Chapter 120: Who's Lying?

The more he looked at the big screen in the conference room, Director Wang grew angrier.

"Can anyone explain to me what's going on? Where's the footage I need?"

The officers all kept their heads down.

After a long pause, a slightly braver officer finally raised his head.

"Director Wang, the footage... must have been hacked. I checked, and all the road surveillance within an hour after Xu Mo left the bank has been deleted and replaced with Garden Baby..."

Xu Mo is a hacker, and he also has a hacker assistant assigned by the Program Crew, which is no longer a secret.

Thinking about it, it's clear the footage was definitely Xu Mo's doing.

"Then find a way to restore it," Director Wang said, scratching his head in agitation. "Aren't you the tech staff? Can you retrieve the replaced footage?"

The officer nodded first: "Yes."

Then he added.

"But Director Wang, restoration takes time; restoring is far harder than deleting."

Director Wang wiped his face.

He said softly, "Do it quickly, and call me the moment it's done."

After speaking, he sighed and left the conference room.

Director Wang had to reassess Xu Mo.

This kid is really damn hard to catch!

It's because Xu Mo isn't actually an Escapee.

Otherwise Director Wang would probably have a headache to death.

…

Nursing Home.

Han Fei and his team found the staff at the Nursing Home.

First they identified themselves.

Then they asked.

"Do you have any new caregivers today? Two young girls and a young man."

The staff shook his head: "No, none have arrived in the past month."

Hearing that, Li Chen frowned.

"Are you sure?"

"Sure," the staff said. "I've been working here; how could I not know if new staff came?"

"How could there be none?" Li Chen was baffled.

Chen Ke stared intently at that staff member.

He prepared to pressure the staff with his gaze.

Honestly, Chen Ke suspected that the staff had been bribed by Xu Mo, which is why he lied to cover Xu Mo.

It might not be just that staff; even the old men outside have been bought off by Xu Mo.

At this moment they are all helping Xu Mo hide the fact that he is hiding here.

"Although I told you earlier, I need to state again: we are investigating, you are obligated to cooperate, concealing the truth is illegal; think carefully before answering us."

However, as soon as Chen Ke finished speaking,

the staff immediately shook his head.

"I know you're investigating, and I'm cooperating, but there really haven't been any newcomers lately—not even a single volunteer doing good deeds. I'm telling the truth; I'm just borrowing a bit of courage, I wouldn't dare hide the truth from you."

Han Fei glanced at Shen Manni beside him.

The latter immediately understood Han Fei's meaning.

She knew Han Fei's look was actually asking whether the staff was lying.

But unfortunately,

Even Shen Manni, the psychology expert, couldn't detect any signs of lying.

Shen Manni looked at Han Fei, shook her head, as a response.

It meant the person wasn't lying.

At least she didn't see any lying signs.

Seeing this, Han Fei sighed.

To the staff, he said, "We understand, thank you for cooperating."

After speaking, he called the remaining three and turned to leave.

At this moment, Han Fei's face had grown extremely grim.

Now there are only two possibilities.

One is that the child who called earlier deceived them; Xu Mo isn't in the Nursing Home at all.

The second is that the elderly and staff in the Nursing Home are lying, and Xu Mo is still hiding there.

Either way, one side definitely lied.

The group walked out of the Nursing Home and got into the car.

Li Chen spoke first, breaking the silence.

"Han Team, I still feel the Nursing Home people might be deceiving us."

Even now, he stubbornly believes that children are unlikely to lie.

At the very least, the chance is far smaller than that of adults.

After all, in his view, children are pure and innocent.

And adults have been ground by society over and over, completely losing their edges; lying is also commonplace, being bought with money to shield others—such facts are far too common.

Compared to that, Li Chen leans more toward the notion that a child wouldn't lie.

Han Fei does not side with either side.

He thought calmly for a moment.

The next second, Han Fei took out his phone.

He copied the number that had just called him and sent it to Wang Ju: "Lao Wang, if you have time, help me look up this phone number."

After sending that message,

Han Fei looked at the remaining three.

"I asked Lao Wang to check the phone number the child used to call earlier; let's wait a bit. Once we get the details, we'll go straight to their place and ask in person, which will let us directly judge whether the kid is lying."

……

Ten minutes later.

The query results came out.

Han Fei looked at the message Lao Wang sent.

He was stunned.

Lao Wang told him the number is a virtual number; no useful information can be retrieved…

So the whole process of going to the child and his parents is avoided.

Han Fei gave a wry smile.

"The one who deceived us is that child; the number is fake, a virtual number. It must be Xu Mo who urged the kid to use a virtual number to call us and cheat us."

"Xu Mo even tricks a child? Does he have any shame!" Li Chen's voice involuntarily rose a few notches.

"Drive to the Police Station," Han Fei said. "Our clues are completely cut off; let's see how Lao Wang is doing."

Speaking, he was the first to fasten his seatbelt.

After everyone had buckled their seatbelts,

Chen Ke started the car.

He slammed the accelerator.

Heading straight for the Police Station.

……

Police Station.

The Technical Team's police officers were still trying to restore the surveillance footage.

As everyone knows, deleting is easy, but restoring deleted material is far more difficult.

Especially since this footage was deleted by a hacker.

That makes it even more troublesome.

The Technical Team's police officers had been busy for a long time.

Until the Investigation Team arrived, they were still working on the restoration.

At this moment, whether the Investigation Team or the Police, all clues were completely cut off.

They could do nothing.

The only thing to do was wait.

Wait for the Technical Team's police officers to restore this footage.

Then they would follow the footage to investigate.

This waiting lasted an entire night.

The Technical Team's police officers toiled sleeplessly for the whole night.

Until a little after ten o'clock the next morning.

Only then was the replaced footage restored.

After the footage was restored, they immediately notified Wang Ju.

With the footage, tracking down Xu Mo becomes much easier…

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