North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 38 Black Car
Jimmy hurried to Summerfield and found Darth Moro. Moro let Jimmy into the house, and then pointed him to a truck on the side of the street through the window.

"That's the van parked on the side of the road. I didn't see anyone passing by. Maybe it happened that I didn't notice when there was someone."

"OK, I'll take a look."

Jimmy turned and walked out the door, toward the van.

It was a medium-sized van, the size of a roadside food truck, which is more common in movies.There was no one in the driver's cab. Jimmy looked outside the compartment and saw that there was not much dust. Jimmy walked to the rear of the truck and knocked on the compartment. The dull sound was at least much duller than the echo of knocking on an empty container.

Jimmy visited several nearby families to see if anyone knew about the car, but unfortunately, no one knew when the car was parked here, who the driver was, and no one installed a camera here .According to the words of these people, it can be inferred that this truck was parked here about 3 nights ago, and no one was disturbed. No one thought it was strange the day it was parked here, but no one came to drive away after three days. , which aroused everyone's vigilance.

Jimmy returned to the police car, contacted the dispatch center by radio, checked the license plate number, and the dispatch center found out that the license plate was fake.

This is embarrassing, a truck, fake license plate, no one, even if the car 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 own guess, if anyone here would know the situation of this truck, only Frank as an agent would know. most promising.

Jimmy was unlucky. He knocked on the door several times, but there was no response. There seemed to be no one at home.

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

Jimmy did as he did, and posted the seizure slip on the wooden fence on the side of the road, marking the contact information and the reason for the seizure. If anyone saw it, they could contact him and go through the formalities, but there was little hope, and a fake number plate was used. While picking up the car, the defendant must also forge the license plate, impound the car, fine, and be detained...

After contacting the parking lot to arrange for someone to come and drive the truck away, Jimmy went back to Moro, notified the result, and then left.

In the afternoon, Jimmy received a message from the parking lot. Inside the truck was a pile of packing boxes and wooden shelves for reinforcing the goods. There was no goods in it, and no relevant vehicles or cargo certificates were found in the cab.This is a black car.

Jimmy had a guess that it might be related to Frank, and the goods inside should have been transferred.

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

In the evening, Jimmy came to Summerfield again, but Frank's house was still empty, so he left a business card under the door and left.

Regardless of whether the truck belonged to Frank or not, it was necessary to contact him to confirm. I guessed that he should be a secret agent. If there is a truckload of equipment added, if something happens, it must be a big deal.In the past, Jimmy must have been hiding as far away as possible. Now that Jimmy has a cheat, he suddenly feels that a peaceful life is too boring.

Once a person suddenly gains some ability, or suddenly becomes an upstart, he will always do some weird things, such as the mutants in comics, there are many cases where a certain ability is suddenly acquired, and then tragedies happen.

Jimmy's current state of mind is somewhat similar to those of those people. He was originally an ordinary policeman. After acquiring new abilities, he became somewhat violent. Fortunately, he has no urge to commit crimes, but now he has no passion for ordinary incidents. , Follow the procedure step by step.

But Jimmy is lucky. The crime rate in Arkansas as a whole is very low compared to the national data of the United States. Of course, the main reason is that Arkansas is relatively poor and has a relatively small population. According to the data in 2019, the state's population is 300 million, with an average of 21.8 people. /square kilometer, data in 2003, population 270 million.

Little Rock is the capital of Arkansas and the capital of Pulaski County. In 2019, there were 16 people, plus the metropolitan area composed of North Little Rock and the surrounding 6 counties, a total of 74 people.

Let's make a comparison.The largest residential area in Asia, Tiantongyuan, a community in Beijing, has 645 residential buildings and a permanent population of 70, covering an area of ​​about 8 square kilometers.

The large area and sparse population have created the residential characteristics of Arkansas, which are completely scattered. Outside the middle of the metropolitan area, the population density is slightly higher, and the surrounding villages and towns are mostly hundreds of people. In other places, it is basically It's all kinds of farms and forests.It is not too much to describe it as sparsely populated and sparsely populated.

In such an environment, the probability of vicious crimes is naturally much lower than those in areas with large populations and developed economies. For the police, the cases dealt with are naturally dominated by various violations of rules and regulations. Such high-risk scenes Not often.

The life of the county police is boring. Jimmy has already considered whether to go directly to the surrounding area for vacation when it is time to take a rest. There is a Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs not far from Little Rock. It should be one of the smallest national parks. The main activities are Soak in hot springs and enjoy the mountains.

Jimmy is alone, and he has nothing to do anyway, so he can go wherever he wants, and when the rest day comes, he just drives over.

Hot Springs is about an hour's drive from Little Rock. In the southwest of Little Rock, Hot Springs National Park is just north of Hot Springs. There is no so-called entrance and exit. The area is small, 1 square kilometers, and there are dozens of natural hot springs. However, the natural hot springs have already built hot spring hotels, so if you want to find a hot spring and jump in to take a bath, don't even think about it.

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

The consumption of hot spring hotels is very expensive. For poor people like Jimmy, staying in hot spring hotels on weekends is completely unacceptable.He actually came here for hiking. Hot Springs National Park has a history of more than 100 years. The corresponding roads and public facilities are very complete, the hiking routes are also very mature, and the scenery is not bad.

There are not many tourists on weekends, or in other words, the crowds of people like China are rare in the world.Jimmy found a public parking lot, parked the car, and then got a free map at the visitor center. Following the receptionist's prompt, he filled the water bottle he brought with him with drinkable spring water, and then walked along the marked marks on the map with his bag on his back. The route climbed the mountain.

(End of this chapter)