Chapter 287 Shocking Number of Disappearances

Dean realized that someone was secretly erasing the fact that people disappeared frequently here.

But the town is not big.

He doesn't trust the people here and knows nothing about it.

"First try to find a local resident to understand the situation."

For example, the phone number on the business card given by the bartender before!

Although Dean was certain that the person on the other end of the phone was a liar, since the person on the other end of the phone teamed up with the bartender to defraud outsiders who were looking for people, he might know something about the missing tourists.

Think of this.

Dean glanced around and saw that no suspicious persons were watching nearby, then walked back to the hotel.

Return to hotel.

Cheston has also woken up.

He was enjoying the free breakfast buffet in the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel.

"How is the taste?"

Dean walked over and sat down across from Cheston.

See it's Dean.

Cheston quickly swallowed the food in his mouth: "It's okay, but Agent Dean, there is something strange. When I got up, I found the hotel attendant cleaning the room opposite us, and there was a salute inside."

Dean raised his eyebrows upon hearing this.

This kind of thing usually only happens to travelers who have not paid for room renewal for a long time.

Could it be that the person in the room across from them is missing?

"I also made some discoveries."

Dean lowered his voice and told Cheston his findings and speculations.

After listening to Dean's narration, Cheston's eyes widened: "Agent Dean, are you saying that the people here are deliberately hiding the disappearance of tourists?"

Dean nodded: "I'm not sure whether the local police department, government or local people are involved in this, but if we want to find out the truth hidden inside, I'm afraid we won't be able to rely on local official power this time."

After breakfast.

Dean and Chessington split into two groups.

Cheston was responsible for finding the waiter and asking about the visitors in the room opposite.

Dean was responsible for contacting the bartender and providing the phone number on his business card.

Although the business card has been lost.

But he remembered the number.

The two agreed to exchange text messages every half hour to report their respective locations, so as to avoid the situation where one party loses contact and the other party knows nothing about it.

Cheston, make the first move.

On the pretext of looking for a local guide, he struck up a conversation with the waiter in charge of house cleaning.

See it.

Dean also came to the corner of the hotel and called the suspected fraudster.

First call.

There was no connection there.

Wait a moment.

Dean made that call a second time.

This time the call was finally connected.

On the other end of the phone, a drunken woman's voice came: "Hello, this is..."

Pause for a moment.

Then he continued: "This is Ademar Rescue. How can I help you?"

Dean: "."

The woman on the other end of the phone paused. Could it be to see the name of the rescue team?

Being so unprofessional, are you really stupid enough to be fooled?

Dean rolled his eyes and said in a hesitant tone: "Hey, that's it. My relative disappeared nearby. The bartender at XX Bar gave you your contact information and said you could help. You really can. Help me?"

"Of course, we at Ademar Rescue are a professional team. If you need help, you can come."

After the drunk woman gave her an address, she hung up the phone.

Dean got the address, said hello to Cheston, put on casual clothes, and left the hotel.

To prevent being searched later.

He also retracted the gun into the warp.

Now that he has subspace, he can not only transform into a gun with his bare hands, but the subspace also contains several energized bullets, ignited Molotov cocktails, exploding tear gas, etc., and also has beast-like early warnings for dangers. As long as he is not caught by Multiple heavy firepower suppressed him from a distance, and ordinary dangers were basically no longer a threat to him.

the other side.

A woman put down the phone in her hand, flicked the cigarette ashes in her hand, and smiled behind her: "Stefan, Wade, get ready, another big fat pig is coming. Remember, this time it's Ademar." Rescue, rescue! Don’t hit the wrong sign again!”

This voice was that of the woman who had just answered Dean's call, but she lacked the drunken demeanor on the phone.

That's just a method used to screen out fat pigs.

If a person seeking help dares to come to ask for help in the face of such an unprofessional appearance by a woman, he is either stupid, or he is hopeless and desperate. No matter what it is, it is a good time to start!

If the other person doesn't come, that's okay.

As long as the other party makes this call, it means that the other party has this need.

For this kind of person.

After the temptation, they have follow-up measures!

Unfortunately, this group of people don't know that sometimes, those who fall into the trap are not necessarily fat pigs left to be slaughtered, but may also be man-eating tigers who take advantage of the trap!

The town was not that big to begin with.

According to the address.

Dean drove to a grove outside the town. Next to the stream outside the grove, he saw a small windmill workshop that looked like a Dutch windmill. There was a crooked sign hanging on the workshop near the path.

That's the name of the Ardmar Rescue Squad on the sign.

but

Dean twitched his lips.

The soil under the sign is all new.

Does the other party look down on your own IQ so much?

It probably took less than ten minutes to insert this brand.

