A cold, pale screen appeared on the outdated phone, and with the two phones stacked together, the image quality was compressed even further.
Within the murky gray footage, a constantly swaying camera moved forward, tracking ahead from a first-person perspective as it walked through the deserted Old Yu Street late at night.
The viewpoint was set rather low, rocking from side to side as it walked, like an underdeveloped child. It looked especially strange.
With the blurry image quality compounded by the obstruction of the buildings on all four sides, the entire picture was very dim, and many details were impossible to make out clearly.
In this video, which lasted 4 minutes and 2 seconds,
the camera lingered at the first-floor courtyard for the shortest amount of time—only about five seconds—before starting to climb the stairs step by step along a narrow, cramped staircase.
There was too much static to make out the footsteps at all, but upon seeing the shape of those stairs, Ji Li immediately recognized that the video's protagonist had not taken the East Building stairs, but the South Building stairs.
A narrow staircase that the agent had called the "shaded side."
During the first minute of the video, the protagonist spent half a minute crossing through the South Building, North Building, and West Building with its short, swaying steps, finally arriving at the second floor of the East Building.
Ji Li fell into thought when he saw this. He had discovered the first suspicious point in the video.
Using the East Building's wide staircase as the reference point, the East, West, North, and South Buildings enclosed Old Yu Street. The four buildings seemed adjacent and interconnected, but in reality, every floor between the East Building and South Building was sealed off by iron grilles.
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