That night, Kai and Kelly still had a two-person world. After all, he had just arrived and many things had not yet fully unfolded, so for the time being, he could not do much. In addition to the agreement with Kelly, Kai went home early.
When Kai came to the police station refreshed the next day, what he saw was a spectacular scene. Most of the detectives in the police station were sleeping on their desks in various positions. Apparently, these guys didn't go home all night and stayed at the police station all night.
"Ahem, everyone, if you don't want to be caught by Teresa in the office to greet your mother, you must get up and work quickly." Kai also knew that it was a bit too much to leave a group of colleagues to go home and live alone last night, so in the morning When I came here, I found a good dessert shop and ordered dozens of coffees and donuts. Especially donuts, which are irresistible to Americans with a sweet tooth.
Most police officers choose donuts as snacks over other snacks. After all, it’s high in calories, high in sugar, easy to use with one hand, and very cheap. What's more, this thing's 24-hour storefront is the most common in the United States. Police officers who need to work overtime in the middle of the night need this kind of thing most, and they have become its loyal customers over time. Of course, Kai won't buy the kind of high-end products. The 'Charlie and Jerry' donut shop that Kai chooses is an elite store with more than 75 years of experience. Their donuts are crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, and fragrant. Rich and rich, with a perfect golden ratio of sugar paint and flour, it is sweet but not greasy and makes you want to keep eating. Everyone’s favorites are the vanilla bean donut and maple bacon donut.
Only 300 of these two classic donuts are made every day, which is very difficult to buy. Of course, more importantly, its taste is as impressive as its price. A six-pack donut set costs $78. !
The price is so limited that it’s insane. But this is the price for others, whether they like it or not.
A group of people were initially full of resentment when Kai woke them up. After all, these people were either screwed into the interrogation room and scrutinized all night yesterday, or they were looking for clues everywhere. They had no time to rest. They finally waited until dawn and could take a rest, but the result was that Being disturbed by Kai, it would be strange not to have any resentment.
The aroma of the donuts immediately made them forget about complaining, and they all took the donuts and ate them with all their might.
That stuff is really delicious.
Kai handed a donut to Mike and Marcus and asked, "How's it going? Did you get anything?"
"Harvest? Does another murder count?"
"You found the guy who installed the ventilation ducts?"
"Well, we found his house last night. The person has been dead for three days. The body has decomposed." This is also thanks to the fact that the temperature in Chicago is not too high, otherwise the body that has been left for three days would definitely be enough for them to drink a pot. . "That guy was a gambler and owed a lot of debt. He was obviously bribed by the gang and then silenced."
When they found the guy, his throat had been slit, his blood had been drained, and a dagger was nailed to his arm. The dagger has been taken for testing, and I hope there will be some harvest from it, but the hope is not high.
"anything else?"
"And..." Mike's mind was still groggy. After thinking for a while, he said: "I have arranged for people to inquire to see if there are any new faces spending a lot of money to have fun recently. In addition, I also found some people in the Experts on the road, let’s see if we can find some information from them.”
Mike found an informant of his. He said he was an informant, but in fact he was almost a lover. She was a girl. Her younger brother was caught by Mike himself. Then Mike allowed her to serve as an informant on the condition that her brother's sentence be reduced. Man, gather some information.
The girl's name is Max, and she is familiar with many people from all walks of life. She has a wide network of contacts. More importantly, she is familiar with many old madams. It would be best for her to inquire about this kind of thing.
"I hope there is progress." Kai said, and then he asked: "Is there anything I need to do next?"
Marcus glanced at Kai and heard something behind his words. "What? You need help?"
"That's not true. I have something to do. If you don't need my help here, I want to deal with the matter here first." Kai received a call last night from William. The old man worked so efficiently that even Kai didn't expect it. According to him, he got some undisclosed information from an FBI friend and got some clues. So I immediately called Kai.
Kai planned to go to William's place today to see what the 'darkness' Matthew was talking about was.
Marcus and Mike looked at each other. Although they didn't need Kai to help with anything, now that the bureau had such a big case, everyone was tense, but Kai still had to deal with it. Personal matter, this is a bit much. So even though they don't necessarily need Kai's help, they still feel unhappy.
Seeing their looks, Kai felt the need to explain.
"It's Matthew. No matter what happens to him, he is still my partner. Now he suddenly quits. It's too embarrassing for me to be alone here. I thought about looking for him to see if I could get him Please come back."
