OBS Chapter 2994: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (28)
Chapter 2994: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (28)
Chapter 2994: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (Twenty-Eight)
The car drove for a long time, and Wanda felt that the driver took many turns and brought her to a very remote place. If she was a Gotham native, 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. 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 crimson power spread too far, and it only spread a few kilometers around the car. Although she did not know the exact location of the place, after the car drove past a road, she found a large forest on one side of the road.
This proves that this is definitely not the urban area, but should be close to the suburbs, and most of the suburbs of Gotham do not have so many trees. Wanda thought that this must 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. She was really surprised.
The United States has a vast 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. Moreover, viewing the deceased's appearance is an indispensable part of the funeral, and most people choose to be buried in a coffin.
However, because the East Coast is close to the sea, many people choose sea burial, which means scattering the ashes into the sea. In this case, the body needs to be burned. In addition, Gotham was quite chaotic a few years ago, and there were often gang fights that left corpses. These corpses were generally burned to save costs.
What surprised Wanda was not that this was a crematorium, but that it was very new. It was obviously not an old building. However, most of the crematoriums seen in the United States are quite old.
This is understandable. The population of the United States has always been stable, and the country has not experienced a devastating war. Most of the population-related buildings were built when the country was founded. The population has not grown explosively, so there is no need for new construction. It is enough to just repair and repair them so that they can be used.
This is especially true for buildings like crematoriums. Gotham's population has reached this size decades ago, and the number of people using the crematorium has remained unchanged for decades. There is no need to build a new one. Even if the city government has a lot of money, it will not build such a thing.
Moreover, in the religious culture of the United States, cemeteries are regarded as the places closest to heaven. Having a cemetery around a house will cause the land price to rise. However, it is different for crematoriums. In Christian culture, hell is a space full of flames, and people do not have a good impression of crematoriums.
If a place wants to build a crematorium, all residents of the community must sign their consent. If one person does not sign, it will be difficult to build it. So how did this new-looking crematorium get built?
A faint red light flashed in Scarlet Witch's eyes. Her intuition told her that this was not a good place and it was filled with an ominous aura. However, she couldn't tell what was strange. She could only restrain 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's a car... a car from the crematorium to the east. The clones I deployed to the hotel opposite the crematorium to monitor the street saw this car drive to the side door. Is this normal?"
"Could it be that there is a body to be cremated?"
"But they should go through the front door." Raven said, "In recent days, all the bodies brought in for cremation have gone through the front door, and the coffins were carried out in front of the door. Why did this car go through the side door?"
"Could it be a private car?" Dick began to look through the 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 already sent someone over."
Dick was operating on the computer, and after a while, a black car appeared on the screen. He watched the car slowly drive across the street, turn a corner, and go behind the crematorium. However, there was no surveillance there, so he couldn't see how many people were in the car or whether there was a coffin.
"I'm trying to get in." The purple magical 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. Why is this security guard..."
Suddenly she gasped, grabbed Dick's arm and said, "This security guard has a gun!"
Dick held her hand and said, "Calm down. It's normal for security guards in places like this to have guns. It's probably to prevent trouble..."
"No, it's not a rifle you can buy in a gun store!" Raven said, "A pistol! And it has a silencer!"
Dick stood up immediately.
Although it is not very difficult to buy a gun in the United States and gun control in New Jersey is not strict, the control is still relatively strict for rifles and shotguns that are very easy to detect and hide. Pistols that can be used for assassinations are still strictly controlled. Silencers are not allowed to be sold to private individuals and the police cannot get them.
This proves in reverse that once someone has a silencer in his hand, he definitely wants to do something bad, because if the benefits he can get from the silencer are not big enough, he will not go to the trouble to get it, and it is not certain that even if you catch a hundred people, there will not be one innocent one.
It was normal for a security guard to hold a gun, but it was not normal to hold a pistol with a silencer. Dick grabbed Raven's arm, asked her to calm down, and then said, "Tell your people to move away."
