North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 686 Ghost Lake

Jimmy took too long to ask for leave this year, and now he can't open his mouth to ask for leave, so he can only use his own rest time to find him. The key is that he can't directly use the FBI's facial recognition to collect surveillance for matching. There will be no problem if you use it often, but using it so blatantly is going too far.

Jimmy's relationship with the CIA has basically been interrupted now. It is difficult to use them privately, and his relationship with Roland cannot be exposed casually. Now he directly takes out screenshots of Roland's videos and asks people to do facial recognition. It's so obvious that it's hard to explain.

His ability is on the one hand, and on the other hand, according to his current identity, his super strong action ability was trained and trained by the CIA. Although not many people know about it, there are some people who know it. Now that a person has appeared, everyone can I don’t know Roland, how can I explain it?The guns they use are still the same.

In short, the current situation is so complicated. It is really not used at ordinary times, but when it is used, he has no way to make it. It is a headache to make a choice.

In theory, the hotel should have a way to do face recognition, but using their channels to do this is quite risky. Roland has lived in this world for a long time, and it will inevitably leave some traces. It is not even ruled out that some people know Regarding his affairs, for a well-informed industry like the hotel, it is easy to deduce a lot of things based on Jimmy and Roland. It will be even more troublesome if there is another classic bad thing like coercing him into doing things.

But even finding it by himself would be troublesome. Jimmy called Father Rodney to ask for the location of their service. He flew directly to Burlington International Airport after get off work on Friday.

Montpelier is the capital of Vermont, but it does not have a large population. There is only a small airport here, where private and business planes mainly dock. Jimmy is flying on civil aviation, so it is more convenient to go to Burlington International Airport first.

Burlington is the largest city in Vermont. It is more convenient here. Jimmy rented a car directly and went to Montpelier. After resting here for a night, he started to go to where Father Rodney and the others were working.

Vermont has a small population, and Montpelier is also a very small city, so the surrounding environment can really be described in a few words.There are many woods, and the population is mainly concentrated around the city. Jimmy's goal is the nature reserve in the north, which is naturally surrounded by various trees.

In this completely unfamiliar place, Jimmy still had to be careful. After all, he was not a vicious person like Roland. He first drove to the nature reserve and found the riverside where they fought before. The place had been cleaned up, except for a The grass was ruined and there was just a small hole in the ground. This was the mark given by Father Rodney.

Jimmy looked around carefully and used his mind's eye to confirm that there was nothing unclean around. It seemed that they had cleaned up very cleanly and left no trace behind.After ensuring safety, Jimmy began to look for traces of their battle nearby, and finally found a .45ACP bullet casing not far away.

Roland uses .45ACP, which he has known for a long time. In fact, his 1875 can also be used with .45ACP, but Jimmy has always been pursuing power, so he chose .44 Magnum bullets. Another reason is that these two 1875 is the gunslinger's weapon, it is reforged from a sacred object and has non-destructive properties, so you don't have to worry about problems if it is more powerful.

Jimmy put the bullet shell in his pocket, stood up and looked around. The battle happened here a few days ago. There are no clues to see now. However, there is only one nearest road here. If Roland leaves, he should pass by this. I just don't know how he left.

Jimmy returned to the roadside and drove into the car. He started driving along the road towards the city. He would stop and observe all the houses on the roadside. If he encountered any surveillance cameras, he would use the name of the FBI to request to see their surveillance cameras, because there was time to fight. , the time provided by Jimmy was also very accurate. After speeding up the surveillance, no suspected target was found.

After checking three surveillance cameras in a row, no one suspected of Roland was found. Jimmy immediately turned the car around and drove away from the city. If Roland was not here, then he might have left in the direction of leaving the city. You must know that he was leaving from If someone came from another world, there must be a stable door that can cross the two worlds. He will definitely go there when he goes back, but Jimmy doesn't know where this door is.

Far away from the city, there are basically no buildings on the roadside. There are several farm-like buildings away from the road. Even if there is surveillance in that location, they are all watching their own houses and it is impossible to see the road, so There is no need to ask.

