Chapter 3020: The green trees are dense and the summer is long (twenty-eight)
Chapter 2994 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (twenty-eight)
The car drove for a long time, and Wanda felt that the driver was making many twists and turns, taking her to a very remote place. If she were from Gotham, she could use magic to detect where she was, but she was actually an outsider.
So even if she can use magic, she doesn't know where this is.
However, after Wanda completely integrated into the Crimson Power for the first time, she actually became one with the Crimson Power. Just like Barbatos, Wanda was the power itself, and she did not need to actively use magic to detect anything.
, but as long as this power spreads, she will be everywhere. Now her human form is just a part of the ubiquitous crimson power, and her body will not trap her consciousness.
Wanda did not let the crimson power spread too far, and it spread around the car for several kilometers. Although she did not know the specific location, after the car drove through a road, she found a large forest on one side of the driveway.
This proves that this is definitely not an urban area, but should be close to the suburbs, and most suburbs of Gotham do not have so many trees. Wanda thought, this should be a very special place, and the forest is an important clue to determine its location.
Soon the car stopped, and Wanda discovered that this place turned out to be a crematorium. Now she was really surprised.
The United States has a vast land and a small population, so although there is no particular emphasis on burial, most people can afford a cemetery. Many communities also provide public cemetery, and paying respects and appearance are an indispensable part of the funeral. Most people will choose
Buried in a coffin.
However, because the East Coast is close to the sea, many people choose to be buried at sea, that is, scattering the ashes into the sea. In this case, the remains need to be burned. In addition, Gotham was relatively chaotic a few years ago, and gang fires often occurred and corpses were left behind.
This kind of corpse is usually burned, which is more cost-effective.
What surprised Wanda was not that this was a crematorium, but that this crematorium was very new. It didn't look like an old building at first glance, but most of the crematoriums that can be seen in the United States are a few years old.
of.
This is also understandable. The population of the United States has always been stable, and the mainland has not experienced a devastating war. Most of the buildings related to population were built when the country was founded. The population has not grown explosively, and there is no need to build new buildings or tinker with them.
As long as it works.
This is especially true for buildings like crematoriums. Gotham's population was already of this size decades ago, and the number of people using crematoriums has remained unchanged for decades. There is no need to build new ones. No matter how much money the city government has
I won't cover this thing even if it's too hot.
Moreover, in American religious culture, cemeteries are known as the closest places to heaven. Having a cemetery around a house will increase land prices, but the crematorium is different. In Christian culture, hell is a space full of fire. People
I don't have a good impression of the crematorium.
If a crematorium is to be built in a place, it must be signed by all residents of the community. If one person does not sign, it will be difficult to build it. How did this seemingly new crematorium come to be completed?
The Scarlet Witch's eyes lit up slightly with a red light. Her intuition told her that this was not a good place and was full of ominous atmosphere. However, she could not tell where the blame lay, so she could only gather her strength and prepare herself.
The light in the raven's eyes went out, and she showed a somewhat confused expression. Dick, who was looking at the surveillance camera, looked back at her and said, "What's wrong? Is there anything abnormal?"
"There is a car... the car in the crematorium on the east side. The clone I arranged at the hotel opposite the crematorium to watch the street saw this car drive to the side door. Is this normal?"
"Is there a body that needs to be cremated?"
"But you should go through the front door." Raven said: "In recent days, the corpses brought for cremation always go through the front door. The coffin will be carried out in front of the door. Why does this car go to the side door?"
"Could it be a private car?" Dick began to search for surveillance cameras. He said, "Did you see the license plate number?"
"No, but you only need to adjust the surveillance on that street to see it. I have already sent someone there."
Dick was operating on the computer. After a while, a black car appeared on the screen. He watched the car slowly drive through the street, turned a corner, and went around to the back of the crematorium. But that car
There was no surveillance nearby, so it was unclear how many people were in the car and whether there was a coffin.
"I'm trying to go in." The purple magic light in the raven's eyes flickered on and off, and two figures sneakily approached the crematorium, but soon, one of them was discovered by the security guard of the crematorium.
"Something's wrong." Raven frowned deeply and said, "These two clones are agents. How come this security guard..."
Suddenly she gasped, grabbed Dick's arm and said, "This security guard has a gun!"
Dick held her hand and said, "Calm down. It's normal for security guards in places like this to have guns. Maybe it's to prevent someone from causing trouble..."
"No, it's not a rifle you can buy in a gun store!" Raven said, "A pistol! And it has a silencer!"
Dick stood up suddenly.
Although it is not difficult to buy a gun in the United States, and the gun control in New Jersey is not strict, it is for rifles, shotguns and the like that are very easy to detect and are easy to hide. The control of handguns that can be used for assassination is still relatively strict.
