In the blink of an eye, a week had passed.
The eight-person video team had combed through over 30,000 hours of surveillance footage, only to catch a fleeting glimpse of the suspect's movements for one second on a distant camera.
Li Xiang discovered the severed finger at 9:40 PM on the 11th, and the surveillance footage from April 10th at 2:20 AM—just a day after the body was disposed of—was found by Li Xiang.
In the footage, under the cloak of night and a sky dotted with stars, a shadowy figure on an e-bike flashes across the screen. Though the scene lasts only a second, the black object hanging from the footrest resembles the woven bag recovered from the river, used to conceal the body.
This coincided with the police's speculation about the suspect's mode of transport. The figure's build also matched the suspect's profile, but due to poor lighting, the video was too blurry to identify the suspect.
