Jimmy didn't bother Christopher Lee with their investigation, just following alongside, and he also put on disposable gloves to prevent his own fingerprints from contaminating the scene. But he didn't quite believe Lee's reasoning, there should be something else here.

Inferred from the existing situation, there is actually nothing wrong with what Li just said, burglary, after being discovered, he had a fight with the security guards, and after shooting, he mixed in the crowd and escaped from the villa.

But the thieves have a bit of a problem, it's normal to have an answering officer outside, and there should also be an intelligence monitoring officer, who is responsible for monitoring in the villa or letting the wind outside, and then one or two enter the villa to find what they want.

And normally, this kind of thing should not break out into a shootout, but there is a dinner party here, there are celebrities, rich people and politicians, shooting on such an occasion, normal thieves will definitely not do.

They must have other purposes, and they can basically rule out the possibility of assassinating someone, and if it is an assassination, it is too rough to do things.

If nothing else, the bullet holes that have been marked with digital labels at the scene are too dense. There are at least 25 bullet holes in the wall where they are standing on the second floor alone, and it has not yet been determined how many shots were fired by the security guards and how many were fired by thieves, but looking at this situation, it will definitely not be less.

Jimmy opened his mind to observe, and just looked around, and he felt more and more that he was right. The villa looked normal, but within his mind's eye, two weapons depots had already been found in the room.

One was on the ground floor and a room, which looked like it was supposed to be a security guard's room, with only two rifles in the shelves and some pistols hanging from it. The other is on the second floor, which looks like it should be a mezzanine made of thickened walls, and the same various weapons are hung on it, and it looks the same style, except that the shelves in the rooms on the first floor are placed directly outside.

Jimmy really hadn't been in contact with the rich before, but he believed that no rich person should have this hobby.

Jimmy's main concern is definitely the security aspect, so the first thing he sees is all kinds of weapons, in fact, there are some unusual spaces, such as the wall between the study and the next room is double-layered, and there is a hidden room in the middle, and the contents can be seen to be what. There is also a basement underneath the house, which is not too small, and there are some things piled up in it.

This pattern reminds Jimmy of a person he had met before, Roman on the Long Island side of New York, who was the one who killed his family by the Wraith, and his seaside villa was also a variety of mezzanine.

However, these findings are basically useless to the case, and now it is still expected to obtain fingerprints or evidence for investigation, and it is not his own investigation, now he only needs to be eyes and ears.

Seeing that Christopher Lee was investigating, Jimmy said hello to Lee and went downstairs for a cigarette. This is the scene of the shooting, and smoking in the room is too much, and honestly going outside is king.

Jimmy arrives in the backyard, where police and agents are also recording bullet holes and lines. Jimmy stood in the corner of the backyard and looked at the sea, the view of Palm Beach is really good, bright sunshine, yellow sand, green grass, blue ocean, sure enough, it is still rich and good, there is a beautiful view to see without leaving home.

Jimmy looked left and right, and also looked at the villa next door, where a beautiful girl was standing on the balcony and drinking coffee while looking at the sea. As luck would have it, Jimmy whistled softly, but did not continue looking, and after watching the sea smoke, Jimmy took the cigarette butt and turned back to the villa, found an ashtray to extinguish and put it in.

At noon, Jimmy asked Li to go to lunch with him, and there were no special requirements during the case, there was a supermarket a block away, and the food truck outside was the best and most convenient choice.

The two sat in the lounge area outside the supermarket, chatting while eating, Jimmy: "How's it going?" Is there a catch? ”

Li: "The harvest is not big, some bullet casings and fingerprints have been collected, and the blood stains on the ground and walls have been collected, waiting for the results to be verified later." ”

Jimmy: "Is the on-site ballistics confirmed?" How many people? ”

Li: "One, basically determined the location where he fled, but yesterday there were too many people, and the traces could not be distinguished. ”

Jimmy: "Is there an investigation into the surveillance of the surrounding villas?" ”

Lee glanced at Jimmy, "Of course, someone in the bureau is investigating." ”

Jimmy can understand the feeling of DHS people going to the FBI Manhattan office to handle the case, at that time the FBI was still very cooperative with them, and now the people in the Miami office don't look like they are cooperating with Jimmy, and Lee's words basically have no clues and conclusions.

