I'm innocent [Comprehensive British American]

"Red, who was the person next to you just now?" Al clenched his hand/gun and asked Rhett.

"A... friend." Rhett said with a dry cough.

Al's face darkened, she looked at Rhett's reddish ears, and said seriously, "Red, Qiu Chengke is amazing, but you have to know one thing, if he is really dead, he can't be brought back to life, if he is If he is suspended animation, he will have to disguise himself in order to appear in this country again."

"It has nothing to do with Qiu Chengke, not Qiu Chengke." Reid quickly explained, but his acting skills were as bad as ever, and he seemed to realize that he couldn't hide it from Al, who had doubts for a long time. He could only rub his nose and smiled awkwardly .

Al looked at him silently, until Rhett was about to rub his shoulder bag strap, she said softly, "I'm just worried, is the person you met really Qiu Chengke?"

Reid spread his hands and smiled at Al.

Al don't start, put away the pistol/gun, "It's best if you can be sure, don't be fooled, Rhett, people who are interested will take advantage of this, after all, he will appear in a brand new identity, in his own way Gaining your trust, you can try to remove his disguise."

"Of course, I mean... yes." Only Rhett knows that Qiu Chengke has a magical system that can change Qiu Chengke's face into a different look without a trace, Rhett said quickly, looking around, that is Don't look at Al who is examining him.

His eyes suddenly stopped in one place, he let out a little surprise, tilted his head and said, "The structure design of that orphanage is a bit strange."

Al heard the words and followed Rhett's gaze. From this angle, he could just see the upper part of the orphanage in the distance through the branches of the treetops.

There are no lights, only the moon is reflected on it, and the outline of the building can be vaguely seen.

Reid backed away slowly, constantly adjusting his angle.

"Don't you think, from a distance, that orphanage seems to be shorter than the structure diagram they showed us." Reid stood on the steps in front of a house, and said thoughtfully.

"Red." Al didn't answer Rhett's words, but called softly.

Reid took a step back, and said with certainty, "I can be sure, it is indeed a little shorter, Al, it has half a floor..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a click behind him, and Rhett looked back, only to see a person opening a door to look at him.

"Why are you standing in front of my house?" said an old voice.

"Sorry." Reid stepped aside quickly, and Al came over and dragged him away quickly.

"I saw the light of a flashlight flickering in the house, and that's when he found you at his door." Al whispered, "But he deliberately waited until you figured out what the problem was."

"He didn't know there was a problem with the orphanage, so he decided to listen to me." Reid said.

"No, judging from the current situation, he should want to know what we found."

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When Rhett and Al went back, Morgan was arguing with Xia Zuo. Xia Zuo seemed very irritable. When he saw Rhett, he gave him a fierce look, and said coldly, "It's better to tell me that you guys found something after going out for a long time. Something useful."

Before he finished speaking, Morgan immediately handcuffed him to the chair with quick eyesight.

"What happened to him?" Al asked suspiciously.

"Selma committed suicide in prison," Hooch said. "She killed the female prisoner who raped her and then threw herself against the wall."

"Hit yourself against the wall?" Al said in surprise, "Then she needs to sprint with all her strength without stopping and hit the granite. How did she do it? It's the same as biting her tongue and committing suicide. Killed the female prisoner."

"That's where the problem lies. The explanation given by the prison was that she committed suicide by hitting a wall, but she didn't provide the autopsy results and no photos of the scene. Xia Zuo went crazy when she found out about it." Hu Qi said with an ugly face, "And, Anthony is dead too, in a prison brawl, murdered with a fork, no body there either."

Reid had been thinking about Qiu Chengke, when he suddenly heard a familiar name, he raised his head and interjected, "The knight who kept calling for the Black Queen?"

"After the chess case was over, he was transferred back to the collective prison." Hu Qi explained, "Because it was judged that he was out of danger and no longer had the right to receive key protection and enjoy an independent prison. At that time, Gordon and I I have no right to meddle in this matter."

"The two of them had an accident on the same day. The two prisons are in Minnesota and Washington respectively. If there is no remnant of chess, there is only one explanation. Someone mistakenly thought that they knew something, so they killed them." Al frowned and said in thought, "But they don't know anything, at least Anthony won't hide anything."

On the other side, Xia Zuo was about to collapse. He grabbed Morgan's collar and said angrily, "Get off the handcuffs, you rude nigger!"

As soon as he spoke, both he and Morgan were stunned. Morgan put away the comforting smile on his face. He pursed his lips and handed the key to Xia Zuo. Xia Zuo licked his lips and reached out to hold Morgan's wrist, blushing. , opened his mouth as if wanting to say something.

"I know you didn't mean it." Morgan said as he undid Xia Zuo's handcuffs. "I just suddenly felt that you might be able to find out what happened."

