Chapter 288 Setting up a trap
Chapter 288 Setting up a trap
"Ah? But..."
"Isn't the case still under investigation? Why is it suddenly..."
"Are we going to give up the operation? But everyone is not here yet..."
"I seemed to hear a gunshot just now. Did something happen?..."
The police officers started to talk to each other, and they all said they didn't want to leave. The man in the leather jacket had a gloomy face and was about to fire a warning shot when he saw Meilin's eyes telling him not to be impulsive.
"Everyone, listen to me."
Meilin stepped forward and said in a friendly manner, "I have contacted the county police department to approve a special budget. When you return, your allowance for this field mission will still be paid as normal, and you will also receive an extra week of fully paid vacation."
As soon as these words were spoken, the police officers who had been reluctant to leave suddenly burst into cheers of "Long live the army" and whistles rang out one after another.
"Vanessa Castle needs to be cleared as soon as possible." Meilin sighed and said, "Please cooperate with us, okay?"
The police officers smiled and made an OK sign to Meilin, then walked towards the castle gate without asking any more questions.
"So they were worried that if they left work early without completing the investigation, they would not get overtime compensation." Ning Zhe couldn't help laughing. It turned out that this was the reason why they were so reluctant to leave.
Ning Zhe was hesitating whether he should follow the main group to leave Vanessa Castle and then find a chance to sneak in, or simply find a reason to stay here. While hesitating, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the female police officer named Susie who had just spoken to him. She did not leave with the main group, but was walking back against the flow of people.
"Ok?"
"Why are you still here?" Meilin frowned slightly and looked vigilantly at the female police officer who was walking towards her.
The members of the investigation team glanced at Susie's right hand and found that all five fingers were intact. The tense atmosphere finally eased.
Susie glanced at the gun in the leather jacket man's hand and said carefully: "My brother Sunak is also a field police officer in this operation. We agreed to meet in the open space in front of the clock tower, but when we gathered just now, I didn't see him..."
Marylin looked down at the attendance list and saw that Sunak was one of the three police officers who had lost contact.
The police officers on duty this time were in groups of three, and all three members of Sunak's team have lost contact.
Sheriff Ebonick and several other members of the investigation team were rechecking the police officers who had been pulled out one by one at the main gate of the castle. Meilin put away the list and asked, "When was the last time you saw your brother?"
"Sunak and I are from different teams. We followed our respective team leaders and went our separate ways as soon as we entered Vanessa Castle." Susie said, taking out her phone and opening the social app, showing the chat history on the screen to Meilin: "The last message he sent was about half an hour ago, and then he called me again."
Meilin took the phone and took a look. There were both voice and text messages in the chat history. The two siblings had a brief chat about what to buy when they went to visit their parents after get off work. It was very homely content, mixed with a few words about work.
After a few text messages, her brother Sunak sent a 2-second voice message. Meilin clicked on it and it said: "Oh, the team leader is calling me. It's time to go."
"After he was called away by the team leader, he called again about 7-8 minutes later." Susie opened the call record interface and continued, "But after the call was connected, there was no sound from the other end. After a pause, it was hung up. So I was a little worried. Did Sunak and his team encounter something?"
Meilin looked back at the chat history and found that the last few messages were from Susie to Sunak, asking him about the call he had just made, but she received no reply.
Seeing this, Meilin was basically certain that the three members of Sunak's team were in great danger.
The rest of the police officers had been evacuated. The investigation team and Sheriff Ebonick returned to the clock tower from the city gate. Meilin returned the phone to Susie and said to the man in the leather jacket, "The lady's brother and two police officers are missing."
The man in leather jacket crossed his arms across his chest, his expression not looking good: "It seems the situation is far more serious than we thought." The Frimmisret family had just noticed the strange movements in Vanessa Castle not long ago. They hurried here and mobilized police forces to cordon off the scene and confirm the situation, but they were still a step too slow.
Now it seems that the situation in Vanessa Castle is far worse than they thought.
"The 'necromancer' buried deep underground may have escaped. His power has begun to overflow from the sealed prison and affect the real world." Meilin looked back and saw the towering bell tower. "Even in the worst case scenario... the power of the devil has been successfully controlled by the uninvited intruder."
The man in leather jacket understood what she meant: "If that's the case, at least one of us will die here."
The Flimmisret family would not allow an outsider to steal their ancestral home.
The outsider who controls the 'Necromancer' will never let them go.
For an ascender, from the moment you know his core rules, he will never stop fighting you.
The man in leather jacket snatched the phone from Susie, and the members of the investigation team passed it around, quickly browsed through the chat history between the siblings, and then returned the phone to Susie.
The four male investigation team members all pulled out their guns. The man in the leather jacket patted the confused female police officer Susie and said, "The last place your brother was missing was on the third floor of the clock tower. Come with us and let's go find him together."
"Take me with you." Sheriff Ebonick also pulled out his gun: "As a sheriff, I can't let my officers make any more mistakes."
"More people means more strength." The man in leather jacket did not refuse.
Plumeria, wearing a black dress and a loose suit jacket, still stood quietly in front of the chessboard. She did not express any opinions, but walked silently to the other side of the chessboard and pushed a chess piece engraved with a "rook" forward two squares.
During the time when the investigation team evacuated the police officers, she did nothing except playing chess with herself.
Meilin stood by her side and skillfully opened a black umbrella, covering the two of them.
"His Highness and our safety are all in your hands, Miss Meilin."
The man in leather jacket left these words and led the team through the first floor door and entered the bell tower with guns.
The sun was shining brightly at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was clear and cloudless. The police officers who were evacuating by car did not notice that one person was missing from the bus that Miss Mary had specially chartered for them.
Marylin, who was standing guard beside Princess Plumeria with an umbrella, did not notice that on both sides of the flower garden path connecting the laundry room and the lecture room, roses were blooming with lush green leaves. A long-tailed tit flew lightly over the city wall and disappeared in a flash.
Pulling-
Ning Zhe flapped his wings, flew over the window and the terrace, landed in the room on the second floor, and transformed back into a human form. He rolled up his sleeves in silence and glanced at the smart watch on his wrist:
15:27 p.m.
But the time he saw on Susie's phone just now was clearly:
15:11 p.m.
"I see……"
(End of this chapter)