Chapter 79: Old Tunnels
Mike: “Do you know any smuggling groups through your connections that could sneak someone out of the city without absolutely anyone knowing?”
Cindy: “The Nighthounds,” she said quickly and flatly.
Mike: “Other than the Nighthounds.”
Cindy: “I mean, any smuggler group could potentially sneak a person out of the city and hide them. But, I take it you’re looking for a particularly proficient group.”
Mike: “Yeah, someone really good. There are wanted posters for Jixi all over Golgatta, yet there has been no sightings of him anywhere. Joe suspects that he might have even left the country.”
Cindy: “If he left the country, then it would have been by boat. He would have gone north to Loffa then.”
Mike: “We checked that already. There were no boats leaving Loffa for another country from today to when Jixi complicity was discovered.”
Cindy: “I don’t know what to tell you then. If the police or university can’t find any trace of him, I have no idea who could have sneaked this guy out. Heck, it sounds like not even those bounty hunters have found him, and those guys are really motivated to find someone when it's such a big bounty. The only group that I know who could do it without being discovered are the Nighthounds.”
Mike: “But, you said you were confident it wasn't them?”