Chapter 52 (1/2)

Catch the murderer?

Chai Cuiqiao, who suddenly became interested, pursed her lips. However, for the sake of her new cell phone, she still got into the Soul-Attracting Flag that was disguised as a black umbrella.

The prerequisite for the Soul-Attracting Flag to nourish the spirit was to absorb Yin Qi. In the past few days, Li Ang had visited the cemetery with the black umbrella and even bought a few bunches of small plastic flowers as a disguise.

“I wonder where the police officer monitoring my safety is…”

Li Ang murmured to himself, took the landline phone to the door, and installed the voice-activated components. He programmed it to automatically call his cell phone as soon as 70 decibels were heard in response to police officers possibly knocking on his door.

Then, he put on a hooded night jacket, gloves, rain boots, and a Face-Changing Mask that looked like Lord Guan’s red face, strapped an ax and a dagger around his waist, and put a black umbrella on his back before he got out through the window.

In order to avoid everyone else who also had Spiritual Sense in Yin City, Li Ang did not immediately call out Chai Cuiqiao. Instead, he used his fingers to hang on to the gaps in the wall and stepped on the air conditioner unit before climbing up floor by floor to the rooftop of the top floor.

The wind on the rooftop was cold and strong. Li Ang pulled his collar up and took out his cell phone.

If he wanted to catch the murderer, he naturally had to collect evidence first. Although most pieces of evidence had been more or less collected by the police, some pieces of evidence were still present.

“The bicycle parking shed down the stairs from Unit 2084 and the surveillance cameras used at the supermarkets by the community entrance are all 720p waterproof cameras produced a few years ago.”

Li Ang scrolled through his cell phone and said to himself, “Most modern surveillance cameras have networking capabilities. The surveillance cameras in shops, communities, office buildings, private rooms, hotels, and roads all run the risk of being exposed. As long as the public IP is exposed, anyone can scan webcams whose firmware or system has not been updated in a long time, whose interface has not been closed, or which have no protective measures. They can even directly export surveillance data and watch the surveillance footage in real-time.

“720p waterproof cameras with ‘free hardware’ as a selling point have caused maximum insecurity. Every single one of these cameras that is sold to a merchant at a very low price will even monitor and broadcast the live monitoring screen. One does not even need to hack. One only has to log in to the live platform to watch the recorded broadcast.”

No matter how mentally damaging the 720p waterproof live platform was to the consumers’ interests, it made it more convenient for Li Ang to collect clues. He directly played the surveillance footage of the past six days in the bicycle shed down the stairs from Unit 2084 at 10 times the regular speed on his cell phone and fast-forwarded it. Very soon, he found an anomaly.

In the past six days, whenever Zeng Weiming or Wang Fangni had walked out of the building and thrown the black garbage bag into the trash can downstairs, a fat man wearing a yellow sanitation uniform and a mask had dragged away the entire trash can within 10 minutes and put the empty trash can back in place a few minutes later.

He was… collecting rubbish?

Li Ang frowned a little. The suspect clearly possessed extraordinary ability and could easily kill ordinary people like Zeng Weiming and Wang Fangni. Why had he collected household garbage? To find out how they were living? Was this a vendetta?