When the young man asked the question, his excitement could be felt through the monitor.
However, the person called Elder Zhou shook his head without thinking too much about it. He took out a thin cigar from the iron box in his pocket and lit it with a lighter.
"Although I haven't met Azrael yet. But after so long, none of the countries he came into contact with had similar products. This meant that the synthesis process of the drug must be very complicated.
Even if we get the finished product, it will take time to reverse engineer it. We also need a very advanced laboratory and a lot of professional reagents for experiments. "
Elder Zhou's words made "Li Xiang" feel a little disappointed. However, he still didn't give up and asked, "If we're lucky, we might be able to get the formula out without much effort!"
"Even if we can get the formula, do you think we can synthesize it with the purification process in our current production environment?"
Elder Zhou's words completely made "Li Xiang" give up.
The conversation between "Li Xiang" and "Wu Entai" was very short. The task force only got the title of "Elder Zhou" and determined that these two were the people who came to Wu Entai to inspect the goods.
They also realized that the person or force these two people represented was not as simple as a drug distributor. They could basically confirm that the other party had a drug manufacturing base in their hands.
With this understanding, Gao Sheng mobilized all the forces he could and began to fully verify the true identities of the two people.
At the same time, the police in Mingshan used all the means available to try to reverse engineer the movements of the two people before they rented the car through inspections and road surveillance.
He wanted to figure out where these two fellows had suddenly popped out from.
Everyone in the task force was busy. Qu Sen didn't want to just sit around and do nothing. He and Gao Ye used the photos in their hands to compare with the information gathered from all over the country.
Through the collected conversations, they could roughly determine that the man called "Elder Zhou" was most likely a chemist, and he should be the more professional kind.
The task force also used this and the age condition to lock in a general range. They asked for help from their counterparts all over the country to search for suitable target information.
After the request for assistance was sent out, the response speed varied. Some gave feedback within a few hours, while others only finished collecting information in the middle of the night and sent it over by fax or email.
Qu Sen and Gao Ye each guarded the fax machine and the computer. Next to them was a picture of "Elder Zhou," which was manually compared with the feedback from all over the world.
Qu Sen stayed in front of the computer until one o 'clock in the morning. There were no new emails for more than half an hour. Bored, Qu Sen got up and walked around. After making a bowl of instant noodles for himself, he sat back down beside the computer.
When the noodles were ready, she watched as Little Lu, the technician beside her, edited all the footage of the two suspects appearing in the hotel's surveillance cameras. Then, he stitched them together according to the time.
Before this, Little Lu had already edited all the scenes where the two of them appeared and marked the time slots. He was using software to piece them together according to the timeline.
Qu Sen looked at the footage that was being played at 4X speed on the timeline out of boredom. As he watched, he suddenly shouted, "Stop!"
His shout was a little loud, and it gave Little Lu a fright. He let go of the mouse and patted his chest, saying in a strange tone, "Oh my god, you scared me!"
"Rewind, rewind!" Qu Sen ignored the girl's blame and said to himself.
"What?" Although Little Lu found it strange, he still followed Qu Sen's request and rewound the footage that had just been played a little.
"Rewind a little more. Rewind to the part where they finish eating and walk through the restaurant to the elevator." Qu Sen instructed a little. Seeing that Little Lu couldn't stop clicking, he couldn't help but use the mouse to adjust the video's progress.
After adjusting it, Qu Sen pressed the play button at normal speed. He watched as the two suspects walked through the aisle between the two rows of seats in the restaurant and walked toward the elevator.
After the video played for about ten seconds, Qu Sen pressed the pause button and rewound the footage a few frames. He pointed at the screen and asked Little Lu, "Did you see that?"
"See what?" Little Lu was already a little sleepy, but after being startled by Qu Sen, he became alert again. He stared at the screen with wide eyes.
After watching for a long time, he couldn't help but ask, "What exactly do you want me to see?"
"Old Man Zhou turned his head." As Qu Sen spoke, he rewound the footage a few frames. After pressing the play button, "Old Man Zhou," who was walking normally, suddenly turned his head in the direction of the surveillance cameras.
After walking a few steps, he resumed his normal walking posture.
"He turned his head. What's wrong?" Little Lu asked curiously.
"Look at the look in his eyes." As Qu Sen spoke, he pulled the play bar back again and froze the footage at the moment when "Old Man Zhou" turned his face in the direction of the surveillance cameras.
The surveillance cameras used in the hotel had pretty good quality. From a distance of about ten meters, the facial features of the person captured were still quite clear.
