New Gods of North America.

Chapter 459 Fast Food
Some thoughts are like cockroaches in a house; once they start, they quickly spread.

After finishing his meal and arriving at the detective agency's temporary rental base, Wayne, apart from wanting to catch the "real murderer", the rest of his thoughts turned to "doing a side job".

Communication was still inconvenient these days. For example, if Wayne and his team wanted to find a temporary base after dinner, they had to go to the agreed place to find the agents waiting there.

Then the agent told Wayne and the others the address Doug rented so that they could find him again.

If there is a place like a restaurant in the city where the activity is needed, it can be used as a contact point, so that there will be someone to help pass on the message whenever you go there.
I guess a lot of things will be much more convenient.

We can put the high-end restaurant aside for now. Lina is a bit content with being well-off. Otherwise, she wouldn't mind paying the agents more when she has some spare money. If we really let her open a high-end restaurant, she might not bother to bother with the detective agency anymore. We have to wait until the detective agency's profit level goes up a bit.
But trying to open a fast food restaurant now seems quite appropriate.

The cost of re-making cheese has now become not very high, and the various sauces that Parker has made can be reproduced exactly as they were.

Fried chicken nuggets were not very realistic before the rise of the slaughtering industry, but things like hamburgers, pizza, and hot dogs no longer have any technical barriers.

correct,

As for starch sausages and luncheon meat, Parker will start research and development.

Let’s not talk about whether they are delicious or not. Just the fact that they are “meaty” and “cheap” means there is definitely a market for them these days.

Moreover, things like fast food restaurants are more in line with the temperament of Wayne, a "Westerner".

As Wayne thought about this, he drew a logo in the shape of the letter "W".
Inesa next to him came over and took a few glances. "What is this? Does it have anything to do with the two Williams today?"

Wayne then talked about his fast food restaurant concept.

Inesha blinked. "Will there be fish and chips?"

Well……

French fries are fine, but as for fried fish...it's not popular in the market, and there must be a reason for that.

By the way, we can’t forget beverages, which are where the big profits come from.

Since carbonated drinks cannot be produced, at least soda water or lemon tea will be enough in the short term.

After spending half the night thinking about it, Wayne even figured out how to design the meal.

Just now Lina arrived at the temporary base with a team of people.

Parker is now staying at home in the base camp. There are no restaurants in the community, so he can only produce and sell his own dinner, and he has to buy whatever ingredients are available from the stores that are still open.

Seeing that everyone was disgusted with each other's cooking skills, Wayne brought up his fast food restaurant idea. The agents all thought it sounded good. Even if Parker didn't cook the food himself, with the semi-finished products prepared by the chef as a backup, it wouldn't be too bad.

It's better than just eating hard bread.

After chatting about the off-topic topic, Lina and the others formally summarized the information they had obtained from today's visit.
The murderer Carl did not socialize much and had a regular life. Apart from going to work and returning home, the neighbors rarely saw him coming and going.

However, he would go to a bar for a drink every week on payday. Lina had asked two agents to go to the bar first to inquire about the situation. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, two more agents would go to investigate again to see if the information they got would be different.

These situations seemed to be normal at first glance, but Lina became suspicious:

“At first, I also thought that this guy was probably just a killer being used by others. He was a card to be discarded after the mission was accomplished and had no value.

"But if you put a lot of his situations together and look at them separately, they always seem a bit familiar..."

Wayne quickly finished his imagination and asked, "Could it be someone from your industry?"

"It's hard to say." Lina shook her head slightly. "If there is a problem, he should be the main person in charge of the 'execution team' who is in charge of lurking. The family of the person responsible for collecting intelligence should not be like that. "And a real assassination should not be like this. Do they not consider the possibility of leaking secrets after the members are arrested when committing crimes near the cathedral? Besides, there doesn't seem to be any urgency to sacrifice members to assassinate Tom."

That's true. Tom Hagen was assassinated after he submitted his report to the cathedral.
If the intention was to stop this, then Tom Hagen would have been followed by guards before, and it would be unlikely that he would be alone. Sending only one person to assassinate him seemed a bit unreliable.

I have never heard of assassinating an imperial envoy after the case is fully investigated.
"Retaliation" is more reasonable.

Later, Connor's group, who were searching for clues in the murderer's house, also came back.

When novice detectives are looking for clues at the scene, they are usually more patient and meticulous than many veteran detectives, but other problems may arise accordingly.

Wayne was a little confused when he saw the pile of clues and records compiled by the detectives.
No,

Although behaviors such as “looking through trash cans for clues” cannot be considered bad habits, we can’t remember everything, right?

I don't care what brand of cigarettes the murderer likes to smoke...

It was even more outrageous to look through the paper bags containing the stubble. There were five bags of stubble of varying lengths, indicating that he was a lazy man who didn't care about his appearance on weekends and didn't like to clean the trash can on weekdays.

Wait a moment.

Wayne suddenly had an idea, "Did you find anything like letter ashes in his house?"

Connor's group looked at each other and shook their heads silently.

Lina raised her hand instead. "There is an ashtray in his living room. There are some paper ashes in it, but it has been cleaned and there are traces of being flushed with water."

Inissa also nodded, indicating that she had also noticed that thing.

If you have to remove the water pipe to find the paper ash, that's a bit too much, and there's actually no way to restore the paper ash...

Wayne quickly dismissed his wild thoughts and decided that it was not that serious.

But if you settle for the second best, there might still be a chance.

Wayne quickly gave instructions to Connor, "Tomorrow you call Sheriff William and have him take you to search the murderer's home again. This time bring a tool kit and see if there are any used empty envelopes or anything like that. The key is to check the mailbox and see if you can find any different fingerprints."

After Connor heard this, he immediately called for help, "We'll go over there right away. It's easy to get in, and even if we're discovered by the neighbors, they've seen us today, so they probably won't think we're thieves."

"No," Wayne thought for a moment, "Even if we call the patrolling police, we should try to have a third party present."

The beards are of different lengths, which means that the murderer may not go out on his days off, so there is no need to tidy up his appearance.
Wayne had previously planned to return to college to continue his classes "next Monday" if nothing happened afterwards, which is today, so the murderer's day off at home should have been last week.

Including "last Sunday" and several other five days, at most it's Thursday, and it's not even Friday, the universally happy payday.

So combined with what Inessa said before, "the murderer should not be able to be sure that Tom Hagen will appear in the cathedral at that time", assuming that someone notified the murderer to go there and wait for an opportunity to assassinate, then the murderer should have received the news before leaving the house.

Although there are many ways to notify a person, considering the situation of this era, unless extraordinary forces are involved, the most covert way may be to deliver a letter.

The reason why Inissa and Lina both noticed the ashtray might be for the same reason, but after all, they were still used to thinking according to the thinking of that era, so they just let it go when they found out that the ashes had been disposed of.

But fingerprints can sometimes be very effective in solving crimes. Even in this era, it is still impossible to find the person behind the scenes, but it can prove that other people are involved.

I can only hope that the detective agency will have good luck this time...

　Today's KPI progress is -2. But I am usually the type who is relatively busy on weekends.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)