New Gods of North America.

Chapter 352 Acquaintance
I sent a letter to Ryan's office, asking them to pay more attention to the extraordinary criminals in the western mountains of Virginia.
If you can handle it, you can handle it yourself. The detective agency will only take a percentage of the profits.
If something cannot be handled or taken care of, the detective agency will send someone to solve it, and then it will not be the office that gets the most profit.

Doug and Seth regularly receive updates on wanted warrants from the local police station.

At present, we will do a screening and select all the targets suspected of being extraordinary criminals. Even if they are far away, we can consider going over and giving them a sudden "justice from heaven".

If we only consider efficiency in this regard, "protecting steam train lines" is a good job.

After all, ordinary criminals may run away after committing the crime, and it would be very troublesome to track them down.

But if we guard along the steam train lines, criminals who are confident enough will keep coming to us and we can just pick them out.

This can also maintain a certain distance from the church that mainly protects the "town", which in a sense can be regarded as a kind of "misaligned competition".

After pretending to listen to the sermon in church on Sunday, Seth had his parrot bring him some new news.

——McKenn Reeve, the "building manager" of Wayne's dormitory, woke up.

To be honest, compared to dealing with the possible alien extraordinary invaders that might appear soon, Wayne has now lowered the priority of continuing to investigate this matter.
From Wayne's perspective,

Reverend Bazzini or Reverend Pycelle are probably like "brother unit leaders" who have a secret feud with the detective agency. Their rank may be higher, but they are not subordinate to each other and cannot directly do anything to the detective agency.
Fighting with them is part of "competition in the workplace".

It feels less important than "resisting external enemies" or "upgrading yourself".

But now I'm free anyway, and some structural contradictions are difficult to improve, so I'll just continue to follow up and treat it as helping my classmates treat their illnesses.

Go to the manor and call Miss Olivia to do a "recheck" on Macon Reeve.
Then Wayne realized that his situation was not very good.

According to what Miss Olivia found out through her extraordinary ability, the "black shadow" created by Mrs. LaLaurie had been eliminated and did not appear again.

The "house" in Mackenzie Reeve's heart is still the same now.
After the "seven bedrooms and one living room" collapsed into the "three bedrooms and one living room", theoretically there should be four personalities left.

However, according to the statements of the "McKen Reeve" at this time,
All the personalities said that after "Washington" disappeared, they had not drunk the potion given by Reverend Pycelle again - the last time they vomited it out by pinching their throats, but failed to bring it out successfully, and the last time they reported to the college church, they were not asked to drink the potion.

But "Missouri" and "Tennessee" still disappeared.

That is, all of his personalities believed that only York, Kankers, and Georgia were left.
The quantities don't match, one is missing.

Judging from the correspondence of "rooms", the gentleman's residence should belong to "York", the hunter's cabin seems to be most in line with the temperament of "Kankers", and the lady's room is more like "Georgia".
But what about the personality that represents the slaughterhouse?
Judging from the fact that "someone killed a cat, but the other personalities couldn't find the murderer", the memories of Mackenzie Reeve's personalities are not shared, at least not the "completely shared" type.

This is easy to understand.

But why can the other personalities know that there are fewer companions, but not that the number of companions does not match?
Is there a personality that has been hidden and never appeared? Or is the correspondence wrong, and the personality corresponding to the slaughterhouse has never been hidden?

After listening to the conversation, Wayne looked at the notes Seth had written down. After pondering for a while, he felt that there were still too few effective clues and that the matter was too mysterious. He needed to wait for the results of the drug identification to come out.
For the time being, I can only ask David Mills to ask the exorcist priests to pay special attention to him, and by the way, ask Miss Olivia to help check him secretly regularly.

Wayne was also a little cautious and did not tell the "Macken Reeves" about what Miss Olivia had sensed with her extraordinary ability.

At least he could leave himself a control group. After the examination, Wayne asked Macon Reeve to rest well, cooperate with the treatment, and strive for a speedy recovery.

Before Wayne left the small office building in the college that was temporarily requisitioned by the church, he saw someone else coming to report the situation to David Mills.

Wayne couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for David Mills. He felt that the church's exorcism department was actually busier than he had imagined.

Respect and blessings.

"An inmate has escaped from the monastery. He was involved in an incident that was previously classified as a Level III threat..."

Wait,

Absconding should be a felony, right?
Wayne quickly came over and said, "I see that most of the people in your exorcism department are still busy with things in the academy. Do you need our detective agency to help arrest the fugitive?"

Come alive,
Arrest to earn contribution, kill to collect materials,
It feels like the Cathedral should be implicitly supporting this now.

"You don't have many people now, right?"

David Mills turned his head and looked at Wayne when he heard this. He asked a question casually, then quickly turned his eyes back.
His eyes quickly scanned the briefing line by line.

Then he stared at it in disbelief.

After reading the brief in his hand, David Mills was silent for a while, then handed it over and said, "You have been involved in this case before. If you want to assist in the pursuit, I have no objection."

Wayne took it and looked at it.
He was a criminal participant/controlled person originally from the church, and the case involved was the "Georgeberg Church Holy Emblem Pollution Incident".

Huh?
Isn’t this the case of the “Seven Deadly Sins”?
Glancing down, the name of the fugitive written on it was indeed from an "acquaintance" Wayne knew -

Roy Stampler.

In that case, he seemed to be affected by the contaminated holy emblem, claiming that he could see the "sins" of others, and was arrested on the spot by Wayne and his team at the crime scene.
As for his extraordinary abilities, Wayne remembered that Roy Stampler could exert relatively strong hypnotic control over people within a certain range around him. It was unclear whether the extraordinary person could resist by his own will. Wayne had always stayed outside the circle before and had never been hit by him.

Think about it a little more. The reason why David Mills went from being the captain of the state secret service to the head of George Berg's exorcism department was that

It seems that I was demoted because I helped him defend and won the lawsuit...

Well……

Wayne glanced at David Mills's face, which didn't look very happy at the moment.
The prisoner who was saved because of my defense has now disobeyed the verdict and absconded. If this is written into the lawyer's resume, it will be considered a so-called "stain"...

This at least proves that the prisoner does not agree with the verdict itself, or it indicates that the prisoner's "nature" may not deserve a light sentence.

From the perspective of church personnel, that means "not confessing sincerely."

(End of this chapter)