Li Xian froze when he saw the items arranged in the last display cabinet.
It was packed with videotapes.
A paper label was stuck to the side of each tape, marked in this format: number-year/month/day-time slot.
Li Xian opened the compartment closest to him and pulled out a videotape. The date on it was from before the accident.
So the truth was the exact opposite of what Wang, the Toy Factory's owner, had said. Not only had the cameras been powered on, but the factory had also carefully transferred every recording onto physical videotapes for storage.
The number at the beginning probably identified the camera. Videotapes had limited capacity and could likely hold only about two hours of footage. Judging by the numbers, the factory had installed five cameras in total, so a single day's recordings would use up nearly twenty tapes.
Li Xian clicked his tongue. His first reaction was-
Did this owner have nothing better to do?
Other than wanting to preserve the footage so he could make a documentary about the Toy Factory once it became successful, Li Xian couldn't think of any reason the owner would do this.
And judging by Wang's grand, ambitious statements in the newspapers before the accident, that might well have been exactly what he had in mind.
After briefly grumbling to himself, Li Xian put the matter aside. He brought over a ladder from the corner of the room and began checking the dates on the labels for tapes from the day the girl disappeared.
Since the videotapes in the cabinets were arranged in order, Li Xian quickly followed the dates to narrow his search down to the day of the incident.
The girl had disappeared at around two in the afternoon...
The only remaining problem was that he didn't know