Hard!

Dean's fist is hard!

He parked the car outside the lane, got out of the car, put a cigarette in his mouth, took out his mobile phone, and called the other party.

This time the call was connected quickly.

After Dean said he had arrived.

A white guy with a beard and looked to be in his twenties opened the door of the mill and waved to Dean.

"Dean?"

The white guy enthusiastically welcomed Dean into the shabby-looking mill.

Dean frowned while looking at the environment and said, "Yes, but are you sure you can help me? This doesn't look like a good place to work."

This place looks dilapidated. The air is not only filled with the smell of rotting wood, but also a faint smell of animal feces, which makes people suspect that this place was actually used to raise poultry.

The guy shrugged and said something thought-provoking: "Because this place is shabby and inconspicuous enough, we can become the light in the darkness instead of being swallowed by the darkness!"

After that.

He waved to Dean and motioned Dean to go upstairs with him.

Creak~

The rotten wooden stairs make people worry that they will collapse if they step on them.

Dean is muscular and looks well-proportioned, but in fact his weight has increased to 210 to 200 kilograms. When he stepped on the wooden stairs, he clearly felt the stairs sinking downwards, and he was a little overwhelmed.

But the bad thing did not happen.

Dean followed the white youth Wade and went up to the second floor smoothly.

This place is just as simple, but it seems to have been renovated. There is a row of computers near the window. A man and a woman are typing on the keyboard intently. There are sofas and coffee tables against the wall. There are also several folding chairs in the corner. It seems that these two men and one woman usually sleep in this narrow and simple room.

"Jenny, Stefan, put down your work, the client is here."

Wade clapped his hands and interrupted the work of his two companions.

Jenny and Stefan don't look very old.

Wade seems to be the leader here.

Under his organization, the four people sat on the sofa around the coffee table.

Wade poured Dean a glass of water: "Okay, Mr. Dean, you can tell me about your situation."

Dean picked up the water cup under the gaze of the three people, took a sip, and began to tell the story.

It was probably his younger brother Thompson, who went out for a trip with his companions, but soon after entering the mountains, he lost contact with his companions.

"Mr. Dean, are you saying that the missing people are your brother and your brother's companion, two people?"

After listening to Dean's story, Wade and the other two looked at each other with confusion on their faces.

"Is there anything wrong?"

Dean raised his head slightly, his face full of sincerity, but he didn't know where he had revealed his flaws.

"It's not wrong, it's just."

Wade waved to Jenny beside him.

Jenny stood up, took out a heavy notebook from a pile of messy lines, and placed it in front of Dean.

Dean looked at it and was slightly surprised.

On the notebook, it was the internal website page of the local town police station!

What's going on?

Are these three guys not liars?

Wade stood up slowly and explained, "Mr. Dean, after receiving your call, we entered the police station pages of several nearby towns and searched for the latest missing persons. It shows that in the past month, only our town has a couple missing. The person who reported the case was the front desk of XX Hotel, and the report was made yesterday. You seem to be lying?"

While speaking.

Another young man, Stefan, who had not spoken, had already put his hand on his waist and looked at Dean with unfriendly eyes.

Dean ignored Stefan's threatening behavior.

He tilted his head: "So, you are not actually scammers?"

This strange reaction made Wade uneasy.

He rushed towards Dean and shouted at the same time: "Stefan, do it!"

The next moment.

A slender palm, after the first move, accurately grabbed his collar.

Wade felt an irresistible force acting on his body in mid-air, and his vision was spinning. Then Jenny's exclamation and Stefan's screams came into his ears.

He held Wade and knocked down Stefan who was trying to draw his gun.

Dean slowly stood up, walked to the screaming Jenny, pinched her mouth, and whispered in her ear: "Shh, be quiet!"

Jenny wanted to run away, but Dean was watching her. For some reason, her legs didn't obey her at all. She could only nod tremblingly and said in a crying voice: "What do you want to do?"

Three men and women with their hands tied knelt in a row.

Dean played with the stun gun he had taken out from Stefan's waist, pondered for a moment, and raised his head: "So, you are really doing business, but you are hiding here because it is dangerous?"

"Yes!" Wade said dejectedly: "We basically do some illegal business online, so we moved our office to this abandoned barn. As for finding people locally, it is just to help tourists here and make some quick money."

"Tell me about the missing cases nearby!"

Dean did not comment on Wade's statement.

"Will you let us go if I tell you?"

The three looked at Dean pitifully.

Dean waved the stun gun in his hand: "Of course, after all, I am a good person. I came to find you without even a gun. In fact, if you hadn't attacked me first, I wouldn't have done it at all."

The three thought carefully.

