Chapter 86

Joseph heard a woman’s piercing cries and noticed the crowd starting to panic. The carousel quickly stopped because of the loud commotion. Joseph hurried to the gate to meet Quinlyn and held her securely by his side.

At this point, the woman was wailing loudly, and the staff quickly came over to find out what was wrong.

“Joseph, what’s going on?” Quinlyn asked, still not knowing what had happened.

“Her child is missing,” Joseph explained with a sigh. “In large amusement parks like this, if parents aren’t attentive, their kids can easily get lost.”

Some kids eventually found their way back, but most just disappeared.

Quinlyn, hearing this, looked at the woman on the ground, thought for a moment, and walked over to ask. “What does your child look like?”

A crowd gathered to watch, but everyone was in a rush, focused on their own kids, and unwilling to get involved.

“Yes, ma’am, crying won’t help. Why don’t you provide some clues so we can find your child faster,” a staff member kept urging her, thinking she was too fragile to handle things. “If you keep this up, we’ll have to take you to the police station.”

Two security guards’s patience wore thin and reached out to help the woman up to maintain order. As soon as they moved, a card fell out of her pocket.

Quinlyn bent down to pick it up and turned it over to see the words [Greenhill Psychiatric Hospital, Room 302, Janet Suarez] written on it.

“Wait a minute, she’s a patient,” Joseph said, furrowing his brow as he followed behind and stopped the security guard’s rough actions.

“A mental patient who managed to sneak out?” The guard saw the card and sighed in relief, “I guess the story about losing a kid was just made up.” With that, they decided to contact the hospital to come and get her.

But before they could make the call, a young voice spoke up. “She’s not making it up. She has a kid.” Quinlyn grabbed Janet’s hand to show everyone her fingernails.

nails, with cartoon designs.

can’t help her. We should just let her talk to the police,” the guard said, not wanting to get involved in

couldn’t even control herself, finding a child was like a fairy

find them quickly,” Quinlyn insisted. “Let us

but Joseph intervened, slipping them a few hundred dollars. It was only then they gave in, leading the way inside. “Look, here’s the carousel camera. There are so many people;

thought Quinlyn’s request was a waste of time. With thousands of people in and out during the holidays, even if they found Janet’s trace, her

sat down at the computer to start watching

he’d have noticed she was watching it in reverse at super fast quadruple speed. In less than a minute, she

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when the screen paused. “She’s definitely holding a little boy, but with the hoodie

or four boys in the same hoodie, and all the earlier footage

Their detective team might have a profiler who can sketch the kid’s

shook her head. “That’s too slow,” she said and turned to Janet, speaking

by the question, and then suddenly her eyes

up, walked over, grabbed Janet’s shoulders, and locked eyes with her, intense and steady. “Tell me

actually started recalling. “Quinton has dimples, eyebrows most

quickly grabbed the security registration book by her side and began to sketch with a pen.

welled up in her eyes as she

drawing back, snapped a photo of it, and uploaded it to the computer. Then, she hacked into the amusement park’s surveillance system to run

the drawing back to the crying Janet. As he looked at the familiar art style, he realized it was in the style of the storybook he had taken Quinlyn to see

Quinlyn kept flipping through it. Little did he know that just from seeing it once, she

the sketch was uploaded and processed by AI, it became a real photo. Quinlyn quickly spotted the boy’s trail near

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