Chapter 1971 Clues and Small Gifts

Seeing Michael's wound stop bleeding, Amy wanted to call an ambulance to take the young son to the hospital.

Luke asked quietly on the side: "Are you sure, he won't have another accident when he goes to the hospital?"

The couple was stunned when they heard the words, and suddenly reacted: The safest place should be the place where this mysterious Wilson is.

"And he was stabbed and cut his throat. He was sent to the hospital, and the doctor would immediately report it to the Social Welfare Bureau." Luke reminded again.

Bennett and Amy looked at each other.

It's not a matter of fact, but that the two would definitely be suspected of abusing Michael.

Once the younger son is isolated and protected by the Children's Welfare Bureau, he will surely die if he encounters the "mirror ghost" again.

What the Bennets wanted was for their son to live, not to seek compensation from the Child Welfare Bureau afterwards.

This is also in the face of Director George, and Luke will remind him.

If this family really wants to die, then he will not stop it.

Fortunately, the couple still had some brains, and decisively dismissed the idea of ​​calling an ambulance.

Amy helped Michael to clean up the wound, and Luke and Bennet were talking quietly outside the house.

Bennett, a witness, knew more than the police.

Calling Chief George for help, he couldn't possibly go into too much detail.

Whether one person is willing to help another depends mostly on how close the two are.

Bennett's friendship with Chief George wasn't enough for him to ramble on the phone.

As a former police officer, he is more aware of the point that "professional things are left to professionals".

The Beidou avatar has shown extraordinary abilities and even repelled the "mirror ghost" in person, and Bennett knew that this might be the best chance to solve the problem.

So he gave Luke all the information he knew and collected without reservation.

In fact, the so-called "mental problem" in the mall is his vision of seeing many burned people there.

Then his shadow in that mirror wall "fired",

In reality, he felt the pain as if his body was being burned by the flames, and passed out in a coma.

After waking up, he found that there was no abnormality in his body, and he was very suspicious, so he began to investigate.

Unexpectedly, after only a few days of investigation, my sister died in the bathtub at home - her entire jaw was completely torn, but no trace of the perpetrator was found at the scene.

Luke is also an old police detective, and he knows very well that crime is like leaving a mark after a wild goose, and he will leave clues if he does it.

The police just found the part about the suspect from the complicated clues.

But Bennett's sister's death really has no clue of a suspect.

Before she died, there was blood everywhere in the bathtub and the surrounding ground, but no one had cleaned, blocked, or touched the blood.

Luke has seen the photos of the scene, and also thinks that it is not easy for ordinary people to accomplish such a crime effect, but it is not difficult for extraordinary groups.

Now that the "mirror ghost" exists, he only needs to find out its origin and solve it in a targeted manner.

There are two important aspects of Bennett's investigation.

One is the confession of the criminal who set fire to the mall five years ago. He wanted to solve the "evil spirit" who killed his entire family by burning the mall, and said that he wanted to find a person named Anna.

Second, the mall used to be a mental hospital for 40 years.

There was a big fight in this mental hospital one night. The patients in it killed each other and all died. The mental hospital was closed down and demolished because of this.

The experience of being burned in Bennett's mirror made him notice them.

Luke nodded thoughtfully, and immediately issued an order for the PDD temporary workers to directly query the relevant old files.

In a small place like Charleston, the police station has not yet implemented any paperless office, and most of the old case materials are paper documents thrown in the archives.

What Luke found on the Internet is not as detailed as Bennett.

Like the case of the mental hospital back then, the existing information on the Internet cannot be linked with the incident in the shopping mall.

In order to make people forget the big case as soon as possible, the local officials here directly changed the place names in this area.

The area has been handed over many times over the decades, and even the owner of the mall didn't know he had built the building on the site of an old mental hospital.

After Bennett finished telling what he knew, the temporary workers on Luke's side also followed the map and took a lot of old materials in the archives.

Compared with Bennett, who lost his police job, these temporary workers have far more "browser qualifications", so they found more clues.

In fact, Bennett and the previous security guard are not the only victims of the "mirror ghost", but only recently.

Seven or eight similar cases have been found in Charleston in the past few decades, but most of them were concluded as "the deceased committed suicide due to mental problems", and they were fooled.

Luke didn't bother to blame the police for being incompetent. It's true that American law doesn't recognize the existence of superpowers and can kill people in the air.

Even if they can admit it, the local police station is unable to arrest such ghosts as "mirror ghosts".

This used to be the remit of S.H.I.E.L.D., and now it should be the ATCU (Advanced Threat Control Unit).

...

Luke stayed at Bennett's house for more than two hours, waiting for and analyzing the information sent by his subordinates, and gave Michael another treatment.

This time Bennett didn't come to peek halfway, but waited until Luke greeted him before returning to the room.

Seeing that the wound on Michael's neck was almost healed, with only a few shallow wounds, the couple were completely relieved.

Luke said to them, "Thank you for your cooperation, I'm going to deal with the mirror ghost, and I'll give you a little "gift" before leaving."

As he said that, he snapped his fingers three times in a row, and the mental resistance fell to the family of three: "Try to keep your mind calm, this will allow you to be free from the harassment of mirror ghosts within 24 hours."

Amy was a little unsure: "And after that?"

"If you solve it, you will naturally be safe." Luke said lightly: But if it is not completely eliminated, it will only depend on your own luck.

After he finished speaking, he turned around and went downstairs to go out, and the family of three followed, standing at the door and watching his back disappear in the shade of a tree not far away.

Amy suddenly said: "Only 24 hours... can he really do it?"

"We can only trust him." Bennett exhaled.

Luke was not invited by him, but he saved their family several times. What can he ask for?

...

Not long after Luke walked out, he activated the stealth system and took off straight to a nun in the mountains north of Charleston.

It is said that the only patient who survived the massacre in the mental hospital was sent here, and her name was Anna Essek.

She may be the "Anna" that the person who burned the mall said.

But on the list that the convent could find, there was no name of Anna or Essek.

Luke, who didn't want to delay time, simply made a trip in person. Pheromones manipulation and real dreams allowed the nuns to tell the truth directly.

A few minutes later, an old-fashioned nun with orange-red roof and white walls standing on a gentle ground in the mountains appeared before me.

Luke didn't even cancel his stealth, and flew into the small inner patio and fell.