Soul Patch

Chapter 221 I'm Back

Wenjie sat at his desk, rhythmically tapping his fingers on the glass plate.

If a group of men in black intends to kill you, and fails to kill you once or twice, will they try a third time?
Now that Li Shiman has died, and with such a huge commotion last night... this can't go on.

A short while later, Xiao Liu from the administration department came upstairs and knocked on the door.

He glanced at the thin figure at the door and said simply, "Come in!"

Xiao Liu walked in carrying his laptop, opened the desk, and Wenjie saw the surveillance footage on the screen. He nodded in satisfaction: "Did you find anything?"

Xiao Liu looked puzzled, frowned, and said, "Mr. Wen, there's something I don't quite understand..."

He quickly dragged the scroll bar with his thin, bony hands: "Look, here!"

Wenjie glanced at the time on the surveillance video: 14:18.
This was exactly the time I saw the "blood letter" and rushed out yesterday afternoon.

Wenjie stared intently at the screen, and sure enough, a few seconds later, he ran out of the office and disappeared at the end of the corridor.

"What, the camera can only capture this far?" He pointed in confusion at the direction where his figure disappeared on the screen.

"Shh! Mr. Wen, look..." Xiao Liu pointed to the screen, his expression of doubt deepening.

Without Xiao Liu's reminder, Wenjie also noticed the problem. He stared intently at the screen, and his reflection on the screen seemed to have just entered the camera's blind spot before turning back.

The surveillance video showed him rushing back to his office, and a few seconds later leaving the office and heading towards the elevator.

Was I that fast yesterday?
Didn't you go to the staircase to check the trash cans?

He exchanged a glance with Xiao Liu, and was about to say something when he suddenly saw Xiao Liu point at the computer screen and mumble two "uh-huhs," seemingly flustered and unsure of what to say.

Wenjie seemed to have guessed something; he had returned.

Sure enough, he saw on the screen that he had returned to his office from the camera's blind spot.

This time, I stayed in the office for quite a while.

Wenjie remembered that he wanted to order food, but no one answered the phone at the restaurant, so he went to his father's office to find something to eat.

It seems to be before 3 o'clock, maybe 2:45?

His mind raced. It seemed that some point in the future, "himself" had returned here, left behind the blood letter, and then destroyed it in a short time... This was something that Xiao Liu couldn't know about.

Otherwise, leaking information about the system would be considered a violation of confidentiality principles, and if the system's penalties are triggered, the consequences could be dire.

Wenjie pretended to suddenly realize something, patted his head and said, "I forgot my phone back then, so I came back to get it."

Later, my father called me and said there was a meeting that afternoon, asking me to prepare in my office and then come to his office.

As he spoke, he dragged the video back, stopping at the scene where he left his office, turned right, and headed towards the general manager's office.

I checked the time: 14:46.
He looked at Xiao Liu, who seemed to be deep in thought, and quickly said, "Of the several cameras on the 20th floor, only this one can capture my office?"

After saying that, he nudged Xiao Liu with his elbow.

Xiao Liu's train of thought was interrupted, and he finally snapped out of it and said:
"Oh...oh, you're asking about the security camera...yes, it's installed in the upper right corner of the corridor, which perfectly captures both your office side and the general manager's office side. The downside is that the view is angled on both sides, so it doesn't capture the whole thing." As Xiao Liu explained, Wenjie quickly walked to the door, opened it, and looked towards the upper right corner of the wall on the same side as his office. There, a semi-circular security camera was installed, and he added, "..."

"Oh, I see!" He pointed in the direction of the camera and asked, "What about the other cameras?"

He needed to make sure that no other cameras were simultaneously capturing two versions of himself; if so, he wanted to destroy the footage as soon as possible.

But then I thought about it again, and realized that this person who suddenly appeared must have planned Huahai's layout and studied the location of the cameras before daring to take the risk and appear openly in Huahai Building in broad daylight.

Thinking about it this way, he felt relieved, knowing that he was reliable and wouldn't easily make mistakes.

Xiao Liu followed them to the door, led Wenjie to the area under the security camera, and pointed to the corner of the corridor near the general manager's office, saying:

There's another camera over there. Its field of view is about the same as this one.

The 20th floor only has the general manager's office and your office; there aren't as many staff on other floors, so the security cameras mainly focus on those two.

Xiao Liu thought for a moment and added, "There are cameras in the elevator too, but..."

"Just what?" Wenjie keenly sensed something and pressed for an answer.

"We just couldn't find any footage from the security camera," Xiao Liu said in a guilty voice, glancing furtively at Wenjie like a primary school student caught red-handed by the teacher for not doing his homework.

"You're in charge of the cameras and surveillance footage, right? You mean you lost some of the records?" Wenjie said sternly, looking at Xiao Liu, whose face flushed red and then turned pale.

This question made Xiao Liu even more guilty. He knew that a murder had occurred here yesterday, and these video recordings could very well be clues to solving the case. Now that part of the video footage was missing, he would bear a huge responsibility.

"Hmm," Xiao Liu scratched his head and forced a reply.

Wenjie sighed and deliberately said in a calm voice, "Okay, I understand. Send me a copy of all the surveillance footage from yesterday in a package."

"Okay, okay, Mr. Wen, about the elevator surveillance footage..." Xiao Liu stammered.
What he was thinking was: Huahai was in the eye of the storm of a murder case. At this time, in order to divert everyone's attention and to give Li Shiman's family an explanation, the police arrested a murderer who committed suicide out of fear of punishment, and Huahai fired an employee who was not doing his job well... Then he would become an innocent bystander.

I went through many trials and tribulations to get hired by Huahai, and after joining the company, I worked diligently and never dared to slack off.

Thinking of all this, Xiao Liu looked at Wenjie with a long face, hoping that Wenjie would forgive and forget and let him keep his job.

Wenjie patted Xiao Liu on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Liu, this is no small matter..."

When Xiao Liu heard Xiao Wen say this, he seemed to realize that this was the prelude to him packing his bags and leaving.

He almost knelt down, grabbing Mr. Wen's arm and saying, "Mr. Wen, my work performance has always been excellent. I..."

"Okay, I'll see how you perform. Do you have my email address?" Wenjie tapped his wristwatch with his index finger and smiled slightly at Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu's gaze swept over Wenjie's expensive watch, realizing that he was being told to hurry up and compile the video materials and send them over.

"Okay, right away," he quickly agreed.

"And..." Wenjie turned around, blocking the camera behind him, pulled his hand back, put his index finger to his lips as a shushing gesture, and slowly said, "Understand?"

"Understand!"

(End of this chapter)