10: Chapter 10 Who Exactly Was It That Night 10: Chapter 10 Who Exactly Was It That Night Emily Parker was moved in her heart.
After her mother’s death, the only person who genuinely cared about her in this world was Evelyn Hanson.
“I spent some money and got the security staff here on board.
They agreed to let me check the surveillance footage, just tell me the specific time.”
Evelyn Hanson was checking the surveillance footage as she spoke to Emily Parker.
“I saw you enter the projection room, and you were the only one in there.
Wait a bit longer, that man must have come in halfway through.”
While Evelyn Hanson was talking, she suddenly exclaimed,
“Why is the screen black?”
“Miss, the surveillance in this projection room malfunctioned, the latter part of the footage is gone.”
“Don’t you have a backup?”
“Now that you mention it, I remember our cinema’s surveillance had a two-hour glitch that day.”
“Then why did you take my three thousand yuan?
If I don’t get the footage, you have to refund my money…”
On the other end, Evelyn Hanson and the cinema’s security started arguing.
Emily Parker hung up the phone and started pondering deeply.
“How could it be such a coincidence that just those two hours of surveillance are missing, is it really just chance?”
Emily Parker was fairly certain that the person that day was Carlos, but she didn’t want to confirm any video.
After all, based on her memory, it was unclear in that “dream” who took advantage of whom.
But learning that the surveillance had been deleted, Emily Parker changed her mind.
To her knowledge, most surveillance are now backed up on cloud storage online, and even if someone deliberately deleted the footage, a skilled hacker could access the cloud storage and retrieve the backup.
She did want to see why the other party had deleted the surveillance.
Seeing that Emily Parker was busy making phone calls and ignoring him, Adam Willow, holding a box of protein powder, didn’t know whether to stay or leave.
Just before heading to work, Adam Willow sighed and had to leave first.
He felt that Emily Parker had been acting oddly these past few days.
He had always found Emily Parker very well-behaved, but in the last two days, she seemed like a wild cat with its hackles raised, leaving him unsure how to handle her.
On his way back, Sophie Parker saw Adam Willow and hurried over.
“Are you getting accustomed to your volunteer work?”
Adam Willow felt a bit better seeing Sophie Parker’s lively spirit.
“It’s very good, I’m happy to help those patients.
Why are you holding nutrition supplements, are you not feeling well?”
Sophie Parker noticed the protein powder in Adam Willow’s hands.
“It’s from Emily, she said it’s for my mom.”
Hearing that it was from Emily, Sophie Parker thought to herself, Emily indeed still liked Adam Willow very much; she acted temperamental at noon, and by afternoon, she was sending nutrition supplements to Mother Willow, trying to win her favor.
As if she, with her meager salary, could compete with her.
“Oh, I remember now, my family has a lot of this protein powder, they were gifts for my dad, and he can’t finish them all.
I’ll bring some for your mother tomorrow.
You should know, my dad is a high-ranking official in the Health Department, he really admires promising young doctors like you.”
Adam Willow was about to refuse, but after hearing Sophie Parker’s words, the refusal that reached his lips was swallowed back.
Because of being adopted, Emily rarely mentioned her family around him, he guessed when he met Sophie Parker that her family was well-off, but he never expected Sophie Parker’s dad to be a senior official in the Health Department.
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“How about this, I visit your family this weekend and pay respect to your dad?
I have known Emily for many years but never met your parents.
Plus, I just so happen to have work-related matters I’d like to consult your dad about.”
Adam Willow said offhandedly.
Sophie Parker naturally agreed without hesitation.
In the evening, at the Carter Clan Group.
The air conditioning in the office was very strong, yet Secretary Oliver Ross’s forehead was dripping with unstoppable cold sweat.
“You’re saying the surveillance footage is gone?”
“Boss, the security at the movie theater said there was a problem with the surveillance on Valentine’s Day night.
It was probably down for about two hours, and as it happens, you entered the theater during those two hours.”
It was only now that Oliver Ross realized that on Valentine’s Day night, the boss had indeed been to the movie theater mentioned in the magazine.
That day, a movie invested by Carter Entertainment was having a private screening, and Carlos, as the general manager, received an invitation too.
Just that for some reason, Carlos didn’t show up in the screening room until the screening was over.
And after that, Carlos gained an extra “child.”
“Get all those programmers from the network technology department over here, and have them hack into the movie theater’s cloud storage.”
Carlos gathered a group of Carter Clan’s programmers.
So what if the surveillance was deleted?
As long as there was a backup in the cloud storage, it would be fine.
That woman who dared covet his “seed,” even if she hid in the tiniest crack, he would drag her out.
“General Manager, we’ve successfully penetrated the system.”
But before anyone could be pleased for even half a second, the dozen or so programmers all wore shocked expressions.
“General Manager, the backups on the cloud have also been deleted by someone, just a minute ago.”
“Somebody beat you to it?”
Carlos walked over to the computers of several programmers.
“You never learned how to restore data?”
“General Manager, the other party used a very powerful virus, our computers are infected now.”
As soon as the programmers finished speaking, their computers went dark all at once.
“A bunch of useless people, you’re not getting this month’s bonus, get out.”
The programmers and Oliver Ross didn’t dare to linger, clutching their broken computers as they hastily retreated.
Carlos tugged at his tie, turned on his computer, and cursed.
“What a bother, now I have to do it myself.
It’s been years since I last did this, my skills must have gotten rusty.”
Soon, Carlos’s slender fingers swiftly tapped a few keys on the keyboard.
Within half a minute, he had entered the private movie theater’s network, and in a few more seconds, he found the cloud storage for the surveillance.
As he accessed the cloud, Carlos’s computer was attacked by a Trojan.
He casually pressed a few keys, and a minute later, he had completely eliminated the Trojan from his system.
Carlos’s lips curled into a pleasing curve, and another minute passed.
He had restored the deleted records on the cloud storage.
A video segment appeared before Carlos’s eyes, and he narrowed them.
This time, he was determined to find out who exactly was that woman who kept appearing in his dreams for the past month, causing him to wake up every morning only to lose his sheets!
Two hours later, Carlos’s handsome face was flushed red with anger!
He grabbed the ashtray from the table and hurled it directly at the computer screen.
“How dare they play me !”
This wasn’t any surveillance footage from a private movie theater, but a lengthy, overly intimate love scene between two men!
The other party must have hired a top-level hacker.
It wasn’t enough to plant a Trojan virus; they even left behind such a painful-to-watch clip, forcing Carlos, worried about missing any important clues, to hold his nose and watch it till the end.
In a cramped room, Emily Parker faced an old black laptop that bore no logos.
She rubbed her sore fingers.
“Finally shook off those programmers.
Who exactly are they, acting so quickly to think of the cloud storage, even sending a group of technically proficient hackers.
Especially that last programmer, very skilled, a top-level hacker, I was almost tracked down.”
Emily Parker took a deep breath and opened the intercepted surveillance footage.
On the monitor, the silhouettes of two individuals appeared…