"It's possible, but it'll take quite a while," the man in the white coat told Zhao Xun. "Each camera only has a minute of footage to retrieve, but there are too many cameras..."
Zhao Xun interrupted him. "Retrieve some first. I'll watch while you pull up the next batch. That way we won't waste time."
"All right." The man in the white coat agreed and began working quickly at the computer.
Soon, the monitor was divided into more than a dozen small windows, each playing a different one-minute clip.
By then, Zhao Xun had found the Slums on the layout map. He studied the route carefully, committing the general direction to memory before looking up at the monitor.
He watched the one-minute videos one by one at double speed, quickly getting through more than a hundred clips.
"What exactly are you looking for?" the man in the white coat couldn't help asking. "Why not just tell me? I might be able to help you narrow it down quickly."
Zhao Xun had no intention of explaining. He simply said, "Keep going."
He knew what Demon looked like, but he had no photograph of him and wasn't good at drawing, so he couldn't have the man in the white coat run a facial search.
Of course, even if the man had a way to quickly generate a portrait, Zhao Xun still wouldn't reveal Demon's appearance.
He wasn't worried about Demon's safety. He simply wasn't sure whether the computer was being monitored.
If it was, searching for a particular person would stand out as unusual and might attract the attention of the Underground City's higher-ups.
His side quest was to "liberate the captives." Even if these "captives" weren't prisoners, they were most likely people opposed to the higher-ups.
He couldn't let those people