White looked up.
Her voice was not strong, yet very clear:
“Milio, can you wait another hour?
We will ask the IT team to narrow down the suspect as quickly as possible.
In the meantime, everyone can rest and order food or drinks.
We really need your cooperation to solve this case.”
Milio nodded at once, without the slightest hesitation:
“All right.
I want to find him too.
Drag him into court and see him receive the heaviest sentence.”
Mariana knocked lightly on the glass door of the reception room.
The dry sound cut through the heavy silence.
Knight, sitting nearest the door, stood up and opened it immediately.
“Investigation team, step outside for a moment.
I have something to say.”
White, Knight, Thomas and Mariana walked out into the cold corridor, leaving Jay with Mark’s three friends in the reception room.
The door closed behind them with a soft click, cutting off every sound from inside.
Mariana took the lead, her voice low but decisive:
“We’ve already collected a large amount of camera footage from around the university.”
She turned toward Jay, who remained behind the glass door.
“Jay, you stay with those three.
Thomas is the CCTV lead, so he should go to the CCTV room.”
Thomas shrugged.
Behind his glasses his blue eyes showed resignation mixed with fatigue.
“Looks like my eyes are going to hurt.”
Jay crossed his arms, his tone half-joking, half-complaining:
“Am I the babysitter now?”
Mariana did not answer.
She only signalled with her eyes, then turned and walked toward the elevator.
The sound of her heels echoed evenly across the cold stone floor.
“Let’s go.
I’ll take you two up to the computer room to extract the cameras around the University of Technology.”
Knight nodded lightly.
A half-smile flickered briefly.
“Lead the way, Miss.”
The four of them left Jay behind.
The elevator doors opened with a soft ding and swallowed them into the closed space.
As the elevator rose, White’s eyes never left her smartphone.
The pale blue light from the screen fell across her face cold and concentrated.