Monitoring Footage

Staying Up All Night

"I-I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry, but there was nothing I could do!"

The head of security at the Titanium Gold International Building wore a miserable expression. The hard drives used by the Monitoring System had no error-correction function, so a great deal of data had been lost and could not be recovered.

There was no escaping a severe reprimand after such a major blunder. His bonus for the month was gone, and even his year-end bonus might be affected.

Li Bai said helplessly, "Forget it. We'll think of something else."

He had noticed traces of hypnosis on several security guards. Fortunately, they had arrived early. In a few more days, even that faint trace would have vanished without a trace.

The foreigner who had hypnotized Ruan Chen had been meticulous. He had hypnotized the building's security guards too, erasing the surveillance footage that might have shown him. Even with a later investigation, it would be difficult to identify him.

The computer technician had exhausted every means of recovering the deleted footage from the surveillance hard drives, but to no avail. Hearing Li Bai and Xiao Wang talking, he immediately raised his hand and suggested, "There are other surveillance cameras near the building. The oldest log entry here can help us work backward to figure out when the logs were cleared and the footage deleted. We can use that time window to narrow down which footage to look for."

"Oh? That could work!"

Xiao Wang's eyes lit up. The net of heaven was vast, but it let nothing slip through.

The suspect had thought himself clever, but his actions had left a trace.

Erasing the footage from the Titanium Gold International Building's cameras had been easy. Wiping the recordings from every camera nearby would be much