Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 136 Surveillance Video
"What's wrong, Xiao Yin? You can't hold on any longer?" The middle-aged man raised his head. "You youngsters just can't endure hardships. Back then, I..."

"That's not it...Team Leader, I just seemed to see something..." Yin Xiang tilted his head and stared at the French window on one side of the office, "It flew past the window."

"What did you say?!" The team leader stood up suddenly, and the airflow immediately blew several pages of documents in front of him to the ground.

"I said... I seemed to see something just now, flying past the window..." Yin Xiang repeated what he just said nervously, "That thing was very fast, and I couldn't see clearly what it looked like."

"Are you sure it's not your imagination?" another colleague asked, "After working so much overtime, it's normal to be in a trance."

"It's not an illusion! I really saw it. It was white and emitted a faint fluorescence..." Yin Xiang realized the key point after he said this, "Okay... It seems to be the thing we are looking for!"

"Notify the Information Department and Security Department immediately! Mobilize the surveillance video!" The team leader made a prompt decision, "Also, have the hunters on standby nearby rush over immediately!"

After saying this, the team leader turned to look at Yin Xiang: "Xiao Yin, let me confirm with you one last time, did you really see that white shadow?"

Yin Xiang was stunned at first, then nodded vigorously.

"I hope you can be responsible for what you said." The team leader walked towards the office door, but after a few steps, he turned back, opened the drawer, took out the pistol from it, and inserted it into the holster under his ribs.

"Everyone, bring your weapons." The team leader said to the investigators in the office, "This place is not safe now."

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Fifteen minutes later, in the main monitoring room of the Tianfu City Abnormal Investigation Bureau building.

The small main monitoring room was already packed with people, with dozens of pairs of eyes staring at the screens hanging on the wall. As the progress bar of the surveillance video was dragged bit by bit, Yin Xiang finally experienced what it meant to be "sweating profusely."

"I remember what I just said at that time. There was still half an hour until twelve o'clock. If Xiao Yin saw a shadow flying outside the window, then this shadow should appear in the surveillance footage during this period of time." said the team leader.

However, the bureau's surveillance cameras captured nothing.

The date, time and place were all correct, and Yin Xiang also recognized that the brightly lit window was his office on the sixth floor of Building A of the Investigation Bureau. After zooming in on the picture, he even saw the female colleague sitting by the window, flipping through documents.

"There's nothing wrong with the video file," said the technician in charge of retrieving the surveillance video. "That's the fact. The camera didn't capture any 'white shadow flying past the window.'"

Yin Xiang could feel that more than half of the dozens of gazes in the main monitoring room had moved from the screen to himself.

He couldn't help but think of the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" that his mother told him when he was a child.

But he never thought that he would become the protagonist of this story one day. The shepherd boy who cried wolf was a humiliator, while he was just unlucky.

"I knew it, Yin Xiang must be too tired and hallucinating." The colleague who questioned Yin Xiang earlier laughed, "But you can't blame him for this. Team leader, in my opinion, you should give everyone a day off. If everyone has a good rest, their work efficiency will also be improved. Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood."

"Yin Xiang, can you describe in detail again what you saw?" A senior leader of the Investigation Bureau came over, put his hand on Yin Xiang's shoulder, and asked seriously.

"Hiss... let me think..." Yin Xiang closed his eyes tightly and began to recall, "Just as the team leader said, it should have been just after eleven thirty, and the team leader had just finished speaking... Then I felt my eyes were a little sore, and the handwriting on the file was a little double, so I planned to look into the distance to give my eyes a temporary rest. At the moment I raised my head, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a pale shadow from the corner of my eye, and it flew past the window with a 'swish'. I was so scared that I froze there for a moment."

"That means you didn't see the shadow directly, right?" another investigator asked. "Could it be that you caught a glimpse of a moth flying nearby from the corner of your eye? You said you saw double images when you looked at the words on the document, so it's understandable that you mistook the moth flying in the room for a white shadow flashing outside the window."

"It can't be a moth." The team leader shook his head, tugged at his cotton coat, and said seriously, "Although it is June now, don't forget how many degrees the average temperature is at night in Shuzhou under the influence of the Eternal Night... The moths would have been frozen to death long ago."

"Yes, in previous years, mosquitoes would have been rampant at this time... I personally have a body type that attracts mosquitoes, so I understand this very well." Another female investigator echoed, "But this year, since the Eternal Night fell, I haven't been bitten by a mosquito even once."

"So what do you think Yin Xiang saw?" the leader looked at the others and asked.

Everyone looked at each other and fell silent for a moment.

"According to me, we still need to organize people to check the investigation bureau inside and out." The team leader said, "The last time the white shadow appeared was on the roof of Shengshu Securities. When we investigated the scene, we found large areas of crushed marks on the glass curtain wall. We even calculated the mass of the strange object based on these marks... If 'it' really appeared in the investigation bureau this time, it must have left some traces - as long as we can find these traces, we can prove that what Yin Xiang saw was not an illusion."

"That makes sense...Okay, let's do as you say. The task of allocating personnel will be done by..."

Before the leader could finish his words, a breathless security guard broke open the door of the main monitoring room and shouted incoherently: "It appeared! It appeared again! That shadow!"

"What? Are you saying that the white shadow appeared again? Where was it? Who saw it?" the team leader asked hurriedly.

"On the roof of Building C, a white glowing shadow flashed by in less than half a second." The security guard took a breath and continued, "My two colleagues and I were checking the roof of Building A at the time. When we turned around, we saw that shadow appear on the roof of Building C... Not only me, but Du Cheng and Lou Haoyong also saw it!"

The Du Cheng and Lou Haoyong he mentioned were the other two security guards who inspected the roof of Building A with him.

"Where are they?"

"Stay where you are." The security guard handed the walkie-talkie to the team leader.

"So what Yin Xiang saw was not an illusion... But why is there nothing in the surveillance footage?" an investigator asked puzzledly.

"There's nothing strange about it." A hunter who had been sitting in the corner and had not spoken much suddenly said, "There are some strange things that you can't see with your naked eyes, but you can take pictures of them with cameras... and some strange things are just the opposite."

(End of this chapter)