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Gu Mian stood up amidst Bai Lu's astonished gaze: "I just wanted to experience it, to feel it."

He patted his white coat as he spoke.

"So, what did you sense?" Bai Lu silently looked at Gu Mian.

"I felt the ground was very cold," Gu Mian told the truth.

Egret: "..."

Coach Che was also forcibly taken to the crime scene by Gu Mian. At this moment, he was lying sprawled on the sofa in the living room, staring blankly at the ceiling, like a doll that had lost its soul.

Sitting next to him was Xie Bi'an, who sat motionless on the sofa. Anyone who didn't know better would think someone had set up a human mannequin there.

Looking at her teammates, each one more abnormal than the last, Bai Lu felt hopeless about the future.

The sky has darkened.

She needed to turn on the lights to see anything in the room, and she didn't want to spend the night in such a place, so she could only desperately search for clues.

Of the others, only Coco was slightly more serious. She was standing outside the door, intently staring at the wall directly opposite the door.

After a while, Gu Mian heard Coco's voice coming from outside: "Doctor, come and take a look."

Upon hearing this, Gu Mian lifted her foot and walked outside.

When she walked over to Coco, she discovered that Coco had been observing a semi-circular black object protruding from the wall.

"Is this... a camera?"

It doesn't look like it was installed by the property management company; it looks like the homeowner installed it themselves.

The camera looks new and is positioned directly opposite Li Shu's front door. If the door is open, the camera can capture the entire living room.

“Strange,” Gu Mian frowned as she looked at the camera installed at a height of 1.5 meters. “Normally, even if a family installs a camera, they would install it above the door or on the ceiling of the hallway. This camera is installed in such a strange place.”

It seems like it was specifically filmed to capture the living room behind the open door.

"This looks like a camera that Li Shu and the others installed themselves. We should be able to find the surveillance footage from this camera in their house, right?" Coco bent down slightly and stared at the semi-circular camera.

“If we have the footage from this camera, then we don’t need to go to the property management office to check the hallway surveillance. This camera is much clearer than the one in the hallway, and it can even see inside the house,” Gu Mian said, turning and walking into the house. “Let’s go check their computer in the bedroom.”

Coco quickly followed Gu Mian.

She didn't dare to stay in the stairwell alone for long.

If the door suddenly slams shut, she'll be left alone in the hallway.

The egret had already started rummaging through the house, trying to find some useful clues.

Xie Bi'an and the driving instructor sat quietly on the sofa, like two corpses. Gu Mian really didn't know what Xie Bi'an had come to do with him in this place.

Of the three rooms, only the room with the book of rituals has a computer.

Gu Mian reached out and pressed the power button on the computer. While waiting for the computer to boot up, she picked up the photo on the table and examined it.

In the photo, Li Shu smiles shyly at the camera, with a gray-white residential building in the background.

Quiet and scholarly, that was Gu Mian's first impression of Li Shu.

The main reason is that his name is very elegant, and hearing this name will conjure up the image of a clean-cut young man.

The computer is now fully powered on.

Li Shu hadn't set a password for his computer, so Gu Mian easily found the surveillance footage in the file.

He hovered his mouse over the surveillance footage from June 3rd and clicked on it.

At this moment, Bailu stopped rummaging through drawers and cabinets and went to the computer to watch the surveillance footage. She also pulled the driving instructor and Xie Bian, who were pretending to be dead in the living room, into the room, saying that she wanted them to analyze the footage.

But the two of them went inside and continued to lie on the bed, without making a sound.

Seeing this, Bailu ignored them. Holding a pink object in her hand, she stared intently at the computer screen: "Lishu doesn't want us to see the recording. He must be hiding something. Perhaps we can find the answer in this recording."

She had an unrealistic guess in her mind: she felt that the murderer was not Yuan Haotian, but the only survivor, Li Shu.

As for why she made that guess... she didn't know.

However, her sixth sense told her that the prisoner in court was not the murderer.

