"Did you check the surveillance? I just took a look, and there are cameras right above all the display cases. The thief couldn't have taken things from the display cases without the cameras above catching it."
Hearing Kobe Ichi ask this, the Bald Man gave a bitter smile.
He had checked the surveillance footage already.
There were no clues whatsoever.
Meeting Kobe Ichi's gaze, the Bald Man shook his head.
"I checked it, but there are no clues. The surveillance didn't capture the thief at all last night. The surveillance footage was swapped out."
Upon hearing this, Kobe Ichi suddenly turned to look at the surveillance cameras.
"Swapped out?"
"Yes," the Bald Man continued, "The artifacts in the display cases were stolen around 11:30 PM, which is around the time I got the call. But based on the surveillance footage, everything was still in the display cases until the early morning, as if nothing was amiss."
He added, "I contacted someone to repair the surveillance footage in the early morning, so it should be fixed soon."
"Where are the guards who were on duty last night?" Kobe Ichi asked.
"At the police station, being questioned."
"Take me there."
...
At the same time.
Anmen Hotel.
"Six sixes."
"Okay, I'll raise one more, seven."
"Open! Jump, I don't have any."
"Xu Mo!" Zhou Qiaoqiao was indignant. "Are you doing this on purpose? Don't play with you like this, calling out when you don't have any??"
Xu Mo didn't say anything, just shrugged.
That expression was just begging for trouble!
Seeing this, Zhou Qiaoqiao flipped over her cup.
"But even if you don't have any, it doesn't matter. I have four, didn't expect that, did you? As long as one of the three of them has a six, you lose. You're definitely going to lose!"
As she spoke, Yang Jingxuan, An Youyi, and Li Jiaxin all opened their cups.
Yang Jingxuan smiled awkwardly at Zhou Qiaoqiao, "Um, Sister Qiaoqiao, I don't have any either..."
Apart from her, An Youyi had one, and Li Jiaxin had one.
Adding Zhou Qiaoqiao's four, they had a total of six sixes, still one short.
Zhou Qiaoqiao was dumbfounded.
She lost again!
"Jump and double up, no backing out," Xu Mo reminded her unhelpfully.
Seeing Xu Mo's smug expression, Zhou Qiaoqiao wished she could give him a good punch.
But alas... she couldn't beat Xu Mo.
Sighing, "Fine, I'll drink it slowly."
Hearing this, Xu Mo glanced at Zhou Qiaoqiao disdainfully.
"Can't drink anymore? If you can't, then don't. It's no big deal, no need to be embarrassed."
Zhou Qiaoqiao: "???"
Who's looking down on whom?
Angered, she took a deep breath, then picked up her cup and drained it in one gulp.
Then she poured another cup and drank it down as well.
Of course, she wasn't drinking alcohol, but mineral water.
Wiping her mouth, she looked at Xu Mo defiantly. "Again!"
In the livestream chat:
"I can't with these oldies, who the heck plays dice and drinks water?"
"Right, if you didn't know, you'd think they were drinking alcohol, gulping down cup after cup of water. Crazy!"
"Is this a children's channel? Dare to play something more extreme? If you lose, drink water? Take off your clothes!"
"..."
The chat was filled with comments, but not a single one mentioned the Sakura Country Museum incident.
It wasn't that the viewers couldn't mention it.
It was because Xu Mo had made a word filter plugin after waking up today.
And he had secretly installed this plugin into the livestream backend.
Any comments containing certain prohibited words, like 'Sakura Country', 'museum', 'stolen', etc., would be considered prohibited words.
Such comments would be instantly detected by Xu Mo's plugin and silently deleted.
But because there were so many people in the livestream, and the comments refreshed quickly, anyone whose comment was deleted didn't even realize it.
They would just think their comment was drowned out by the flood of other comments.
...
Sakura Country Police Station.
Kobe Ichi had finished questioning the guards who were patrolling the museum last night.
There was nothing unusual found.
