"Brother Xu, what did you find?"
Xu Zhou pondered for a moment. "This place and that place are both blind spots for the surveillance cameras. If someone stood here, the cameras wouldn't catch them."
"And the next stretch of surveillance..." Xu Zhou gestured. "If they didn't want to appear in the next camera's footage, they could only leave from here."
Xu Zhou pointed at a closed-down convenience store beside them.
The other storefronts were either still open or undergoing renovations.
The open stores all had surveillance cameras installed outside their entrances.
The authorities had surely checked the surveillance footage as well.
This was the only closed-down convenience store he had seen without surveillance cameras, and it happened to be wedged between several stores under renovation.
Ye Xuan stood there and looked around for quite a while before realizing that if his sister had disappeared here, then the cameras truly would not have captured it.
"But this is a commercial district. There are plenty of pedestrians around at noon, with people constantly coming and going. If something happened to her here, wouldn't anyone nearby have noticed?"
"That's because your sister wasn't taken away by someone. She left on her own."
Xu Zhou glanced at the convenience store's layout, then led him around to the back.
"Hey, where are you two going?"
Chu He grabbed Jian Bai and hurried after them.
When Ye Xuan reached the back, he stared in shock at one spot. "This store has a back door?"
The door was now locked.
Xu Zhou, however, was looking at the traces on the ground.
Then he said, "Follow me."
His figure flashed, and he vanished from where he stood.
"Huh? Brother Xu, wait..."
Ye Xuan watched helplessly as Xu Zhou disappeared before his eyes.
Jian Bai and Chu He patted