As soon as he stepped out of the porch, Ethan shivered with the icy rain.

He quickly quickened his pace and got into the car.

After Siobhan's SUV was activated, the two men left one after the other.

Ethan wiped a handful of water from his face and cheered up, the visibility outside was very low, and the wipers of the car were swinging wildly.

The speed of the wipers slows down a bit, and the front windshield is covered with rain.

In this case, Ethan had to turn on all the police lights, as did the SUV in front, and the two police cars broke through the rain curtain and drove forward.

More than 20 minutes later, the vehicle came to the front of a wooden house.

This was the meeting place that Hood had agreed with them, and several flashing police cars had parked in front of the house.

Ethan pushed the door open and got out of the car, and as soon as he landed, his boots sank into the mud.

At this time, it had been raining heavily in the middle of the night, and it was muddy as far as the naked eye could see outside.

He reluctantly tightened his clothes, and with Siobhan, he quickened his pace and ran towards the porch of the house, where several people were already standing.

Ethan said hello to Emmett, "Who's missing?" ”

He took off his coat, shook off the drops of water on his body, and pulled out his cigarette.

Fortunately, the box was not completely wet, and he picked out a dry cigarette and put it in his mouth.

"This is Mr. Bowman's home, and it's Solomon Bowman who is missing."

Emmett walked over and said with a solemn expression.

Behind him, Brock and Hood were asking a gray-bearded Amish about something.

Ethan fixed his eyes on Bowman, who came to the police station to report the crime on the night of the barn rave party.

He was also Rebecca's father, and Ethan lit a cigarette and looked at Emmett.

Emmett went on to say to them: "Today Mr. and Mrs. Bowman went to a wedding, and when they came back, they found that Solomon Bowman was not at home. ”

"They didn't care at the time, thinking that Solomon had gone to a friend's house to play."

"But when it was late at night, Mr. Bowman went to the house of several of Solomon's friends, and they all said that they did not see Solomon, so Mr. Bowman called the police in a hurry."

Ethan shook out his watch, brushed off the water droplets on it, and looked at it, it was almost twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

Look outside again, the wind is raging.

He took a deep breath of his cigarette, and it wasn't good.

At this moment, Hood and Brock walked over.

Hood clapped his hands, "Now it's confirmed that Solomon is missing. ”

"Characteristics are as follows, white male, blonde hair, freckles on the face, slightly chubby, wearing a white shirt and black bib pants."

"Now we are going to search Solomon nearby, and they will also arrange some people to assist us, and now the weather conditions outside are so bad, everyone should pay attention to safety."

The crowd nodded, and after a few minutes of waiting, a dozen people dressed in traditional black costumes, wide-brimmed felt hats, and carrying kerosene lanterns walked through the rain curtain.

Ethan scratched his head, and the gang made themselves feel like they were now in the 18th century.

After puffing off the last bit of tobacco, Brock did his job of distribution.

The group split into several teams, with Hood setting out first.

Ethan dropped his cigarette butt, turned on the tactical flashlight, and then led the two bearded men and walked towards the pitch-black cornfield.

The rain crackled on the corn leaves, the wind blew, and the drops hit the face even more sharply.

The already heavy boots were now covered with mud, and they looked even heavier, and several of them walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

There were shouts from time to time, but the sound was quickly blown away.

It didn't take long for the two bearded men in front of them to gasp for air.

"What is this place?"

He shouted at the front.

"It's a big area of cornfield around the Bowman family, and our kids come here a lot to play."

One of them, a bearded man with a lantern, turned around and replied loudly.

Ethan used a tactical flashlight to scan the neighborhood one by one, but found nothing, so he wiped the rain from his face and continued to search.

It's like a shower.

After passing through the cornfield, the view became a little wider, surrounded by apple trees more than a meter high.

The grass underneath the apple tree is much harder to step on.

They quickened their pace and kept calling out Solomon's name.

At that moment, a bearded man in front of him slipped under his feet, and with a thud of water, he fell into a small pond next to him.

Ethan hurriedly threw the tactical flashlight to the side, rushed over and grabbed the bearded man's arm, and pulled him up from the small pond with another person.

The man who fell into the pond tried to stand up, but his feet went limp and he sat on the ground.

"My ankle twisted." He shouted embarrassedly to Ethan.

"It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and the boat was late and encountered a head wind." After Ethan complained helplessly, he patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, let's carry you back first." ”

"You watch him, I'll go get the flashlight."

Ethan explained to the other bearded man, and walked to the other side.

In a hurry just now, the tactical flashlight was thrown away by him, and Ethan touched it along the light.

After seeing the tactical flashlight on the ground, he breathed a sigh of relief, it was really difficult to move an inch without lighting up now.

He bent down to pick up the flashlight and took two steps back, when the movement of his feet suddenly stopped.

"No, why is the water on the ground red?"

Ethan quickly turned around, and the flashlight shone on the ground, and the water on the ground had a few red wisps.

With a solemn look on his face, he followed the few strands of red to an apple tree, and then stopped.

On the grass in front of us, a yellow and black blanket was spread.

On top of the blanket lay a long-haired black girl in denim shorts and a blue top, her hair covered her face by the rain.

The rain fell, and the long-haired girl remained motionless.

Ethan sighed, pressed the police radio and shouted, "Sheriff, I'm Ethan, I have a situation here." ”

After a murmur, Hood's voice soon rang out over the radio

"Have you found Solomon?"

He covered the radio, "No, I found a female body, next to a small pond, surrounded by apple trees, and the men hurried over." ”

The next moment, the radio sounded one after another.

"What's going on here?"

There were two exclamations from behind him, Ethan turned his head, and the two bearded men were not worried about him, and walked over with each other's arms.

Ethan hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop, "Don't come here, there is a murder here, you can't destroy the scene." ”

After the two bearded men stopped, Ethan squinted and looked up, shaking his head, it was raining so heavily that the crime scene was almost destroyed.

After waiting for a long time, several people from the police station, brought by the Amish, arrived at the scene one after another.

Look at the long-haired black girl lying on the blanket, and the axe chiseled into her head.

Bowman's legs went limp, and he fell into the muddy water.

(End of chapter)