Chapter 3020: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (Twenty-Eight)

Chapter 2994: The shade of green trees makes the summer long (Twenty-eight)

The car drove for a long time, and Wanda felt that the driver took her to a very remote place after many turns. If she was from Gotham, she could use magic to detect where this place was, but she was actually a foreigner, so even if she could use magic, she didn't know where this place was.

However, after Wanda completely integrated into the scarlet power for the first time, she actually became one with the scarlet power. Just like Barbatos, Wanda is the power itself. She does not need to actively use magic to detect anything, but as long as this power spreads, she will be everywhere. Now her human form is just a part of the omnipresent scarlet power, and her body will not trap her consciousness.

Wanda did not let the scarlet power spread too far, and it spread around the car for a few kilometers. Although she did not know the specific location of this place, she found a large forest on one side of the lane after the car passed a road.

This proves that this is definitely not the city, but should be close to the suburbs, and most of the suburbs of Gotham do not have so many trees. Wanda thought that this should be a very special place, and the forest is an important clue to determine her location.

Soon the car stopped, and Wanda found that this was actually a crematorium. This time she was really a little surprised.

The United States has a large land area and a small population, so although there is no particular emphasis on burial, most people can afford a cemetery. Many communities also provide public cemeteries, and viewing the appearance is an indispensable part of the funeral. Most people will choose to lie in a coffin and be buried.

However, because the East Coast is close to the sea, many people choose to bury at sea, that is, to scatter the ashes into the sea. In this case, the remains need to be burned. In addition, Gotham was more chaotic a few years ago, and there were often gang fights and corpses left behind. Such corpses are generally burned, which is more cost-effective.

What surprised Wanda was not that this was a crematorium, but that this crematorium was very new. At first glance, it was not an old building, but most of the crematoriums that can be seen in the United States are a few years old.

This is understandable. The population of the United States has always been stable, and the country has not experienced devastating wars. Most of the buildings related to the population were built when the country was founded. The population has not exploded, so there is no need to build new ones. Just repair and use them.

This is even more true for buildings like crematoriums. Gotham's population has been this size for decades, and the number of people using the crematorium has remained unchanged for decades. There is no need to build a new one. The city government will not build this thing even if it has a lot of money to burn.

Moreover, in the religious culture of the United States, cemeteries are praised as the closest place to heaven. Having a cemetery around a house will increase land prices, but crematoriums are different. In Christian culture, hell is a space full of flames, and people don't have a good impression of crematoriums.

If a place wants to build a crematorium, it must be signed and agreed by all residents of the community. If one person does not sign, it will be difficult to build it. How did this new-looking crematorium come to be built?

Scarlet Witch's eyes lit up red light. Her intuition told her that this was not a good place and was full of ominous atmosphere, but she couldn't tell what was wrong. She could only gather her strength and prepare herself.

The light in Raven's eyes went out, and she showed a puzzled expression. Dick, who was watching the surveillance camera, looked back at her and said, "What's wrong? Is there anything unusual?"

"There is a car...a car from the crematorium in the east. The replicants I arranged to monitor the street in the hotel opposite the crematorium saw this car drive to the side door. Is this normal?"

"Could it be a body to be cremated?"

"But it should go through the front door." Raven said: "In recent days, the bodies brought in for cremation have all gone through the front door, and the coffins will be carried out in front of the door. Why did this car go to the side door? "

"Could it be a private car?" Dick began to look for surveillance cameras. He said, "Did you see the license plate number?"

"No, but you only need to check the surveillance of that street to see it. I have sent someone there."

Dick was operating on the computer. Not long after, a black car appeared on the screen. He watched the car slowly drive across the street and turn a corner, going around the back of the crematorium. However, there was no surveillance there, so he could not see how many people were in the car or whether there was a coffin.

"I'm trying to get in." The purple magic light in Raven's eyes flickered, and two figures approached the crematorium stealthily, but soon, one of them was discovered by the crematorium's security guard.

"Something's wrong." Raven frowned deeply and said, "These two clones are agents, how come this security guard..."

Suddenly she took a breath, grabbed Dick's arm and said, "This security guard has a gun!"

Dick held her hand back and said, "Calm down, it's normal for security guards in places like this to have guns, probably to prevent people from causing trouble..."

"No, not a rifle you can buy in a gun store!" Raven said, "A pistol! And it has a silencer!"

Dick stood up in an instant.

Although it is not difficult to buy a gun in the United States, and New Jersey's gun control is not strict, it is for rifles and shotguns that are very easy to be discovered and easy to hide. The control of pistols that can be used for assassinations is still relatively strict, and silencers are not allowed to be sold to private individuals, and the police can't get them.