After Xia Zuo made sure that Morgan was really not angry, he immediately uncuffed the handcuffs, put on his clothes and left quickly.

"Then what did you ask?" Gordon ignored Xia Zuo, turned around and asked.

Reid raised his hand and said, "This small town has 60.00% of the foreign population, and none of them know what happened here, so that happened about eight years ago, but Dean Hans hadn't taken over eight years ago. Orphanage, the current sheriff has not been transferred to this small town, and there is a contradiction in it. When we set the node where the incident happened eight years ago, there are only two explanations that can solve the current contradiction. I learned about it from the original residents of the town through various channels."

"This may also be the reason why they came to this town." Rhett paused, and continued, "And another explanation is that they did something in this town eight years ago, because of this It happened that they came back here again, and Hans and those foreign orphanage nurses took over the orphanage because of this."

"From the point of view of people's instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, murder and hiding corpses can be ruled out, and the legend that curses cannot be broken." Morgan pondered, "It seems that there is some treasure hidden in the orphanage."

Gordon listened to other people's discussion, and said to Garcia on the phone, "Search for major thefts and robberies that happened eight years ago across the country, and at the same time, we will sort out the list of dead rich people who clearly marked their heirs."

"Understood!" Garcia's voice sounded a little excited. She took a sip of coffee and muttered excitedly, "If you can't catch me, no one can catch the amazing Garcia! I got all the addresses, I will send them to you now, although it was exposed, but I got them all! No one can catch me, ha!"

Gordon looked at Morgan beside him. Morgan shrugged and was about to say something when his cell phone vibrated. He looked down and saw a text message from an unknown number with only one word 'sorry' written on it.

"It seems that Xia Zuo has calmed down." Morgan smiled and said helplessly, "I still don't know how to get along with him."

"After blocking his swearing words, you will find that he is actually not bad." Al said.

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The next day, they returned to the orphanage again. Garcia's work efficiency was very fast. She screened and sorted out all the incidents related to the huge amount of property that happened eight years ago and passed them all over.

Not much happened that year, no bank robbery or anything directly related to property, except a jeweler drowned in a river near here, but that was six years ago.

The local police defined the incident as an accident. It rained the night before, and he went to the river to relieve himself or do other things, but he stumbled and fell into it. There were no witnesses at the scene, and the torrential water also took his body away. The jewels were carried to the depths of the river, somewhere, leaving only a diamond ring on the shore.

This is the official explanation, but Garcia did not find any photos of the scene. There is always something left on the land after the rain.

While this message did not fit within the time frame Gordon had given her to return, it did coincide with the arrival of the sheriff, Dean Hans, and the paramedics in town.

Also because there is a big loophole in that case, why the jeweler would carry his goods with him instead of putting them in the car, and why the transportation of such valuables was not accompanied by bodyguards or other professionals for protection.

There is no way to explain these problems clearly in the official explanations. It seems that after the police station investigated for a period of time, they didn't delve into it any further, and just rushed through the matter.

This situation generally indicates that the case has exceeded the capabilities of the local police.

However, since the loss could not be estimated, and it had no impact, no one continued to pursue the case, so the police were unwilling to spend a lot of police force to solve the case. After giving a quick answer, they devoted their police force to other places.

After all, every year in the United States, one or two people die unexplained, and the police are powerless to arrest them. They can only record the case and continue the investigation until a few years or decades later, they finally grasp the evidence and catch the real person. It is fierce, and then put the case back in front of the public.

And what Garcia found out, the addresses of those sellers have been submitted, and a special arrest team has been set up. I believe that they will all be caught in a short time.

"Fortunately, Paradise hasn't had time to develop into a collector." Al sat in the back seat and sighed, "Otherwise, we wouldn't use such a crude contact method."

"A loose alliance cannot last long." Morgan said while driving, "Not every organization is capable of cultivating owls, and those owls have not been caught yet."

"There is no need to arrest them. They are only responsible for passing on the news. Some people don't even know what they have conveyed. They are not criminals." Al said, "But those craftsmen, Ma Ren doesn't seem to have passed on all the craftsmen's news. Give us."

As soon as Al's voice fell, the carriage fell silent instantly. They all knew that the fires had something to do with Ma Ren, and Ma Ren still burned some artisans to death behind their backs.

Dean Hans didn't give them a good face. He just opened the door of the orphanage to let them in, but he didn't entertain them like last time.

"I've already said, I don't know anything." Dean Hans put the teacup heavily on the table, and said in a rough voice, "What are you doing here? You let this orphanage be shrouded in fear, you Break the calm!"

"When I was asking a question yesterday, an old man said the same thing." Al turned his head and whispered to Morgan, "She told me, it's been so long, why did you come here to break the peace of the town?" .”

Hu Qi took a symbolic sip of the coffee Dean Hans handed him, which contained a lot of sugar, probably to sweeten him to death.

