Chapter 3 Bail
“You bastards and brats are not making things easier for me day by day. You can get into trouble just by having a shabby job like standing guard on the street. I’m warning you, you’ll stay away from us in the future. Stay away from Milo, don’t bring him around to get into trouble!”
At night, on the wet urban avenue, a burly middle-aged man wearing a windbreaker trotted along.
Following behind him was Yan, who had been scolded all the way.
After nightfall, Nanwei City was filled with heavy fog, and the two of them were covered with condensed water drops, making them look like drowned rats.
"Uncle Kang, you really can't blame me this time. The law enforcement officers were on duty this morning, and our guards were called over to inspect the scene. Who knows what kind of mistake your little Milo had to break into the crime scene? Go, I don’t know what I said but I was pushed into the law enforcement station. It’s really none of my business.”
Yan shook his wet gray hair, his face full of pain. expression.
He has been restless all day today, and he can't figure out why the murder case is so similar to Milo's dream, but this kind of thing can only be attributed to coincidence, and there is no way to explain it clearly. .
"Shut up. I don't know what that brat's temperament is. He doesn't have any skills. It's you, the little bastard, who is supposed to come up with some weird ideas for him. I'm working so hard in the alchemy workshop. I have to come here to wipe your butts after work, damn it!"
Uncle Kang had a cigarette in his mouth and wiped the dew from his bare head, his face full of bad luck.
An old man and a young man rushed to the law enforcement station, swearing all the way.
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Law enforcement hall.
After completing their real-name registration, Uncle Kang and Yan entered the gate and saw a large group of heavily armed law enforcement officers rushing out. The leader shouted something, "Clog every road leading to the church." Give me a quick check”.
The two of them made way for these anxious law enforcement officers. After they all left, they came to the center of the hall and expressed their intention to the law enforcement officers on duty:
"That's right, we are here to bail out a person. His name is Milo, Milo Varrokan. He was arrested by you this morning."
...
" Val Rocan?”
A civilian law enforcement officer wearing a shirt, vest and glasses raised his eyelids and glanced at the two wet men in front of him from above the glasses frame, and then He turned his head and glanced at the two black footprints made by the two people in the clean hall, and frowned:
"The Varrocan family in the royal city?"
"Ah no, no, no, it's just a coincidence that we have the same surname, not the famous Varrokan. We are just ordinary citizens and can't compete with those big families..." Uncle Kang smiled unnaturally and waved his hands repeatedly.
"Milo Varrokan, right?" The law enforcement officer looked away, completely ignoring what Uncle Kang said and flipping through the documents in his hand.
After adjusting the glasses on the bridge of his nose, he shook his head:
"You go back, he is now listed as an important suspect by his superiors, and bail is impossible."
"How...how could this happen?" Uncle Kang's rough face suddenly twitched.
Yan moved forward to take a look at the document in the hands of the law enforcement officer: "Impossible, there must be some misunderstanding. Sir, Milo is a prison guard like me, how can he be a suspect?"
The law enforcement officer slammed the document in his hand upside down on the table and glanced coldly at Yan's uniform: "Guards can't commit crimes?"
"Uh..." Yan was retorted. I was speechless for a while, but I still resisted the urge to curse, and forced out a smile in a good voice: "Oh, what you said is, I just want to ask what happened, nothing else. "
"Yes, our brat has a weird temper. I heard that he broke into the scene of the crime this morning. If he offended any of the leaders in the institute, please take a breath and I'll go and help him. The old man said something nice, right? "
After all, Uncle Kang is an old slippery man who has been in society for many years.
He patted the law enforcement officer's forearm very lightly, which seemed like a very ordinary action. In fact, as he spoke, two large-denomination cash notes were stuffed into the officer's rolled-up shirt cuffs.
Yan stood aside and squinted his eyes, feeling secretly sad: Good guy, two hundred runes were stuffed away before anyone even saw it.
However, the effects of spending money are immediate.
The law enforcement officer adjusted the frame on the bridge of his nose again.
