First-Class Lawyer

Several people endured a black screen-like video for a while.

The boss asked the young man in the monitoring room: "Have you ever paid attention to this? Is it really that dark?"

The young man was a little embarrassed: "Uh... because it's not in the store over there, I didn't pay much attention."

In fact, he doesn't always stare at the video in the store. Although the video is to prevent some troubles, the price of this restaurant is after all, and most of the people who can come to eat are people who are more respectful and not very good at it. What kind of tricks are you doing here.

At around 7:34, a light suddenly appeared at the location of Kitty Bell's house.

It's just that the light flickered, and it seemed to move slowly with people's footsteps.

"This is... an emergency flashlight, right?" The young man moved his finger and turned the screen up—

From the angle of the camera, the position is also a little awkward. The window in the middle of Kitty Bell’s house can be photographed, but only the upper half, and the lower half is still blocked by the courtyard wall and stacked wooden boards of a nearby house.Through the enlarged screen, everyone could barely see a figure holding an emergency flashlight, walking slowly from a place farther away from the room to the window.

Judging from the action and shape, it should be the old lady Kitty Bell herself.

When she stood a little further away, everyone could still see her silhouette and flashlight through the upper half of the window.First the legs and feet, then the upper body, then the shoulders, head and face...

When she actually walked to the window, no one could see her.

"Fuck, the walls and boards are really in the way!" The young man was more excited than the lawyer.

Yan Suizhi patted him on the shoulder, "Calm down."

He has seen a lot of evidence of losing the chain at this critical moment. It is not bad to have this picture. How can there be so many things that just prove everything clearly.

Although I can't see anyone, but through the shaking of light and shadow, I can roughly guess——

The old lady seemed to lower the light a little, did something, and then turned on the lights in the house.

"Is there a light? I thought there was something wrong with the wiring in her house or the light was broken." This time it was the boss who spoke, "After all, that house is a year older than me."

The notary Julian Gower has more daily contact with things than the boss. He said: "Many people here do not turn on the lights until it is dark to a certain extent in order to save energy bills. But how does this old lady I don't know about this habit, it's just a guess."

After a while, the window pane was covered with a thin layer of water vapor.

"The old lady turned on the heat."

According to the case file, the old lady Kitty Bell likes knitting. When the sun is shining during the day, she will sit by the window next to the sun, and at night, she will sit near the heater, warming her fingers while Do weave.

Heating is a great thing for an old lady to make her fingers nimble.But it was too unfriendly to the few people watching the video.

Because after the glass is covered with water vapor, things in the room cannot be seen clearly, only furry lights and blurred outlines can be seen.

People in that low-rise area always save energy, and most of the lights are yellow and dim.The lighting of the old lady's house is the same, and the eyes of the people in front of the video are a little sore after watching for a long time.

And staring at a piece of dim yellow glass for 10 to [-] minutes is really boring, and it is a test of patience.

At 7:55 p.m. in the video, something that shocked everyone appeared——

"Hey!! Is this hair! A bunch of hair is coming!" The drowsy young man sat up straight, his fingers almost pierced the screen, and pointed to a small black shadow that appeared in the window glass.

It should be a person, approaching the old lady quietly from behind.

Still because of the occlusion of the courtyard wall and wooden boards, only a little bit of the top of the head can be seen.

But everyone still held their breath, and then, through the little glass covered with water vapor, everyone saw a black shadow swung past the man's head and fell down again.

Even if he couldn't hear the sound and couldn't see a clearer and more complete picture, he could still imagine that the person was holding some hard object and knocked the old lady unconscious.

The young man watching the video didn't rush to speak this time, but covered his mouth with his hands, and was stunned for a while before taking a silent breath.

The boss sighed "Hey--", "It would be nice if the old lady heard the movement in advance. There are alarm bells in these old houses, and they are usually installed near the light switch..."

The notary thought for a while and said: "Actually, the alarm bells in these old houses are broken a lot, so they may not work. And if you are not afraid of the alarm, you don't need to knock the old lady unconscious first."

While they were discussing sentence by sentence, Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan, who really needed a video, never spoke, and still stared at the screen intently.

The young man sitting in the seat felt that the person behind him leaned forward, and subconsciously looked back.

When these people entered the door before, he heard the boss mention it, and knew that the person standing directly behind him was a trainee lawyer.His first impression of the trainee lawyer was that he was very student-like, perhaps because he smiled a little, he seemed gentle and friendly.

But now, when the trainee lawyer looked at the screen, his face was almost expressionless, his smile was gone, and his warmth was gone.The screen on the wall is reflected in the eyes, dotted with stars, like extremely clear glass, beautiful but cold.

Is there such a big difference in temperament when a person smiles or not?

The young man glanced at the authentic lawyer again. He propped one hand on the table and looked at the screen expressionlessly, coldly.

"..."

