"Remember, don't blink!"
"You'll be dead if you blink!"
"Don't look away!"
"Keep your eyes on it, don't divert your attention!"
"Don't blink! Don't blink... "
"Everyone, good luck..."
...
In the mayor's office in the city hall, Parsons had finished watching the "Response Guide" sent by the hacker. This video had been sent to many confidential departments in Northern America. The video included the image of the statue, its nature, and the pattern of its killings.
"Statues that break people's necks? There are all sorts of strange things happening these days... "
Parsons turned off the video casually and was a little disapproving. He looked at his advisor and asked, "Has the police cordoned off the Herrank Warehouse District?"
"It's been cordoned off."
The advisor beside him immediately replied, "Mr. Mayor, our people have entered the warehouse district and are strictly following the instructions in this video to find the potential killer statues. However, according to the speculation of Blacklight Biotechnology, there may be a total of four statues in the Herrank District."
"That's ridiculous..."
Parsons shook his head speechlessly. If the White House had not sent this message overnight, he would not have listened to the advice of the hacker.
Since when did the great Northern American government have to listen to the words of a foreign company?
However, just as Parsons was dismissive, there was suddenly a knock on the door of his office.
"Come in."
Parsons turned to look at the door and saw a staff member pushing the door open with a hard drive. "Mr. Mayor, according to your instructions, we've ordered people to check the surveillance of the Herrank Warehouse District and have successfully found the statue you described. It's currently in the hard drive."
"Why so slow?"
Parsons frowned and was a little dissatisfied.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, the surveillance of the Herrank Warehouse District isn't connected to the network, so we have to go to the Herrank Warehouse District first and retrieve all the surveillance before we can find the murderer. However, we haven't been able to find the murderer and we received another order from you to find the statue..."
The man said helplessly.
"Alright, but next time, work faster."
Parsons sat up, took the hard drive with great interest, and then plugged it into his computer.
However, before opening the video, Parsons seemed to think of something. He raised his head again and looked at his advisor beside him. "You go out first, close the door for me."
"Yes."
The advisor nodded and walked out of the mayor's office with the man.
After closing the office door, the advisor began to chat with the man in front of him. "Mr. Robin, have you been busy in the technical department lately?"
"It's alright. It's much stronger than before."
The man replied helplessly, "But it looks like we'll be busy tonight."
"Hahaha, that can't be helped."
The advisor patted the man's shoulder and asked curiously, "Where did you buy this type of contact lens?"
"Contact lenses? I'm not wearing contact lenses … "
The man was a little stunned. He rubbed his eyes. "It's just that my eyes are a little dry from watching the surveillance. Maybe they look a little red?"
The advisor didn't care about the other party's words. He just shrugged and the two of them separated when they turned a corner.
At this time, in the mayor's office, after Parsons asked his staff to leave, he moved the mouse to the computer.
But just as he was about to click on the video, he suddenly thought of the hacker who came and went without a trace, so he simply unplugged the network cable.
This way, he wouldn't have to worry about hackers invading and stealing his video. Even if this farce was to be put to an end, he would have to do it himself.
The Herrank Warehouse District was very old. Most of the areas were not monitored, including inside and outside the warehouses.
There were some surveillance cameras installed more than a decade ago on the roads in the warehouse district. However, these cameras had been weathered by the elements for many years and had long been broken or malfunctioning. Only a few of them were still functioning.
Fortunately, although most of the surveillance cameras had been damaged, under the investigation of the technical department, they still found a few intact ones. It could be said that it was a blessing in disguise.
With this in mind, Parsons double-clicked on the video in the hard drive.
This video was obviously taken by a surveillance camera located under a street lamp. It seemed that because it was dark and the street lamp had long malfunctioned, the entire video showed a black-and-white picture instead of color. On both sides of the surveillance camera were pitch-black warehouses, and the scene was very monotonous.
However, it was obvious that this video had been intercepted by the technical department. Parsons looked at the progress bar and saw that the time shown in the video was only a short one minute. Perhaps the original surveillance footage was very long, but now it was reduced to a length of 59 seconds. It was obvious that this nearly one-minute video was the only clue to the Herrank Warehouse District murder case.
Thinking of this, Parsons calmed down and continued to watch.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Time ticked by, but after thirty seconds had passed, the video was still empty. Parsons frowned when he saw this. He instinctively wanted to move the progress bar and drag the video to the end.
However, after thinking about it, there was only half a minute left after all. So, he patiently continued to watch.
It was not until the thirty-first second that the surveillance footage finally changed. On the computer screen, a panicked middle-aged man ran from the top left of the camera to the bottom right. At the same time, he looked behind him as he ran, but because the angle of the surveillance was not good enough, he could not see what was behind the man.
Although the quality of the surveillance footage was extremely low, and it was even more blurry at night, Parsons could still recognize that this middle-aged man was one of the eight victims in the second death.
At this time, this video finally aroused Parsons' interest. He could not help but move his head closer, waiting for the thing that was chasing the middle-aged man to appear.
The figure of the middle-aged man only appeared in the video for three seconds before he ran out of the surveillance range, but there was no sign of the person chasing after him for a long time. Parsons looked at the time again impatiently, but at this time, the progress bar had reached the fifty-fifth second.
Just when Parsons thought that maybe the technical department had intercepted the video incorrectly, suddenly, the video screen suddenly distorted as if it had been interfered with by some kind of signal. The entire image became blurry, but the progress bar was still moving forward. It was not until a second later that the image suddenly cleared up again, and a statue had appeared on the surveillance screen without anyone noticing.
It was out!
Parsons perked up when he saw the statue, but before he could take a closer look at the details of the statue, the image suddenly distorted again. A second later, when it became clear again, the statue had disappeared again!
