Seeing that Mirk's wound had stopped bleeding, Amy wanted to call an ambulance to take her son to the hospital.
Luke asked gloomily, "Are you sure nothing will happen to him after he goes to the hospital?"
The couple was stunned and suddenly realized that the safest place should be where the mysterious Wilson was.
"Also, he cut his throat with a knife. The doctor will immediately report it to the Social Welfare Bureau if he goes to the hospital," Luke reminded her.
Bennett and Amy looked at each other.
It wasn't about the truth, but that they would definitely be suspected of abusing Michael.
Once their son was isolated and protected by the Children Welfare Bureau, he would definitely die if he ran into the Mirror Ghost again.
What the couple wanted was for their son to live, not to seek compensation from the Children Welfare Bureau.
It was only because of Director George that Luke had given him the warning.
If this family really wanted to die, he wouldn't stop them.
Thankfully, the couple still had some brains, and decisively dismissed the idea of calling an ambulance.
Amy helped Michael clean up his wound, while Luke and Bennett talked in low voices outside the house.
Compared to the police, Bennett, who had been there personally, knew more.
He had called Director George for help, so he couldn't go into too much detail.
Whether or not a person was willing to help another depended on how close they were.
Bennett and Director George weren't close enough for him to give a long speech over the phone.
As a former police officer, he knew better than anyone else that "professional work should be left to the professionals."
The Big Dipper clone had already shown extraordinary abilities, and had even defeated the Mirror Ghost. Bennett knew that this might be the best opportunity to solve the problem.
Thus, he gave Luke all the intelligence he knew and had gathered without holding anything back.
In fact, the so-called "mental problem" in the mall was because he had seen a lot of illusions of people being burned.
Then, his reflection in the mirror wall "caught fire," and he passed out after feeling intense pain, as if his body was being burned.
When he woke up, he found nothing wrong with his body. Suspicious, he began to investigate.
But a few days later, his sister died in the bathtub at home. Her jaw had been completely torn off, but there were no traces of the assailant at the scene.
As an experienced detective, Luke knew very well that a crime was like a wild goose leaving a trail; once you took action, you would leave behind clues.
The police had only found the part about the suspect from the complicated clues.
But there really wasn't a single suspect in Bennett's sister's death.
Before she died, the bathtub and the surrounding ground were covered in blood, but no one cleaned, covered, or touched the blood.
After seeing the photos of the crime scene, Luke also felt that it wouldn't be easy for ordinary people to commit such a crime, but it wouldn't be difficult for extraordinary people.
Now that he had confirmed the existence of the Mirror Ghost, all he needed to do was find out its origin and deal with it.
There were two important aspects to Bennett's investigation.
The first one was the confession of the criminal who set the mall on fire five years ago. He said that he burned the mall to get rid of the "evil spirit" who killed his family and said that he wanted to find a person named Anna.
Secondly, the mall used to be a mental hospital.
One night, a big fight broke out in the mental hospital. The patients killed each other, and all of them died. The mental hospital closed down and was demolished.
Bennett's experience of being burned in the mirror made him notice them.
Luke nodded thoughtfully and immediately issued an order for PDD's temporary workers to check the relevant old files.
In a small place like Charleston, the police department hadn't gone paperless yet. Most of the information on the old cases was in paper files.
What Luke found on the Internet wasn't as detailed as what Bennett had found.
For example, the information on the Internet couldn't be linked to the incident at the mall.
Back then, the local authorities had changed the name of the area to make people forget about the big case as soon as possible.
Over the decades, the area had changed hands many times. Even the owner of the mall didn't know that he had built the building on the site of the former mental hospital.
After Bennett finished explaining what he knew, Luke's temporary workers also took photos of a lot of old files in the archives.
Compared to Bennett, who had lost his job as a police officer, these temporary workers were much more "qualified" to browse. Thus, they found more clues.
In fact, Bennett and the previous security guard weren't the only two victims of the Mirror Ghost. It was just that it happened more recently.
Over the past few decades, they had found seven or eight similar cases in Charleston, but most of them ended up as "the victim committed suicide due to mental problems."
Luke couldn't be bothered to blame the police for their incompetence. After all, American law didn't recognize the existence of superpowers or the ability to kill people remotely.
Even if they did, the local police department wasn't capable of arresting something like the Mirror Ghost.
This used to be the purview of S.H.I.E.L.D. Now, it should be the responsibility of ATCU (Advanced Threat Control Unit).
…
Luke stayed at Bennett's place for more than two hours. He waited for and analyzed the information his subordinates sent him, and treated Michael again.
This time, Bennett didn't peek at him. Instead, he only returned to the room after Luke called for him.
Seeing that the wound on Mirk's neck was almost completely healed with only a shallow wound, the two of them were completely relieved.
Luke said to them, "Thank you for your cooperation. I'm going to take care of the Mirror Ghost. I'll give you a" small gift "before I leave."
He then snapped his fingers three times, and each of them was given a mental resistance. "Try to stay calm. This will protect you from the Mirror Ghost for 24 hours."
Amy was a little unsure. "What happens after that?"
"You'll be safe after you take care of it," Luke said casually. "But if it's not completely destroyed, it'll be up to your luck."
He then turned around and went downstairs. The family of three followed him and watched him disappear into the shade of a tree not far away.
Amy suddenly asked, "Only 24 hours … Can he really do it?"
"We can only trust him." Bennett exhaled.
He wasn't the one who invited Luke, but he had saved his family several times. What else could he ask for?
…
Luke didn't go far before he activated the stealth system and headed straight for a nunnery in the mountains north of Charleston.
It was said that the only patient who had survived the massacre at the mental hospital was sent here. Her name was Anna Essex.
She might be the "Anna" that the person who burned down the mall had mentioned.
But Anna or Essex's names weren't on the list that the nunnery could find.
Not wanting to waste any more time, Luke simply made a trip himself. Using pheromones and real dreams, he could make the nuns speak the truth.
A few minutes later, an old-fashioned nunnery with an orange-red roof and white walls appeared in front of him on a flat piece of land in the mountains.
Luke didn't even deactivate his stealth. He flew into the courtyard and landed.
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