Chapter 354 124: Trap
It was already a week later when Campbell was released.
The official gave him a symbolic compensation. It was not much, but it was his monthly salary. In terms of lost wages, it was sufficient.
The premise is that his job is not lost.
Yes, he didn’t know until he came out that he was fired the day after he entered, which was extremely efficient.
In the words of the boss, he believed that he had committed a crime. According to the terms of the contract, he could be fired directly without any compensation.
What a crime!
So as soon as he came out, he had to find a new job and find a lawyer to find a way to get the compensation he deserved from the company.
As for the official, he really didn’t dare to mess with it.
After all, during this period, he also understood that he was arrested because he was involved in the zombie infection incident, and he also signed a confidentiality agreement. He did not dare to go against the authorities in this regard, and he did not have this kind of character. people.
Fortunately, he is different from other Chinese people who are naturally undisciplined. He has a habit of saving at home, and with the compensation and his wife's job, he can support him for a long time, but he is not used to sitting on his hands.
“Forty-five years old. No one of my age is wanted anywhere, except for management, but I have no relevant experience. Can I only be a cleaner?”
At night, in a small restaurant, Campbell drank and complained with two friends.
I hope they can introduce me to a good job.
It’s just two friends who don’t have any good suggestions, let alone any suitable companies or positions, so they can only give him some words of comfort.
Finally, before ten o'clock, he returned home without success and lonely.
“Honey, come here.”
As soon as he opened the door, his wife Dilma stood up from the living room and waved to him nervously.
"Oh, what's wrong?" Campbell took a deep breath, because he didn't drink much, so he didn't feel drunk.
“We’ll talk about it when we get up.”
Dilma took two steps forward to close the door, took his hand, turned off the lights in the living room, and hurriedly walked into the bedroom.
"Did something happen to the child at school?" Campbell thought a lot based on his wife's expression. It shouldn't be particularly bad news, and took the initiative to comfort him, "It's normal for boys to fight and fight. I Just ask him to spend more time with your nephew, whose name is Xavier? He has good studies and personality, and it would be good for the two of them to communicate more, but you don’t want to.”
Campbell was killed before he could finish his words. interrupted.
But Dilma had no intention of arguing with him. She just closed the curtains, then pulled out a suitcase from under the bed, put it on the bed, put her hands on it: "Come and take a look, this suitcase is yours." Do you have any impression? "
"Um, isn't this your suitcase? You know, I don't even travel far, I only have a suitcase I bought for a trip to Sao Paulo a few years ago." Campbell looked at it casually. He opened his eyes, waved his hands, sat aside, and wanted to pour a glass of water.
"So are you sure this is not your suitcase, right?" Dilma grabbed the water glass and asked again solemnly.
Seeing how serious Dilma was, Campbell also noticed something was wrong. He stood up and walked around the small black suitcase a few times.
“This is indeed not mine, and I will not buy this kind of suitcase. Look, it is one size smaller than ordinary suitcases. The workmanship is very exquisite. It is definitely not cheap. I will never buy it. Buy this kind of box." Campbell concluded that it was impossible for him to buy this thing.
If he had bought it, it would certainly not be so small, nor would it need to be so delicate.
Dilma seemed to be relieved, but her expression became more complicated.
"What's wrong? Is there something in this box?" When Campbell saw his wife's expression, it was difficult to judge whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
“I didn’t buy this box.” Dilma sighed, putting her hands on the box, “It just appeared in the kitchen for no reason. I saw it when I came back from get off work today. I thought it was something you bought, but seeing it placed so casually, I opened it and took a look, and the result..."
Click.
The box was opened, and the couple saw stacks of banknotes.
On top is the familiar statue of the Lady of the Republic, and some have their backs turned upward, revealing the stripes of grouper portraits.
All in one hundred reals.
Campbell's throat grumbled, and he quickly covered his head, breathing heavily.
The two of them were silent for a long time, just looking at me and me at you.
"How about calling the police?" Campbell struggled to squeeze out the words from his throat.
