The investigation of the port of Miami still arranged for an agent to look for several workers who appeared in the surveillance to confirm that Jimmy did not find any obvious anomalies from the surveillance, so naturally he would not waste the time of several of their responsible persons to observe with their own eyes, but Hareton's small island is what they must investigate with their own eyes, and it is the most likely place where the yacht was bombed.

The stay in the port of Puerto Rico is not long, but the time on that island is very long, and it must take some time if it is to be installed at a specific place on the ship, and it is also possible to determine whether their target is on the yacht or not on the island, the only question is why they chose to detonate it when they were off the coast of Miami, which is somewhat unreasonable.

Jimmy had some guesses, but he had to go to the scene first, and everything was just his speculation at the moment.

It's still easy to get from Miami to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, after all, it's a well-known tourist destination, and it's a U.S. territory, so there are a lot of commercial flights, and the FBI arranged the nearest flight to Puerto Rico, and then it was quick to rent a boat there to go to the island, which has no commercial airport, and the most helicopter can stay there is.

There is a small dock on the island of Hareton, which usually moorths their yachts and some small boats, which is not suitable for large cargo ships, so the supplies needed on the island are usually transported by small boats.

The port of Puerto Rico had already called in advance, because a clear time was provided, and the port authority promised to put the monitoring in order and provide it to them as soon as possible, so Jimmy and the others simply took a look at the port and took a small boat to Hareton's small island.

Jimmy, Mark and Wright came to the island, this time because it was the previous investigation stage, and no one else had been notified to come over for the time being, but because they had contacted in advance, there was already a very well-dressed middle-aged butler waiting for them at the end of the dock after they landed.

Showing his credentials, Jimmy asked the housekeeper for a list of the current people on the island and surveillance information, because the case involving the death of the employer, the housekeeper did not directly refuse, but quickly agreed to Jimmy's request after calling Harriton's wife.

The impact of Hariton's death was still very large, there was a party on the island just before Hariton's accident, and there were some guests at that time, and they all left a few days ago, and because this is a private island, there is not even a person registered, except for Hareton himself and the people who handle it, no one knows which guests have been here.

As for the security personnel and servants on the island, these are all registered information, including the shipowners who deliver and send supplies to and from are also in the ranks of providing information, and Jimmy and they got this information and handed it directly to Mark and Agent Wright to verify the information of these personnel, and it is still very convenient to check the information on their laptops.

The surveillance video is already being processed, and a copy needs to be transcribed before it can be provided to the FBI, which takes some time, and there is no way, unless Jimmy applies for a search warrant requiring them to provide the original, otherwise for personal items and data, they have a reason to refuse outright, and it is currently the most appropriate way to deal with the transcription.

Instead of checking the information with them, Jimmy asks to go to the docks to investigate, and he first investigates the scene and surroundings to determine if it matches his suspicions.

Standing on the dock, Jimmy looked at the dock and its surroundings, and asked the housekeeper beside him, "Is there surveillance on the shore around here?" In addition to the surveillance here at the dock. ”

The housekeeper did not despise Jimmy because he was young, and in fact being able to accompany Jimmy to the scene to check on the scene already showed that he understood who was in charge of the three people who came: "At present, there are not many locations around this island that are suitable for building docks, so except for here, only the other three locations are monitored, and they do not cover the whole island." ”

Jimmy: "So if someone scouts the terrain on the island in advance, they can actually land on the island from an unmonitored place, right?" ”

Butler: "Yes, but nothing like this has ever happened here before. ”

Jimmy: "Is the dock manned 24 hours a day?" ”

Butler: "No, we usually only arrange personnel to come when a ship comes, and we usually rely on the monitoring center in the villa to pay attention to the situation at the dock." There aren't a lot of security personnel here, and we don't have that many security guards all over the island. ”

Jimmy nodded, continuing to stare at the environment at the docks.

This situation is still very much in line with Jimmy's guess, from the topography, there are places around the island to land on the island, which means that if someone approaches the island from other directions in a small boat, they will not be able to see it, even if they send explosives up, as for installing it on a yacht, this is not difficult.

The height of the pier here is deliberately raised because of the height of the seabed, and from the monitoring position he found, if someone approaches from the seaside next to it and hides next to or below the raised pier aisle, the surveillance will not be able to shoot at all.

It is not difficult to climb from under the pier to the side of the yacht, or even board the yacht, it is necessary to see if there are relevant traces in the surveillance, if it is photographed, it means that professionals will also overturn in this kind of minutiae, if it can't be photographed, then there is an investigation, and it may not be a place to install explosives.

Jimmy: "I need to walk around the coast, if you have something you can go back to deal with first." ”

The butler smiled and said, "Of course I will accompany you, I think it will be easier for you to understand the situation here with my introduction." ”

Jimmy nodded, "Let's be together, then." By the way, how often do you ship supplies here? ”

Jimmy chatted with the housekeeper and asked about the island while observing his surroundings along the coastline.

The island is not too big, and it will take a lot of time for Jimmy and them to walk all around, so the housekeeper reminded Jimmy during the chat that the rest of the day will only be half of the walk at most, and it will be dark, so after walking for a while, Jimmy and the housekeeper returned to the villa complex located near the middle of the island.

Today they will definitely not be able to go back, the housekeeper prepared a room for the three of Jimmy after the phone call, which is very decent, this is a private island in the Caribbean, there are no hotels for tourists, if they can't live on the island temporarily, Jimmy and they will try to travel back and forth to Puerto Rico sooner or later.

