Chapter 5: The Vanishing City

The door to the interrogation room was opened, and Officer Jace walked in and sat down at the cold desk.

"How does it feel?" Jace had a shallow smile on his face, but his eyes were staring at Berry as if he were staring at prey.

"As you can see." Berryman raised his hands and gestured to the handcuffs on his wrists.

"You know what? I always thought you had a good relationship with Rosen. Jace pulled out a sealed bag containing Rosen's phone.

The phone was stolen from the Burriman home a few days ago and was eventually found by the police in the Lawson residence.

Jace took his phone out of his pocket, shook it in front of Berryman's eyes, and asked, pretending to be confused, "Do you know what's going on?"

"This is Rosen's phone." Berryman replied that he was right, that the stolen things had been found by the police.

"Clever! Looks like you should know why you're here. Jace laughed.

"I don't know." Berryman Road.

Jace's smile froze as he looked straight into Berryman's eyes as he played a recording of the call.

"Hello? Oh Rosen! What are you calling in the middle of the night? ”

"Hello Auntie, my name is Berryman, and I'm Rosen's classmate......"

Berryman's face was expressionless, and there was no wave in his eyes.

"When you made the transcript, you told me that you didn't find the phone at the scene, right?"

"This call was more than an hour before the transcript was made, which means that you had already found your phone, but then lied to me, why?"

Berryman didn't speak, his eyes flickered to meet Jace's sharp gaze, his gaze unevasive.

"You didn't just call Rosen's parents, you contacted his friends, everyone you came in contact with. If it's just a classmate, why bother to find him? Jace stood up, pretending to be thoughtful.

"Is it because of this?" He pulls out a large bag of methamphetamine, which is also Burriman's stolen item.

Why didn't I destroy it sooner? Burriman was secretly annoyed, and he frowned for a moment, but quickly returned to his original state.

It's greasy! The perceptive Jace caught the detail, and he smiled and slowly walked towards Berryman.

He walked up behind Burriman, put his hands on Burriman's shoulders, and the interrogation room gradually fell silent.

"This bag of methamphetamine is a pound, if you sell it, hehe, but you can make a lot of money! This is the biggest drug-related case in the past few months. Jace said.

"You know what? That's enough methamphetamine to stay in a cell for the rest of your life. ”

He bent down and leaned into Berryman's ear and said, "Tell me if this methamphetamine is yours?"

Berryman didn't speak, and he clearly remembered that every time he picked up methamphetamine, he wore gloves so he didn't leave any fingerprints on it.

"Mr. Berryman, cooperate well, if the investigation finds out that it is yours, no one can save you."

"Think about your parents, if you get out of prison and they are gone, then who will help you fulfill your filial piety?"

"If you recruit truthfully, you can leave the prison in twenty years, no, ten years, and I'm helping you!"

For Jace's words, Berryman took it all as a deaf ear, he knew that the other party had no conclusive evidence, otherwise he would not have been so troublesome to persuade himself to confess.

Moreover, even if the methamphetamine was his, he would not admit it, not to mention that it was not his.

"The eyeball you brought a few days ago, the identification report came out, and the DNA of the eyeball matched Rosen's DNA exactly."

Berryman's body shook violently, and the moment he lowered his head, his whole body was haggard.

In fact, he had expected this result for a long time, but after knowing the truth, it was still so unacceptable.

Whether Rosen is dead or alive! I've got to find him! At the moment, Berryman just wants to get out of here as quickly as possible.

Seeing that Berryman didn't say a word, Jace lost his patience, and he turned his head and gestured to the person behind the reflective glass.

The camera on the wall stopped working at this moment.

Jace walked over to Berryman and crouched down, revealing an excited face, "You know what? Now it's my favorite part. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he jerked with both hands!

Burriman only felt a flower in front of him, and the whole person fell to the ground with a chair, and his back hurt hotly.

"Now I'll give you another chance, is methamphetamine yours? Say it! Jace grabbed Berryman by the collar and said angrily.

Berryman gritted his teeth, he knew that once he admitted it, he was finished.

"Dumb! Speak! Jace roared out and kicked Burriman in the stomach!

Berryman curled up in a ball and buried his head in his arms, avoiding important areas as much as possible.

Suddenly.

With a bang, the door to the interrogation room was slammed open, and the person who walked in was none other than Merlin.

"What are you doing!" Merlin said.

"He fell, and I was about to pick him up." Jace is also an old fritter, and he smiles when he talks about panic.

Merlin ran up and helped Berryman to his feet.

"Handcuff key!" Merlin held out her hand to Jace.

"He's an important suspect and can't leave yet." Jace said hurriedly.

"It's an order!" Merlin cut the railroad to the fore.

Jace took out the key and slapped it on the table with a "snap", he looked at Berryman unwillingly, and said, "I'll always keep an eye on you" After saying that, he turned around and left.

One more person staring at me...... It's wonderful...... Berry thought to himself that he was crumbling, that he had a dull ache in his body, and that he was afraid that he would have to rest in bed for the day to-morrow.

Merlin took the key to untie the handcuffs, she looked at Berryman's eyes, no longer angry, she asked, "Are you okay?"

"Thanks, I'm fine." Berryman rubbed his wrist and limped out.

Seeing that he was unable to move, Mei Lin hurriedly stepped forward to help him and said, "I'll send you back."

……

In the apartment.

"Would you like to have some wine? In the fridge, by the way, help me get a bottle. Berryman leaned back in his chair, finally relaxed,

Merlin brought two beers from the fridge.

"Cheers." Briman's hand hurt so much that he picked up the bottle and tapped it lightly on the table.

