Overly Intense [Criminal Investigation] 121

Chapter 121: My Mouth Will Get Inflamed

It wasn’t a problem for Lu Shimao to dismantle a pinhole camera.

But to ensure that she was not discovered by the other party, and to be able to distinguish the product type at once and interfere with it, it was a bit of a test of her skills.

The two of them naturally went upstairs.

Lu Shimao spoke first, in a feigned tone of praise, “Your house is so big.”

She pretended to be a friend who was visiting, and looked around to see if there were any other corners where a camera could be installed. The top left of Qin Luo’s door was a domestic brand of home surveillance. Lu Shimao glanced at it. The shoe cabinet’s sensor floor lamp was a design by the designer when Qin Luo had first renovated. It was a flashy but impractical little lamp, and its purpose was to ensure that the owner’s shoes were clean even when they went out at night.

Shen Yiyi secretly gave a look at the shoe cabinet, indicating the position of the camera, and said in cooperation, “I’ll get you some slippers.”

Lu Shimao’s gaze lingered on the shoe cabinet for a few seconds without a trace.

Shen Yiyi opened the closet door, blocking the camera with a large margin, and then took an earphone from the earphone case and threw it under the shoe cabinet, near the sensor light.

Lu Shimao walked to the position directly in front of the camera and squatted down. “Hey, you dropped your earphone.”

She knew that this kind of lamp was usually powered by the wall’s wiring, and there were no extra modules, which could provide a good power supply for the camera. There was a barely perceptible scratch on the edge of the lampshade, as if it had been frequently opened.

Lu Shimao was good at pretending.

She looked up, and the sensor light happened to light up. The warm-toned little lamp flickered, and there was a little bit of faint red light mixed in. The camera was installed on the screw hole. To prevent the sensor light from affecting the camera’s exposure, the lampshade of this sensor light had also been modified.

Lu Shimao smiled foolishly at the camera, with a harmless expression.

Her fingertips gently swept over the edge of the lampshade and said, “This shoe cabinet light is really special. Is it bright at night?”

Shen Yiyi said, “It lights up when someone gets close. I haven’t studied it.”

Lu Shimao took out her phone from her pocket and pretended to take a picture of the lampshade, but she had actually opened a private network detection app. This was also something that Little Lu had learned when she had gone to a network security technology sharing session a few days ago. The software could be used to detect strange devices that were not used by the home network, local area networks, and hotspot signals, and to preliminarily judge the device type and activity status. This was originally a little trick that their criminal investigation team used to catch the “walking 500,000.”

She took a couple of pictures and then waited for the detection results. “Then I have to do an image search and install a small light on the shoe cabinet at home.”

The phone screen was silently scanning the surrounding hotspot signals, searching for whether the private device was connected to the network, especially the 5G IoT cameras that disguised their SSIDs.

By the way, she also recorded a few seconds of video, thinking that she would zoom in to see the specific location later.

Finally, Lu Shimao gently tapped the lampshade with her knuckles and looked at the light reflection on the floor.

Different materials have different light transmittance. This light was clearly not uniform. It was highly likely that the coating on the surface of the lampshade had been specially treated to avoid overexposure of the light source during filming.

Lu Shimao’s eyes narrowed slightly.

She calmly checked the detection results on the page, paying special attention to the hotspots with chaotic names.

Her heart sank. Sure enough, a hidden device was uploading.

This person has no anti-reconnaissance awareness. Are they that stupid?

“Why is there no internet here? I can’t even open Taobao.” Lu Shimao simply sat on the floor and gently poked the screen with her finger. “What’s your home’s Wi-Fi password?”

“I don’t know the password. I’ll just share it with you.” Shen Yiyi was worried about Lu Shimao’s pants. “The floor is dirty. You should get up first.”

Lu Shimao sat on the floor and looked in the direction of the floor lamp again.

There were no other abnormal light sources, which meant that the criminal had only placed this one pinhole thermal imaging camera.

She stood up, took a screenshot of the detection results on the page, and saved it. She would hand it over to the technical team to investigate slowly when she reported it to the police later.

“Let’s go. Let’s take a look at your house.”

“It’s not my house.”

Lu Shimao corrected herself. “Let’s take a look at Sister Qin’s house.”

Opening the door, the two looked at each other. Lu Shimao typed on her phone to Shen Yiyi: “One, thermal imaging, 5G IoT.”

If the pinhole camera at the door was aimed at Qin Luo, was there a second set of surveillance equipment in the house? They had not yet finished checking. Shen Yiyi did not dare to speak directly and instead typed to Lu Shimao: “Help me check it once.”

Lu Shimao smiled. “Then I want to eat peeled fruit.”

Shen Yiyi forced a smile. “Then you can go and wash your hands first. I’ll go and get it for you.”

The two of them split up. Shen Yiyi checked the living room and the kitchen, while Lu Shimao started with the restroom. She took out a small card from her pocket. Through the special paper in the round hole, she could observe the light reflection of the camera’s light source.

