Los Angeles Detective

  Chapter 413 Penny

   Oil painting found.

  The buyer of the painting died.

  Now the only person who knows the truth of the case is the mastermind of the robbery of the oil painting, Professor.

  The professor is at large, and Luke has applied for a wanted warrant.

   Regarding Tom Stone's doubts, Luke has some speculations.

  According to the clues found by the police, the professor did not want to rob at first, but wanted to steal, and his theft target was the most precious oil paintings of the Getty Museum, which was confirmed by several arrested accomplices.

   It was only because the Getty Museum's security measures were too strict that the theft plan was difficult to carry out, so it was changed to robbing oil paintings.

  The danger is less, but the variables are greater, and the oil painting that was robbed cannot be selected.

   This can also be seen from the stolen money prepared by Albus Stone.

Albus Stone withdrew 10 million U.S. dollars in cash from the bank before, so the value of the stolen oil painting should be between 50 million U.S. dollars and 200 million U.S. dollars, but Albus Stone finally paid only 3 million dollars, indicating that he was not satisfied with the ten stolen paintings.

   But things have already happened, he is seriously ill, time is running out, and he has no choice.

  The police found the stolen oil painting, and basically found out the cause and effect of the case.

  Albus Stone liked to collect oil paintings and hoped that he could bury several precious oil paintings with him after his death, but this idea was not approved by his family.

   Perhaps because of his serious illness, his obsession increased. He wanted to buy some precious oil paintings at a low price as funeral objects.

   This coincides with the 'professor' who is engaged in stealing antiques.

  The hardest thing about stealing oil paintings is to sell them, because these oil paintings are shady and difficult to realize.

   But as a funerary object, it has no effect. The two parties have a basis for cooperation and plan to steal precious oil paintings from the Getty Museum. For this, Albus Stone also paid a part of the deposit.

  However, the theft plan did not go well, and the professor decided to rob instead.

  Designed to kill police officers twice in order to silence.

  In the end, most of the robbers were caught, only the professor escaped.

  As for some details of this case, as well as the specific content of the transaction between the professor and Albus Stone, I am afraid that the truth can only be revealed after the professor is caught.

Luke did not give up on tracking down the professor. He learned from the interrogation that the professor had been to Albus Stone's house on December 24. He searched the surveillance cameras around Albus Stone's house and also checked some black vehicles, but No trace of the professor was found.

   This suspect is very cunning and has strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities.

  In the evening, Metzker Bar.

  Three cases were solved, everyone could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and went to the bar to celebrate at night.

   "Cheers!"

"Ha ha…"

  Everyone is very excited tonight, not only because the case is solved, but more importantly, if you find the oil painting, you can get a reward from the Getty Museum.

  Xiao Hei couldn't wait to say, "A reward of two million dollars is offered, how much can each of us share?"

  The deputy team put his right finger on his mouth, "Shut up your big mouth, do you want everyone to know?"

  Xiao Hei lowered his voice, "Sorry, I was just too excited."

   "Are you short of money now?" Luke put down his glass and threw a piece of cornflakes into his mouth.

   "Do you think everyone is like you, the whole family is not hungry when one person is full.

  I am not alone now, I have to support a wife and a child who is about to be born.

  Always make a little more money. "Xiao Hei sighed, looking preoccupied.

  The deputy team nodded, "Responsibility is the best medicine for a man to grow up quickly."

  Xiao Hei suggested, "Is Rhett here? Do you want to ask him?"

  Jackson shrugged, "I guess it's useless to ask. The Getty Museum is the one who offered the reward. It's impossible to hand over the reward to the police so soon."

   "Rookie, you've only been here for a few days." Xiao Hei stood up, searching the bar with his big eyes, "Hey, Chief, we're here."

  Rett came over, pouted, "I don't remember asking you out tonight."

  Xiao Hei pulled Reid to sit down, "We missed you and wanted to report the progress of the case to you."

  Rett asked back, "Is there a clue from the professor?"

  Xiao Hei "..."

  Luke wants to punch him.

  The deputy team said, "The world is so big, and there are so many perverts, it is impossible to solve every case perfectly. If that is the case, how can there be the word 'unsolved case'.

  Only the police in TV dramas will solve every case. The reality cannot be so perfect.

  Professor is just an episode, it doesn't matter.

   Hearing his nickname, one knows that he is a little **** who has watched too many TV shows. We already have his criminal investigation sketch. If he commits another crime, we will definitely catch him. "

   "It makes sense." Reid said lightly.

  If you don't give face to others, you still have to give face to the deputy team. This old man is the person who knows him best.

  Rett has been in the police force for many years, and not every case must be solved. If the old man tells about the unsolved cases he investigated and handled back then, he will not look good.

  This bad old man can definitely do it.

  Xiao Hei rubbed his hands and asked with a smile, "Director, how should the reward be distributed?"

   "What reward?" Rhett looked like I don't know what you're talking about.

  Xiao Hei was in a hurry, "We recovered the oil painting. The Getty Museum promised a reward of two million dollars. They won't deny it."