Because the camera was right opposite the door, the image was very clear.

Gu Mian dragged the time bar to 10 p.m., which was the time of the incident.

The three people huddled together in front of the computer, staring intently at the screen.

Since she didn't know what time Yuan Haotian had barged in, Gu Mian sped up the video and sat in a chair waiting for him to appear.

Not long after, at 10:13, a figure appeared on the surveillance footage. The person was wearing a black tracksuit and carrying a gleaming kitchen knife. He walked to the door, then fumbled in his pocket with his other hand, and soon pulled out a key and inserted it into the lock.

The egret stared wide-eyed at the person on the screen.

It is undoubtedly Yuan Haotian.

He didn't even bother with any disguise, not wearing a mask or hat, and simply came to Li Shu's doorstep with a knife in hand.

"Where did he get the key?" Coco asked curiously.

The egret shook its head to indicate that it did not know.

Gu Mian remained silent and continued watching the footage on the monitor.

Then the door opened, and they saw a dark figure slip inside. The door was then immediately closed again.

The three of them could guess what was happening inside the house.

Bai Lu watched the time ticking on the progress bar below: "According to Li Shu, he found that Yuan Haotian had killed his two roommates after he came back from his night shift. He should be back by now."

But as time passed, the three of them did not receive the letter of gift.

On the contrary, the door that had been tightly closed in the surveillance footage suddenly creaked open again.

The door opens from the inside!

"What happened? Yuan Haotian opened the door?" Bai Lu looked at the suddenly opened door on the screen. "Did he go out before Li Shu returned?"

But she was soon shocked to find that it was not Yuan Haotian who opened the door, but Li Shu!

He came out of the house!

“He was lying to us after all!” Bai Lu looked at Li Shu’s figure on the monitor. “He also said that he was working the night shift and was not in the house at this time.”

"Could it really be that Li Shu killed him?" Coco also fell into deep thought.

But Coco soon discovered that things were not as she had imagined.

After opening the door, Li Shu quickly ran out of the surveillance camera's view. However, the door he left open was not closed, and the three of them could clearly see the scene in the living room.

They saw three people fighting inside the house.

A man in blue was tightly holding onto Yuan Haotian, who was wielding a knife, while another man in a white t-shirt appeared to be injured, clutching his arm as he dodged Yuan Haotian's attacks.

But Yuan Haotian suddenly erupted, breaking free from the blue-clad man who was protecting him, and slashed out with his knife.

The man in blue clutched his chest and collapsed.

Bai T-shirt was not spared either. He tried to escape, but before he could even get out of the door, Yuan Haotian killed him with a single blow.

After killing the two, Yuan Haotian seemed unsatisfied and continued to slash and stab them with his knife.

Then many people appeared in the scene, probably the neighbors that Li Shu had called over.

The neighbors rushed into the house with brooms and mops and quickly subdued Yuan Haotian.

The video is very clear.

When Li Shu ran out, the two people inside were still alive.

It was indeed Yuan Haotian who killed them, without a doubt.

Coco pondered, "Li Shu didn't kill anyone. He didn't want us to see the surveillance footage because he didn't want us to find out that he abandoned his friends and ran away."

"So that's how it is..." Bai Lu nodded hesitantly.

At this moment, Gu Mian dragged the progress bar to the scene after Yuan Haotian committed the murder.

Yuan Haotian, his face tilted back, slashed at the two already dead men again and again, a sight that sent chills down one's spine.

Even though the surveillance footage has no sound, the egret seems to be able to feel the slurping sound of the knife cutting into flesh from the video.

“I’ve noticed something,” Gu Mian said, staring at the screen, “there’s no sound from this surveillance footage, right?”

"Yes, is there a problem?" Bai Lu turned to look at Gu Mian.

But as soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly realized something and her expression changed.

There is no sound from the surveillance camera.

Where did the creaking sound of the door opening in the video come from?

Everyone, come and see this before it gets censored!

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