Selina followed her usual practice and began to explain her observations: "There are quite a few residents here, but they are all single-family buildings. The sewer entrance is located on the edge, so it should be difficult to find witnesses. Well, those guys came at night and were all dressed in black. As long as they didn't grin, it would be difficult for others to spot them."
Luke rolled his eyes but was speechless.
Some black people rely on this racial talent to commit robberies at night.
They just need to wear gray and black clothes and stand in a shadowy corner at night, and the effect is not much worse than the stealth function of Luke's armor.
Selina looked around and frowned. "There are many middle-class holiday homes here. People may only come here on holidays. There are not many homeless people. The number of witnesses may be much less than we estimated."
Luke nodded, agreeing with this statement.
The homeless population is an inevitable social phenomenon in major cities across the United States.
They wander the streets during the day and gather in naturally formed camping areas at night.
There are many homeless people who do not sleep in the middle of the night, and most of them like to beg in a fixed area.
They are human surveillance cameras that exist day and night, maybe they can know something.
Providing information to various people is also a source of daily life for homeless people.
For example, if a stranger asks for directions, you can give him half a pack of cigarettes as a reward instead of paying.
Detectives like Luke and Selina are "regular big clients". They have such spies in many popular locations and spend one or two hundred dollars a month on each spy. These people have very good attitudes.
Of course, this is only because Luke and the other man are rich. The tens of thousands of dollars a month spent on intelligence fees is far less than the speed at which the black money is increasing.
John and his men were short of money themselves, so they only gave some money occasionally. Usually they just used their authority to give a greeting to the patrolmen and asked them not to deal with their spies at will, which was also considered as paying the bill.
But in the end, money is not as useful as gold.
In terms of money power, it is definitely ranked first in the American metropolis of New York.
So without the homeless, it would be difficult to use the power of money to get information.
As they talked, they walked to the sewer. Selina slapped her forehead and said, "Well, no wonder they chose to dump the body here."
There is a sewage canal here, which is obviously connected to the target sewer.
No one would build a house next to a smelly sewage canal, so there are no houses within a few dozen meters and few people come here. The sewer is closer to the residential area.
When they reached the sewage drain, Luke knew that the case might be true simply by looking toward the sewer.
In this stinking place, there were people walking from the seaside avenue to the sewer outlet, trampling the weeds there to create a faint path, and it was obvious that they were not just passing by occasionally.
Luke moved his nose slightly, trying his best to eliminate the interference of the stench, and activated his sensitive sense of smell.
No smell of corpse!
According to the core member of the gang, he was just bragging when he was drinking and chatting with another member of the gang, and he did not personally dispose of the body.
He asked the man afterwards, but he said that it was not true and he was just talking nonsense when he was drunk. The man disappeared yesterday and must have been silenced by Amanda.
There was nothing Luke could do about it.
With more than 20 gangs and more than 200 core middle-level managers, it is impossible for him to fully grasp the movements of each one.
These guys also like to use "second-hand" brand new mobile phones and change them frequently, making it difficult to accurately locate them.
The two men observed the sewage ditch for a moment and then continued to go to the sewer outlet.
His keen sense of smell still found nothing, and Luke was basically certain that no corpse had been thrown in here in the past one or two days.
However, when the two began to check the area near the sewer entrance separately, some small clues could no longer be hidden.
Both of them wore special sunglasses that allowed them to scan the environment and then hand it over to Xiaowo for modeling.
To put it simply, it forms a panoramic map for on-site forensics.
By combining the shoe prints, cigarette butts, discarded paper cups and packaging materials on the ground, a route of action with an accuracy of 60% to 70% was simulated.
Of course, there must be some remains left by passers-by who were not part of the body-dumping group mixed in.
However, Gary can eliminate most clues through probability, and Luke and Selina can add or delete clues based on their experience.
The intelligent program and the experience of the veteran detectives are enough to achieve quite efficient cooperation.
This is also the reason why Luke and his partner’s working hours are getting shorter and shorter.
Ordinary detectives rely on their physical strength, brains, and experience, but these two leave most of the work to top-notch intelligent programs that are so expensive that you can't even afford them.
The gap between the two is as huge as the hairline between John McClane and Luke.
With this high-tech cheating tool, the two men's search operation was quickly completed and they reunited at the sewer entrance.
Selina looked at Luke questioningly.
Luke sighed and said, "Let's go. After all, Yun's handling of cases is too unscientific."
Selina: … Why do I feel that my online case handling is not necessarily worse than other detectives’ on-site investigations
However, authenticity is important.
Habit is a terrible thing.
If you habitually ignore even the superficial efforts, others will easily notice that there is something wrong with the two of you.
Fortunately, most of the time when they go to work, they wear work clothes or denim casual clothes, and occasionally wear some military supplies, so even if they get dirty, they won't look too ugly.
Luke and the other man took out their gray-black gloves and put them on, then opened the square iron grille of the sewer and climbed down lightly.
As Selena said before, when it comes to drilling into sewers, some people are professionals - like the two of them.
Standing in the sewer, Luke consciously reduced most of his keen sense of smell.
There's nothing we can do about it.
If he had just acquired his keen sense of smell, he would not have dared to enter such a place, for fear of being fainted by the stench.
Now Luke's keen sense of smell is almost instinctive, but he cannot go against basic principles.
If you want your car to go fast, you have to put enough gas in it.
If you want to fully unleash your keen sense of smell, you must inhale more gas for analysis and judgment.
In order to avoid being fainted by the stench, he could only try to find clues of existence in as little stench as possible.
This is one of the reasons why Luke chose the sewer as his and Selina's departure and retreat route.
Their sensitive sense of smell would be disturbed, so it would be difficult for opponents with scent tracking ability to track the two people.
He stood there for a few seconds, looking around at both sides of the sewer. Selina also went down and stood beside him, stretched out her hand and placed it on his shoulder, tapping it lightly with her fingers a few times.
This is one of the ways for two people to communicate while remaining quiet.
Luke stretched out his hand and tapped the back of her hand twice, indicating that the old rules should still apply, with him in front and her behind.
At the same time, two micro drones took off from his other hand and drifted towards the dark sewer.
The two men switched their sunglasses to night vision mode, and their feet made almost no sound as they walked steadily and quickly into the depths.