  Rett joked, "Keep your mind to yourself, they owe money to no one, and they dare not owe Inspector Marcus money.

  The person in charge of the museum took the initiative to find me today and asked for a reward, and it is estimated that it will arrive tomorrow. "

   "So fast?" Happiness came so suddenly that Xiao Hei felt unreal.

  Rett asked with a smile, "You want to get the reward of 2 million as soon as possible, and they also want to get back the oil painting worth 20 million as soon as possible. Who do you think will be more anxious?"

  The little black eyeball rolled, and whispered, "If we detain the oil painting for a longer period of time, will they increase the reward amount?"

  The deputy team slapped him, "You kid is crazy about money, show some face."

  Xiao Hei laughed, "I'm just talking casually.

   There are also a lot of rewards of two million, how will they be distributed then? "

  Rett said, "The oil painting was found by your squadron. How to assign it to your squadron is up to you."

  Luke held up his wine glass, "To Rhett."

  Everyone also raised their glasses, "Respect Reed."

  The deputy put down his glass, "What about the stolen money?"

Albus Stone purchased ten stolen oil paintings and paid more than three million yuan in stolen money, of which hundreds of thousands of deposits may be used to prepare robbery equipment, and the remaining three million dollars were divided , in addition to the stolen money taken away by the professor and a part squandered by other robbers, two million dollars in stolen money were also recovered.

  Of course, not all of the stolen money fell into the hands of the police department. The FBI and the Southern Bureau also recovered part of the stolen money, and the police department only recovered about one million yuan.

  Rett smiled, "The stolen money is kept by the police station.

  Although you found the oil painting, it is also inseparable from the help of other departments, such as the Technical Department, the Forensic Office, and even the FBI and the Southern Branch. The police department will also consider giving some funds to other departments. "

  The deputy team nodded, "It's reasonable, does our first squadron have funds?"

  Rett asked back, "The two million rewards are not enough for you?

   If you think it is unreasonable, the police station can consider distributing oil painting rewards and stolen money uniformly. "

   "No, this is already very good. It is very appropriate for the stolen money to be distributed by the police station. We are very satisfied." The captain Luke spoke.

  Others also echoed, fearing that Rhett would really take back the right to distribute the reward.

  After the show ended, everyone didn't go home immediately, but went to Luke's house for a small gathering and opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate.

  Drinking is just incidental. The main thing is to find a quiet and secret place to discuss how to distribute the reward. This kind of thing is not appropriate in bars or in police stations.

  Luke got a few snacks for dinner, and everyone discussed the distribution plan of the reward while drinking.

  The reward amount is two million US dollars, and there are eight members in a squadron.

   As the captain, Luke gets $300,000, the vice-team $250,000, Raymond and Xiao Hei $220,000 each, and other team members $200,000 each, which is $1.79 million.

  The remaining $210,000 was distributed to Rhett, $100,000, the technical team thirty thousand, the forensic room thirty thousand, and the remaining $50,000 was used as team expenses.

  Drinking together at the bar tonight is using team funds.

  The 50,000 reward plus the previous team funds, the total funds are as high as more than 60,000 US dollars.

  There is a lot of funds in the team, and everyone can often have dinner and drink together in the future. The work of the police is stressful, and you can combine work and rest even if you have fun.

  …

  2023, January 16, ten o'clock in the morning.

  United States, California, Los Angeles City Highway 1.

  Thousands of police cars were parked on the right side of the highway, flashing their lights and honking their horns, like a long flashing dragon.

  The overpass not far away was also full of police cars and police officers.

  There are two cranes parked on both sides of the flyover, and the boom lifts a huge American flag, and some smaller flags are planted on the flyover.

  The First Squadron of the Robbery and Murder Division, led by Luke, also stood on the side of the road to see off the four police officers who were killed.

  Four police officers including Patrolman Jens Jauregui and three Southern Division police officers who were killed in the robbery stronghold.

   "Woooooooooooo..."

  In the distance, hundreds of police motorcycles divided into two rows to open the road in front, followed by hundreds of police cars, flashing lights and honking, the scene was grand and majestic.

  Thousands of police officers on the right side of Highway 1 got off and stood in a row.

  Luke, Raymond, Xiao Hei, Jackson, Jenny, Potter are also among them.

"salute!"

   "唰" click.

  All the policemen raised their right hands and saluted the convoy.

   It was not until four hearses passed by that the convoy disappeared from sight, and everyone put down their right hands.

   "Being sent off by so many people is considered a life without regrets." Xiao Hei said with emotion.

  Potter touched his chest and said with lingering fear, "I still want to live well."

Last time, Porter was shot in the chest during the operation to capture the Mamba. Fortunately, he was separated by a wooden wall at the time, and he was also wearing a bulletproof vest with steel plates. The injury was not serious. Basically recovered, and came here today to attend the funeral of the four murdered police officers.

  Xiao Hei glanced around, "Why didn't the deputy team come?"

  Jenny said, "Don't blame him, it's not that he doesn't want to come, it's just that elderly people can't watch this kind of scene."

  Xiao Hei asked, "Will he cry? I really want to see it."

