North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 316

After separating from Tom and returning to the office, there was nothing to do all night. When Jimmy was about to leave in the morning, Chris came to the office early.

Jimmy: "Hi Chris, good morning."

Chris: "Jimmy, just before you go back, the Dallas office contacted Hughes. They need you to go on a business trip. It is said that a case you were in charge of before needs you to go back to deal with the follow-up. Speaking of which, I am still the first I once heard that you even handled a few cases in Dallas, it seems that you had a lot of activities during your internship."

Jimmy's head was full of question marks: "What case? The few cases I have over there are all over."

Chris: "Then I don't know, Hughes contacted me in the morning. Anyway, let's go first, Hughes' arrangement."

Jimmy nodded and left the office in a daze.

Jimmy got in his car, got out of the parking lot, and called Lambert, the director of the Dallas office.

Jimmy: "Director Lambert, this is Jimmy from Manhattan."

Lambert: "Ah, Jimmy, got the message so soon."

Jimmy: "Yes, Hughes informed my team leader early in the morning. May I ask which case I need to close?"

Lambert: "It's not convenient to talk on the phone. We'll talk after you get here. Come here as soon as possible."

Jimmy: "Okay, Director Lambert, bye."

Jimmy hung up the phone, went home, took a shower, changed his clothes, and headed to the airport. Hey, another day without sleep.

The flight arrived in Dallas smoothly, and Jimmy slept for nearly 3 hours on the plane, and he finally felt better.I took a taxi from the airport and went straight to the Dallas office, found a restaurant downstairs to have a late lunch, and then came to Lambert's office.

Jimmy knocked on the door: "Director Lambert, I'm here."

Lambert looked up at Jimmy, raised his eyebrows, and said in surprise: "You came here today, I thought you would come tomorrow."

Jimmy walked to Lambert's desk with a smile, and sat down by himself, "Of course I'll be here right away. Supervisor Lambert called. There must be something very important."

Lambert nodded: "It's okay to come early, just take a good rest today, I have an appointment with Father Holden, and you will go to see him with me tomorrow."

Jimmy frowned, Father Horton impressed him deeply, "Is it the disappearance case? Could it be that the exorcism failed?"

Lambert shook his head, "Don't worry, the exorcism is successful, it's just other things, don't worry. Go and rest first."

Jimmy said goodbye to Lambert, stood up and left the Dallas office.

Jimmy was familiar with the neighborhood, so he went directly to the hotel next door and opened a room, put his backpack in the room, and changed his clothes. Although it was winter, the weather in Dallas was much better than New York.

I slept for nearly 3 hours on the plane in the morning, and I am not very sleepy now. Jimmy chose to go out for a stroll and go shopping. When he came back at night, he went to bed early to make up for the lack of sleep in the past two days.

The next morning, Jimmy came to Lambert's office on time. Lambert tidied up the desk, and then drove Jimmy to a church. It was a small church, not as splendid as the ones in New York. It looks very ordinary.

Lambert and Jimmy walked into the church. Father Holden was flipping through some books. Seeing them coming, he closed the book, waved to Lambert and the others, got up and entered the side room of the church.

A tin box was placed on a table against the wall, next to it was a skull, and two books.

Father Holden pointed to the things on the table and said, "These are the things you dug out from the forest and have been cleaned. Do you have an impression? Jimmy."

Jimmy nodded, "It's these, what's the matter? Shouldn't these be in the evidence room?"

Father Holden nodded: "Yes, I just brought them over from the evidence room a few days ago. Because some inexplicable things happened over there."

Jimmy: "Go ahead, please."

Lambert spoke at this time: "The box was moved from Tata Town to the testing center after the case was over, where it was cleaned up. Due to being soaked for too long, the two books have been completely scrapped, and there is no The method is to completely open the pages inside, and after the skull is cleaned, the DNA is extracted, and then moved to the FBI evidence room together with the box.

