Chapter 277 Revenge
"You're welcome. It's just a small favor. I don't want everyone's hard work to go to waste."
The corners of Xia Lili's mouth are harder to suppress than AK. Of course she is happy to make money from foreigners.
Xia Lili then fixed her gaze on the subdued peeping Tom, and turned thoughtfully to the director, "Director, I need to double-check this guy's equipment."
She frowned slightly, "Some details don't seem right, I want to confirm them."
The director nodded repeatedly and made room: "Of course."
Xia Lili took a folding fan and squatted down to carefully check the equipment of the peeper.
"Look here," she pointed the end of her folded fan at the worn mark on the thief's cuff.
"The special wrinkles in the fabric suggest that he often raised his hands to pass things."
She gently fanned the man's clothes and keenly noticed a few details: "There are fresh scratches on the belt buckle, probably from frequent disassembly of communication equipment."
With every word Xia Lili spoke, a little sweat appeared on the forehead of the peeping photographer on the ground.
When Xia Lili carefully examined the soles of the peeping photographer's shoes, she made a major discovery!
She asked the staff for a pair of tweezers and used them to pick out a small handful of glowing blue powder. Her eyes lit up: "This is the tracking powder that banks use on banknotes."
"Many criminal gangs use this powder to make connections."
"Last year, there was a jewelry robbery in New York. The robbers used this powder on the soles of their shoes to communicate with the contact in the parking lot."
She held the powder up to the light and examined it carefully. "The same thing happened to a corporate espionage ring that the police uncovered previously."
"When handing over stolen trade secrets, they would shine a UV light on the soles of the other party's shoes. Only if the color of the powder matched the pre-agreed color would they dare to hand over the stolen trade secrets."
"They must have agreed to a fixed location to hand over the secretly filmed content."
Xia Lili said confidently, "The accomplices will definitely use ultraviolet light to check the powder to confirm that the person handing it over is one of their own. This trick is very common among criminal gangs."
Xia Lili's professionalism surprised everyone, and just when the director was stunned.
Xia Lili stood up straight, her sharp eyes sweeping over everyone present. "A professional voyeurism ring is like a precision-engineered machine. This person is just the 'eyes' filming, but behind them there must be the 'legs' delivering the goods and the 'mouths' selling the stolen goods."
As soon as he finished speaking, the peeping photographer who was pretending to be dead on the ground suddenly opened his eyes, and his sinister gaze locked onto Xia Lili like a poisonous snake.
He grinned, revealing his white teeth: "Girl, do you think this is in your Dragon Country?"
His voice was extremely low, but every word was venomous. "Do you believe that tomorrow I will leave your body floating on Santa Monica Beach?"
Xia Lili didn't even bother to raise her eyelids, and casually put down the fan in her hand, as if she didn't hear this clumsy threat.
Half an hour later, the film association's security director rushed over with detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department.
Xia Lili clearly and logically reconstructed the incident to them. When cooperating with the record-keeping, she specifically emphasized the fluorescent powder on the soles of the photographer's shoes and the wear marks on his cuffs.
"Miss Xia, this is my contact information."
Detective Marty, with his beard, handed over a gold-stamped business card and said, "Contact me anytime if you find anything new."
He added meaningfully, "The bureau will assign someone to protect your safety 24 hours a day."
Xia Lili felt relieved after hearing this.
When the voyeur was being taken away by the police, he suddenly turned around and made a throat-slitting gesture to Xia Lili, but was roughly pushed into the car by the police officer next to him.
Ming Zhou came over worriedly and said, "Shall I get you some bodyguards?"
"It's not like back home. The security isn't as good here. Even the density of surveillance cameras is way behind what we have back home..."
There are over 500,000 public security surveillance cameras in major cities across China, not including commercial venues.
Los Angeles has about 30,000 municipal surveillance cameras, including traffic cameras, and the camera damage rate is 15%.
Mingzhou couldn't help but worry.
"We can prepare a few bodyguards, but let's arrange them around my brother first."
Xia Lili looked in the direction where the police were leaving, pinched the small mirror in her pocket, and had no expression on her face.
Seeing Mingzhou's worried and confused expression, Xia Lili patted his shoulder comfortingly: "It's okay, don't worry."
"Just do as I say."
Seeing Xia Lili's good attitude, Ming Zhou comforted him and said, "Okay."
When Xia Lili and Xia Xubai were leaving the set, the film investor who came to visit the set quickly stepped forward and shook Xia Lili's hand tightly, his voice trembling slightly with excitement:
"Ms. Xia, your actions today saved our $180 million movie! If those stolen footage had leaked, our three years of hard work would have been ruined."
He pulled out a gold-stamped business card from his suit pocket. "This is my personal contact information. If you need anything in Los Angeles or even Country M from now on, just contact me directly."
The investor also gave Xia Lili a Tiffany watch. The ice-blue dial flowed like silk, the platinum bezel was inlaid with diamonds, and the second hand passed like a shooting star. It looked very valuable at first glance.
Other crew members also gave Xia Lili a lot of souvenirs, including figurines of famous movie characters, autographs of movie stars, and even co-branded perfumes...
In short, Xia Lili came back with a lot of gains from her visit to the set today.
On the way back to the hotel, Xia Xubai lazily leaned back in the leather seat, tapping his knees with his fingers. "Tsk tsk, our Lili is incredible. She became such a hot commodity after just one visit to Hollywood."
He deliberately dragged out his tone, "Investors gave you watches, celebrities gave you autographs, even detectives invited you to breakfast—"
If Xia Lili really had a tail, she would be so proud by now. She raised her chin proudly, "Of course! I'm proficient in solving crimes and arresting criminals, and I can also act in dramas. I'm your sister, an all-rounder!"
"So versatile..." Xia Xubai suddenly turned around, his fox eyes curved into crescents, "Then this year's New Year's Eve dinner will be left to you? Our little culinary genius?"
The air in the car suddenly froze.
Xia Lili's arrogance disappeared in a flash, and she glanced at Xia Xubai guiltily.
"Well..." She laughed dryly, her fingers quietly drawing circles on the chair. "My cooking skills are too advanced, and I'm afraid you mortals won't be able to appreciate them. Wasn't the lesson from last year's pot of 'charcoal-grilled spareribs' enough?"
"Of course I remember." Xia Xubai suppressed a laugh, "Mom said our dog would hide in the kitchen after smelling it."
"Xia! Xu! Bai!"
"Is it that exaggerated?" Xia Lili blushed and tried to cover his mouth, but he turned his head away as expected.
The brother and sister were quarreling with each other, and two crooked shadows were projected on the car window, just like when they were fighting for candy in the yard of their hometown when they were children.
When they arrived at the hotel, Xia Lili swiped her card and entered her room.
Today was a very novel and tiring experience.
Xia Lili glanced at the time, it was 9 o'clock in the evening, and planned to take a shower and go to bed.
She walked to the dressing mirror and prepared to hang up her coat.
Although she had used a small mirror to check her safety several times today, Xia Lili still habitually looked at herself in the dressing mirror.
The vision gradually became blurry.
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