Su Bai challenged the evidence, maintaining that it was insufficient and that additional evidentiary materials were needed.
The prosecution investigated the following evidence.
First, it conducted a focused examination of the three assailants, Xu Feng, Li Tao, and Zhang Manlei.
The main purpose was to ask them exactly what had happened while they were in custody.
The three of them certainly knew what had happened. They simply refused to talk, and repeated questioning had yielded nothing.
Second, it sought out the surveillance footage from the time to see exactly what had happened on camera.
Third, it searched for the physical evidence.
That physical evidence was the wooden stick used to strike Lin Dong.
These three points were the key pieces of supplementary evidence.
During the examination of the evidence, Su Bai also got involved, accompanying Prosecutor Li Xiaorong to quite a few places.
Mostly, however, they visited the police station where Lin Dong and the others had been held.
They asked the chief and the others exactly what had happened.
The police station chief was a man approaching fifty named Li Xiong.
Li Xiaorong and Su Bai arrived at the police station, wanting to meet Chief Li Xiong and obtain the surveillance footage from the time.
They did get to meet him.
He observed all the courtesies, taking them into his office and pouring them tea while they waited.
They waited for about two hours.
Li Xiong had someone bring over the surveillance footage, but when Li Xiaorong watched it, he was stunned.
The surveillance footage...?
The camera angle was crooked!
It was clear that throughout the recording, the camera had captured only the bottoms of their feet-in other words, everyone's shoes.
It showed nothing of what had actually happened.
Li Xiaorong frowned slightly. "This... surveillance footage?"
Li Xiong feigned