This reason was reasonable, and the young policeman couldn't say anything after hearing it. He tried to check the hard drive where the video was stored. It was only 80 gigabytes, which was indeed not big for a video. He didn't give up and clicked on other partitions to take a look. When he found that there were no videos in other partitions, he turned around and shook his head at Zheng Wei.
Among the four of them, Bo Yubing was supposed to be the calmest, but as the sister of the missing person, Bo Yuxue, and the person involved, she became the most impatient one. She asked in a panic, "What do we do if there are no surveillance videos?"
Zheng Wei thought for a moment and asked the security captain, "Is the entire hotel's surveillance system here?"
The security captain nodded. "Yes, it's all here, including the ones in the elevator, the lobby, the backyard parking lot, and the front door. It's all here."
Li Rui didn't say anything. He was already thinking about whether he could use other means to prove that the woman who checked out was not Bo Yuxue.
It was Zheng Wei's first time working for the county magistrate, and he didn't want to appear so incompetent. He ordered his subordinate, "Go to the recycle bin and take a look."
The young policeman replied, "Captain Zheng, the video storage method of the hard disk recorder doesn't delete the previous files and move them to the next files. Instead, it directly overwrites them. The overwritten files won't appear in the Recycle Bin, and in theory, the overwritten files can't be recovered."
Zheng Wei glared and scolded in a low voice, "Just take a look. Cut the crap!"
The young policeman said, "Okay," and operated the mouse to open the recycle bin. As expected, it was empty, and there was not a single file.
Bo Yubing was extremely sad. She muttered like Xianglin's wife, "If we came here a day earlier, we could have checked. Why didn't I think of it a day earlier? I'm so stupid …"
Li Rui gently pulled her sleeve and signaled with his eyes that she should pay attention to her public image. He said, "Since there's no video, let's go."
The security captain saw that the four of them were easily dismissed, and he couldn't help but be a little smug. He said with a cheeky smile, "You're leaving? Wait a little longer? "
Li Rui and Bo Yubing both heard the provocation in his words, but because of their status, they ignored him. Zheng Wei was a little unhappy. He stopped and asked him, "What are you going to do later?"
The security captain saw his serious face and did not dare to talk nonsense. He said embarrassedly, "Nothing, it's just that … you … it's not easy for you to come here. You can rest for a while. I mean well."
Zheng Wei glared at him fiercely and cursed in his heart, "You're so stupid."
The four of them went down to the lobby on the first floor. Zheng Wei asked Li Rui unwillingly, "County Magistrate Li, can you tell me the steps Bo Yuxue took when she checked out that morning?"
Li Rui knew that he must have his reasons for asking this, so he explained it again, "She came down around nine o 'clock. She first went to the reception to check out. After that, she went to the back door, which is the north door of this building. After that, she went to the parking lot to get her car. Then she drove out of the county and went to the Jinggang Expressway to return to Jingnan. That's about the process."
Zheng Wei nodded and said, "So, the only time she was outdoors after she checked out was the road from the north door of the hotel to the parking lot. I remember that the corridor where the west door of the parking lot is located is outside the north door of the hotel. There are a few shops opposite the west door. Liu and I will visit those shops to see if there are any surveillance cameras installed in their shops, and if the angles of the cameras are aimed at this corridor. If there are, maybe we can get the video we are looking for from them. "
Li Rui felt that this possibility was not high. After all, there were only two or three shops facing the west door of the parking lot. These two or three shops might not be equipped with surveillance cameras. Even if they were, they might not be shooting in the direction of the west door of the parking lot. However, there was no better way at the moment. He could only try his best and said, "It's not far. Let's go take a look together."
After the four of them finished their discussion, they went out of the north door of the hotel and stood in the corridor of the west door of the parking lot to look around. They did not find anything better, so they went out of the west door, crossed the road, and went to the shops opposite to check.
There were a total of three shops facing the west door of the parking lot. On the far left was a three-room shop selling local products. In the middle was a dry fruit shop with only one room. On the far right was a two-room ten yuan shop. The four of them went in separately to ask. Only the ten yuan shop had a surveillance camera, and the camera was aimed at the shelves in the shop.
The investigation came to a dead end here.
Li Rui was not discouraged. He stood in front of the dry fruit store and used his eyes to estimate the distance to the north gate of the opposite hotel. Half comforting himself and half helplessly, he said to Bo Yubing, "It's about 50 meters. At such a distance, even if the surveillance camera captured the woman checking out of the hotel, you won't be able to accurately distinguish whether she is Yuxue or not."
