around and looked at Sun Guiying and Wang Jinshan.

Sun Guiying's face was filled with disbelief.

Her eyes were squeezed into slits by her swollen cheeks, but the light shining through those slits was dull.

She stared at the two records on the screen, her lips moving several times before she finally managed to squeeze out a sentence:

"This...how is this possible?"

Wang Jinshan didn't believe it either, so he leaned closer to the screen and looked at the record again, then looked at it again to make sure he hadn't misread it.

His expression changed more noticeably than Sun Guiying's—from certainty to doubt, from doubt to wavering, and from wavering to bewilderment.

"He..." Wang Jinshan's voice caught in his throat, as if something was blocking it.

"He only came in and out once? Just once? How is that possible? We have so much stuff, and he moved it all by himself in one trip with just one car? Are you kidding me?"

Zhao Shuzhen whispered something from behind, her voice low, but each word seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth:

"Could it be that he called in a large truck? Large trucks can carry a lot of stuff and can haul everything away in one go."

Sun Guiying, as if grasping at a straw, quickly turned to look at the security guard:

"Yes, a big truck! He must have called a big truck! Did you allow a big truck into the residential area?"

The security guard shook his head, his tone very firm:

Large trucks can't get into our community. The entrance has a height limit of 2.2 meters, so large trucks can't get in.

Furthermore, there were no records of any trucks entering or leaving the register throughout yesterday.

The technician pulled up the surveillance footage again, fast-forwarding from 10:15 AM yesterday.

The video played rapidly, showing the scene at the entrance of the residential area like a fast-forwarded movie, with people and cars coming and going, but the cars on screen were all sedans, SUVs, electric bikes, and pedestrians.

There were no trucks, not a single one, not even a medium-sized truck.

Sun Guiying shifted her gaze from the screen to Captain Fang's face.

Captain Fang didn't speak, but his silence itself was an answer.

She gleaned a chilling conclusion from his silence—

If Zhou Haibing only entered and exited the residential area once, and there was no sign of anything being loaded in the car, then the person who emptied the villa might not be Zhou Haibing.

If it's not Zhou Haibing, then who could it be?