The two assassins from the Chicago Mutual Aid Society certainly weren't going to sit around treating this like a vacation just because Black Super had no plan.
At their request, Black Super provided M40A3 Sniper Rifles fitted with special-purpose scopes. Following Whistler's advice, they went to places where vampires might appear to watch for them and identify them.
The homemade special-purpose scopes mounted on the rifles were almost as big as telephoto camera lenses. Essentially, each was a small computer terminal connected to Black Super's vampire monitoring system.
Besides optical targeting, they could switch to thermal imaging, infrared, and other modes. They also offered facial recognition, checking the identity of anyone caught in the scope and whether their name appeared on his vampire list.
If someone was on his list, the results would be added to their entry. Once they were confirmed to be a vampire or not, the notes on the list would update automatically.
Cross and Fox didn't have to do any paperwork. All they had to do was point the rifles—which used long-range cameras with crosshairs superimposed on them as scopes—in a particular direction, and the computer would handle identification automatically.
As for why they couldn't simply use cameras instead of insisting on adding rifles, that was down to the two assassins. They insisted they were assassins, not detectives.
Besides, if something unexpected happened, a rifle was a weapon. A camera could only be thrown at someone like a brick. That might not even kill a human, let alone a vampire.
During the early stages of reconnaissance, neither assassin had grown bored yet, so they were quite active, staking out quite a few places each day. Yet even including the reconnaissance aircraft Little Duck II, the total number of people identified over several days hadn't exceeded a