Bo Yubing nodded silently and secretly thought of other ways to break through.
Zheng Wei did not want to go back home. It was rare for him to have a chance to show his face in front of the county magistrate. How could he go back without any results? He racked his brains for a while and said, "How about this, county magistrates? Let us use the most common criminal investigation methods to investigate the room where Bo Yuxue used to live. Maybe we can find some clues."
His young subordinate poured cold water on him again. "Captain Zheng, the hotel has to be cleaned after checking out. We can't find anything even if we go there. This is based on the fact that no one stayed in that room after last Thursday. If someone else stayed there, then we can't find anything. "
Zheng Wei scolded, "Do you think I don't understand this? We don't have a better idea now, do we? Maybe we can find fingerprints or hair left by the suspect. "
"Don't worry, Captain Zheng!"
Li Rui suddenly shouted. He pointed at a building diagonally opposite and said, "Look, what's that?"
It was a four-story shopping mall located to the north of the west door of the Huangting Hotel's backyard parking lot. For some reason, the owner of the shopping mall installed a small surveillance camera under the canopy at the entrance of the shopping mall. Coincidentally, the camera was shooting from north to south. While the entrance of the shopping mall was under the camera, it also captured the west door of the Huangting Hotel's backyard parking lot.
Li Rui said excitedly, "If I'm not wrong, the camera can capture the west door of the parking lot. Under normal circumstances, when the driver drives out of the parking lot, they have to slow down and stop to observe the situation on the main road before deciding whether to turn left or right. Let's check the video. Maybe we can find the footage of the woman driving out. Even if we can only see a little bit of her appearance, we might find something. "
Zheng Wei was overjoyed. "County Magistrate Li's discovery is too good and timely. Let's go take a look!"
The four of them crossed the road again and returned to the east side of the road. They entered the shopping mall and saw the surveillance screen at the counter at the entrance. The screen was divided into nine small screens, corresponding to nine different cameras. The camera at the bottom left corner was under the canopy at the entrance of the shopping mall. It captured the scene of the west door of the Huangting Hotel's parking lot.
Zheng Wei was overjoyed when he saw it. He saw a woman sitting behind the counter playing with her phone. He showed her his police badge and said that he wanted to get the video. The woman readily agreed and gave up her seat. The young policeman went in and searched. He quickly found the surveillance video from last Thursday morning at nine o 'clock and clicked play.
"Hey, it really caught on camera!"
The young policeman watched for a while and suddenly saw something. He excitedly paused the video and turned to look at Li Rui with admiration.
Li Rui and the other two also looked over and saw that the screen capture showed the scene of the woman driving Bo Yuxue's BMW 750 out of the west gate of the parking lot. When she drove out of the west gate, she did indeed slow down and observed the cars on the main road in front of her. It was this ten-second deceleration process that allowed her to be captured by the camera. What was more coincidental was that she actually lowered the window of the front passenger seat by ten centimeters. It was also this ten-centimeter gap that allowed the camera to capture her side profile in the car. Otherwise, with the car's membrane blocking the view, they really couldn't see the driver's face clearly.
"County Magistrate, come closer and take a closer look. See if she is your sister!"
Zheng Wei waved his hand and invited Bo Yubing to enter the counter.
The woman standing behind the counter was shocked when she heard that Bo Yubing was the County Magistrate. She looked at this young beauty in disbelief. She wanted to confirm with her but didn't dare. She could only watch as she walked into the counter and sat down.
"No! Definitely not! "
Bo Yubing only took one look at the woman in the car and recognized her. She suppressed the excitement in her heart and said. After she finished speaking, her eyes turned red and wet. If the woman in the car was Bo Yuxue herself, her danger level wasn't too high. At most, it would be a strange disappearance. However, the woman in front of them wasn't Bo Yuxue, but she was driving Bo Yuxue's car and carrying her bag. This meant that Bo Yuxue was most likely in an accident. Bo Yubing was heartbroken when she thought of this.
Li Rui leaned on the counter and leaned over to take a look. He also shook his head. It was indeed not Bo Yuxue herself. Although the woman in the car had Bo Yuxue's hairstyle and was wearing her clothes, her figure was obviously much thinner than her. Bo Yuxue had the figure of a plump young woman, but the woman in the car had a slender figure. This point was even more obvious from the side view. In addition, the side view of the woman in the car was also very different from Bo Yuxue's. If she was not wearing sunglasses, even if she was wearing Bo Yuxue's clothes, no one would associate her with Bo Yuxue.
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