Chapter 2983

The car drove for a long time. Wanda felt the driver turn seven turns and eight turns, bringing her to a very remote place. If she were a Gothamite, she could still use magic to detect where this was, but she was actually an outsider, so even if she could use magic, she didn't know where this was.

However, after Wanda completely integrated into the Scarlet Power for the first time, she actually became one with the Scarlet Power, just like Barbatos, Wanda was the power itself. She didn't need to actively use magic to detect anything, but as long as this power spread, she was everywhere. Now her human form was just a part of the Scarlet Power that was everywhere, and her body wouldn't trap her consciousness.

Wanda didn't let the Scarlet Power spread too far, just spreading a few kilometers around the car. Although she didn't know the specific location here, she discovered that one side of the driveway had a large forest after the car drove through a road.

This proved that this was definitely not the urban area, but should be close to the suburbs, and most of Cat Getan's suburbs didn't have so many trees. Wanda thought, this should be a very special place, and the forest was an important clue to determine her location.

Soon the car stopped. Wanda discovered that this was actually a crematorium, which really surprised her a bit.

The United States has a large land and small population, so although there is no particular attention to being buried in the earth, most people can afford a cemetery, and many communities also provide public welfare cemeteries, and paying respects to the appearance is an indispensable part of the funeral. Most people will choose to lie in a coffin and be buried.

However, because the East Coast is close to the sea, many people choose burial at sea, which is to say, scattering the ashes into the sea. In this case, the remains need to be burned. Coupled with the fact that Cat Getan a few years ago was relatively chaotic, often leaving corpses from gang fights, this kind of corpse is generally burned, which is relatively cost-saving.

What surprised Wanda was not that this was a crematorium, but that this crematorium was very new. It didn't look like that kind of old building at all, but most crematoriums that can be seen in the United States have some years.

This can also be understood. The population of the United States has always been very stable, and the local area hasn't experienced a destructive war. Most of the buildings related to the population were built when the country was founded. The population hasn't grown explosively, and there is no need to build new ones at all. Patching up is enough.

Crematorium buildings are even more so. The population of Cat Getan was already at this scale decades ago. The number of people using the crematorium has remained unchanged for decades, and there is no need to build new ones at all. Even if the city government has money to burn, it won't build this thing.

And in American religious culture, the cemetery is known as the place closest to heaven, and having a public cemetery around the house will cause land prices to rise, but the crematorium is different. In Christian culture, hell is a space full of flames, and people don't have a good impression of crematoriums.

If a place wants to build a crematorium, it must be signed and agreed by all residents of the community. If one person doesn't sign, it's very difficult to build. How was this crematorium that looked very new completed?

The eyes of the Scarlet Witch shone slightly with red light. Her intuition was telling her that this was not a good place, full of ominous atmosphere, but she couldn't say what was strange, so she could only restrain her power and get ready.

The light in Raven's eyes went out. She revealed a somewhat confused expression, looking at the surveillance camera screen. Dick turned back to look at her and said: "What's wrong? Is there any abnormality?"

"There is a car... the car of that crematorium on the east side. The clone I placed in the hotel opposite the crematorium staring at the street saw this car drive to the side door. Is this normal?"

"Could it be that there is a corpse to be cremated?"

"But that should take the main entrance," Raven said: "The corpses brought for cremation in the last few days all took the main entrance. The coffin would be lifted out in front of the door. Why would this car go to the side door?"

"Could it be a private car?" Dick began to search for surveillance cameras and said: "Did you see the license plate number?"

"No, but you only need to adjust the surveillance of that street to see it. I have already sent someone over."

Dick operated on the computer. Not long after, a black car appeared on the screen. He watched the car drive slowly along the street, turn a corner, and go around to the back of the crematorium, but there was no surveillance there, so he couldn't see how many people were in the car, and whether there was a coffin.

"I am trying to go in," Raven's purple magic light flickered. Two figures approached the crematorium sneakily, but soon, one of them was discovered by the crematorium security guard.

"Something is wrong," Raven frowned deeply and said: "These two clones are agents, how could this security guard..."

Suddenly she gasped and grabbed Dick's arm, saying: "This security guard has a gun!"

Dick held her hand back and said: "Calm down, it's normal for security guards in this kind of place to have guns, maybe it's to prevent people from causing trouble..."

"No, it's not a rifle that can be bought in a gun shop!" Raven said: "A pistol! And a silencer was added!"

Dick stood up with a swoosh.

Although buying guns in the United States is not very difficult, and the gun control in New Jersey is not strict, that is aimed at rifles, shotguns, etc., which are very easy to be discovered and can be easily hidden. Pistols that can be used for assassination are still strictly controlled, and silencers are not allowed to be sold to private individuals. Even the police can't get them.

