Chapter 497

Not far from the street, a man in a suit and with a mustache was looking at Duanmuhuai in surprise. This person is none other than Duanmu Huai's "distant relative" art dealer Charlie Simon.

He was almost sacrificed by a ghoul before, and after that incident ended, Charlie's spirit was also greatly stimulated. He once came to thank Duanmuhuai, and then sold all his paintings and the villa in one go. According to Charlie, he doesn't plan to go home anymore, he wants to visit other places, and then find a retirement home that makes him feel at ease.

When Muhuai saw him a month ago, he was haggard, with thick dark circles under his eyes. But looking at him now, he is wide and fat, with a smile on his face...

"I didn't expect to see you here."

Duanmu Huai looked at the distant relative he had set up, and asked curiously, while Charlie laughed.

"Haha, I didn't expect that either. To be honest, I just came here to relax at the invitation of a friend, to see the exhibition or something... Hey, I didn't expect that kind of thing to happen."

"That kind?"

"Yes, that's right!"

Charlie nodded, seeing Duanmu Huai, his eyes lit up immediately.

"Exactly, I was thinking about whether to find you!"

"????"

Although he was confused, Duanmuhuai still nodded, so Charlie pulled him aside excitedly, and told him about his troubles.

To put it simply, after the previous ghoul incident, Charlie was restless in Arkham and couldn't stay any longer, so he sold the company and the villa, and then planned to use this large sum of money to travel around the world Hu Tianhudi. Anyway, the money is enough for his next living needs.

It's just that it also makes Charlie feel a deep emptiness. He really loves art, otherwise he wouldn't be an art dealer. And now he was forced to abandon his wailing, which made Charlie quite sad. At the same time, one of his friends learned of Charlie's experience and invited him to go out for a walk. It happened that there was a modern art exhibition in the museum in Newburyport, so Charlie was invited to come here with his friends.

Then his friend disappeared.

………………………Um? ? ?

"I've already called the police, and I've also looked for people from the museum, but I don't have any clues. I'm in a hurry. I didn't expect to see you..."

“……………………”

Looking at Charlie in front of him, Duanmuhuai was speechless.

Wouldn't Ni Ya be a walking god of death like Conan, right?

But in any case, being able to meet the witnesses of this case was a pleasant surprise for Duan Muhuai, so he also asked Charlie about the whole incident.

Basically, the process itself is not complicated. According to Charlie, his friend invited him to visit the latest exhibition here. An exhibition about the exchange of modern civilization and art, of course, despite the lofty name, in fact, it is a group of art students' self-entertainment. Although there have been such and other problems before, Charlie is still very happy to see young people's thoughts and performances on art.

In the No. 1 exhibition hall, Charlie was attracted by the sculpture in front of him, and his mind as an artist and businessman became active again. And his friend told Charlie that he had to go to the next exhibition hall to see after viewing the artworks displayed in the exhibition hall, so Charlie didn't say much. He just nodded, and after a few minutes, he looked back and went to the next exhibition hall.

But his friend was gone.

"To be honest, I thought he just went to another exhibition hall, so I hurried to find him. But when I walked all over the museum and didn't see him, I realized that something seemed wrong, and I called I called his phone, but I can't get through..."

Charlie first approached the security guards of the museum to inquire about the situation. He found that when he said that his companion was missing, the security guards seemed restless, but they still accompanied Charlie through the entire exhibition hall again, and even took him to the office area of ​​the museum... …however, his companion is still nowhere to be found.

In desperation, Charlie had to call the police.

The police also called the museum's surveillance, and it can be seen through the surveillance that when Charlie was admiring the sculpture, his friend did come to him, said a few words to Charlie, and then turned and went to another exhibition hall. Then the camera switches to another exhibition hall, and Charlie's friend can also be seen coming there, and then walks along the exhibition hall.

Then it disappears.

Yes, it's that weird.

In order to illustrate how strange this is, Charlie also took a piece of paper and drew a simple schematic diagram for Duanmuhuai. He was in the exhibition hall A, and his friend was going to the exhibition hall B, and there was a corridor between the exhibition halls A and B. There are cameras in both the exhibition hall and the corridor, and now according to the situation captured by the surveillance camera, it can be clearly seen that the friend walked out of the exhibition hall A, came to the corridor, and then walked through the corridor to enter the gate of the exhibition hall B.

