Chapter 363
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On May 1, 2220, Eternal Love was exhibited for the first time in the French National Museum.
When the museum was closed that night, the security personnel did a routine inspection of all the exhibits and found that Eternal Love had been stolen.
The museum's person-in-charge immediately called the police and sealed off the scene.
The local investigation bureau realized that the case was complicated, so they asked for help from the headquarters. The head of the investigation team sent by the headquarters was Hodgson.
When Hodgson arrived at the museum, he immediately investigated the scene and found that the case was a little unusual.
The museum was closed at five in the afternoon and visitors were not allowed to enter. At six in the evening, only the cleaning staff and some security personnel on duty were left in the museum. There were about thirty people in total.
At nine in the evening, when the cleaning was completed and all the staff were about to leave, one of the security personnel inadvertently found that Eternal Love had disappeared from the display case.
What puzzled Hodgson the most was that, according to the testimonies of the people present, about ten minutes ago, which was 8: 50, a cleaner had just wiped the glass of the display case. At that time, the ring was still lying there.
In other words, if someone had stolen the ring, it must have happened in the past ten minutes.
The case was actually very simple because Eternal Love was in a separate exhibition hall. The four corners of the exhibition hall were all installed with cameras. It could be said that there was no blind spot in the display case where the ring was located.
Even if a mosquito flew in, it would not be able to escape the eyes of these cameras, let alone a person taking the ring away.
However, when Hodgson checked the surveillance footage, he found something unbelievable.
At 8: 55, after the cleaner left the exhibition hall, the four surveillance cameras were turned away from their original angles by a mysterious force within ten seconds. All of them were facing the sky and facing the ceiling.
The reason why it was called a mysterious force was because there was no one in the exhibition hall at that time!
Whether it was inside or outside the hall, the surveillance cameras did not see anyone leave or enter.
When Hodgson saw this, he only felt a chill down his spine. He said in a voice that no one could hear, "What the hell?"
That was not the only strange thing about this case. Eternal Love was very expensive and used the most advanced anti-theft technology of the time.
The display case was made of special bulletproof glass and was tightly connected to the display case below without any gaps. Without permission, forcibly opening or breaking through would trigger the alarm.
Even the brocade box under the ring was equipped with pressure-sensitive technology. Once someone took the ring away, it would also trigger the alarm.
With this double insurance, it was almost impossible for theft to happen, but it did happen.
Hodgson carefully inspected the scene and found that the display cabinet outside was intact. There were no signs of it being broken, and a stone had been placed in the brocade box that originally contained the ring.
Someone had passed through the thick layer of glass and replaced it with a fake.
Hodgson had not seen the magic performed by Liu Qian on the Spring Festival Gala. Otherwise, he might have traveled thousands of miles to C Country to ask him how he did it. After all, there were always people who used magic under the guise of magic.
Hodgson wanted to try if he could do the same thing, but the slightest vibration would trigger the alarm. There was no way for him to put his hand in, let alone change the ring into a stone.
Later, he targeted the 30 staff members in the museum. After all, only 10 minutes had passed since the ring was stolen. At 9: 05 am, the person in charge who received the report closed the door of the museum.
No matter what method the thief used to steal the ring, Hodgson believed that he would not be able to transport the ring out in such a short time.
The ring must still be in the museum, or even on the thief's body.
He detained all 30 staff members, searched them, and even monitored their excrement. He spent another three days searching the entire museum, but found nothing.
The ring seemed to have disappeared from the world.
Whether it was the modus operandi or the whereabouts of the stolen goods, there was no clue. Hodgson had been handling cases for many years, but he had never encountered such a tricky situation. The investigation was at a standstill.
At this time, the case suddenly took a turn for the better.
The colleague in charge of studying the surveillance video used technical means to analyze the 10-minute surveillance video of the ring being stolen frame by frame.
They were surprised to find that the surveillance camera was turned by someone's hand.
The evidence was that at the moment the camera was turned, there was a flash of something that looked like two fingers on the screen.
The speed of the finger was so fast that it left an afterimage that was invisible to the naked eye.
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