But soon, the difficult experiences of the past few days told him that if he could swallow this money, even if it was loaned to the bank to earn interest, he would be able to spend his old age safely and give his children a good life. Start-up capital and let him learn something.
Reason and greed are entangled with each other, as if they form two intertwined poisonous snakes.
It seems that no matter what choice you make, you will regret it extremely in the future.
"Campbell, maybe, maybe we can hide it, use it slowly, don't expose it, just use it a little at a time." Dilma grabbed the suitcase tightly and tried to convince her husband, "I looked at it carefully. There is no serial number inside, and the banknotes are not brand new. As long as we don’t deposit it in the bank and use it slowly, who can trace it?”
< br>"In addition, when we found it, it was placed so neatly and deliberately in the kitchen where I went to the first place when I got home. It was obviously intentional and not hidden in a hurry."
"Could it be that we helped someone in the past, and now that they are prosperous, they choose to repay us in this way?"
Dilma knew that these reasons were far-fetched, and she was also afraid that she would be involved in some gang transactions. But thinking about her family's situation, it seemed that there was nothing worthy of concern. After such a long period of poverty, such a box of money brought her The excitement is unique.
She really didn’t want to miss it.
If it were before he lost his job, Campbell, who had been honest all his life, might have gritted his teeth and called the police, not wanting such a box of money to cause any trouble for his stable future.
But now, after experiencing unemployment, the breathless oppression made him understand that without money, the so-called stability is just a dream bubble, which can be burst by any accident.
"Then." Campbell's hand also pressed up, covering the back of his wife's hand, breathing tremblingly, "Take it."
"As long as my observation period is over, we will move away and live in other cities."
"How about cutting off all previous connections?"
Dilma revealed Smiling with relief, he nodded vigorously: "Okay, let's do it this way. Let's make a clean break with the past and start a new life."
The two were so excited that they stayed up all night, planning what to do with the money. Used, full of longing for a new life. After discussion, they unanimously decided that because of the Rio people's love for the beach, the new home must be in a coastal city, but it cannot be a big city, and it is best to be in a small or medium-sized city with good security.
What they didn't know was that all their discussions were monitored by the task force.
Letting these suspects go back does not mean that they are not suspected, but it just puts the investigation on the dark side, hoping that through this method, people can relax their vigilance and achieve a breakthrough.
So after learning that a box of banknotes had inexplicably appeared in the Campbell family, the task force immediately followed up with all its strength. While arranging several people to continue monitoring, they retrieved hidden videos hidden in and around the Campbell home.
Finally, they found a figure that appeared for a very short time and was wrapped tightly.
Unfortunately, they only appeared for a very short time, and seemed to know the location of the public surveillance, so their idea of following the surveillance to find the other party's location was in vain.
"It can be seen from this aspect that this person is definitely related to this family, but for some unknown reason, he chose to hide himself"
"I suspect that he is also related to the Black Snake Society incident. "
"Tell me, is there a possibility that, just like Dilma's guess, this person has been favored by this family, so he used this method to repay. "
"This does make sense, so after knowing that Black Snake would have a dispute with Campbell, he would directly attack Black Snake, but he did not expect that it would cause trouble to Campbell and make him lose his job. Feeling guilty, he used A sum of money to compensate."
"These actions all reveal a feeling of not being very smart, like something a person with little experience would do."
Carlos's eyes grew brighter as he listened to the discussions among his colleagues.
“Retrieve the surveillance of the fight between Donnie and Campbell that day, and conduct comparison and analysis on the crowd.”
“I remember that Dilma’s information once belonged to the guardian of one of his nephews, check it out The current situation of his nephew. "
The tasks were distributed, and in the era of information technology and AI, the information was quickly sorted out.
“Look at this, on the day of the fight, there was a man wearing sunglasses. His appearance was 90% similar to the man who appeared at Campbell’s house!”
"Commissioner Dilma's nephew, Xavier, turned out to be a passenger on that train!"