She had bought this thing when she had gone on a trip with Xue Tong, just to prevent being secretly filmed in a hotel. She had not expected that it would be useful for this.

Smoke alarms, artificial intelligence speakers, smart makeup mirrors. Lu Shimao did not miss a single device that could be connected to the internet.

She was best at collecting trace evidence at the scene. Her fingertips touched the bottom edge of the lampshade, the bedside, and the green plant pot. Every check was extremely detailed. Besides the surface, she would also touch the temperature of the base, not missing a single gap. Even the electric curtain track in Qin Luo’s bedroom had been checked by Lu Shimao.

The check was a little too immersive. She had forgotten that this was Qin Luo’s house, not a crime scene.

She had opened the drawer too quickly, so much so that before she could see the little toys clearly, they had already been engraved in her mind.

Sister Qin has bought so many. The variety is so complete. Sister Shen is so lucky.

She put a layer of tissue down and reached into the top of the drawer to feel it once. It was smooth and had no traces. She did not find any listening devices.

The house was safe.

Besides the abnormal hotspot that had appeared in the entryway, everything in the house was normal.

“It’s just the one in the entryway.”

The two of them had been busy for a long time. Lu Shimao leaned back on the sofa. “So what now? Call the police?”

Shen Yiyi asked her, “How was this camera installed?”

“It’s powered by the sensor light’s wiring, and the light cover has also been changed. This is not something that can be done in a day or two. Besides, Sister Qin’s house also has surveillance. He has to avoid the surveillance of Cloud Top, the surveillance of the elevator, and the surveillance at the door to install it. Looking at the degree of dust on the cover, it should have been placed for some time. It wasn’t installed recently.”

“Unless she’s an owner here, and is on the whitelist of Sister Qin’s home surveillance. Otherwise, she would have been captured by the surveillance.”

Shen Yiyi crossed her arms, at a loss for what to do for the time being.

“Is there a way to trace its cloud video?”

“The internet security also needs to get authorization.” Lu Shimao had dealt with the internet security more and knew the procedures better than a forensic pathologist. “Besides, for a non-major case, how could they be willing to waste time investigating it?”

“But they have to investigate it.” Shen Yiyi said firmly, “Call the police first. Let the police urge Cloud Top to check the surveillance of the elevator and the fire escape first, to see who has been in contact with the shoe cabinet in these past three months.”

“That’s true.”

Lu Shimao agreed with this idea. “Although this kind of investigation will take time, once we find out who this pervert is, the situation can be reversed.”

She turned to look at Shen Yiyi.

Their calm Sister Shen’s expression was grave at this moment, and worry was written on her face.

But it was true. These few murder cases related to Qin Luo had not yet been solved. Anyone would be worried.

Lu Shimao asked, “How are you going to tell Sister Qin about this?”

“I’ll tell her directly when I get to Beijing tonight.”

“Huh? Tonight?”

Lu Shimao was quite shocked. In the year she had known Sister Shen, Sister Shen had almost never had time for a vacation. When she was free on the weekends, she would be investigating old cases everywhere. It had only been three months, and now she was borrowing a car to go back to Fengjiang, and then directly to Beijing…

“What time are you leaving?”

“I’m leaving in a bit.”

The moment she had discovered the camera, Shen Yiyi had had the idea of going to Beijing. So she had asked for the hotel that Qin Luo was staying at. She had thought that since there were many high-speed trains between Beijing and Shanghai, she didn’t have to rush to buy a ticket. It would be in time for her to leave after Lu Shimao had checked and had given her a result.

Originally, she had taken leave to ensure Qin Luo’s safety. Even if this camera had been installed for a long time, she could not be at ease waiting for Qin Luo to come back here.

You Ning was there, the assistant was there, and maybe Liu Jia was also there. These “whitelists” who could freely enter and exit Cloud Top were all around Qin Luo. What if the person who had installed the camera was the killer of the murder case? Wouldn’t that be very dangerous?

It was just a thousand kilometers. Shen Yiyi did not want to gamble Qin Luo’s life on the unknown.

At six in the afternoon.

Lu Shimao had taken her to the high-speed rail station. On the way, she had told Sister Shen that if the police were not convenient to check the node signal of the screenshot, she would hand it over to Xue Tong to check. If the 5G IoT card had used an overseas server, then it would be a good match for Xue Tong. After all, Qin Luo lived in Cloud Top. An owner helping an owner, a roommate helping a roommate, there was still that kind of friendship.

Shen Yiyi did not want to trouble Lu Shimao, but she was persuaded by Little Lu.

—Catching the killer is the most important thing.

When she got on the train, Shen Yiyi happened to receive a message from Qin Luo.

Qin Luo was obedient and had shared her itinerary in detail. Shen Yiyi had not told her that she was already on the high-speed train. She was afraid that Qin Luo would be distracted. Work and life were both very important.

But more importantly, Shen Yiyi did not know how to tell her.

