Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 204 The Missing Ship

The next day.

During working hours, Milo and old Theon returned to the law enforcement office one after the other.

In Rebecca's office.

Old Theon, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, tossed a document to the ground.

The cover of the document indicates that it is a record of ships entering and leaving the port upstream and downstream of the canal.

"We were unable to find any suspicious vessels that passed through the Confession Pier during that time period, but we did find a missing small transport ship."

Old Theon spread out the document and pointed to a ship number on it, saying:
"At 12:36 pm, the ship underwent routine inspection and registration at a port 12 kilometers upstream, but its number has not appeared at any port downstream since then. I checked all the ports along the river and could not find the ship."

Rebecca immediately grabbed the documents and quickly flipped through them:
"A cargo ship with 20 crew members, transporting tea. It belongs to McMann Trading Company. Come on, come with me..."

"No need, I've already brought their leader back and locked him in the interrogation room. We can start the interrogation once he's a little more sober," Old Theon waved his hand.

"Why wait until he's sober?" Milo raised an eyebrow.

"Because he was very rude when we asked him to come back, you know, these big bosses always have short tempers and said a lot of impolite things, so..." Old Theon shrugged.

Rebecca shook her head helplessly and walked straight out of the office toward the interrogation room.

Milo and Theon followed closely behind.

……

...

Rebecca is incredibly efficient.

Milo and old Theon had only been chatting for a short while outside the interrogation room when she pushed the door open, pulling down her rolled-up shirt sleeves as she gave instructions:
"Send people to find this ship. It's a cargo ship after all; it can't just disappear into thin air."

"Was it to evade taxes and conceal the registration records?" Milo took the interrogation records from Rebecca.

“No, it’s missing. Their company is also looking for the ship, but because it involves 20 lives, they chose to cover it up and dare not report it.” Rebecca snorted coldly.

"Someone, take that guy inside to the hospital," Old Theon ordered the law enforcement officer beside him.

"and this."

Milo casually tossed over a list he was carrying:
“This is the list I got from St. George’s Hospital last night. I’ll visit them one by one; they could be potential victims.”

After leaving Charles's apartment yesterday, Milo went to St. George's Hospital to get the list that Sansa had asked her to compile the day before.

All the women on the list are young women with similar body measurements to Aya Ferguson.

Of course, Milo added Sansa's name at the end of the list.

……

With the tasks assigned on-site, Milo originally planned to go straight to the law enforcement headquarters to find Nero.

He wanted to find out more about the Seven Valleys.

Rebecca couldn't possibly know about something involving top-level secrets; only someone of Nero's rank would have access to it. Moreover, Nero came from the town of Icam, and according to him, many high-ranking officials often entrusted him with handling mysterious cases. Given his seniority, he might have some knowledge of the Seven Valley incident.

Although the story told by Charles was a brutal massacre, and a dark chapter in history that, if exposed, would directly damage the image and authority of the law enforcement team.

But Milo always felt that Charles's perspective was too narrow, and his subjective attitude influenced his view of the incident.

Milo's opinion stemmed entirely from the name of the school Charles mentioned at the end—Miskatonic University.

This wasn't the first time he'd heard the name.

The last time this name appeared was when he learned about the founder of the Gus Society during his investigation of the Feynman manuscripts.

Gus, a mystical enthusiast who was expelled from Nanwei Academy, once went to an academic institution in the Miskatonic region for an exchange program. It was that exchange student experience that inspired him to create this association.

It's not hard to deduce that he went to Miskatonic University as an exchange student. And all the theories about the occult that he later championed, including his ability to decipher the fragments of the Feynman manuscript, came from that mysterious university.

The advisor Charles mentioned also came from Miskatonic University.

To put it bluntly, his work was similar to that of Gus, both being related to the mysticism.

Therefore, the massacre on the banks of the Severn River was definitely not a simple genocide as Charles claimed; there must be more to it than meets the eye.

Because he once mentioned that "the dead return to the world as something else."

This is something Milo witnessed firsthand.

Connecting this to the "familiars" mentioned by the Scarlet Witch earlier, those who hold fanatical beliefs in ancient races would cruelly serve and sacrifice the surviving ancient beings in exchange for their arrival or the expansion of their race.

Just like what happened in the town of Ikham.

So, could it be understood that those who were "massacred" at that time were the kin of some ancient creature?

They were hunted down by law enforcement because they performed some kind of ritual that violated human ethics.

For example, just like the raven demonstrated to Robben.

To bring the dead back to life and turn them into emotionless killing machines...

……

These fragmented clues gradually connected in Milo's mind, forming a complete chain.

From the River Severn, to the Nanwei City Canal, to the Penitentiary Pier.

These two ancient cities, hundreds of kilometers apart, are connected by a river.

In both cities, ten years apart, the dead were brought back to life.

Since the Familias are real, if Aya died at their hands, it would mean that the massacre in the Seven Valleys was not thorough, and there must have been survivors in that village.

He followed the Seven River to Nanwei City, where he settled down and has lived to this day.

...

But why was the sacrificial ceremony held at the Penitentiary Dock...?

As Milo walked down the dark corridor, looking at the dew that had accumulated on the ground due to the damp air, the image of old Theon standing on the edge of the bridge, gazing at the river, suddenly flashed into his mind on the night of the incident.

And the vague remark old Theon made—"There seems to be something in the river."

……

River Seven.

Repentance Wharf.

A living corpse.

The missing ship.

There are 20 people on the boat...

Milo's breathing rate gradually became rapid.

This is clearly a setup.

……

Just then, Rebecca's voice came from the end of the corridor: "Go to the basement and call Rick up."

(End of this chapter)