"Tell me, Chip, what happened to your sister Natalie?" Jane stood in front of the wasted man.

"What's the matter?" Chip looked like he didn't know why, and he shook his head as if he hadn't recovered from the medicine.

"Which white guy did that cousin hook up with in town again? The day before yesterday she said she was going to bring me food, but it didn't show up."

"Smack!"

Jack was so angry that he slapped him back with the rest of his words.

"Poof!" Chip was thrown directly into the snow, blood oozing from his mouth and nose, and the guy kneeling beside him was so frightened that he quickly moved on the ground with his knees and moved far to the side.

"She said she was going to see you, and then she never showed up, and you just stayed in this place with peace of mind? You're not a little worried? ”

Jack grabbed the kid by the collar and lifted him off the ground into the air, the fist of his right hand squeaked, but it never fell, he was afraid that he would punch the little bastard to death.

"Jack, stop, we still have questions." Jane tried to hold his arm hard, but found that she couldn't do anything.

The old sheriff also hurriedly came up to help, but the two of them couldn't move Jack's arm for half a minute, and finally he snorted coldly and let go of his hand.

Chip collapsed in the snow like mud, coughing desperately, and finally vomited out two bloody teeth.

"The town is at least 20 miles away, did she say how she would get there?"

Probably awakened by Jack's slap, the kid struggled to get up from the ground and looked at the old sheriff.

What did he mean by that? What happened to my sister? ”

"What does he mean? What did he mean by that? ”

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Chip's voice gradually took on a crying tone, as if he finally sensed that something was wrong.

Jack didn't pay any attention to Shabby and stepped aside to message Arya and Braxton.

The reservation only has a 3G signal, and if it is a little farther away from the population center, the signal becomes extremely poor, and the efficiency of making calls is not as good as that of text messages.

"What the hell happened to my sister?" Chip's voice had turned to a roar, and Jane and the old sheriff looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Corey Lambert, who had been silent, suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed in a northwest direction, his voice low.

"I found out that she was forcibly imprisoned and died there, and that's why we came to you, child."

"No, no. That's impossible! ”

Chip shook his head desperately, looked at the old sheriff, and when he saw that he avoided his gaze, he broke down, slammed his head on the ground, and let out a heart-rending cry.

——

The ambulance finally arrived, they had come to take the body from the house, and Braxton had arrived with Arya.

Seeing her brother's ghostly appearance, Arya picked up the shovel behind the house and hit him with a head and face, and Chip lay on the ground, not even daring to squeak.

Instead of paying attention to the family interaction between the siblings, Jack walked over to Cory, who had been looking thoughtfully into the distance, and asked, "Natalie doesn't have a car, if she were going to come here to see her brother, what do you think she would do?" ”

"I need a map." Corey stretched out his hand to the old sheriff, who rolled his eyes and returned to his police car, where he quickly took a plastic map and spread it out on the hood of the car.

"This is where I found Natalie, near the treeline in the mountains." Corey pinned a dot with his finger and swiped to the bottom right of the map.

"This is where we are now, and it's the closest house, about four miles (6.5 kilometers) away."

"There are no buses at night, and if she chooses to take a ride, she should choose a ride to Rand Town, and the driver will drop her off here if he doesn't want to take a special detour."

His finger landed on a nearby north-south road, "It's the closest, less than two miles, and it's barely acceptable on foot." ”

"I suspect that she was abducted near the highway, or shortly after getting off the highway, but now two days have passed, and there have been several snowstorms in a row, and even if there are any traces left, there is nothing to be seen now."

Jane's finger ran over a thin line on the map, "Where does this fork in the road lead?" ”

The old sheriff leaned over and took a look, "It's a Texas energy company's drill rig camp, and they built an improvised road, and there are prefabricated houses for workers to live in, but they won't be occupied until the end of spring, and it's too cold now." ”

Jack measured the distance between the drilling rig and the place where Natalie's body was found, and found that the distance between the two was at least six miles, or nearly 10 kilometers or so.

He felt that he had found his target, but it seemed unlikely, because when he found Natalie, she was barefoot, indicating that she was in a hurry to escape, and she didn't even have time to put on her shoes.

An 18-year-old girl who ran barefoot for nearly 10 kilometers in the snow at more than minus 10 degrees Celsius and finally died of ruptured alveoli instead of freezing to death, which does not sound like something that can be done by man.

Even if he is allowed to come, it is estimated that he will have to perform one or two healing techniques on himself in the middle of the road to do it.

But Jack remembered what the hunter had said earlier, "Mr. Lambert, do you remember what you said yesterday when you showed us the corpses?" You say that girl is a tenacious fighter. ”

Corey looked up at Jack suddenly, his eyes becoming very serious.

"You also suspect that she is from here"

Jane covered her mouth in disbelief, "But the two sides are at least six miles apart!" ”

Jack didn't answer, but looked at the old sheriff, "Is there really no one there?" ”

"There should be some guys in charge of security, taking care of the expensive equipment in the winter, a bunch of drunkards, who often go to town to get into trouble."

The old sheriff looked at the map and his tone became very determined, "It seems that the situation is gradually becoming clearer, Corey, I want you to go to the drilling camp with us tomorrow, I remember they have a lot of cameras nearby." ”

Corey nodded, then shook his head again, "It's not a good idea to hunt wolves where they are packed. ”

Jack was thoughtful when he heard this, and his eyes fell on Braxton, who had been with his fiancée not far away, looking at his posture, it seemed that he was struggling with whether to persuade him or help his wife beat his brother-in-law together.

What if you mix a tiger in wolf skin in the wolf pack in advance?

Thinking like this, he raised his hand and beckoned to the other party, "Braxton, I remember you said that you used to work as a security contractor for the mining company here?" ”

Braxton, not far away, was shocked when he heard this, he had been aggrieved since he returned to this ghost place, and now it was finally his turn to play?

(End of chapter)