The Mystery of the HK 152 Museum

  Jingya Garden Building 7, Room 702. Shi Ke stood at the door, feeling a little sentimental. He used to live here with a beautiful policewoman, enjoying a happy life together.

  It's just that they have different beliefs and ideals, Shi Ke moved out from here.

  As soon as the doorbell rang, Shi Ke felt a faint excitement, and he could finally taste Ou Yang Xiang's cooking again.

  Ouyang Xiang opened the door, wearing a police uniform and a faint smile on her face, looking at Shi Lei and saying: "You're here!"

  Shi Ke's left hand scratched his head, and he raised his right hand, handing over the Alexander hair clip he was holding to Ouyang Xiang: "Ouyang, long time no see. This is a hair clip I brought back for you from my last trip to Beijing."

  Ouyang Xiang took over the hair clip, "Come on in, your movements are quite quick, the egg and milk haven't gone cold yet, have them while they're still hot!"

  Shi Ke hastily entered the house, sat down in the chair beside the wooden table, picked up his chopsticks and started eating. As he ate, he said: "Ouyang, your culinary skills are still impeccable!"

  Ouyang Xiang took out Alexander's hair clip, holding it in her hand. It was a light blue hair clip. Ouyang Xiang looked at the hair clip and smiled: "Shi Lei, this hair clip isn't cheap, is it? Giving me such an expensive gift, aren't you afraid your two classmates will be jealous?"

  Shi Ke was drinking milk and almost spat it out when he heard Ouyang Xiang say that.

  "Cough! Cough! Cough!"

  Shi Lei suddenly started coughing violently after being choked by milk entering his airway.

  Watching Shi Ke make a fool of himself, Ouyang Xiang couldn't help but smile sweetly. She walked in front of the mirror, put on her hair clip, and turned around to ask Shi Ke: "Take a look, do I look good?"

  Shi Ke nodded repeatedly, "Great! Great!"

  "Hmph, no sincerity at all!" Ouyang Xiang hummed softly, "Finished eating? Let's get going! It's a long way from Shuanghu District to the Municipal Bureau!"

  Shi Ke deliberately asked: "Isn't the Shuanghu Police Station sending someone to take us there?"

  "You think you're beautiful!" Ouyang Xiang said with a cute expression, wrinkling her nose: "You think you're the director's relative or something!"

  Watching Ouyang Xiang's adorable expression, Shi Lei couldn't help but stare blankly for a moment.

  "What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen a beauty before?" Ouyang Xiang said with a pout, "Let's hurry up and go!"

  Shi Ke finished drinking the milk in one breath, feeling a change in Ouyang Xiang's heart. For this change, Shi Ke could only sigh bitterly in his heart. He seemed to owe another debt of love.

  "How great it would be if we were in ancient times! Three wives and four concubines, reasonable and lawful, I'd definitely take all these little girls as mine! Damn the marriage law, I hate you!" Shi Lei grumbled to himself, following Ouyang Xiang downstairs.

  Downstairs, Shi Ke's white Audi A4L was parked in the shade of a tree. He pressed a button on his car key and unlocked the anti-theft lock. "A stingy police station, asking me to do something for them, but with such an attitude!"

  Ouyang Xiang was somewhat surprised, "Shi Lei, you bought a car? An Audi?"

  "Haha, little girl, aren't you surprised? You look pretty good and can even cook, why don't I take care of you?" Shi Lei said with a flowery tone.

  Ouyang Xiang gave him a white eye, Shi Lei hurriedly smiled and said: "Beauty, please get on the car!"

  He politely opened the passenger door for Ouyang Xiang, and after she got in, Shi Lei walked around to the driver's seat, turned his head to look at Ouyang Xiang, wanting to help her fasten her seatbelt, but thought better of it.

  This blatant attempt to take advantage will only make Ouyang Xiang feel disgusted!

  They drove to the Municipal Police Bureau in Beiyu District, and the two of them arrived at Bai Qiang's office. In Bai Qiang's office, Shi Kei was lounging on the sofa, "Old Bai, what pictures are you talking about? Let me take a look!"

  Bai Qiang picked up a laptop from his office desk and placed it on the tea table in front of Shi Ke.

  The laptop screen displayed a blurry video screenshot, perhaps the shooting distance was too far, or perhaps the light was too dark, the entire screenshot was very blurry and could not be identified as anyone.

  Shi Ke glanced at it casually and said: "Old Bai, bring me the case files for this case to take a look!"

  "Ouyang Xiang coughed, "Shi Lei, this doesn't follow the rules! The reason I called you to the office to handle the photos was because of the need for secrecy.""

  "Ouyang, given our relationship, I'm not even half a member of the police system!" Shi Lei took advantage of Ouyang Xiang's embarrassment, causing her face to turn bright red as she looked down, not daring to look at Bai Qiang.

  "This Shi Ke guy is too hateful! He actually said that in front of Director Bai! But it's strange, how does Shi Ke seem so familiar with Director Bai? Ou Yang Xiang lowered her head, unable to express what she was feeling. She didn't dislike Shi Ke's words, she was just shy."

  Bai Qiang glanced at Shi Ke and Ouyang Xiang, then revealed a meaningful smile. He handed the documents on the table to Shi Ke and said, "It's nothing, I had already prepared the documents for Stone brother to take a look. Perhaps from another angle, there might be new discoveries!"

