The next day, Luke went to a car dealership that he had arranged beforehand and bought a secondhand Ford Focus.
The secondhand Focus, which had been driven for more than a year, was in good condition, and cost less than ten thousand dollars.
Luke drove the secondhand Ford to the police department.
Elsa was exhausted at her desk. She greeted Luke when she saw him. "Let's go. Dustin's looking for you."
Following Elsa, Luke asked casually, "You didn't rest last night?"
Elsa couldn't help but yawn. "No, I was busy looking into Sergei's files."
Luke was intrigued. Why was she looking into Sergei in such a hurry?
Dustin entered his office. The captain of the Major Crimes Division was also exhausted and unshaven.
He simply nodded at Luke and Elsa and told him to close the door.
After the door was closed, he said, "We've basically solved Katie's case. Now, it's Sergei's problem. Luke, Elsa thinks you can try to catch him in New York. Are you willing to go? "
Stumped for a moment, Luke asked in confusion, "But … NYPD is willing?"
Dustin heaved a sigh. "You'll have to go and see if you can come up with a good plan."
Luke was lost for words.
He was just a rookie detective. What right did he have to negotiate with NYPD? NYPD was the largest police department in America, with more than twice as many officers as LAPD.
Looking at Luke's face, Dustin explained, "Here's how it is. You'll investigate the situation and see if you can arrest Sergei in a remote place. NYPD will probably agree to that. The director has already talked to NYPD about the case, and NYPD agrees. As long as you don't arrest him in a crowded place, they'll allow you to help them with the case. "
Luke's head hurt.
That was true, but NYPD had the initiative in this case.
He and Elsa would just be bystanders.
He looked at Elsa, and she nodded slightly.
Luke knew that she meant that she wanted to go.
What else could he do? It was only his second day at work, and he was already on a business trip?
He could only say, "I'll listen to the boss."
Dustin was greatly relieved. "That's great. The operation is still two days away, and the negotiation with NYPD hasn't been completed yet. Be prepared. There's going to be a lot of trouble waiting for you. Good luck! "
Elsa and Luke nodded and left the room.
Returning to her desk, Elsa asked, "Are you all right?"
Elsa knew that she should've told Luke in advance, but for some reason, she didn't.
Luke shook his head. "No problem. However, the drowning of Sergei's fat son could also be investigated. While we still have some time. "
Elsa froze, she hadn't expected him to mention this.
But after Luke's performance yesterday, she didn't dare underestimate the young man anymore. She asked, "Do you have any leads?"
"Sergei is of Russian descent, and Katie's bodyguard, Selev, sounds like a Russian too, right?" he said.
Elsa was briefly stunned. She had been too preoccupied with Katie's murder yesterday to think of that.
Now that Luke reminded her, she was instantly enlightened. "You suspect that Selev snuck Sergei's fat son into the villa? Or that he killed the son? Wait, if Selev killed Sergei's son, he wouldn't be alive right now. "
Luke said, "I asked Sally yesterday. She said that apart from the remote control in the room, Selev also has a remote control for the front and back doors, so that he can open and close them when he welcomes guests."
Elsa slapped her forehead. "That's right. Let's go! Let's check on Selev at the villa first. "
Naturally, Luke didn't need to drive his own car this time. He set off in Elsa's car.
In the car, Elsa couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure there's something wrong with Selev? Do you have any proof? "
Luke shrugged. "Forget about Sergei. After all, we can't be sure if he climbed over the wall to get into the villa. But Sergei's fat son weighs a hundred kilograms. I don't think he could've entered the villa from anywhere else. The front and back doors are the most likely places. "
He was lying about that.
Yesterday, his Sharp Nose had played a huge role.
He had smelled Selev in Katie's room. The smell of gun oil, gunpowder, and body odor was too obvious in Katie's room.
Selev was a security guard, but he couldn't enter Katie's room at will.
Also, judging from the smell, Selev had entered the room at least a few hours before dawn.
A security guard had entered his employer's room in the middle of the night, and the employer drowned in the pool.
This matter was a problem no matter where it was put.
Secondly, Selev's smell could be found on the path leading to the back door, and it wasn't light either. He had clearly walked back and forth several times.
The same smell could be found in another location — next to the pool.
