Chapter 439: Silence Is Tonight

Wang Dachuan forced himself to take two steps forward and entered the SirenBowuguan.

It is worth mentioning that when he reached the doorway, he deliberately slowed his pace and examined the gate.

Then, as if he had discovered an extraordinary artwork, he kept exclaiming, "WTF! This gate… really has an artistic feel! I think even the Provincial Museum's gates aren't as good as this one, Team Leader Xu, you have great taste! So good at picking."

He wants to heavily flatter Xu Mo to make up for his earlier mistake.

Xu Mo: "……"

Han Fei: "……"

This kid's flattery skills are really terrible.

However, that's not all.

After entering, Wang Dachuan turned his attention to the tiles laid on the floor.

"This floor tile is so refined! Team Leader Xu, you…"

Before he could finish, Han Fei lightly kicked him and said, "Stop damn sucking up, get down to business!"

"Alright." Wang Dachuan, having been kicked, instantly fell in line.

The group all entered the Monitoring Room.

The SirenBowuguan's surveillance system is highly comprehensive, after all it houses many treasures that must be guarded against anyone coveting them.

Not only are there many cameras inside, but a ring of high‑definition cameras surrounds the building, and part of the neighboring Music Shop falls within their view.

Inside, they didn't watch the internal feeds; they only looked at the footage from the camera that captured the Music Shop.

The camera on the left side of the SirenBowuguan's façade, angled toward the main gate, happens to capture the Music Shop on the right side of the museum; although it doesn't show the whole shop, this angle does capture the shop's entrance.

"Han Team, Team Leader Xu, this camera's position perfectly captures the Music Shop's door!" Li Chen said excitedly, pointing at the computer screen.

This trip really wasn't in vain.

"Watch the surveillance footage from midnight to 1:30 am," Han Fei instructed.

The report was received at 1:30 am last night. Footage after 1:30 isn't needed; only the recordings before 1:30 am are required.

Li Chen immediately dragged the playback slider on the screen, setting the time to twelve o'clock.

At a quarter past twelve, the footage showed an SUV pulling up to the Music Shop's entrance and stopping.

"This car is suspicious!" Wang Dachuan slapped the table and said as soon as he saw it.

The other officers nodded slightly, all agreeing that the driver was a suspect.

Han Fei added at that moment, "Zoom in and note the license‑plate number of this car."

"Okay," Li Chen replied, then zoomed in.

The footage froze on the front of the vehicle.

Because the camera is high‑definition, through the SUV's windshield the team could even see inside the car.

The driver and front passenger were a man and a woman; after parking, the woman in the passenger seat unbuckled her seatbelt, bent over, and seemed to be searching for something.

"Look, they're about to get out; the woman's bending might be to grab gasoline and set a fire," Li Chen analyzed. "If nothing goes wrong, the arsonists are probably those two."

A relaxed expression unintentionally appeared on Li Chen's face.

He didn't expect the case to be so easy to solve; just checking the footage revealed the truth.

Besides Li Chen, the other officers thought the same, their faces involuntarily showing a "case solved" expression.

"This case is way too simple."

"Exactly, if every case were this simple, just checking surveillance would solve them—so effortless."

"Thanks to Team Leader Xu; if he hadn't suggested checking the surveillance here, this case wouldn't have been solved so easily," Wang Dachuan seized the chance to flatter Xu Mo again.

"Grab a USB drive and copy this video," Han Fei reminded, "This is the evidence of arson."

Li Chen didn't waste a word and pulled out a USB drive, preparing to copy the video.

"Wait, I think it's not that simple," Xu Mo frowned, "Who would commit arson and come in a car so brazenly, not even covering the license plate? Isn't that inviting investigation?"

"Team Leader Xu, I think you're being overly paranoid; not all criminals are as clever as you think, many crime scenes are riddled with holes, and… who knows if this car is using a fake plate?" an officer retorted to Xu Mo.

Hearing that, Li Chen immediately replied, "Yes, Team Leader Xu, always over‑complicating things and assuming the criminals are too smart misleads you; using a king's mindset to predict bronze will mostly fail, because bronze never moves. Han Team, you agree, right?"

"Hmm." Han Fei nodded, "The adrenaline from committing a crime can cause some people to lose their rationality; they may do things that seem foolish, which is normal. I've seen many such cases. Team Leader Xu, you've fallen into a thinking trap—don't always assume criminals are overly clever."

As a senior officer, Han Fei deeply understands this principle.

Many criminals aren't as smart as they imagine, and their methods aren't that sophisticated.

Moreover, a car appearing at the Music Shop's entrance at that hour is already highly suspicious.

Who stays up all night and drives to a closed Music Shop's entrance? Isn't that obviously a suspect?

Mid‑sentence, Li Chen had already taken out the USB drive.

But just as he was about to plug the USB into the computer, his hand froze as if shocked.

Not only him, the other officers also wore stunned expressions.

On the monitor, an unexpected scene unfolded that left all the officers watching at the screen bewildered.

After the woman in the passenger seat unbuckled her seatbelt, she didn't do as everyone expected—grab gasoline and set the car on fire—but instead hunched over, turned her back to the windshield, and crossed over to the driver's side…

Immediately, the vehicle began to sway rhythmically.

The officers: "???"

The scene fell silent for a moment; the Monitoring Room was utterly hushed.

Silence is tonight's Kangqiao.

Everyone gradually realized that things weren't as simple as they thought; Xu Mo's suspicion was correct.

The two weren't there to set a fire; they were there to extinguish it…

After the car swayed for a little over a minute and stopped, the woman returned to the passenger seat, and then the SUV drove away under the officers' watch.

In the Monitoring Room, a chorus of coughs rose, trying to mask the awkwardness.

Tactical cough.

"Ku ku ku...", Xu Mo, who was beside, held back for a while, finally couldn't help laughing out.

He is professionally trained, normally wouldn't laugh, unless it's too funny.

Not long ago, the police officers were seriously discussing that these two people were arson suspects, even using the tone of experienced people to impart experience to themselves, but then turning around they discovered that this was actually just a Ulong Incident.

The man and woman appearing in the surveillance video were simply not the arson suspects...