Chapter 273
Christopher looked at Joyce.
“Come with me.”
After saying that, Joyce turned around and entered the room.
Christopher stood there for two seconds before he followed.
They went straight to Kendrick’s study.
Joyce walked to the huge desk and turned on Kendrick’sputer. She then found the video Kendrick
tampered with and turned it on for Christopher to watch.
The video was not long and only a few minutes, but the video content was not recorded over a
continuous period of time. Rather, it was abination of footage from several dates, and the interval
between each date was about half at month. The first date was October 20 ofst year, and itsted
until the New Year.
Christopher immediately saw that the surveince video was aimed at Zachary and Winnie’s room.
After watching it for the first time, he did not notice problem and consequently looked up at Joyce.
any
It was normal for Christopher not to notice anything amiss for the first time, for Joyce herself had taken
a long time to detect the problemst night.
Joyce took the mouse and dragged it a little more. Then she clicked the pause button and reminded
Christopher, “Take a closer look at it in the next few seconds.”
After saying that, she clicked the y button again, and the video continued to y.
After being reminded by Joyce, Christopher looked at the video for the first time and found nothing
wrong again. When he watched the video for the second time, he noticed the time change on the video
and suddenly frowned.
He quickly tapped on the keyboard, and the video yed more than ten seconds backward and
reyed again.
There was something wrong with the time on the video recording. One ce clearly showed that it was
17:43:24 on November 21, 2022. The next second was the 25th second. However, the interval between
the 24th and 25th second was obviously longer than what it was supposed to be.
Christopher took out his phone and opened the timer for fear of inurate perception. Byparison,
it was indeed longer than the normal second interval, about 0.5 seconds longer.
“Has this video been tampered with?” Christopher straightened up and looked at Joyce before looking
at the time on the video again. He quickly figured out what
was going on.
Joyce said, “When something happened to Dad, your brother asked me to check the surveince
video. I checked it myself, but I didn’t see anything wrong. Afterward, your brother asked me to send
him a copy.”
It was not surprising that Joyce did not notice such a tiny difference, as it was hard for most people to
detect it. Besides, the video Joyce copied was footage from three months before Zachary’s ident.
The time gap was too long.
Evenst night, when she saw the video that was cropped andbined by Kendrick, she had to
watch it several times before she noticed the problem.
Christopher’s expression was cold and dark. After being silent for a long time, he said, “Ken has long
noticed that something was amiss with my father’s ident, right?”
He was the only one who did not know about anything and was totally unaware that someone was
behind his father’s ident.
Joyce nced at Christopher and guessed that he was feeling ufortable deep down, but she still
said truthfully, “He just doubted it back then. I’ve checked thest modified time of this tampered video.
Your brother saved it on hisputer a few days before his business trip.”
This implied that Kendrick only confirmed that someone was behind Zachary’s ident not long ago.
Joyce added, “I referred back to some records at homest night. Two housekeepers resigned at the
end ofst year, one of whom was responsible for cleaning, while the other was responsible for
managing all kinds of equipment at home, including all the surveince cameras.”
Leaving a job was normal, but leaving a job at the end of the year in the Sce residence was
considered somewhat abnormal.
The treatment given to housekeepers had always been generous in the Sce residence. Not to
mention, the host family was easy to get along with. As long as they fulfilled their duties, working in the
Sce residence was considered to be a good job. In addition, there would be New Year’s mary
gift and extra bonuses for rework after the New Year.
Even if they wanted to resign, it wasn’t reasonable for them to choose the end of the year. It was more
reasonable for them to at least wait until the beginning of the new year, after they collected the
mary gift and bonuses.
The two housekeepers seemed to have nned everything perfectly, so they left earlier, knowing that
Zachary would soon be met with an ident.
Usually, specific people would be assigned to clean the room of Zachary and Winnie. This was to take
into ount the fact that they were already old, lest the neers would not know about their living
habits. Therefore, Joyce dared not
let neers take charge of things inside Zachary and Winnie’s room.
But after all, the room of Zachary and Winnie was not locked. It was impossible to send someone to
guard the room 24 hours a day. Thus, it was not impossible for someone to sneak in. Moreover, it
would be more convenient if someone could help deal with the surveince video.
Joyce didn’t sleep all night after seeing the video. She looked through a lot of records, including the
housekeepers’ situation at home and the daily medication taken by Zachary. Shepared them one
by one and could match every record.
year,
“However, the two housekeepers are unrted. The person in charge of all kinds of electronic
equipment in the house entered the Sce residencest the other person only entered half a year
afterward. Besides, they never crossed
while
paths during their daily work.”
The fact that two people who were unrted could work together made Joyce and Christopher ponder.
After listening to Joyce’s words, Christopher was silent again. Apparently, everything that happened
was aimed at the Sce family. They first made a move on Zachary and made him end up in a
vegetative state. Then, they switched their target to Kendrick.
If the two leaders of Sce Corporation met with an ident one after another, Sce Corporation
would be in a leaderless situation.
Sce Corporation was a family business. Unlike otherpanies, only the eldest son of the family’s
main branch had the right to seed. Once Sce Corporation got into this situation, it was
impossible to find another leader whom everyone could agree upon and trust.
Christopher came back to his senses and looked at Joyce. When he was about to say something, he
saw her staring at a photo frame on the table in a daze.
young
In the frame was a family photo of Kendrick, Joyce, and Alex. Alex was still and only three or four years
old at that time. In the photo, Kendrick held him and let him sit on hisp, while Joyce was sitting
beside Kendrick.
It was a very typical family photo. Christopher would never look at it in the past, but when he saw
Kendrick in the photo now, he felt tightness in his chest.
He quickly withdrew his gaze from the photo and looked at Joyce again. This time, he noticed how pale
she looked. She was in Nardor for half a month, and although Joyce hadn’t followed the search and
rescue personnel, she was certainly not in better condition than him.
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Christopher said, “Joyce, go back to your room and have a rest. I’ll handle the rest.”
Joyce’s eyes were hot and damp. She quickly turned back and wiped away the tears. Then she came
back to her senses and smiled at Christopher. “Don’t force
yourself too much. You can discuss more with La if there’s anything. She knows more about the
company than I do. As for Zavier and Zaiden… As you could see today, family rtionships mean
nothing in the face of their personal interests. You have to be careful with them in the future.”
Joyce shouldn’t have said thest sentence, but she was afraid that Christopher would suffer in
silence.
Christopher didn’t know anything about the headquarters of Sce Corporation, except for the matters
of Sce Corporation Romdale Branch. Christopher used to have a close personal rtionship with his
two uncles, so there was nothing wrong back then, but once personal interests were involved, that
intangible rtionship would be of no use.