In front of the dirty and smelly abandoned house, it was lively for a long time.

The excitement was only relative, in fact, there were two more cars and three people, two policemen and a doctor.

There aren't a few cases a year in Whitemark, there are five police officers in total, and their daily task is to stay in the police station in a daze, occasionally solve neighborhood disputes, homicides or whatever, and never come across them.

Only Sheriff Derek is still quite experienced, he was transferred from Brisbane, and it seems that he offended some big man over there and transferred him to such a remote town to retire.

Hearing Gu Qi's analysis in the house, Derek immediately realized that this strange man with a cat in his hood was much more reliable than his subordinates, so he made an invitation, in this town, there are many things that he has the final say, Gu Qi's identity and origin are not important, solving the case as soon as possible is the most important thing, in this kind of relatively closed area, the longer the case drags on, the more problems there are.

Gu Qi immediately agreed, the tengu mask was not in the abandoned house, after the death of little Andrew, it can be said that the clue has been broken, because there is no way to connect little Andrew's death with the tengu mask - the tengu is not interested in suffocating people to death, so he directly seized the ghost face, it can be determined that little Andrew was not killed by the tengu, and his death may have nothing to do with the noodle meal.

But this is the only clue left, and if he doesn't follow this clue, Kenji Sakura can only ask the whole town with a photo of the Tengu mask, and there may not be a result.

Derek asked Gu Qi and Kenji Sakura to sit in the car, arranged the work of his subordinates, talked with the doctor for a while, and returned to the car.

"Before leaving, I want to rule out your suspicions, after all, you led me to find Little Andrew's body, the most suspicious, the doctor has determined that Little Derek died thirty hours ago. I wonder when you guys came to Flinders Island. He turned around and looked at Gu Qi in the back row and asked.

"Last night, I came on a small passenger plane, and the airport can prove it." Gu Qi felt a little relieved, and would ask this question, which showed that Derek was not stupid, which was good for the investigation of the case.

"Good." Derek started the car: "Let's go to Little Andrew's parents' house first. Inform them, and by the way, ask who he usually interacts with. ”

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Little Andrew's parents live in Whitemark and are workers in a seafood processing factory, and they learned from them that Little Andrew has not been home for half a year, and occasionally sees him in the town and ignores greetings.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew did not show much sadness about the death of their son, and they also had a son. also works in a product processing factory, and compared to little Andrew, this son is more like a son.

After staying at Andrew's house for twenty minutes, Derek and Gu Qi returned to the car and learned from Mrs. Andrew that Andrew Jr. seemed to have dealings with the people at Chandler's Ranch.

"It was a family ranch run by the Chandlers, private estate, and the family was grumpy. I wouldn't be surprised if there were cases of impulsive killings. But shouldn't they keep the corpse and bury it in the pasture, so that there will be nothing left? Derek said as he drove.

The car was heading due south, and Chandler Ranch was a narrow strip of land sandwiched between mountains and sea in the southwest corner of Flinders Island.

"There are often missing people on the island?" Gu Qi asked curiously.

Derek shook his head: "There are those who went out fishing and didn't come back, and there are those who ran away from home to go to the main island. There are people who go hunting in the mountains and get lost, and eventually starve to death, no matter what happens, they can find the reason, and there is never an inexplicable disappearance. ”

"Do you feel uneasy?" Kenji Sakura suddenly asked Gu Qi, speaking in Chinese.

"Yes." Gu Qi nodded. Looking around, he began to feel uncomfortable after leaving the Andrews' house.

There were no cars in front of or behind, and there were grasslands on the left and right sides of the road, so I couldn't see any enemies, but the feeling of uneasiness was always there, and it was about the same as when I walked with Zhang Shun.

"Could it be Derek?" Miao Yi called the sheriff's name directly, and it was impossible for Derek to understand it anyway.

"Indeed, I'm skeptical of that, because the picture leads us to Freckles Café, where everyone in the shop doesn't know Andrew, but he does, so to speak...... The owner of the rental car shop and Little Andrew's parents were also in cahoots, just to lead us to that ranch. "Kenji Sakura rarely agrees with Miao Yi.

But Gu Qi didn't think so: "I don't rule out this possibility, but if you want us to come to the ranch, just say that Little Andrew works in the ranch, and we will definitely come with him, there is no need to go around in such a big circle." ”

Kenji Sakura thought for a while, it was really like that, Drake could let them follow obediently with a word, and there was no need to make a corpse to act, so he asked, "Yes, then what do you think of the situation?" ”

"Judging from the sheriff's words and deeds, he shouldn't be an enemy, otherwise he should have changed his career to acting, but only he recognized Little Andrew, it's really strange, Little Andrew should have been taken advantage of, wearing a mask and taking that photo, and he was killed not long after the shooting, the other party set a trap, and he didn't want to show his face, which shows that he has the confidence to kill us, and he doesn't want to be entangled by the prayer division." Gu Qi had been thinking about the issue of photos.

