Meanwhile, inside her newly renovated suite, Qiao Meixia took a quick, fifteen-minute shower before sitting down at her desk. She unclipped the covert micro-camera and connected it directly to her encrypted laptop via a high-speed data transfer cable.
The recorded media file loaded instantly. Thanks to the ultra-high-definition lens she had installed, the video playback was crystal clear.
The dark sedan had initiated its tailing manoeuvre the second she had halted at a busy downtown traffic light. The vehicle itself was a high-end luxury sedan, a brand far too expensive for ordinary citizens. However, Qiao Meixia's primary objective was to capture the front license plate.
Framing the shot, she isolated the numerical sequence and ran the license plate through her private, black-market database query tool.
