Chapter 1948: The Hooded Man
Las Vegas is located in the valley region of Nevada surrounded by desolate rocky deserts and Gobi Deserts, which was originally just a dilapidated town, and little by little it has become the largest city in Nevada in the United States, and enjoys a high international reputation as an entertainment center. net
But modern exhibitions are not all good. The ubiquitous camera surveillance has made people in the metropolis under surveillance all the time. There are surveillance at intersections, on street corners, at banks, and even in small markets.
And Cobain and his team have quietly taken control of all the traffic monitoring in the city. The video signals coming from everywhere are processed by a high computer for fast facial recognition. Not only in real time, according to Lin Rui's request, they also sorted out and compared the videos collected in the past week.
The entire technical team was busy with this, and soon, one of the computers beeped. This is a warning from the facial recognition system.
Cobain immediately said, "Take an image, lock on the person, and make an accurate comparison." I need to know when and where this person will appear. ”
"It was captured by a street corner surveillance. The pixels are not very clear, but they can still lock on to the approximate facial features of the target, and the system concludes that it is 86% consistent with Whitman, one of the target characters. The time was last week, at a convenience city in the city of Las Vegas. A member of the technical team reported.
"He entered a convenience city?" Cobain frowned, "Alright." Ignore that for now, give this video and location to the front. Rick: They've been waiting for this news. ”
"Understood, Boss. The member of the technical team nodded.
In a safe house in Las Vegas, Crystal receives the message and immediately informs everyone.
Lin Rui walked over, stared at the screen and said, "Is that this the person?"
"The clarity is not enough, and he is wearing a hat, and he is only captured in a few shots, which is difficult to judge, but it is very likely. Crystal replied.
"What is he going to do there?" Crazy Horse frowned, "like buying something." ”
Shogishi frowned and looked at him, "It must be him." ”
"Why are you so sure?"
"It's on the edge of the Nevada desert in the United States, and it's hot all year round. It's okay to wear a baseball cap like this indoors, and it's rare for people to wear a hoodie with the hood on it. "Shogishi said calmly.
"I said, don't all those black guys be like that? wearing baseball caps and hoodies around their heads. Walks wobbly and hums black songs. Sergei frowned, "I think it's trendy, but it does look a little silly." ”
"If you look closely, he's still wearing gloves and using cash, which looks like a lot of money. "Because he knew there was a camera in the convenience store, he wore a hat and tried to tilt his face as far as possible." Gloves are worn on hot days to avoid fingerprints, while cash is used to avoid credit cards being traced. Americans are accustomed to spending by card, so they rarely carry that much cash with them. This shows that he does have a problem. ”
"Where is the convenience store on that street corner?" Lin Rui immediately whispered.
"The location should be at the southern end of Long Street, near McCarran International Airport. Crazy Horse said as he looked at the location shown on the Street View map.
"Quirky. Lin Rui frowned.
"What's wrong?" said Shogishi as he looked at him.
"It's a small convenience store, but there's a big city right next to the airport. So if you look at what is recorded in this surveillance video, not many people have ever been in. It can be seen that the location is not conspicuous, and the business is not very good. But why did that Whitman go there, just to buy so much, and what else had he done?" asked Lin Rui.
"Judging by the video, he didn't do anything. I looked through the magazines in the store, but I didn't buy them. Crystal rewinded the video and replayed it.
"The convenience store magazine looks like some kind of travel book. Lin Rui frowned slightly, and immediately got up and said, "Let's go, let's act immediately and go there to have a look." ”
"Boss, will we be surprised if we go there so rashly now?" Sergei frowned.
"No, Liszt already knows that he is being targeted by us, and he will definitely be more careful. Even if he wanted to do something, he would do it at night. Lin Rui said in a low voice. "Because most of the cameras will be very poor at night. ”
Lin Rui and the others came to the very small convenience store, this store is indeed very small, there is no business, and the clerk is listless. Lin Rui turned around a few times, walked to the shelves with magazines, picked up the book and flipped through it, frowning slightly.
"What's wrong?" said Shogishi in a low voice.
"There's a page missing from it. Lin Rui said in a low voice, "If I'm not mistaken, this is the travel guide that Whitman flipped over." ”
"What's the missing page?" Shogan picked up another book from the shelf and flipped through it, frowning slightly, "Is it information about the airport?"
"Airport?" Lin Rui turned his head to look at McCarran International Airport in the distance, his eyes moved, "I understand." Whitman was indeed in the same group as Liszt, and he had come here to investigate the situation in advance and prepare for an emergency evacuation. The piece of paper he tore off was a description of the airport's private jet take-off and landing. ”
"Private jets?" Crazy Horse frowned.
"I see, they were very clever enough to know that they had stabbed themselves in stealing Pandora's plan. Once the matter is known to the US side or the CIA, it will be difficult for them to escape from Las Vegas. Here is a basin in the middle of a desert. If they were stuck on the road, they would have little escape.
But it's also a place where the wealthy gather, and private business jets often crowd the airport. They can completely avoid the road and leave by private jet. Crystal thought immediately.
But he could have investigated these things through the Internet. Crazy Horse frowned, "Do you need to get information from magazines?"
"They're preparing for the worst, and if it comes to light, it's enough to alarm the CIA and hunt them down with all their might. At that time, any electronic information communication will be traced, and it will be unreliable. On the contrary, it is this retro approach that can bypass technical tracking by surprise. Jiang Jian said in a low voice.
Lin Rui walked out quickly, "Crystal, we need to find out all the private jet routes that haven't taken off in the last few days. It is highly likely that they will blend into one of them. In this way, they did not appear neither on the list of flights at the airport, nor by road. But it can be done, and the gods disappear without noticing. ”