However, there was another smell that was similar to Selev's. It was also the smell of gun oil, gunpowder, and even chloroform.
According to the autopsy results, the anesthetic in Katie's body was chloroform.
The man who smelled of chloroform had also been in Katie's room, and Selev's smell had a faint trace of chloroform too.
Luke had closed his eyes in Katie's room because he had been using his Sharp Nose to distinguish the scents.
So, there could only be one truth: Selev was the mole.
He had snuck Sergei into the villa, and might even have helped Sergei knock Katie out and throw her into the pool.
In the end, Luke had sent Sergei out through the back door.
That was the only way to explain the many suspicious points in the case.
That was the only way that Luke could explain the trail of the scent that he had picked up.
Luke had followed the smell out the back door, but he didn't lose track of Sergei until he reached the main road.
That was why he was certain that Sergei had been captured by the surveillance cameras at Jenny's house.
It was a rather troublesome case, but thanks to his newly acquired ability, he was able to easily find the murderer and the mole.
They reached Katie's villa and rang the doorbell. Sally opened the door.
After they entered the villa, Elsa asked, "Where's Selev? There's something we need to ask him. "
Sally said, "Oh, I saw him in the backyard just now. Should I go get him?"
Elsa and Luke looked at each other, and Elsa said, "Let's go together. It'll only take a few minutes."
They didn't want Selev to run away when he was alarmed.
However, there was no trace of Selev at all in the backyard, only the small iron gate that was wide open.
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(I won't just post a comment before the book is published. I don't charge for the public edition, so don't say that I'm low on words.
First, I'm asking for subscriptions. That's all I'm asking for. Tips, monthly tickets, recommendation tickets, and so on, if you like it, feel free to give me some. But if you can afford it, try to subscribe and support me.
Secondly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. A few days ago, my editor suddenly asked me what's going on with your recommendation tickets.
I was at a loss. What's going on? I didn't ask for any recommendation tickets, and I didn't pay much attention to it after it was published on the 14th.
My last book, on the other hand, didn't ask me anything from the moment it was published to the end. I wasn't complaining about the editor, but that they were really busy and wouldn't ask me anything unless there was something special.
I didn't realize it until I thought about it. He was asking me if I'd bought a set on Taobao.
I hesitated. If I tried to explain my innocence, it would be too much.
If I said that I didn't buy any, I might be suspected. If I tried to explain myself, why didn't I? Was I guilty?
After thinking for a long time, I suddenly slapped my forehead. I must've been obsessed with writing, thinking that I was reasonable every day.
I simply told the editor that I'd never spent money on marketing a book since I started writing, because I was poor and didn't want to spend money on marketing.
Finally, I told the editor that the book would be published on National Day.
Well, everyone got it, right? I don't think it's necessary to say that. It's better to subscribe than to explain that I didn't buy any recommendation tickets.
Three thousand recommendation tickets in a day isn't a big deal … Well, I checked the list of recommendation tickets for next week, and didn't see many new books ahead of me.
More importantly, many of the new books ahead of me had red packets with recommendation tickets, but none of them had. I didn't want to distract me from reading the statistics.
No wonder the editor doubted my recommendation tickets.
After saying so much, there was only one meaning — please subscribe.
Don't let the ratio of recommendation tickets to subscriptions be too high, or I would really look like I was buying data.
Thank you to all my readers who subscribed and supported me, and thank you to my readers who gave me extra tips.
Finally, update plan.
Ten thousand words a day for the first month, which was five chapters. But many people asked me if I should have a hundred chapters on the first day.
I thought about it. Well, then … I'll give a discount. Ten chapters on the first day, five chapters every day after that.
I can't fix the time for the first day's ten chapters. I'll try to open the VIP channel in the wee hours of the morning at five chapters. The remaining five chapters will be released twice from noon to night.
I'll also try to arrange the updates during these two time periods.
I never mentioned giving tips and adding chapters. I never asked for tips because everyone had already paid for their subscriptions. It wouldn't be good to ask for tips again.
Also, I can't write this book fast, and it's even harder to be violent.
Therefore, it was just a gesture. If there was a reward of 50,000 RMB for one chapter (two chapters for the Alliance Master), he would just treat it as a supplementary clause that he would never use.
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