Lilly snatched Blake's phone, her voice filled with menace. "Dad, screen mirroring, now!"
Blake's phone had a screen mirroring feature, and even if it didn't, with tech geniuses like Josh and Max present, they would make it happen.
But what stunned Blake was the unfamiliar scenes that appeared in his "surveillance footage."
On the mirrored screen, an elderly lady huddled tightly in plastic wrap braved the storm, crying out, "My child... open the door, Mom is freezing..."
The lights in the second-floor room flickered on and quickly went out.
After a while, the screen turned dark, but upon closer inspection, someone could be seen discreetly peeping through the curtain at the old lady lying on the stone bench outside. As soon as they spotted her, they hastily closed the curtains.
It was none other than Daun himself.
"Do you have anything to say for yourself?" Lilly angrily demanded.
Daun paled, his face contorted in anguish, and he stammered indignantly, "Y-you... You're spying on my house?! What gives you the right to do that? It's illegal, no one has the authority...!"
A police officer interrupted sternly, "Shut up! Do you know who he is? If he didn't have the authority, no one could have investigated. He's..."
"I'm the head of the investigative team at the bureau," Blake interjected calmly.
Several officers were taken aback, realizing that there might not be an issue after all.
Daun turned pale, realizing he was being watched by the investigative team. What did he do to deserve this kind of scrutiny? What a waste of their time!
Shaun and Tom immediately expressed their righteous indignation. "Daun, don't even try to defend yourself! Look at yourself, are you even human? You must have heard our mother calling outside all night! You deliberately didn't open the door! You killed Mom!"
Daun wanted to argue, but the evidence was right there in front of him. How could he possibly argue?
It was unknown what brand of the surveillance system was used, but it captured everything so clearly, even the moment he opened the curtains in the middle of the night.
Unlike those blurry surveillance videos found online, why was the footage in front of his house so clear?
Seeing Shaun and Tom blaming him and shifting the blame away from themselves, Lilly coldly remarked, "It's not over yet; you're all involved!"
The footage continued.
This time it was at Tom's house.
The elderly lady approached Tom's doorstep, cautiously calling out, "Tom, are you home? Can you open the door for Mom... Mom is cold and hungry..."
Tom's door remained motionless, with no signs of anyone inside.
After waiting for a long time, the old lady bowed her head in disappointment and tremblingly left.
Tom immediately spoke up, "See, I wasn't home..."
He couldn't finish his sentence.
Suddenly, the door that was just still swung open silently. Tom peered out, cursed under his breath, "It's not my turn this month, why is she coming to me?"
Then he quickly retreated inside, firmly closing the door.
Tom's words stuck in his throat, leaving him no room to defend himself!
What kind of surveillance system was this, where was it installed, and why was even his conversation recorded so clearly?
He was familiar with his doorstep, and there was no surveillance there...
Molly immediately berated him, "Tom, do you have any shame? Just a moment ago, you were pretending like it was true!"
Shaun suddenly hesitated, uncertain of his actions. If Daun and Tom's houses were captured so clearly, could it be possible that his doorstep was also recorded so vividly?
However, his house was located in a village without any surveillance cameras.
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