Ke Meng had seen a movie in which the protagonist watched surveillance footage at lightning speed, his brain working like a computer, rapidly memorizing every suspicious person, vehicle, and other detail in the footage and analyzing anything that seemed off.
At the Investigation Bureau, personnel with high gnosis watched surveillance footage at lightning speed instead. As countless images passed through their minds, their spiritual perception would issue faint warnings.
Ke Meng pulled up the surveillance footage in the class C files and switched to the Third Street intersection at 12:01 p.m.
The footage instantly jumped to the pedestrian crossing, where a child wearing a face mask was riding a shared electric scooter.
The boy was not particularly tall. Judging by his height relative to the scooter, he was about 1.4 meters tall, looking like a middle schooler or perhaps an elementary school student.
"He's so young!" Ke Meng blurted out.
Ke Meng could hardly be blamed for his surprise. The little boy in the surveillance footage really did look very young. No one who saw him would associate him with a special criminal case.
In the video, the little boy wore a red baseball cap, a short red shirt, red knee-length shorts, and a blue-and-white medical mask as he waited by the roadside for the pedestrian light to change.
Once the light turned green, he wobbled away on the shared electric scooter.
Ke Meng then switched between the surveillance cameras along that road that had caught sight of him. After following him through five videos, that faint feeling rose within him.
Watching the boy on the electric scooter, Ke Meng felt as though he were seeing the Red Car riding on the scooter. The scooter, meanwhile, gave off the impression of a lovesick pushover, seemingly unlocking itself.
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