  Jennie said, "He won't cry, but he will be scared, and he may even lose sleep.

  Don’t ask me how I know, my grandfather is like this, when he was young, he was fearless, as if he had seen everything through.

   But when he really got old, he began to taboo life and death instead. "

  Evening, Luke's house.

   Luke put his right arm around Daisy, lying contentedly on the bed.

  The oil painting robbery involved two other cases. The cases were more complicated and the investigation took a long time. Luke hadn't relaxed for a long time.

   This is the third time tonight.

  Daisy rolled up her long hair and stretched out her graceful figure, "Are you still going to the bathroom? I'm going to take a shower."

   "Why don't we wash together?" Luke suggested.

  "No, I should go to bed, and I have to go to work tomorrow.

  I have overdrawn my energy for tomorrow tonight, but I don’t want to overdraw my energy for the day after tomorrow. After Daisy finished speaking, she shook off Luke's arm and went to the bathroom.

  After getting along with each other for a while, Luke and Daisy have formed a tacit understanding. They will not interfere with each other's life and work. They will make appointments when they have time, and they will help each other where there is overlap in work.

  Both are very satisfied with this relationship.

  After Daisy took a shower, Luke also took a brief shower.

  Luke lit a cigarette and took a puff, and passed it to Daisy who was beside him. Daisy was not addicted to cigarettes, but only took a puff occasionally.

   "I'm going to New York for a while, do you have any gifts you want? I'll buy them for you when I come back."

  Daisy planted the cigarette back into Luke's mouth, and applied eye cream on the fingers of her right hand, "Everything in New York is available in Los Angeles, and there is nothing to buy.

   But why are you going to New York to investigate cases in other places? "

   "No, I'm going to my father's house for the Spring Festival."

   "Hua Guo Festival?"

   “Yes, it’s the Western equivalent of Christmas.”

   "Wow, that sounds good."

   "Do you want to see it?"

   "Forget it anyway, I'm not interested in festivals."

   "Did you have a good Christmas?"

   "It's still the same, a little boring, but the good thing is that I can rest for a few days.

   It would be more perfect if that little girl didn't pester me all day. "

  Seeing the smile on the corner of Daisy's mouth, Luke said, "It seems you like her quite a bit."

   Daisy has a half-sister.

   "She is my only relative in this world, and I have no reason to hate her.

   And she was close to me, taught by my mother. Daisy turned off the light and turned to look at Luke, "When are you leaving?" "

   "Are you going to send me?"

   "Of course, if there is time."

  Luke kissed her forehead and said with a smile, "Forget it, you are so busy at work, you should take more rest when you have time.

  I went to New York with my brother. "

   "OK, good voyage.

   Waiting for you to come back, I will personally cook to welcome you. "

  Luke patted her slender waist, "Then it's settled, I want to eat oysters."

   "I'm going to bed, or I won't be able to wake up tomorrow."

"Good night."

"Good night."

  Luke lay in bed, tired, but unable to sleep.

  He often sleeps alone, and he is not used to having more people next to him.

  【Congratulations to the host, for successfully solving the oil painting robbery case, the police shooting case, and the corpse dumping case on Highway 1, reward 120 points. 】

  The voice of the system sounded in Luke's head.

   It was the first time to get such a high point reward.

  【The host performed well in the process of handling the case, and was rewarded with an unknown function card. Would you like to exchange it? 】

  Luke smiled. The case investigated this time is more complicated, and it is expected to get high points, but the reward of this unknown function card is a surprise.

  Since the upgrade of the detective system, Luke can exchange cards independently according to needs, which increases the controllability of the system, which is a good thing for Luke.

  The only thing Luke is worried about is whether he will reward cards with new functions.

   Now that I have received rewards from cards with unknown functions, this worry has been eliminated.

  Luke opened the system and clicked on an unknown new card. The first redemption required 100 points, which was too ruthless.

  In addition to the newly acquired 120 points, the system also accumulated 120 points before, for a total of 240 points.

  Luke has a lot of cards stored in the system, and there is not much demand for exchange at the moment, so he simply exchanged 100 points for an unknown function card.

  【Shotgun card, you can quickly learn shotguns, and the use time is 3 hours. 】

  Shotguns are also called shotguns. They use gunpowder or compressed air as an energy source, and can launch bunches of projectiles. They have the characteristics of fierce firepower and high hit rate.

  The king of melee combat, no one can do anything.

  David that **** likes to use shotguns, old fierce.

  Luke has long been keen on shotguns, but he has never had time to practice. Now that he has a shot card, he can do more with less.

  One shotgun study card was not enough, so Luke exchanged two more cards, each with 40 points, and another 80 points were used up.

  Luke now has 60 points left.

  This investigation Luke used up a Bullet Avoidance Card and an Accuracy Card. Originally, he wanted to add more, but the system didn’t have many points left, so he had to save them for emergencies.

   Simply don’t redeem it, and wait until the next time you have more points.

   After staying up for another half an hour, Luke was also a little sleepy, and entered the dream with the joy of getting a new card...

   A new story will start tomorrow.

   Sort out the outline.

  (end of this chapter)