There seems to be nothing wrong with this.

Wade accepted his fate and said:

“Well, actually, from a few years ago, tourists in the nearby town often disappeared.

At the beginning, various small towns spent a lot of manpower on searches, but to no avail. The missing persons seemed to have evaporated, and various rumors emerged, causing the small town's business to be affected.

This caused objections to the residents who made money from tourists. Gradually, with everyone's acquiescence, the residents began to voluntarily conceal this kind of thing. "

“Wouldn’t the families of the missing people come here to find them?

Wouldn’t tourists who know these things spread the word? "

Wade's argument is untenable.

Unexpectedly, Wade's mouth showed sarcasm:

"That is indeed the case, but among the missing persons, none of them took the initiative to ask for help or call the police before they disappeared. There is no record. The families of the missing persons cannot blame the police department. The key is the tacit understanding of the local people. What can those people do? ?

The most they can do is make an alarm record at the police station. After staying there for a while with no results, they have no choice but to leave.

The town also has people who specialize in erasing the missing person notices and online posts posted by those people, so in the past few years, only the locals know that there are unknown cannibals hiding in the mountains! "

So that’s it.

Wade and the others have hacking skills and often hack into the web pages of nearby police stations. What they say is highly credible.

Dean thought thoughtfully, and then showed the same sarcastic look: "Then you said before that you conducted the search business to help those poor tourists?"

Wade's face froze.

Jenny, on the other hand, raised her head angrily and said, “At least we will really help search for relevant information and give their families some psychological comfort, so as not to waste their time here.

You know, before many missing people go missing, there is no report or call for help. They basically wait until the relatives of the missing person come to find them, or the hotel discovers that the person is missing before they know that the person is missing.

Therefore, when the families of the missing persons come to find them, they know nothing. People who have not experienced this kind of psychological torture cannot even imagine it.

If they make trouble in the town, their lives may be in danger.

We charge some fees, what’s wrong? "

Dean smiled coldly: "It sounds so nice, but in fact, your existence should be just to act to persuade those who are searching for people, and by the way, help eliminate negative comments about the surrounding towns on the Internet!"

When he checked nearby online comments before, he felt strange.

After all, if a normal person has a relative or friend missing here, in addition to posting a missing person notice in real life and asking the police for help, they will inevitably seek help on the Internet and in some chat rooms where people travel together.

The result is no information at all.

This shows that there are dedicated people handling this information.

The three people in front of them were all good at hacking. The person who answered the phone before was probably this Jenny, who deliberately pretended to be drunk and had an unprofessional attitude.

Now it seems that it is also to screen customers, let them come to their doorsteps, perform a show to squeeze out their money, and brainwash them so that they do not have enough energy and money to find the missing person!

really.

After Dean said these words.

Two men and one woman lowered their heads silently.

Obviously, they were told by Dean!

However, Dean was not interested in their behavior.

He threw the stun gun in his hand on the coffee table and asked the last question: "Since you are responsible for this area of ​​business, you should also know something about the missing people. I need some useful information. Otherwise, I guarantee that you will be the last to know the missing persons." I will spend more than ten years of my life in prison!”

Said.

Dean took out his detective card and revealed his identity.

Losing freedom is undoubtedly a big threat to these three young people who are only in their twenties and have not enjoyed enough.

Wade looked at the agent card in Dean's hand and his face turned pale: "We really don't know why those people disappeared. We only know that they lost contact after entering the mountains. Really, there is something in the computer The list of missing persons and the information we found, I swear, we didn’t lie to you!”

According to the confessions of three people.

Dean quickly got a list of missing persons of more than 270 people!

This amount is far more terrifying than what the FBI found!

The FBI only found out that more than fifty people had disappeared nearby in the past few years.

However, there are more than 270 people registered in several nearby towns.

And these are only the records that can be found.

Here in the United States, many people live relatively independently!

The number of unrecorded missing persons is probably much higher than this number.

Seeing that I really can't squeeze out more information.

Dean took the list and thought about what to do with these three unlucky guys.

These three people only had a stun gun for self-defense, and their speech and behavior did not have the malicious intent that is unique to murderers. At most, they did something wrong and they would not die.

But letting them go can easily reveal one's own existence.

By the time.

Dean didn't want to think about what unwise actions the police departments and residents of the surrounding towns would make.

In the face of collective interests, the so-called law is bullshit.

I'm afraid this is the most troublesome part of this case!

Just when Dean was struggling.

Buzz~

The phone vibrated in his pocket.

Dean took it out and saw that it was a text message from Cheston.

There was only a brief sentence on it: "Help!"

This is a real case, the actual number of missing people is not that high, this story ends, attached is the adapted movie.