allendalepharm Chapter 38 Evidence Room
Chapter 38 Evidence Room
After Clyde left, Roche handed over the task of compiling the report to Smith.
He brought these troubles upon himself, so now it's his responsibility to resolve them.
Of course, Smith was happy to do these things because Luo Qiu added chicken soup to his bowl.
"Do a good job, the trail has completely gone cold. If you can find anything in this pile of reports, the case handler can definitely put your name on it."
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Seeing Smith get busy, Luo Qiu stood up, took the brooch evidence, and headed towards the evidence room.
Around noon, when the two cases were submitted for joint investigation, Luo Qiu applied for ten evidence storage cabinets here.
Mr. Winslow's suitcase was registered and stored by him, and the evidence found by Clyde's investigation was also placed in two other lockers. To this day, Luo Qiu hasn't memorized the names of the two missing persons, but that doesn't prevent him from remembering that one of their belongings also contained extraordinary items.
Upon arriving at the evidence room, Luo Qiu first registered the item and stored the brooch.
Afterwards, based on his memory, Luo Qiu opened evidence cabinet number 405.
Unfortunately, he was mistaken; there were no extraordinary items in the luggage stored here.
However, Luo Qiu still took it out.
A dark brown canvas travel bag, its edges worn white, and one section of the zipper even broken.
Unzip it up, and you'll find a few things inside: two T-shirts, a pair of jeans, and a paperback novel with frayed edges. The cover features a man all geared up for a trip, and the title is "Explorer Voss".
Upon seeing the book, Luo Qiu noticed that the travel bag in her hand was similar to the one on the book cover.
This is certainly not because the missing person's name is Worth; it's probably because the missing person imitated the protagonist of the book.
These young people are so easily influenced by certain best-selling books.
Luo Qiu shook his head and stuffed the book back into his travel bag. However, he did make a note of the book's title, intending to buy it and read it when he had time.
He wasn't trying to imitate them; rather, he planned to read books to understand what the emerging superhumans were thinking.
After putting the bag back in the evidence cabinet, Luo Qiu opened cabinet number 406 next to it.
Inside was a light gray, hard-shelled box that didn't look particularly special. But within the innate vision, a certain area of the box was glowing red.
Now we've found the real deal.
Luo Qiu took out the box, opened it, and began to search it carefully.
The contents were equally simple: a change of clothes, toiletries, a comb, a notebook, and a stone-like object wrapped in newspaper.
The red glow came from the stone, and when Luo Qiu saw it, his heart skipped a beat for a moment.
The stone was entirely black, its surface as smooth as a mirror. Its shape was exactly the same as the core of the coal lump he had found in the ruins of the gunsmith's workshop.
The only difference is that this stone is smaller than the core of that coal lump, and the energy inside, if converted into his mental strength, is only about 2.7.
Luo Qiu stared at the stone for a long time.
Then he wrapped it up and put it down, and picked up the notebook instead.
He opened his notebook, flipped through it quickly, and soon found something:
[On February 2.23rd, I traded animal hides for this stone with that person. I don't know if I made a profit or not, but my (smeared) intuition tells me that this stone is extraordinary. I'll study it sometime later...]
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[On March 3.27th, York and I went to Chongqing to attend Miss Alicia's concert and, incidentally, to make a deal with some locals. He said he had something that interested me, though I'm not sure if it's true. I admit I can't fully understand this stone, but since he wants it…]
Luo Qiu quickly flipped through the pages. There wasn't much content, and many pages in the middle had been torn out, and they must have been torn out quite some time ago, as the torn parts were covered in dust.
Judging from the remaining text, it clearly appears that an explorer, after collecting "good stuff," was preparing to trade it with other people who were interested in it.
But Luo Qiu knew that wasn't the case at all.
This is no ordinary stone, and trading it is far more dangerous.
Of course, it's too late to say all this now. The transaction hadn't even started, and one of the parties had already disappeared, even losing their body temperature.
Luo Qiu sighed, packed the things away, and quickly locked the box in the evidence cabinet.
The moment I saw the stone, I almost couldn't resist my greed.
The stone adds 2.7 mental strength, and the three extraordinary items in the other suitcase add 1 point. Combined, and rounded up, it's one-fifth of his progress towards Sequence 2.
One-fifth, that's no small amount.
Fortunately, after reading the notebook, he finally came to his senses.
More than one person knows about the existence of this stone? If he really eats it all up, wouldn't he be asking for trouble?
Even with these thoughts in mind, Luo Qiu leaned against the evidence cabinet, unable to calm down immediately.
Does that mean he can only look at the extraordinary items he encountered today?
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Meanwhile, inside the Investigation Bureau, some people were still busy leaving get off work.
Winters, after all his colleagues had left, was still writing something at his desk.
He noticed how busy Luo Qiu was.
I was about to go up and talk to him when I saw Smith also coming to work overtime, and then Clyde came too.
Fortunately, Clyde was clearly agitated. After talking with Luo Qiu for a while, he left alone. Luo Qiu then said he was going to the evidence room.
A few minutes after Luo Qiu left, Winters looked up again and saw the thick stack of reports on Smith's workstation. It was clear that the other party would be very busy for a while, and he had another idea.
Now is the best time to talk to Luo Qiu alone. If we wait a little longer, Luo Qiu might get off work, and he'll have to find another opportunity.
Winters then quietly got up, glancing at Smith out of the corner of his eye, and walked toward the evidence room.
He walked through the lobby and into the corridor, where it became extremely quiet. There was no one there, only motion-activated lights that turned on one by one as he passed by.
To Winters' delight, Smith didn't notice him. Further on, at the entrance to the evidence room, a familiar figure came into view.
Luo Qiu was indeed still inside.
Ding ding ding~
Winters knocked quietly on the door.
"Who?" The person inside seemed startled.
"It's me," Winters replied. After saying that, he didn't push the door open directly, but waited for a reply from inside.
Two seconds later, the door was opened a crack, and Luo Qiu peeked out, looked around in confusion, and then dragged Winters inside.
"What are you doing in the evidence room? Is there something you've hidden here?"
"Of course not, but I disposed of another batch of expired evidence today. Luo Qiu, would you like to take a look?"
Winters said the sentence quickly and quietly.
This was all he wanted to say to Luo Qiu. Ever since he saw the notice about the promotion assessment in the internal publication a few days ago, he had been preparing for it.
As for why it's done this way, all I can say is that those who know, know.
Upon hearing his words, Luo Qiu's expression instantly turned strange.
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