Chapter 497: Museum Suspicion
Frankly speaking, this is also a coincidence. After all, after Anthony finished talking to Duanmuhuai, he made sure that the process was completed, and then called his department to inform him. Then I happened to learn that a suspected U-level case had been received there and needed to be investigated.
At this time, either the police will find investigators, or the police will do it themselves.
And it just so happened that Anthony himself suddenly had an idea.
That is... He wants to see how Duanmu Huai investigated?
If it were any other investigator, Anthony might not have had this idea, but Duanmuhuai's appearance was so intimidating that Anthony really had to think about it.
It's like someone accidentally falling into the liger mountain at the zoo. If an ordinary person falls in, he will definitely be beaten to death by a tiger or a lion. But Duanmu Huai fell in, and the others wanted to see who could beat the tiger or Duanmu Huai... Now Anthony was a bit like a melon-eater.
Once can be said to be luck, but if you win twice in a row... you can't say Innsmouth is also lucky.
What's more, judging from the current files, it was probably not luck the first time.
In fact, when Anthony invited him, he didn't expect Duanmuhuai to agree. After all, he had just climbed out of Innsmouth not long ago. Although he was tall and thick, he could not hide the delicate girl's heart in the body of a strong man. ? As a police officer, Anthony often sees strange things when handling cases. He has also seen effeminate men with four-pack abs.
What Anthony didn't expect was that Duanmuhuai agreed to his invitation very readily.
Entrust yourself to deliver it to your door. If you don't go, it will be in vain!
To be honest, Duanmu Huai was so straightforward that it actually shocked Anthony. Does this person really have no psychological shadow?
Of course, Anthony is not a nagging person. Now that he has agreed, let’s go on the road together!
That's what he said, but when he waited in the parking lot and looked at his old and small second-hand car, Anthony was also in trouble.
It’s okay to put an ordinary person in this car, but to put him in it…………
Anthony looked at his car and then at Duanmuhuai. On the contrary, the latter did not put him in trouble.
"Don't worry, Chief Anthony, the car to pick me up will be here soon."
"Oh?"
Upon hearing this, Anthony's eyes suddenly lit up and he became interested. He had read Duanmu Huai's file and knew that this rich second generation was somewhat famous in Arkham. Of course, it didn't matter if he was rich or not. As a police officer, he had seen a lot of rich people. What Anthony is even more curious about is, with Duanmu Huai’s size, what kind of car does he ride in! ?
Extended Lincoln? No way. Although the car is long, Duanmuhuai has to lie down to get in. Wouldn't that make it a hearse?
Or a convertible, like a BMW or something?
That's not right. With his width, he would have to occupy several seats on a plane. What kind of convertible can fit him in?
"Oh, here it comes."
Just when Chief Anthony was curious and imagining, Duanmuhuai's voice sounded, which made Anthony quickly come back to his senses, and then looked towards the entrance of the parking lot.
Then——he saw a huge heavy-duty truck dragging a carriage slowly approaching.
“……………………”
Seeing this scene, Anthony's eyes were as big as balls.
It wasn't that he was shocked by the heavy truck, after all, heavy trucks were driven on the road every day, and this one was no different, but the appearance of this heavy truck was really... shocking!
Yes, shocked!
I saw a very scary warhammer and skull logo installed on the front air intake grille in front of the heavy truck. Of course, it would be okay if it was just like this, after all, there are many similar modified cars. There are more games than this HIGH one. But the painting of this car really made Anthony's eyes darken.
The entire heavy truck is pure white, and the front of the truck with a skull inlaid is painted in the shape of a pink bunny. The two headlights are like the big eyes of a little rabbit, with an incisor drawn on the front. It looks so naive, just like a kindergarten school bus!
That's all. The problem is, the body of this car is actually painted with a bunch of portraits of beautiful cartoon girls? !
"???????"
At this moment, Anthony looked at Duanmu Huai with a bunch of question marks in his eyes.
You are a strong man with a height of 2.5 meters. Do you like this?
Of course, that doesn't mean I can't like you, but your appearance, your identity, your net worth...don't you respect yourself? So wild and uninhibited?
Didn’t you look at the parking lot gatekeeper’s eyes?
To be honest, you would be better than just posting a few three-point beauties on the carriage!
Duanmuhuai didn't care at all about Anthony's gaze.
What do people want when driving? What they want is to be noticed!
No matter good or bad, as long as it can attract more followers, black and red are also red!
And he didn't believe it. His modification was so popular, wouldn't his rate of turning heads on the street be 100%?
Maserati can't even compete with me, let me tell you!
Cadillac has to call him brother in front of him!
Anyway, the purpose of driving the car is to show off and attract attention, so the more people watch, doesn’t it mean that you are winning more money?
As for what people think after seeing it... they must think that the painting of their car is extraordinary, high-end and classy, and different from ordinary ordinary people.
What else could you think?
If you don’t believe me, just look at the streets. You can see any Mercedes-Benz, Maserati, Rolls-Royce, or Cadillac. Can they have such a cool paint job as mine?
No? Doesn’t that explain the problem? I am still ashamed to associate with these common people.
Besides, even if it’s a painting, how big an area can a sports car cover and how many two-dimensional paintings can you draw? No matter how heavy a truck is, the top one, the left one, the right one, and the back one can all be directly pasted with posters. Isn't it much better than that stingy little car with all the scratches on it?
At this time, Duanmuhuai had already opened the door of the rear carriage and made a gesture to Anthony.
