dhibooks Chapter 178 Invitation
Chapter 178 Invitation
After the plane landed, everyone went straight to the police station, while Rhett and Raven went to the Getty Center first.
When he arrived at the Getty Center, Reid first studied all the routes here and then went back to find Raven, who was on the top floor of the Getty Center.
There are no traces on the top floor, except for the shoe prints of a few workers who installed the network, there are no traces of being trampled on, and even the cleaning workers rarely come up.
Raven bent down and checked the ground carefully. Maybe he missed something?In other words, he found that according to what the supervisor said about the three workers, then... where did the extra fourth and fifth people come from?Although they are wearing the same shoes.
This is the most terrible.
If the thieves actually knew the pattern on the soles of the shoes worn by the workers, then this matter is really not ordinary theft-not to mention killing people.
His hands touched the ground, and the dust was brushed away at his fingertips—so presumably someone inside the Getty Center was involved?He frowned, and looked up at the fence on the top floor.
The fence on the top floor is not too high, a normal adult should be able to step on it... Raven walked over and stood on the fence.
It's not too far from the other building next to it.
If you jump hard, ordinary people should be able to land normally, but if you exercise a little bit... then you will probably jump to the top of the opposite building and it will be very safe-the distance is less than two meters.
"Hey!" A voice sounded from behind.
Raven raised one foot and turned, still standing on the railing.
"Don't fall!" The person who spoke was a young man in his twenties, wearing sportswear, and the shoes on his feet... Raven realized that these were the soles of the footprints on the roof of this building The printed brand, probably the sole print is exactly the same, except for the degree of wear.
Because the young man left a series of clear footprints, and these footprints just prove that his shoes are newly bought.
Raven frowned, but immediately put on a serious expression.He jumped off the railing and stood there looking at the young man opposite, who seemed a little bewildered.
"You...I mean how did you get up here?" the young man asked, "and... I've never seen you before, who are you? Who? What do you do? A new repairman? Or Nurse?"
Raven walked over, smiled at him, and held out his hand: "Senior FBI agent, Raven Whitewolf. My partner is downstairs."
"You mean the FBI agent who looks like a student with hair reaching his ears?" Sure enough, the young man had just met Red, "He said his partner was looking for clues, and it turned out to be... on the top floor?"
Raven smiled, but didn't answer, and the other party didn't seem to want to introduce himself.But this does not prevent Reed from discovering his personal information-Leonard Myers from the name tag on his chest.
"Then...Mr. Detective, you continue, I...I will go down after checking the wires." Myers said, turning his head and going to do his own work, and his footprints left a series of traces—— —The manager said before that only a few workers came up to check the network this month, but now this one is checking the wires—so, one person checks the wires?
At this moment, Miles' intercom rang.
He picked up the walkie-talkie and said a few words to the person over there, and Raven could hear him clearly.
They are indeed talking about the circuit problem. It seems that the person in charge of the Getty Center, that is, Jennifer's son Lester, intends to install the power grid on the ten most precious exhibits, and this requires Miles and the others to redo a few A circuit, and a separate parallel circuit is connected.
Miles smiled awkwardly at Raven, and explained: "That's my brother, he always thinks I'm shit, I don't understand anything-in fact, if I don't understand, he should let me look at the switch. "
Raven smiled kindly at him too.
It looks like the Getty Center really needs this new circuit.
Raven opened the iron gate and walked down, and found nothing abnormal along the way, even in the trash can, there were no clues, except for some scraps of paper... those scraps of paper were torn to pieces, nothing was there. The remaining one, Raven picked up a piece, and found that there were no other comments on it except cursing the unfairness of life, so... this is also left by tourists?
He shook his head and walked out of the stairwell.
"How?" Rhett asked.
"Let's go talk to the person in charge," Raven said.
The two have seen these so-called clues in the museum, as well as the previously lost items and their detailed information-the location, origin, shape, meaning, where they came from...they have done their homework.
"So the first one that was lost was actually a Chinese teapot, porcelain, right?" Raven asked Lester-Getty, "It was later found in a backpack of a Chinese tourist, but this The visitor has never been to the Getty Center at all, whether it is monitoring or registration information, there is no name of the visitor. Right?"
Lester Getty nodded: "Yes, that's it."
"Initially everyone thought the threatening letter was... a prank, and no one took it seriously, but... I mean, it was horrible."
Reed asked again: "The second stolen collection is a beer from Germany-a perfect work of art, it exists not only because it is a long-preserved beer, but also because of its glass bottle." When it comes to collectibles, Lester shines, looking a decade younger.
"It was special tinted glass and I still remember how beautiful and shiny she was when it wasn't stolen," he said.
This is understandable.
That's what he's supposed to do when he's obsessed enough about something, bringing it to life—kind of silly, but it looks good.