Hearing this answer, Canis seemed to have an enlightenment, suddenly clarified the logic, and came up with a thought A timeline that makes sense.
Xavier was infected on the train. No, the infected person should have no real reason, so he is more likely to be one of the planners, a member of the Voodoo Cult, and built the train in compliance with the mission massacre.
After returning to Bello, he might not be worried about his Aunt Dilma, so he followed secretly, only to find that Campbell had provoked the Black Snake Society.
With little social experience, he chose to solve the problem directly. Unexpectedly, this move brought more trouble to Campbell.
So he has settled down in the past few days. Instead of using his infection ability, he has eliminated several gangsters and collected a sum of money. This can be justified. Recently, several gangsters in the city have indeed been eliminated.
Finally, I gave the money to Dilma as a way of repaying her kindness.
"First, if this is the case, why did he choose the source of the infected people on the train to be passengers whose destination is Bello City? Isn't this deliberately causing trouble for his actions?"
"Second, a young man who values feelings so much has created feelings for thousands of people. I'm not a psychologist, and I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think it's a bit far-fetched."
After listening to Kanis's analysis, Ito Chenggang thought it made sense, Xavier said. It should also have something to do with Voodoo, but it still pointed out two unreasonable points.
"The first one, maybe this is the internal strife within the voodoo sect, or maybe he is an outcast. The second point is that there are many similar people in the criminal cases I have handled, who like girls, flowers, and dolls. So he tore off the skin of the little girl and made it into a doll; because he was grateful for the help of others, he took the entire supermarket hostage with guns after the other person was imprisoned; for the sake of his family's wealth, he took on the assassination mission"
Kanis recounted the cases he had experienced in the police station one by one.
But he also has to admit that these extreme guys are just isolated cases.
Ito Chenggang nodded, looking at the photo of Xavier with a bright smile on the computer, lost in thought.
He has seen this young man before.
On the train, he was the first person to offer a helping hand. Ito even remembered his nervous, immature but courageous face.
The two also had a brief exchange, and it was precisely because of this exchange that he felt that the other person was very similar to himself.
That silly boy who risked everything to be a hero had a strong sense of justice.
Stupid and naive, sooner or later you will regret it because of this character.
But precisely because of this, it is impossible to infect the entire train.
But then again, there are no absolutes in the world. Maybe the other person is a talented actor who likes excitement and even plays an ordinary person in front of himself.
"You should know that there has been a special kind of resurrected corpse among those resurrected corpses, temporarily named spiritual zombies. Is it possible to go one step further and have reanimated corpses that are similar to ordinary people?" Ito asked.
"You mean, you suspect that Xavier is an infected person and only retained his consciousness and memory for special reasons?" Canis couldn't make a judgment, "Our research on the resurrected corpse is still too shallow. , I don’t know about this, maybe Pastor Brand will know something?”
Brand has also arrived in Bello City three days after sealing off the resurrected corpses in that area.
However, he usually either patrols the city or prays in the church, and basically does not participate in the investigation of related cases.
After Ito conducted his own investigation, he determined that he did not have the talent or ability in this area, so he chose the strategy of focusing on Canis and him as a supplement in the investigation.
Some clues have indeed been found these days. For example, some clues about the demise of several gangs have been concluded to be related to Chaofan.
“In any case, the Campbell family is a very good breakthrough, but it cannot be delayed for a long time. Xavier chose to give such a sum of money, maybe he has already planned to leave, and we want to use it by then. No matter what articles the Campbell family writes, it will be difficult to get timely feedback."
Kanis analyzed.
"Summoning Campbell again? This will at least attract Xavier's attention and prevent him from leaving easily." Ito expressed his thoughts.
"It's feasible, but we need to consider it in more detail. For example, you or Pastor Brand can go there to make him feel that the situation is serious and that he is more likely to be exposed." Kanis added.
"Okay, let's go to the priest, he may be able to find something."
Ito himself didn't notice it, he subconsciously didn't want to face Xavier.
(End of this chapter)