bayedsolid Chapter 751 Desolation
Chapter 751 Desolation
Xin Feng's voice in the microphone echoed with a hint of seriousness: "Yes, Atlantic City, one of the famous gambling cities in New Jersey, is an island city on the Atlantic Ocean, not too far from Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Now the signal source of this number is stable in a mixed industrial and old residential area in the west of the city. And..."
"And what?" Wen Liang frowned. Green's number appeared in another state, which might be where the laboratory was located.
"I just found out that the Artemis Laboratory is located in Atlantic City." Xin Feng said in a deep voice, "There are all kinds of people there. If you go there rashly, you may be in danger."
Sure enough.
Wen Liang said, "We will immediately receive Mr. Charlie and go directly to the small town of Harrisburg Mihal to confirm Green's situation. As for Artemis Laboratory, I will tell Fu Zheng that his people will go there to investigate."
"Alright." Xin Feng responded, "Be careful on the road."
"Ah."
The car had turned into the street where Charlie's dilapidated apartment building stood.
The old man, with his back hunched and wrapped in a thin coat, was looking around anxiously under the street lamp in the cold wind.
Lu Yao braked suddenly and Wen Liang quickly opened the back door, "Hurry up and get in the car, Mr. Charlie!"
Old Charlie stumbled into the car: "What's going on? Green..."
"Preliminary positioning shows that Mr. Green's mobile phone number is currently in Atlantic City, New Jersey. We need to go to his home in Harrisburg's Michal Town to confirm it immediately." Wen Liang said concisely, while vigilantly glancing out the window, "Sit tight, we're going to Harrisburg now. Do you remember his specific address?"
"Remember! Remember! At...No. 17 Oak Street in the small town of Michal." Old Charlie gave the address, his voice very hoarse.
Lu Yao had already entered the Green family address sent by Xin Feng into the navigation. He stepped on the accelerator and the car rushed into the road again like an arrow.
The navigation showed that the journey would take about two hours.
There was a depressing silence in the carriage.
Wen Liang asked Xin Feng to continue monitoring the number while gently comforting old Charlie who was about to collapse: "Mr. Charlie, it's not time to give up yet. Let's go to the Green family. Any clues may be useful."
After two hours of agony, the car drove into the eerily quiet town of Michal.
It was late at night and the town seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.
Oak Street was lined with older single-family houses, widely spaced apart and mostly shrouded in darkness.
Lu Yao followed the house number and slowly parked the car in front of No. 17 Oak Street.
The car lights pierced the darkness, illuminating the scene before us.
Number 17 Oak Street has long been abandoned.
The wooden fence was crooked and broken, the yard was overgrown with weeds, and the withered grass stems were higher than the knees.
The house was dark, without a single light. Most of the windows had broken glass or were covered with thick dirt. One window was even hastily nailed shut with a broken board.
The air was filled with the damp smell of mold and rotting vegetation.
It looks like it has been abandoned for many years.
Seeing this scene, Old Charlie seemed to have lost all his strength and collapsed in the back seat. The glimmer of hope deep in his heart was completely shattered. "Impossible... Impossible... Last month Green sent me a photo with this yard in the background..."
Wen Liang and Lu Yao looked at each other, their hearts sank to freezing point.
It is very likely that Green had met with an accident a few years ago.
They could make Green disappear without a trace, and naturally they could also forge an identical courtyard in Atlantic City to appease old Charlie.
If we think about it more deeply, the courtyard can be faked, so is the Jamie in the photo the real Jamie?
Wen Liang pushed the door and got out of the car, ready to go forward to check.
Just then, the dim porch light in the opposite yard suddenly came on.
An old lady with gray hair and wrapped in a nightgown carefully opened the crack of the door and looked in vigilantly.
"Excuse me, I'm sorry to bother you so late!" Wen Liang stopped a few steps outside the yard, trying to lower his voice and apologized, "We are friends from Philadelphia. We want to look for Mr. Green who lives at No. 17, but it seems... no one has lived there for a long time?"
The old lady looked at her, and seeing Wen Liang's sincere expression, she sighed, "Alas, Old Green...I haven't seen their family for some years."
"Do you know where they went? When did they leave?" Wen Liang asked, with appropriate concern and confusion in his tone.
The old lady shook her head, her gray hair fluttering in the cold night wind: "I don't know, it's just that suddenly... the person disappeared! It must have been... six or seven years?"
Wen Liang clenched his fists.
It seems that Green had been targeted by the KL Group six or seven years ago.
Old Charlie's method can indeed confuse people, but Jamie's blood type is special. Those people have finally found one, so they naturally won't give up, and finally they found Green.
The old lady raised her hand and pointed at the dilapidated house across the street. "The night before, the night before they disappeared, I heard some noise in his yard. There was not just one person, but they were arguing about something. Someone also cursed loudly. I was sitting by the window watching TV at the time, wondering how could Old Green, who is usually a very quiet person, come to make trouble so late at night?"
She paused. "The next morning, the snow hadn't melted yet. I got up to sweep the snow outside the door, and when I looked up, I saw that the front door of his house was wide open. It was freezing cold, but the door was just wide open. I waited for a long time, but no one came out to close the door. I was really worried, so I went over and stood at the door and took a look inside... Oh, it was such a mess! It looked like... like it had been robbed, and I didn't know where the people had gone..."
"Did you call the police?"
"I reported it, of course I did," the old lady said quickly. "The police came and investigated for a few days. But there was no result. Later, it was said that maybe old Green owed gambling debts or offended someone, so he took the remaining valuables in the family and ran away with the children overnight. Some people also said...it was a robber from outside the area who kidnapped him. After that, this house...has been abandoned here ever since. Are you...relatives of Green?"
"We are friends of Mr. Green. Thank you for telling us this. It is so important." Wen Liang explained vaguely, trying to maintain his composure. "It seems that we are really... late. Thank you again!"
She walked back to the car with a heavy heart and saw old Charlie's face, pale and desperate without a trace of blood.
"Six years... the liar has deceived me for so many years... my Green... my Jamie..."
Old Charlie was so grief-stricken that his whole body began to shake like a sieve.
He thought he had protected the child for eight years, but it turned out that his most trusted old friend and child might have been murdered as early as six years ago.
Wen Liang simply comforted Old Charlie and said to Lu Yao, "It's too late. We've been running all day. Let's find a hotel here to stay and go back tomorrow."