Several people endured the black screen video for a while.
The boss asked the boy in the monitoring room, "Have you ever noticed this? Is it really that dark?"
The young man was a little embarrassed: "Uh... Because it's not in the store, I didn't pay much attention to it."
In fact, he doesn't always stare at the video in the store. Although the video is to prevent some troubles, after all, the price of this restaurant is there. What are you doing here.
At about 7:34, lights suddenly appeared at the location of Kitty Bell's house.
It's just that the light flickered and seemed to move slowly with the footsteps of people.
"This is... an emergency flashlight?" The young man moved his fingers and turned the screen up—
From the camera's point of view, the position is also a bit awkward. The window between Kitty Bell's house can be photographed, but only the upper part, and most of the lower part is still blocked by the courtyard wall of the nearby house and the stacked wooden boards. Through the enlarged picture, everyone could barely see a figure holding an emergency flashlight, slowly walking from a farther part of the room to the window.
Judging from the movement and form, it should be Mrs. Kitty Bell herself.
When she stood a little farther, everyone could still see her silhouette and flashlight through the upper half of the window. First legs and feet, then upper body, then shoulders and face...
When she actually walked to the window, everyone could not see it.
"Fuck, these walls and planks are really in the way!" The young man was even more excited than the lawyer.
Yan Suizhi patted his shoulder, "Calm down."
He has seen a lot of evidence that the chain is dropped at such a critical moment. It is not bad to have this picture. How can there be so many things that can just prove everything.
Although no one can be seen, the shaking of light and shadow can roughly give a guess—
The old lady seemed to turn down the power a bit, did something, and then the lights in the house turned on.
"Is there a light? I thought there was something wrong with the wiring in her house or the light was broken." This time it was the boss who spoke, "After all, that house is a year older than me."
Julian Gower, the notary public, has more contact with the boss every day. He said: "There are many people here who do not turn on the lights in order to save energy bills when it is not dark to a certain extent. But how did this old lady I don't know about this habit, I'm just guessing."
After a while, the windowpane was covered with a thin layer of water vapor.
"The old lady turned on the heat."
According to the case documents, Mrs. Kitty Bell likes to do knitting. When the sun is shining during the day, she will sit by the window by the sun, and at night by the heater, warming her fingers, do weaving.
Heating is a good thing for an old lady to keep her fingers flexible. But it was too unfriendly to the few people watching the video.
Because when the glass is covered with water vapor, the things in the room can't be seen clearly, only the hairy light and the blurred outline can be seen.
The people in that low house area always use energy very cheaply, and most of the lights are yellow and dim. The lighting in the old lady's house was the same, and the eyes of the few people before the video were a little sore after watching it for a long time.
And staring at a dimly yellow glass for 20 minutes is really boring, and it is a test of patience.
At 7:55 p.m. in the video, something that shook everyone’s spirits appeared—
"Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Is this hair! A bunch of hairs are here!" The sleepy young man sat up suddenly, his fingers almost poking through the screen, pointing to a small black shadow that appeared in the window glass.
It should be a person, quietly approaching the old lady from behind.
Still because of the occlusion of the courtyard wall and wooden planks, only a little overhead can be seen.
But everyone still held their breath, and then, through the little glass covered with water vapor, everyone saw a black figure passing over the man's head and falling down again.
Even if you can't hear the sound or see a clearer and more complete picture, you can still imagine that the person is holding a hard object and knocking the old lady unconscious.
The young man watching the video did not rush to speak this time, but covered his mouth with his hands, and was stunned for a while before taking a breath.
The boss sighed "Hey—", "I wish the old lady could hear the movement in advance. There are alarm bells in these old houses, usually near the light switch..."
The notary thought for a while and said: "Actually, the alarm bells in these old houses are broken a lot, so they may not work. And if you are not afraid of the alarm, you don't need to knock the old lady unconscious first."
When they were discussing sentence by sentence, Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan, who really needed the video, never spoke, and still stared at the screen.
The young man sitting in the seat felt that the person behind him leaned forward a little, and looked back subconsciously.
When these people entered the door before, he listened to the boss and knew that the person standing directly behind him was a trainee lawyer. His first impression of this trainee lawyer was that he was very student-like, maybe because he looked at people with a little smile, he seemed gentle and close.
But now, when the trainee lawyer looked at the screen, his face was almost expressionless, his smile was gone, and his sense of gentleness was gone. The screen on the wall is reflected in his eyes, and the stars are like very clear glass, beautiful and cold.
Is there such a big difference in temperament when a person laughs or does not laugh
The young man glanced at the real lawyer again, who was resting on the table with one hand, staring at the screen with a cold expression on his face.
"… "
Pressed by two large ice mountains, the young man shrank his neck, turned his head silently, and moved his chair forward.
