North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 813 Suspicious Walter
For Jimmy, as long as there was a clear location, it would not be difficult to investigate. However, when he arrived not far from the chicken farm area, Jimmy gave up the idea of ​​getting closer and left along the road.

The location of this chicken farm was definitely carefully chosen. The factory building is a little distance away from the highway, and there is a dirt slope a few dozen meters away on the side. The road turning from the highway to the chicken farm is completely within the fire coverage of the dirt slope. Jimmy even discovered that there was an area covered with desert camouflage in a hidden and difficult-to-find location on the dirt slope when he passed by.

If it wasn't for the fact that it was almost dusk and the color of that area was obviously different from the surrounding area, Jimmy would have subconsciously ignored it. It was too insidious.

No one would lay camouflage cloth in a place like this. Obviously, it must be hollow underneath. It must be a secret sentry for surveillance and guarding. This directly proves that this chicken farm is definitely not simple.

Jimmy drove along the road without stopping. He drove for several kilometers before stopping by the roadside. He turned his head to look behind him to make sure there were no cars following him. Then he turned back, parked behind a small hill and walked up the hill.

This place is at least one kilometer away from the chicken farm. Even if Jimmy has good vision, he can't see the details of the chicken farm clearly. Fortunately, although he changed cars, the equipment borrowed from the DEA is still there. Jimmy took a monocular telescope and looked in the direction of the chicken farm. At least from the outside, he didn't find too many abnormalities. Maybe the fact that there are too many people is also an abnormal point. After all, a modern chicken farm does not require too many staff.

However, now is not a good time to observe closely. It is difficult to enter the chicken farm without being discovered, not to mention that it is still daytime.

Time was not particularly abundant, so Jimmy went back to the car, took out a pen, marked the map, and then went to other target locations to continue reconnaissance.
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The next morning, Jimmy came to the DEA office and asked them to get a clean map of Albuquerque city. He began to mark the locations he had checked on it. Due to limited time, he could only do a basic inspection from the outside. At least from the surface, Jimmy didn't see anything particularly illegal. This guy Gus did things so cleanly and beautifully.

"Hank, do you still have the information about the industrial purification equipment you investigated earlier?"

Jimmy saw Hank enter the conference room and asked directly: "I need to confirm what the device looks like."

Hank: “The device can be found online, but it’s meaningless. It’s just a component. Once it is combined with other devices or simply hidden, no one knows where it is installed.

The person who signed for the equipment was Gail, but Gail is dead, and no one knows where he signed for the equipment and where it was shipped to. "

Jimmy: "Yesterday, the surveillance team found that Jesse Pinkman was picked up by someone. I followed the direction they moved and found Gus's laundry factory in the direction they left. You know, a lot of chemicals are used in a laundry factory, and the smell is not good. Is it possible that the purification equipment you found is in the laundry factory?"

Hank shook his head. "No, that's air purification equipment used in large factories or laboratories. Laundries don't need it at all. But are you sure that guy went to the laundry?"

Jimmy: "No, it's just that direction is connected to Gus's factory. Miguel helped me investigate Gus's companies before. He just bought that factory a few years ago. You know, he was in the catering business before. He suddenly crossed over to open a laundry factory. It can't be that he is washing clothes for the employees of his dozen stores..."

Hank looked expressionlessly at the map Jimmy had marked on the table, "Are these all his?"

Jimmy: "I have only roughly confirmed the locations, and only his factory and store. I haven't visited his home yet. I'm worried about alarming him."

Hank: "What do you think?"

Jimmy: "I need a few reliable people to watch these places from a distance. They can't get close to them or have any communication with them. They are only responsible for taking pictures."

Hank frowned, "Are you worried about the others?"

Jimmy: "You two are the only ones I know here... Just in time, Steven, are you feeling better?"

Gomez was shot and can only barely leave the hospital now. After all, this is a case, and remote video and the like are too easy for people to discover clues, so it is better to talk face to face.

Jimmy told him his discovery again, and Gomez looked at Hank: "Hank, what do you say?"

Hank: "OK, give me some time."

After thinking for a while, Hank signaled Jimmy to close the door, communicated with Gomez, and called two people over. Together with Miguel, at least for now, they should be more reliable.

Jimmy sent Hank and Gomez out of the meeting room, and looked at the two people in front of him with a sigh. Hank has been an old agent for many years, and it is so difficult for him to find a few absolutely reliable brothers. They deserved their bad luck.

Jimmy was not familiar with them either, so he just took the map and pointed to a few fried chicken shops on it and handed it to them. They had to rely on themselves to get to the key laundry factories and chicken farms. As for Miguel who was on administrative leave, this was relatively simple. He just had to call him and ask him to stay near the nearest fried chicken shop. In fact, he was almost back to work, just two days in advance, so it was not a big problem.

The fact that he shot and killed Tyrus has now been made clear, so Miguel can be reinstated. He just needs to go through a round of psychological intervention, which is not a big deal.

After getting his equipment and having the vehicle management department change his license plate, Jimmy drove to the vicinity of the laundry factory again. This was just a suburb, not an area without residents, so Jimmy parked his car in front of an empty house and just stayed there, taking pictures of the entrance and exit of the laundry factory.

They waited until the afternoon. Jimmy was almost ready to lie down in the car and sleep, when he suddenly saw someone who looked familiar.

"WTF!" Jimmy pulled the seat adjustment switch and sat down, then started the car and followed the car in front of him. He drove and made a phone call, "Hank, what did you say your brother-in-law Walter does?"

Hank: "Oh, now? He just bought a car wash and was a high school chemistry teacher. What's up?"

Jimmy: "Let me think about it. I'll contact you later."

