Chapter 52 Video Clues

Jack heaved a sigh of relief, turned the flashlight, and walked slowly, looking at all the corners of the house. Five minutes later, he was sure that there was no more abnormality here. The abnormalities just now had all disappeared as the wardrobe was put away. The small wardrobe in the living room and the large wardrobe in the master bedroom now looked ordinary, exuding a smell of decaying wood, and became normal furniture.

Jack opened and closed the door of the small wardrobe several times, then closed it, walked to the large wardrobe in the master bedroom, put his head close to the wall next to the wardrobe, and looked behind the wardrobe close to the wall. Because there were four legs under the wardrobe, the back could not fit the wall completely, leaving a certain gap. Jack then found a bunch of tangled wires in the middle of the gap near the corner.

Thinking carefully, this place should have been the location of the monitoring probe's machine room. Now it has been converted into a bedroom. Maybe the wires left in the wall and a few wires outside are still there, just tangled together, and have not been cut and cleaned up. He immediately got into the closet, turned on the flashlight, and reached into the corner of the wall through the hole. The angle between the back of the closet and the wall was very small, and the space was narrow. It was difficult to touch the tangled wire. He used his fingers to hook a corner and gently pulled the wire out.

The wire was tied together with a black rubber rope. There was nothing unusual except that it was covered with dust. However, there was a broken USB flash drive in the middle of the wire. The socket of the USB flash drive was missing a small piece, but the storage chip inside might still be good. Jack carefully took out the USB flash drive, put it in his pocket, and then stuffed the wire back in the same way.

After walking around the room again, checking the two closets and cleaning up the traces of his presence, Jack went through the hole to the next room. At this moment, the next room was also silent, without the erratic and weird feeling. Jack did not stay for long, opened the security door and left quickly. He put away other things in the stairwell of Jincheng Building, only put on a mask, and then walked to the street, walking in the opposite direction of Changqingying Community.

About twenty minutes later, he took a taxi back. When he got off the car, the mask was already taken off. Back home, Clare was washing in the bathroom. Because she was still a little short of height, she usually took a small basin of water, put the basin in front of her, and squatted on the ground to rinse her mouth. The same is true for washing her face. But by next year, her height should be about the same, and she won't have to bother with this anymore.

Jack asked her to go to bed first, and he went back to the bedroom and took out the laptop that he rarely used. There were some colorful stickers on the surface of the notebook, which originally belonged to Eva. Later, after taking over, he just kept the computer clean and able to use it normally. Usually, when he has a mobile phone and sculpture work to do, Jack rarely uses this thing. After turning on the computer, Jack took out the USB flash drive, directly tore off the protective shell on the outside of the socket that was a little damaged, revealing the socket chip, and carefully inserted it into the USB port.

The system prompts that a new USB device has been found and the program is being installed. Soon, the USB drive popped up. Jack clicked it and found that it was full of videos of varying lengths. The longest one was more than a minute, and the shorter ones were more than ten seconds, with a total of more than two hundred videos. He started from the first one. The video screen was not very clear, but not too blurry. It looked similar to the last video of Eva that he had seen before. The picture quality was very familiar.

Jack perked up and observed that the scene in this video should be in the corridor of Jincheng Building, but he didn't know which floor it was. The picture was dim, and nothing appeared in this corridor. Soon, after dozens of seconds, the video ended. Jack clicked on the second video again. He was not careless and watched them one by one from the first video. Because each video was short, Jack did not press fast forward to ensure that he would not miss any useful clues.

Time passed unknowingly. Clare had already fallen asleep. She was going to come over and say hello before going to bed, but seeing Jack staring at the computer screen without blinking, Clare did not disturb him and went back to sleep. At about one o'clock in the morning, two-thirds of the short video had been watched.

Jack yawned heavily, got up, poured a glass of water, drank it in one gulp, went to the bathroom, and then washed his face with cold water. Back to the workbench, he continued to stare at the computer screen and opened the remaining surveillance videos. After watching for more than half an hour, these videos were all shot from the inside of Jincheng Building, not from the opposite side of the street like the last camera. The video screen was single, and the shooting time was basically at night, mostly between midnight and four o'clock in the morning, so it was difficult to see anyone appear in the camera.

So when he opened one of the videos and suddenly saw a person lying on the ground in the corridor, Jack did not react for a while. He was stunned for a moment and leaned in front of the screen to take a closer look. Yes, there is indeed a person lying in the corridor, lying straight along the direction of the corridor, not lying sideways, and it was dark in the video, so he almost didn't notice it.

Jack looked carefully at the area around the person, and there was nothing different, very normal, very quiet, except for this person. Soon, the video of less than 30 seconds ended, and Jack clicked on the next video, but the picture had changed, and it was no longer the place where someone was lying just now. Turn off this video, open the previous video, pause this video, then zoom in, and adjust the brightness of the video to the highest. The video at this time is the clearest moment so far.

After Jack carefully identified the person lying on the ground, he suddenly trembled all over and blurted out: "Eva?" Yes, the person lying on the ground is Eva. After the picture is enlarged and the brightness is increased, the person lying flat and motionless can be clearly seen as a woman, and the facial features can be recognized by anyone who knows her.

But at this moment, there seemed to be a hole on her forehead, and dark liquid flowed down her forehead, soaking a large area under her back of the head. Because the video quality was dark, Jack believed that the dark liquid must be blood, and there was a blood hole on the right side of Eva's forehead. Although she closed her eyes, her expression was calm, and her body did not rise and fall with her breathing, as if she had been dead for a long time.

Jack could feel his heartbeat speeding up, his hands trembled slightly unconsciously, and his eyes stared straight at the person lying in the video, trying to prove that what he saw was fake, that person was not Eva. But the more carefully he looked, the more he proved the fact he didn't want to believe. In his memory, he had seen the clothes on Eva before.

Not only that, Jack also found that Eva's abdomen was also stained red with blood, soaking the clothes.