Chapter Thirty-One: The Mysterious Bald Man

  A figure appeared clearly in Qin Zhong's DV, this figure made him recall the Japanese descendant that the female ghost mentioned. From his attire, he looked like a Japanese ninja, but on top of his head, there was no black headscarf, instead, it revealed a shiny bald head.

  Mark and the Korean military gathered around to observe the person's back, but after half a day, they still couldn't think of anything. In the end, Qin Zhong gave up on-site research and prepared to take it back to re-examine all the video images he had accumulated over the past period of time, slowly viewing them one by one from start to finish.

  But what can be said is that the scope of Qinglong Mountain is really not small. Thinking back to when the devils built such a grand underground project here, it's impossible for them to have done it by themselves. That means they must have taken away the hard work and sweat, or even the lives, of many Chinese people.

  Qin Zhong often sighed, after he and Han Jun and others parted ways, sitting alone in the first floor rest room of the archive building, on the table were arranged the videos he had recorded over this period of time, including the surveillance video he had saved earlier. After organizing all the videos into his U-disk, he was suddenly confused by the size of the file. All the videos added up to more than 200 hours, which would take at least a few days to watch bit by bit.

  Just as he was worrying, there was a knock on the window of the rest room.

  "Who?"

  "It's me!"

  "This voice was all too familiar to Meng Na: 'Meng Na, the door isn't locked, come on in!'"

  Creak, the window was opened, and this wild girl actually jumped in through the window: "You're really not interesting, I originally wanted to give you a surprise, but you guessed it all at once."

  "There is a door here, why don't you leave?"

  Meng Na shook Qin Zhong's arm: "I hate it, I just want to take a big detour and wait a few more minutes before seeing you, don't know if I miss you?"

  "Alright, got it. We've met this time, nothing else to do, hurry back."

  "Hmph, don't get angry just because you can't handle a bunch of videos yourself."

  Qin Zhong was taken aback for a moment, thinking that he indeed had been feeling anxious and upset which led to his behavior with Meng Na. He paused for a moment, and a faint smile appeared on his face: "Actually, you don't have to leave if you don't want to. Help me take a look at these videos and see if there's anything useful."

  "This is about right, let's start looking." Meng Na leaned in front of Qin Zhong.

  Qin Zhong was cautious, closing the window tightly and pulling up the curtains: "Go lock the door."

  "Ah!" Mona didn't know what Qin Zhong was going to do, but suddenly her heart started racing wildly, the blood in her body surged to her brain, and her face flushed pink.

  Looking at Meng Na's appearance, of course, I knew what this silly girl was thinking: "Don't think too much, I'm just being cautious, in case someone is peeking from outside."

  "Oh, okay, be careful!" Mona still locked the door with a bit of tension.

  Qin Zhong sat on the sofa, grabbed Meng Na's wrist and pulled her close: "Come, let's watch these videos. We're using a computer now. I'll start fast-forwarding soon. From the beginning, pay attention and don't speak randomly. Be careful what you say, walls have ears. Got it?"

  Mona nodded.

  "Also, help me take a closer look at these videos and see if there's anyone or anything suspicious."

  Two people started the massive video review project, and in the first fast-forward session, they didn't find anything unusual. The people involved were all familiar to them, including videos from the archives and recent ones, except for Qin Zhong, Fang Shu, that seemingly crazy old man, and occasionally Daxia would appear in the videos.

  After two times, there was no sign of that bald-headed man entering the 137th cave in DV, which made Qin Zhong and Meng Na both worried.

  "This doesn't make any sense at all, they're all familiar people, how could it be them doing something in the cave? Could these people possibly harm us?" Mona pouted.

  Qin Zhong lowered his voice and motioned to Meng Na to lower hers as well: "Let's think about it, what if the person who wants to harm us is among these people?"

  "How is that possible? At that time, weren't we all in the cave, and it's not like one of us would want to harm ourselves?" Mona's analysis was not entirely wrong.

  Qin Zhong nodded in agreement and added, "In addition to these people, there were three others who appeared in the video: Lao Gui, Fang Shu, and that mysterious bald man."

  When he mentioned the bald man, Mona suddenly turned pale: "Right, and there are three people. Your meaning is that this person may be Fang Shu, or Lao Gui, or someone else."

  Qin Zhong nodded, he thought for a moment: "I have to go through those videos again. If this person has been eyeing us for a long time, then we need to start from the earlier videos and see who is the most suspicious. And this person must be familiar with the entire archive, which means that this person must be an old-timer in the archive. Wait for me."

  Qin Zhong seemed to have found his direction, with a joyful and refreshing feeling like a fish in water. He suddenly rushed into the first-floor rest room, went to the monitoring room to lock down the video time before and after the notification of demolition, and also went to the second-floor archive room to start searching for the files of people who worked in the archives that he could remember. After everything was ready, he locked the door and was about to go downstairs when he suddenly heard a dull noise coming from the direction of the first-floor rest room.

  His first instinct told him that something was not right, and it wasn't just not right, but also a bit too much at this time. His feet moved swiftly, taking two steps at once, flying down the long staircase, and when he turned around, he saw that the window on the first floor corridor was open, and because of the wind in the corridor, the curtains on the windows were blowing wildly.

  "Mona!" Qin Zhong shouted, he cautiously looked around the rest room and then stuck his head out of the window on the first floor corridor: "Baldy!" He wanted to chase after him, but it was too late. The bald man had gotten into a black Mercedes-Benz Jeep and sped away, with the license plate number already covered up.

  Qin Zhong clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "Bastard!" He immediately returned to the rest room, saw Meng Na collapse on the sofa, apparently knocked unconscious. He quickly pinched her Yintang acupoint with his thumb nail, and soon Meng Na came to.

  "Treasure!" Mona cried out as soon as she woke up.

  Qin Zhong turned around and looked at the tea table, but the original tapes of those videos he took out were gone. He curled his lip in a smile: "So simple yet so alert." He fished out another U-disk from his pocket and showed it to Meng Na: "Look, there's still a backup here. Taking away the original tapes was useless. But this son of a bitch really has money to burn, can afford to drive a stupid Jeep. It seems we also need to prepare a high-speed off-road vehicle as soon as possible, specifically for chasing down such despicable people."

  "Right, catch up with him and give him a good thrashing! Ahh!" Mona was just about to get excited when the pain in her neck stopped her.

  Qin Zhong put all the files and the video that had just been flipped back onto the coffee table: "This time we really have a backup, come help me, use your mobile phone camera to take pictures of all the files page by page, I'll go export the video."

  Meng Na gritted her teeth: "To avenge this punch, I must catch that person."

  Two people worked hard for a day and night, finally sorting out all the files. After that, they imported a large number of videos into the U disk. Then, Qin Zhong locked the door and sent the files and surveillance tapes to the safe.

  That night, he let Mona return to the church and hid in the house to study the video. He wrote down every person who appeared in the video on a notebook with a pen, then annotated them according to his understanding of the file and his personal knowledge of that person, excluding those who were impossible. Then, he cut out the corresponding videos, and after several rounds, a large portion of the videos had been reduced by half. The remaining ones were just the last night of Lao Geng and the DV video in Han Jun's home, which had not been reduced.

  Qin Zhong leaned on his chin with one hand, pondering. It seemed that these two videos were worth watching carefully. He recalled the scene he saw when Old Geng left that day, and wondered what was in the video. When he opened the video and watched halfway through, Qin Zhong froze.