Chapter 474
The surveillance cameras were replaced.
Chapter 474 The surveillance cameras were replaced.
Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng were both to be excused. After the handover of their work was completed, Director Meng told them to go home.
Before leaving, Su Miaoyi went to the forensic center, trying to see something from Jiang Nankun's body, but she saw nothing after more than half an hour in the autopsy room.
She got up and left the dissection room when Yan Cheng took the chainsaw to cut the skull.
She worried that the other personality would get excited by such a bloody scene and insist on sawing off the skull.
She went to the parking lot and saw that Zhuang Yanzheng's car was still parked on the side, and he was still sitting in the car.
Xi Xian was in her car.
Su Miaoyi walked to Zhuang Yanzheng's car, opened the door, and sat in the passenger seat.
"Haven't you gone back yet?"
"Thinking about the case." Zhuang Yanzheng moved his fingers and turned on the car's heater.
Su Miaoyi glanced at his car. After changing to this car, it always gave her a feeling that it was old yet very advanced.
"Didn't you see anything?"
Su Miaoyi shook her head.
Xi Xian watched the two of them from the back seat of Su Miaoyi's car.
"Don't worry, Yan Zhou didn't do it. Even if it's a frame-up, it won't matter," Zhuang Yanzheng said.
Su Miaoyi nodded, but was still worried: "There are his fingerprints on the fruit knife. If we can't find evidence to prove his innocence, I don't know how long he'll be locked up inside. And we need very strong evidence, otherwise it will involve too many people."
Zhuang Yanzheng naturally knew what she was talking about.
The Shen family also includes Qin Chengyuan.
He paused for a few seconds and then said, "Your brother isn't as fragile as you think."
“He’s not fragile, he’s just a clean freak,” Su Miaoyi said. “It’s just that over time, he feels like everything is dirty.”
Zhuang Yanzheng smiled and said, "How did he manage to be friends with me?"
"We grew up together, there's really no other way." Su Miaoyi smiled as well.
Zhuang Yanzheng smiled and said, "Let's go to my house first. My mom rarely cooks. We mainly want to talk about the case. We need to find Jiang Xutong and Qian Ying, and we also need to keep an eye on Fan Ning."
“I really have to go to your house first,” Su Miaoyi said. “The bureau will check the surveillance footage, and your family will probably find out soon. I think my uncle will be furious, so I need to take my time before going back. In this situation, let my dad take the brunt of the criticism first.”
"Just listening to it, I can tell that Director Qin is in a really bad situation," Zhuang Yanzheng said.
“It’s okay, my dad’s used to it. It’s not like he’s had a terrible day yet,” Su Miaoyi said with unusual cruelty.
Zhuang Yanzheng started the car: "Just leave your car here."
"Mm." Su Miaoyi rolled down the car window and waved to Xi Xian.
Xi Xian sat in the back seat of the car: "Where to?"
"I'll take you to eat something delicious," Su Miaoyi said.
We arrived at Zhuang Yanzheng's house.
Su Miaoyi greeted Zhuang Yihao and Yan Zhiqing, chatted for a few minutes, and then had lunch.
Then he and Zhuang Yanzheng went upstairs to the tea room.
Before long, Yan Zhiqing and Zhuang Yihao heard about the Shen family's situation.
Zhuang Yihao shouted from downstairs: "Zhuang Yanzheng!"
Zhuang Yanzheng came out of the tea room and stood on the second floor: "What's wrong?"
"Are you two coming back at this time to avoid Yan Zhou's case?" Zhuang Yihao asked.
The three of them returned without saying anything, and Yan Zhiqing and the others didn't ask anything either.
Hearing Zhuang Yihao ask this question, Su Miaoyi knew that the people from the bureau must have retrieved the surveillance footage from her uncle's house and left.
Zhuang Yanzheng said, "Yes."
Zhuang Yihao casually waved him back to the tea room without asking any further questions. He and Yan Zhiqing planned to go to the Shen family to see what was going on, and Xi Xian went along as well.
"Qi Feng just sent me a message," Zhuang Yanzheng said, turning on the screen in the tea room and projecting the video Qi Feng had sent.
Two videos, two surveillance videos.
