The officer continued, "We received the report and rushed to the welfare institute at once. We pulled the surveillance footage from inside the institute and found that the five children went missing after going to the restroom together. They went in and never came back out."
"Are there any other exits in the restroom?" Liou Wenxin asked.
The officer replied, "The restroom only has a small ventilation window, and it's very high up. A child couldn't reach it, and even a regular adult would struggle to climb that high. People don't just vanish into thin air, so we're all in agreement: an Evolver was involved."
"Additionally, we checked the surveillance footage from the areas surrounding the welfare institute and found no sign of the missing children."
Four days had passed, and the authorities had made no substantive progress on the case.