"Okay, but I think, that's hard, that guy is a freak," Marcus said.
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"Based on your information, I found the case that Matthew is investigating. I have to say that this guy is a real man. Look, this is the case that Matthew and his partner Martin handled back then."
"A case of cult corpse abuse?"
"Yap!" William said as he took off his glasses.
Kai took the file handed over by William. There is a big red seal printed on the dossier - Top Secret!
"Where did you get this? It's illegal." The red seal on it indicates that the confidentiality level of this file is very high, at least it is not accessible to people of Kai and William's level. But now that William has taken these things out, that can only mean one thing. William did not obtain them by legal means.
"I have a friend who happens to be in charge of these files. Don't worry, this is a copy. There will be no problem. My friend is a professional." As a police legend in Chicago for 45 years, Old William's connections cannot be underestimated, and People like him are not stupid enough to believe that formal procedures can solve all problems. He has many channels at his disposal. If he lives long enough, he will naturally know many people with different identities and backgrounds.
Kai opened the file and William gave him a summary.
"Back then, they discovered a cult from a corpse abuse case, a cult organization that believed in the 'King in Yellow'. I won't talk about the rest. You have the files. They found the murderer of the first case and killed him. They rescued two underage girls and a little boy by the way. The little boy died, and the other little girl could not be rescued because she was overdosed with hallucinogens. The case ended like this. But I found out A doubt point was raised. The 'King in Yellow', 'Kakosa' and a 'Scarfaced Man' mentioned these three words many times in the documents they described, but there was no progress in this regard afterwards. Also, Ledo, the murderer in this case, is considered a serial murderer and is related to at least two murders. And he is also a cultist."
As William spoke, he took out some other case files.
"I thought it was not that simple, so I searched again in the archives to see if I could find anything else. Unexpectedly, I found something wrong in the missing persons file."
Kai immediately took over the files and found that they were all cases of missing women and children. At first glance, there is no connection between these missing cases. Most of them disappeared in different places and at different times. Apart from the similarity of being women and children, there is no intersection.
"Do you still remember that you told me that Matthew harassed the archbishop of the Diocese of Chicago? I checked and found that this bishop once hosted a public welfare project. It is called the Siyuan Project. The original intention of the project is to help those who cannot afford to read Children with books can study with the support of the church. But... this plan was hit hard at the beginning. Their first school was quickly closed because it involved child abuse, but this did not affect the entire plan. Expand. The archbishop’s schools are opening more and more, but that’s not the point. The point is, when I combined the locations of the schools Siyuan planned to open with the locations of the disappearances, I found that those disappearances all occurred within the school!”
"It seems that your new partner has caused big trouble!" William put down his glasses and said slightly depressed: "If my guess is correct, there will definitely not be just one bishop involved in this matter. So many The disappearance cases have never been reported in the society, and there are no law enforcement agencies to investigate. Even the local police have not paid more attention to them. They just reported them as ordinary disappearance cases and then left them alone. This is not normal. If the number of missing people If there are too many, someone will definitely notice it, but now no one cares or even knows about these things. This is not something that a bishop can do. There are many people involved behind this case!"
William held the coffee cup, as if hoping to warm his heart with the heat of the coffee. "What's wrong with this world? It's so crazy that I almost don't recognize it. I'm even beginning to miss the old times now. Even the Ku Klux Klan is not as crazy as this group of people."
Kai silently looked through all the case files and then put them away. "I don't know what's going on in the world, but I know that this matter can never end like this. I will handle it. Don't get involved in this case anymore, and don't talk about this case to others. Leave it to me. "
William opened his mouth, seemingly reluctant.
"Hey, old man, your old bones can't withstand such a storm. It's time for young people to dominate the world. You'd better just hide behind and be a backup!" After that, he left calmly.
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On the interstate leaving Chicago, Matthew drove his red pickup truck with a dull expression.
Matthew has been in a bad state recently. He feels like someone is watching him wherever he goes. This feeling has been tormenting him. But he knew that it was not an illusion, and someone was indeed watching him.
And he knew why. Because of the case he is investigating.
Since the case that made him and Martin famous, Matthew has been wondering about what happened that year.
He had heard the words 'King in Yellow', 'Kakosa' and 'Scarfaced Man' from more than one person. But the problem was that after they found Ledoux, due to Martin's impulse, he shot LeDoux's death has cut off the thread.
