Chapter 10 - tapping
When Joey drove Benny to the quarry, the scene was already full of people.
Nancy, Jonathan, Mike’s trio, 11, the search and rescue team, the police, all arrived.
Two state policemen lifted a body from the water and put it in a body bag. Joey happened to see the face of the corpse during the face-to-face measurement. He covered his mouth a little collapsed and lay down in Hope’s arms and started crying.
The body bag was loaded into the car and taken away, leaving a group of people who stopped and watched for a long time and did not want to leave.
Jonathan came to Joey’s side, and the mother and son embraced and wept bitterly.
The three of Mike were dumbfounded, unable to recover for a long time.
“It’s all you!”
Mike suddenly yelled and pushed 11 who was sitting in the back seat to the ground.
“It’s all you!”
“Didn’t you say you can find Will!”
“It’s all you!”
Mike cried and Lucas and Justin stood there with tears in their eyes.
11 was pushed to the ground, staring at Mike blankly.
“Hey!”
Benny ran over, lifted 11 up, and carefully slapped her off the grass clippings.
“Boy! How do you talk to a lady? You better pay attention!”
Benny picked up Mike by the collar, lifted him up, leaned forward and threatened fiercely, “If you dare to talk to my daughter like this, I will throw you into the water! Let you be company with your little friend !”
“Have you heard!”
The sadness in Mike’s heart has been replaced by Benny’s threat at this time. Benny yelled so cleverly and quickly nodded.
Benny snorted, let go, let Mike limp on the ground, glanced warningly at Lucas and Justin, turned around and picked 11 and got into Hope’s car.
11 He raised his head and stared at Benny as if he didn’t feel any pain, and allowed Benny to help him bandage the wound on his hand, motionless.
“Those few are bad boys. Boys are bad boys. Listen to your father. Don’t talk to boys in school from now on.”
Benny tied a bow to 11’s hand and coaxed.
“fake.”
11 spit out two words and stretched out his fingers in the direction of the corpse truck.
“Hush!” Benny looked around and whispered.
“Dad also knows it’s fake. Let’s not tell them. This is a punishment for their rude behavior.”
After speaking, Benny winked his eyes at 11.
“What punishment?”
Hope suddenly asked from the side.
“nothing.”
Benny held 11 and waited for Hope to drive the car away from the crowd before speaking.
“Do you know those two state police?”
“They came from the state to help, not Hawkins.” Hope replied.
“What about the coroner? Hawkins has his own coroner, right?”
Benny continued to ask.
“Did you see the coroner today?”
Hope frowned. He looked at Benny suspiciously.
“You mean, these people are making fakes?”
“Ask Joey and see what she says.” Benny didn’t admit it. “Will is her child. She should know what Will is like better than everyone else.”
Soon, the three returned to the police station. As expected by Benny, Hawkins’ coroner was not there, but a new one. At the same time, Joey refused to sign the autopsy report, insisting that the body found was not Will, when they arrived, many people were spreading that Joey was crazy because of excessive sadness.
The words on the autopsy report were eventually signed by Jonathan, and Joey was nowhere to be found.
After all the disturbances, as the sky dimmed and the crowds onlookers retreated one by one, the police station finally recovered its silence.
“Find the coroner?”
When Hope returned to the office, Benny was accompanying 11 to do his homework, and he raised his head and asked after hearing the movement.
Hope shook his head, sat down on the chair, took out a cigarette to light it, and was snatched by Benny again.
“11 is here. I want to smoke out.”
Hope curled his lips, threw the cigarette case on the table depressed, and said
“The coroner has asked for leave. The autopsy report has come out and it is indeed Will’s body.”
“From finding the corpse to now.” Benny looked up at the clock. “It’s only seven hours. How come I don’t know when the federal government has become so efficient. Within seven hours, even the autopsy report came out.”
Hope fell silent, Benny curled his lips, saw 11 finishing his homework and helped clean up, stood up and asked.
“We are going back, are you going?”
Hope hesitated for a moment, stood up and asked solemnly, “Would you like to come and see with me?”
“Look at what? Corpse?”
Hope nodded.
Strictly speaking, after the family members of the corpse signed it, the corpse no longer belonged to the police station. It was only stored in the police station. Now I go to look through the corpse. No matter what the result is, once they are known, they will not be held accountable.
Benny looked at 11, and 11 seemed to feel it, and grasped his palm with his backhand.
“I’ll guard you outside, go in and watch by yourself.”
With that, Benny pointed at 11. Hope shrugged, expressing understanding.
The three of them came out of Hope’s office and sneaked into the autopsy room. While there was no one around, Hope took out the key they hadn’t gotten from, and sneaked into the autopsy room.
“11,” Benny touched 11’s little head. She was still full-length hair, and her hair hadn’t grown much. Instead, she felt a little pierced when she touched it at this time.
“Dad knows what you have gone through before, and knows that you want to have good friends, but, listening to Dad, Mike and Lucas and the brats are not a good choice.”
“You should find a few girls to play with. You can’t mix with boys. Boys are bastards, and they will bully girls, just like today.
You use your abilities to help them find Will, but they do this to you instead. “
After leaving the quarry, 11’s mood has been very low. Benny knew it was because of Mike and the others. He also knew that Mike and the others didn’t mean it. He also knew that he shouldn’t interfere too much with children. But looking at the wound on 11’s hand, he just couldn’t help it.
Just as he was talking, Hope had rushed out of the dissection room angrily. He didn’t leave much for a moment, and walked directly outside.
“Hey! Hope!”
Benedict took Hope, pulled out the car key, pulled him out of the car, and got into a dark alley.
“Hope, where are you going?”
“Go to the national laboratory and find Brenner.”
Hope said angrily.
“Hope, there are things I want to remind you.” Benny said in a low voice. “Whether it is the CIA or the Department of Energy, they are best at not solving troubles, but creating troubles, and then solving those who solve them.”
Seeing Hope’s eyes widened and a look of disbelief, Benny smiled and continued, “Don’t believe it? Let’s go to your house now.”
“What are you going to do at my house?”
“I’ll know when I go.”
Hope doesn’t understand what medicine Benny is selling in the gourd, but he has been with Benny for many years and believes that Benny will not harm him.
The three drove to Hope’s house, Benny made a silent gesture, opened the door gently, and looked around.
“You don’t—”
When Hope was about to make a sound, he was covered by Benny’s hand. Benny glared at Hope, tiptoes to unscrew the chandelier, took out a miniature bug from the inside and shook it in front of his eyes. Immediately after he took out the tape from his pocket and stuck it, the three of them exited the house and returned to the car.
“In addition to solving people who can solve troubles and creating troubles, the CIA’s third best is monitoring.”
“The same goes for the Department of Energy.”
Hope was silent and drove the car with a sullen expression to Benny’s restaurant.