Chapter 990 - Mastermind (1/2)
”We must've missed out on some very important details.” Wang Yun said firmly, ”The message from Future Commander said that during the sting operation, the suspects were still continuously being silenced by someone. This means we haven't found the superhuman with the power of the heartworms yet.”
Wang Yun's hair was messy, and he no longer looked like his usual smart self. He paced back and forth in the conference room with the screens on the wall paused while he processed the clues.
Nearby, Zhang Xiaoman said, ”Why don't you get some rest first? We're only halfway through all the surveillance footage, so please don't suddenly die before you're done.”
Over the past four days, even the soldiers who were supporting Wang Yun's work had already rotated shifts twice, yet Wang Yun remained on duty without taking a break. He ate and slept here in the conference room and did not even wash his face or brush his teeth.
If one were to see him in his current state, they would never imagine how sharp he looked in the past.
However, Wang Yun did not even answer when Zhang Xiaoman urged him to rest this time. He just lowered his head and continued thinking.
Suddenly, Wang Yun looked up and said to the soldier in charge of playing back the video recordings, ”Quick, I want to see that day's footage of the intersection where Mr. Jiang Xu met his demise!”
A soldier quickly switched two of the screens to show the day Jiang Xu died. The footage was captured by two HD surveillance cameras at the intersection.
Wang Yun watched the recording, which had its quality affected by intermittent flashes appearing onscreen. A large number of people could be seen moving through the intersection, and a rough calculation probably put that number in the thousands.
With so many faces in the footage, no normal person would even think about trying to remember them all.
After Wang Yun watched it, he said to the soldier, ”Rewind and play it again!”
The soldier quickly rewound it to the start.
Just like that, Wang Yun rewatched this video three times in a row. Then he suddenly said to the soldier, ”I remember Future Commander mentioned yesterday that someone told him Mr. Jiang Xu nearly got into an accident that morning. Scrub the feed to that time!”
Wang Yun was referring to the moment Jiang Xu was nearly crushed by the falling billboard.
They did not know the exact time of the incident, so they could only play back the recording from 8 AM of that morning and fast forward while looking for it.
Very quickly, Wang Yun saw Mr. Jiang Xu walk out of Hope Media with an upright posture. Then they saw some passersby greeting Mr. Jiang Xu with a smile.
And after that!
A young man in a black suit bumped into Jiang Xu just a moment before a huge billboard crashed down next to him.
”Vanilla?!” Wang Yun immediately recognized this very active superhuman from the Anjing House.
The Great Hoodwinker was stunned. ”Wait a minute, could the Anjing House be behind this? But it looks to me like he's clearly protecting Jiang Xu.”
”Yeah, the Anjing House has allied with the Wang Consortium. Since Jiang Xu had been constantly targeting the Wang Consortium in his articles, why would the Anjing House protect him?” Wang Yun wondered.
Next to them, P5092 suddenly said, ”It's understandable. Before this, we've always regarded the Wang Consortium as our imaginary enemy. Because the Wang Consortium seems to be the prime suspect in Jiang Xu's death. But think about it this way: If the Wang Consortium is also afraid that someone will frame them and make them the target of public condemnation, their motive for protecting Jiang Xu will become valid.”
”Show me the footage of that day's battle, the one that took place on the next street over!” Wang Yun shouted.
In the end, when the images were brought up on screen, everyone was surprised to discover that Vanilla and Tang Hualong were trying their best to rush towards Qinghe University. However, they were stopped by hundreds of black-clothed hitmen.