While Dustin was explaining, Luke had already had Osiris analyze the big-mouthed boy's body.
The boy with the big mouth must have been very strange to be able to scare Jennifer into transforming.
But the female district attorney's kick was even more vicious.
It kicked from the bottom to the top, leaving a five-centimeter-wide gash on the young man's chest. Then, it kicked upwards, bursting his head.
This was a bona fide "kick to the head".
Although most of the head was broken, Osiris found the abnormality of the brain fragments — this man had no brain at all.
Most of the broken pieces of his brain were more like a kind of muscle, and it was unlikely that a human brain could grow so much muscle.
To Luke, "brains full of muscles" was just an adjective, not a superpower.
Fu's investigation had also discovered the whereabouts of this Asian youth.
There weren't many Asian teenagers of age in New York, and even fewer of them had come to the corner of Long Beach in the past two days.
Although the man's face had been kicked away, as long as he followed the scene of the incident, he would be able to find a suitable target.
The Asian teenager was named Takuya Miura. He was 16 years old, and his father was a Japanese working in the United States. Five days ago, the family of three arrived in New York.
Luke found Miura's parents' phone number through the immigration department's database, but nobody picked up.
Frowning, he used the name of a related industry company to call the colleagues of Miura's father's department, saying that he couldn't contact these two people and asked if they had resigned.
As a result, the other side quickly gave a reply, saying that Miura's father could not be contacted these days. The company also sent people to their house, but no one opened the door.
With this answer, Luke didn't waste any more time and went straight to the Miura family's residence.
Miura's father worked hard to get the opportunity to be sent to the United States a few years ago. For this well-paid job, he could only live separately from his wife and children.
A year ago, his wife had also come over to take care of her husband and find a suitable school for their son.
Not long ago, Miura was promoted to the middle management of the company. He could finally bring his son to the United States and reunite with his family.
The couple had applied for leave to return to Nihon ten days ago so that it would be convenient for them to complete their move in one go.
Miura's family now lived in Empress Borough. Naturally, Selina and the dog head were with him.
In Selena's words, it was much more fun than dealing with PDD's affairs.
Nevertheless, there was no end to PDD's work, and Luke did not want her to turn into a working machine. It was good for her to go out and have some fun.
When they arrived at the small bungalow of the Miura family, they walked in through the unlocked back door.
The interior of the house looked very ordinary, no different from a normal family living in the house.
But this was not normal.
In the bowl of keys by the door, there were three sets of keys, the remote control for the car, and some of the ingredients in the kitchen were smelly.
Moreover, there were no slippers at the door.
But under the scanning of the polarized mirror, he could see the footprints of three people on the floor.
When they arrived at the master bedroom, the bed without any bedding was very eye-catching. There was also a strong smell of disinfectant in the room.
Selina sighed. "This cleansing … is really ruthless."
Both of them were experienced detectives and knew that disinfectants could destroy traces of blood.
The house had been empty for a few days, and the smell of disinfectant was still so strong. Presumably, there was a lot of blood that needed to be cleaned. The missing sheets were the evidence.
Someone had died in the master bedroom not long ago, and it was the kind where blood splattered everywhere.
Luke nodded and picked up two phones from the bedside cabinet. They belonged to the Miura couple.
The couple were more "traditional." They used old-fashioned phones that had a long battery life, and hadn't automatically shut down yet.
But the last call had been made on the night of their arrival, and there had been a series of missed calls and unread text messages.
If everything went as expected, the couple had "disappeared" from this world after that night.
Luke put the two phones in his pocket and looked at the results of the surveillance footage that Fu had just screened.
The surveillance footage had only captured the family driving back that day, and the Miura couple hadn't appeared.
On the third day after their return, their son, Takuya Miura, appeared on a surveillance camera a few blocks away. Two days later, he entered Brooklyn, and yesterday, he arrived in Long Beach.
After circling the house, Luke gestured for the two people and the dog to come out from the back door again. They walked along a path for more than a hundred meters until they reached a hidden manhole cover.
At that moment, Luke's Sharp Nose had already picked up the stench.
He kicked away the debris on the manhole cover, opened it, and looked inside. "They should be the Miura couple."
"Let me see." Selina and the dog popped up next to him and looked down, only to see a few black plastic bags.
Luke said, "Let's go. Someone will take care of this." He then put the manhole cover and the debris back in.
The three of them left quietly.
Luke, on the other hand, had already put the Miura couple's bodies into his inventory.
These two bodies were Takuya Miura's parents, and were likely to be first-hand evidence of a crime. Naturally, they had to be taken back for autopsies.
Being a private detective required a lot of dirty work, and definitely wouldn't be as elegant as those in movies.
Of course, it wasn't impossible to be elegant.
As long as a certain detective had connections and status, they could ask the forensic scientists to cut in line for them and be the first to get the report. The forensic scientists were even willing to risk breaking the rules by showing the autopsy report to the detective.
Such a divine detective was able to maintain his elegance.
But no matter how good their logic was, they still had to form a chain of evidence in the end.
Without a chain of evidence, it would be very troublesome to pin a crime on someone based on logic alone.
Thankfully, Luke and Selina didn't expect to make money as private detectives, nor did they need to talk to anyone about the law.
Their goal was to find out the truth, protect ordinary people, and earn experience and credit points.
Legal system? Judicial justice? Pearl process? What did that have to do with private detectives?
When they got home, the two of them and the dog went to the basement.
Luke turned on the virtual screen and analyzed the intelligence with Selina.
Gold Nugget? It was just a bystander.
Apart from bringing some snacks and drinks for them in the beginning, it spent the rest of the time lying comfortably in a place that didn't block their way, eating, drinking, and watching TV shows with its headphones on.
As long as the fiend could see me, I wouldn't be slacking off! The dog head's thinking was so simple and efficient.
Luke and Selina kept flipping through the files, and the context of the matter gradually became clear.
"In Brooklyn, a homeless man told the patrolmen that he saw a monster eating people two days ago."
"A day ago, a group of young people reported two of their friends missing at the Nixon Beach campground."
"Investigators haven't found any unusual disappearances near Miura's house in Japan."
"The Miura family also found a place where a lot of disinfectant was used, and the location was in the entrance hall."
"Takuya Miura's aunt went missing twenty days ago. She was asked by Miura's father to check on Takuya's life regularly."
"In Tokyo, some cases of animal attacks have been suppressed, but someone said on the Internet that those people were eaten, and only parts of the bodies were left. The scene was extremely bloody."
At that point, Selina looked at Luke eagerly. "This seems interesting. Shall we go take a look?"
Luke thought for a moment, then nodded. "Sure. But let's wait for another two days and see if the investigation here finds anything else. "
Going to Japan to investigate Takuya Miura wasn't an emergency; it was just an interest. There was no need to leave immediately.
Osiris could also complete the summary reports from multiple autopsies.
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