Recall the words of Deputy Director Dave, you can understand as much as you can, don't believe the official conclusions, it seems that there is some discord between the Manhattan and Miami offices, but although Jimmy has been in the Manhattan office for two or three years, the time is too short, and the level of contact cannot be reached.

Jimmy: "By the way, Deputy Director Hudson was shot in the right shoulder, and he should return to New York when his injuries are stabilized, no problem, right?" ”

Li nodded: "This case has nothing to do with the deputy director, he is just a victim and will not be restricted from whereabouts." ”

Jimmy: "What about the others?" ”

Li: "After taking the confession, their restrictions were lifted, and these people can't all be detained, the impact is too great." There weren't too many injured people this time, and there were no dead people, so I was very lucky. ”

Jimmy: "Okay, I'll go to the hospital in the afternoon, how about you?" Will you be back in Miami when the investigation is over? ”

Li: "Depending on the results of the investigation here, I'm not sure for the time being. ”

Jimmy: "Okay, I'll get back to you in the afternoon." ”

Jimmy and Lee return to the villa, Lee goes in to continue the investigation, and Jimmy drives out of the villa and back to the hotel. I haven't slept for more than a day, and although he can still hold on, it's better to take a break.

Jimmy set the alarm for an hour and a half, he couldn't sleep too long, it would be nice to sleep for an hour, at least he would be able to recover a lot of energy.

In the afternoon, in the hospital, the police at the door had already left, and now it was one of the two bodyguards in the morning, Jimmy showed his ID, knocked on the door and walked in.

Only Dave was in the room, and Jimmy came to the bed: "Mr. Hudson, how are you feeling?" ”

Dave: "Okay, how was their investigation?" ”

Jimmy: "I've taken confessions from the on-site personnel, but I haven't gotten them. The rest is what they investigated at the scene, including bloodstains, fingerprints, bullet casings, ballistics and the like, and there is no detailed information for the time being. ”

Dave nodded: "Continue to follow up and focus on investigating Daniel Rivera." ”

Jimmy: "Rivera was shot twice, he's in the hospital in the morning, I don't know where he is, it's going to take some time to investigate. In addition, technical support may be required, and it may be a bit troublesome for such a person to investigate the information. ”

Dave took the phone in his left hand and found a phone number to show Jimmy, "Call him when you need to." ”

Jimmy wrote down his phone number and nodded, "Then I'll go back to the scene first, I don't know if they will have new gains." ”

Dave: "Go ahead. ”

Jimmy left the hospital and parked his car on the side of the road. This time I must have been unlucky, and I ran into trouble. Originally, I wanted to make a good impression, but Dave is a little difficult to deal with, and he is too heavy-minded.

The fact that he and his wife were able to come to the dinner together at least meant that he and the Daniel Rivera knew each other, or had a reliable relationship with them to get the invitation, and that they should have a common ground in some way.

But after this accident, it was clear that he would directly tell Jimmy to investigate him, it seems that there are still a lot of things here, and this Daniel Rivera's identity or other aspects are not simple.

Dave said that Daniel has a shipping company and a think tank, and he also has an arsenal of weapons at home, is it smuggling? It's not right, it's not a big deal to do this kind of thing, and it's impossible for Dave to care.

There was so little information that Jimmy couldn't tell at all, so he started the car and headed to the villa.

The car was parked on the side of the road in front of the villa, and Jimmy habitually looked left and right, and suddenly noticed that there was a station wagon that was very problematic. From the front, there was no one in the driver's seat or the co-pilot, but I could see a person in the back seat huddled in the corner, holding a camera to take pictures, and the direction of the shot happened to be the villa where the shootout took place.

Jimmy didn't do anything, under normal circumstances, he couldn't see the people behind the station wagon, the windows were dark except for the front glass, and the back was dark, so it was a big problem to ask directly.

Jimmy took out his cigarette case and lit a cigarette next to the car to kill time, the man also turned the camera direction to take pictures of his car and people, if it was in New York, this must be the paparazzi, but here in Palm Beach, he is really unfamiliar with it, and he is not sure of the identity of this person.

Jimmy walked inside the villa and found Lee, who was sitting in a chair and looking at the ballistic simulation with the red line pulled in a daze.

