After their captain took his seat, Lei Ting and Liu Wang also sat down on either side of him, directly facing the three policemen across from them. The policeman who had been leading the way just now silently walked out of the conference room and stood at the door.
"Let's briefly explain the situation of the case first, Captain Cheng." Lin Yuexiang said.
Captain Cheng, whose epaulettes had two silver horizontal bars and three four-pointed stars, nodded and began to describe the case: "To ensure that everyone has the same understanding of the case, I'll first go over the beginning of this case again.
"At the very beginning, on May 19th, two months ago, a property owner in a residential community in Jiading District reported a case of burglary. The local neighborhood police station dispatched officers to investigate. When they retrieved the surveillance footage from the community, they found that all the surveillance cameras in the community had malfunctioned simultaneously, and the same was true for the surveillance cameras on the street outside the community. At first, the local police station just thought it was a coincidence and only complained about their bad luck. Later, since they couldn't get any useful clues from the victim's home or the neighboring residents, and considering that the victim didn't lose much property, the burglary case was eventually left unresolved.
"However, just one week later, another case of burglary occurred in Jiangsong District. The local neighborhood police station dispatched officers and retrieved the surveillance footage near the crime scene. As a result, all the surveillance cameras near the crime scene malfunctioned again, and this case was also left unresolved in the end.
"Another week later, this time it was in Quanshan District. There was the same case of burglary, and all the nearby surveillance cameras malfunctioned again. But this time, the local police station sensed that something was wrong and reported the case to the Quanshan District Public Security Sub-bureau. The sub-bureau immediately discovered that in the same month, there had been exactly the same burglary cases in the other two districts. The sub-bureau immediately realized that this was not a coincidence, but that the criminal had used some method to make all the surveillance cameras near the crime scene malfunction, thus covering up his route when coming and going.
"After understanding this, the Quanshan District Sub-bureau immediately contacted the Jiading District and Jiangsong District Sub-bureaus and formed a joint task force to conduct a detailed investigation. They also successfully repaired all the malfunctioning surveillance cameras. However, the above activities still didn't yield any clues about the criminal's identity. Even though the criminal knew that he was being investigated, he still swaggered and successfully committed the same crimes in Baoshan District and Minhang District one after another, which can be said to be mocking our public security department with his actions. Finally, this series of burglaries was also reported to our General Bureau.
"The above is the beginning and the process of the case. Next, I will tell you how we discovered that the criminal might be a superpower user. Don't worry, there is definitely evidence. Without evidence that can firmly prove that the other party is definitely a superpower user, we wouldn't dare to ask for your help.
"The evidence comes from the seventh case of burglary that occurred last night. Although all the surveillance cameras near the crime scene still malfunctioned, the victim's home was equipped with many hidden cameras, and these cameras were not affected. Oh, I have to explain that the reason why the victim's home had hidden cameras installed was that the victim often went on business trips, and he had three cats at home. In order to better observe his cats while on business trips and because obvious cameras might be damaged by the cats, he specially installed hidden cameras. It was precisely because of this that these cameras were spared from being damaged by the criminal, thus leaving us with key clues and evidence that the criminal has superpowers. Specifically, please look at the screen."
After saying that, Captain Cheng took out a mini remote control and pressed a button. A white gauze screen descended from the ceiling, and the indicator light of the hanging projector also lit up, projecting the pre-prepared video content onto the gauze screen.
The screen was playing the content recorded by a certain surveillance camera, and the image quality was extremely clear.
The camera's view showed the front door of a household and the opposite elevator door. The arrow on the elevator floor display next to the elevator door pointed upward, indicating that the elevator in the elevator shaft was rising.
About six seconds later, with a "ding~", the elevator door opened, and a hand wearing a black glove with extremely long sleeves reached out from the elevator.
The next second, the camera screen went black, and there was no more footage.
The screen switched.
This time, the screen only showed an elevator door, and the arrow on the nearby elevator floor display pointed upward again. "Sorry, I accidentally forgot. This is a mini camera installed inside the anti-theft door at the owner's own expense, and it also escaped the criminal's destruction." Captain Cheng explained.
The video continued to play. Again, six seconds later, there was a "ding~", and the elevator door opened.
This time, due to the angle, everyone could clearly see the criminal who had almost offended all the public security policemen in Shanghai City.
He was wearing black long clothes and pants, a black mask, sunglasses, and gloves, and he was wearing a baseball cap pulled down very low. Even his shoes were covered with black opaque plastic bags. It could be said that he didn't leave the police even the slightest clue about his appearance.
In the video, the criminal took a few steps to the elevator door but didn't immediately step out of the elevator. Instead, he first stretched out his right hand outside, and only left the elevator about two seconds later.
Standing in front of the anti-theft door, the criminal reached out and covered the fingerprint lock for fingerprint detection. After a moment, he retracted his hand, and the anti-theft door opened by itself.
"It can be confirmed that he is a superpower user. Without superpowers, it's impossible to do this." Lei Ting thought to himself while watching the video footage.
After the anti-theft door opened, the criminal didn't rush in but stood there as if stunned. After about two seconds, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the mini camera embedded in the anti-theft door, reached out and covered it, and then the screen went blank.
"Did he find it through an ability similar to'sensing'? It seems so." Lei Ting thought.
The screen switched again. This time, it was from an angle in the living room of the house, and it could just cover most of the living room and a small part of the dining room, which was the best angle.
"This is one of the hidden cameras installed by the victim. There is basically one in each of the other rooms." Captain Cheng said.
The video continued to play. In the picture, the criminal entered the house. He first looked around and then walked straight out of the surveillance range.
"Is there no more discovery this time? Hmm... I probably guessed what his superpower is." The corners of Lei Ting's mouth turned up slightly. Just as he was about to ask Captain Cheng a question, his own captain spoke up first:
"Is this current camera placed next to some ordinary electrical appliance? Such as a TV."
"Yes." Captain Cheng affirmed. "This current hidden camera is embedded in the vase next to the TV."
"As expected." Lin Yuexiang smiled and stopped talking.