Chapter 743 On the Escape
In the corridor, a burly man stopped in front of a door, accompanied by several companions.
The man looked up and saw the green indicator light on the surface, indicating that the cleaning was completed, and his brows furrowed.
"Is this the place?"
" Yes... yes sir, what's the problem?"
The cleaning staff following behind him looked nervous. The lobby manager knew what had happened, but the ordinary employees like them did not.
These burly men in front of me all look tough and strong, and they seem to be elites from professional institutions like the army. Suddenly they asked the manager for the room card. Could there be some problem here?
Did the person who lived here before commit a crime?
The cleaning staff became terrified when they thought that they had just cleaned the room and might have destroyed the clues.
"Don't be nervous, we're just recording a show." Operations director Ryan Lee F. Phillips, the leading man, noticed the uneasiness of the cleaning staff at a glance, and pointed at the camera behind him with a smile.
The cleaning lady was startled: "Program?"
Phillips swiped open the door and walked in. A field team member behind him explained, "Have you heard of 'Stalker'? It's a reality show that simulates catching criminals. We are the catching team now, and the one in the room just now is the escape team."
"I know 'Undercover'!" Bao Jie's eyes lit up.
Phillips took a look at the room that had already been tidied up and felt a little bit embarrassed, but due to the process, he and the others still searched the entire room. The result was just as expected, no items were left behind, even the garbage was put into garbage bags and cleaned up.
If you want to find further clues, you may need to search the hotel’s exclusive garbage disposal area, which is not an easy task.
"The first episode of the second season will be broadcast next Thursday at 8pm. You are welcome to watch it then."
"When did you start cleaning the room?" Phillips interrupted the conversation between the field staff and the cleaning staff, took out a note and started taking notes.
"About twelve-thirty."
It wasn't that long ago that the incident happened , and the cleaner remembers it very clearly.
“When did the light for requesting tidying come on?”
"Around 12:10, and it will never take more than half an hour. As long as there is a need, we will satisfy it as quickly as possible."
After a while, Phillips moved to the bank behind the ATM machine. After checking his identity and authority, he checked the surveillance and recorded the withdrawal time.
After that, there is a supermarket...
Normally, as the operation director, Phillips should have stayed at the base camp and commanded remotely, but in view of the fugitive's brilliant resume, he decided to go out in person.
"The opponent was quite calm."
On the note, Phillips fully recorded Bifang and Yao Jun's whereabouts and work nodes after the arrest began.
The game officially started at twelve o'clock. The two went upstairs to sort out the clothes, then turned on the reminder light and issued a cleaning request.
Then they went downstairs and found the nearest ATM to withdraw a deposit of one hundred dollars. After that, they found a convenience store. They did not keep the receipt, but from the surveillance video, they could see that the two of them bought some bread and food. After checking the computer records, they learned that they spent a total of twenty-six dollars.
The hunters set out at one o'clock, Phillips' field team arrived at the hotel at twenty past one, and at thirty past one they were granted access to the room.
It's one thirty-five.
But until 12:40, Bifang and Yao Jun calmly exposed themselves to the camera, without any intention of being shy.
It would be fine if he was just some young fool, but Phillips absolutely did not believe that someone who could achieve top ten status in the history of Hunter Academy would not know the most basic way to avoid cameras.
The only explanation is that the other party is very confident and doesn't mind being exposed to the camera for a long time.
As long as you go to withdraw money, even if you are wearing a hat or a wig, the camera next to the ATM will record you, and the powerful facial recognition software can recognize you.
At worst, the credit card has been bound to the hunter's monitoring system, and an alarm will be triggered as soon as it is used. There are also cameras at various gas stations, bus stops, and coach stations that will take pictures.
And the other party didn't have a mobile phone with him.
Phillips looked at the two-step cell phone inside the plastic bag, along with a laptop.
The contents inside must be investigated, but Phillips does not hold out much hope that there will be any useful information inside.
This is also one of the common sense of investigation.
