North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 173 Going around in circles and coming back again

Half an hour later, Hatten arrived at the bar. He was still wearing a gray casual suit, a pair of glasses, and a briefcase in his hand. He was dressed like an office worker. The last time he saw Hatten in the bar, he was dressed like this.

The way he dresses is either his personal habit or the FBI's disguise style.

Hatten sat on the chair to the right of Jimmy, knocked on the bar and said to the bartender: "McAllen, thank you." After that, he took out his wallet, took out a banknote, and placed it on the bar.

When Jimmy heard Hatten's voice, he turned his head and glanced. Hatten turned to Jimmy and said, "Hi, Jimmy, long time no see."

Jimmy also turned around and faced Hatten: "Good evening, Hatten, you rarely contact me. What's the matter?"

The bartender brought the wine over at this time and said, "Sir, your Macallan."

Hatten reached out and picked up the wine glass, clinked the glass with Jimmy, "Cheers"

Jimmy picked up the glass from the bar with his left hand, clinked it with Hatten, and then drank the rest of the wine in the glass. "Paul, have another glass." The bartender Paul took Jimmy's wine from the wine cabinet, gave him a refill, and added

Got ice cubes.

Hatten: "Don't worry, let's go out and chat after drinking."

Jimmy: "Haha, something must have happened. Come on, let's go to the reception room to chat. It's quiet over there."

When Jimmy received Hatten's call, he guessed that something was going on. He had already greeted Justin in advance. The reception room was not open to the public. In addition to Justin and the others, Jimmy could also use it to say hello. It was treated as an acquaintance.

Of course, the main reason is that Jimmy is familiar with the people in the bar, and he makes people worry-free when doing things, so he won't cause any trouble.

Jimmy and Harten came to the reception room next to the bar and closed the door. No outside noise came from inside. The place had been specially silenced and there were exhaust vents on it to ensure air circulation in the room.

Jimmy and Hatten sat down and put their wine glasses on the coffee table. Hatten spoke first.

Harten: "Jimmy, what's life like as a county police officer?"

Jimmy: "Fortunately, it's not too much, so I can still be lazy. If you don't know how to ask me, just ask me this. Tell me, what's going on?"

Hatten: "Okay, I didn't see it, but you are still impatient. You know what happened this time, the commotion was too big, all of us canceled our vacations and started investigating terrorist activities."

Jimmy: "Well, let alone you federal agents, our police are the same. I am on vacation in other places, and I was called back. I have been busy for several days, and it is rare that I can rest tomorrow."

Harten: "Rumors, unconfirmed, the FBI is going to expand its staff. Are you interested?"

Jimmy: "Don't you always recruit from the FBI Academy?"

Harten: "That's right, they are usually screened based on registration, and then enter the FBI Academy for training, and are assigned to different departments after graduation. However, we also have special recruitment channels. Of course, there are not many people who take this path."

Jimmy: "It seems I meet your conditions?"

Hatten: "Don't think too much, I'm just recommending it. If you agree, there will be specialized personnel to communicate with you and conduct background checks."

Jimmy: "Does this mean I can become an agent directly? Do I still need training?"

Hatten: "Training is still required, but the process will be shorter. Regular academy training is 20 weeks or 5 months. If you go through special channels, it will definitely not take that long."

Jimmy: "Sounds good, but let me think about it."

Hatten: "Of course, you can think about it slowly, but it's best not to take too long."

Jimmy: "Well, I'll call you if I have any news."

Hatten: "Okay, now that we've finished talking about the serious stuff, let's talk about something trivial."

Jimmy burst out laughing. Yes, if it was just to recruit the FBI, Hatten had plenty of time to contact him, so why bother doing it after get off work?

Jimmy picked up the wine glass and clinked it with Harten.

Harten: "Well, a little personal matter. There were several murder cases before, but they were shelved because there were no clues.

Not long ago, we got some information from an informant. There is a very small church. Their Bible is a tampered NC Bible. We suspect that their church is related to those cases.

But because we are all busy with terrorist attacks now, these cases have been put on hold for the time being. If you are free, can you help with the investigation?"

Jimmy: "I thought I heard you talking about the NC Bible just now, right? What is that?"

Harten: "Yes, the NC Bible. There is a saying that it was a version of the Bible that was tampered with by Hitler himself before World War II. It tampered with many God's quotations and brainwashed believers into NC. It was very popular in Germany at the time and was printed in large quantities.

After the end of World War II, the Allies and the Holy See should have arranged for people to clear it out, but now news has come out, it seems that the handling was not clean at that time."

Jimmy: "Of course it's not clean. After the end of World War II, how many scientists and other personnel were secretly transferred to the country by the government. It's not necessarily possible to count. It's not difficult to bring a Bible out.

Speaking of **, I think I know what case you are talking about. Two murders occurred in Little Rock last Christmas. The dead were arranged into reverse swastikas. By the way, one of the deceased was arranged into a reverse swastika.

Put it into a triskelion picture, are these three cases?"

Harten: "You also know about this case. You're right. But it's not three cases, but four cases. Two anti-swastikas in Little Rock, one triskelion figure, and one anti-swastika in Fayetteville."

Swastika.

This series of cases was originally in the hands of the LRPD, but was later taken over by the state police, and later transferred to the FBI Little Rock office. This type of case is obviously a series, not committed by the same person, but also done by a team. Relatively speaking, we

More experience.”

Jimmy: "Well, I roughly know where this small church is? Are there any clues?"

Harten: "What is currently known is that it is in a villa on the bank of the Arkansas River. However, the information the informant has is limited. We have not yet locked down the location of the villa. What we can determine is that the villa is in a forest.

So it's definitely not in Little Rock, it should be in the eastern suburbs."

Jimmy: "With just these clues, we can't pinpoint the target. Although I don't know the specific number, the Arkansas River is so long, even if we only count the river banks within Pulaski County, we won't be able to find it in a short time."

"

Harten: "So I said if you have time, help me find it. You don't have to go out of your way to find it. After we free up our manpower, we still have to deal with this case.

In fact, there is a bad guess. They were all killed at 0 o'clock last Christmas. If it is really a cult, then it is very likely that something will happen this Christmas. There are only more than 3 months until Christmas.

It’s time, if we can’t get rid of them in advance, I really don’t know how many people will be killed this year.”

Jimmy: "Please make a copy of the case file and send it to the police station. I'll take a look when I have time. Is there anything else?"

Hatten: "No, just for these things, if you want to come to the FBI, remember to inform me in advance if you make a decision. I don't know if the process has changed yet. I need to contact the headquarters when the time comes."

Jimmy: "Understood. Come on, let's go out."

Jimmy and Hatten left the reception room and returned to the bar. By this time, there were already a lot of people. They did not sit at the bar to drink, but went to play alone.

(End of chapter)