A bystander reporting the incident spoke up: "He moved; I saw him lying on the ground wiggling back and forth like an earthworm."
"I didn't!" Zheng He looked away, continuing to argue.
He had just felt itchy on his back, and the marble was grinding painfully against it, so he rubbed slightly, that's all. How could it be like what that person described, wriggling like an earthworm?
The staff member, who had seen such denials before with participants unaware of their own movements, stated flatly: "We have surveillance cameras here. If you think you didn't move, we can check the footage. If you're wrongly accused, you can continue participating in the event as if nothing happened."
Hearing about the surveillance, Zheng He suddenly felt guilty.
He had assumed there were no cameras.
Without cameras, he could have feigned ignorance, shamelessly denied everything, and perhaps the staff would have turned a blind eye to avoid disrupting the product sales and let him continue.
