629 · Haining Cat Island (39)

"The camera on the eaves," a group of exploration team members heard the voice in the backyard of the old house, and came over and looked up at the leopard cat standing high up, "Surveillance?"

"Were there any surveillance cameras here when we arrived?" Wu Meng turned around and asked in a low voice.

"No," Fang Xiang recalled, "I haven't looked carefully."

"Me neither," Yu Changlin and Tong Yao both shook their heads, "I can't remember, is this camera next door or ours?"

The leopard cat seems to be located in the gap between the courtyard and the eaves of the old house. The eaves of the courtyard are separated by only a wall from the homestay next door. The camera is located right between the two courtyards, so it is impossible to tell whether it is their surveillance or installed by the owner of the homestay next door.

"Maybe it's the surveillance camera from the B&B next door," Lu Changfeng also thought of this. "Brother Du, please ask the leader to show mercy, or we will have to pay for the surveillance camera."

There is a homestay next door, so it is normal to have surveillance cameras on the wall.

Before he finished speaking, he heard a voice from the front: "It's not surveillance."

Through Huai Jiamu's vision, Bai Jinshu observed the thing and said, "It feels like a camera or something like that, placed here."

“It’s not fixed directly to the wall.”

Just now, Huai Jiamu used his tentacles to move this thing and found that it could be picked up directly and was not fixed directly on the wall.

"Take it down and have a look," Yun Guang suggested. "Zhongsheng, observe if there are any obvious marks on the bottom of the camera after you take it down."

The walls and roof were very high, and without any tables, chairs or ladders, the only person who could see what was going on was Bai Jinshu, who shared the same perspective with the cat.

"No," Bai Jinshu raised his hand to catch the camera that the leopard cat handed down with its tentacles, "It's this thing."

"There's not even any dust on it, so it probably hasn't been there for a few days..." Yun Guang took a closer look, "This looks like... a portable camera."

It looks very similar to the sports camera that Li Ge uses to record videos, but compared to Li Ge's camera with a built-in handheld gimbal, this one is smaller, only a quarter of the size of a palm.

"Let me search," Lu Changfeng took out his phone and took a picture of the camera. He quickly found information about this thing. "Brother Yun Guang, this is a pocket camera."

"What is that?" Guan Hongyan asked curiously.

"What's it called... NAWW unlimited battery life pocket camera," Lu Changfeng read out the key words in the advertisement while flipping through the pages. "It is said to have a 72-hour standby time and can be easily hung on a keychain. It is waterproof and drop-proof... Damn, it's so expensive!"

"More than 40,000 yuan," he looked at the camera in Yun Guang's hand in shock, "Isn't it enough to buy a big, decent camera with this price?"

"So expensive?" Yun Guang was also slightly surprised. "Such an expensive thing is placed on the eaves?"

Forty thousand yuan is not a small number, and the indigenous people on Haining Island don't look like people who can do such a thing.

"Let me see, let me see," Guan Hongyan stretched out her hand curiously, "Let me see the 40,000 yuan camera."

"I want to see it, too," Fang Xiang stood on tiptoe, "This thing is more valuable than gold. It's a scam for fools."

With these two taking the lead, the other team members who didn't see it also became curious. At this moment, a red tentacle stretched out from above, rolled away the camera in front of everyone, and put it into Bai Jinshu's arms.

Bai Jinshu:?

He tilted his head in slight confusion.

Barrage:

【Master: Holy Son, please look first.】

[Laughing Mouse, the tentacle took the camera from Sister Yan'er's hand and walked away with disdain. ]

[Sister Yan'er also dislikes this tentacle! 】

【Why? 】

[To be fair, if you met a cat whose tentacles came out of its mouth, you would probably be a little disgusted...]

"Is it inlaid with gold?" Guan Hongyan silently rubbed her hands on the corner of her clothes before coming closer. "Hey, is it powered on?"

"Should we open it and take a look?"

She said "do you want to" in a declarative tone.

"It can't be opened," Bai Jinshu turned sideways to show everyone the screen, "There is a password."

The camera is working now, but after setting a password, they cannot get in and see what the video recorded by the camera is.

"There's a password, and it's worth more than 40,000 yuan," Guan Hongyan touched his chin, "Who could have put it on the wall..."

Being able to afford such an expensive item and yet inexplicably putting it in a place where it could be easily lost, combined with this location, the person who could do such a thing...don't they just know someone?

"Are you talking about that rich second generation Ranran?" Bai Jinshu turned off the screen of his pocket camera.

"Yes, hey, this girl is quite interesting," Guan Hongyan leaned against the tree and snapped her fingers, "First she tried to sneak into our old house but refused to say what she had photographed, and then she inexplicably put such an expensive camera on the wall. It was obvious that she wanted to record something."

She must be trying to get some clues from the video footage of this camera.

Regardless of whether this clue overlaps with the information they have obtained so far, [Cats can grow bigger or smaller], now, the clue in her hand must be related to this courtyard and the homestay next door.

"Yun Guang, Yun Guang," Guan Hongyan rolled her eyes, nudged Yun Guang gently with her arm, and turned on the screen, "Hey, do you think the master key in the mall can open this electronic lock? That thing is a concept god, an electronic lock is also a lock, and an electronic key is also a key."