Pressed by two giant ice mountains, the young man shrank his neck, turned his head silently, and moved his chair forward.

When he looked at the screen again, the glass of Kitty Bell's house that reflected the dim yellow light suddenly went black.

"Huh? Why is it dark?!" The young man asked in surprise.

"The man inside turned out the light," said Julian Gower, the notary.

While the young man was staring at the screen, he felt his shoulder was tapped twice.

Yan Suizhi: "Excuse me, zoom in on the picture a little more."

The young man adjusted the picture again.

The pitch-black window pane took up almost half of the screen.Yan Suizhi moved a little closer, leaning forward. He supported the table with his left hand, but his eyes and attention did not move away from the screen at all.

I didn't even notice any difference in the "desktop" pressed by the palm.

After a while, the "desktop" suddenly moved and was pulled away from under his palm.

Yan Suizhi glanced distractedly, just in time to see Gu Yan's hand retracted into the pocket of his trousers.

"..."

Gu Yan's eyes swept across his face.

Yan Sui subconsciously twirled his fingers, feeling that his peripheral nerves were probably dead, and he couldn't tell the difference between the back of his hand and the table.

When he raised his eyes again, Gu Yan had already withdrawn his eyes and looked at the screen again.

Even after the magnification of the pitch-black patch, he was still blind, unable to see anything.

After a while, at 8:05 p.m. in the video, the room was lit up again.Immediately afterwards, a figure hurried to the window, busy up and down...

It should be Chester, the grandnephew of the old lady, who is back.

This extremely limited video was asked to be played back and forth three times, and then the original video was taken under the witness of notary Julian Gower.

The boss rubbed his hands together and said, "Hey—it doesn't seem to be of much help. It would be great if there were not so many shelters, or there would be a street light in the alley. It's such a bad luck!"

The young man also stood up and scratched his head: "I don't usually look at the area outside the window very much. If I did, maybe it would be of some use."

"Thank you." Yan Suizhi said, "This video is very useful."

When he was talking to people, that smile came out again, as if the coldness when no one noticed before was an illusion.

The boss also said polite words to him: "You're welcome, it's almost time, why don't you just have dinner here?"

Gu Yan waved his hand: "No, there is still something to do."

"Really? Well..." The solicitation failed, and the boss looked regretful.

After Yan Suizhi, Gu Yan and Julian Gore came out of this restaurant, they went to several surrounding restaurants, and also negotiated with the boss to retrieve the surveillance video of No. 23.

But unfortunately, none of the infrared cameras that can take pictures outside the window, and either the angle is more biased, or the height is not high enough to provide more useful information.

The only exception is the sixth one.

The surveillance video of this house couldn't see the window of Kitty Bell's house, but the staff in charge of watching the surveillance said a word.He pointed to a corner not far from the courtyard wall and said, "Hiss——I remember that it wasn't so dark here, or a little closer to this side... Uh, there should be a street light at about this position."

"Sure?"

"Sure, I don't remember this piece being so dark."

If there's a street lamp there, maybe throwing a little light on Kitty Bell's fence, then whoever... or whoever climbed over the fence before the murder could be photographed.

In order to confirm his words, he took the initiative to turn forward for several days.

Sure enough, on the night of the 15th, there was a street lamp at the corner of the road. .

But in any case, it did reach Kitty Bell's fence.

Just happened to be out of order?Or did someone break it on purpose?

The clerk played the video from the night of the 15th to the night of the 16th again at high speed.

"Pause for a moment." Gu Yan stared at the screen and said, "Change this side to the original speed."

The video quickly returned to the original speed, and there were two teenagers standing near the streetlight, talking about something.Those two people were no strangers to Yan Suizhi, one was Chester, the grandnephew of the old lady, and the other was Joshua Dale.

The two of them had a quarrel for some reason, pushing and shoving each other, as if they were about to fight.

While tugging and tugging, Joshua Dale dragged Chester and threw it towards the lamppost, and Chester slammed into the lamppost from behind.Immediately afterwards, he grabbed Joshua Dale again, turned him over, and pushed him against the lamp post.

OK, two hits.

The street lamp with poor contact of gas spring is probably so completely cold.

Just like that, the two bears didn't let it go.

After fighting for another two or three minutes, a person finally came to persuade the fight, and the three of them twisted into a ball, the scene was very beautiful.

Yan Sui's face was paralyzed: "..."

He turned his head and smiled at Gu Yan, and said lovingly: "You know, I want to twist off that kid Joshua Dale's head and hang it on top of the street lamp."

Says "kid" and sounds like "stupid".

"..." Gu Yan lifted his eyelids, let him laugh for a while, then suddenly reached out and pinched his chin, turned his face away, and said coldly, "Tell Joshua, don't talk to me."

Professor Yanda had never been treated like this before, and he was stunned for a moment, thinking that you are really perverted.