  Shi Ke discontentedly said: "Bai Lao Ge, what do you mean by this! From your police perspective, switching to my perspective, isn't it the same thing!"

  Bai Qiang laughed and said: "Shi younger brother, let's just say I misspoke. You take a look first and handle the matter as soon as possible. At noon, I'll be the host and invite you to lunch!"

  Shi Ke picked up the file and looked at it. There were a total of 52 people in the city museum, except for the director and deputy director who were on business trips outside when the case occurred, everyone else had some suspicion.

  The city museum lost a Chinese painting for the first time, worth about one million yuan. The painting was lost on October 30th, twelve days ago.

  On November 8, the second lost item was a ceramic bowl, said to be an antique treasure worth about three million yuan. The total amount involved in the two cases exceeded four million, making it a major theft case.

  Shi Ke first reviewed the case files recorded by the police on the first theft. Among the 50 museum staff members, 38 had direct alibis and 10 had indirect alibis among the remaining 12 people. Only two people could not provide an alibi: Jiang Li, a 25-year-old unmarried female administrative clerk at the museum, and Liu Long, a 28-year-old unmarried male technician in the appraisal room.

  As neither of them could produce an alibi, they have already been listed by the police as key suspects!

  Shi Ke picked up a white paper and a neutral pen from the tea table, first establishing a timeline, on which he drew the suspicious objects he thought of.

  After finishing the timeline, Shi Ke picked up the file of the second theft case and began to flip through it. At the time of the second theft, there were a total of 45 employees who had direct alibis, and three employees who had indirect alibis.

  The last two who did not have alibis were actually Jiang Li and Liu Long!

  Shi Ke furrowed his brow and asked: "Bai Lao Ge, Jiang Li and Liu Long are highly suspicious, didn't you interrogate them separately?"

  Bai Qiang helplessly said, "After interrogation, their suspicion is indeed very high. However, the situation for them isn't too severe. Firstly, Jiang Li and Liu Long are not clear about the location of the museum's cameras."

  The museum's surveillance system has a total of three sets. The first set is very conspicuous and is used to deter ordinary people. The second set is hidden, miniaturized secret cameras known and controlled by the museum's internal security personnel. The last set is ultra-secret cameras, no one knows the specific location except for the two curators, and the camera itself also uses a special agent-level pinhole camera!

  Jiang Li and Liu Long, one is a clerk and the other is a technician, should not know about the second and third sets of monitoring systems. If they ask the security personnel about the situation of the second set of monitoring systems, the security personnel will likely report them. Unless, the security personnel are also in on it!

  Shi Ke expressed his own inference, and Bai Qiang sighed: "All the security guards, we have interrogated them separately, no one told Jiang Li or Liu Long the location of the second set of surveillance cameras. Even if Jiang Li or Liu Long knew the location of the second set of surveillance cameras, they didn't have the key to open the bulletproof glass protection box!"

  "What!" Shi Ke pushed his glasses, "Bai Lao Ge, you're saying those items, and the bulletproof glass protection box were locked? How did the thief open it without triggering the alarm?"

  "This is also what puzzles us, the bulletproof glass case has double insurance, the physical key is in the hands of the security team leader, and the electronic password is in the hands of the museum director. Both insurances must be opened together to open the bulletproof glass case. Otherwise, it will trigger the alarm system! But that thief seemed to know all this and didn't trigger the alarm." White Qiang said with a frown.

  Shi Ke recorded it on the white paper, then continued to ask: "Old Bai, the third set of ultra-secret surveillance system, where is the original video? Was the thief's lock-picking process captured?"

  Bai Qiang shook his head, "Shi, the unlock position of the bulletproof glass safe is at the bottom, the secret camera can't see it at all. It only captured that thief squatting on the ground, quickly opening the bulletproof glass safe and stealing things!"

  "Didn't the scene leave even a tiny bit of evidence? Like shoe prints? Hair? Clothing fibers? Fingerprints?" Shi Lei asked, somewhat frantically.

  "Nothing at all!" Bai Qiang said speechlessly, "That's why we need Shi Lao to lend a hand and help us deal with that blurry video screenshot to determine the facial features of the criminal!"

  He patted his forehead, Shi Kui had a speechless feeling, this is the police, the efficiency is too low, after talking for half a day, there are no clues at all!

  "It seems that's the only way to go! However, Old White, it's not that I'm shirking responsibility, but this laptop's performance is really terrible, I have the heart but not the power!" Shi Lei spread his hands, indicating he was helpless.

  Bai Qiang smiled and said: "Shi younger brother, follow me, I'll take you to the technical department, they have the computer you need!"

  Shi Ke glanced at Ouyang Xiang, seeing the pleading in her eyes, and finally nodded, picking up the files and notebook, following after her.

  Ouyang Xiang smiled and followed behind Shi Ke, "Shi Ke, as long as you catch that thief, I'll treat you to dinner tonight, and I'll personally cook for you!"

  Shi Ke turned his head excitedly and looked at Ouyang Xiang: "Really?"

  "Of course!" Ouyang Xiang raised her head and looked at Shi Lei with a heroic and refreshing expression.

  "Deal!" Shi Ke hugged his notebook and scrolls, humming: "Damn thief, let me take a look, who are you after all!"