Bai Xiaowen did not leave Yahan behind. He knew that the main task of this missing persons case still had to be solved by himself.
Throughout the morning, Bai Xiaowen stayed in the archives room, carefully looking through the information. The information he reviewed was not limited to the information on the thirteen missing residents, but browsed all the information in the Hodge Town archives.
There are more than 30,000 registered legal residents in Hodge Town. It is obviously impossible to look at them one by one. When Bai Xiaowen browsed, he was also detailed and detailed. Some were relatively wealthy and had noble status. In Hodge Town,
The more influential families are listed as the focus, and families that have undergone major changes in the past two months are also included in the browsing scope.
"Did you find anything?" Li Shuyi was not idle either. She had been acting as Bai Xiaowen's assistant. When she saw Bai Xiaowen finished browsing, she frowned and asked immediately.
Bai Xiaowen squinted his eyes and said: "There are indeed some unexpected discoveries. I now suspect... that the missing persons case is related to the patrol team under Yahan's command."
"Ah?" Li Shuyi had a good impression of Sheriff Yahan. After hearing Bai Xiaowen's words, she was surprised, "You said Yahan is a thief and wants to catch a thief? Yahan... doesn't look like such a person."
Bai Xiaowen said: "Yahan himself should be unaware. What I mean is that there should be a spy in the patrol team."
After a pause, Bai Xiaowen pointed to the information of the thirteen missing residents and said: "After the curfew system was implemented in Hodge Town, the patrol team would patrol at night, but there were still new missing residents, and each time they happened during the patrol.
The team’s patrol blind spot can be said to have perfectly avoided the patrol team, which is quite strange.”
After a pause, Bai Xiaowen continued: "This alone may not be able to explain anything. However, judging from the information on the missing residents, the missing people all have some common characteristics. First, they are in good health and have no diseases. Second, their age
Moderately old, in the prime of life. Third, most of them are men. From these common characteristics, we can speculate on the kidnapping motive of the mastermind behind the scenes..."
Li Shuyi thought for a while and said: "Human experiment?"
Bai Xiaowen said with a smile: "Don't let the Norton incident mislead your thinking. Human experiments require samples of all ages and genders. Therefore, the mastermind behind the scenes should not be doing human experiments. In my opinion, it is more like
Slavery.”
Li Shuyi: "Slavery? When I was studying the history of the earth in the AD era, I learned about the slave trade, which sent black people from Africa to the newly developed country of America to be serfs..."
Bai Xiaowen nodded and said: "Yes, I think there must be a slave trade hidden behind the scenes in Hodge Town. It is definitely impossible for the kidnapped residents to stay in Hodge Town. They must be transported to other places, otherwise it will be too easy.
Exposed. To support such a slave trade without being discovered, it must be someone who has the public power in Hodge Town and has strong influence."
"So you think there is something wrong with the patrol team?" Li Shuyi followed Bai Xiaowen's train of thought, "The commander of the patrol team is Yahan, and his military management skills should be very strong. The people below are making such big moves behind the scenes, so he shouldn't
It would be wrong to know nothing...could it be said that our main mission is to deal with Yahan in the end?"
Bai Xiaowen shook his head again and denied: "It can't be Yahan."
Li Shuyi blinked.
"Do you still remember the prefix of our ticket? Is one of them called 'speculation'?" Bai Xiaowen explained, "Where is the 50% reduction in the difficulty of the main mission reflected? From my understanding, this 50%
The difficulty is reduced, which is reflected in the location where we live. We are neighbors on the same street as Yahan. He has some impressions of us and has a high degree of acceptance. This is also the reason why we can live in Yahan's house."
After a pause, Bai Xiaowen continued: "So, Yahan is an important NPC in the main mission. According to the rules of the spirit world, having Yahan's implicit trust is equivalent to completing 50% of the main mission. It can be seen that his status is
Important, the strength is great. If the main mission is to deal with Yahan in the end, then where will the 50% difficulty reduction of the speculative prefix be reflected?"
Through this "off-site" information, Bai Xiaowen deduced that Yahan had nothing to do with the mastermind behind the missing persons case. Li Shuyi was still convinced. After ruling out this possibility, she thought along the way: "So you just focused on reading Huo
Qi Zhen has a prestigious and influential family file, and we just want to find the dealer of the slave trade? Have you found it yet?"
Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes slightly: "Unfortunately, most of the high-status families in Hodge Town have not reached the level of supporting the slave trade. After many eliminations, only one family remained, and it was also the family that Yahan found most difficult to accept.
There is a possibility..."
"Don't be so pretentious..." Li Shuyi grabbed Bai Xiaowen's hand and shook it, "Speak quickly."
"Mayor of Hodgetown, family of Hiram David."
Li Shuyi said in surprise: "Isn't this Ginny's natal family? Mayor Hiram is Yahan's father-in-law, right?"
"That's right."
"But...why did the David family do this? Logically speaking, they are the rulers of Hodge Town, and a stable Hodge Town should be more in their interests. Now people are panicked, and the market is depressed after the curfew.
The loss is also the interests of the David family." Li Shuyi can still see this clearly.
"Don't worry, I just have suspicions. There is no conclusive evidence yet. The logical fulcrum of all this is based on the assumption of 'slave trading'," Bai Xiaowen said, "We don't need to reveal this to Yahan for the time being... still
Let’s investigate on our own first.”
…
After checking the information this time, Bai Xiaowen finally found a clue. He and Li Shuyi walked through the bread mill on Windmill Street and walked to the David family mansion in the north of town.
In front of the gate of the David family mansion, two militiamen stood.
Bai Xiaowen tried to enter, but was stopped by the militiamen: "Stop, you don't have an entry permit."
Bai Xiaowen blinked and took out the "Patrol Militia Nameplate."
"This is not a valid pass certificate," the militiaman said seriously. "If you have private matters and you want to see Mayor Hiram, please make an appointment in advance. But I want to remind you that Mayor Hiram is rarely willing to meet guests.
Especially a young boy like you who has no status."
Bai Xiaowen: "Hey, your helmets are really cool. Can you lend them to me? Let me tell you, I also want to be a sentinel."
The two sentries on guard looked at Bai Xiaowen like an idiot, and then pushed Bai Xiaowen ten meters away from the gate: "Go, go, don't hinder us."
"Okay, I'll go." Bai Xiaowen shrugged.
When turning to leave, Bai Xiaowen directly called out the shadow assassin, carefully avoiding the two sentries, and entered the door.