Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Is It Man-Made or an Accident? Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Is It Man-Made or an Accident? “Well, it really is broken.” Zhou Rui scratched his head, his expression awkward as he spoke, “I thought since not many people come by here usually, if it’s broken, then it’s broken; I didn’t report it for repairs.”
Shen Zhaozhao: “Even if the surveillance outside the Material Room is broken, surely not all the cameras on this floor are out of order? If the one at the door of the Material Room isn’t working, then check the other cameras to see if anyone has been around here during this period.”
This entire floor is the Student Union’s territory, apart from its members, other people generally don’t come here.
Zhou Rui said, “We could check, but even if we find that someone has been here, we can’t prove that they did it. What if they don’t admit to it…”
Shen Zhaozhao: “There’s no need to prove it; I just want to know who it was.” Even if she found the person, she couldn’t really do anything to them. After all, this was just a prank, and the person could easily claim they were just joking around with her.
She never thought about what she would do after finding out who it was, but she had to know who was messing with her behind her back.
The three of them then went to the office.
On this floor, excluding the ones inside the office, there were a total of three surveillance cameras: one at the stairway entrance, one in the hallway, and another at the corner.
Since the camera in the hallway was broken, only the stairway entrance and the corner were visible.
There weren’t many people who showed up on the footage during this time, aside from Shen Zhaozhao, only one other person passed by.
It was the head of the Cultural Department, Xiao Lin.
“Do you know him?” Qu Xing asked.
Shen Zhaozhao shook her head.
“If you don’t know him, then he probably doesn’t have a reason to do this.”
Shen Zhaozhao and Xiao Lin indeed had nothing to do with each other; they had never even spoken a word to one another, and she couldn’t think of a reason why he would do such a thing.
However, aside from him, no one else had passed by during this period.
Zhou Rui speculated, “Could it be the wind? The lock on the Material Room’s door isn’t that great, so it could have been accidentally shut by the wind.”
“What about the power outage then?”
If it were just the door being locked, it could be an accident, but wasn’t it too much of a coincidence that the Material Room just happened to have a power outage at the same time?
One incident might be a coincidence, but the probability of two incidents being a coincidence together is very small.
On the contrary, the possibility of it being an intentional act was much higher.
“Call him over and ask!” Qu Xing commanded.
“Alright!” Zhou Rui called Xiao Lin, and soon he appeared in the president’s office.
“President, did you want to see me?” Xiao Lin greeted cheerfully as soon as he entered the door.
“Were you at the Material Room today?” Qu Xing looked at him and asked.
Xiao Lin responded, “The Material Room? No, I didn’t go there. But I did pass by the door.”
Zhou Rui hurriedly followed up with a question, “So you’re saying you were the one who locked the Material Room’s door?”
“Oh yes, I saw the door was open, so I just locked it on my way past. What’s the matter?” Xiao Lin asked, a look of confusion on his face.
Shen Zhaozhao stared at him, trying to read something from his face, but he seemed very natural and showed no signs of lying.
“Didn’t you think that there might be someone inside?”
Qu Xing’s question made him pause, and he said, “I saw the lights were off inside, so I thought someone must have forgotten to lock the door after taking something, and just locked it. I didn’t lock someone inside, did I? I really didn’t do it on purpose.”
“Why would you be passing by the Material Room’s door so late?” Qu Xing continued to press.
The Material Room was already the most remote room, next to it was just the hallway, which most people wouldn’t normally go to.