Chapter 21
In the afternoon, Luke had been looking up information from 20 years ago, and his eyes were bleary, and he hadn’t come up with anyone suspected of being ‘Tony Weir’.
After work, he went to the Flying Bar to have a drink, partly to relieve his fatigue and partly to pass the time.
At seven o’clock in the evening, the Flying Bar was not yet full of customers, Luke sat at the bar and asked for a whiskey.
In the morning, told his mom that he was going to Nevada on a business trip and would not be staying at home tonight, and it was more than a little embarrassing to run back in the dust now.
He’d been trying to ease up with his mother for the past few days, but it hadn’t worked very well.
The younger brother was young enough to take a little coaxing.
Adults are different, his mother’s opinion of him is not formed in a day, want to change his mother’s attitude is not overnight.
Bored, Luke bought five more fruit scratchers.
One didn’t win.
Two didn’t win.
All five didn’t win.
Danny the bartender smiled at him, “You don’t win every time, good luck next time.”
Luke threw the scratchers in the trash, he didn’t think he would win this time either.
Luke bought a scratch off once and won a few thousand dollars, in a normal person’s mind, he would definitely continue to buy it.
It’s not normal to not buy them.
Luke bought scratchers again today to dispel others’ suspicions.
“Ringing ……”
A cell phone rang.
The bar was a little noisy, Luke opened his cell phone external voice: “Hello.”
Luke’s mom’s voice came out of the phone, “Where are you?”
“Uh ……” Luke was a little surprised, did not expect his mom to call, could it be that my mom knows that I didn’t go to Nevada today and is afraid that I’m too embarrassed to come home, this is to give me a step down.
“I have a new assignment today, did not go to Nevada, now just off duty.”
“Very well, you will now go home immediately, and if you are not back in half an hour, you don’t have to come back.” Linda gave an ultimatum.
Luke hung up his cell phone and rubbed his ears, having a bad feeling that it wasn’t like he was going to give himself a step down, but rather a bit of a rise to the occasion.
“What happened?” Luke couldn’t guess for a while.
Twenty minutes later, Luke returned home.
As soon as he entered the house, he felt that the atmosphere was a bit wrong, Linda was sitting on the sofa in the living room, her hands wrapped around her chest, with a serious face.
Jack stood off to the side, his head down and face drooping.
Luke placed his helmet on top of the shoe closet, “What happened?”
Linda raised her chin, “You asked him?”
Luke removed to black leather gloves and wondered, could it be that the chubby little man got caught in a relationship?
“Jack, you say.”
“Uh ……,” Jack, still afraid to look up, pointed to a disk sitting on the coffee table, “I came home today and wanted to watch the Avengers disk, and I flipped to this one . . and I just ……”
Luke walked over to the coffee table, picked up the disk and looked at it, the cover was of a buxom woman in a bikini, and smiled, “I thought it was something, just this?”
Linda questioned, “Luke, I don’t care what you want to see, but this is not something a thirteen year old should be watching. Jack said this disk isn’t his, is it yours?”
CD-ROMs weren’t common in this country anymore, but there were still a lot of people watching them in Los Angeles, which was an interesting phenomenon, I had to say.
Luke took a look at Jack and realized his head was even lower.
“I said why can’t I find this disk, so I misplaced it.” Luke took the disk and waved it around and laughed, “It’s not for you yet, old buddy, borrow it from me in a couple years.”
Linda grunted, “Don’t get all playful with me, keep your stuff safe. If I see anything of this juvenile nature again, you’ll be ready to move.”
Jack breathed a sigh of relief and looked up slightly to cast a grateful glance at Luke, brother ……
“Mom, it’s just a CD-ROM, and Jack’s not too young to be that nervous.”
“You’re right, I overreacted, now let’s talk about something lighter, when are you moving?”
Bad, it’s spilling over, “Oh, I don’t have any plans to do that for a while, I’m going to be living on loan for a while longer.”
“And I’m not the insensitive type, let’s talk about rent. Jack, go to your room and review your homework.”
Jack, as if pardoned, rushed back upstairs.
“One thousand dollars a month.”
“Mom, why don’t you just go rob it.”
“How much did you say?”
“Three hundred dollars.”
“You’d better get ready to move.”
“I’ll add another hundred dollars.” Luke spread his hands, “Comeon, I’m your own son at least, and I have a motorcycle bike loan to pay off.”
“Payment is due the first of next month, and I want cash.”
“Yes Madam, can I go upstairs now?”
Linda lowered her volume, “No, what’s going on with you and Jack?”
“What’s going on?”
“Do you really think I’m stupid and that easy to fool? Why did you take the fall for him, surely you wouldn’t have done that before?”
“He’s my brother.” Luke finished and took the disk upstairs.
Just as he returned to his bedroom, he received a text message in Chinese.
“Brother, I love you.”
Luke sent back one word.
“Fuck off.”
Not having enjoyed his drink today, Luke grabbed another beer from the fridge and drank it while thinking about the case.
There had been two cases of Taser robberies, both victims were young white women with long blonde hair, and the victims’ profiles were more distinctive and fit the profile of a serial killer.
The case of Daisy’s robbery last Thursday could only be a copycat case.
According to speculation, the suspect would commit another crime last Friday, but the police have not found any new cases until now.
It was hard to trace Tony through the clue of the modified taser, and then it was found that Tony was a fake identity, and this clue was equal to break again.
In addition to the line of Tony, the Robbery and Murder Division also investigated the identity and peripheral relationship of the two victims, but did not find anything suspicious.
The case investigation was once again in trouble.
“Buzz ……”
The sound of a text message interrupted Luke’s thoughts.
It was in Chinese again.
“Brother, the CD belongs to a friend, can I have it back?”
Luke sent back another word.
“Scram.”
Luke picked up the CD, and on the cover, in addition to the buxom woman, there was a line underneath that read ‘Strip Club’.
Luke stared at the cover for a moment, not knowing what to think.
He turned on his computer, put the CD into the CD-ROM drive, put on his headphones and the CD began to play.
The girl on the cover stood on a brightly lit stage, with an iron pipe in the center, the girl was wearing a dance outfit, her dance posture was alluring and seductive.
The way of performance was also very simple, that is, dancing while tuo clothes.
Luke just watched quietly, and the look on his face was always the same, as if he was pondering over some difficult problem ……
When he saw this CD-ROM he suddenly associated it with the ‘Taser Robbery’, and muttered, “youlike, youlike ……
It’s not provoking the police, it’s questioning the victim.”