What happened in LeDoux's lair was completely different from the version they told others, and they lied.
They told others that they had been involved in a fierce gunfight with LeDoux and LeDoux's associates, eventually killing them. But the fact is that their arrest went very smoothly, incredibly smoothly, and they caught Ledoux and his accomplices.
But after Martin saw the tragic situation of the children kidnapped by Ledoux and the others, Martin broke out and shot and killed Ledoux. In order to help Martin cover up the facts, Matthew had to kill LeDoux's accomplices and arrange the scene to look like a scene after a gunfight.
Although this made them successful, Matthew always knew that they had not completed the case. He still had no idea what the 'King in Yellow', 'Kakosa' and 'Scarfaced Man' meant. .
Until three years ago, when he was interrogating a robbery case, he undoubtedly heard the words "King in Yellow" and "Kakosa" again, which made Matthew realize that he still had things to do! So he launched the investigation again. As a result, halfway through the investigation, he was suppressed by the top management, and surveillance has been with him since then.
During the past three years, he had tried many methods, but still made no progress. This made Matthew understand that everything about him was under the eyes of others and he had to make changes. If he wants to seek justice for those who were murdered back then, he must escape all surveillance.
Leaving the police station was his first step.
The second step is to get rid of surveillance. Leaving Chicago was a good start.
Just as Matthew was thinking wildly, a siren sounded from behind the car. Matthew glanced in the rearview mirror and saw it was a state police cruiser. The police car kept signaling to Matthew to pull over. Matthew frowned, but did as he was told.
After the car stopped, two state troopers in police uniforms got out of the police car, one white and one Hispanic. They held the handles of their guns with one hand, leaned over from both sides, and shouted in a leisurely manner: "Please put your hands where we can see them."
As they approached the car window, two state troopers asked Matthew for his driver's license.
Matthew picked up his driver's license and handed it over, asking, "What's the problem?"
The white state trooper took his driver's license, compared it with the photo on the driver's license, and said casually: "You were speeding!"
Matthew remembers clearly that his driving speed was not fast, not even more than 60 kilometers. This made Matthew alert. The two state police officers were obviously here to cause trouble.
"Okay, get out of the car." The white state trooper outside the car door said.
Matthew did as he was asked and got out of the car.
The two state policemen immediately took two steps back. They had already unbuckled their holsters with their right hands and said, "Now we suspect that you are carrying illegal drugs. Please put your hands on the roof of the car and cooperate with our inspection."
Matthew understood that these two people definitely had malicious intentions. Just when he was about to fight back, suddenly there was a roar of engines on the highway. A Cobra 427 roared towards this direction, the speed of which was at least over 120 kilometers.
The two state troopers immediately inserted their half-drawn pistols back in. Obviously this was not a good time to take action. They planned to wait until the Cobra left before making any plans.
But what was terrible was that the sports car was parked right next to them.
"Hey, Matthew! Finally found you."
"Kay?" Matthew asked confused.
"I think we need to talk." Kai said directly to Matthew without even looking at the two state troopers.
"What to talk about?"
"Talk about the King in Yellow." Matthew's expression changed immediately after Kai's words, as did the two state troopers. After hearing Kai's words, they immediately drew their guns and shouted: "Police! We suspect..."
But before he finished speaking, the two state troopers swallowed back what they were about to say.
Because Kai drew his gun faster than them, before they could aim at the two of them, Kai's two guns were pointed at their heads.
Kai shook his head at them and said, "Want to see whose gun is faster?"
Matthew also moved here. He kicked the state trooper next to him in the knee. The moment the state trooper fell down, he kicked him in the butt, giving him a shit-kicking kick, and then pressed him with his knee. He held the state trooper's hands behind his back, removed his pistol, controlled his hands, and finally cuffed him with state trooper handcuffs.
Another state trooper was just about to save his companion when the cold muzzle of his gun was pressed against his temple.
"do not move."
"You are assaulting a police officer! It's a felony!" The state policeman wanted to intimidate the other party.
"Really? Don't you know that we are also police officers, Detective Chief of the CPD Headquarters Detective Bureau, Kai Wein. Are you still going to continue pretending to be police officers? Please be more professional next time you pretend to be police officers."
As soon as Kai came over, he discovered that these two people were fake policemen, for no other reason than the license plate. Illinois police vehicles are government vehicles, and there will be ILExempt underneath the license plate, indicating that they are Illinois government vehicles.
