Chapter 498 We Meet Again

Not far from the street, a man in a suit and a mustache was looking at Duanmu Huai in surprise. This man was none other than Charlie Simon, the art dealer of Duanmu Huai's "distant relative".

He was almost sacrificed by the ghoul before, and after that incident, Charlie's spirit was also greatly stimulated. He went to Duanmu Huai to thank him, and then sold all his collection of paintings and the villa in one go. According to Charlie, he didn't plan to go home again. He wanted to go shopping in other places and then find a place for retirement that would make him feel at ease.

When Duanmu Huai saw him a month ago, he was haggard and had dark circles under his eyes. But now he looks fat and smiling...

"I didn't expect to see you here."

Duanmu Huai looked at the distant relative he had set up, and asked curiously, while Charlie laughed.

"Haha, I didn't expect it. To be honest, I just came here to relax at the invitation of a friend, to see the exhibition or something... Hey, I didn't expect that kind of thing to happen."

"That kind?"

"Yeah, that's right!"

Charlie nodded, and when he saw Duanmu Huai, his eyes lit up.

"It just so happens that I was thinking about whether to look for you!"

"????"

Although he was confused, Duanmu Huai still nodded, so Charlie excitedly pulled him aside and told him about his troubles.

In short, after the previous ghoul incident, Charlie was restless in Arkham and couldn't stay there, so he sold his company and villa, and then planned to use this large sum of money to travel around the world. Anyway, this money is enough for his future life.

But this also made Charlie feel deeply empty. He really loves art, otherwise he wouldn't be a painter. But now he is forced to abandon his wailing, which makes Charlie quite sad. At the same time, one of his friends learned about Charlie's experience and invited him to go out and relax. There happened to be a modern art exhibition in the museum in Newburyport, so Charlie was invited to come here with his friends.

Then his friend disappeared.

……………………… Hmm? ? ?

"I have called the police and looked for people in the museum, but I have no clue. I was in a hurry, but I didn't expect to see you..."

"…………………………"

Looking at Charlie in front of him, Duanmu Huai was speechless.

You are not a walking death god like Conan, right? Wherever you go, people die?

But anyway, it was a pleasant surprise for Duanmu Huai to meet the witness of this case, so he also asked Charlie about the whole thing.

Basically, the process of the matter itself is not complicated. According to Charlie, his friend invited him to visit the latest exhibition here. An exhibition about the exchange of modern civilization and art. Of course, don't look at the high-sounding name, but in fact, it is just a group of art students entertaining themselves. Although there have been various problems before, Charlie is still very happy to see young people's ideas and expressions of art.

In the No. 1 exhibition hall, Charlie was attracted by the sculptures in front of him, and his mind as an artist and businessman began to be active again. After watching the artworks displayed in the exhibition hall, his friend told Charlie that he would go to the next exhibition hall first, so Charlie didn't say much. Just nodded, and after a few minutes, he retracted his gaze and went to the next exhibition hall.

But his friend was gone.

"To be honest, I thought he just went to another exhibition hall, so I hurried to find him. But when I walked through the entire museum and didn't see him, I found that something seemed wrong. I also called him, but I couldn't get through... ..."

Charlie first asked the museum's security guards about the situation. He found that when he said his companion was missing, the security guards seemed anxious, but they still accompanied Charlie to walk through the entire exhibition hall again, and even took him to the office area of ​​the museum... However, his companion was still nowhere to be seen.

In desperation, Charlie had to call the police.

The police also retrieved the museum's surveillance. Through the surveillance, it can be seen that when Charlie was admiring the sculpture, his friend did walk up to him, said a few words to Charlie, and then turned to another exhibition hall. Then the camera turned to another exhibition hall, and Charlie's friend could be seen coming there, and then walking forward along the exhibition hall.

Then he disappeared.

Yes, it was so strange.

To illustrate how strange it was, Charlie also drew a simple schematic diagram for Duanmu Huai on paper. He was in exhibition hall A, and his friend was going to exhibition hall B, and there was a corridor between exhibition halls A and B. There are cameras in the exhibition hall and the corridor. Now according to the situation captured by the surveillance camera, it can be clearly seen that the friend walked out of exhibition hall A, came to the corridor, and then walked through the corridor to the door of exhibition hall B.

