Chapter 438

Bai Xiaowen didn't leave Yahan either. He knew that the main task of this missing person case still depended on himself to solve the mystery.

All morning, Bai Xiaowen stayed in the archives and looked through the materials carefully. The information he read was not limited to the 13 missing residents, but browsed all the information in the archives of Hodge town.

Hodge town has more than 30000 registered legal residents, which is obviously impossible to see one by one. Bai Xiaowen also has details when browsing. Some wealthy and noble families with more influence in Hodge town are listed as the focus. In addition, families with major changes in nearly two months are included in the browsing scope.

"Did you find anything?" Li Shuyi was not idle. She had been acting as Bai Xiaowen's assistant. Seeing that Bai Xiaowen's browsing was over, she frowned and asked immediately.

Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes and said, "there are some unexpected discoveries. I now suspect that... The missing person case is related to the patrol under Yahan."

"Ah?" Li Shuyi had a good impression of Sheriff Yahan. After listening to Bai Xiaowen's words, she was surprised. "You say Yahan is a thief shouting to catch a thief? Yahan... Doesn't look like such a person."

Bai Xiaowen said, "Yahan himself should not know. I mean, there should be ghosts in the patrol."

After a pause, Bai Xiaowen pointed to the data of 13 residents of the missing case and said: "after the curfew system was implemented in Hodge Town, the patrol would patrol at night, but there are still new residents missing, and every time it happened in the patrol blind area. It can be said that it was very strange to avoid the patrol perfectly."

After a pause, Bai Xiaowen said: "this alone may not explain anything. However, from the data of the missing residents, the missing people have some common characteristics. First, they are healthy and have no disease. Second, they are moderate in age and in their prime of life. Third, they are mostly men. From these common characteristics, we can infer the kidnapper's motive behind the scenes..."

Li Shuyi thought for a moment and said, "human experiment?"

Bai Xiaowen smiled and said, "don't mislead your thinking because of Norton's incident. Human experiments need samples of different ages and genders. Therefore, the behind the scenes people should not do human experiments. In my opinion, they are like slaves."

Li Shuyi: "slave storage? When I studied the earth history of the ad era, I learned about the slave trade and sent African blacks to the newly developed milijian country as serfs..."

Bai Xiaowen nodded and said, "yes, I think there must be a slave trade hidden behind the scenes in Hodge town. The kidnapped residents can't stay in Hodge town. They must be transported to other places, otherwise it's too easy to be exposed. To support such a slave trade without being discovered, it must be someone who has the public power and strong influence in Hodge town."

"So you think there's something wrong with the patrol?" Li Shuyi followed Bai Xiaowen's train of thought. "The officer of the patrol is Yahan, and his ability to run the army should be very strong. If the people below make such a big move secretly, he shouldn't know nothing about it... Can we say that our main task is to deal with Yahan in the end?"

Bai Xiaowen shook his head again and denied: "it can't be Yahan."

Li Shuyi blinked.

"Do you remember the prefix of our ticket? Is one of them called 'speculation'?" Bai Xiaowen explained, "Where is the 50% reduction in the difficulty of the main task? In my understanding, the 50% reduction in the difficulty is reflected in the location where we live. We live in the same street as Yahan. He has some impressions of us and has a high degree of acceptance. This is also the reason why we can live in Yahan's home."

After a pause, Bai Xiaowen continued: "therefore, Yahan is an important NPC of the main task. According to the spirit world rules, having Yahan's implicit trust is equivalent to completing 50% of the main task. We can see his important status and strong strength. If the main task is to deal with Yahan, where is the 50% difficulty reduction of the speculative prefix?"

Bai Xiaowen inferred from this "off-site" information that Yahan had nothing to do with the people behind the disappearance, and Li Shuyi was still very convinced. After she ruled out this possibility, she followed her thinking: "so you just read the influential and influential family files in Hodge Town, just to find out the makers of the slave trade? Did you find it?"

Bai Xiaowen's eyes narrowed slightly: "it's a pity that most of the high-ranking families in Hodge town have not reached the level of supporting the slave trade. After many exclusions, there is only one left, which is also the most unacceptable one in the Asian Han Dynasty. It's possible..."

"Don't sell off..." Li Shuyi shook Bai Xiaowen's hand. "Say it quickly."

"The mayor of Hodge, the family of Hiram David."

Li Shuyi was surprised and said, "isn't this Ginny's mother's house? The mayor hailum is Yahan's father-in-law."

"That's right."

"But... Why did the David family do this? From a common sense, they are the rulers of Hodge town. A stable Hodge town should be more in their interests. Now people are in panic. The market is depressed after the curfew, and the interests of the David family are also lost." Li Shuyi can see this clearly.

"Don't worry, I'm just skeptical. There's no conclusive evidence yet. All the logical fulcrum of this is based on the assumption of 'slave trade'," Bai Xiaowen said. "We don't need to disclose this to Yahan for the time being... We'd better investigate ourselves first."

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This time, Bai Xiaowen found a clue. He and Li Shuyi walked through the bread mill in windmill street to the David family residence in the north of the town.

In front of the gate of the David family house stood two militia.

Bai Xiaowen tried to enter, but was stopped by the militia: "stop, you didn't get permission to enter."

Bai Xiaowen blinked and took out the "patrol militia nameplate".

"This is not a valid pass," said the militia seriously. "If you have a personal matter to see the mayor of helham, please make an appointment in advance. However, I would like to remind you that the mayor of helham is rarely willing to see visitors, especially you, a hairy boy with little status."

Bai Xiaowen: "Hey, your helmets are so handsome. Can you lend them to me? I want to be a sentry, too."

Two sentinels on guard looked at Bai Xiaowen with silly eyes, and then pushed Bai Xiaowen ten meters away from the gate: "go, don't hinder us."

"OK, I'll go." Bai Xiaowen shrugged.

When he turned and left, Bai Xiaowen directly called out the shadow assassin, carefully avoided the two sentinels and touched the gate.