The man after a round and turn.

Leaving the place where the crowd had gathered, I came to a river.

All his actions are like wandering around aimlessly, but in fact, they are always acting in a certain order.

Perhaps coincidentally, the man's path was exactly the same as the sequence in which the battle had taken place a few days earlier......

This river is where Law was last seen.

And the man also appeared here after turning around other investigation points.

His movements have been slow.

It's as if he is reluctant to waste a little extra energy, and the progress is very slow, but very orderly.

The man took off his glasses and put them in his pocket, washed his hands by the river, picked up water to wash off the sweat stains on his face, and then took out his glasses again, wiped the lenses with the corner of his clothes, hung them up again, and walked along the riverbank.

His eyes kept on the ground, as if searching for something.

Occasionally crouch down to touch the dirt or weeds on the shore before moving on.

……

The man was gone for a long time.

Until the red sunset on the horizon, he was still walking.

Compared to a few hours ago, the man was much more emaciated.

His face was pale and he looked like he had collapsed.

……

Soon, he passed by the same place where Old Man Bruce and Law had met.

The man walked around where they were fishing, and found some obvious marks.

He stayed where he was for about ten minutes, not knowing if he was thinking or just resting.

It was getting darker, but just before the sun was about to set, he walked out of the rainforest.

……

The man came to the edge of a winding road.

Although it was not yet completely dark, the street lights were on.

……

He walked back and forth on this stretch of road for a long time.

It was like looking for something.

Although there was no scorching sun in the sky at this time, the asphalt road under his feet was still belching hot, and the brim of the man's cap was soaked with sweat.

After about four or five back and forth, the man stopped.

He took off his cap and rested against the street lamp for a while.

As if having made a discovery, the man stopped walking around, but lit a cigarette and stood in place.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the rainforest behind him like a sea of fire.

The man stood under the street lamp, his eyes fixed on the end of the road.

He never said a word, and although he had an investigator's ID card on it, he didn't participate in any work at all, just searched around on his own, and didn't look like a police or military man at all.

And it seems that no one knows him from beginning to end......

……

About fifteen minutes passed.

A sedan passed by.

The man waved to stop the car and struck up a conversation with the driver, presumably because he had lost his way in the rainforest and wanted to ask the driver if he could give him a ride.

After a brief negotiation, the man got into the car.

It seems that this driver is also a warm-hearted person.

……

The car drove slowly along the road and left the rainforest.

The driver and the man chatted a lot along the way.

After learning that the man was an investigator in the rainforest incident, the driver was very curious and asked what was going on in the rainforest.

However, the man seems to be very compliant, saying nothing about the rainforest, saying only that he cannot disclose his responsibilities.

The driver had no choice but to give up.

All in all, these two people who didn't know each other were very polite.

They chatted all the way.

……

…

And once it gets into the evening, it gets dark very quickly.

By the time the man arrived at his destination, the sky was completely dark, and there was no afterglow left on the horizon.

The car came to a slow stop in front of a villa complex.

The man opened the car door and walked out.

It is worth mentioning that he did not get out of the car from the passenger side, but from the driver's side of the door.

After the man left the car, the car did not leave, but turned off the engine and stayed in place.

It's a suburb of the city, and although there are not a few villas, there are only a few inhabited houses, which can be well identified by the lights after dark.

The man walked to the door of a villa, then checked his clothes with the faint light shining from the window, straightened his collar, and then reached out and rang the doorbell.

"Ding-dong......"

……

The door was opened by a woman in her fifties.

She was a little puzzled when she saw the strange man who came to visit, after all, there were not many people here, and there were few guests visiting except for her own children on weekdays.

But the woman asked very politely:

"Hello, is there anything wrong?"

The man also said politely:

"Hello, I'm sorry to disturb your rest, that's the case, I'm an investigator from the Intelligence Unit of the City Police Department, and I have a few questions I would like to ask you, and I hope you can cooperate."

With that, the man lifted the work document hanging on his chest and showed it to the woman.

"Oh, of course! No problem. ”

The woman glanced at the man's papers, and though she was still a little confused, she left the door completely open and let the man in.

"Bruce! Come and welcome the guests! ”

The woman shouted upstairs after closing the door.

……

A moment later, a bald old man with a big belly came down from the second floor.

The old man shook the man's hand warmly.

"Hello, hello."

"It's the ...... of the police station," Mrs. Bruce said, only to find that she did not know the man's name.

"Johnny." The man smiled and shook Old Man Bruce's hand and said, "Johnny Alton." ”

"Oh oh oh, hello Officer Alton, just call me Bruce, this is my love, come, please take a seat."

Bruce beckoned Johnny to sit down on the living room couch.

"Just call me Johnny, I haven't officially been included in the police department, I'm just in charge of intelligence investigation."

Johnny said with a smile.

The two of them sat down in the drawing-room, and Mrs. Bruce poured tea for them.

……

I don't know if the Bruce couple were so kind and welcoming to everyone, and they didn't even look at the piece of paper that Johnny was hanging around his neck.

"Uh, I don't know how I can help you?" Bruce asked, rubbing his hands.

"That's right, we're investigating what's going on in the rainforest right now, and I'm sure you've heard about it." Johnny said, looking into Bruce's eyes.

"Oh yes, you said that, now everyone is worried about what is going on in the rainforest, after all, I heard that even the military is alarmed."

Bruce said suddenly.

(End of chapter)