When he looked at the screen again, the glass of Kitty Bell's house, which reflected the dim yellow light, suddenly went dark.
"Huh? Why is it dark?!" The young man asked in surprise.
"The man inside turned off the light," said notary Julian Gower.
Just as the young man was staring at the screen, he felt his shoulders being tapped twice.
Yan Suizhi: "Excuse me, please enlarge the picture a little more."
The boy adjusted the picture again.
The pitch-black windowpane took up almost half of the screen. Yan Suizhi leaned forward again, leaning forward. He supported the table with his left hand, but his eyes and attention did not take his eyes off the screen at all.
I didn't even notice any difference in the "desktop" pressed by my palm.
After another moment, the "desktop" suddenly moved and was taken away from his palm.
Yan Suizhi glanced distractedly, and just saw Gu Yan retracted his hand and put it in the pocket of his trousers.
"… "
Gu Yan's eyes swept across his face.
Yan Sui twisted her fingers subconsciously, and felt that her peripheral nerves were probably dead, and she couldn't tell the difference between the back of her hand and the desktop.
When he raised his eyes again, Gu Yan had withdrawn his eyes and looked at the screen again.
After the pitch black was enlarged, his eyes were still blind, and he couldn't see anything.
After a while, at 8:05 p.m. in the video, the house lights up again. Immediately after, a figure hurried to the window, rushing up and down...
It should be the old lady's grandnephew Chester back.
The video, which was extremely limited in content, was asked to play back three times, and the original was taken in the presence of notary Julian Gower.
The boss rubbed his hands together and said, "Hey—it doesn't seem to be of much help. It would be better if there weren't so many obstructions, or there would be a street light in the alley, how could it be so unfortunate!"
The young man also stood up and scratched his head: "I don't usually look at this piece outside the window. If I had looked at it at the time, it might have been useful."
"Thank you." Yan Suizhi said, "This video is very useful."
When he was talking to people, that kind of smile came out again, as if the coldness when no one was paying attention before was an illusion.
The boss also spoke politely to him: "You're welcome, it's almost time, why don't you just have dinner here?"
Gu Yan waved his hand: "No, there is something else."
"Really? Well..." The boss looked regretful when the solicitation failed.
After Yan Suizhi, Gu Yan, and Julian Gower came out of this restaurant, they went to several surrounding restaurants, and also negotiated with the owner to transfer the surveillance video of No. 23.
However, unfortunately, none of the cameras that can take pictures outside the window are infrared, and either the angle is more skewed, or the height is not enough, and it fails to provide more useful information.
The only exception is the sixth.
The surveillance video of this house does not show the window of Kitty Bell's house, but the staff in charge of watching the surveillance said something. He pointed to a corner not far from the courtyard wall and said, "Hey—I remember that it wasn't that dark here before. This side or a little further here... Uh, there should be a street light at this location."
"Sure?"
"Okay, I don't remember this one being so dark."
If there was a street light out there, maybe it could throw a little light on the wall of Kitty Bell's house, so whoever...or whoever climbed over the wall before the crime could be photographed.
In order to confirm his words, he took the initiative to turn forward for several days.
Sure enough, on the night of the 15th, there was a street lamp in the corner of the road. It was not on, and the illumination range was not large. There was some poor contact. .
But anyway, it does get to the walls of Kitty Bell's house.
Happened to fail? Or did someone break it on purpose
The clerk accelerated the video from the night of the 15th to the 16th.
"Pause." Gu Yan stared at the screen and said, "Change this to the original speed."
The video quickly resumed its original speed, and I saw two teenagers standing near the street light, talking. Those two people were no strangers to Yan Suizhi, one was the old lady's grand-nephew Chester, and the other was Joshua Dale.
Somehow, the two of them quarreled and shoved each other, as if they were about to fight.
During the tugging, Joshua Darler dragged Chester and threw it towards the lamppost, and Chester slammed into the lamppost behind him. Then he grabbed Joshua Daller, flipped him over and pushed him against the lamp post.
OK, hit twice.
The street lamp with poor contact with the hairspring is estimated to be so completely cold.
Just like that, these two bears didn't let it go.
After fighting for another two or three minutes, there was finally a persuader from the side. The three of them twisted into a ball, and the picture was very beautiful.
Yan Suizhi's face was paralyzed: "..."
He turned his head and smiled at Gu Yan, and said very lovingly: "You know, I want to unscrew the head of Joshua Dale's child and hang it on the top of the street lamp."
Said "kid" and sounded like "dumb".
"..." Gu Yan rolled his eyelids and let him laugh for a while, then suddenly reached out and pinched his chin, turning his face back, and said coldly, "Tell Joshua, don't face me"
Professor Yan Da has never been treated like this before, and he was stunned for a moment, thinking that you are really going against the sky.