Chapter 498 Where to meet


    Not far from the street, a man in a suit and a mustache was looking at Duanmu Huai in surprise. This person is nothing else, but Charlie Simon, a painter who is the "distant relative" of Duanmuhuai.


    He was almost sacrificed by a ghoul before, and after the incident, Charlie''s spirit was also greatly stimulated. He once thanked Duanmuhuai, and then sold all his collection of paintings and the villa in one breath. According to Charlie, he didn''t plan to go home anymore. He wanted to go shopping in other places and find a place to rest in retirement.


    When Duanmuhuai saw him a month ago, he was completely haggard and had thick dark circles. But now he looks wide and fat, and he looks smiling...


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


    Duanmu Huai looked at the distant relative in his setting and asked curiously, while Charlie laughed.


    "Haha, I didn''t expect that, to be honest, I just came here to relax at the invitation of my friend and saw the exhibition or something... Alas, I didn''t expect that something would happen."


    "That kind?"


    “Yes, right!”


    Charlie nodded and saw Duanmu Huai, his eyes lit up immediately.


    "It just so happened that I was thinking about whether to look for you!"


    “?????”


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


    Simply put, after the previous ghoul incident, Charlie was restless in Arkham and couldn''t stay there, so he sold his company and villa, and then planned to use this large amount of money to travel around the world. Anyway, this money is enough for his next life.


    But this also made Charlie feel deeply empty. He does love art, otherwise he would not have been a painting dealer. But now he was forced to abandon his wail, which made Charlie quite worried. At the same time, a friend of hiss learned about Charlie''s experience and invited him to go out for a relaxing time. It happened to be 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 have called the police and have also found people from the museum, but I have no clue. I am in a hurry. I didn''t expect to see you..."


    “………………”


    Looking at Charlie in front of him, Duanmu Huai was speechless.


    Isn’t Ya the walking **** of death like Conan? Wherever you go, people will die?


    But no matter what, it was a surprise for Duanmu Huai to meet the witnesses of this case, so he also inquired about the whole story from Charlie.


    Basically, the process of things itself is not complicated. According to Charlie, his friend invited him to visit the latest exhibition. An exhibition about the exchange of modern civilization and art. Of course, although this name is so noble, it is actually a group of art students who entertain themselves. Although there have been problems of this and that before, Charlie is still very happy to see the young people’s ideas and expressions about art.


    In the exhibition hall No. 1, Charlie was attracted by the sculptures in front of him, and his thoughts as an artist and a businessman began to become active again. After watching the artworks displayed in the exhibition hall, his friend told Charlie that he would go to the next exhibition hall first, so Charlie didn''t say much. He just nodded, and after a few minutes, he withdrew his gaze and came to the next exhibition hall.


    But his friend disappeared.


    "To be honest, I thought he had just gone to another exhibition hall, so I hurried to find him. But when I walked all over the museum and didn''t see him, I found that something seemed wrong. I also called him, but it couldn''t get through..."


    Charlie first asked the museum security guard to inquire about the situation. He found that when he said his companions were missing, the security guards seemed anxious, but they still accompanied Charlie to the entire exhibition hall again, and even took him to the museum''s office area... However, his companions were still missing.


    In desperation, Charlie had to call the police.


    The police also retrieved the museum''s surveillance. Through the surveillance, we can see that while Charlie was admiring the sculpture, his friend did walk to him, said a few words to Charlie, and then turned to another exhibition hall. Then the camera turned to another exhibition hall, and you could see Charlie''s friend coming there and then walked forward along the exhibition hall.


    Then it disappeared.


    That''s right, it''s just that strange.


    In order to illustrate how strange this is, Charlie also used paper to draw a simple diagram of Duanmuhuai. He was in exhibition hall A, and his friend went to exhibition hall B, and there was a corridor between exhibition halls A and B. There are cameras in the exhibition hall and corridor. Now, based on the shooting of the surveillance camera, you can clearly see that your friend walks out of the exhibition hall A, arrives at the corridor, and then passes through the corridor and enters the gate of the exhibition hall B.


    But no friends were photographed in exhibition hall B.


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


    After that, the police conducted a carpet-style search on Exhibition Hall B, but found nothing, and according to the surveillance, the friend did not come out of Exhibition Hall B. This is very strange.


    so………


    "I hope you can help me investigate what''s going on. I know you''re very good at this. Of course, I will pay you the commission fee."


    "no problem."


    Duanmu Huai naturally would not refuse such a good thing. Wouldn''t it be nice to make two shares of money by entrusting one piece of money?


    Eating one fish is the kingly way.


    Duanmu Huai originally planned to invite Charlie to go with him, but this person really left a psychological shadow and said that he would wait for his good news in the hotel, and then ran away with a touch of his butt.


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


    There is nothing we can do about this. Usually, when chatting, you have to find a cafe and bar, or something, but the problem is that Duanmuhuai has no place to sit when he goes in.


    Let’s talk to the car, after all, there is an air conditioner on the car.


    Anthony soon met Duanmu Huai again, and the two sides also exchanged some news. When they learned that the reporter this time was actually the victim of Duanmu Huai''s last case, Anthony was also quite surprised. Fortunately, Duanmu Huai had heard about the incident from Charlie, and Anthony also learned about the incident from the museum''s security guards and other staff as a policeman. The two sides verified each other and there was basically no problem.


    "So, what are you going to start investigating?"


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


    After all, if he is like this, it is difficult to control the market.


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


    "I''m afraid of being so scared. Tonight I''ll just go to the museum to stay for one night, see what''s going on, and then catch it and kill it!"


    “…………………”


    It''s indeed very direct.


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


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


    Duanmuhuai doesn''t care. After all, he has the genes of a crow guard. Even if the museum does not agree, he can sneak in. But since Anthony wants to act with him, Duanmuhuai has no objection. The advantage of having a policeman is that often there is no need to explain by yourself, just throw the pot on the other party.


    Facts have proved that federal police officers are quite deterrent. After Anthony found the director and explained the situation briefly, the latter agreed to allow the two to stay in the museum after the closing. Of course, the reason why the museum director is so generous is that there are really no particularly valuable treasures in the museum. After all, it is a local museum. There is a **** that has been circulating in the local area for two or three hundred years, even if it is a treasure of the museum, what else do you expect?


    Soon, as night fell, the museum staff also left the museum, and then Duanmuhuai and Anthony stepped into it.


    "Click."


    The crisp footsteps echoed in the empty space. In the quiet space, Anthony looked around and took a breath. Duanmu Huai squinted his eyes and looked at everything around him coldly. He spoke after a while.


    "So, let''s start investigating."


    First of all, the two of them went to the exhibition hall B where the missing person was before. This was just an ordinary exhibition hall, with various oil paintings hanging on the walls, and there were some very ordinary daily necessities from a hundred or two years ago next to them... Well, it can be seen that this museum is indeed nothing to place.


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


    Compared to the disgusting things drawn by the ghoul before, the oil paintings hanging here are much more normal. Duanmu Huai glanced at them and withdrew his gaze and began to stare around. Anthony, holding a flashlight in one hand and flipping through his notebook with the other.


    "Well, according to the surveillance, the missing person walked into the gate and leaned against the wall along this side... It is very likely that he was enjoying the painting like us..."


    As he spoke, Anthony raised the flashlight and shook at the painting hanging on the wall. It was like imitating the missing person''s sight, trying to see what he saw.


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


    (This chapter ends)