When Hu Qi was dealing with Dean Hans, Gordon had been observing Dean Hans' actions. When they came last time, they focused on the disappearance of the child, not Dean Hans himself.

They deliberately avoided some weird behaviors of Dean Hans, to avoid being misled by Dean Hans, who is also a psychologist, and after focusing on Dean Hans, Gordon understood why Dr. Foster kept staring at him. Let him not let go.

Gordon stared at Hans, his eyes resting on the hard calluses on his hands, and suddenly said, "I've been thinking about a question, Dean Hans, why did you all find out that a child was missing, but no one chose to track it down?" go down."

"In fact, there is nothing we can do. After all, what happened has already happened and we can't find anything. I love this place. If this place is affected by it, it will hurt me more than killing me." Dean Hans said, "The vicious incident The occurrence of the orphanage will no longer be able to continue to operate, which I have said more than once."

"Is that so?" Gordon grinned, fiddling with a disposable paper cup on the side, "I thought it was because you were all waiting for others to call the police for help, or to follow up and investigate. After all, you all knew about this matter, but instead It's better if only one person knows."

Morgan froze for a moment, he subconsciously opened his mouth to say something, and stopped immediately after reacting.

"I think you have misunderstood." Dean Hans asked calmly, "We don't mean to shirk responsibility, but we just don't want to make things big."

Before he finished speaking, Hu Qi, who was sitting opposite him and closest to him, immediately put down his coffee cup, took out his pistol/gun and pointed it at Dean Hans, and said in a cold voice, "Who the hell are you? Where is the real Hans?" .”

"what are you saying!"

"The halo effect." Morgan said, "I thought Gordon had already said it so clearly, as a psychologist, at least he would reflexively say its terms first, instead of acting as if he didn't know anything."

"I just don't have the habit of showing off my academics." Dean 'Hans' explained with a sullen face, "Not everyone likes to talk about academic terms."

"Then at least you should correct my mistake, instead of letting it go like this." Morgan pulled out his own gun and said vigilantly.

'Hans' looked at him in surprise, and Al, who was beside Morgan, explained, "It's the bystander effect, both of which are very basic psychological knowledge, even a layman can know these, you don't even have basic preparations Do it?"

'Hans' gritted his teeth, looked at the muzzle aimed at himself, and said wearily, "I just look like him, that's all, he asked me to come forward and stay in the orphanage."

"Who is he?" Morgan asked.

"One of my accomplices, to be precise, he hired me and will give me half of the money at that time. As long as he finds out where the money is hidden, it will take five or six years to find it."

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Under the leadership of a child, Rhett walked to a wall covered with photos of the orphanage on the third floor of the orphanage. After he gave the boy a candy, the boy left happily.

He observed the boy's expression, and made sure that the children really didn't know anything about what happened here. What happened to the children whose expressions were numb and had lost the ability to resist, as Dr. Foster said.

Rhett believed in Dr. Foster's judgment, but apparently during the few days between Dr. Foster's departure and their coming here, other things happened quietly in the orphanage.

Rhett looked at the photos on the wall. He estimated Elizabeth's height, squatted down, and looked up at the photos above.

He has always had a question, Xia Zuo can be sure that the nurse did not lie when he claimed that he did not notice that the child's face had been replaced in the group photo.

So now assuming that Xia Zuo's judgment is correct and the nurse did not find any abnormality in the photo, then what caused the nurse's judgment to go wrong at that time.

Rhett couldn't believe that a carer who lived with orphans couldn't see obvious abnormalities in the photos, especially after the photos were dropped and dusty.

Someone's sudden appearance caused the nurse's attention to divert, or the nurse found something that caught his eye more.

Reid squinted his eyes and stared at the wall. He took off the photo and looked around, but found nothing abnormal. He stroked the wall, which was smooth and smooth.

Reid imitated the perspective of the nurse at that time, squatted down again, and looked up from below.

Just when he began to suspect that he was looking in the wrong direction, a figure blocked the light, because it was daytime, the orphanage did not turn on the lights, and sufficient light came in from the window, Rhett vaguely found that after the light was blocked, There seems to be a light in the place where the photo was originally placed.

"What are you looking at?" A familiar voice came from behind.

Reid looked up and saw a strange man. He thought for a while and said, "That wall seems to be hollowed out."

"This one?" The man raised his hand and knocked on the wall, and said affirmatively, "Yes."

Rhett stood up suddenly, he groped carefully on the wall, and finally buckled an area, with a little force, opened a square hole from the wall.

"What is this?" The man leaned over and looked inside. His mouth was not deep. Looking from this side, he could see another room connected to the opposite side. The white lights inside were shining brightly, and the snow-white walls looked a little weird , shimmering with metallic luster.