Immediately after that, the progress bar crossed the last second and came to an end.
Watching the end of the video, Parsons still did not come back to his senses. He frowned and a look of contemplation appeared on his face.
"This statue, is it the statue that can kill people that the hacker mentioned before? As long as I stare at it, it will turn into stone, and if I don't stare at it, it will move? "
Parsons murmured in a low voice, "But, why can't even the surveillance footage record its movements?"
With this thought in mind, Parsons dragged the progress bar again to the fifty-fifth second of the video and watched the last four seconds of the video several times in a row.
However, no matter how he watched, the statue always disappeared without a trace before he could take a closer look. After all, from the fifty-sixth second onward, the image began to distort. At the seventeenth second, the statue appeared again, and at the fifty-eighth second, the image distorted again. The statue in the video only existed for a second.
"According to the guide sent by the hacker, this means that in this second, the middle-aged man who was running away just happened to look back, and the surveillance recorded the image of the statue being frozen. Then, a second later, the middle-aged man looked back again, and the statue disappeared again..."
After a simple analysis of all this, Parsons simply found the right time to watch the video for the fifth time. When the progress bar reached the fifty-seventh second, he quickly pressed the pause button!
This time, Parsons finally got what he wanted and saw the statue in the surveillance footage clearly.
Although due to equipment issues, the statue in the video was a little blurry, he could still make out a pair of half-spread wings behind the statue in the video. It was no different from the angel statues in the church.
At this time, the statue was facing the bottom right of the video, which was the direction where the middle-aged man had fled.
Seeing this, although Parsons was still a little reluctant, he gradually began to believe this explanation. Perhaps what the hacker said was true, and this was not a conspiracy against Northern America...
Thinking of this, Parsons could not help but feel a little annoyed. He took out a cigarette and at the same time, picked up the lighter on the table and lowered his head to light it.
After lighting it, Parsons took a deep breath and inhaled all the smoke into his lungs. Then, he raised his head to look at the video again.
However, when he looked at the video again, he was suddenly taken aback.
He did not know if it was an illusion, but at this time, the frozen image of the statue at this time seemed to be slightly different from the previous angle.
Was it an illusion?
Parsons raised his eyebrows and looked at it attentively, only to see that the statue in the video seemed to have turned its head and its entire face was looking this way.
For a moment, Parsons was a little puzzled. He was not sure if this angle had existed before, or if there was a deviation in his memory, or if this was the second video?
Thinking of this, Parsons lowered his head again to look at the progress bar. He saw that the video was indeed fifty-nine seconds long and there was no second video in the hard drive from beginning to end.
In that case, it was probably his memory that was wrong...
Parsons raised his head again hesitantly, but at this moment, his pupils suddenly shrank! This was because once again, he found that the entire body of the statue in the video had turned around. Its pair of hollow eyes were fixed in front of the screen, as if the statue was looking at Parsons through the screen!
At this moment, at this moment, his heart suddenly beat violently. Cold sweat dripped from his forehead and an inexplicable chill slowly slowly poured out. At this time, he could already confirm that all of this was not a problem with his memory, but the statue in the surveillance camera was really moving!
"But, how is this possible …"
Parsons murmured in a low voice. At this moment, all the warnings he received flashed through his mind. Among the warnings sent by the hacker, there was a warning that he had to keep his eyes on the target because if he looked away, the statue would rush forward and break the target's neck...
However, he originally thought that this rule only applied to statues. Who would have thought that even surveillance images were no exception?
"D * mn it, the warning from Blacklight Biotechnology didn't mention that images can trigger this damn thing!"
Parsons grumbled, but he was still the mayor of a city after all. Parsons reacted quickly when he sensed that something was wrong. He moved his mouse to the upper right corner of the video and clicked on the cross!
Suddenly, the video window on the computer flashed, and the option to close appeared. Parsons quickly clicked the 'Yes' button, and the video window closed immediately, revealing the Windows desktop behind the window.
"Phew, it's over?"
Seeing that the statue had disappeared, Parsons was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when suddenly, the desktop suddenly flashed again. The video that he had just closed was automatically reopened and froze at the second when the angel appeared!
Seeing this scene, Parsons felt like his soul had left his body. He pressed the button to close the video again, but this time, the surveillance video did not even turn off. After pressing the button to close the video, the image only flashed and then froze on the spot!
Seeing that there was no response after a dozen consecutive presses, Parsons simply bent down and pressed the power switch, but no matter how hard he pressed, the computer screen still flashed.
At this time, only then did he realize that at some point, the computer had completely crashed. Even the power off button had failed!
Not only that, but as he bent down and looked up again, the statue in the surveillance camera was still approaching. At this time, the entire face of the statue was already in front of the computer screen, as if it would detach from the screen in the next second and completely enter the real world!
At this critical moment, Parsons seemed to have finally thought of something. He bent down again and unplugged the mainframe in the fastest speed he had ever done in his life!
"Click!"
Along with a soft sound, the computer finally stopped operating!
Parsons raised his head in shock. When he saw that the computer screen had gone black, he finally let out a sigh of relief. He stood up shakily, and there was a look of joy on his face as if he had survived a disaster.
"I almost died, damn it!"
Parsons cursed in a low voice. He wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and was about to call for his advisor outside the door when he suddenly felt something strange in his eyes.
Rubbing his eyes, Parsons felt a tiny hard particle. He looked down and found that the hard object in his hand was a white grain of sand smaller than a sesame seed. He exhaled and the hard object disappeared.
However, at this time, Parsons could not afford to think about it. After the strange incident just now, he did not dare to stay in the office any longer. He only saw him shouting the name of his advisor as he fled the office...
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