Yun Guang:?

Yun Guang touched his chin: "...You can try."

…

The two of them squatted in the corner and disassembled the machine for a long time. Finally, Guan Hongyan stood up and gave a small cheer: "It's solved!"

"The video inside records two courtyards," Yun Guang also raised the camera, "In the first part, the person who placed the camera showed his face. It was Ran Ran and her friend from next door."

Their guess was correct, it was indeed her who placed the camera there.

Bai Jinshu pointed at the camera with his chin: "What's recorded in it?"

"I didn't record anything weird. I just filmed our courtyard from top to bottom," Guan Hongyan answered as she scrolled the progress bar. "Well... we went to work and nothing happened. There was nothing wrong with the B&B either. But I could see the two of them didn't go out the whole day and were staring at us intentionally or unintentionally..."

It was as if they were trying to cover up something by mistake as the two of them walked back and forth in the small courtyard of the B&B pretending to be careless. In fact, the frequency with which they looked towards the camera completely gave away that there was something there.

"What else?" Bai Jin asked.

Guan Hongyan scrolled through all the progress bars in a few seconds: "I don't think I got anything special."

This is going to be a difficult situation.

"How about we just sit back and wait?" Several members of the exploration team looked at each other and saw the same meaning in each other's eyes.

"Turn off the lights," Guan Hongyan stood up holding the camera, "Let's all go back to the living room."

Something happened at Maode College today, so they got off work much earlier than usual. According to their last impression of contact with Ranran and another person, if the camera was placed on their wall by the two of them specifically to shoot something, then she would definitely take the camera away before they came back.

Otherwise, when they come back, there is a risk of this thing being discovered.

It's less than half an hour before the time they said they'd get off work last time. We might as well wait here and catch these two in the act.

*

As the sun set, the unlit living room gradually darkened. Finally, before the sun completely set, Bai Jinshu felt the leopard cat in his arms suddenly glare and jump out of the window.

Then, a girl's voice, sometimes louder and sometimes softer, was heard outside the window: "Hey... hey, what is this, a cat?!"

Before Guan Hongyan and the others could rush out, there was a chaotic sound of falling, fabric rubbing, and metal colliding. The exploration team members in the living room only saw two black shadows falling from the wall with a series of girls' screams of pain. After a few tumbles, they fell right in front of the door leading to the courtyard from the living room.

"I say..." Guan Hongyan flicked on the light with one hand, "What's going on here?"

As the lights finally came on, the rich second-generation Ran Ran and her friend fell to the ground, one on the left and one on the right, grimacing.

"You guys turned over?" Lu Changfeng asked knowingly, "What are you doing here?"

"We... uh," Ran Ran stuttered, "we accidentally hung something on the tree at the guesthouse, so we climbed up to get it, and unexpectedly touched a cat..."

What happened next was that Ranran was frightened by the leader who flew over and fell down without holding on, and the other person who climbed over the wall with her also fell down.

"I'm so sorry," another girl got up and brushed off the dust on her knees and the grass on her hair, pretending to glance casually at the angle between the wall and the eaves, "Let's go back now..."

"Yes, we..."

"Are you here to look for this?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows and raised the camera in his hand.

"What is this? I don't know." Ran Ran's expression was visibly flustered. "Please let..."

"We saw the video you recorded in here," Yun Guang walked out of the crowd, his voice gentle as always, but combined with everyone's performance, he forced the two men to take a few steps back, "You put this on the wall on purpose, right?"

"According to the Public Security Administration Law," he took out his phone and shook the laws and regulations of this world that he had just searched on Baidu, "placing cameras in private residences is punishable by a minimum of seven days..."

"We don't have it!" another girl interrupted him quickly, "We put it there to record the B&B next door..."

As she spoke, she looked anxiously at the camera in Yun Guang's hand, the nervousness in her eyes almost overflowing.

This performance... means that no one will believe them even if they have no problems.

"That's easy," Lu Changfeng turned around and walked away very tactfully. "I'm going to find the owner of the B&B next door. Although it's a B&B, the courtyard should be considered a public space. Also, wasn't there someone who was kicked out of your place yesterday for filming? You can put the camera on the corner of the wall between our two houses, and we can sue you together."

With every word he said, the expressions on the two girls' faces changed. Finally, before he finished speaking, Ran Ran hurriedly took a few steps forward, looking like she wanted to snatch the camera from Bai Jinshu's hand. But after realizing that she couldn't take it away in front of so many people, she stopped and said, "Wait! Wait a minute... What do you want to do? I can break the data card or delete the video!"

"It's not that troublesome, it's very simple," Guan Hongyan's expression suddenly became amiable. She walked out of the crowd and put her arm around Ran Ran's shoulders like a sister, lowering her voice and saying, "We just want to know one question, what is that thing you recorded?"

Bai Jinshu's expression changed slightly. Guan Hongyan was planning to falsify a confession.

"Did it get recorded?" The two girls looked at each other in shock, not realizing at all that they had fallen into Guan Hongyan's trap.

At the same time, all members of the exploration team simultaneously revealed a hint of understanding.

Sure enough, they put the camera there in order to record something.

"You saw it too, right?" As if he had found something similar, Ran Ran couldn't wait to gesture and said, "That...that monster!"