The town is so big, there are so many people, Derek doesn't even know Little Andrew's address, he shouldn't be very familiar with it, he can recognize Little Andrew's clothes at a glance, why can't other people recognize it?

"It's enough to have the faith to kill me, who has the confidence to kill you? The Secret Service can't do it, and the other party is too arrogant, well, that guy must have a long nose. Kenji Sakura came to a conclusion.

"Hey, he's strong because he has me by his side, and if he doesn't have me, he's very weak." Miao Yi seemed to want to quarrel again.

Kenji Sakura was not in the mood now, and said with a smile: "Indeed, if it weren't for you, Chain Sauce wouldn't be able to deal with so many Enough Nian Spirits in Nihong, and it's up to you to deal with Tengu this time." ”

"Don't worry, other cats are afraid of dogs, but I'm not afraid, call you a dog." Miao Yi said proudly.

Gu Qi thought for a while and asked Derek, "Don't the people in the town know Little Andrew?" Why do we ask so many people and only you recognize him? ”

Derek tilted his head and thought for a moment, and said, "I don't know much about this, doesn't anyone know about him?" I'm not familiar with him, I've met a few times, I know that he works in a car rental company, his sense of existence is not strong, but it's impossible that no one knows him, even if you don't know him, you should recognize his jacket, it seems that he never changes, I see him wearing that dress several times. ”

"Where do you usually see him?" Gu Qi felt even more strange.

"At Freckles Café, isn't that picture of yours taken at the entrance of the alley? Didn't you come to Freckles Café because of that photo? Derek was starting to feel weird, too.

"He often goes to freckles coffee?" Gu Qi found the point.

"Yes, I met him in the store, have you asked the customers in the store? Regular customers should be able to recognize it. Derek glanced back at Gu Qi.

"That waiter seems to know you well, and you even greeted him, why doesn't he know little Andrew?" Gu Qi asked again.

"Don't know? It's impossible, little Andrew is a regular customer in the store, he goes at least five times a week, and the waiter is half the boss, and he is in the store every day, so it's impossible not to recognize him. Derek was surprised again.

"It seems that either that waiter is our enemy, or Andrew has some kind of ability." Kenji Sakura immediately said to Gu Qi.

Gu Qi nodded and said to Derek: "I know this is strange, but can you please stop and let us come down, and then you go back, we will go to Chandler Ranch." ”

"Nope." Derek categorically vetoed: "The Chandler family is too bad-tempered, maybe they will have a conflict with you, I don't want the murder to suddenly become an international dispute, I don't know your identity, and I don't want to know, but here, you have to listen to my arrangement." ”

When Kenji Sakura heard this, he asked Gu Qi, "Why don't you stick him to the car?" ”

Gu Qi looked around, shook his head and said, "Forget it in this place, Australia's poisonous creatures are the highest in the world, and if he sticks here, he is likely to be bitten by something." ”

"Okay, but what if he keeps following us? Once the battle is fought, the secret of the prayer master will be known to him. ”

"Only when the time comes, we are not familiar with this island, sooner or later we will have to find a guide, there is no more suitable person than him, there is no way to expose it, no one may be able to pay attention to what he says." After Gu Qi finished saying to Kenji Sakura, he said to Derek: "Walking with us, you may encounter danger, great danger. ”

"Are you not afraid of danger?" Derek has long realized that Gu Qi and Kenji Sakura are not ordinary people, and Miao Yi is not an ordinary cat.

Because the cat meow just now was mixed between the conversation between Gu Qi and Kenji Sakura, as if he was involved in the conversation, Kenji Sakura also spoke immediately after the cat meow, as if he was chatting with it.

"We are not ordinary people, he is the heir of Bruce Lee, I am a ninja, and I am not afraid of any danger." Kenji Sakura said with a smile.

"No matter how good you are, my duty is to avoid conflicts between you and the Chandlers, so I'm sure I'm going to follow, I'm here anyway." Drake shrugged.

The road ahead turned to the left, but instead of turning, Drake drove straight off the road onto a dirt road and continued south.

After driving another three kilometers or so, a granary-like building appeared in front of it, and a large area was fenced off by a wooden fence, which was the territory of the Chandler family.

"Strange, why can't you see anyone?" Derek slowed down and stopped in front of the fence that could be removed-

(To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the reward from Tsukami Shan Qing!!