At this time, the tampered surveillance footage from the museum had also been restored using technical means.
"The surveillance footage has been restored. You can take a look," the Bald Man called Kobe Ichi over as soon as the restoration was complete.
The latter followed the Bald Man to a computer.
And watched the restored footage.
The surveillance showed a thief wearing a head cover, with his face obscured.
"Just as I thought, he's wearing a head cover, gloves, and even special shoe covers," Kobe Ichi said, staring at the thief in the footage.
The Bald Man also voiced his opinion at this time.
"This person is hunched over the whole time. Is he old, or has back problems or something?"
But Kobe Ichi immediately dismissed his idea.
"Absolutely impossible. Being old or having back problems would mean the thief's movements would be very slow. But look at him in the surveillance - he's clearly just pretending."
After watching for a while, Kobe Ichi frowned.
"Strange... this person seems very familiar with the museum. His actions don't falter at all, no wasted movements. He just goes from one display case to the next after stealing from the previous one... and he opens the locks so quickly."
"A mastermind? But I've never heard of anyone able to crack museum display case locks like that."
Pausing, Kobe Ichi turned to the Bald Man.
"I'm certain this person must have cased the place beforehand and spent a long time observing the museum. Otherwise, there's no way he could be so familiar with it. You've been in charge of security at the museum recently, right? Have you noticed any suspicious people hanging around for extended periods, constantly looking around?"
The Bald Man's expression froze.
He didn't recall anyone hanging around the museum for a long time and constantly looking around suspiciously.
But someone very familiar with the museum... he did know of one person.
The official named Rigeki Tougiban who came to inspect the museum yesterday!
Under the guise of an inspection tour, Rigeki Tougiban asked the officers in detail about all the museum's security measures and even wandered around the museum premises openly.
At the time, the Bald Man hadn't thought anything of it, especially after seeing Rigeki Tougiban's credentials.
But now, due to Kobe Ichi's words, the Bald Man carefully recalled the incident.
He did have one suspicion - those credentials!
"Did you check the surveillance? I just took a look, and there are cameras right above all the display cases. The thief couldn't have taken things from the display cases without the cameras above catching it."
Hearing Kobe Ichi ask this, the Bald Man gave a bitter smile.
He had checked the surveillance footage already.
There were no clues whatsoever.
Meeting Kobe Ichi's gaze, the Bald Man shook his head.
"I checked it, but there are no clues. The surveillance didn't capture the thief at all last night. The surveillance footage was swapped out."
Upon hearing this, Kobe Ichi suddenly turned to look at the surveillance cameras.
"Swapped out?"
"Yes," the Bald Man continued, "The artifacts in the display cases were stolen around 11:30 PM, which is around the time I got the call. But based on the surveillance footage, everything was still in the display cases until the early morning, as if nothing was amiss."
He added, "I contacted someone to repair the surveillance footage in the early morning, so it should be fixed soon."
"Where are the guards who were on duty last night?" Kobe Ichi asked.
"At the police station, being questioned."
"Take me there."
...
At the same time.
Anmen Hotel.
"Six sixes."
"Okay, I'll raise one more, seven."
"Open! Jump, I don't have any."
"Xu Mo!" Zhou Qiaoqiao was indignant. "Are you doing this on purpose? Don't play with you like this, calling out when you don't have any??"
Xu Mo didn't say anything, just shrugged.
That expression was just begging for trouble!
Seeing this, Zhou Qiaoqiao flipped over her cup.
"But even if you don't have any, it doesn't matter. I have four, didn't expect that, did you? As long as one of the three of them has a six, you lose. You're definitely going to lose!"
As she spoke, Yang Jingxuan, An Youyi, and Li Jiaxin all opened their cups.
Yang Jingxuan smiled awkwardly at Zhou Qiaoqiao, "Um, Sister Qiaoqiao, I don't have any either..."
Apart from her, An Youyi had one, and Li Jiaxin had one.
Adding Zhou Qiaoqiao's four, they had a total of six sixes, still one short.
