Why Are There So Many Surveillance Cameras in China?
This is how I raise my child:Never go anywhere secluded with anyone you don’t share an unbreakable, life-or-death trust with.
If someone tells you to meet in the woods behind school — don’t go.If they ask you to go to the playground at night — don’t go.If they want you on the rooftop — don’t go.If they invite you to a hotel room — don’t go.Even if they tell you to hang out in the tall grass in the neighborhood park — still don’t go.
If there’s a well hidden in that grass, and that person shoves you in when you’re not looking,you won’t be saved in time — unless you’re the main character in a movie.And unless a security camera catches it, no one will ever be able to prove it was murder.
The idea that the world is perfectly safe is an illusion.The truth is, **only crowded places are relatively safe.**The fewer people around, the more dangerous it is.Any uninhabited area is extremely dangerous.
Even if it seems close to people.Take a building rooftop, for example — it’s right above crowds, yet almost no one ever goes up there.In the Elisa Lam case, her body was dumped in a rooftop water tank and left to drown.Police found nothing for weeks. Guests only noticed when the water started smelling rotten.
When I was in middle school, there was a deserted hill behind our campus full of robbed-open graves.A student once went missing. Teachers, parents, and villagers searched for a full week.They finally found his body in one of those open graves, filled with over a meter of rainwater.The autopsy said he drowned.
But how did he get there?Did he wander there alone and fall in?Or did he go with someone who pushed him?Unless the person responsible turns themselves in, no one will ever know.
Real life doesn’t have genius detectives like Conan.Most police prefer not to stir up more trouble than necessary.Without solid proof of foul play, what’s the point of opening a murder case?That’s why many killings with no evidence are simply ruled accidents and left unsolved.
On the outskirts of Yulin, there used to be vast desert.Cars would often go there late at night — for what?A classmate of mine got into trouble at an internet cafe and was nearly buried alive out there.By a stroke of luck, a relative saw him being taken away, sensed danger, followed by taxi, and saved him.By the time police arrived, the grave was already dug.
If that relative hadn’t followed, he would’ve been buried and gone forever.In the middle of the desert, unless the killers talk, no one would ever find him.You really think police can dig up an entire desert looking for one body?
It doesn’t even take a desert. In the famous playground burial case, no one dug up the ground for years.It only came to light by chance during an unrelated investigation.
If someone really wanted to get away with murder, they could just take you to Lop Nur.Killing someone there is frighteningly easy.Sabotage their car, leave them stranded alone, and they’re as good as dead.By the time family reports them missing and rescue teams arrive, they’ll already be mummified.
If you don’t want to plan it, just knock them out with a single blow and bury them on the spot.Who would ever find the body?Just say they went off to find water or wandered away.Who can dig through the entire Lop Nur?Who can guarantee finding a missing person there?Without clear evidence, they just become another missing person case.
From my own experience, the only way to stay relatively safe is to stay where there are security cameras.
If you like wandering into empty, isolated places just for fun, dying is shockingly easy.Even after you’re gone, no one will know if you were murdered or just reckless.Why would two vehicles break down at the same time?Why would anyone mix up gasoline and diesel — they smell nothing alike?No one will ever know, and no one will really care. Most people just want to avoid trouble.
When someone dies, as long as the people involved give matching stories and there’s no proof of murder,police won’t go out of their way to investigate further.