Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 548 Investigation
After confirming that they were in a conscious world.

Milo then summoned almost every available force he could.

The living room, which is usually rather spacious, felt quite crowded today.

……

"Dad, can these people really bring my sister back? They don't seem very reliable to me."

Finn sat obediently on his own sofa.

Ten minutes earlier, while my family and my father were still searching for Emma in the neighborhood, the first group of people to come to our door appeared. It was the red-haired female law enforcement officer with a scar on her face, who was accompanied by a large group of people.

This included Enid, who often came to their house for meals; she looked more anxious than anyone else.

Furthermore, there was a strange person in the team who didn't carry a gun. Why was he considered strange? Because he was wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a scarf around his neck, and he smelled like barbecue. He didn't look like a law enforcement officer at all, but he was indeed mixed in with the law enforcement officers.

After arriving, the group didn't exchange any pleasantries with Kang and Finn. They simply drew a circle around the living room sofa and told them to stay inside and not move. Then they began a thorough search for clues, leaving no stone unturned, from footprints on the floor to scratches on the door frame.

And this is just the beginning.

Within a few minutes.

Two other men in suits carrying black suitcases then appeared.

The man wore a top hat and a metal brooch on his chest. He looked like a scholar, but he had a gun at his waist. The most striking feature was the dense, numerous knife marks on the back of his bare hands after he took off his gloves.

The mysterious man introduced himself as "C," and the younger man next to him was his assistant.

The two men didn't waste any words either. They found a corner, opened a box, took out their "tools," and joined the investigation.

However, their equipment was clearly different from that used by law enforcement officers. In addition to the more advanced sampling equipment, there were also some tiles that looked like antiques. Furthermore, they did not participate in the law enforcement officers' investigation. Instead, they took the lead in "occupying" the attic, roof, and other locations to conduct investigations and deployments, which seemed very mysterious.

They even scanned Finn all over with those strange instruments, but when it came to Kang, they simply ignored him.

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The third group to visit were the church's deacons, also known as church officials.

A very rare situation occurred: the person in the black trench coat and the person in the gray robe were under the same roof but did not fight, and the two did not even exchange words.

Even Finn and Kang, whose movements were restricted, could feel the suppressed tension in their own house.

Everyone knows the exact relationship between the law enforcement system and church deacons; Kang only hopes this silence can last until both groups return home.

...

If the law enforcement team's investigation methods were purely modern, and the two mysterious men from a university in the west combined ancient and modern methods, then the church members were using purely ancient theological methods.

Therefore, the overall picture has a very strong sense of disjointedness.

Some were lying on the ground with magnifying glasses in hand, while others were kneeling at the doorway, silently chanting prayers and incantations...

The different groups of people went about their own business, ignoring each other.

Soon after, a middle-aged man with a cane arrived.

It's clear that he's not part of the same group as the others.

The man, who identified himself as Jonathan, was the only one to visit alone. He didn't immediately disappear into the corners of the room upon entering, but instead politely inquired about Milo's whereabouts. Upon learning that Milo was busy, he asked Kang to convey that "all smuggling ships entering and leaving the port that are not under the supervision of the law enforcement system have been checked, and there is no one Mr. Valrocan is looking for."

It was also stated that the Sherman family was willing to provide "any assistance within their capabilities" at any time.

Then they left.

So far, these are just investigators operating on the fringes.

Those who were the core members had already gathered in Emma's study upstairs.

Finn witnessed his older brother and Yan Xian go upstairs, and then a blindfolded girl appeared and silently went upstairs as well.

Next, a black cat swaggered in from outside the door.

From Finn's perspective, a socially awkward white furry ball pried open the window and climbed up the ceiling to the second floor, completely unnoticed by anyone.

...

In reality, for the people inside the tightly closed study, the so-called "investigation" outside was of little significance.

It can be basically confirmed that the person simply vanished into thin air.

The so-called clues will only be limited to this room and its surroundings.

The most crucial elements are the densely packed formulas on the blackboard in the study and the tons of draft paper on the desk.

...

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Milo stood in front of the pile of draft papers and introduced them to everyone:
"Emma said that about a year ago, fragmented mathematical symbols started appearing in her mind continuously. Later, she tried to organize those symbols and then discovered some patterns. And it's been like that ever since. I saw what was on this blackboard a while ago, and back then the content wasn't as complicated as it is now..."

After searching in various ways to no avail, Milo could only turn his attention to these densely packed formulas.

The fact that a living person could vanish into thin air right under the nose of the Shadow of the Past is quite unbelievable, a phenomenon that even Milo cannot understand or comprehend.

These things that popped into Emma's mind were also incomprehensible to Milo, given his understanding of the world.

This is the only thing they have in common, and it's also the most important point.

...

However, after Milo gave a brief explanation of the situation, the somewhat crowded study fell almost completely silent.

The formulas and diagrams on the blackboard that reached straight to the ceiling were enough to trigger trypophobia. Even without looking closely, just having it in sight gave people a sense of oppression, as if the vast starry sky had been condensed and condensed and hung on this wall, with a great deal of "thickness".

The study now contains Daisy, Dillash, Yan, Rebecca, Investigator C, and two adorable pets, Wendigo and Marshall, just to make up the numbers.

As soon as Daisy entered the room, she tilted her little head up and stared blankly at the blackboard.

Yan and Dila Xiao, being pure warriors, were completely clueless and couldn't understand anything.

Rebecca was in an even worse situation; she was just studying one of the formulas on the blackboard when her nose started bleeding.

In contrast, C was much more experienced. After entering the room, he never faced the blackboard directly, but instead plunged into the more "human-friendly" draft papers to study them.

He was holding his notebook in one hand while quickly tidying up the messy pile of draft paper, his expression shifting between light and dark, occasionally letting out heartfelt sighs:

"The Noschia equation?... Absolutely brilliant!"

...

"Looks like nobody can figure this thing out, right?"

(End of this chapter)