This conversely proved that once someone has a silencer in their hand, they must be wanting to do bad things, because if the benefits he can get through this silencer are not big enough, he won't make this effort to get it. Even if you catch a hundred, you might not find an innocent one.

It's normal for security guards to have guns, but it's not normal to have pistols with silencers. Dick grabbed Raven's arm back, let her calm down, and said: "Let your people withdraw further."

"It might already be too late," Raven bit her lip and said: "I didn't know this crematorium had problems. If they are doing something unseen now, I definitely startled the snake."

"Don't worry," Dick's emotions had always been very stable. He kept stroking Raven's back, reducing her anxiety, and said: "If they are really doing something unseen, especially related to personal infringement, you disturbed them, but you might have saved someone."

"But will they jump over the wall in a hurry..."

"You said there is a hotel opposite the crematorium? Is the floor higher than the crematorium?"

"Yes, four or five floors higher."

"You take me over now. We can use binoculars to see the situation opposite. I have an invisible drone provided by Tim here. If the other party has no interference means, perhaps we can also fly in and see."

Raven's emotions calmed down a little. She took a deep breath, purple light flashed, and she and Dick appeared in the room where the clone she placed before was.

The angle of this room was very good. Not only could it see the street downstairs at a glance, but it could also see all the windows of the crematorium.

It was already off-duty time now. The employees of the crematorium walked out one after another. Dick observed a circle with binoculars and didn't find any abnormality, then he went to the window on the side of the room and released the invisible drone.

Dick stared at the screen tightly, and Raven also leaned over. The drone flew in along the crack of the window that wasn't closed, turning back and forth in the four-story building, but no matter how you looked at it, it was just an ordinary office scene.

The drone flew out from the window behind. As soon as it flew out, it captured the car parked at the side door. It was the black car that appeared on the surveillance camera.

A driver with a full face of flesh sat in the driver's seat. The drone leaned over a little, making Raven nervous, because this drone was only optically invisible. Although the noise was very small, the flight still had airflow. She was really worried about being discovered.

But Dick's hand was very steady from beginning to end, and he didn't see any nervous emotions. He controlled the drone and approached the driver's seat slowly. Suddenly, the driver moved.

Raven almost screamed. Dick still didn't move. Fortunately, the driver reached out and picked up the phone, saying to the other side.

"What? Agents came over? Are you sure?"

Raven bit her lip tightly. She shouldn't have approached rashly. The clone is an agent, but she isn't. She didn't have experience in this area at all. Sure enough, she startled the snake.

"You are too fussed," the driver hummed and said: "Agreed to only run this trip. If you come again, I won't do it without giving me 50,000. After all, it's strictly checked now. If I am caught by that iron-faced god Gordon, I will sit in prison until the bottom."

"They are really doing bad things," Raven lowered her voice and said: "Are they trying to destroy the corpse?"

That driver dug his ear with his hand again, blowing his finger and saying: "I told you long ago, I originally helped gangs pull corpses, but you have to get a living person now. Can you blame me for raising the price? 50,000, I won't do it for a cent less."

Raven opened her eyes wide and said: "Did you hear what he said? A living person! They got a living person!"

The specific content said by the person on the other end of the phone couldn't be heard very clearly, but the exasperated emotion could be heard. But the phone was still hung up. Dick controlled the drone and waited there for a while. No one came out. When the sky just turned dark, the driver drove away alone.

Dick let the drone circle the crematorium while saying: "It seems they didn't talk about the price, the other party couldn't transfer the hostage, but then again, there weren't many kidnappers when gangs were still there, and now there are even fewer."

Raven was still a bit nervous, but she still asked instinctively: "Why?"

"If there is hatred, then just kill it directly. If it is for money, there are too many dangerous points in the process of trading. With this effort to rob a bank, it is more profitable. Even if you use the family to threaten the other party to do things, there is no need to really kidnap. Just find out the route the other party's family often moves, and go send something to achieve the purpose of threat."

"Then who do you think they will kidnap? Who is worth their such a big fuss?"

"And that small part of the situation that unfortunately happened basically has the same reason," Dick continued: "The kidnapper has a secret that cannot be known by others. Only by holding the lifeblood of the person who knows the truth can they truly ensure that the other party is obedient."

Suddenly, his action of controlling the drone paused. Raven looked at the screen. On the back mountain of the crematorium, there was a very hidden road in the dense grass. Following this small road to the hillside, a gate of an abandoned air-raid shelter appeared before the two's eyes.