There was no problem at the beginning, but about ten days ago, some strange things began to happen in the evidence room. First, some people began to hear hallucinations, and then the monitoring center found that the surveillance video would shake, and even temporarily disappear. The camera seems to be jammed.

I contacted Father Holden to check it out. After checking the evidence room and its surroundings, nothing unusual was found. We investigated the objects in the evidence room, which were put into storage recently and were related to weird events. The most important thing is this box and the contents inside, but no problem can be found.

Because you were the first to discover the anomaly of the box and dug it out of the ground accurately, Father Horton thought you might be able to solve this matter. "

Jimmy watched Lambert finish speaking, and he turned to look at the skull.When he entered the church, he had already opened his eyes. This was his habit. When he arrived at a new place, he would first scan every corner to prevent danger.

After entering the church, he didn't find the silky thing that came out of the box before, and it looked very calm now.Jimmy frowned, observing the skull and books in front of him. Last time, because they were all in the box, he didn't observe where the silk threads came from.

The reason why I didn’t remind everyone before is that this box is obviously not harmful. The main effect of the box is to make the surrounding plants look greener and grow better. People camping in Tata Town and by the river are fine. , even he was very skeptical that this thing is a very precious thing, because even in broad daylight, it can attract the wraiths in the river to dedicate themselves to snatch it.

Even if this kind of benign abnormal item was taken away, it shouldn't cause too much trouble, so he just hinted to Lambert that there was something wrong with this thing, and then he didn't ask any more questions.

Jimmy looked at Father Holden: "Father Holden, have you kept it here since you brought it back to the church? Is there any abnormality? Smaller ones are fine."

Father Horton shook his head: "No, it has been very quiet these two days."

Jimmy: "Is it possible to consider changing the place to store it first? This is a church after all, and there are many sacred objects. Maybe it has been suppressed?"

Holden frowned. He really hadn't thought about this issue before. He turned his head to look at the skull, and then at Lambert: "Lambert, do you have a clean place where you won't be disturbed? The nearest Well, there are no residents."

Lambert nodded: "Send it to my farm, I'll let someone clean the room first."

Several people packed up, and Father Holden specially brought his own box, which should be the box that the assistant took during the last exorcism.This time, because he doesn't know how long he will stay, his assistant will stay in the church to preside over the daily activities.

Lambert's farm is very large. For this broken box, he specially arranged for all the family members to drive to Dallas or Houston to play, and let the farm house out, so as not to have any problems that would affect his family.

They emptied out a small warehouse, put boxes, skeletons, and two books that couldn't be opened on the table in the middle of the warehouse. As for them, they lived in the main house and assigned one person on duty in turn to watch what happened here.

Lambert couldn't stay for too long. After waiting for two days, he returned to Dallas. Father Horton hired two apprentices to come over for the night shift.

On the third night, the vision finally appeared. Jimmy was from the afternoon to the first midnight, but at 9 o'clock, he found the silk thread floating in the air.

Jimmy shouted: "Father Holden, come out!"

Holden and an apprentice ran out of the main house immediately, and the other apprentice should have been resting, and came out a few minutes late.

Father Holden came to Jimmy, "What did you find?"

Jimmy looked at Father Holden in surprise: "What? Oh, sorry, I want to ask, you can't see the silk thread in the air, can you?"

Father Horton's eyes widened, he stood outside the warehouse and looked towards the warehouse, but he still didn't see anything. "The box." Holden shouted, and the apprentice behind him handed the box in his hand to Father Holden. He opened the box, took out a very small bottle, only the size of a thumb, and poured out a drop of water from it on the On fingers, apply to eyelids.

"Holy Father!" Holden finished reading, turned his head to look at Jimmy, his eyes lit up, "Can you see these directly?"

Jimmy curled his lips and shook his head: "No, it requires a lot of concentration and the duration is very short."