He changed the position of his hands, retracted the forearm holding the money, and his tone was much gentler than before:
"It's not that I won't help you. The Milo you are talking about has offended someone. The case he is involved in is very complicated. Recently, there have been five consecutive serial murders in villages on the outskirts of the city. Adding the one in the morning, this is already the sixth time. I don’t know what the specific situation is. Both the law enforcement agency and the church are watching this case. There is enough pressure from above to solve the case. You should just go back and wait for the news.”
After that, he said. He flipped through the documents in his hand again, stretched out five fingers to Uncle Kang and Yan and said:
"Don't mention bail or not. I just gave you two a rough calculation. Bail The amount is at least this amount, and it’s not something you can take home even if you pay it, you know? That’s all I can say.” “5,000 runes?” Yan was dumbfounded. .
The law enforcement officer looked at Yan with half-squinted eyes: "Add another 0."
"Fuck!"
Yan, who had been holding back for a long time, finally cursed out this curse word.
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…
Two minutes later.
Uncle Kang and Yan were both coaxed out of the law enforcement office on the pretext of obstructing official duties, and squatted on the roadside smoking cigarettes with gloomy expressions on their faces.
"Serial murder? These are all coming from nowhere, I'm really..." Uncle Kang kept patting his forehead with his hand.
“50,000 runes, this can make all the girls in the pirate bar fall asleep, tsk tsk tsk.” Yan blew out a puff of smoke in the air, turned to Uncle Kang and said: “If you ask me to say it, you can take it as it is. There is no such thing as him Son, let’s forget about having another one.”
“Fuck you!”
With Uncle Kang’s curse, Yan and the cigarette in his mouth started to prick together. Got into the standing water on the roadside.
Yan also knew that his old man was extremely annoyed at the moment, so he didn't dare to talk back, so he got up and ran away in despair.
In such a big street, this bald man was left squatting on the edge of the curb and smoking a cigarette:
“50,000 runes...hiss...if you hand over all this, Xiao Ai What should I do with the money for Ma's treatment..."
...
There was a rag on the sidewalk across the street outside the gate of the law enforcement station.
Kneeling on top of the rag was an old woman with a stooped body and a wooden cane.
She is skinny and wearing a dark red cloak, with a hood covering her head. Her face cannot be seen under the hood, only a few strands of pale hair hanging down.
She looked at Kang, who was frowning in the distance, and murmured:
"Disaster... I have seen disaster, and all of you will fall into the abyss..."
…
This is a crazy woman known to everyone in the nearby parish. No one knows when she started to appear in Nanwei City. They only know that she has been wandering aimlessly in various corners of the city on weekdays, saying some things. Nonsense that no one understands.
…
Deep in the law enforcement station, in a small dark room.
The female law enforcement officer who received the news looked at Milo suspiciously: "You have family in this city? Then why can't I find your file?"
"Uh..." Milo was also stunned.
"Your father just came to bail you out." The female law enforcement officer stared at Milo.
Milo understood immediately, but did not explain it: "Do you think my family situation is more important at this moment or finding the whereabouts of little Daisy?"
< br>"You don't need to worry about this. I've already sent someone to look for it. You'd better explain how you knew about the child being sent to the church." The female law enforcement officer crossed her arms and looked at Milo condescendingly. .
Obviously, she didn't take what Milo said before seriously at all.
"If you're not in a hurry, then I'm even less in a hurry."
Milo shrugged. He leaned back on the chair. He wanted to imitate the other person's posture of crossing his chest with his hands, but he tugged on it before reacting. When he came over, his wrists were locked on the table, so he could only give up and try to change the subject:
"Can I make a few requests?"
"We don't provide coffee here." The female law enforcement officer looked coldly.
"No, no, no, I want a map of Nanwei City covering the suburbs. It would be better if I have a pencil." Milo said calmly.
"You might as well just tell me how much sugar you want in your coffee." The female law enforcement officer shook her head.
"Isn't it okay?" Milo shrugged, and then said: "Then let me make a simple one. I want to see what time it is now. Is this okay?"
The other party is very Impatiently, he took out his pocket watch and waved it in front of Milo.
Milo glanced at the hands on the dial of the pocket watch.
