Chapter 100: The Sculptor’s Ultimate Last Move, Disguise Began the Moment He Entered the Hospital!

After this confrontation, Su Ming was able to roughly confirm that even if there were still opportunities and loopholes, the leader of the drug trafficking organization likely wouldn’t dare to continue infiltrating the Heavenly Eye surveillance system.

Not to mention that An Quan had already started contacting members of the Criminal Investigation Technology Department from other cities to design new firewalls and intrusion warning systems.

On top of that, this close call with exposing everything, considering the cautious nature of the drug lord, made it unlikely that they would act recklessly in the coming period.

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While An Quan was contacting the criminal tech police from other cities, and Lin Tian was making calls to the Criminal Investigation Team in Cang District, Lushi City, to inform them about the drug lord’s presence in the area, Su Ming was following his original plan. He accessed the Heavenly Eye surveillance system to retrieve footage from the exit of Fantawild Amusement Park, ten minutes after Qu Pengfei fell from the building yesterday.

Amusement parks like Fantawild typically require real-name ticket scanning when entering, but there are no such restrictions at the exit, with only one-way passage set up.

Therefore, to determine if Zhou Shirui had left, Su Ming knew that only visual observation could help.

Having already seen Zhou Shirui’s profile and entry photo, Su Ming had a good mental image. He immediately began playing the footage of the exit at a rapid pace.

The suspect in the 5.13 dismemberment case, Zhou Shirui, had an official profile stating that he was 173 cm tall and weighed about 60 kg. His appearance was quite ordinary, even somewhat unattractive, with long artist-style hair, a square face, prominent cheekbones, a flat nose bridge, and wide lips.

In the surveillance footage from 3 PM yesterday, Zhou Shirui entered the park wearing a black windbreaker, sports pants, carrying a backpack and a drawing board.

However, after repeated checks of the exit footage by Wang Hu and others, it was still unclear whether Zhou Shirui had left the park.

Su Ming quickly played through the exit footage from the time when Zhou Shirui most likely left. Even at sixteen times the normal speed, the regular investigators could not clearly identify faces or details.

After quickly reviewing the footage of the twenty minutes during which Zhou Shirui might have exited, Su Ming frowned.

Because, just as Wang Hu had said, no one exiting resembled Zhou Shirui, either in facial features or in the clothes they wore.

Now, Su Ming had to consider the possibility that Zhou Shirui had disguised himself or used a face-changing mask.

After all, there were many blind spots in the surveillance at Fantawild, and Zhou Shirui was carrying a bag when he entered, making it plausible for him to have disguised himself.

Although face-changing masks had rarely appeared in past cases, given the capabilities and unique nature of this drug trafficking organization, and the possibility that one of its members could make such masks, Su Ming couldn’t rule it out. He would need to examine the facial expressions and details around the hairline to differentiate between disguise and a face mask.

After sorting out his thoughts, Su Ming turned to Wang Hu and confidently gave instructions.

“Huzi, I just reviewed the footage quickly. It’s very likely that Zhou Shirui either used a disguise or wore a face-changing mask to leave, which is why we couldn’t identify him.”

“Go ahead and focus on the surveillance between ten and thirty minutes after Qu Pengfei fell from the building. Pay special attention to the makeup on people’s faces, especially around the hairline, to check if anyone is wearing a face-changing mask.”

Upon hearing this, Wang Hu immediately directed other officers to watch the footage frame by frame. Each officer was assigned a few minutes of footage to try to find Zhou Shirui in the twenty-minute window.

Su Ming, on the other hand, continued to review the footage, but he didn’t slow it down too much. He set it to eight times the normal speed, which was slower than sixteen times but still fast enough for most officers to roughly make out the clothing colors and general appearance.

For Su Ming, with his outstanding dynamic vision, even eight times speed was almost as good as a slow-motion replay.

At this moment, nearly everyone in the Criminal Investigation Technology Department was watching the footage of the twenty-minute exit surveillance from Fantawild Amusement Park.

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Three minutes later, Su Ming had reviewed the footage again, but there was no sign of relaxation on his face. In fact, his frown deepened.

Because after carefully watching the details of the faces of all the park visitors who left, he found that none of them resembled Zhou Shirui.

Could it be that Zhou Shirui really remained in Fantawild Amusement Park?

That seemed unlikely.

However, Su Ming didn’t jump to conclusions. He continued to replay the footage for a third time.

This time, he focused specifically on the hairline to determine whether Zhou Shirui could have been wearing a face-changing mask.

Another three minutes passed.

He quickly watched the entire twenty-minute footage again.

But Su Ming still found no issues.

There was no one in the exit footage with a noticeable change in hairline or makeup.

After watching the video three times, Su Ming fell silent.

Could he have disappeared into thin air?

Or perhaps…

The crazy and perverted Zhou Shirui wasn’t as expected. Maybe he wasn’t afraid of Fantawild being locked down and was still in the park?

Or, perhaps Su Ming had been too confident, overestimating Zhou Shirui and narrowing the timeline to just twenty minutes, missing a crucial detail.

Maybe Zhou Shirui had taken his time, dragging things out for hours before leaving Fantawild Amusement Park?

No, that couldn’t be it.

None of these theories made sense.

Based on Zhou Shirui’s experience in the forum, his criminal intelligence was undoubtedly high.

He had advised others never to actively seek out prey but to let it come to them, a well-thought-out strategy.

He certainly knew that once Fantawild was locked down, his only option would be to surrender.

He would have devised a plan to slip away unnoticed, hiding among the panicked crowd that left due to Qu Pengfei’s fall.

So the timeline was likely correct. Zhou Shirui should have already left the park.

But why couldn’t they find him in the footage?

Was there any other way to escape surveillance, to confuse the police’s judgment?

Or perhaps…

The visitors weren’t distracted by Zhou Shirui’s smokescreen after leaving the park.

Maybe he had already planned his escape before entering Fantawild, preparing the best way to leave.

Because, from his perspective, he wouldn’t know how much attention the police would give to Qu Pengfei’s fall, nor whether they would lock down the park.

So after deciding to watch Qu Pengfei fall from the Ferris wheel, Zhou Shirui must have already figured out how to avoid detection by the police, using an escape method that was 100% foolproof.

That meant…

It was easy to get into Fantawild Amusement Park, but very hard to get out.

So the best approach was…

To enter with a fake smokescreen, but leave with his true face and identity.

At this moment, Su Ming suddenly recalled the photo of Zhou Shirui he had found online. Comparing it with the footage from the entrance surveillance at Fantawild yesterday, he realized that Zhou Shirui’s appearance hadn’t changed much. There was no sign of aging at all.

With this realization, Su Ming couldn’t help but smile coldly, narrowing his eyes as he muttered to himself, “This is quite interesting.”

“To have hidden and disguised for so many years, and it was all for moments like this…”