As long as they carry their own phone, they are in trouble. Most fugitives do not carry their own phones, but try to get someone else's, or buy disposable phones.
However, the captors will monitor the phone calls of all the fugitive’s friends and relatives in their social circle. As long as a call comes in from an uncommon contact, the call will be suspected and tracked and recorded.
You can even find the number of the disposable phone from the receipt you received when you bought it at the store, and use a base station to locate it.
Phillips reported the situation truthfully.
Robert nodded: "Bring them all back and let the data experts check the Internet records to see if they can find some clues."
As two foreigners, the most effective way to escape in Los Angeles, where they are unfamiliar with the place, is to search the Internet for relevant information, such as subway routes, car rental company addresses, etc. All of these require information.
As a non-local, Bifang also needs to go online to find out a lot of information, but once these things are discovered, they will definitely become a guide to the escape route.
"Isn't that dangerous?" Yao Jun lowered his voice, feeling a little uneasy.
"I have deleted all the browser records and did a deep clean." Bifang stretched his hand out of the car and said nonchalantly.
This action is not safe and is not recommended, but feeling the wind slipping through your fingers and moving towards the distance on the road does give you a thrill of pursuing freedom.
It's just that the car was rented and there wasn't much gas.
Fortunately, there was a gas station not far from the car rental company. Bifang seriously suspected that the gas station was in cahoots with the car rental company.
He turned his car into it and hailed the gas station attendant.
"Are you kidding me? I'm not an idiot!" Yao Jun almost choked to death. "Can this kind of thing be done by simply deleting the records? The programmers in my company can all do this level of data recovery!"
I heard that unless the hardware is completely destroyed, the data can be recovered anyway.
As a result, Yao Jun has been afraid to visit some messy websites these days to avoid social failure.
"That's true, but it takes time to recover the data. And I'm casting a wide net when I search for information online. Even if it's recovered, they still have to figure out our real destinations and delay for a while. I never expect to solve the problem once and for all. It's good enough to throw some smoke bombs."
Bifang knew a little about the quality of the hunter group , and they were all elites.
Therefore, Bifang is not confident that he can really clean up all the tails with every step.
There is always a loophole in a perfect plan. The brain of one person can never compare to the brains of more than 30 people, but he is confident that they must spend enough time to distinguish the true from the false for each tail left behind.
"Relax, just hold my thighs tightly. Come on, smile at the camera. Smile bigger."
Bifang closed the window and gave an exaggerated smile to a camera at the gas station. The photographer in the back seat trembled all over and immediately pointed the camera at the scene, capturing every detail.
Although the cameraman didn’t know why Bifang was smiling at the camera, this scene was inexplicably exciting!
"Yeah, that's right."
Yao Jun leaned back in his chair, thought about it, and had to admit that it was true.
If Bifang can't escape, then he is just a superfluous thing. It would be better for him to just stick to his superiors, live an easier life, and enjoy the thrill of escape.
After hearing the second half of Bifang's words, Yao Jun glanced at the camera on the upper right corner of the gas station and didn't mean to laugh: "Is this a provocation?"
“Yes, and no.”
After filling up the car with cheap gasoline, Bifang used his last change to pay the gas station employee, rolled up the window, relaxed his facial muscles a little, and drove back to the road.
"Falsified IDs can provide an important layer of identity cover for 'fugitives', but if a foreign government has identified them as a potential security risk, then perhaps their photo will appear in the database of a border crossing or other high-security checkpoint."
"Existing facial recognition software is mainly based on images, which is relatively easy to circumvent. It's not as scary as it seems in the movies."
"The technique uses an algorithm to compare specific anchor points in a given image database - the shape of the nose, the distance between the eyes, the size of each eye, the cheekbones, the chin and the ears - focusing on distinctive bony prominences that cannot be easily changed."
“But if you cover up or blur those anchors, the software becomes useless.”
Bifang pointed at his facial features, emphasizing a few key areas.
