Seeing that Michael's wound had stopped bleeding, Amy wanted to call an ambulance to take her little son to the hospital.
Luke asked quietly, "Are you sure nothing will happen to him if he goes to the hospital?"
The couple was startled when they heard this, and suddenly realized: the safest place should be where the mysterious Wilson is.
"And his throat was cut with a knife. If he is sent to the hospital, the doctor will report it to the Social Welfare Bureau immediately." Luke reminded again.
Bennet and Amy looked at each other.
The point is not what the facts are, but that both men will certainly be suspected of abusing Michael.
Once the younger son is isolated and protected by the Child Welfare Bureau, he will surely die if he encounters the "Mirror Ghost" again.
What the Bennetts wanted was for their son to be alive, not for them to seek compensation from the Child Welfare Bureau afterwards.
Luke only reminded this out of consideration for Chief George.
If this family really wants to commit suicide, he will not stop them.
Fortunately, the couple still had some common sense and decisively gave up the idea of calling an ambulance.
Amy helped Michael clean his wound while Luke and Bennett talked in a low voice outside the house.
Bennett, as an eyewitness, knows more than the police.
When you call Chief George you're asking for help, so he can't go into too much detail.
Whether a person is willing to help another person mostly depends on the closeness of the two parties.
Bennett's friendship with Chief George wasn't enough for him to talk at length on the phone.
As a former policeman, he knows better that "professional matters should be left to professionals."
Beidou's clone has shown extraordinary abilities and even fought off the "Mirror Ghost" head-on. Bennett knows this may be the best chance to resolve the problem.
So he gave Luke all the information he knew and collected without reservation.
In fact, his so-called "mental problems" in the mall were due to the fact that he saw hallucinations of many people who were burned to death there.
Then his shadow in the mirror wall "caught fire", causing him in reality to feel severe pain as if his body was being burned by flames, and he passed out.
After waking up, he found that there was nothing wrong with his body. He became very suspicious and began to investigate.
Who would have thought that just a few days after the investigation, the sister was found dead in the bathtub at home - her entire lower jaw was completely torn apart, but no traces of the murderer were found at the scene.
Luke is also an old detective. He knows very well that crime is like a trace left by a goose. Whenever a crime is committed, clues will be left behind.
The police only found part about the suspect from the complicated clues.
But there is really no clue of a suspect in the death of Bennett's sister.
Before she died, the bathtub and the surrounding floor were covered with blood, but no one cleaned, covered or touched the blood.
Luke had seen the photos of the scene and felt that it would not be easy for ordinary people to accomplish such a crime, but it was not difficult for the extraordinary group.
Now that he has confirmed the existence of the "mirror ghost", he only needs to find out its origins and solve it thoroughly in a targeted manner.
There are two important aspects of Bennett's investigation.
One is that the criminal who set fire to the mall five years ago confessed that he burned the mall to get rid of the "evil spirit" that killed his entire family, and he said he wanted to find someone named Anna.
Second, the mall was once a mental hospital for forty years.
One night, a big fight broke out in this mental hospital. The patients inside killed each other and all died. As a result, the mental hospital closed down and was demolished.
Bennett's experience of being burned in the mirror made him notice them.
Luke nodded thoughtfully and immediately issued an order for the PDD temporary worker to directly check the relevant old files.
In a small place like Charleston, the police department has not yet implemented paperless office, and most of the information on old cases is paper documents thrown in the archives.
What Luke found on the Internet was not as detailed as what Bennett had here.
Like the incident at the mental hospital, the existing information on the Internet cannot be linked to what happened in the mall.
In order to make people forget the major case as quickly as possible, the local officials simply changed the place names in the area.
This area has changed hands many times over the decades, and even the mall owner didn't know that he was building on the site of a former mental hospital.
After Bennett finished telling him what he knew, the temporary worker on Luke's side followed the clues and took photos of a lot of old materials in the archives.
Compared to Bennett, who lost his police job, these temporary workers had much higher "browsing qualifications" and therefore discovered more clues.
In fact, Bennett and the previous security guard are not the only victims of the "Mirror Ghost", they are just the most recent.
Seven or eight similar cases have been found in Charleston over the past few decades, but most of them were closed with the conclusion that "the deceased committed suicide due to mental problems."
Luke was too lazy to blame the police for their incompetence. It was really because American law did not recognize the existence of super powers and the ability to kill people from a distance.
Even if they could admit it, the local police department would not be able to arrest something like the "Mirror Ghost".
Previously this was the purview of SHIELD, but now it should be the responsibility of the ATCU (Advanced Threat Control Unit).
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Luke stayed in the Bennett home for more than two hours, waiting for and analyzing the information sent by his men, and also treated Michael again.
This time, Bennett did not peek halfway, but waited until Luke called him before returning to the room.
Seeing that the wound on Michael's neck was almost healed, with only a few shallow scars, the couple felt completely relieved.
Luke said to them: "Thank you for your cooperation. I am going to deal with the mirror ghost. I will give you a little "gift" before I leave."
As he said this, he snapped his fingers three times again, and the mental resistance fell on the three members of the family respectively: "Try to keep your mind calm. This will protect you from being harassed by the mirror ghost for 24 hours."
Amy was a little uncertain: "What happens next?"
"If you can solve it, you will be safe." Luke said calmly: But if it is not completely eliminated, then you can only rely on your own luck.
After saying that, he turned around and went downstairs and out the door. The family of three followed him down and stood at the door, watching his back disappear in the shade of the trees not far away.
Amy suddenly said, "Only 24 hours... Can he really do it?"
"We can only trust him." Bennett breathed out.
He didn't hire Luke, but he saved their family several times. What else can he ask for
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Not long after Luke walked away, he activated his stealth system and flew straight to a convent in the mountains north of Charleston.
It is said that the only patient who escaped alive from the mental hospital massacre was sent here. Her name was Anna Esek.
She might be the "Anna" mentioned by the man who burned the mall.
But the names of Anna or Esek did not appear on the list that could be found at the convent.
Luke didn't want to waste time so he simply went there in person. The pheromone manipulation combined with real dreams could make the nuns tell the truth directly.
A few minutes later, an old-fashioned convent with orange-red roofs and white walls, standing on a flat area between the mountains, appeared before our eyes.
Luke didn't even cancel his invisibility as he flew into the small inner well and landed.