Elly Campbell had just returned ho when she received a call from her bodyguard. Hearing the security personnel ntion on the phone that Leo Hall had visited Helen lendy’s hospital room and left a rather cryptic ssage, her complexion imdiately darkened.
After hanging up, she repeated to Adam Jones what the security guard had told her. She pursed her lips and furrowed her brows, asking:
"What do you think Leo Hall’s words an? Is he warning us?"
She had already suspected that William Hall intended to harm Helen, and now with Leo Hall’s odd reminder, she couldn’t help but be even more suspicious.
Adam Jones, having dealt with all sorts of people in the business world since his teens, had seen it all. Soone like Leo Hall, who was either unable to conceal his intentions or so brazenly transparent with his motives that it was disarming, puzzled Adam.
Looking at Elly Campbell’s furrowed brows, Adam Jones worried that she might aggravate her previous psychological barriers due to the situation with Helen lendy and quickly tried to console her:
"Don’t worry, the bodyguards are standing guard outside. Regardless of what Leo Hall intends to do, he won’t be able to get close to Helen lendy."
He gently patted Elly Campbell’s shoulder, continuing, "I’ll alert Harry about this. Rest assured, Helen lendy will wake up safely."
Elly Campbell nodded with a frown, saying, "Have the surveillance tapes from the hospital parking lot been checked? Could the sabotage on our car been Leo Hall’s doing?"
Adam Jones was about to speak when a video clip ca in on his phone—it was the one he had requested from the hospital.
The surveillance footage focused on the direction of his parking spot, and nothing suspicious near their car was captured.
However, their car tire had indeed been slashed with a sharp object.
"Could it really not be Leo Hall’s doing?"
Watching the surveillance footage, Elly Campbell’s brows tightened even more.
Adam Jones didn’t imdiately answer her but kept re-watching the video clip.
After a long while, he said, "Not necessarily."
"Hm?"
Adam Jones pointed at the tistamp in the top right corner of the surveillance video. "Look at the ti."
Elly Campbell didn’t notice anything wrong initially and looked at Adam Jones, asking, "What’s wrong with the ti?"
"Look again."
Adam Jones pointed out the second counter, and the next second, Elly Campbell noticed the irregularity, "The seconds skipped by 8 seconds."
On the surveillance video, the ti showed 10:30:15, but there was no recording from 16-22 seconds; it jumped straight to 10:30:23.
"This ans eight seconds of the video have been edited out."
The edit in the video was done so seamlessly that no sign of tampering was evident.
Most people watching a video would focus on the content but overlook the tistamp displayed in the top right corner.
If Adam Jones hadn’t been so attentive to notice the 8-second gap, it could have been easily overlooked.
"Who sent you this surveillance footage?"
"I had it sent over from the hospital’s security departnt."
Adam Jones looked at the video as he responded.
The security departnt of the hospital wouldn’t dare to tamper so blatantly in front of him, nor would they have the capability to do so.
This was clear to both Adam Jones and Elly Campbell.
She furrowed her brows, "Soone hacked the hospital’s security system and edited out this segnt of footage."
There was a thoughtful glint in her eyes as she said:
"Could it be Leo Hall?"
If it were him, this seemingly unskilled second son of the Hall Family, known only for his sweet-talking, would be far more inscrutable than they had realized.
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