Chapter 29: Surveillance

Zhou Ruochuan: "I returned to the medicine pickup window on the first floor to work, and later heard that someone jumped off the building, so I rushed over to see."

Everyone finished explaining. Although Wang Zeyu was extremely dissatisfied with this newbie's perfunctory attitude, he didn't say anything.

He acted as the leader and waved to everyone.

"Alright, since everyone has finished speaking, we can disband. Does anyone else have questions?"

Su Mian stood up, "I have a question."

"Speak."

Her gaze fell on Zhou Ruochuan, "I remember the medicine pickup window is very close to the hospital's main entrance."

Zhou Ruochuan had a lazy, punchable look, "Yeah, what's wrong."

"Your statement has a big problem. The sound of someone falling from a high place and hitting the ground is very short, but also very loud."

"This sound is louder than a gunshot and smaller than a firework explosion."

"If you were at the medicine pickup window, you would definitely have heard this sound before others, rather than hearing others say someone jumped off the building before you noticed."

Su Mian walked slowly to him. Zhou Ruochuan's expression finally changed, his Adam's apple rolled for a moment, and the words of explanation stuck in his throat.

"And when you rushed to the crime scene, you were panting. Walking over from the medicine pickup window, it shouldn't be that much, right?"

The look in everyone's eyes toward him changed again and again. Su Tang said "Wow," "Qingci, you're so amazing!"

"I didn't like him for a long time. With an attitude of 'none of my business,' I don't know if you thought you were the DM."

Chen Mo crossed her arms and said sarcastically.

"Speak, where else did you go besides the medicine pickup window?"

Zhou Ruochuan's face turned pale, "I... I also went to the 21st floor."

"You also went to the 21st floor?"

Su Mian was a bit surprised. What exactly is the situation on the 21st floor? Why did so many people go there, and what is its relationship with the deceased? And why did this deceased person come to the hospital?

"Wait."

Su Mian suddenly lifted her head, "Who among you knows this deceased person?"

"Yang Xuan? Anyone studying at Fushan University knows him."

Chen Mo lowered her eyes and picked at her nails, "He was at the top of the list for the top ten academic elites every year. It's hard not to notice."

Wang Zeyu: "Alright, let's do this. Qingci and I will go to the surveillance room to see which floor the deceased jumped from."

"Zhang Shuo Zhi and Zhou Ruochuan, trouble you to check the hospital's entry and exit files. Chen sister and Su Tang, you go to the 21st floor to see what you can find."

Su Mian followed Wang Zeyu to the first-floor security room. A middle-aged man in a black security uniform was lying on the table taking a nap.

The people in the surveillance were moving slowly, as if on fast-forward. Some screens flashed, and the people in them disappeared.

Wang Zeyu stepped forward and shook the middle-aged man, "Hello..."

He didn't even finish his sentence. When the middle-aged man lifted his head, he froze and immediately withdrew his hand.

This man had red bloodshot eyes, dark circles under his eyes, and looked like he hadn't slept for several days. His hollow eyes stared at people, making their hearts tighten.

"What, are, you, doing?"

"Uh... we want to see the surveillance from last night."

Don't know if he understood or not, the security guard turned his head, then suddenly turned it back, leaning close to Wang Zeyu.

"There, is, none..."

"There, is, none..."

He kept repeating this sentence mechanically, his eyes staring fixedly at Wang Zeyu. Wang Zeyu was so stared at that his scalp went numb, and he turned to leave.

Su Mian stepped forward and pointed to the surveillance.

"We'll take a look ourselves."

As the words fell, the middle-aged man finally shut his mouth and slowly made room for the two. Su Mian sat down immediately and began to search for the surveillance data from the previous two days.

Su Mian: "The surveillance of the entire building after the power outage was hacked."

Su Mian stared at the pitch-black big screen, falling into deep thought.

It was clear that she couldn't start from here. If the surveillance could be seen by them, it would be close to finding the murderer.

Now the most important thing is to find the floor where the deceased jumped off the building.

It must be higher than the 21st floor, but there are so many floors above the 21st floor. Do they have to search floor by floor?

Just as the two were silent, the big screen flickered, and all surveillance screens began to switch and shake automatically, hissing, and finally all stopped.

From the corridor, stairs, rest area, even above their heads, every lens turned.

The focusing sound of the lens echoed in the empty hall, a light "click," and all screens turned into a top-down angle of them, as if they had been pulled out of the security room and placed in every corner of the hospital.

Wearing hospital gowns, wearing nurse uniforms, holding medicine boxes, carrying fruit baskets.

All were their faces.

The oppressive light flickered on and off, making the people in the surveillance look incredibly distorted.

"What... situation."

Wang Zeyu was so scared that his back felt cold. He didn't even dare to move.

The people in the picture were doing the same actions as him, as if they had been copied and split, simply eerie enough to give people goosebumps.

"We won't be watched, will we?"

Su Mian didn't respond. She leaned close to the surveillance. The "Su Mian" in the surveillance also leaned close together. Her gaze fell on the screen in the corner.

The Su Mian in the lens was wearing a nurse uniform, with red marks that couldn't be hidden faintly visible at the collar, holding a stack of files in her hand, looking a bit "aggrieved."

Looking closely, one could even find that she was trembling, as if she had been scared by something, her eye sockets were red, and her eyelashes were so long they were almost about to poke through the screen.

Su Mian froze for a moment. Her expression wasn't that... pitiful, right?

She stared at the picture for a long time and finally discovered some differences.

Most of the displays had smiles in their eyes, while some were aggrieved, and even carried some terror. What did they see?

"Qingci... did you discover anything?"

Wang Zeyu saw Su Mian fixed in front of the screen and couldn't help but step forward to check, coincidentally meeting the gaze of the Su Mian in the screen. The girl looked at him aggrievedly.

Wang Zeyu's breathing stagnated, a layer of heat rising on his face. He didn't know whether to stare at the screen or stare at Su Mian.

"I discovered one... what's wrong with you?"

Su Mian turned her head, seeing Wang Zeyu's face red to a terrifying degree.

"No, nothing!"

"Qingci, you say."

Wang Zeyu turned his back, pretending to be relaxed and leaning on the edge of the table.

"There are two places where my expression is terrified."

"And the corresponding floors are... 21st and 30th."

Su Mian took two steps back, gradually confirming her thoughts, "We originally wanted to go downstairs that day, but the elevator finally stopped on the 30th floor once. It might not be a coincidence."

"But the murderer pushed the person down and pressed several elevators at the same time, but didn't take the one we were in."

The two looked at each other and turned to head to the elevator hall, coincidentally running into Chen Mo and Su Tang coming downstairs.

Su Tang wasn't as enthusiastic as yesterday when she saw her, and there was some indescribable hostility in her eyes. Su Mian guessed that they might have discovered something on the 21st floor. ===== CHAPTER 30 =====