Zhou Qiaoqiao was dumbfounded.
She lost again!
"Jump and double up, no backing out," Xu Mo reminded her unhelpfully.
Seeing Xu Mo's smug expression, Zhou Qiaoqiao wished she could give him a good punch.
But alas... she couldn't beat Xu Mo.
Sighing, "Fine, I'll drink it slowly."
Hearing this, Xu Mo glanced at Zhou Qiaoqiao disdainfully.
"Can't drink anymore? If you can't, then don't. It's no big deal, no need to be embarrassed."
Zhou Qiaoqiao: "???"
Who's looking down on whom?
Angered, she took a deep breath, then picked up her cup and drained it in one gulp.
Then she poured another cup and drank it down as well.
Of course, she wasn't drinking alcohol, but mineral water.
Wiping her mouth, she looked at Xu Mo defiantly. "Again!"
In the livestream chat:
"I can't with these oldies, who the heck plays dice and drinks water?"
"Right, if you didn't know, you'd think they were drinking alcohol, gulping down cup after cup of water. Crazy!"
"Is this a children's channel? Dare to play something more extreme? If you lose, drink water? Take off your clothes!"
"..."
The chat was filled with comments, but not a single one mentioned the Sakura Country Museum incident.
It wasn't that the viewers couldn't mention it.
It was because Xu Mo had made a word filter plugin after waking up today.
And he had secretly installed this plugin into the livestream backend.
Any comments containing certain prohibited words, like 'Sakura Country', 'museum', 'stolen', etc., would be considered prohibited words.
Such comments would be instantly detected by Xu Mo's plugin and silently deleted.
But because there were so many people in the livestream, and the comments refreshed quickly, anyone whose comment was deleted didn't even realize it.
They would just think their comment was drowned out by the flood of other comments.
...
Sakura Country Police Station.
Kobe Ichi had finished questioning the guards who were patrolling the museum last night.
There was nothing unusual found.
At this time, the tampered surveillance footage from the museum had also been restored using technical means.
"The surveillance footage has been restored. You can take a look," the Bald Man called Kobe Ichi over as soon as the restoration was complete.
The latter followed the Bald Man to a computer.
And watched the restored footage.
The surveillance showed a thief wearing a head cover, with his face obscured.
"Just as I thought, he's wearing a head cover, gloves, and even special shoe covers," Kobe Ichi said, staring at the thief in the footage.
The Bald Man also voiced his opinion at this time.
"This person is hunched over the whole time. Is he old, or has back problems or something?"
But Kobe Ichi immediately dismissed his idea.
"Absolutely impossible. Being old or having back problems would mean the thief's movements would be very slow. But look at him in the surveillance - he's clearly just pretending."
After watching for a while, Kobe Ichi frowned.
"Strange... this person seems very familiar with the museum. His actions don't falter at all, no wasted movements. He just goes from one display case to the next after stealing from the previous one... and he opens the locks so quickly."
"A mastermind? But I've never heard of anyone able to crack museum display case locks like that."
Pausing, Kobe Ichi turned to the Bald Man.
"I'm certain this person must have cased the place beforehand and spent a long time observing the museum. Otherwise, there's no way he could be so familiar with it. You've been in charge of security at the museum recently, right? Have you noticed any suspicious people hanging around for extended periods, constantly looking around?"
The Bald Man's expression froze.
He didn't recall anyone hanging around the museum for a long time and constantly looking around suspiciously.
But someone very familiar with the museum... he did know of one person.
The official named Rigeki Tougiban who came to inspect the museum yesterday!
Under the guise of an inspection tour, Rigeki Tougiban asked the officers in detail about all the museum's security measures and even wandered around the museum premises openly.
At the time, the Bald Man hadn't thought anything of it, especially after seeing Rigeki Tougiban's credentials.
But now, due to Kobe Ichi's words, the Bald Man carefully recalled the incident.
He did have one suspicion - those credentials!