This proves inversely that once someone has a silencer in his hand, he must want to do bad things, because if the benefits he can get from this silencer are not big enough, he will not go to the trouble to get it. There may not be one innocent person out of a hundred.

It's normal for a security guard to hold a gun, but it's not normal to hold a pistol with a silencer. Dick grabbed Raven's arm, told her to calm down, and then said: "Get your people to stay away."

"It may be too late." Raven bit her lip and said, "I didn't know there was a problem with this crematorium. If they are doing something shady now, I must have alerted the snake."

"Don't worry." Dick's mood has always been stable. He kept stroking Raven's back to relieve her anxiety, and then said: "If they are really doing something shady, especially related to personal abuse, you By disturbing them, you might save people.”

"But will they jump over the wall in a hurry..."

"You said there is a hotel opposite the crematorium? Is the floor higher than the crematorium?"

"Yes, it looks like four or five floors higher."

"Take me over now. We can use a telescope to see what's going on on the other side. I also have a stealth drone provided by Tim. If the other party doesn't have any interference means, maybe we can fly in and have a look."

Raven calmed down a little, she took a deep breath, and with a flash of purple light, she and Dick appeared in the room where the clone she had placed before was located.

The angle of this room is very good, not only can it have an unobstructed view of the street below, but it can also see all the windows of the crematorium.

It was already after get off work time, and the employees of the crematorium were walking out one after another. Dick looked around with a telescope and found nothing unusual. Then he went to the window on the side of the room and released the drone.

Dick stared at the screen closely, and Raven also came closer. The drone flew in through the gap in the open window and circled back and forth inside the four floors. But no matter how you looked at it, it was just an ordinary office scene.

The drone flew out of the rear window, and as soon as it flew out, it photographed the car parked at the side door, which was the black car that appeared in the surveillance camera.

There was a driver with a mean face sitting in the driving seat of the car. The drone came a little closer, which made Raven very nervous, because the drone was only optically invisible. Although the noise was very small, there was still airflow when flying. , she was too worried about being discovered.

But Dick's hands were steady from beginning to end, and there was no sign of any nervousness. He controlled the drone and slowly approached the driver's seat. Suddenly, the driver moved.

The raven almost screamed, but Dick remained motionless. Fortunately, the driver reached out and picked up the phone and spoke over there.

"What? An agent is coming? Are you sure?"

The raven bit her lip. She shouldn't have approached rashly. The clone was an agent, but she was not. She had no experience in this field at all, so she was still alert.

"You guys are making too much fuss." The driver snorted and said, "We agreed to only make this trip. If we make another trip, I won't do it unless you give me 50,000 yuan. After all, the investigation is strict now. If Gordon is the tough guy, If the Evil God catches me, I will go to jail..."

"They are indeed doing something bad." Raven lowered his voice and said, "Are they trying to destroy the body?"

The driver picked out his ears again, blew on his fingers and said, "I've told you a long time ago. It turns out that I help the gangs pull out corpses, but now you insist on getting a living person, how can you blame me for increasing the price?" ? 50,000, I won’t do anything less.”

Raven's eyes widened and she said, "Did you hear what he said? A living person! They got a living person!"

The person on the other end of the phone couldn't hear clearly what he said, but he could tell that he was angry. But in the end the call was still hung up. Dick controlled the drone and waited there for a while, but no one came out. When it was dark, the driver drove away alone.

While letting the drone circle around the crematorium, Dick said: "It seems they haven't agreed on a price, and the other party can't transfer the hostages, but that's the case. There weren't many kidnappers when the gang was still there, and there are even fewer now. ”

Raven was still a little nervous, but she still asked instinctively: "Why?"

"If there is a grudge, then just kill him. If it is for money, there are too many dangers in the transaction process. If you have time to rob a bank, it will make more money, even if you use your family to blackmail the other party to do things, there is no point If you really need to tie him up, find out the routes that the other person’s family usually travels, and then go and send something to them to achieve the purpose of threatening them.”

"Then who do you think they will kidnap, and who is worth their trouble?"

"And those small number of unfortunate situations basically have the same reason." Dick continued: "The kidnapper has a secret that cannot be known by others. Only by holding the lifeblood of the insider in his hands can he truly ensure that the other party obedient."

Suddenly, his movement of controlling the drone paused. Raven looked at the screen. On the mountain behind the crematorium, there was a very hidden road among the dense grass. Follow this path and walk halfway up the mountain. There is an abandoned door. The door of the air raid shelter appeared in front of them.