It was nothing but dead ends since the house, the past four days the two detectives have been in and out of the brain chamber while trying to connect a link to everyone.
It is known that the Chemist, Steve Waldo, was a victim of Daphne Fras, a criminal, working possible with or for Pep Edge, a seedy pachinko parlor owner, or Him, Townsville's most evil villain. There was also Geoff, a gun store owner, and senator Gevan added into this.
The only trails that were available was Dwayne, a possible informant for this group of criminals, and the mayor of Citysville, Herbert Testdor.
The two decided on splitting up and checking them both; Buttercup gets to investigate Dwayne's apartment while Mr. Narrator goes and checks on the mayor.
The place was left the way it was after Ruiji had investigated it, which wasn't very good considering the exposed fridge and very spoiled food.
But Buttercup payed no attention to the smell while a scene began to play out in her vision, This Dwayne guy was opening the fridge while retrieving a beer while this raven haired woman was cooking. Buttercup looked over to the door, she saw it open and these two thugs wearing hood sweatshirts came in with a 9 MM with a silencer. Dwayne fled as the woman was shot, they rush into the back area.
Buttercup followed, the killers were locked outside of the bathroom arguing about something before taking out a automatic pocket lock pick. Buttercup looked into the bathroom while the two argued to see Dwayne escape out the window, there was a fire escape on the other side and by the time the killers broke in he was on the streets and gone.
Why didn't they shoot? Buttercup thought while coming back to the kitchen where the killers were cleaning up the blood and the body. Maybe they wanted to make this look like a murder suicide, to throw everyone off track.
Buttercup left the apartment wondering how was Ruiji was doing.
Ruiji hates to drive, other people always made him very nervous with the way they drive in their huge tanks called SUVs. He walked and take trains in fear that some soccer mom is going to plow him into the asphalt and keep on going without a second thought, plus gas is very high too.
But this is an exception to his normal routine, at this moment he was a block away from the Citysville city hall in a rental car staring at this bum standing at the no parking sign.
Ruiji knew that the bum was really mayor Testdor in disguise, and from the looks of it he is waiting for someone. It was a half hour before a black van pulled up next to him and pulled off, Ruiji was about to pull out and follow when he saw mayor Testdor walk out to his own car parked in front of his.
Confused but not shaken Ruiji pulled out any way, now the question is who was the person waiting outside?
After some miles he was lead out of City limits into a dark road, there were fewer and fewer cars, Ruiji was a little nervous by each mile; he couldn't help but think they had noticed him and were leading him the wrong way.
The van turn off onto some dirt road leading deep into the woods, Mr. Narrator was about to do the same when this SUV came from behind him and sideswiped his car. Struggling to regain some control the car wanted to flip over as it fish tailed around, Ruiji gripped the wheel tightly as the fender ram through the guard railing near by.
The car skid a few feet before stopping, Ruiji wasn't hurt except for a headache and a dent in the wallet. The SUV had stopped up ahead, it wasn't moving for some reason. Ruiji could help but to look through the driver's eyes; he saw guns and lots of ammo, good enough to start squirming out of the wreck.
He kept low as he open the driver's side door but slip into the back seat, as he expected the door was pelted by heavy fire. The windshield was peppered by bullets to as he hide behind the driver and passenger seat waiting for an opening, he still has a psychic link to this guy. He saw there was just one shooter with a M-16 and a mag pouch, whatever this was good or bad depend on how one look at it.
Ruiji waited until the shooter stop to reload, he severed his link and popped up to deliver a few shots of his own before ducking back down. He waited for another storm of bullets but none came, he carefully lifted his head over the seat to see the shooter was now gone.
Slipping out of the passenger side door he looked around before heading towards the SUV, there was a bullet mark in the window where the shooter was and some blood on the door. This meant that the shooter was wounded and had ran off, Ruiji knew he can't just leave now, he might miss a chance to bust this gang. But he wasn't doing it without back up.
The good thing about newer SUVs like this one is that it has both a navigational system and built in phones.
