Brother Dao Took the Entertainment Industry by Storm, Fans Beg Me Not to Kill Anymore-Chapter 346: Eavesdroppers Outside? Spies Inside!

"Based on what we've seen so far, the person did indeed leave the hotel and then vanished without a trace." After reviewing the surveillance footage, Officer Xiao Li turned to look at Wang Yi. "But this only suggests that your friend encountered some urgent matter after going out and didn't return to the hotel."

It didn't prove Wang Yi's friend was missing, let alone indicate that he might have encountered any danger.

"But his phone has been switched off ever since. Calls don't go through, and messages aren't replied to," Wang Yi immediately explained. "Officer Li, for a normal person facing a genuine emergency, keeping their phone on at all times is the most important thing, right? Portable chargers are everywhere these days. I can't believe someone in an emergency could keep their phone switched off for an entire day."

Moreover, from Wang Yi's impression, Assistant Zhou was someone who placed extreme importance on real-time information. He usually carried five or six portable chargers in his bag alone. Wang Yi truly couldn't believe that any situation, no matter how "urgent," would cause him to keep his phone off for a full day.

After hearing Wang Yi's words, Officer Xiao Li also felt something was off. He then asked the hotel manager, "Are there any other exits or entrances in your establishment?"

"There are a few more. One leads directly to the rear parking lot. Another is our staff's internal passageway. There's also the loading dock for daily fresh produce and supply delivery vehicles..."

The hotel manager explained the situation to Officer Xiao Li very seriously.

"Alright, good. We'll need to check the surveillance footage for all of those as well."

The hotel manager hesitated slightly but nodded. "Okay, but please, everyone, let's move to the security monitoring room."

Thus, the group headed directly towards the monitoring room.

In the lobby, Lao Qi, who had been sitting and looking at his phone, lifted his head.

He unhurriedly put away his phone and prepared to follow.

However, after taking only a few steps, his path was blocked by a cleaning cart pushed by a housekeeping staff member.

"Sorry, sorry."

The cleaner took a step back and apologized to Lao Qi.

Lao Qi gave the cleaning auntie before him an assessing look, a flash of vigilance in his eyes. When he raised his foot again, his steps were no longer directed towards the path the others had taken. Instead, he very naturally skirted around the cleaning cart and arrived at the elevator lobby to wait for the elevator.

Behind him, the cleaning auntie hummed a tune, pushing her cleaning cart away slowly and leisurely.

Lao Qi didn't look back. Once the elevator arrived, he returned to his own floor.

Doing cleaning work this late at night... that definitely wasn't normal...

Lao Qi went straight back to his room.

Just before entering, however, Lao Qi inconspicuously glanced at the surveillance camera in the hallway.

Was someone already watching him earlier, or were there others within the hotel who had been keeping an eye on the police investigation and the movements of others all along?

Lao Qi felt this matter wasn't simple.

And the "Teacher Xiao" who had prompted him to act this way was even more unfathomable.

Lao Qi, who always sought stability, furrowed his brow tightly.

His new boss was a decent person, but sometimes his actions were genuinely peculiar, making his intentions difficult to guess...

Hotel room.

Xiao He was completely unaware of Lao Qi's confusion. However, when a message notification sounded on his phone, he sneezed several times.

"Who's thinking about me? Could it be that kid Zhou Junhao, muttering about me going to rescue him?"

Xiao He sniffled.

"As if I have that kind of ability—"

Then, his fingers hit the enter key, and the computer began reading data.

"This hotel is really interesting. How come I never noticed this before?"

Scrolling through the corresponding WiFi network names and the connected devices listed under them, Xiao He clicked his tongue in amazement.

Aside from the devices connected by the hotel's own smart systems, some rooms here had an average of four or five connected devices attached, while others were rather strange, having a whopping ten-plus connected devices linked at once.

If it were just four or five, Xiao He could understand. After all, actors typically have two phones plus a tablet, which already makes three electronic devices. Adding a few other internet-connected gadgets, breaking through to four or five wouldn't be a problem.

But having over ten connected at once? That's just excessive, right?

The hotel's equipment didn't seem particularly high-end. With you guys doing this, wouldn't it seriously affect network performance?

And such an obvious issue, yet the hotel's own network management and monitoring showed no feedback at all?

