Chapter 1531 — Finding a Clue
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It showed the road after the car had passed through the toll station—footage that ordinarily offered little to go on—yet it was precisely in this segment, recorded by this camera, that Qiu Lingshan spotted something important.
The plate-less Land Rover, after driving some distance past the toll station, pulled over at the roadside, and out of it stepped a masked man whose build matched the suspect's exactly.
"That's him, no mistake!" Qiu Lingshan froze the frame and pointed at the suspect in the picture.
"It must be him. That means this Land Rover is the car the suspect rides in every time," Liu Wangli said. "Let's keep watching and see what he got out to do."
Qiu Lingshan nodded and went on watching the footage. To her surprise, the suspect took a set of license plates out of the trunk and mounted them on the car.
"He actually put a plate on?" Qiu Lingshan was somewhat astonished. Wasn't that a pointless extra step?
"Well, the traffic police are on duty at the city entrance every day, checking vehicles that have no plates," Liu Wangli said. "They must have been afraid of being stopped by the traffic police."
"So that's it!" Qiu Lingshan nodded. "Judging by the image quality, we can't make out the plate number yet. Liu Wangli, copy this footage, and when we get back, hand it to the technical department for plate reconstruction. Get that plate number identified as quickly as possible!"
"Understood!" Liu Wangli nodded and did as he was told.
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Since that afternoon, a blizzard had been howling across Ice Snow Spirit Mountain, snowflakes as big as a palm whirling through the air and beating against Wei Zhao's head and face—yet Wei Zhao did not so much as knit his brows.
He stood facing into the blizzard, because behind him was Feng Xiaoxiao! To keep the wind and snow off her, Wei Zhao had chosen to shield her with his own body.
Once he had found a suitable spot, Wei Zhao closed his eyes and entered the jade pendant space to replenish his energy. He had not eaten a morsel for days, and had been standing there all the while, so the drain on his strength could well be imagined; but with the energy the jade pendant space supplied, Wei Zhao was untroubled.
On the high terrace within the Ice Palace, the Ice Palace Master and Xiaoqing—one in green, one in white, two striking figures—likewise stood amid the blizzard. Unlike Wei Zhao, however, the two seemed wholly untouched by the storm, and in fact quite at ease.
"Aunt Qing, I am beginning to believe what you said. He truly is devoted to his girlfriend," the Ice Palace Master said, gazing at Wei Zhao in the blizzard, and there was feeling in her voice.
"I told you, this man is loyal and true of heart. He would not deceive anyone," Xiaoqing said.