"Chief Anthony, get in the car and chat?"
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In all conscience, Anthony really didn’t want to get in this car. But there is no other way. We still have to explain the case. We can’t talk about it when we get to the place. So Anthony had no choice but to ask his subordinates to drive and lead the way, and he bit the bullet and got into Duanmuhuai's car...
Fortunately, the interior of the Duanmuhuai carriage is not as weird as the outside. In fact, Duanmu Huai didn't really intend to transform his car into a RV. After all, ordinary RVs require a complete kitchen and bathroom, and if you add a bed, the small space will be filled up. At the beginning, the modification company had the same intention, but Duanmuhuai rejected it.
Just kidding, with his size, he can just turn around in the container. Are you trying to stuff me with so many things because you think my space is too big?
Therefore, the interior of Duanmuhuai's carriage is more like a large living room, mainly composed of sofas, cabinets, a TV, and a small refrigerator. The decoration is also grand and stable. At least it feels very comfortable to sit in it, and there is nothing particularly weird about it.
The premise is not to think about the exterior painting.
So Anthony also sat on the sofa and talked to Duanmu Huai.
This time the case was at the Newburyport Museum. This place mainly collects some works of art. Of course, the value itself is not too high, just average. The museum in Newburyport was having an exhibition recently, and then...a guest disappeared.
Well, that's right. On the surface, this is just a disappearance case of a museum visitor who went missing. At first glance, it doesn't sound like anything special.
So at the beginning, the police investigated it as a normal disappearance case, and of course there were no clues.
However, they did get some information. It seemed that in this museum, people disappeared every now and then, including not only guests, but also museum staff. At this time, the police felt that something was wrong, and they were originally thinking about reporting this matter to the higher authorities, but in the end, this happened.
Just yesterday evening, a security guard who was supposed to be in charge of staying at the museum "missed" again, so he had no choice but to report the matter to Anthony. After all, he was in Newburyport right now and could investigate and deal with the natural environment along the way. better. So Anthony transferred the file from the Newburyport Police Station and hurriedly hit the road with Duanmuhuai.
At present, the number of missing people recorded in the Newburyport police station alone is as high as fifteen, and the time span is within five years - this is quite understandable, after all, it is a museum, and It's not a strange place, how could someone be missing all day long, right?
According to the case file, the first person to disappear from the museum at that time was also a night shift security guard. When I came to take over the shift the next day, I found that the other person was missing, so I reported the incident. Later, the police investigation yielded no results, so it was left behind.
The second disappearance occurred two months later, but this time the missing person was a painter. The museum was being renovated at the time, and the workers worked overtime. Then one of them was responsible for the wall maintenance of an exhibition hall. The result was just a few minutes. By the time his co-workers came to find him, he had disappeared.
At that time, everyone thought he was lazy and went back to rest. Later, he didn't come to work for several days. The company reported the case. Then the police investigated and investigated, and finally found out that the last time everyone saw him was at a museum exhibition. Hall, never seen again after that.
Of course, the police also applied for a search warrant and searched the entire museum, but found nothing.
Next, there were several disappearances in the museum, including museum guests, and even a missing child. According to the file, his mother took him to the museum, and the child was playful and curious. I went to an exhibition hall and didn't come back. Then when my mother went to look for it, she disappeared.
Naturally, my mother made a big fuss in the museum, and the museum knew it was wrong and finally settled the matter by paying my mother a sum of money. As for the little child, he was also alive and dead but his body was not seen.
To put it simply, after looking through a circle of files, Duanmu Huai can be regarded as summarizing the pattern of this case.
The location is within the museum, but the time and location are not fixed. For example, after the painter disappeared, the museum closed the exhibition hall where he disappeared. But later the child disappeared in another exhibition hall, which means it was not the exhibition hall's fault. As for the time, the same goes for it. Leaving aside the night shift security guards and maintenance workers, it is definitely impossible for a mother to bring her children to the museum to choose the closing time.
Well, there is something very strange about this matter, and there is indeed something wrong with it.
"So, the police are now asking you for assistance. Are you willing to accept it?"
After figuring out the entire case, Anthony stared at Duanmuhuai and asked, and Duanmuhuai naturally nodded.
"Of course, I am willing to assist in handling the case."
Although this may seem like nonsense, it still needs to be said.
As I said before, investigators will definitely use some illegal means when conducting investigations. This is actually normal. According to Anthony's experience, if there are several U-level cases in this museum, then the top management of the museum may be some kind of cultist, and those missing people are He was captured by them to do some ritual.
Of course, Anthony would not be able to apply for a search warrant from the court for this kind of thing. It would be strange for any judge to nod when he has nothing to do.
But it's different when investigators go to investigate.
As mentioned before, if a thief goes to someone else's house to steal drugs, and then surrenders because of his conscience, then you can't say that the thief's evidence is illegal...
After a conversation, they also arrived at the entrance of the museum. Anthony and his partner first went to the museum for routine inquiries, while Duanmuhuai asked the maid to park the car on the other side - at least not until the investigation of the case was completed. It would be better if he was seen with the police.
However, just when Duanmuhuai was about to wander around and wait for Anthony's investigation results, an unfamiliar and unfamiliar voice sounded.
"Why are you here?"
"Huh?"
Hearing this voice, Duanmu Huai looked around in surprise. When he finally saw the man standing not far away, he was also stunned.
"Is it you??"
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