Merlin looked at the beer in her hand for a long time, and took a sip with her eyes closed, looking like she was drinking poison.

"How did you get caught by the police? What happened? Merlin was worried.

Burryman looked at Merlin, and he didn't know whether to tell the truth or not.

Merlin understood what he meant, and she smiled and said, "It's okay, everyone has their own little secrets."

"Actually......" Burriman sighed, staring out the window at the night sky, and finally told her all about his experiences during this time, including the eyeballs sent by the kidnappers and the death of the mentally ill Arlie.

Although she didn't spend much time with Merlin, she had slowly let down her guard since they had worked together these days, and in Berryman's heart, she had quietly treated her as a friend.

After hearing this, Merlin's eyes widened in surprise, it turned out that she didn't know so much. She looked at Berryman's eyes, and there seemed to be some strange color.

Later, Merlin also told Burriman frankly that in fact, her name as a detective was only what she called herself, and no one recognized it at all.

The cases she received were all small cases from the police station that others were unwilling to investigate, such as finding a missing puppy, helping others catch rape, and so on.

However, this time the disappearance case was finally obtained by her in order to become the person in charge of the case.

Her father was the chief of the police department, so she was not able to work in the police station.

With this level of relationship, many police officers did not approve of her, and at the same time feared her and refused to work with her, so they regarded Berryman as a partner.

And this investigation of the disappearance case is to prove herself and prove to others that she has the ability to solve the case.

The two chatted while drinking, and gradually got to know each other better.

Under the influence of alcohol, Mei Lin's face flushed, and her eyes gradually became blurred, at this time she looked like a girl who was just beginning to fall in love, which was heartwarming.

Merlin told him that the police had found the stolen items at Rosen's home.

But why would the other side put them back in their place? If they really want to frame me, wouldn't it be more evidentiary for the police to find me in my home?

At this time, Berry Man thought of the letter left by the other party - do you want to play with me too?

He felt that the other party did not want to "put himself to death" for the time being, he just wanted to make some trouble for me, like a cat that catches a mouse, and he always has to play for a while before he is willing to eat it.

Bergriman was rarely subjected to such humiliation, and he was so angry that he caught the can out of shape.

"Don't worry, Berryman, I'm here! Won't let Jace bully you. Belch! Merlin hiccuped, looking like a big sister, very cute.

It seems that Merlin thought that Berryman's anger was on Jace, but she didn't think of the initiator of this incident.

"Let's focus on the investigation first"

"Click" Burriman lit his cigarette, exhaled a cloud of pale cyan smoke, and said, "Do you remember when Arie mentioned Viren?" Do you know what that place is? ”

"Viren...... Belch! Merlin hiccuped and asked, "Is it okay to eat it?" ”

"Let's try to look it up." Burriman opened the laptop on his desk and typed "Viren" into the search engine.

However, most of what you find on the web has nothing to do with Viren.

Fortunately, after a few moments, he found a useful piece of information.

"It's a folklore, want to hear a story?" Berryman held up the bottle to Merlin.

"Good!" Merlin leaned back lazily on the couch and looked at Berryman in distraction.

"This folklore goes like this......" Burriman read out.

When I was a child, I heard a story from my grandmother, who she also heard from her grandmother.

In the 19th century, there was a distant city called Vilen, which depended on agriculture for its livelihood, and due to the lack of transportation, the inhabitants rarely went out of the city, and few outsiders came in.

A wandering merchant came to see a business opportunity and planned to purchase livestock in large quantities. When he returned here again with a convoy of horses, he found that the city was gone.

Yes, disappearing from this world, all the buildings, even the signs of human life, are gone, and in its place is a forest.

When the merchant returned to his city, he told everyone that no one believed him.

Sadly, people thought he had gone crazy and put him in an insane asylum and subjected him to all sorts of inhumane treatments, which made headlines at the time.

There were also many people who tried to find Viren City according to the coordinates mentioned by the merchants, but no one could find them after many years.

The place of Viren is becoming less and less known.

And my grandmother's grandmother, her husband was this businessman. If anyone finds Viren, please contact me.

At the end of this article, Viren's coordinates are provided, contact details with the author.

When Berryman saw the coordinates of the town of Viren, he immediately gasped!

The coordinates of the town of Viren, the current location is the Gray Mu Island!

And all the missing people, after returning from Gray Mu Island, are missing!

This folklore seems to have some kind of mysterious connection with the missing!

Maybe after coming to Gray Mu Island, you will be able to unravel the connection and get close to the truth of the missing person!

"Hey, Holmes, I'm going to go to the island tomorrow." Burryman's eyes were fixed on the computer, his face full of excitement.

"Sherlock Holmes?" Burryman didn't hear Merlin's response, and he turned his head to look.

"Whew~Whew~Whew~" Merlin snored, a crystal saliva hung on the cherry mouth, and fell asleep on the sofa unconsciously.

"Even though you can't drink, you're still strong." Seeing Merlin's cute and angry appearance, which made Berryman smile happily, he took out his camera and quietly took pictures of her ugly appearance.

That's when Berryman realized that this was the first time since Rosen's disappearance that he had really smiled inside.

Soon he hid his smile and found a blanket for Merlene to cover.

……

The next morning, Merlin woke up in a daze, and when she saw the blanket on her body, her face was red and hot.

"Berryman, are you still sleeping?" Merlin got up and walked to the bedroom, where she found the quilt on the bed neatly folded.

There was a note on the table.

"Sherlock Holmes, I'm going to the field, remember to help disturb the hygiene when you leave."

"You bastard!" Merlin crumpled the note and threw it out.