But the light suddenly dimmed, and the man took a step back. Through the light from this side, he saw a pair of eyes appearing inside, squinting to look outside.

"Is dinner so early?" A hoarse voice came from inside, "Yesterday I said I wanted to eat steak and red wine, did you bring it today?"

The man raised his eyebrows with interest, and asked, "Who are you?"

"Oh? It's not food delivery?" The person over there asked, "But I want to eat steak, I want to eat steak."

"I'm a federal investigator," the man replied, and Rhett patted him helplessly, the man grinned at Rhett, took out his fake ID and stuffed it in through the window.

"Investigator?" The person over there reached out to take the ID and said in a low voice, "It's a style I haven't seen before."

Reid frowned when he heard the words. He lowered his voice and said tentatively, "After all, it's been eight years, and it's time for a revision."

There was silence for a long time before sighing softly, "It's been eight years..."

"I don't recognize this document," he said. "I need other evidence."

"I don't need to provide you with evidence to prove myself." The man said coldly, "You only have two choices now, trust us, we will find a way to rescue you, or continue to stay inside."

There was another long silence over there, as if he was thinking about the pros and cons. After a while, he suddenly said, "I'm Hans, Hans Stanley."

"Wait, if you are Dr. Hans, the psychologist, who is Hans outside now?" Rhett asked.

"A counterfeit." The person over there said disdainfully.

He paused, took a deep breath and suppressed his voice, and said excitedly, "Well, I have no choice, let me out, you guys must have happened here, no matter what happened here, as a reward, I will I will assist you for free, and give you a certain reward, a lot, as long as you let me out."

Rhett always felt that his words sounded strange, as if he had been urging them to open the door, but after a rough thought, it was reasonable.

"Find someone to go down to the second floor. At the end of the corridor on the second floor, there is an oil painting of a girl with a pearl earring. There is a button behind her. You can press it to open the door and I can come out." The person next to him said, "The door is the wall at the end of the corridor."

"Tell me why you are trapped here." Reid passed through the hole, but couldn't see the specific situation inside, and the man kept sticking to the hole, they couldn't see his face clearly, only the upper half Part of his face made Rhett have to doubt the authenticity of his identity.

"I locked you up for eight years but didn't kill you. There must be a reason." The man leaned against the wall and said vigilantly, "Tell us why."

He coughed dryly while talking, Rhett looked at him worriedly, and whispered, "Qiu, are you okay?"

Qiu Chengke waved his hand to show that it was okay, and he said again, "I'm impatient."

"Why didn't you rescue me, and then..." Before he finished speaking, there was the sound of a chainsaw, he cursed and moved away from the hole, and the people outside could only hear the faint sound of running inside and his cries for help.

Qiu Chengke pursed his lips tightly, and after seeing blood sprayed on the wall through the hole, he said to Rhett, "I'll go down and open the door."

Reid held his own gun and did not answer. The footsteps over there became weaker and weaker. Just as Qiu Chengke wanted to go down, Reid immediately grabbed his wrist and said in a low voice, "No, Qiu, we don't know how the door will open." From where."

He looked at the end of the corridor on the third floor, and murmured, "Why is the prison cell on the third floor, but the exit is on the second floor? He is not restrained, and there is obviously no surveillance inside, otherwise he can't talk to us, the prisoner who imprisoned him If he is a human being, he will not be given any chance to ambush, using the blind spot of the stairs, it happens to be the best place to ambush."

Reid paused, and continued, "There is something strange, I'm afraid he wants to break down one by one, from the beginning to the end we didn't see his appearance clearly, nor did we see anything to prove his identity."

Qiu Chengke looked at Reid and realized that once the door was on the third floor, Reid might not be able to beat him, so he nodded in agreement.

Then I heard Reid seriously say, "If you go to the second floor alone, there will be danger... I mean you will be in danger. If he really has a problem, then he is inside alone with a chainsaw Running around pretending for a few minutes, I have a gun and you have nothing."

Rhett said, shaking his pistol/gun, "I can always hit someone in a critical moment. As long as I aim at his shoulder, there is a chance to hit his head."

Qiu Chengke took out a dagger from his arms, raised his eyebrows at Reid, and knocked on the wall, "Sorry, we regret it, I don't have the guts to open the door, I'm really sorry."

There was a weak and undetectable cry for help, and then a man wearing a blood-stained mask appeared at the entrance of the cave. He looked outside, accompanied by the buzzing of the chainsaw, Qiu Chengke heard his deliberately lowered voice Said, "So there are two more."

The sound of the chainsaw stopped abruptly, and Reid took a step back while clenching his gun tightly, looking around vigilantly.

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The author has something to say: I have been taking medicine for a long time, and finally, I don’t vomit or stink anymore!

But I'm constipated, emmmmm, depressed.

I wrote a lot today!Continue tomorrow!

Thank you for your concern! ! !

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