"This isn't a police surveillance camera." Makino Yosuke stared at the footage for a moment before quickly reaching a conclusion. "Neither its specifications nor its operating backend resemble the cameras connected to the European Monitoring Center. They hacked into civilian cameras near the hotel..."
As part of the city surveillance system, installing monitoring equipment atop high-rises facilitated comprehensive visual coverage and oversight of main roads and crowded areas. Capturing Senator Mario inside the hotel was already the result of an adjusted camera angle.
No matter which side this sniper belonged to, if he could act in coordination with the surveillance angles, he must have understood the coverage range beforehand. He could not possibly appear somewhere the cameras could capture.
Therefore, the footage displayed on the screen had to come from an area not included in the system.
As though responding to his words, Joker, pinned at the very top, chuckled twice and snapped his fingers again.
Another card flipped over, revealing an even higher vantage point: an accelerating helicopter.
It was not hard to tell from its direction that the helicopter was going to extract the sniper.
This time, no further explanations or orders were needed. The police officers and Pacific Buoy staff began making call after call. Before long, the high-tech control room was filled with a cacophony of different languages, practically turning into a customer service center.
Kuroda Hyoe was one of the few who remained relatively composed.
He studied the young man on the screen for a while—only a lock of hair and his chin illuminated, an amused smile playing on his lips—then stepped forward two paces. "Though you have appeared before cameras more than once, this is our first face-to-face exchange. Joker, I believe your goal is aligned with ours. You are certainly not people who