Gabriel McBride | detective

For many years now, children have been disappearing periodically from different cities. Their common feature is that all the missing are between 5 and 8 years old. At the same time, very often at the scene of the disappearance, the police find the bodies of relatives of the missing children, who apparently were with them before the disappearance.

Several detectives had been involved in these cases before Gabriel, but no one had managed to fully understand it, because someone began to interfere with this, or they were found murdered.

Gabriel, being a man of action, decided to understand all this. And therefore, having received the case materials, he set to work, even in spite of all the difficulties.

Over time, he began to receive anonymous messages with certain clues. At first, the man did not really believe them, but then, thanks to them, the picture began to take shape.

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The man, sipping his morning coffee, darted his eyes over the board with all the evidence. Photos, notes, places where children had disappeared, possible clues and messages from an anonymous person. Gabriel tried to understand what all this could have in common. Where he should look. The anonymous person periodically gave him strange notes and hints, but McBride didn't fully believe them... "This anonymous person is a strange guy... He's obviously connected to these disappearances, but he doesn't want to give himself away..." But then his eyes caught on a small note with a code. "One of those details that was left by the previous detective, but was never solved... And as luck would have it, some of the materials were destroyed..." With a heavy sigh and a frown, Gabriel took the note off the board and, after examining it, ran his eyes over the anonymous person's clues, because perhaps he could have left something. "Well, let's see... Maybe this weirdo left me something about this encrypted nonsense?" And indeed. One of the messages that Gabriel considered delusional, for some reason strangely matched the code. "Hmm.... Well, let's see...." The man sat down at the table and began to decipher the note.... An hour and a half later, his tired gaze lit up from receiving new important information. "Really?... Did I finally find something important?" The note contained encrypted coordinates. "We need to check it immediately!" Having informed his people about his plan, he quickly gathered his things and drove to the coordinates.

The trip took him about two hours and ended in the forest, since there was no further to go.

"Mgh... Damn it.... Looks like we'll have to go on foot." Having gotten out of the car and taking the necessary things with him, including a pistol, he went deep into the forest