But exhibition hall B did not capture the figure of his friend.

That is to say, his friend just disappeared inexplicably when he entered exhibition hall B.

After that, the police conducted a carpet search of exhibition hall B, but found nothing, and according to the surveillance, the friend did not walk out of exhibition hall B.

This is very strange.

So………………

"I hope you can help me investigate what's going on. I know you're very good at this. Of course, I'll pay you the commission."

"No problem."

Duanmu Huai would naturally not refuse such a good thing. Wouldn't it be great to earn two profits from one commission?

Killing two birds with one stone is the best way.

Duanmu Huai originally planned to invite Charlie to go with him, but Charlie was really traumatized. He said he would wait for his good news at the hotel, and then he just ran away.

So Duanmu Huai had no choice but to contact Anthony again and invite him to come to his RV to discuss the situation again.

There was no other way. Usually, you have to find a cafe or bar to chat and talk about things at this time, but the problem is that Duanmu Huai has no place to sit.

Let's talk in the car, after all, there is air conditioning in the car.

Anthony also reunited with Duanmu Huai soon, and the two sides exchanged information. When he learned that the reporter this time was actually the victim of Duanmu Huai's last case, Anthony was also quite surprised, but fortunately Duanmu Huai had heard the incident from Charlie, and Anthony also learned the incident from the museum's security guards and other staff as a policeman. The two sides verified each other and basically had no problems.

"So, where do you plan to start the investigation?"

After checking the intelligence, Anthony looked at Duanmu Huai curiously. Although the police generally would not interfere with the actions of investigators, Anthony was really curious about what Duanmu Huai was going to do.

After all, with his appearance, it would be difficult to control this kind of work.

On the contrary, Duanmu Huai's answer was very straightforward.

"Don't be afraid of it. I plan to go to the museum tonight to stay for one night to see what is going on, and then catch it and kill it!"

"………………………………"

It is indeed very direct.

"Then I can apply to the curator to conduct a closed-door search at night, no problem, right?"

"Yes, it would be even better if you can show up."

Duanmu Huai didn't care. After all, he had the genes of the Raven Guard. Even if the museum disagreed, he could sneak in. But since Anthony wanted to act with him, Duanmu Huai had no objection. The advantage of having policemen is that you don't need to explain yourself in many cases, you can just throw the pot on the other party.

It turns out that federal police officers are quite deterrent. After Anthony found the curator and briefly explained the situation, the latter agreed to allow the two to stay in the museum after closing. Of course, the reason why the curator was so generous was that there was really no particularly valuable treasure in the museum. After all, it was a local museum. A hoe that had been passed down in the local area for two or three hundred years was the treasure of the museum. What else could you expect?

Soon, as night fell, the museum staff left the museum one after another, and then Duanmu Huai and Anthony strode into it.

"Click."

The crisp footsteps echoed in the empty and silent space. Anthony looked around and took a breath of cold air. Duanmu Huai narrowed his eyes and stared coldly at everything around him. After a moment, he spoke.

"Then, let's start the investigation."

First, the two went to the exhibition hall B where the missing person was before. This is just an ordinary exhibition hall. The walls are full of various oil paintings. There are also some very ordinary daily necessities from one or two hundred years ago... Well, it can be seen that this museum really has nothing to display.

This is not surprising, after all, history is shallow.

Compared to the disgusting things painted by the ghouls before, the oil paintings hanging here are much more normal. Duanmu Huai took a glance and retracted his gaze and began to stare at the surroundings. Anthony held a flashlight in one hand and flipped through his notebook in the other.

"Well, according to the surveillance, the missing person walked into the door and then leaned against the wall... It is very likely that he was admiring the paintings like us..."

While speaking, Anthony raised the flashlight and waved it towards the paintings hanging on the wall. It was as if he was imitating the missing person's sight and wanted to see what he saw.

However, at this moment, he suddenly saw the content of one of the paintings. At this moment, Anthony almost screamed!