Chapter 494: Numerous Suspicious Points

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After a moment, he spoke in a calm voice, giving the order, "Retrieve the recorded information. I want more details about the trackers! Also, re-evaluate the residential security!"

"Understood!"

Revenge's cold electronic voice echoed, and the previously dimmed screen quickly lit up again. However, this time, it displayed a video that was clearly captured by surveillance devices.

The video wasn't very clear, and it had obviously been edited by Revenge beforehand. Its total duration was just three minutes and seventeen seconds.

But it was enough. Sun Cheng stared at the screen without blinking. In the beginning of the video, a black sedan drove slowly past the main entrance of the residential area.

Revenge circled it with a large red circle, indicating that this black sedan might be more than just an ordinary passerby.

Sun Cheng remembered that the road in front of the main entrance was indeed limited to 40 kilometers per hour. Comparing the speed of other vehicles that passed by, the black sedan was likely moving at no more than twenty kilometers per hour.

Driving at such a slow speed on the road was indeed suspicious.

The video continued to play. After about nineteen seconds, a familiar figure appeared in the surveillance camera's range—Ye Qi.

In the video, Ye Qi was dressed in a fitted dress, wearing a large sun hat and oversized sunglasses. To most people who didn't know her, she might appear as just an ordinary resident of this upscale apartment complex. At most, she was a bit prettier.

Ye Qi held a sizable shopping bag in each hand. She walked into the camera's recording area from a blind spot near the main entrance without stopping. In just thirty or forty seconds, she entered the residential area and disappeared completely from the camera's view.

And Sun Cheng understood why Revenge had reported to him about the presence of someone tracking Ye Qi.

Not long after Ye Qi entered the camera's range at the main entrance, the video played until thirty-three seconds, and another man, also wearing sunglasses and dressed inconspicuously, appeared in the video.

Initially, this man seemed like an ordinary passerby, walking casually along the street in front of the main entrance. He wasn't walking too quickly or too slowly, but Revenge circled him again.

Sun Cheng stared at him intently through the surveillance camera and quickly noticed that although the man's gaze wasn't fixed on Ye Qi the entire time, from the first time he appeared in the camera until thirty-nine seconds later when he walked out, he looked in Ye Qi's direction four or five times in total.

After that, the man walked out of the camera's range.

When the video reached one minute and thirty-seven seconds, an unidentified black sedan pulled up at the spot where the man disappeared. It stopped at the main entrance of the residential area.

Revenge circled it once more, indicating that this black sedan was probably the same one that had passed by the main entrance at an extremely slow speed in the initial video.

The sedan wasn't allowed to enter. The driver of the car, who might have had a disagreement with the security, emerged from the security office after about a minute. Soon, two security guards in uniform appeared in the video.

At this point, Revenge circled the front passenger seat of the black sedan with another red circle. Vaguely visible within the circle was a person seated in the front passenger seat, although their appearance wasn't clear.

However, Revenge quickly processed the video and zoomed in on the person in the front passenger seat. The extracted image was enhanced and enlarged, displayed in the top-right corner of the video.

Although the enlarged image was limited by the surveillance camera's resolution and appeared somewhat blurry after enhancement, it was sufficient.

From the enlarged image, Sun Cheng immediately recognized the man in the front passenger seat—it was the same man who had tracked Ye Qi not long ago.

Although it could also be a coincidence, and there wasn't much evidence to link everything together, this was likely why Revenge used the term "suspected tracker."

However, concerning Ye Qi's safety, and the fact that the other party might be targeting him, Sun Cheng couldn't afford to believe in coincidences.

"Regardless of whether it's a coincidence or not, I need to upgrade the security of both the residence and my own security system!"

His eyes fixed on the screen, Sun Cheng's fingers tapped lightly on the desk.

If the other party was only targeting him, he wasn't worried at all.

On the other side of the real-world Reconstruction Base, although only a rough framework had been established, with several trips back from the "Transformers Universe," Sun Cheng had brought back a variety of robots. If needed, that side could now even manufacture heavy individual weapons.

Moreover, this time he had brought along a batch of the latest combat robots produced by the base.

Sun Cheng's only concern was that the other party might target Ye Qi. There were many things he didn't want to or couldn't tell others, not even if the other person was Ye Qi.

If she had stayed in the villa all along, even if the other party managed to breach the residential area, it wouldn't matter. Revenge had already established a comprehensive security system throughout the area. Armed squads of under a hundred people were practically a death sentence.

However, Sun Cheng couldn't confine Ye Qi to her home completely; she had her own way of life.

"...Atlas and the others still haven't managed to create satisfactory humanoid Decepticons... It seems I need to take the initiative..."

His mind raced, and Sun Cheng continued to weigh the pros and cons.

Several minutes later, Revenge's cold electronic voice temporarily interrupted his thoughts.

"...Master, residential security check complete, confirmed safety!"

"...Intelligence collection complete... By infiltrating the Nandu traffic system, I have successfully located the target vehicle... Black sedan with license plate xxxxxx, buyer's information unknown, registered under an automobile rental company, which currently isn't connected to the network port, so the lessee's information cannot be determined at the moment..."

"At present, this vehicle is parked at the entrance of a bar named 'Danube Riverside' in Ningjiang District... Surveillance devices nearby indicate that there's currently no one inside the car..."

"Furthermore, I've found an issue with this bar."

"Explain!"

A thought crossed Sun Cheng's mind, and he quickly asked.

"The computer protection system of the bar's control terminal is even more complex than that of the Nandu traffic system's control terminal. However, apart from the video data captured by the surveillance cameras inside and outside the bar, there's nothing else in the terminal's database... Moreover, I can't find the video data from twenty-four hours ago... The system log on the terminal indicates that someone regularly copies and then deletes the source data..."

"Hmm?"

Sun Cheng's finger, which had been lightly tapping on the desk, suddenly stopped. It seemed that he had caught a big fish.

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