"Look in his eyes?" Little Lu focused all his attention on "Old Man Zhou's" eyes. After staring for a long time, he said impatiently, "What exactly is going on? Can you be clearer?"
"Did you see the direction in which he was looking?" Qu Sen gave him a hint.
"Direction?" Little Lu followed Qu Sen's hint and gestured with his hands. At the same time, he muttered, "He was probably looking at the bottom right of the surveillance camera."
"What's in that direction?" Qu Sen continued.
Little Lu stopped guessing this time. He opened the video library and found the corresponding surveillance camera. After watching the footage for a while, he said, "His angle should be facing upward.
He shouldn't be looking at people. However, the direction in which he was looking is the wall of the restaurant. There's nothing there! Is he looking at the wallpaper? "
"What's so good about the wallpaper? Didn't you notice that his eyes were unfocused after he turned his head? There's no focus at all?" Qu Sen gave him another hint helplessly.
To be honest, although the surveillance footage was pretty clear, it wasn't clear enough to see whether the person's eyes were focused or not.
Little Lu replayed the three-second video several times and finally commented, "Bullsh * t!"
"Hey! I say, as a police officer, why don't you have any observational skills? "Qu Sen said unhappily.
"Hey, okay! Your observational skills are too strong, right? But so what if his eyes aren't focused? "Little Lu asked, annoyed and amused at the same time.
"Then, let me ask you. You were walking normally on the road. What kind of situation would cause your eyes to be unfocused and look in a certain direction? "Qu Sen asked patiently.
"Did you hear something that attracted your attention?"
"Looking for the source of the sound. How could my eyes not be focused?!"
"Then … Aiya, it's just looking around unconsciously."
"Even if you're looking around, you have to have a target!"
"Then why do you think?" Little Lu's patience was finally worn out.
"If it's me, there's only one situation!" Qu Sen said seriously. Then he stood up and pretended to walk forward.
As he walked, he turned his head to the right and said, "I suddenly saw someone I didn't want to see. In order to not let him see me, I would …"
Qu Sen was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly turned his head to the left. He mimicked the actions of "Elder Zhou" in the video. He raised his neck slightly and looked up diagonally to the left. At the same time, his eyes weren't focused at all.
Little Lu instantly showed an expression of understanding. He pointed at Qu Sen and raised his voice uncontrollably. "You're saying that he saw someone he knew and was afraid of being recognized, so he deliberately looked to the left!"
Qu Sen stopped and looked at Little Lu as he commented, "Luckily, you're not that stupid!"
"What do you mean by not that stupid?" Gao Sheng, who happened to pass by, asked casually.
"Captain Gao, Captain Gao, come over quickly! Brother Qu has made an important discovery! "Little Lu couldn't be bothered to be angry. When he turned his head and saw Gao Sheng, he shouted excitedly.
Her shout not only attracted Gao Sheng's attention, but more than half of the people working overtime in the task force were also attracted to her.
A bunch of heads gathered together and repeatedly watched the video that Qu Sen had pointed out. Almost everyone agreed with Qu Sen's judgment.
Considering that there wasn't anyone in the direction the two suspects were heading in, they felt that "Elder Zhou's" sudden turn to the left did seem like he was avoiding someone's line of sight on the right.
"What are you waiting for? Check them one by one! "As everyone was talking at once, Gao Sheng clapped his hands twice and shouted.
After he shouted, a few technicians who were working immediately took action. Through the three surveillance cameras in the hotel restaurant, as well as the surveillance cameras in the elevator and the direction of the hotel entrance, they locked onto the facial features of the thirteen possible diners.
Luckily, Huacheng's Sky Eye system had already begun to take shape. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy to confirm the identities of the guests in the hotel rooms, but it wouldn't have been so easy to confirm the identities of the guests who came to eat in the hotel restaurant.
Until five o 'clock in the morning, with the help of the "Sky Eye" system, the identities of the other eight of the thirteen targets were all confirmed, except for the five who were hotel guests.
Soon, three field teams set off at the same time with "Elder Zhou's" photo. One of the teams went straight to the Kapok International Hotel to question the five hotel guests, while the other two teams looked for the eight individual guests and questioned them one by one.
Around 6: 40 a.m., one of the field teams called back. When they asked about a young man with the surname Jiang, who had eaten with his girlfriend in the hotel restaurant the night before, the young man said that the "Elder Zhou" in the photo looked very much like Zhou Chongyu, the chemistry professor he had studied in Singapore.
However, at the same time, the young man also said some shocking news. As far as he knew, the professor named Zhou Chongyu had died of a heart attack in 2002.
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