Driving ahead, the road forked. It was over. Jimmy stopped at the intersection and patted the steering wheel. His clues were completely lost.

Now I don't know what kind of car Roland drove when he left, and there is no way to investigate. Unless he contacts the local police to conduct a large-scale investigation, it will be difficult to find traces of Roland in a short time.

Jimmy decided to give it a last try and chose to go straight to the next small village, where he finally saw a traffic surveillance camera in the middle of the village.

After walking along the road in the village, I finally found a small police station. It was indeed a small police station, but it was a little larger than ordinary houses and had a police badge.

Jimmy walked in, took out his ID and asked an old policeman inside if he could take a look at the surveillance camera in the village. However, the surveillance camera here had long been broken because it was useless. This small village was very safe, and this road was not used for traffic. It's an important road, so I didn't take care of it after it was first installed. Later, when it broke, I just threw it away.

Well, it is understandable that the surveillance camera should be a requirement for political performance, and it will be useless after completing its historical mission.

Jimmy thanked him and left the police station.

Standing outside the police station and looking around, Jimmy took out his cigarette case and walked to the side and lit one. While smoking, he looked up to the sky and sighed softly. There was really no other way this time. He came to this small village from the place where the crime occurred. We have driven twenty or thirty kilometers. It is such a long road and there are forks in the middle. Even if Roland really came in this direction, he would not know where he is now.

After smoking, Jimmy threw the cigarette butt to the ground, stomped on it, got in the car and continued to leave. He ran back and forth on the road twice, but he didn't see any surveillance cameras outside any store or residential house, not even in a small village like this. necessary.

Jimmy continued to drive forward for a while. After finding the road sign, he took out the map to find his location. He turned around and returned to Burlington City. He planned to rest here for one night before returning to New York. This journey to find Roland was a complete failure. .

Vermont is a relatively small state. There is not even an FBI office here. It is managed by the New York State FBI Albany Office. Relatively speaking, it is relatively safe. It is also at a low-to-medium level in the United States. In 2019, there were more than 2400 criminal cases per year. 10 people, so the FBI is just a small regional office here, with only a few people on duty here. It would be troublesome for Jimmy to check any information here.

Strictly speaking, Jimmy shouldn't be here under normal circumstances, so he didn't ask for trouble and just stayed for one night.

But after he arrived at the hotel and checked in, he didn't pick up the phone when he called Nia. Jimmy suddenly had a bad feeling.

When contacted the night before yesterday, Nia and the others had already arrived in Newport, Rhode Island and Providence Manor, where the three students were traveling during the summer vacation. (The official name of Rhode Island is the State of Rhode Island and Providence Manor, commonly referred to as Rhode Island. On June 2020, 6, Governor Gina Raimondo signed a An executive order requires that the last half of the state's name, "Providence Manor," be removed and changed to "Rhode Island" and used in future executive orders, fixed letterheads, government documents, etc. This The order also called on all state executive agencies to remove the words "Providence Manor" from their official websites. However, multiple referendums failed to change the state's name.)
After making several calls in a row but no one answered, Jimmy panicked. What's going on?
Jimmy called Kevin and found out that Nia hadn't called home in the past few days. He immediately called and booked a flight to Providence, Rhode Island. There was no one in Newport. As for the airport, the fastest way to get there was to fly directly to Providence and then rent a car to Newport City. No matter what happened to Nia, he had to get there as soon as possible.Jimmy didn't sleep peacefully that night. He would wake up every once in a while. When he woke up in the morning, he still didn't receive a call from Nia.

Jimmy checked out the room and rushed to the airport immediately, returned the car, and boarded the plane with his FBI ID and gun.He told the flight attendant in advance, so he was among the first people to board the plane. After that, he kept staring at the people boarding behind him until the plane took off and no abnormalities were found, and then he could finally take a good rest.

Rhode Island is a very small state. After renting a car from Providence Airport, Jimmy did not stop here. Instead, he bought a map to confirm the route and drove to Newport.

Nia and the others contacted the police station here in the official name of the NYPD, so when Jimmy arrived, he went straight to the Newport Police Headquarters. After showing his ID at the front desk, a superintendent received him.

