After writing down the two numbers, Malcolm put away the repaired phone, took out a bank card, and put it on the table.
"Here's your paycheck. It's confidential. You know the drill."
His voice was so cold that no emotion could be sensed.
Vinnie nodded. "Don't worry, Mr. White. I understand."
With the phone repaired, Malcolm hurried back to NIB.
It'd been over 20 hours since Lyra went missing.
The Lloyd's Corp needed to function properly, and Malcolm had called the Corp's special assistant ahead of time that everything needed to be contracted was being postponed.
In order to keep this quiet, Malcolm kept his mouth shut and focused on the investigation.
The two numbers were brought back for identification, which found that the identity information was true and was from a hospital outside the country.
The owner of the phone previously contacted the ownership of the phone number. It was a female doctor. It seemed to be no problem, and the use of the number was not great.
But Malcolm still thought the two numbers, with their foreign addresses, suspicious.
At noon, Brad and Chad obtained the investigation result.
After the entire section of the road monitoring tracking, they found that the last time the license plate of the black car appeared in a market of a certain town.
There were very few cameras in the town, and the Bureau's technical department can only lock onto a general location.
Since the car entered the town, for a short period of time, the camera did not capture the car out of the town highway.
Malcolm used a red marker to circle Stogairrol County on the red dot map.
"Chad, arrange for your men to come with me to Stogairrol County in half an hour. Also, inform the auxiliary police in the surrounding area to block all roads out of town today."
Chad looked embarrassed, "Bro, I'll go. Stogairrol County is quite far away from Suham. It takes a lot of time to come back and forth. If you go in person, I'm afraid you won't be able to go back to the laboratory to accompany Spencer and Momo to rest on time tonight. I can't deal with them."
His wife must be found and the kids must be protected.
After thinking for a while, Malcolm chose the former.
"I'll go. If I don't make it back in time at night, just help me calm Spencer and Momo down. I'll be back as soon as I can."
He was very firm in his attitude and always said one thing after another.
Chad knew he couldn't be persuaded, so he didn't say anything more. He went down and arranged for them to leave early, so that they could come back early.
...
All day long, the NIB had its hands full.
Ted was busy investigating the Stone family massacre.
Because of the Stone family incident, all the upper-class families in Suham were on guard. They were worried that the other party was a repeat offender and was targeting the wealthy families.
The weather didn't clear up after the rain. It was gloomy and the whole city was in an extremely dull atmosphere.
More than ten hours later, Malcolm was the first to board the car back to the city.
This trip, again was in vain.
Clearly, the entire town had been sealed off, but the other party was like a fish in the water. The more he tried to grab and hold of it, the more the person disappeared without a trace. Even the black car that he had found last night seemed to have disappeared.
Even as Malcolm launched sweeping search, there were no new breakthroughs.
The result of the investigation was disconnected again.
Malcolm looked out of the window at the dark sky and at his watch. It would be after eleven o'clock by the time he returned to the city, and he wondered if Chad would be able to deal with the two extremely capricious kids for two nights.
Being concerned, Malcolm calmly analyzed all the investigation results of the last two days and the way the other side had evaded detection.
Even hardened criminals didn't know the ins and outs of NIB's investigation, much less his methods.
But this man, obviously, knew NIB very well, and he knew Malcolm very well.
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