This professional commentary finally made Yao Jun feel involved in the game again.
This is it, the kind of thing that gives me the feeling of a big-time criminal!
"Sophisticated!"
“Oversized sunglasses and long bangs can be used to cover the forehead, brow bones and part of the cheekbones. Pulling the brim of a hat down and tilting the head down can put the face into shadow.”
"Smiling changes the shape of the eyes and pushes the muscles above the cheekbones, which is why many countries only allow a neutral facial expression for passport photos."
Yao Jun was stunned: "So simple?"
Bifang shook his head: "It's not that simple."
"Facial recognition is an evolving science in Las Vegas casinos, where it is used to prevent cheating gamblers from pocketing millions of dollars in revenue."
“Social media platforms are already using facial recognition to tag and categorise images, so this technology will only become more sophisticated as the interests of the industry drive it.”
"Now, the most advanced facial recognition technology has been combined with blood vessel recognition technology to become a smooth-running mechanism."
"Vascular recognition technology will take a thermal image of a person's face and use the location of facial veins and arteries as the basis for identification. With this type of recognition technology, there are very few tricks that can be used, but that's it."
Yao Jun was once again nervous: "Just what?"
Bifang shrugged: "That thing is not popular at all, there is no need for us to worry about it."
Seeing Bifang's insight, Yao Jun was overwhelmed: "I thought you were really playing and didn't care about winning or losing."
"Even if it's a game, I don't want to lose." Bifang dug into his pocket and took out some small coins. "Now we have left. Look, oh, forty-five ugly cents. I really spent money like water."
Yao Jun was quite surprised. He was not surprised that there was too little money, but that there was some left.
You know, they came out of the hotel, went to the supermarket to buy some food and some tools and spent twenty-six dollars, then they had to go to the car rental company to rent a car, and just filled up the gas. After so many expenses, they actually have some left?
Is Chou Yuan so strong?
"My young master, what do you think?"
"$100 can buy 12 movie tickets in New York, 20 movie tickets in the Midwest, and 20 McDonald's meals for one person. It can buy a Gameboy and a game card. It can buy two people a meal at a high-end French restaurant. It can buy 30 to 40 gallons of good quality gasoline. Oh, a gallon is about four liters."
"We can even buy two of the latest high-end mobile phones. Of course, the prerequisite is to join a mobile phone service company. Even an ordinary car can be rented for a whole week for two hundred dollars, but we only need to rent this junky car for two days. Besides, I didn't even fill up the gas tank."
Of course, you should add as much gasoline as you need.
What if it’s not used up and we have to give up early because of temporary plans, wouldn’t that be a huge loss?
One hundred dollars is so valuable?
Yao Jun was shocked when he heard Bifang reporting the prices of everything.
In the Hunter's office, Robert coordinated everything and immediately gave the mobile phones and computers sent by the field team to the technical department for information search.
"Daniel, continue data recovery."
"Phillips, any new discoveries?"
"Just find their rental car. I'm asking questions." Phillips took out his little note again and asked and answered questions to the rental car owner.
At first, the owner of the car rental company was also panicked. The other party's style was obviously that of a Fobolle. Could it be that he rented the car to someone he shouldn't have rented it to?
Thinking of this, the boss immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
This is the Ugly United States. If your car is rented by some vicious criminal, can you get it back?
When Phillips asked if there were two Asians coming here together to rent a car, the boss nodded quickly and told him everything he knew.
"Well, there's no need to be nervous, and there's no need to worry about any losses." Seeing the boss like this, Phillips smiled and asked the field staff beside him to explain it again. Only then did the boss feel relieved.
"So, the two groups took one car, right? What's the license plate number? What model is the car?"
"yes……"
Phillips wrote down the car model and license plate and came out of the rental car stall.
Logically speaking, knowing the license plate and model of the car the "fugitive" escaped in should have been a major breakthrough.
But for some reason, Phillips always felt that this matter was not that simple.
Would the other party leave such an obvious handle?