Jimmy followed Walter's car in front of him and left the laundry factory and came to a car wash in the south of the city. He parked the car next to the car wash, got out of the car, stretched his legs, opened the trunk of the car, and moved several cans of Coke onto a small cart. Walter pushed the car into the car wash through the side door.

Jimmy finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he really was working at the car wash, and he was probably just going to drop off and pick up his work clothes to be washed.

Jimmy laughed awkwardly, took out his phone and was about to call Hank, but suddenly stopped.

Something is wrong. Walter just came out of the laundry factory and had been staring at the gate. He had no impression of this car. Theoretically, he should have stayed in the factory for a long time.

Jimmy started the car and drove to the car wash. When he was closer, he could see what was going on inside the store.

Jimmy just sat in the car and stared inside. Although he could only see the outline, the bald and thin man was still easy to recognize. He just watched Walter moving things and working in the store.

The phone rang and Hank's voice came: "What's wrong with Walter?"

Jimmy: "Nothing, I just saw Walter outside a car wash just now, carrying something, and I thought I saw the wrong person."

Hank: "Oh, that's good. Maybe the store is just too busy and he has to move the things himself. OK, let me know if there's any new news."

Jimmy: "No problem. Get some rest."

Jimmy didn't dare tell Hank his guess, because due to the distance problem, he had not been close enough to observe the underground space of the laundry factory. However, he had speculated that there was a laboratory there. The purification equipment that Hank found before was used in the laboratory. Perhaps this laboratory was built by the dead Gail. Then for Walter, who also has superb chemical skills, it seems not impossible for him to work in the laboratory.

You know, it is not difficult to synthesize methamphetamine, but it is difficult to produce high-purity products. Walter is not an ordinary person. Hank once praised him as a chemical genius. If he uses the chemical laboratory equipment prepared by Gail, it should not be a problem for him to make the same product.

Putting these clues together, it seems that when Walter left the laundry before, he might not have been delivering dirty clothes, but was working inside. This can also explain why Jimmy didn't notice Walter entering the laundry before. Maybe he had already entered before Jimmy came.

Jimmy's face looked a little ugly. If his guess was true, then Hank, a senior DEA agent, had a relative who was a drug dealer, and he was also a member of the blue methamphetamine network he had investigated before. No matter how much he explained, he could not eliminate the suspicion on him.

And considering that Hank was attacked by the Salamanca family's killer before, he received a warning call just before the attack. Could it be that it was Walter who made the call?
After all, they are relatives, and the relationship between the two families is very good. If Walter knew that the Salamanca family's killer came to kill Hank, it is not impossible that he would report the news. At the same time, he should not be the boss of the drug trafficking network, which just fits his previous speculation.

Assuming that it was Walt who called to warn Hank, then it is basically certain that he was at odds with the boss of the drug cartel. Maybe it was not for the purpose of seizing control of the gang, but simply because he had lung cancer and didn't have much time left?

Jimmy's mind was about to explode. When he brought all of this into the current speculation, the previously messy clues suddenly had a clear context, and many things could be explained clearly, but this result was exactly what Jimmy was unwilling to believe.

"Miguel, I need you to come back to the office and bring me a copy of the blue methamphetamine-related information you found earlier. ...Well, I'm keeping watch outside, so I just happened to have time to review it. ...Thank you for your hard work. Contact me when you're ready and I'll tell you the location."

Jimmy called Miguel and continued to stare at Walter. He suddenly felt that other clues were no longer important. Maybe he could gain more by staring at Walter.

The car wash closed very early, before it got completely dark and there were no customers, so Walter and Skye had already closed up and gone home.

Jimmy watched the two men get into the car and immediately started following behind. They didn't notice anyone was following them at all and just took Jimmy back to their home.

Jimmy parked outside another empty house nearby. There were a lot of fallen leaves on the ground, and it was obvious that no one had cleaned up the house for some time. Parking here was at least better than on the roadside.

There are four people in Walter's family, but now there are only Walter and Skye in the family, and the two children are not here, which is very strange.

Jimmy frowned and looked around, then got out of the car and walked towards Walter's house. He observed as he walked and found that there were indeed no children in the house, especially his daughter, who was only a few months old. How could she not be at home?
The woman in the room was about to open the door and come out, Jimmy immediately turned around and walked to his car. After a while, the sound of an engine was heard behind him, and Sky drove away from home.

Miguel did not act quickly. These materials were not handled by him and were now piled up in a special meeting room for handling cases. It would take a lot of time to find and copy them all. By the time he contacted Jimmy, it was already very late. Jimmy asked him to go back after delivering the materials. He just sat in the car all night.

In order to avoid being discovered that there was someone in the car, he didn't dare to turn on the lights to look at the information. He could only wait until the next morning to look at it. Fortunately, he could directly see the situation of Walter's family in the house. Skye drove there yesterday to bring their daughter and son back. It seemed that they should be staying somewhere else temporarily. It is not ruled out that they are at Hank's house. After all, they are relatives, so it is normal to let Mary take care of them temporarily.

In the early morning, Jimmy looked up at Walter's family while reading the information. After they left, Jimmy immediately followed Walter. Their destination was indeed Hank's house.

From a distance, Skye and Walter were seen getting out of the car and handing the child over to Mary for care, then they quickly drove away.

The two men came to the car wash, and Jimmy returned to his previous position to watch them. After the car wash started operating, Walter got back in the car and drove straight to the laundry factory.

Jimmy followed behind and watched until Walter entered the laundry and disappeared before passing in front of the laundry. There was no one in the underground laboratory space at the moment, only a few workers were walking around and working in the laundry workshop. It seemed that the underground laboratory was not always in operation. Maybe Walter also needed to wait for others to go down together.

Jimmy came to the location where he had been stalking yesterday again, made sure the current time was recorded in the notebook, and began to stare at the gate to see who would come over next.

(End of this chapter)