Chapter 218 The Culprit
Chapter 218 The Culprit
"Hello? Mr. Gabriel, what''s going on?"
As soon as the call connected, Elizabeth anxiously asked.
She had just been on the phone with Gabriel, but he abruptly hung up. It seemed that something
had happened.
During this time, she didn''t dare to call him back, worrying constantly.
Gabriel walked to the window, his face darkened. "Someone tried to poison us just now, nearly
killing a few of my friends. The poison is called Deadly Grass, a type of poison from Annam, the
Southwest!"
"Use the methods of the Ghostly Purgatory Hall to help me find out who has been targeting me from
behind all this time!"
He had a feeling that the person who poisoned them today was somehow connected to the foreign
assassins from a few days ago.
Originally, he wanted Santos to investigate who was targeting him by following the trail of the
assassin''s corpse.
But the appearance of the poisoner today made him even more certain that it was a force from the
Underground World and not someone who hired assassins with money.
When it came to the Underground World, the Ghostly Purgatory Hall had better means of
investigation.
"Understood, I''ll start investigating immediately!" Elizabeth obeyed the order.
Gabriel added, "By the way, I might be going to Gumoldur City in a few days, so prepare in
advance!"
With Vicky''s appearance, he had already decided to get involved in the affairs of the Gumoldur
n.
Since he was unfamiliar with the ce, he needed Elizabeth to help him prepare.
"Yes!"
Elizabeth epted the order once again.
Gabriel finally hung up the phone and took out a cigarette.
He ced it in his mouth and started smoking.
His gaze was distant, his expression solemn.
Who exactly was causing trouble for him repeatedly from behind?
He had quite a few enemies now, and it was not easy to figure this out.
But if he didn''t figure it out, he would continue to be passively attacked, which was very
ufortable.
Afterward, he wrote a prescription of herb medicine and handed it to Sparrow.
After the medicine was obtained and Ste and the others drank it, Gabriel and Zoe went to the
monitoring room together.
Six screens disyed twenty-four surveince footage, monitoring every corner of the club without
blind spots.
Thomas said to Gabriel, "Boss, after the incident, I immediately sealed off the club. No one was
allowed to leave! The female waiter on the ninth floor who made tea and poured juice has also been
detained!"
Gabriel nodded and then turned to Zoe. "Zoe, I''m really sorry for troubling you!"
Originally, after Zoe finished the SAT, he wanted her to rx a bit.
But he didn''t expect that she would have to work as a detective to solve the case.
In fact, he understood that since the enemy had such means, he would have most likely already
escaped by now.
But he still wanted to investigate, just in case the enemy was careless and hadn''t left yet, so he
could catch the enemy.
"It''s okay, Gabriel. I have nothing to do anyway!"
Zoe stared at the surveince screens, her eyes fixed.
Thomas was secretly amazed. With so many surveince screens, how could she spot the poisoner
by watching them all at once?
Just as he was wondering, Zoe said, "Number one, number six, number thirteen, and number
twenty-four, erge these four screens, rewind them to an hour before the poisoning incident, and
y them simultaneously at sixteen times the speed!"
"Huh?" Thomas was momentarily stunned!
He didn''t understand what Zoe was trying to do.
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Shouldn''t they watch the surveince footage slowly? What could they see by simultaneously
watching four screens at sixteen times the speed?
"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and do it!" Gabriel red at Thomas fiercely!
This idiot didn''t even know how amazing Zoe was!
"Understood!"
Thomas snapped back to his senses and didn''t dare to dy.
He instructed the operators to follow Zoe''s instructions, bringing up the four sets of footage and
setting them to y starting from an hour before the poisoning incident.
It was yed at sixteen times the speed!
After the yback started, Thomas also tried to take a few nces.
The screen switching was so fast that he could hardly remember anything.
He really couldn''t understand. How could this method find the person who poisoned?
But, what followedpletely overturned his worldview!
One minuteter!
"Scene one, stop, rewind forty-eight seconds!"
A few secondster!
"Scene thirteen, stop, rewind sixteen seconds!"
Three minutester!
"Scene twenty-four, stop, rewind thirty-two seconds!"
Six minutester!
"Scene six, stop, no need to move!"
In just over six minutes, Zoe stopped four surveince screens.
Thomas stared at the frozen four screens, unable to speak in astonishment.
In these four unrted surveince screens, he could see a waitress.
That was the same waitress!
The key was that the locations monitored by three of the screens were not where this waitress
should be.
"Zoe, thank you!"
Gabriel was extremely delighted and admired Zoe immensely.
To find the person who poisoned amidst such chaotic scenes was truly impressive.
While admiring her, he furrowed his brows deeply.
The suspect had been found, and it was undoubtedly the fake waitress.
The figure in the sixth surveince screen should be thest image of this woman escaping.
Otherwise, why would she, a waitress, go to the second-floor equipment room?
In other words, this woman had already escaped!
Zoe nodded and said, "Gabriel, this woman has already escaped. It''s meaningless to chase her
now!"
"The resolution of the surveince footage is too low, but I can enhance the resolution to high
definition usingputer technology andpletely restore her appearance!"
"This person is definitely not ordinary. With a clear picture of her, you can have someone investigate
and should be able to find out her identity!"
"Great!" Gabriel was extremely grateful.
With Zoe around, many things became much easier for him.
Afterward, with the screenshots of the surveince, they went to Ste''s office on the ninth floor.
Using theputer on the desk, they began to restore the slightly blurry video footage.
Zoe''s method was simple. Theputer was just a tool, and her brain was the real processor.
First, she stored the low-resolution photos in her mind. Then she restored the highest-definition
image in her mind.
In the end, she used Photoshop to transform the blurry image into what she had restored in her
mind.
Standing at the office door, Gabriel angrily said to Thomas, "Tom, what''s the deal with this waitress?
Also, didn''t you say that the club was sealed off and no one could leave? Why did this waitress slip
through the cracks?"
Thomas trembled and replied, "I''m sorry, Boss. It''s all my negligence! I just asked the supervisor,
and he said that this woman is not a waitress at the club at all!"
Gabriel immediatelyughed. "Are you saying that our club inexplicably gained an extra waitress,
and everyone, including you, the supervisor, and the other waitresses, were all like fools and never
noticed?"
"Tom, I entrusted the club to you, and this is how you manage it?"
"I''m sorry, Boss!" Thomas panicked. "These days, because of the club''s opening, we did indeed hire
some new staff. I''m not very familiar with many of them, but that''s not an excuse. I am willing to
ept any punishment!"
What he said was an objective fact. Over the past few days, dozens of new staff members had
joined the club.
The time was too short, and they hadn''t familiarized themselves with each other, which gave the
culprit an opportunity!
"B*llshit. If I''m going to punish you, I should wait until after the grand opening tomorrow. From now
on, there can''t be any more mistakes. Got it?" Gabriel scolded.
Most of the club''s affairs still had to be handled by Thomas, so now was not the time to deal with
him.
"Got it. If there are any more mistakes, Boss, you don''t need to punish me. I''ll cut off one of my own
hands!" Thomas immediately offered.
"Alright, go about your business!"
Gabriel waved his hand and sent Thomas away.
Then he patiently waited for Zoe.
In less than half an hour, Zoe finally finished her work.
The images on theputer were even clearer than those taken by a high-definition camera...