Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 158
Late at night.

Dean and Jonathan are back in the intensive care unit.

"Hi, Uncle Paqui." Jonathan waved at the big man who was guarding the door like a goalkeeper, and the latter gave him a warm hug, almost smothering the boy to death with his chest muscles.

"How did you play? Didn't Dean bully the younger?"

"You're joking, he taught me a lot of useful knowledge and gave me two books," Jonathan said gratefully, then walked into the ward and hugged the tired woman, "Aunt Lucia, I'm here to see you How is Peter?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu like the same." The woman covered her mouth sadly,

Paqui shook his head and turned to Dean, "What clues did you investigate?"

Dean recounted his previous actions, and then asked the woman by the hospital bed,
"Ms. Lucia, why didn't you tell me that Peter attended Monica's magic show before he passed out?"

"Monica, that whore who is wearing scantily clad clothes and dancing in the tent?" Lucia stood up abruptly, a look of ferocity appeared on his tired and pale face, and angry fire flashed in his eyes, "How could it be possible for Peter to watch such shameless performances?" ?”

"But several witnesses saw him in the magic show." Dean's words were like needles, Zade Lucia's face turned blue and purple, and he gritted his teeth, sparks seemed to flicker in the air.

This anger was beyond Dean's comprehension.

After a while, she took a deep breath to calm down her anger, sat back on the hospital bed, clasped Peter's hand with both hands, and put it on her chin and touched it lightly, "I'm sorry I was too excited, I really don't like Peter going to such indecent places But during that time I was busy working the night shift, so I didn't know his movements, and I didn't deliberately hide it from you."

"I see." Dean stared at the haggard face covered by the oxygen mask and said, "According to my investigation, because of his special hobbies, Peter was excluded by his classmates, and he lived a very unhappy and lonely life."

"Lonely? With me by his side, how could he be lonely?" Lucia shook his head stubbornly, his red hair that hadn't been washed for a while was rippling with oil,
"Then do you know that he sometimes hides in the bookstore and cries alone, and he even volunteered as a dangerous volunteer at the magic show a few times. I suspect that he has the urge to commit suicide."

Lucia seemed to have been shocked, his face turned white, with large nasolabial folds and crow's feet, showing a great panic and pain, and then he tightly grasped the patient's withered hand, with such force that his nails would sink into it. into the meat.

"No! Peter is a good boy. His mother's faith does not allow him to commit suicide. He won't do that."

"I take good care of him, he won't leave me alone and leave alone!"

"Peter can't kill himself!"

"Take up your strength, auntie, you're going to hurt Peter." Jonathan persuaded, and the woman hurriedly let go, and then carefully clasped her hands again, with an extremely gentle expression, as if she was caring for fragile porcelain.

Seeing this, Dean frowned even tighter.

The statement of the person closest to Peter contradicts the clues they have investigated.

Paqui patted the woman's shoulder reassuringly, and looked at Dean again, "You can't label a normal person as a suicide for no reason, and there is no trace of suicide on Peter."

"So I need more clues." Dean warned Lucia, "If you want to save Peter, please stop hiding anything."

"What are you hiding? I've said everything I need to say!" The woman stared at Dean nervously, "If I can save Peter, I'm willing to die immediately, go to hell, and trade my life for my life!"

Difficult woman.

Dean rubbed his temples, feeling a little annoyed, and at the same time he couldn't help but have a bold thought. Could it be that this woman poisoned his nephew?
But he didn't have any evidence, and the progress didn't change.

He sighed, the woman's mood is extremely unstable now, so it's not good to keep asking,

"Then can I visit your and Peter's home?"

"Go ahead."

Lucia handed over a bunch of keys, her bloodshot eyes never leaving Peter,

"Maple Street, No. 25, Peter is in critical condition. I have to take care of him and can't leave. You go by yourself. Please don't damage anything in the house."

"En. I won't bother you." Dean left the ward and entered the corridor, and said to Paqui, "I forgot to ask just now, have you visited Monica's magic show?"

The big man shook his head and shook his index finger, "I repeat, I only like yellow-skinned women, and I'm not interested in white women wearing revealing heavy makeup."

"But I suspect that Monica has something to do with Peter's illness. I need someone to go to the town near Hawkins to look for her, and it's best to bring her back."