Silencers are not allowed to be sold to private individuals, and even the police cannot get them.
This proves in reverse that once someone has a silencer in his hand, he must want to do bad things, because if the benefits he can get from this silencer are not big enough, he will not go to the trouble to get it.
There may not be one innocent person among a hundred.
It's normal for a security guard to hold a gun, but it's not normal to hold a pistol with a silencer. Dick grabbed Raven's arm, told her to calm down, and then said: "Get your people to stay away."
"It may be too late." Raven bit her lip and said, "I didn't know there was a problem with this crematorium. If they are doing something shady now, I must have alerted the snake."
"Don't worry." Dick's mood has always been stable. He kept stroking Raven's back to relieve her anxiety, and then said: "If they are really doing something shady, especially related to personal abuse, you
If you disturb them, you may save people."
"But will they jump over the wall in a hurry..."
"You said there is a hotel opposite the crematorium? Is the floor higher than the crematorium?"
"Yes, it looks like four or five floors higher."
"Take me over now. We can use a telescope to see what's going on on the other side. I also have a stealth drone provided by Tim. If the other party doesn't have interference means, maybe we can fly in and have a look."
Raven's mood calmed down a little, she took a deep breath, and with a flash of purple light, she and Dick appeared in the room where the clone she had placed had been.
The angle of this room is very good. Not only can it have an unobstructed view of the street below, but it can also see all the windows of the crematorium.
It was already after get off work time, and the employees of the crematorium were walking out one after another. Dick looked around with a telescope and found nothing unusual. Then he went to the window on the side of the room and released the drone.
Dick stared at the screen closely, and Raven also came closer. The drone flew in through the gap in the open window and circled back and forth inside the four floors. But no matter how you looked at it, it was just an ordinary office scene.
The drone flew out from the rear window, and as soon as it flew out, it photographed the car parked at the side door, which was the black car that appeared in the surveillance camera.
There was a driver with a mean face sitting in the driving seat of the car. The drone came a little closer, which made Raven very nervous, because the drone was only optically invisible. Although the noise was very small, there was still airflow during flight.
, she was too worried about being discovered.
But Dick's hands were steady from beginning to end, and there was no sign of any nervousness. He controlled the drone and slowly approached the driver's seat. Suddenly, the driver moved.
The raven almost screamed, but Dick remained motionless. Fortunately, the driver reached out and picked up the cell phone and spoke over there.
"What? An agent is coming? Are you sure?"
The raven bit her lip. She shouldn't have approached rashly. The clone was an agent, but she was not. She had no experience in this area at all, so she was still alerting the enemy.
"You guys are making too much fuss." The driver snorted and said, "We agreed to only make this trip. If we make another trip, I won't do it unless you give me 50,000 yuan. After all, the investigation is now strict. If Gordon, the iron-faced one,
If the Evil God catches me, I will go to jail..."
"They are indeed doing bad things." Raven lowered his voice and said, "Are they trying to destroy the body?"
The driver picked his ears with his hands again, blew on his fingers and said, "I told you a long time ago. It turns out that I help the gang to pull out corpses, but now you insist on getting a living person, can you still blame me for increasing the price?"
? 50,000, I won’t do it even if it’s a penny less.”
Raven's eyes widened and she said, "Did you hear what he said? A living person! They got a living person!"
The person on the other end of the phone couldn't hear clearly what he said, but he could tell that he was angry. But in the end the call was still hung up. Dick controlled the drone and waited there for a while, but no one came out. Just now, the phone was hung up.
When it was dark, the driver drove away alone.
While letting the drone circle the crematorium, Dick said: "It seems that they haven't agreed on a price and the other party can't transfer the hostages. But again, there weren't many kidnappers when the gang was still there, and there are even fewer now.
.”
Raven was still a little nervous, but she still asked instinctively: "Why?"
"If there is a grudge, just kill him. If it is for money, there are too many dangerous points in the transaction process. If you have time to rob a bank, it will make more money, even if you use your family to blackmail the other party to do things, there is no point.
If you really need to tie him up, find out the routes where the other person's family usually travels, and send him something to achieve the purpose of threatening him."
"Then who do you think they will kidnap and who is worth their trouble?"
"And those small number of unfortunate situations basically have the same reason." Dick continued: "The kidnapper has a secret that cannot be known by others. Only by holding the lifeblood of the insider in his hands can he truly ensure that the other party is protected.
obedient."
Suddenly, his movement of controlling the drone paused. Raven looked at the screen. On the mountain behind the crematorium, there was a very hidden road among the dense grass. Follow this path to the mountainside, and there was an abandoned door.
The door of the air raid shelter appeared in front of them.