For example, Luke couldn't do the best three-step "flash badge → LAPD → look at the surveillance camera."
Even if he was confident in his own abilities, this mission really depended on luck to a large extent.
He first found a secluded place and put on makeup to make himself look like a completely new, handsome, and unlucky man.
He then went to a used car market, bought a Polonax in decent condition, and drove to a three-star express hotel.
After checking at the front desk for a moment, he booked room 1026 and paid for three days in one go.
After a while, he went up to the tenth floor and swiped a card on the door. In fact, he was using the fake phone in his hand to open the door and walk in.
After he entered, he saw two men in white shirts looking at him in surprise. Luke was surprised. "Who are you?"
The two men in white shirts frowned. "How did you get in?"
Luke picked up the room card and looked at it in surprise. "This is my room. Why is there someone here?"
The two men in white shirts were stunned and suspicious. "This is room 1024. How did you get in?"
Luke was stunned. "Isn't this room 1026?"
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the room number on the door and smiled awkwardly. "Sorry, I went to the wrong room."
The man in the white shirt frowned. "Then how did you get in?"
Luke looked at the room card in his hand. "The door opened with a swipe."
The two men in white shirts stood up, and one of them walked over and stretched out his hand. "Can I take a look at your room card?"
Luke exclaimed and immediately gave the room card to the man in the white shirt.
The man in the white shirt tried the room card, and the door opened with a swipe.
Frowning, he tried 1026 with Luke's room card, and the door opened. However, he couldn't open 1025 on the other side.
After he was done, Luke asked, "Well, can you give me back my room card?"
The man in the white shirt hesitated for a moment, but still returned the room card. "Look at the room number carefully next time."
Luke nodded apologetically. "Okay, I'll be careful. Sorry for disturbing you."
As he said that, he opened the door to Room 1026 and went in.
Lying on the big bed in the room, he pulled the quilt back and covered himself with it. After turning back and forth a few times, he lifted the quilt and got up. "The bed is not bad."
As he spoke, he walked to the balcony, opened the window, and took out a lollipop to eat.
She could vaguely hear the conversation between the man in the white shirt and a woman in the corridor. "What's wrong with your door? Why does it open just by swiping someone's card?"
The woman: "Sir, let me check first … I'm sorry, the door card system is indeed malfunctioning. I'll call the maintenance staff to deal with it immediately …"
Luke's lips curled up as he observed the environment downstairs and pondered.
Room 1024 was Miss Beth's room.
Room 1025 was reserved for two of Missy's university classmates.
Miss Beth probably didn't want to expose the fact that she was super rich in front of her classmates.
The two men in white shirts weren't bad guys. They were Beth's personal bodyguards.
They had occupied the room where Beth had gone missing to preserve the crime scene for later investigators to search for possible clues.
They had done a good job in preventing the last known crime scene from being destroyed.
Luke had deliberately gone to the wrong room and rambled on about a lot of nonsense, all because he wanted to confirm the scents in 1024 from a closer distance.
Among them, the male scents could be eliminated for the time being, leaving six women's scents.
The most obvious scent belonged to Miss Beth herself, which meant that she had indeed been in room 1024 for some time.
Of the other five women, two had scents in room 1025 as well. They were probably Missy's university classmates.
One of them smelled like detergent, and was probably the cleaning staff who cleaned the room.
Another had scents in quite a few rooms and corridors. It was the woman who had been talking to the man in the white shirt next door. She was a member of the hotel's housekeeping staff.
The last woman's scent was a little interesting.
The place where the woman's scent lingered the most was in Luke's room 1026.
In addition, this "temporary neighbor" had also been to Beth's room and the rooms of two of her classmates, but he had spent more time in those two rooms. There were only brief signs of him entering and exiting Beth's room.
Luke narrowed his eyes as he pondered the clues.
After eating the lollipop, he left the room and hung a "Do Not Disturb" sign on it.
After leaving the hotel, Luke looked around the entrance and walked over to a homeless man not far away.
After talking for a while, he gave the homeless man a few dollars and drove off.
After wandering around the car rental shops that the homeless man mentioned, Luke finally found some clues in one of them.
Outside the car rental shop, a young male employee handed Luke a stack of files.
As Luke flipped through the files, he heard the young employee say, "They came yesterday morning, but they weren't the ones who rented the car; it was the woman on the list. She rented a sapphire Mercedes-Benz convertible from our company. The license plate is xxxxx. I remember it. "
Luke accepted the files and gave him a roll of cash. He asked, "Do you remember anything else? For example, the destination they revealed, or the direction they drove in. You can make your own guesses. "
The young employee frowned and thought for a moment, before he shook his head. "No, nothing else?"
When he saw Luke take out another roll of cash, he stopped abruptly.
His eyes flashing for a moment, the young employee looked around and said in a low voice, "That's a high-end Mercedes-Benz. The car system on it has a GPS function, and our company can receive data from the car system …"
Luke smiled and tossed the cash to him.
The young employee caught it nervously and pleasantly surprised, only to see Luke take out another roll of cash. "Can I check the car's location?"
The young employee frowned. "You'll need to use the special computer in the manager's office. You can't access the system without a password."
Luke smiled. "Then take me to your manager. If you can distract him for five minutes, the money is yours."
The young employee gritted his teeth and waved his hand. "Let's go. I'll say that you're looking for a luxury car to rent, and I'll tell the manager to leave halfway through … "
Satisfied, Luke nodded and followed him.
Half an hour later, Luke came out with the smiling manager.
The manager said quickly, "Mr. Sam, have a good trip! Call me if you have any questions. "
Luke nodded and said, "Have this guy accompany me to pick up the car. He's a nice guy."
Of course, the manager didn't have any objections, and decisively passed the buck to Luke.
On his way back to the office, he mumbled, "Do these rich kids have nowhere to spend their money? They're only here for a few days, yet they're renting such a luxurious car. Won't they have to hire a driver? "
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