Paqui frowned, and slapped his chest proudly,
"Leave it to me, I'll make a few calls, and a guy will help you find someone right away."

……

At around [-] o'clock in the morning, Dean and Jonathan were on the road again. With him as the backbone, Jonathan also insisted on saving his friends together. For this reason, he made a special phone call home to urge his younger brother Will to stop playing DND and go to bed early.

When Dean was driving, he went through the clues in his mind again, and had a vague idea, but the current investigation progress is too little, and the clues are not enough, so it is far from certain.

"Dean, why do I feel that you are different from the detective in the book?" Jonathan in the co-pilot interrupted his thoughts by nibbling on an energy bar to satisfy his hunger, "Without a magnifying glass, markers, gloves, or a quartz watch, you The way the investigation was conducted also kind of baffled me."

"Too ordinary, right? After all, I'm still an amateur detective, and my level of handling cases is seriously insufficient." Dean swallowed a hamburger with his cheeks puffed up like a squirrel, "It's all about guesswork and luck."

"I hope this time, the spirit of the ancestors will be on our side."

Jonathan also closed his eyes and prayed again.

"By the way, Dean, Peter's house is at No. 25 Maple Street, which is very close to Maggie's house at No. 16. Shall we visit Maggie first? What if she knows something?"

"The girl who was frightened by Peter's confession?"

"Yes, she is also the only girl Peter ever liked."

"It's already midnight, is it convenient?" But it turned out that Dean's consideration was unnecessary.

When he drove past the small villa with red bricks and green tiles at No. 16 Maple Street, God's perspective swept him away, and there was only an ordinary-looking girl with short hair lying on the bed in the bedroom on the second floor, holding an acoustic guitar in a daze.

Parents are not at home.

Bang, bang.

The two knocked on the door.

"Who?"

"It's me, Jonathan...Peter's friend." Jonathan stammered, and Dean shook his head. This guy was always shy.

The house was quiet at first, then there was a rush of footsteps approaching the door, the girl looked at the cat's eyes,
"Today is too late, Jonathan, what can we talk about tomorrow? See you at the mall?"

"We... have urgent matters..."

Dean couldn't bear to listen, so he spoke loudly,
"Is that Maggie? I'm a private detective invited by Peter's aunt Lucia, and I'm currently in charge of investigating Peter's illness," Dean took out a detective license from his arms and took a picture of it on the cat's eyes.

The girl froze for a moment, and opened her mouth to reveal the shiny braces, "Peter is sick, shouldn't he call a doctor, why should he call a detective?"

"Because he is very ill and there is a special cause of the illness, so it needs to be investigated."

"Peter's current condition is very bad, and accidents may happen at any time. If you have any clues about his illness, or his abnormal behavior before illness, please speak up."

The girl fell into hesitation leaning against the wooden door,
Seeing this, Dean had something in his heart, and gave Jonathan a look. The latter gritted his teeth and boldly said,
"Maggie, if this continues, Peter will die. If you are still angry that he threatened you with toys, I apologize for him." Jonathan bowed very sincerely, "For the sake of classmates , do me a favor."

"No need to apologize, it's over." Maggie said hesitantly, "But Peter is really dying?"

"The doctors are saying he doesn't have much time left."

At this time, Dean's God's perspective observed that the girl inside the door showed a worried expression, and there was a hint of regret in his eyes, and he quickly said something nonsense,
"Maggie, do you know? Before he passed out, Peter kept saying that you were the most beautiful and kind girl in school, and he would never forget you."

Finally, Maggie covered her chest, closed her eyes tightly, and spoke tremblingly,

"You guys, what do you want to know?"

Dean couldn't help but curl his mouth, "Anything related to Peter... don't miss a word."

"Then you have to keep it secret for me, swear!"

"I assure you as a private detective, and I'm just a foreigner visiting Hawkins. I don't know your classmates, teachers, or parents. I don't pose any threat to you." hand, "You don't even need to open the door, just talk through the door."

"I swear to God..." Jonathan swallowed, and promised loudly, "We will never leak the conversation tonight, otherwise... otherwise I will never get a girlfriend for the rest of my life!"

"Well, I believe you..." Maggie took a deep breath, and amidst the cicadas chirping in the trees, her ant-like voice sounded, "Before Peter passed out, I, I dated him."