"It may be too late." Raven bit his lip and said, "I didn't know there was anything wrong with this crematorium. If they are doing something shady now, I must have alerted them."
"Don't worry." Dick's mood has been very stable. He kept stroking Raven's back to relieve her anxiety, and then said: "If they are really doing something shameful, especially involving personal injury, you disturbed them and might save people."
"But will they be desperate and do something desperate..."
"You said there's a hotel across from the crematorium? Is the floor higher than the crematorium?"
"Yes, about four or five stories higher."
"Take me over now. We can use telescopes to see the situation on the other side. I also have a stealth drone provided by Tim. If the other side doesn't have any means of interference, maybe we can fly in and take a look."
Raven calmed down a bit, she took a deep breath, and with a flash of purple light, she and Dick appeared in the room where the clones she had placed earlier were.
The angle of this room is very good. Not only can you have a clear view of the street downstairs, but you can also see all the windows of the crematorium.
It was already time to get off work, and the employees of the crematorium were walking out one after another. Dick looked around with a telescope and didn't find anything unusual. Then he went to the window on the side of the room and released the drone.
Dick stared at the screen closely, and the raven came over. The drone flew in through the gap of the open window and circled back and forth inside the four-story building, but no matter how you looked at it, it was just an ordinary office scene.
The drone flew out from the rear window and immediately captured a picture of the car parked at the side door, which was the black car that appeared in the surveillance camera.
There was a driver with a fat face sitting in the driving seat of the car. The drone moved a little closer, which made Raven very nervous, because the drone was only optically invisible. Although the noise was very small, there was still air currents when flying. She was really worried about being discovered.
But Dick kept his hands steady from beginning to end, and he didn't seem nervous at all. He controlled the drone and slowly approached the driver's seat. Suddenly, the driver moved.
Raven nearly screamed, but Dick still didn't move, but luckily the driver reached for his phone and spoke over there.
"What? An agent is coming? Are you sure?"
Raven bit her lip tightly. She shouldn't have gotten so close. The clones were agents, but she was not. She had no experience in this area and she ended up alerting the enemy.
"You're making a fuss out of nothing." The driver snorted and said, "We agreed to only make this one trip. If you don't give me 5 yuan for another trip, I won't do it. After all, the inspection is strict now. If I get caught by Gordon, the iron-faced devil, I'll be in jail for the rest of my life..."
"They are really doing something bad." Raven lowered his voice and said, "Are they trying to destroy the body?"
The driver picked his ears again, blew on his fingers and said, "I told you a long time ago that I was a gangster who hauled corpses, but now you insist on getting a living person. Can you still blame me for raising the price? 5, I won't do it even a penny less."
Raven's eyes widened and he said, "Did you hear what he said? A living person! They got a living person!"
It was difficult to hear clearly what the person on the other end of the phone said, but one could hear that he was very angry. In the end, the call was hung up. Dick controlled the drone and waited there for a while, but no one came out. When it was just getting dark, the driver drove away alone.
Dick let the drone circle the crematorium and said, "It seems that they didn't reach an agreement on the price, so the other party couldn't move the hostages. But that's true. When the gangs were still around, there weren't many people who did kidnapping, and now there are even fewer."
Raven was still a little nervous, but she instinctively asked, "Why?"
"If there is a grudge, just kill them directly. If you want money, there are too many dangerous points in the transaction process. It is more profitable to rob a bank with this time. Even if you use the family to threaten the other party to do something, there is no need to really kidnap them. Find out the routes where the other party's family often moves, and send something to achieve the purpose of threatening."
"Who do you think they'll kidnap, then? Who's worth all the trouble?"
"And the small number of unfortunate cases that occurred basically all had the same reason." Dick continued, "The kidnappers have a secret that cannot be known by others. Only by grasping the lifeline of the person who knows the secret can they truly ensure that the other party obeys."
Suddenly, he paused in controlling the drone. Raven looked at the screen. On the back mountain of the crematorium, there was a very hidden path among the dense grass. Following this path to the halfway point of the mountain, the door of an abandoned air-raid shelter appeared in front of the two.