Chapter 48 Purpose
Liang Xi pointed to the surveillance camera at the intersection and asked, "What did it capture?"
Bobby replied, "Three months ago, this surveillance camera accidentally showed snowflakes. Since other surveillance cameras were intact, the administrator reported it to the company but no one paid much attention to it. When the little boy saw the ghost, the surveillance camera happened to show snowflakes. Interestingly, the police checked other surveillance cameras and found that the surveillance cameras did not capture any vehicles or people entering the warehouse area within an hour before and after the haunting. You just saw the only entrance to the warehouse, and the security guard at the entrance booth did not find any vehicles or pedestrians entering the warehouse area."
Liang Xi said: "That is to say, there may be people living in warehouses 421-440, 501-520."
Bobby said, "No judge is going to issue dozens of search warrants based on the little boy's description."
Liang Xi understood that Bobby wanted him to solve the case and meet a ghost at the same time.
Liang Xi said: "Bobby."
Bobby was alert: "I don't like your tone."
Liang Xi said, "Seeing ghosts five times is free. I won't refuse to pay. But solving the case will cost extra."
Bobby was annoyed: "Want to bargain again?"
Liang Xi said: "You can also give it directly."
Bobby asked, "How much does it cost?"
Liang Xi did not answer immediately. Bobby said, "Let me make it clear. If you cannot solve the case, you have to compensate me for my commission. You charge me one hundred, and if you do not solve the case, you have to pay me one hundred."
Liang Xi ignored Bobby. He first had to determine the nature of the case before deciding how much he would charge. It was hard to say whether the case existed or not. Children speak without restraint. Sometimes children's words are very credible, and sometimes they are completely unreliable. The reason is that children can easily confuse dreams, cartoons and reality.
The child said there was a skeleton floating on the road, OK, theoretically it can be done. The surveillance did not capture any suspicious vehicles or people, OK, that could be because the person lived in the warehouse or other reasons. The key point of the case lies in the word "floating", why would the skeleton float on the road? Liang Xi can find an explanation for every strange point, but he cannot find the purpose of the skeleton floating on the road. Therefore, Liang Xi believes that there is a possibility that the little boy is lying or that he made a mistake in the details.
When the police investigate a case, they reason from clues to find answers. Liang Xi, the detective, likes to assume answers and then eliminate them. Liang Xi cannot assume answers until the purpose of the floating human body is solved. Therefore, if Liang Xi wants to solve the case, he can only give up his evil martial arts and start looking for and collecting clues until he solves the mystery of the floating human body.
Liang Xi didn't care why the human body floated, he cared about the purpose of the human body floating. The detective's sharp thinking told him that the purpose of the human body floating was the most critical factor in this case.
"Hello, Liang Xi?" Bobby waved in front of Liang Xi and called out several times but received no response.
Liang Xi retracted his thoughts and said, "I want to talk to the security guard, the night shift security guard. If possible, I hope to talk to the little boy."
Bobby replied, "I can't do that little boy, but security can be arranged. I'll take care of everything. What's our topic?"
Liang Xi asked back: "What topic?"
Bobby looked at Liang Xi and shook his head: "No, there is no topic." This guy really seems to be a bit of a detective.
Liang Xi had no interest in arguing with Bobby. He was thinking about the information he had and recording the surrounding details in his mind. Liang Xi ignored Bobby, who felt quite bored. He followed Liang Xi on the road and couldn't help asking, "If what the little boy said is true, how can a person float 0.5 meters above the ground?"
Liang Xi replied: "The answer to this question is meaningless, there are many ways."
Bobby asked, "So what are you thinking about?"
Liang Xi replied: "I want to find out the secret of the surveillance. All the surveillance is working normally, but this surveillance sometimes works and sometimes doesn't."
Bobby asked, "Did the floating guy break the surveillance camera?"
Liang Xi shook his head: "No, it is much more difficult to monitor poor contact than to monitor non-functioning."
Bobby: "Someone hacked into the surveillance?"
Liang Xi thought for a long time: "I can't rule out this possibility."
Bobby concluded: "Someone wanted to do something, so he hacked into the surveillance camera, causing the surveillance camera to occasionally freeze. The surveillance camera could not capture his behavior."
Liang Xi said: "Surveillance is just a clue and cannot fundamentally solve the case."
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The night shift security guard answered Liang Xi's question: "Three months ago, the first snowflake appeared on surveillance camera No. 6."
Liang Xi asked: "Why is there no maintenance?"
The security guard replied: "After we reported the repair, there was no problem in the next few days. The staff of the company's engineering department checked the surveillance and found no problem. The frequency of snowflakes will appear about once every one to two weeks in the future."
Liang Xi asked: "How long will it last?"
The security guard replied: "The length varies. The shortest seems to be only about ten seconds. The longest I remember was three minutes. After the picture was restored for about a minute, the snowflakes appeared for another minute."
Liang Xi asked: "Did all of this happen during the night shift?"
The security guard replied: "There should be some during the day, but I would rather go out on patrol than sit in the guardhouse and stare at the surveillance camera. The night shift is boring, and my partner is a dull guy, so I just stare at the surveillance camera when I have nothing to do."
Liang Xi asked curiously: "Didn't you arrange patrols?"
The security guard replied: "Our surveillance covers every area of the warehouse without blind spots."
Liang Xi said: "I noticed that the iron fence is two and a half meters high, and there are several steel wires stretched outward at a 45-degree angle. Are the steel wires electrified?"
The security guard replied: "There is no electricity. This design can already prevent ordinary people from climbing the fence. The main security force is still provided by surveillance."
Liang Xi asked: "Has the number of snowflakes increased recently?"
The security guard replied: "It doesn't seem to have increased much."
Liang Xi asked: "How are your shifts arranged? Do you have meals at night?"
The security guard replied: "We have three shifts in total, each shift is 12 hours long. The night shift is from 7pm to 7am the next day, and we provide working meals during the shift. In fact, you just order takeout. The Italian pizza nearby is pretty good."
Liang Xi nodded and asked, "What time do you usually have supper?"
The security guard replied: "11 o'clock, or a little after 11 o'clock."
Liang Xi said: "One last question, do you guys sleep at night?"
The security guard hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Yes, we will close the gate after supper. If you need anything, you can press the intercom next to the gate and talk directly to us in the booth. In my three years of experience working here, few people come to the warehouse in the early morning."
The boy's father called the police at about 1 a.m., so the security guard must have fallen asleep. Judging from the building materials of the sentry box, it has a certain sound insulation effect. Therefore, it is possible that the helicopter was used to hang the man. Liang Xi thought that a better way was to climb over the fence from the area covered by surveillance camera No. 6. The fence more than two meters high is no challenge at all for an expert.
Each unit's warehouse area has two vertical ladders. Even without them, it is not difficult for an expert to reach the top of the 4.2-meter-high warehouse. Therefore, there are many ways to achieve the scene of the little boy seeing people floating in the air. If you don't mind the trouble, you can even pull a steel cable between the iron fence and the warehouse.
The question is again, why did he float in the air and walk more than ten meters when there was a good road and the top of the warehouse? There is no similar video on the Internet, which means that the other party was not trying to scare people or become famous. He was just accidentally seen by the boy. Of course, there is still a high possibility that the boy was wrong or lying. But if he was lying or wrong, the whole case is completely meaningless.
