It was the last day of December when a heavy snowfall covered the whole of Hounslow, Snow White capped as if it could cover up all the ugly things in the world.
On New Year’s Eve, Candy and Bick’s wedding invitations were delivered to the crowd.
The wedding is scheduled for the eighth day of the year and has been in preparation for most of the year.
On the one hand, Candy is very busy with her work at IM, and Bick is not free either. The Blue Eagle reserve team has always been her head coach, so she simply cannot leave.
It was Max Zhou who helped with the wedding.
After IM finished handing out a box of invitations, there were only a few left in hand.
Candy flipped it over, “How does Farren deliver this one?”
Bick took a look at it, reached over, and said, “The captain’s share, I’ll just send it over tonight, just as the army side sent out New Year’s Eve holiday gifts, I’ll bring it over to him by the way.”
“Farren’s not in the army tonight?”
“Well, go home.”
“Is it Ann’s day off?”
“Thursday, it’s not a holiday until tomorrow.”
“Then won’t there be no one at home?”
Candy said this, Bick only hindsight to remember, “right oh, probably a long time since I went back, so go back to change the mood.”
The two didn’t think too much about it. After the remaining copies were sent out in IM, Candy had to work late, so Bick drove to the cottage by himself with the copy of the invitation for Farren Austin.
The villa is located in a very quiet and secluded place, since the park inside the incident, the original residents living here moved out one after another a lot, the good rich area more and more desolate up.
It was almost dark when Bick arrived, so she pulled over and took the invitation and prepared to knock on the door.
Just about to get out of the car, the windshield before seeing a woman’s figure into the courtyard, wearing a hat mask scarf, head down to see the look, was wrapped in a wide black fleece suit tightly, the line is in a hurry.
Bick froze for a while without looking back.
After a long time, no one came out, she took the invitation and went down to knock on the door.
It took more than three minutes of ringing the doorbell before the door was opened, revealing Farren Austin’s cold, hard, rigid face, which was hard to find the disheveled look of a while ago.
Bick said, “Captain, I’ve come to deliver your invitation.”
Farren Austin frowned, “Come on in.”
There were two cups on the coffee table, one of which bore a light lipstick mark.
Bick corner of the eye untraceable will be the whole house around Chambers a circle, and finally eyes locked in the first floor of the bathroom.
“Captain, I’m going to the bathroom.”
“Go upstairs, the bathroom on the first floor is broken and you can’t use it.”
“It’s okay, I’ll just wash my hands.”
“The sink doesn’t work.”
Farren Austin stopped in front of her, clearly seeing her intentions, but did not explain a word.
The two men stalled for a moment, and Bick looked him in the eye and asked, “Captain, you’re hiding something from everyone?”
Farren Austin was noncommittal, “Still going to the bathroom?”
“Not going.”
Bick suddenly felt a tightness in his chest and clenched his fist, “I have something else to do, I’ll leave first.”
With that, she walked towards the door, and when she reached the door she seemed to be unconvinced and turned back and said, “Captain, as much as I want you to walk out, Amelia has only been gone for so little time, you have gone a little too far.”
Farren Austin frowned, “Take the door with you when you leave.”
Hearing this, Bick’s lungs exploded with anger, gritting his teeth and slamming the door.
All of them were worried about Farren Austin, but it’s only been a few months and he’s already forgotten all about Amelia Bright and brought home another woman.
There is simply no good thing about men.
After the sound of the engine outside the yard died down, Farren Austin covered a corner of the curtain and rushed in the direction of the washroom saying, “People are gone, come on out.”
In the washroom, the woman pushed open the door and walked out. The woman looked beautiful, wearing a pure black professional suit, with long chestnut brown wavy hair draped over her shoulders and a deep silhouette, like a mixed race.
She was also holding a miniature laptop for data transfer and some paper documents.
The mouth is authentic Beijing accent, “This is all the information, the three kidnappers all previous convictions are here, before and after the kidnapping case, three people received five million hush money from different channels.”
“What about the abduction escape route that day?”
“Here it is,” the woman said as she flipped open the computer with a map of Hounslow, a red line running across Hounslow, “I’ve researched it, it’s all the flattest roads, and the car they’re driving is a converted medical car, very solid, not at all like what the average kidnapper would do thing to do.”
Whether it’s choosing an avenue to escape or using a medical vehicle to carry someone, neither of these actions would be something a professional kidnapper would do.
The final dump site is not too far from downtown Hounslow.
After zooming in on the map, the woman added, “There’s one more big suspicion, it’s not like they’re trying to escape with people at all, their route is circling around this flat triangle in the south and west of the city, from eleven o’clock at night to the early morning, and finally stopped here.”
Farren Austin looked at the location marked with a blue circle on the map and his face grew tighter, “They switched cars here.”
“Yes, changed a van before going from this address, to here, throwing people into the river, from the autopsy results, there is no trauma on the body, confirming that it was drowning, but it is here there is still a doubt.”
“What’s the query?”
“She showed no signs of struggle after being thrown into the river, as if she was already dead, and it was impossible to fully determine whether she died before or after being thrown into the river.”
“Isn’t drowning confirmed?”
“It is confirmed, but …” the woman felt that the explanation was not clear, so she turned over a paper file, “This is the file of a homicide case in Mississippi two years ago, the husband became a vegetable, the wife drowned him in the river. This autopsy results and the one we have, almost exactly match.”
Farren Austin looked understandable, his eyes instantly became gloomy, “You are saying that such an autopsy result can only be caused by an incapacitated person being thrown into the river.”
“Right.”
That is, Amelia Bright was already in a semi-vegetative state before she was thrown into the river.
After analyzing all the information at hand, Farren Austin did not speak for a long time.
The woman packed up her things and glanced at the time, “Captain, I’m out of time and have to go.”
He snapped back, “Well, good.”
“I’ll keep an eye out for Amelia, and I’ll find the murderer.”
“The most important thing now is not the murderer.”
The woman’s movement to put on her jacket paused for a moment, revealing a look of disbelief.
“It’s not a kidnapping, and it’s not a murder.”
“Captain, what do you mean by that?”
Farren Austin said word for word the suspicion, “medical car, driving around in circles in the flat open, and finally changing cars to leave a vegetative person behind, I need time to think about what they are up to.”
Perhaps, it has something to do with something he has always suspected.