Father Holden nodded, then shook his head again: "You are very talented, I am more sure now, unfortunately..." Father Holden really feels sorry for Jimmy now, such a talent, if you enter the seminary since childhood, After several years of training, he will become an excellent exorcist priest, but now Jimmy is too big, and it is very difficult to go to the seminary to study now, the key is that it is difficult to gain loyalty.

Father Horton turned his head to look at the warehouse. Taking advantage of the potion's expiry date, he opened the door and entered the warehouse, and found the source of the silk thread. However, it seemed that his potion was not effective, and he couldn't see where the source was at all. The difference in concentration, but the effect of his potion is not enough to observe where there are only a few silk threads with the highest concentration.

Jimmy walked over and pointed to the forehead of the skull, or the center of the eyebrows, the distance is about the same. "This should be the source of the silk thread."

Father Horton looked at the apprentices behind him, "Do you feel anything is wrong?"

The apprentice shook his head, and Jimmy said: "I had a speculation about this kind of silk thread before. This should be a beneficial mutation. You can look at the aerial photos I asked for earlier. In the forest where the box is buried, the plants affected by the silk thread will be more Other plants are greener, which should also mean that these affected plants grow better than others, and their vitality is stronger, of course, this is just my speculation."

Father Horton nodded, "If it's true as you said, there may indeed be beneficial changes, but why are there auditory hallucinations and other abnormalities in the evidence room? For example, the surveillance cameras were interfered?"

Jimmy: "There is a possibility that this kind of beneficial mutation is not only good for plants, but also attracts other ghosts or other monsters. Those abnormalities are caused by other ghosts, just because they are far away from them The foundation is too far away and the power is too weak, so it only affects a few people and interferes with monitoring."

Father Holden: "Well, there's this possibility. Let's observe for another two days. If there are no other abnormalities, we will go back. I will send this to be tested."

Jimmy nodded: "It's time to change shifts. I'll go back and rest. Your people should watch here first."

At noon the next day, Jimmy was still resting. Suddenly, there was an exclamation from outside. Jimmy got up and went to the window. A big wild boar was chasing the apprentice on duty. The apprentice ran to avoid it while blocking it with things from the farm .

Jimmy pulled out his gun, aimed at the wild boar from the window, and shot it in the head. Unfortunately, the wild boar cannot be killed with one shot. Seeing that it was still rushing forward, Jimmy emptied the bullets in the revolver. Anyway, no one will eat the wild boar. , the bullet fragments on his body should not have any effect.

After putting down the wild boar, Jimmy asked loudly, "What's going on? How did this wild boar get here?"

"I don't know. I didn't notice the wild boar until it was not far from my side."

Father Holden also went out to the outside, "It may be the skull, Jimmy, we will go back immediately."

Father Horton arranged for one of the apprentices to pack the boxes and the other to tidy up in the room. The four drove back to Father Horton's church in Dallas.

"Jimmy, thank you for everything you have done for us." Before parting, Father Horton thanked Jimmy specifically.

Jimmy: "You're welcome, you should, I haven't thanked you for the exorcism for me last time."

Father Holden took out a small box from his pocket: "This is for you, as a souvenir. I made it myself."

Jimmy opened the box, and inside was a small cross pendant, the pendant on a necklace, very small, only about 3cm long.

Jimmy closed the lid, "Thank you, Father Horton. Then I'll go back first. If there's nothing else going on here, I need to rush back to New York."

Jimmy returned to the Dallas office, Lambert briefly asked about the result, he looked at the time, "Jimmy, your business is over, the rest will be handled by Father Horton, you can now think about the next step What are you going to do for a few days?"

Jimmy's eyes lit up: "The next few days?"

Lambert: "Well, my secondment is for two weeks. Go ahead."

Jimmy: "Thank you, Director Lambert. Then I'll go back first."

Jimmy was quite surprised when he left the office. He thought he was going back to New York immediately, but now it only took 4 or 5 days to get it done. Isn't that another rest day?After thinking about it, Jimmy decided to call Frank. Tom just strictly forbade him from contacting the training center and the Anti-Terrorist Bureau. Now it's good to have time to see how retired CIA agents work.

