North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 38 Black Car

Jimmy quickly rushed to Summerfield and found Darth Morrow. Morrow let Jimmy enter his home and pointed him to a truck on the side of the street through the window.

"That's the truck parked on the side of the road. I didn't see anyone passing by. Maybe I didn't notice it because someone happened to be there."

"OK, let me go take a look."

Jimmy turned around and went out, walking towards the truck.

This is a medium-sized box truck, which is more common in movies, the size of a roadside food truck. There is no one in the cab. Jimmy looks outside the truck and sees that there is not much dust. Jimmy goes to the back of the truck and knocks

The dull sound of the carriage is at least much duller than the echo of an empty container.

Jimmy visited several families nearby to find out if anyone knew about the car. Unfortunately, no one knew when the car was parked here, who the driver was, and no one installed a camera here.

Based on what these people said, it can be inferred that the truck was parked here about three nights ago, and it did not disturb anyone else. On the day it was parked here, no one thought it was strange, but no one came to drive it after three days.

He left, which aroused everyone's vigilance.

Jimmy returned to the police car, used the radio to contact the dispatch center, and checked the license plate number. After checking, the dispatch center found that the license plate was fake.

This is embarrassing. There is a truck with fake license plates and no one. Even if the vehicle is impounded, I don’t know who to notify.

Jimmy thought for a while, then got out of the car and walked directly to Frank Moses' house. Maybe Frank would know something. After all, according to his guess, if anyone here would know about the situation of this truck, only Frank, as an agent, would be the one.

The most promising.

Jimmy was unlucky. He knocked on the door several times but got no response. It seemed like no one was home.

Jimmy contacted Superintendent Kagg directly by phone, and Kagg asked him to contact the parking lot and leave a seizure order at the scene.

Jimmy did as he was told and posted the seizure form on the wooden fence on the roadside, marking the contact information and reason for the seizure. If anyone saw it, they could contact him and go through the formalities, but there was little hope. He used a fake number plate.

When you pick up the car, you will also be accused of forging the number plate, having the car impounded, fined, and detained...

After contacting the parking lot to arrange for someone to come and drive the truck away, Jimmy returned to Morrow, informed him of the results, and then left.

In the afternoon, Jimmy received news from the parking lot. Inside the truck was a pile of packaging boxes and wooden shelves used to reinforce the goods. There was no cargo inside, and no relevant vehicle or cargo certificates were found in the cab. This is what happened.

A black car.

Jimmy had a guess that it might have something to do with Frank, and that the goods inside should have been moved.

If you can't find the owner, forget it and just treat it as a black truck. Anyway, if no one picks it up within a certain period of time, these illegal vehicles will be disposed of uniformly.

In the evening, Jimmy came to Summerfield again. There was still no one at Frank's house. He left his business card under the door and left.

Regardless of whether the truck belongs to Frank or not, it is necessary to contact him to confirm. I guess he should be an agent. If there is a truck full of equipment, if something happens, it will definitely be a big deal. In the past, Jimmy would have been hiding as far away as possible.

Far, now that Jimmy has a golden finger, he suddenly feels that his peaceful life is too boring.

Once people suddenly gain some abilities, or suddenly become a nouveau riche, they will always do some weird things, such as the mutants in comics. In many cases, they suddenly gain some abilities, and then tragedy occurs.

Jimmy's current mentality is somewhat similar to those of those people. He was originally just an ordinary policeman. After gaining new abilities, he has a somewhat violent mentality. Fortunately, he has no impulse to commit crimes, but now he has no passion for handling ordinary incidents.

, follow the procedure step by step.

However, Jimmy is also lucky. The crime rate in Arkansas is very low compared to the national data in the United States. Of course, this is mainly because Arkansas is relatively poor and has a relatively small population. According to 2019 data, the state has a population of 3 million, with an average of 21.8 people.

/square kilometer, 2003 data, population 2.7 million.

Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas and the capital of Pulaski County, had a population of 160,000 people in 2019. Including North Little Rock and the surrounding 6-county metropolitan area, there were a total of 740,000 people.

Let's make a comparison. Asia's largest residential area, Beijing's Tiantongyuan community, has 645 residential buildings, a permanent population of 700,000, and covers an area of ​​about 8 square kilometers.

The extremely large area and sparse population have created the residential characteristics of Arkansas, which are completely dispersed. Except for the slightly higher population density in the middle of the metropolitan area, most of the surrounding villages and towns have a population of several hundred people. Further to other places, there are basically

There are various farms and mountains and forests. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as sparsely populated and vast.

In such an environment, the probability of vicious crimes is naturally much lower than in areas with large populations and developed economies. For the police, the cases they handle are naturally dominated by various violations and high-risk scenes.

Rarely seen.

The life of a county police officer is boring. Jimmy has already considered whether it is time to go on vacation in the surrounding area. There is Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs City not far from Little Rock. It should be regarded as one of the smallest national parks. The main activity is

Soak in hot springs and enjoy the mountains and forests.

Jimmy was alone and had nothing to do anyway, so he could just go as he pleased. When it was his day off, he would just drive over.

Hot Springs is only about an hour's drive from Little Rock. To the southwest of Little Rock, Hot Springs National Park is just north of Hot Springs. There is no so-called entrance and exit. It is small in area, 22 square kilometers, and has dozens of natural hot springs.

However, the natural hot springs have already built hot spring hotels, so don’t even think about finding a hot spring and jumping in for a bath.

Hot Springs belongs to Hot Spring County, but the capital of Hot Spring County is not in Hot Spring, but in Malvern (also called Malvern) east of Hot Springs.

Hot spring hotels are very expensive. For a poor person like Jimmy, staying in a hot spring hotel on weekends is completely unacceptable. He actually came here to hike and climb mountains. The Hot Spring National Park has a history of more than 100 years, and the corresponding roads and public facilities are very complete.

, the hiking routes are also very mature and the scenery is good.

There are not many tourists on weekends, or in other words, the huge crowds like China are rare in the world. Jimmy found a public parking lot, parked his car, and then got a free map at the visitor center and followed the receptionist’s instructions.

, he filled the water bottle he brought with drinking spring water, then carried his bag and climbed the mountain along the hiking route marked on the map.

(End of chapter)