Jimmy: "Lee, there's something wrong out there. ”

Lee turned his head to look at Jimmy, "What?" ”

Jimmy: "There's a station wagon outside, it's there in the morning, and I saw someone in the car just now, and something doesn't seem right. ”

Li's eyes narrowed, he got up and came to the door, hid behind the door and looked over, and said as he looked: "Don't alarm him, we'll deal with it." ”

Li watched for a while, but the people in the car never came out, so he called someone over, and the two walked out together.

Lee came to the station wagon, looked through the window, then knocked on the roof, and the person inside opened the door and walked down, as for what was being discussed, it was not clear, Lee also checked his camera, and then gave it back to him.

After a while, the man opened the door and started the car, leaving the villa, Li and they slowly walked back, "A paparazzi, no problem." ”

Jimmy nodded, the afternoon was over in the on-site investigation, Jimmy asked about the surveillance video of the surrounding villas, Li said that the people in the office had checked and found nothing unusual, so they sent Jimmy away.

The villas on Palm Beach Island are not far away, and each villa must have external and internal surveillance, Jimmy really doesn't believe that there is nothing abnormal inside, but he has no way to ask Li to reveal the specific content, and there is no way to see the surveillance video, so he can only accept his statement.

The burned dinghy was also pulled back as evidence, and the inquiries about several villas around the dinghy were investigated by the police and the Miami office, and Jimmy naturally did not get any useful information.

Lee only said that there were no clues over there, but Jimmy was not involved in the investigation, and now Jimmy has really become eyes and ears, and the ears are not very easy to use.

Jimmy and the others drove out of the villa, Lee and his colleagues in front and Jimmy behind, and just two blocks away, Jimmy saw the familiar station wagon in the rearview mirror.

There was definitely something wrong with the departed station wagon following them across the car, and if it was really an ordinary paparazzi, now he should be focusing on the injured people, not them FBI agents.

Jimmy turned around at the intersection ahead, and instead of following the station wagon, it continued ahead with Lee and the others. Jimmy turned around and made a yellow finch to follow the station wagon.

Tracking is a technical job, and Jimmy's ability to quickly spot station wagons is a legacy of his last successive attacks in Manhattan, because he has a better memory, and he will be very attentive to the car he sees in the rearview mirror as long as it appears many times.

The car monitored this time happened to be the station wagon that I had seen in the afternoon, and I was very impressed, so I naturally paid attention to it not long after he appeared.

And now Jimmy's tracking is more secure, two or three cars apart, far away, as long as the other party is not deliberately observing the car behind, it should not be able to find Jimmy.

Finally, they stopped at a hotel in West Palm Beach, where Lee and his colleagues entered, and the wagon that followed them after waited for half an hour without seeing them get down, and then set off and left, of course, the yellow finch behind him continued to follow.

As the wagon continues westward, farther and farther away from Palm Beach, Jimmy's interest in the man grows.

If he is an ordinary paparazzi, after getting something like a photo, he should find a newspaper and television station and other media as soon as possible to make his gains, and he left Palm Beach directly after following the FBI, which naturally means that he is not an ordinary paparazzi, but more like a person monitoring the scene.

The terrain here Jimmy was completely unfamiliar, and when the car in front of him stopped in front of a villa, the man got out of the car with his bag and walked into the villa, and Jimmy finally determined that this watchman had nothing to do with the paparazzi. If the paparazzi can live in this kind of villa, then the people on their side are too rich.

Jimmy didn't stop to investigate, but after recording his current location, he continued to drive forward, found a gas station, and bought a map to confirm his location.

They've left West Palm Beach and are now in Wellington, which is a little worse than Palm Beach, and it's still a city of rich and famous.

What paparazzi can afford to live in a villa here? Just kidding.

Jimmy drove back, the 'paparazzi' station wagon just now was still there, the person should still be in the villa, Jimmy parked not far from the side, waited a little later, went to get close to the villa to reconnoitre, it was still early, there were a lot of cars and people on the road, it was really inconvenient.

Li They didn't find the car tracking behind, which is understandable, but they let go of the paparazzi after asking a few words, it shouldn't be, at least they should contact the bureau to check their identity, the whole process revealed a strange sense of dissonance, which made Jimmy very uncomfortable.

And he doesn't trust this Li a little bit, he feels like a salary thief, completely in a state of chaos, as if there is no urgency to investigate this shooting case at all.

(End of chapter)