"What?" Jonathan was so shocked that he almost jumped up on the spot, "Why didn't Peter mention it to me!"

"I let him keep it a secret."

Dean on the side was really powerless to complain, how could there be so many secrets among these adolescent boys and girls, and they were kept secret at every turn.

"But don't you hate Peter? He frightened you with his confession on a bloody spike necklace." Jonathan still didn't believe it,
"I was very angry at first, but after the anger subsided, I suddenly felt that the monster's words in his mouth sounded scary, but it was very fresh and cool to listen to more. In addition to being withdrawn and withdrawn, he is actually a very gentle person who likes to think about others." There was a gleam in Maggie's eyes,

"And you know, we haven't dated anyone at this age, we are still virgins, and we will be ruthlessly ridiculed by our friends, so I asked him to ask for a relationship. Every night, when my parents and his aunt go to work, we Dating."

"He kept his promise and never disclosed this matter, so even your best friend didn't know about it."

"A month ago, on my birthday, I asked to experience the first time with him, at my home."

Jonathan opened his mouth wide in surprise and envy, why didn't he encounter such a great thing?
But Dean felt strange—the news he heard from other people was completely different from the truth of his own investigation.

"We prepared everything, the atmosphere was perfect, everything went well, he was very patient, gentle, and made me think choosing him was the best decision of my life, we got into the mood, we started to enjoy it, but when When I was sitting on it, he suddenly..." Maggie paused and wrinkled her nose, "He suddenly yelled 'Lucia', pushed me away in fear, hurriedly got dressed and fled the house .”

There is so much information in this short sentence.

Jonathan was shocked and stunned on the spot, and Dean was also stunned for a moment.

Investigation progress jumped from 20.00% to 30.00%.

"I don't know what the situation is, but no woman can bear to hear him call other women's names when she is intimate with her boyfriend. This woman's status is still very special."

"I was as disgusted as I ate a fly, and even had a psychological shadow. I had nightmares for several days in a row. Peter ruined my first time, he insulted me!" Maggie pressed her forehead against the door panel, her complex face drooping , "Since then, I have treated him as nothing, and never paid attention to him again."

"I barely spoke to him again until his accident."

"Do you still hate him now?" Jonathan asked a little confused,
"Whether you hate it or not, the relationship between me and him is completely over."

"You mentioned almost, that is, there is still communication?" Dean caught a key word.

"Well, after that disgusting incident, the day before he passed out, he came to my house again, apologized sincerely, and gave me a gift, a guitar..." Maggie muttered, "I just told him He mentioned that he was saving money to buy a guitar, but he never thought he would keep it in mind."

"Sent the guitar, and then what did you say?" Dean asked,
"There is only one 'goodbye'..." Maggie raised her face, her eyes were full of bewilderment and melancholy, "His expression at that time was very strange, full of reluctance, but also a kind of relief, it gave me the feeling that he was about to leave Hawking Adams and never coming back, he had an accident the next day."

"I still can't get over the hurdle in my heart. I dare not go to the hospital to face Peter."

Investigation progress jumped to 30.00%[-].

"But I hope you can save Peter. He is a good man and shouldn't suffer this kind of bad luck." Maggie pleaded with her face pressed against the wooden door, "Bring me a greeting and keep it a secret for me. Don't tell me what happened tonight. go out."

……

At three o'clock in the morning, even the moon hid in the clouds, and the sky was pitch black.

There is a biting coldness in the fresh air.

Dean and Jonathan said goodbye to Maggie and drove to 25 Maple Street.

Bronco through the night.

Dean stared straight at the night outside the car window, and all the clues he found today flashed through his mind.

There are only a few items that can cause progress changes——

Peter is a lonely, unique-loving weirdo
Monica's Magic Show
Peter is suicidal
When Peter was intimate with his girlfriend, he called out Aunt Lucia's name very frightenedly.

Peter said goodbye to his best friend and ex-girlfriend before he passed out.

Dean felt almost sorted out.

"Dude, Peter also said goodbye to Maggie, does that mean he really wanted to commit suicide?" Jonathan asked coyly, not mentioning Lucia keenly.

"The probability of this is getting higher and higher. I hope that important evidence can be found in their home."

(End of this chapter)