But there is no picture of friends in exhibition hall B.

In other words, his friend just disappeared when he entered the exhibition hall B inexplicably.

After that, the police conducted a blanket search of Hall B, but found nothing, and according to surveillance, the friend did not come out of Hall B either.

This is very strange.

so……………

"I hope you can help me investigate what is going on. I know that you are very good at this area. Of course, I will pay you the commission fee."

"no problem."

Naturally, Duanmu Huai would not refuse such a good deed, wouldn't it be nice to earn two shares of money for one entrustment?

One fish, two meals is the kingly way.

Duanmuhuai originally planned to invite Charlie to go with him, but he really left a psychological shadow, saying that he would wait for his good news at the hotel, and then just ran away with a touch of his butt.

So Duanmuhuai had no choice but to contact Anthony again and invite him to come to his RV to discuss the situation again.

There is no way to do this, usually at this time of day to chat and talk about things, you have to find a cafe or bar or something, but the problem is that there is no place for Duan Muhuai to sit when he goes in.

Let's talk in the car, after all, the car has air conditioning.

Anthony also reunited with Duanmuhuai soon, and the two sides also exchanged information. When he learned that the reporter was actually the victim of Duanmuhuai's last case, Anthony was also quite surprised, but fortunately Duanmuhuai had already passed away. Charlie heard the incident from his mouth, and Anthony also learned the incident from the museum's security and other staff as a policeman. The two sides verified each other, and there was basically no problem.

"So, where do you plan to start the investigation?"

After checking the information, Anthony looked at Duanmuhuai curiously. Although generally the police would not intervene in the investigator's actions, Anthony was really curious about what Duanmuhuai planned to do.

After all, with his appearance, if he wanted to do this kind of work, it would be difficult to control the board.

On the contrary, Duanmuhuai's answer was very straightforward.

"I'm afraid of a dick, tonight I'm going to go directly to the museum to spend the night, see what the hell is doing tricks, and then catch it and kill it!"

“…………………………”

Very straightforward indeed.

"Then I can apply to the curator for a closed library search at night, no problem."

"Yes, it would be better if you could come forward."

Duanmuhuai didn't care. After all, he had the genes of the Raven Guard. Even if the museum didn't agree, he could sneak in. But since Anthony wanted to act with him, Duanmuhuai didn't have any objections. The advantage of having the police around is that most of the time you don't need to explain yourself, just throw the pot at the other party.

Facts have proved that the federal police are quite deterrent. After Anthony found the curator and briefly explained the situation, the latter agreed to allow the two to stay in the museum after the museum was closed. Of course, the reason why the museum director is so generous is because there are really no valuable treasures in the museum. After all, it is a local museum. A hoe that has been handed down locally for two or three hundred years is considered a treasure of the town hall. What do you expect?

Soon, as night fell, the employees of the museum also left the museum one after another, and then Duanmuhuai and Anthony strode into it.

"Click."

The crisp footsteps echoed in the empty and silent space, Anthony looked around and took a breath. But Duanmuhuai squinted his eyes and stared at everything around him coldly. After a while, he spoke.

"Then, let's start our investigation."

First of all, the two went to the exhibition hall B where the missing person was before. This is just an ordinary exhibition hall. The walls are covered with various oil paintings, and there are some very ordinary ones from one or two hundred years ago Daily necessities... Well, it can be seen that there is indeed nothing to display in this museum.

This is not surprising, after all, the history is shallow.

Compared with those disgusting things painted by ghouls before, the oil paintings hanging here are much more normal. Duanmuhuai took a glance, then retracted his gaze, and began to stare around. Anthony held a flashlight in one hand and flipped through his notebook with the other.

"Well, according to the monitoring, the missing person walked into the gate, and then leaned against the wall along this side... It is very likely that he was admiring the paintings like us at that time..."

While talking, Anthony raised the flashlight and shook it towards the paintings hanging on the wall. It seemed to be imitating the sight of the missing person, wanting to see what he saw.

However, at this moment, he suddenly saw the content of one of the paintings. At this moment, Anthony almost screamed!