Lester Getty took two men to his office.
Lester Getty's office is upstairs, with floor-to-ceiling transparent windows, you can see the entire venue.
He led the two into the door and let them stand at the place where he usually overlooks the venue—the most valuable things can be seen here, and it is precisely because of this that the office chose this place—he pointed One direction below, saying: "The work targeted by thieves is that one."
Looking along his hand, indeed, there is a portrait over there, which is not very big, but...the frames are all inlaid with gold, let alone a ruby inlaid on it.
"Then, have you kept the notes you received earlier?" Rhett asked him.
"Give it to the police, all of it," Lester replied.
This is indeed a standard answer, but he turned around and took out another book from the drawer, opened the book, and showed it to Rhett: "Actually, I was warned before this."
And Rhett saw words like this in that book: "We will take back what we have, they belong to us, and now, they will return."
Rhett handed the book to Raven, who looked at it and returned it to Lester.
When the two of them walked out of the Getty Center, the black SUV seemed to isolate them from the outside world, sealing them in a small world that was completely safe and brought some warmth, but this warmth was definitely relative to theirs. For two.
It's as if Rhett is telling Raven about Lester now.
"He looked reluctant."
"He just doesn't want to." Raven nodded, "It's like this museum has bound his soul."
This statement is difficult to explain but easy to understand.
It's as if a person enjoys all the material things and then turns back and says that these materials restrict his freedom-this is boring and that is boring, but in the end he is still reluctant to part with the material.
"And the book he took out at the end was too... seriously fake." Reid tilted his head helplessly, as if recalling how bad Lester's acting skills were.
"But we can't conclude that he was the one who guarded himself." Raven shook his head.
Actually this is the hardest part.
Many times, some people show their flaws, but you have no evidence—in fact, it may not be that he is guarding himself, and there are a large number of people who are willing to be the "coverer" to cover up the crime for the perpetrator.
They were unable to determine whether this Lester was the perpetrator or the participant, or the related third party who was just covering up for the unknown suspect.
Therefore, they must find other clues-now, it should return to Jennifer Getty.
Rosie and Hodge have gone to talk to Jennifer's husband, who now looks like an ordinary Alzheimer's patient, flirting with nurses all day, saying that he is a real gentleman, and only 22 years old, in his prime Mao, not yet married.
Andrew Gilson looked coquettish in his wheelchair with a red rose in his hand - he even wore overalls and a bow tie!
"Hey girl, you look so pretty today!" he said to the nurse, who was almost 50 years old. "I guess your mother wouldn't let you go out with me, but you know, I'm so attractive and you It’s so beautiful and cute again, we should go on a date—seriously, do you want to go to a movie? I heard there’s a new movie, a love movie, it’s so good!”
The female nurse was amused by him and giggled.
He also looks happy.
For Alzheimer's patients, happiness is definitely the best medicine.
"I wish that if I had Alzheimer's, I could live like this." Rossi sighed and walked in front of Andrew Gilson.
"Hey! You young boy, you know you're not old enough to fall in love! Don't peek!" Andrew Gilson yelled at Rosie, turned around and saw Hodge, and he laughed even harder Exaggerated, "God Melinda, look, a half-grown with a baby!"
Melinda, the nurse, stopped smiling and explained the situation to Hodge and Rosie.And Hodge also explained his intention.
However, the nurse said: "My name is not Melinda, my name is Linda. I don't know who Melinda is, maybe...he likes the pronunciation of 'May'?"
Rosie nodded, but didn't dwell on it, they just talked some nonsense to Andrew Gilson - at least, in Linda's opinion, they were all nonsense - and then hurriedly left.
Back at the police station, they all got the news together.
"Actually, Andrew Gilson has a deep memory of the name 'Melinda'. Even though he is demented, he still can't forget it. This is not a slip of the tongue, but a name he has never forgotten—then , who is Melinda?" Rosie asked.
"If we don't know who Melinda is, then can we know why Lester Getty showed us such a thing? Who is he diverting attention from?" Raven also pointed out what they found question.
So, a museum is just a museum, but... the several thefts at the Getty Center and the early warning this time are definitely not real theft, let alone a coincidence—everything is secretly operated by someone .
Plus the soles of museum workers.
So, the person they are looking for, the real perpetrator, is actually...not just guarding himself, he may even direct and act on his own—and now, what is his goal?
Don't say it's a portrait of the Sun King - that's simply impossible!
According to Raven's observation, the Sun King's portrait is placed directly opposite Leicester's office, and he can be seen by looking down. If it is really the target, then... Leicester will easily The office being inspected—the searched kind.Not to mention, he obviously specially protected this portrait, and there are nine other items, but these items are in Lester's mouth... Let alone Raven, Rhett has discovered it a long time ago. When he mentioned these things, he was not so proud or happy.