Superintendent Porter shook hands with Jimmy and said, "I am Superintendent David Porter. How can I help you?"

Jimmy: "FBI Senior Agent Jimmy Young, from the Manhattan office, New York. I am here to find the three detectives from the NYPD. I am the husband of Detective Nia Young."

Superintendent Porter looked at Jimmy in surprise. They hadn't notified the NYPD yet, so why did they arrive so soon? "Nice to meet you, Detective Yang. Sorry, I didn't expect you to come so soon. Please come with me. Detective Yang and the others are currently in the hospital. I will take you there."

Jimmy: "What? Hospital? What happened to them? Is Nia okay?"

Superintendent Porter frowned and shook his head: "It's not certain yet. The doctor has not concluded yet. All three of them are currently in a coma, but their lives are not in danger."

Jimmy was confused. He felt there was something wrong when he couldn't contact Nia yesterday. Now that they were in the hospital, it was even more troublesome.

Arriving at the hospital, Jimmy saw Nia in the ward. She seemed to have no trauma and was just sleeping on the bed.

Jimmy: "Doctor, how are they?"

A middle-aged doctor accompanied Jimmy and Superintendent Porter, "There is no conclusion yet. After they were delivered yesterday afternoon, we conducted a comprehensive examination on them. Their physical characteristics were normal. They have been in a coma and looked like a vegetative state." The same, but different from ordinary vegetative people, their brain waves show that the brain is still functioning normally and performing dream-like reactions."

Jimmy: "Do all three behave the same?"

Doctor: "Yes, it's the same. There's no trauma. We're not sure what happened to them yet. Now we can only wait for them to wake up on their own."

Jimmy reached out and grabbed Nia's hand. The ring on his finger was still there. Jimmy was not a priest, and he couldn't see the energy inside the ring even if he opened his eyesight. The three of them were in a state that really looked like they had encountered a supernatural event. Big trouble, but the doctors here can't see it at all.

Jimmy turned to look at Superintendent Porter, "Superintendent Porter, I want to know what happened to them? What did they do after they got here?"

Superintendent Porter turned to the doctor and asked the doctor to step away. After the doctor left, he looked at Jimmy and said: "Detective Yang and the others came to the Newport Police Station four days ago. We cooperated with Detective Yang in the investigation. After checking the flight information and checking the information of the three college students, I finally determined the hotel where they last stayed, and then investigated their whereabouts.

Due to insufficient surveillance coverage, their location was lost after they left the city center. Based on clues from previous investigations, we guessed that they might be going to explore the suburbs. After that, we arranged for a police officer to accompany Detective Yang and the others around. Looking for a few well-known adventure spots.

At Ghost Lake, they found some dilapidated tents and items. The police sent them back for inspection. Agent Yang and the others stayed at the lake to continue the inspection. When the police returned, they had disappeared. Later, we found them near the lake. The three of them were already unconscious at that time. "

Jimmy: "Did you just say Ghost Lake?"

Superintendent Porter: "Yes, the previous name was Strange Lake. Decades ago, someone claimed to have discovered a ghost there, which triggered a wave of ghost hunting craze. After that, nothing happened, and the name of the lake was also changed. People forgot about it and everyone started calling it Ghost Lake.

This time the three college students didn’t know where they got the story about the lake. They asked the locals at the hotel, and then they probably went there. The tents and items we found by the lake were basically theirs. "

Jimmy: "Why has no one found their tent before?"

Superintendent Porter: "Sorry, that place is relatively remote, and the locals have little interest there, so basically no one will go there. If we hadn't gotten the news from the hotel this time, we wouldn't have thought that there would be people coming from other places to come here. Come and see the lake.”

Jimmy looked at the unconscious Nia, gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice. This time things are troublesome. I hope Nia and the others will be okay.

Ghost Lake, the name doesn't sound like a good place. Why would any fool be willing to explore a place like this?Now Nia and the others were also in trouble. Jimmy had to find a way to wake up Nia and the others, but he was completely unfamiliar with this situation and didn't know what to do.

Now we can only find foreign aid.

(End of this chapter)