Anyone with eyes could see something was wrong with certain rooms! The hidden cameras were practically filming from 360-degree, no-blind-spot angles! If a director were here, they could even cut between "long shots, full shots, medium shots, close-ups, and extreme close-ups" for you, guaranteeing no repeated footage!

Upon discovering this situation, cold sweat broke out on Xiao He's back.

Such a massive loophole—the hotel management couldn't possibly be unaware.

Unless...

To verify his suspicion, Xiao He meticulously examined the entire hotel's situation once more. Sure enough, he only found a few self-installed hidden routers, but their numbers were extremely few. They seemed more like decoys set up to take the fall if exposed—so-called false bait.

Currently, data transmission methods for many hidden recording devices mainly fall into three categories.

The first is directly piggybacking on the hotel's WiFi to achieve remote transmission. This is easily discovered by the hotel, unless the hotel itself is a stakeholder in the operation.

The second is self-installed routers. This method can evade the hotel's original network management monitoring to some extent, but installation is difficult, hardware exposure risk is high, and costs are also high.

The third is the earliest and simplest method: storage card recording. Plug in power and it records, absolutely concealed, leaving no network traces. However, this method cannot obtain real-time data, requires regular maintenance and storage replacement, necessitates repeated returns to the scene, and doesn't allow for immediate screening of useful content.

Clearly, this hotel fell into the first category.

The greatest risk in the first scenario lies with the hotel itself. With devices operating so brazenly here, if anyone claimed the hotel was innocent, Xiao He wouldn't believe it for a second.

Xiao He began sifting through historical traces—

And sure enough, this look confirmed it.

This time, it wasn't just the current rooms with connected devices attached;almost all rooms had had connected devices attached at some point!

It's just that not every guest warranted constant attention. Whether these cameras operated or not was also differentiated based on the guests' own living habits.

For example, that brother who previously hung things on the window, with his messy private life and entanglements with female actors from the production crew—he would definitely be a key "subject of interest," with the cameras basically activated for a period every night.

Or take Xiao He's own room. After checking, Xiao He discovered the connected device had only operated during the early morning hours of the first two days after he checked in.

But clearly, Xiao He's routine with the production team had always been a strict two-point, one-line affair: returning to the hotel meant crashing straight to sleep. There was nothing particularly worth filming. Presumably, the other side also realized that every time they checked on Xiao He, he was sleeping in bed, so they completely shut down the cameras on Xiao He's side.

No wonder Xiao He hadn't noticed. After all, the cameras only showed activity in the middle of the night, when he was either asleep or... asleep.

The only thing Xiao He was grateful for now was that the person behind this would first select targets and then exclude other meaningless individuals, rather than starting off by maniacally indiscriminately filming everyone's bathroom areas.

Fortunately, after these people confirmed Xiao He had no relevant nightlife, they stopped connecting to Xiao He's room. Otherwise, Xiao He's previous use of hacking skills to farm experience from the Qin family would have been exposed.

Of course, if those cameras had dared to activate while Xiao He was awake, he felt his danger-sensing ability should have tingled, allowing him to discover the situation on the spot, rather than only realizing it now, after the fact.

But Xiao He was still scared into a cold sweat.

He stood up and began thoroughly searching the room. Yet, even knowing explicitly that cameras existed, he found nothing.

Finally, Xiao He barely managed to spot a tiny hole at the edge of the window frame's black border—a genuinely minuscule hole. It looked like a missing screw from the renovation installation. Superficially, there was no issue. Its position was also quite high. If Xiao He hadn't dragged a chair over and examined it carefully, he would have completely missed it!

He tapped on this border and discovered that while the window frame border appeared hollow, it actually had other things stuffed inside. The tapping sound was dull and muffled. It was probably using this border to conceal a power cable.

"Damn!"

Xiao He couldn't help but curse.

Forget celebrities doing thorough checks before staying;even he, knowing the truth, had almost failed to find it!

Moreover, this thing usually didn't operate. It emitted no signal fluctuations or heat release. Its location wasn't just exceptionally tricky;it blended seamlessly with the overall decor. Even using some of the detection instruments currently available on the market, it would likely be difficult to discover their traces!

These dirty tricks nowadays are truly impossible to guard against completely. It's not just about 'walls having ears' anymore;it's about 'rooms having eyes'!