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Chapter 644 - 409 Evidence

Chapter 644: Chapter 409 Evidence

"Woo~ Woo~"

After Ning Shisan left silently, the museum immediately erupted with the shrill sound of an alarm!

Soon, a dozen police cars arrived upon hearing the news, surrounding the entire museum and setting up a police cordon...

...

The day after the "museum theft," Wang Zhao Ping was brought to Shanghai overnight "to assist with the investigation."

"The Buddha head again?" Wang Zhao Ping couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

Although the case was still under investigation, his intuition told him that this incident was probably connected to the previous armored truck robbery case!

It was likely that the Shanghai police also had this suspicion, which is why they had invited him, the person in charge of the truck robbery case, to come to Shanghai.

But hadn’t he already warned them to strengthen the security around the Buddha head? How could such a situation have occurred?

"Since the intruding thieves were caught on the spot, how could the real Buddha head have gone missing?" Wang Zhao Ping was puzzled.

"Well... Captain Wang, watch this video, and you’ll understand," said a local Shanghai officer, his face looking a bit strange.

Soon, the staff projected several video clips onto the computer screen.

It showed a person in black continuously moving through one surveillance area after another. Clearly, this must be the thief who was caught.

At first, Wang Zhao Ping was somewhat indifferent, but soon, like Elder Wang, his expression turned to one of seeing a ghost.

The person in black inexplicably fell to the ground, and the backpack containing the Buddha head mysteriously disappeared.

What followed were crowds of guards arriving in the showroom, and the final stage of subduing the thief...

Turns out the thief hadn’t really been captured by the museum guards, but had inexplicably fainted?

This indicated that there must have been a second person in the showroom at that time!

However, the thief’s collapse could also have been due to a remote attack from a blind spot in the surveillance.

For example, from a stun gun or some colorless, odorless volatile anesthetic.

But... how to explain the disappearing backpack?

After watching back and forth several times and slowing down the footage to a tenth of the speed to examine the surveillance frame by frame, Wang Zhao Ping couldn’t figure out how the backpack had disappeared right under the surveillance cameras!

"Are you sure this surveillance footage hasn’t been edited by someone?"

Now Wang Zhao Ping understood why his colleague had such a strange expression just moments ago.

"We’ve had the technical department verify it, and there are no signs of tampering or editing in either the recording time or the footage itself."

"Huh?" Wang Zhao Ping looked astonished.

If it hadn’t been edited, did the backpack simply evaporate into thin air?

"To say this case is a bit odd is an understatement. From beginning to end, only the black-clothed thief appears in the surveillance.

Based on the suspect’s confession after waking up, he indeed was attacked and knocked out from behind.

However, not only is the attacker mentioned by the suspect absent from the surveillance, but also, when we arrived on the scene and searched every corner, we couldn’t find any trace of that backpack.

The Buddha head is not small; there are hardly any places in the museum that could hide it.

Yet such a large object simply vanished without a trace.

In the process of inquiring about leads, even some of the museum guards started spreading rumors that the museum’s ghosts were to blame..."

Ghosts to blame?

Wang Zhao Ping has never believed in ghosts and deities.

This must be the work of humans!

"It seems there must be an informant for them in the surveillance room?"

If the surveillance wasn’t tampered with, then the black-clothed person simply entered the museum boldly and authoritatively.

This means that there must be a mole among the surveillance room guards!

"Yes! Just as Captain Wang said, the confirmed inside man is a duty officer from the security department, who has now been detained.

According to the descriptions of the guards on the scene, when they reached the surveillance room, the culprit was trying to flee in panic.

After discovering that another guard had been drugged and was unconscious, suggesting that something was amiss, they immediately subdued that person.

The suspect is now being interrogated in our interrogation room."

"Hmm..." That explains it.

No matter how tight the dragnet, often the most effective method is the simplest and most blatant one.

While an insider could ignore the intruder, they had no way to edit the surveillance.

The question returned to square one: what method did the other party use to make the backpack disappear into thin air?

Or rather... how to "cloak" oneself in surveillance?

Even Wang Zhao Ping, with his wealth of case handling experience and familiarity with strange and mysterious cases, had never seen such a bizarre scenario...

Despite giving it much thought, he couldn’t figure out how it had been done.

"Was there no trace of a second person at the scene, like footprints, for instance?"

"Well... because there were many visitors during the day, the traces at the scene were too chaotic to determine whether there was a second person."

"I see, then were there any other unusual findings?" Wang Zhao Ping asked.

"Well... there actually was one more thing.

Shortly after the backpack disappeared, the museum’s alarm suddenly went off on its own.

But to this day, we still don’t know who triggered the alarm."

The alarm suddenly going off... and right after the Buddha head disappeared...

"It looks like, this was most likely someone alerting the police, clearly intending to set up those black-clothed people..." Wang Zhao Ping stroked his chin and analyzed.

"Yes! After our internal analysis, we also believe this to be a ’case within a case’.