A story of a family being ruined was always heavy to share. It was a torture for both the narrator and the listener.

She would never forget the last conversation she had had with the old criminal police officer at the hospital. In their gaze was hatred, pity, and compassion. It had made her speak on the tip of a knife, and her voice was just bloody and cold. She did not have the talent for this, could not tell a story, and could not express her feelings clearly.

Besides, emotions are cheap.

Only silence is the safest. It neither wastes time nor exposes oneself.

Perhaps it was because she had not spoken for a long time that she had lost this ability.

Even though she was also very anxious now, and was looking forward to seeing Qin Luo soon.

At 11:30.

Shen Yiyi was sitting on the leather sofa where Qin Luo had been watching the surveillance in the morning. Half an hour ago, Qin Luo had sent her a message saying that the dinner party was almost over, and that everything was safe.

Her eyes were on the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel, paying attention to every arriving vehicle.

Finally, the driver arrived. Wang Xi got out of the car first, and then Qin Luo opened the car door. The two stood by the car door and talked to the people in the nanny van. When they were talking, Qin Luo had a smile on her face. After a long while, she waved goodbye.

Shen Yiyi had already stood up and was standing not far away with her laptop bag.

She could clearly see that the person sitting in the nanny van was You Ning, and she also saw the fleeting astonishment on Qin Luo’s face when she had turned and had seen her.

Damn it!
She’s not drunk, is she!

Qin Luo thought that she had had too much to drink tonight, that her love-struck brain was acting up, and that the revolving door of the hotel had created a phantom.

This…
How did Shen Yiyi get to Beijing?

Qin Luo was so excited that she was dizzy and almost bumped into the glass door. She didn’t even bother with the revolving door and pushed open the door next to it.

“Why are you here?”

Who?

Wang Xi couldn’t keep up with her boss’s pace and had to follow her in a hurry. But when she had just reached Qin Luo’s side, she saw her boss smiling foolishly, not caring at all if she had seen her. She was holding the woman’s face in both hands and was squeezing it into a ball. She even had her arm around her waist and was just short of kissing her.

Poke my own eyes out.
Retreat three steps.
Turn and leave.

Wang Xi held Qin Luo’s bag and fled far away, facing the wall in front of the glass window and reflecting.

Qin Luo was knocked out by Shen Yiyi’s flash appearance.

She had been thinking about her all day today. No matter what she did, her mind was full of yesterday’s memories, scratching at her heart, so much so that her chest was full. She had originally thought of calling Shen Yiyi after she was done, even if it was just to hear her voice.

Who knew that as soon as she turned around, she would see Shen Yiyi in front of her, faint and dusty, and even waving at her.

Who can resist a clingy little cat?

“Why didn’t you tell me you were coming to find me?”

“What’s there to say?” Shen Yiyi’s gaze was on Wang Xi, scanning her up and down, her guard up. “Is that your work colleague?”

“That’s my assistant.” Seeing that Shen Yiyi’s gaze was not on her, Qin Luo quickly held her head straight. “Look at me. Don’t look at her.”

Oh… my…

Wang Xi didn’t want to look either, but the floor-to-ceiling window was reflective in the night, and she could see her boss’s cloying movements clearly.

—This must be the legendary humid season!!!

It was indeed the humid season. The two’s clinginess was downright sultry and shameless. She, who had just broken up, couldn’t stand to see it. Her heart would get damp with it!

Shen Yiyi’s face was sore from being squeezed, and it was very embarrassing to be stared at without blinking, especially with people coming and going. Qin Luo was a little too shameless.

“Let’s go back to the room and talk.”

Wang Xi did not know where the meeting was being held. The executive floor would give them the use of a conference room, so she had booked an executive suite for Qin Luo for her trip to Beijing.

The elevator was long, and the corridor was long. Shen Yiyi was very cold outside.

So as soon as she entered the door, Qin Luo threw her bag on the entryway cabinet and hugged Shen Yiyi’s waist with both hands. The warm spotlights of the hotel made her shine, and the small bag on her back made her look particularly cute.

Qin Luo withdrew that sentence.
Shen Yiyi was not moldy now. She was the most, most, most clean little cake.

“I miss you so much.”

Qin Luo held her too tightly, and Shen Yiyi’s legs were pressed against her. The tight denim was pressed against the outside of the suit skirt. The straight suit skirt was slightly lifted by the squeezing of her movements, rough and tough. Every breath would make the skirt flutter between her waist and hips, rolling out fine wrinkles, and the sound of friction was very faint. A faint smell of alcohol lingered between the two of them. At this moment, Qin Luo was like a jasmine that had absorbed enough water. Shen Yiyi gradually forgot the purpose of her trip.

Qin Luo had not forgotten the rule she had set. “I want to kiss you.”

Anyway, whether she agreed or not, Qin Luo would have leaned over. She didn’t even give her a chance to answer, and her lips were already on the corner of her mouth.

They had kissed eight hundred times in two days. Shen Yiyi was really afraid that her lips would get inflamed.