The villa complex itself is not within the scope of Jimmy's investigation, all the previous investigations were aimed at the marina, after all, it was the yacht that exploded, and the explosives were on the yacht, so there was no reason to target the villa complex at all.

The evils of this island are hidden under the surface of wealth and calm, and as a steward, he must be aware of it, but he is completely unaware that someone can discover many secrets hidden under the buildings just by walking around the villa complex.

Jimmy, Mark, and Wright were originally only checking information in a secure room far away from the villa, and did not get permission to enter the villa, but now they can temporarily live here for the night, so they naturally came to the villa.

One of the most luxurious alien buildings here is the main building, and there are three houses next to it, those are the guest rooms prepared for the guests, of course, the decoration is very luxurious, Jimmy and they are each assigned a room, just from the outside, there are more than a dozen similar rooms, but all of them are currently empty.

Jimmy looked around the perimeter after getting permission from the housekeeper, and found that there were several basement-like rooms under a two-story building protruding from the main building, and there were still some people in it who were active, but it was not clear whether these people were servants or others here, of course he would not ask, the list of servants was already in hand, and he would check the number of people later.

When Jimmy returned to the room prepared for him, the surveillance video transcribed by the technician was also delivered, and the three of them gathered in Jimmy's room to turn on the computer, and each opened a video to start the investigation synchronously, and at the same time, Jimmy also got the information of the servants and security personnel from Agent Wright, and began to check the information.

Looking at the personnel information in his hand, Jimmy frowned, the number of people is obviously not right, there are sixteen security personnel here, five full-time cleaners, eight servants and a housekeeper, but just a few people in the basement that Jimmy found just now are more than twenty people, and when he entered the villa, he had already seen many security guards and servants working normally, and the total number of people was definitely more than these people in the current list.

He glanced up at Mark and Wright, who were staring at the laptop screen to check the surveillance, and after thinking about it, he decided to put down this clue first, he had no reason to ask the housekeeper to open the basement for him to check the people inside, so there was no need to tell the two of them about the situation.

The yacht stayed on the island for four days, and it was really tiring to check the surveillance for four days in a row, Mark and Wright didn't stick out until late and went back to rest, while Jimmy took advantage of everyone to rest and went to the window to observe the surroundings, except for three security guards patrolling, it was already empty outside.

It's just that the lights outside a few buildings are still on, and even if they don't all turn on, it's still easy to observe people in the outside environment, which also makes Jimmy's previous plan to secretly observe bankrupt, so he can only rest and wait for tomorrow daylight to continue the investigation.

Because of Jimmy's request, the island's security personnel and service personnel were required to stay on the island for the past two days, suspending personnel in and out, so except for a material transport ship the next day that was notified in advance, there were no other ships docking, which basically guaranteed that the people Jimmy found would not disappear out of thin air, and time was still favorable for Jimmy and them.

The next morning, after the breakfast provided, Mark and Wright went back to the surveillance to identify the surveillance, while Jimmy asked for another survey of the island's shoreline for the same reason as yesterday, only this time not accompanied by a housekeeper, but by a security guard accompanying Jimmy around the island.

Perhaps on purpose, the security guard didn't say a word to Jimmy the whole time, but just followed Jimmy along the coastline at his request, and soon Jimmy spotted an unusual location.

There was a low cliff in the northeast corner of the island, and when Jimmy came to this cliff, he noticed some scratches on the edge of the cliff, "Did you quarry rocks here?" ”

Jimmy turned his head to look at the security guard, who frowned and shook his head, and crouched down to check the scratches, there were some small pits at the top of the scratches, which were really hard to spot without looking closely.

Jimmy stood on the cliff and looked down, "It seems to be a scratch from the grappling hook, I need to go down there and see if I can go around it from the side?" ”

The security guard stood up: "No, we haven't gone down, wait a minute, I need to inform the others." ”

Jimmy: "Don't worry, let's look into it first." Where is the nearest surveillance nearby? ”

The security guard shook his head: "There is no surveillance around here. After that, he picked up his walkie-talkie and called their captain, and then said to Jimmy, "Agent, please wait a minute, my captain will be here soon." ”

The security captain, a middle-aged white man with quite a bit of gray hair on his head, crouched down next to the scratches on the cliff and looked at it, and said to the security guard, "You tell the others to come with ropes and fixtures, I need to go down and have a look." ”

After arranging, he faced Jimmy and said, "Thank you, Mr. Detective, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't have known that this place has become a weak point in defense." ”

Jimmy: "You're welcome, but you can't go down, I need to check first to avoid vandalism." I hope you can understand. ”

The security captain nodded: "No problem. ”

Sure enough, it was more convenient to communicate with the person who understood, Jimmy took out the phone and informed Mark and Wright of what they had found here, and asked them to continue to investigate the surveillance, and now the island is more likely to be the place where the explosives are installed, and the surveillance they are investigating is more important.

Soon, the security personnel came over with ropes and fixing stakes, hammers, and expansion screws, and after fixing them in a safe position next to the scratches, a security guard tested them, and then climbed up and let Jimmy go down the rope.

Sure enough, Jimmy didn't find any traces on the reef below the cliff, but found some scattered stones at the location corresponding to the cliff scratches, the color of these stones was different from the surrounding reefs, and when he looked up, there was indeed a place in the middle of the cliff about four meters where there were traces of stones falling off.

Jimmy smiled, there was plenty of reason to delay his investigation here.

Jimmy grabbed the rope next to him and quickly climbed up, informing Mark and Wright of what he had found below, and at the same time asking the security captain to apply upwards and provide more surveillance video of their location, he wanted to continue to look for this uninvited guest, and maybe find something in other surveillance videos.

(End of chapter)