At this time——10:13
After confirming this, Milo closed his eyes and stopped talking nonsense.
Perhaps seeing that Milo had no intention of cooperating with the investigation, the female law enforcement officer also slammed the door with a cold face and left.
......
However, this time Milo was in no mood to sleep.
After comparing his eyes, he quickly calculated in his mind.
As seen in the dream, the accidental carriage was not on the road to the church at all, because the road Milo saw in the dream was made of sand, and any road from the city to the church was built by the municipal department. stone road.
And in the vast fog, the direction of the carriage is completely facing away from the Church Bridge in the distance. The top of the bridge that towers through the sea of fog is the most iconic building in Nanwei City, even in In the dream, Milo couldn't admit his mistake.
Those stupid law enforcement officers could not find the accidental carriage on any road from the law enforcement station to the church.
"But without a map, I can't determine the location of the accident..."
Milo frowned.
But one thing he was sure of was that if he wanted to clear his suspicions, the only chance he had now was to find the carriage. If he was lucky, he could follow the clues and find Daisy who had been kidnapped. Otherwise, he would really I can't pick myself clean.
"The foot strength of a carriage...roughly speaking...starting from the law enforcement station..."
Milo calculated secretly in his mind based on the existing conditions, and kept thinking about himself I dare not miss any clues in the pictures I saw in my dreams.
“Okay, it’s basically clear. Now there’s only one information point left.”
……
Bang!
Pop!
While Milo was sorting everything out.
The door of the small black room was kicked open, and then a map of Nanwei City and a pencil were slapped on the table in front of him.
Milo raised his head, just enough to look up at the two peaks.
The female law enforcement officer said fiercely: "You'd better give me some results."
...
Obviously, the law enforcement officer who was out had brought back the news, as Milo said Said that there was no trace of the carriage on any of the paths.
That’s why the female law enforcement officer came to Milo in a hurry with a map and pencil.
She really has no choice but to be a dead horse and a live doctor.
Milo, on the other hand, was very calm.
He picked up the pencil, found the location of the law enforcement office on the map, then looked up and asked: "What time does the carriage leave?"
"9:15." Female law enforcement The officer replied.
At this moment, she still maintains a skeptical attitude towards Milo.
I gave him the map just to see what tricks this guy was trying to do.
But as time passed, her eyes gradually turned from questioning to confusion, and then to surprise.
......
"Then...the time you just showed me was 10:13, minus the time we spent talking nonsense, let's count it as 10:00 sharp."
< br>Milo roughly calculated the time period during which he watched the live broadcast in his dream.
“A 45-minute trip, that’s about this radius distance…”
He muttered, glanced at the map scale, and then directly drew a circle on the map with the law enforcement office as the center.
“Fortunately, Nanwei City is big enough and only takes 45 minutes. If the carriage goes in circles in the city, it is impossible to get out, so there is no possibility of going in circles, only this, this, and this.”
Several points were marked on the huge circle covering the city.
These points are all the intersections of rural roads and circles that run counter to the direction of the church.
……
The extrapolation process is very fast.
The search scope is directly reduced from the original needle in the haystack to four points.
But while the female law enforcement officer was anxiously waiting for Milo to continue narrowing the scope, Milo suddenly raised his head, tapped the map with a pencil, and said with a smile:
"I can mention it now. Are the conditions met? "
"The female law enforcement officer was helpless.
"Take me to the scene."
"Okay!" The other party responded without thinking.
After receiving a straightforward answer, Milo turned his attention to the map again. The pencil in his hand quickly crossed out a few points:
"Remove the path along the water and eliminate the crossing of the village. , and then remove this one with a large flow of people, and this is the only one left."
He pushed the map in front of the female law enforcement officer.
On the map, the intersection between a small road named "Lin Yin Road" and a large circle was circled repeatedly with messy pencil marks.
The female law enforcement officer picked up the map.
She had no idea how Milo determined his position, and looked at Milo again with eyes filled with doubts and a little confusion.
Milo returned the look with absolute certainty and threw away the pencil in his hand:
"So when will we set off?"
(End of this chapter)