It's not to blame for Jimmy's impulsiveness now, mainly because he already knows that his CIA identity is in the stumbling block project, and he will always have to deal with them later. Maybe he will also experience Frank being cleared by the CIA assassination team. Not seeing the end, the only person who can have something to do with them is Frank here.With my current ability, as long as I am careful, there should be no problem.

Jimmy: "Hey, how are you doing over there?"

Frank: "What's the matter?"

Jimmy: "Ah, make a phone call to make sure, have you checked with the remaining two?"

Frank: "Gabriel Singer is dead."

Jimmy: "Oh, where are you? I need to check with you."

Frank: "I'm very busy now, can I talk about it later?"

Jimmy: "Please, you are singled out for them now, what if something happens? Let's meet first."

Frank: "Okay, we should be able to go to DC tonight. Come over if it's convenient for you."

Jimmy: "OK, I'm leaving now."

In the evening, Jimmy came to Washington DC, wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat all the time, and wrapped himself up tightly.After renting a car with the fake identity that he had concealed when he was a county police officer in Little Rock, Jimmy drove and had dinner at a roadside restaurant, waiting for Frank's notice.

Jimmy left the restaurant, parked his car in an open space, and sat in the car with his eyes closed, waiting for Frank to arrive.It’s just that I was not so lucky to be able to rest. In just 2 hours, Jimmy has scared away two waves of idiots who tried to pry the car door, because there are no lights around, and Jimmy didn’t turn on the lights. Some people had to point a gun at the window of the car to scare them away, otherwise it was really possible to turn from stealing a car to robbery.

A car came from a distance and stopped next to Jimmy. Jimmy and Frank got out of the car. There were still people in the car, but because of the lights, Jimmy didn't see who it was.

Jimmy: "Frank, are you driving from Arizona?"

Frank: "Of course, someone is chasing my whereabouts now. It's best to drive. What do you have to say in person?"

Jimmy made a gesture, and the two moved away from the car, "Frank, do you remember the name Tom Kordsky?"

Frank didn't speak, but looked at Jimmy, who was far away from the car and only relied on a little moonlight, so he couldn't really see his expression clearly.

Frank: "What is your relationship with him? How could you possibly know him?"

Jimmy: "Well, he trained me."

Frank: "Are you the CIA too?"

Jimmy coughed: "I neither admit nor deny it."

Frank: "You are indeed the CIA. Of course I remember Kodeski. I trained him. But he should be dead. I heard that he had an accident on a mission before."

Jimmy: "You remember him?"

Frank: "It seems that he should learn from Marvin. Where is he?"

Jimmy: "I don't know, but I can let you know after he contacts me."

Frank: "Well, that's it?"

Jimmy: "Well, it's mainly for this matter, and I just happened to be on vacation recently, do you see..."

Frank shook his head: "It's too dangerous. You'd better go back."

Jimmy: "For the sake of our acquaintance for so long, let me participate and learn from the old man."

Frank: "Can you get into Langley?"

Jimmy shook his head and waved his hands at the same time: "No, I'm currently in a latent state, and I can't take the initiative to activate my identity, and there will be big problems."

Frank looked at Jimmy and said nothing, Jimmy knew he was thinking and didn't interrupt him, finally Frank nodded, "Follow from a distance, don't get involved."

The two returned to the car, and an old man got out of Frank's car, "Oh, Mr. Bright, long time no see."

Frank: "He's Marvin, the Marvin on that list."

Jimmy turned his head to look at Frank: "He has been dead in the system for several years." He continued to turn his head to look at Marvin: "Marvin, I can't think of it."

Frank: "Okay, we're leaving." Marvin returned to the co-pilot without saying anything.

Jimmy nodded. Since Frank didn't say where he was going, he just drove and followed them from a distance. Anyway, Frank must have a plan.

(End of this chapter)