Chapter 1609 - Curious Missing Case

Chapter 1609 Curious Missing Case
But on the afternoon of the third day after Claire left, she called Luke. “Luke, Stacy’s missing.”
Luke was stunned, but not too panicked. “Don’t panic. Tell me what happened.”
Hearing the calm and composed voice on the phone, Claire calmed down a little and quickly explained what happened.
It was indeed a little strange.
Today, when the crew went to the abandoned town to film, a woman in her late twenties ran down the small road that ran through the town and asked the crew if they had seen a little girl.
Of course, the crew hadn’t seen a little girl, so the woman continued running.
Soon, a female patrol officer caught up from behind. She asked if they had seen the woman, and the crew naturally pointed up ahead.
Curious, Claire asked the police officer why she was chasing the woman, and the officer said that the woman was suspected of abducting a little girl.
Everybody in the crew was shocked, but they didn’t think much of it.
Since there was an officer chasing the woman, there was no need for them to volunteer to help. Plus, their filming schedule was quite tight.
In the end, Claire had been a little curious, and she grabbed Stacy and followed the police officer.
If the officer caught the woman, they would just watch.
If the women tried to escape, they could stop her.
Stacy was a little against getting involved.
V was much more strict with her than Luke was with Claire.
V wouldn’t give her a thrashing, but copying out the safety rules was a nightmare.
Stacy didn’t want to relive the feeling of being a student.
However, they could tell that the woman was just an ordinary housewife.
She could only follow Claire, who dragged her along
They hadn’t walked more than 200 meters, when the police officer returned with the woman.
The four of them met at the intersection which led into the abandoned town.
The police officer nodded at them and went off with the woman.
Bored, Claire stopped to wait for the crew.
Since she was bored, she put on her earphones and listened to her new song.
A moment later, the mysterious old man suddenly warned her that Stacy was gone.
Claire turned around, only to see that she was alone.
She ran back a few meters and turned a corner, and the mysterious old man said that Stacy had gone missing here.
On the left was a sheer cliff face, while on the right was a ravine that was dozens of meters deep. Claire was dumbfounded. Stacy could go missing here?
A moment later, the crew arrived. They searched the area for a long time, but didn’t find any suspicious clues around the cliff or deep ravine.
Just like that, Stacy, the police officer and the woman had disappeared.
Luke frowned. “You’re still at the scene?”
Claire: “…Yes.”
Luke said, “You and the crew go back right away to the last town you stayed in and wait for me.”
Claire said, “But Stacy…”
“Do you think you’re a detective just because you worked as a probie for a few days?” Luke’s voice turned stern. “Get out of there. I’ll have someone go over in half an hour.”
Claire hesitated for a moment, but still obeyed.
Like Luke said, it wasn’t easy to look for someone.
Claire and the others were in an abandoned town that was uninhabited for dozens of kilometers around.
After searching for so long, another person might go missing, which would make things even more complicated.
What Luke didn’t say was that apart from Claire, Stacy’s chances of survival were the highest in the crew.
If she ran into danger, only Claire could save her.
But Claire didn’t even know how Stacy had gone missing. What was the point of her hanging around?
There was no way Luke would have her wait for him in a potentially dangerous place.
Selina was training. Luke told her what was going on, and said that he was headed over right away.
Selina immediately said that she would go with him.
Less than a minute later, the SUV drove west.
Selina and Gold Nugget were in the backseat.
Because they were in a hurry, Selina hadn’t changed before they came out.
Now, she was wiping her sweat with a towel from the glove box. She put on her nanosuit before changing into the spare outfit which she kept in the car, and then returned to the front seat.
Luke asked, “Gold Nugget, what’s going on over there?”
Gold Nugget picked up the phone and quickly typed out a text which it sent to Luke’s phone.
Selina picked up Luke’s phone and selected the voice function, which automatically read out what the dog head had typed.
Gold Nugget No. 2 was different from Claire. Its senses were keener, but it couldn’t explain the situation to Claire.
When it thought back, the footsteps had suddenly stopped when the police officer and the woman went around the corner.
Stacy had been a few meters behind Claire at the time, and happened to be just shy of the corner, so she had disappeared along with them.
The dog head hadn’t been paying attention to Stacy at the time. It wasn’t until a few seconds later that it realized that something was wrong, and it warned Claire.
But it couldn’t tell where Stacy was, even with its sense of smell, so it could only look to the fiend for help.
It wasn’t its fault that Stacy had gone missing, but if Claire went missing too, the fiend would definitely drag it out and kick it around like a ball.
Listening to what happened, Selina quickly turned serious. “Stacy and the two women disappeared around the corner. Is that some sort of superpower?”
Luke nodded and said, “Claire was just a few meters away. For three people to go missing in an instant, does it look like teleportation? Also, no other scents were left behind. Could it have been activated long-range?”.
The dog head’s sense of smell wasn’t any worse than Luke’s.
For now, that was the only possibility that Luke could think of.
As they drove, the Level 2 clone had already put on its armor and flown across New York to Pennsylvania.
Even with Elementary Driving, it would already be pretty good if Luke could go at 150 to 180 kilometers an hour on the interstate.
It would still take at least three hours for them to reach Claire.
Once the clone left New York City, it would be able to speed up and get there in 30 minutes.
That was why Luke had said that he would send someone there in half an hour.
If he needed to use all of his combat ability, it was most convenient for his clone, who wasn’t afraid of death or injury.
Moreover, as long as his clone was there, Selina could go online with the mental control device here at any time.
Very soon, the clone arrived at the town Claire and the crew were in.
He simply released two remote-controlled robots and a lot of drones in town before he immediately headed for the abandoned town 30 kilometers away.
Selina had already put down the front passenger seat. She fastened her seatbelt and lay down with the control helmet.
The remote-controlled robots moved quickly and caught up with the crew that was on the way back.
But the robots didn’t reveal themselves. Selina simply followed them silently from a distance and escorted the crew back.
Two minutes later, Luke reached the intersection where Stacy had gone missing.