Both videos were a little over two minutes long. After the two videos finished playing, Su Miaoyi was a bit dazed.
Both videos were taken in the early hours of the third day of the Lunar New Year, and they are surveillance videos from the stairwell of Weiyang Palace.
In terms of timing, there was nearly an hour between the two surveillance videos.
"What's wrong with these two surveillance videos?" Su Miaoyi was confused.
It's the surveillance camera in the stairwell.
There was nothing there, just an empty staircase.
Zhuang Yanzheng played both videos again.
Su Miaoyi looked at it again, then looked at him.
"Have you noticed anything wrong?"
“No,” Su Miaoyi said. “There’s not a single person in this video, so you can’t tell anything.”
“In both videos, about ten seconds were replaced,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.
Su Miaoyi was shocked. She watched the video again and confirmed that there were no frame skips or time jumps: "It's been replaced?!"
“Yes,” Zhuang Yanzheng said, “I can’t tell either.”
Su Miaoyi looked at it again: "If someone has very, very good skills in this area and can replace it so well that it's undetectable, I can understand. But how was the video replaced? This surveillance footage was copied from the monitoring room back to the municipal bureau by you."
Zhuang Yanzheng explained, "Based on the fingerprints at Yan Zhou's residence, the bureau deduced that Jiang Nankun was likely murdered shortly after entering Yan Zhou's residence. Therefore, apart from his body, there were no traces or fingerprints related to Jiang Nankun in the room."
"Based on the time of Jiang Nankun's death, the bureau estimated that Jiang Nankun entered Yan Zhou's residence at around 3 a.m. on the third day of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, they thoroughly reviewed all the surveillance footage of the elevator and stairwell on the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year. Since they did not see how Jiang Nankun entered Yan Zhou's residence, they asked the technical department to check the surveillance footage."
"The technical department found the problem. They went to the monitoring room of Weiyang Palace to check and found that someone had hacked into the monitoring room before."
"Hacking?" Su Miaoyi asked.
Zhuang Yanzheng nodded: "The other party hacked into the surveillance system and replaced two surveillance cameras."
“These two surveillance videos are very likely the footage of Jiang Xutong and Jiang Nankun going downstairs to my brother’s place, and then Jiang Xutong going back upstairs by herself,” Su Miaoyi said.
"Yes."
“There is no evidence to prove my brother’s innocence, nor is there any evidence to prove that Jiang Xutong did these things,” Su Miaoyi said. “Even if we know there’s something wrong with the surveillance footage, we don’t know who did it.”
"The technical department is looking." After Zhuang Yanzheng finished speaking, he paused and then said, "When the technical department recruits, they only recruit top talents. It seems that in the past two years, others have made progress, but the people in our technical department have not made progress very fast."
Su Miaoyi thought for a moment and said, "If Jiang Nankun wasn't killed by Jiang Xutong, then she would still know that he died at my brother's place. There's something very suspicious about what Jiang Xutong said to my brother on the phone: that she would never see him again."
"But if Jiang Xutong killed him, why would she kill Jiang Nankun?" Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Didn't Yan Zhou say that the two of them had a very good relationship?"
“This is probably something that happened in their family.” Su Miaoyi said, then saw the scene of Tian Min killing Zhao Yongliang. “With Jiang Zhan dead, her family is likely in chaos.”
"What's wrong?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked when she pressed her forehead.
“I saw the scene of Zhao Yongliang being killed by Tian Min again,” Su Miaoyi said.
"You saw it again?" Zhuang Yanzheng said. "The same one I saw this morning?"
“Exactly the same.” Su Miaoyi gently rubbed her eyes.
Zhuang Yanzheng was silent for a moment before saying, "Should we go to Yanjing Village?"
"Ok?"
"Before you went to Yanjing Village last time, you kept walking or spacing out in the direction of Changshi. Now you keep seeing images of Zhao Yongliang being killed."
"Let's contact the Changshi police station first, and then investigate Zhao Yongliang in detail. In Jinghai, we haven't found Jiang Xutong and Qian Ying, and Fan Ning hasn't said anything yet. My brother is still in the interrogation room, and I really can't rest easy going anywhere else at this time."
"Okay, contact Duan Wenrui and check Zhao Yongliang again."
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