Chapter 47: Surveillance
In places like this, most of the security guards are concentrated at the entrance or inside the bar.
There are only a few waiters in the bar, and one of them is a part-time bartender.
How can it be possible to divide the manpower and sit in the monitoring room to control the overall situation?
Maybe the big bars have someone in charge of this area.
But at least, in this Blaupunkt Cabaret, I don't think there will be anyone guarding the monitoring room.
It's just such a small dance hall, you can't assign a person to take care of the monitoring room, right?
It is also easy to find a monitoring room in a place like this.
The front is a place with a lot of customers and crowds, so naturally it will not be used to put monitoring equipment that no one is waiting and occupies the space.
Then it can only be the backstage, the back kitchen.
There aren't many people in this bar, and there aren't many security guards.
I guess it's not the right time for me to come.
The streets are not very lively.
But it's just right for me to move.
I exited the main entrance of the bar and walked around the street, turning into a small alley.
The small alley was filled with the pungent smell of swill, and the lid of the huge dumpster was open, giving off a suffocating smell inside.
I walked briskly across the biochemical area with my mouth and nose covered, and sure enough, under a few rusty iron staircases, I found the back door of the Sapphire Cabaret.
In a place like this, there are several entrances and exits.
But there's no back door, which is weird.
The back door was hidden, and I pushed it open.
Cigarette butts all over the floor, it seems that people come here often.
I didn't stop long, I walked in quickly, looking carefully.
The back is supposed to be a place to store sundries, almost uncleaned, and the old sofa chairs are covered in thick dust.
And there were no lights here, so I could only grope my way forward with the faint light shining from in front of me.
You also have to be careful of toilet paper and certain things littered under your feet.
There are so many rooms in total, and most of the places with many wires are monitoring rooms - the monitoring room and switches such as electric switches will always be placed in the same room. Because it's good to pull the wire.
Sure enough, I was able to find the monitoring room easily.
Looking through the crack in the door, it is very narrow inside, the wall at the back is full of wires and switch switches, and in front of it are several monitors, and if you look closely, it is the monitoring display of the camera inside the bar.
But now there is still a problem.
There is a lock on the door of the monitoring room.
The door of the monitoring room is not the security door used today, but the door of the old-fashioned padlock.
That's why I'm able to look around.
But now, there is a lock hanging from the deadbolt.
I didn't think about that.
The monitoring room of someone else's house, since there is no one to take care of it, it must be locked.
After all, there are not only monitoring monitors and computers inside, but also control switches for the entire bar.
How could such an important place not be locked?
I'm a little agitated.
Is it just a trip in vain this time? It's all at the door of the monitoring room, and because there is no key, there is no way?
Keys, keys...... Will the waiter or bartender have a key there?
How do I get the key?
I looked at the keyhole and simply pulled out my key.
Although I also know that it must not be opened, but a dead horse should be a live horse doctor......
Huh?
The lock is open?!
Wrong!
It didn't feel right when you twisted the key - this lock was not locked in the first place!
This lock is simply hung on the deadbolt, and the door is not locked at all!
How so?
God help me!
I didn't think much of it, turned around and went straight into the monitoring room.
Thanks to the fact that I used to operate the surveillance in the guard room in my wife's cousin's hospital, I am now alone in front of the monitor, so I will not be confused.
The time when his wife and Brother Li came to this bar was ......
I looked through the video that the detective had sent me, and it was a camera on the highway in front of the bar.
In the upper right corner of the screen, the date and time when his wife and Brother Li entered the bar are clearly displayed.
I rummaged through the bar's computer and found that the time was a bit old, and the monitoring software was no longer on that date.
Could it be that you can't find it?
I took a composure and searched through the computer's archives.
Generally like this kind of monitoring, every few months, all the monitoring files of the current month will be stored in a disk on the computer that is specially used as storage.
Then the monitoring software will automatically delete the monitoring of these months, leaving space for the next few months.
Since the monitoring software is not on it, it should be in the computer's disk.
I opened folder by folder, searched, and extrapolated from the date......
My eyes suddenly lit up, this date is the day my wife and Brother Li came to the bar!
I hurriedly copied and played the document.
I slowly dragged the progress bar, hoping to see my wife or Brother Li in the video.
However, as the progress bar moved, my heart slowly sank.
No, no, no!
In all the cameras that day, there was no appearance of his wife and Brother Li?!
How is this possible!
Looking at these video files, I suddenly realized something.
I hurriedly copied out the next day's monitoring file and dragged the progress barβ
The progress bar was so much longer than I needed it to be!
Monitoring is open 24 hours a day, and there is no such thing as a long day and a short day.
Well, the answer is already clear and obvious.
The camera surveillance file on the day his wife and Brother Li entered the Blaupunt Cabaret was edited by someone else!
I used to be in the hospital and cut out the part of him that appeared on camera, so I know exactly what the edited video looks like.
The most obvious thing is that the time of the edited video is not continuous.
And the reason why this video is shorter than the next day is because most of the recorded footage has been cut!
And these clips are the part of his wife and Brother Li that were captured by the camera!
But why did these fragments disappear?
Why was it cut by someone else?
Naturally, it wouldn't be the people in the bar who did this kind of thing on their own.
My heart grew heavier and heavier.
The answer is already obvious.
If it weren't for Brother Li's own hands, then it should also be, that detective Shinichi, right?
I don't know Detective Shinichi's position yet, but I guess he's on Brother Li's side.
Because it was introduced to me by Brother Li.
I don't know anything about his background or anything.
None of this matters, what matters is - should I say, is it worthy of Brother Li?
I didn't even remember to come and check out the bar until now.
Brother Li, however, had already processed all the records here.