Chapter 788 News of Black Opal (1/2)
Chapter 788: News of Black Opal
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
November 23, 1973, was the day Benson Selberg last saw his wife, Jennifer, leave the house. At that point in time, he thought that she had gone back to her parents' house.
However, when Jennifer's parents had not seen her after five days, and she could not be contacted, the police were called.
In 1979, the police categorized Jennifer's case as a major missing persons case. To this day, Jennifer's missing case report was still on the main page of the National Missing Persons Coordination Center's website.
As their children's pictures were placed together with Jennifer's, the parents, who had been closely monitoring the National Missing Persons Coordination Center's website daily for the past few days, knew who Jennifer was and hence, knew who Benson was after hearing his words.
According to the standard procedure of the National Missing Persons Coordination Center, a person who had been missing for more than three months would be listed as a long-term missing person.
Benson opened up the laptop in the lounge and logged onto the National Missing Persons Coordination Center website to let Li Du and the others have a look at the information.
There were a lot of pictures posted on the website's main page. It was a harrowing experience to see that the main page was filled up with pictures of people who had been missing for several years or even decades!
The police in Australia offered rewards for those missing person cases. Each year during the months of March and October, the police would collate information on the missing people, create posters, and send them to various states' police stations to be put up in public areas.
The pictures in Benson's possession were taken from public areas.
Feeling very helpless, Lu Guan told Benson, ”Sorry sir, I really want to help you. However, truth be told, I am not that capable.”
”Don't you have powers? You managed to find those children. Could you please help me find my wife?” Benson interrupted him anxiously.
With an anticipatory look on his face, the old man stared wide-eyed at Lu Guan.
Lu Guan mumbled, ”D*mn it, I really regret having accepted those descriptions that the police had made up for me. What powers do I have?”
Just as Adrian had said earlier, it was not easy being a hero.
As Benson had spent half of his life searching for his wife, he had already become a little obsessed with it. At present, his purpose for living was to find his wife. It was this purpose that kept him going.
Without that purpose, he would have most likely already fallen apart.
Li Du noticed this and interrupted Lu Guan when he saw that Lu Guan was about to turn Benson down. ”How about, Mr. Selberg, you give us a picture, and we will try our best to find her. If we are lucky enough to find anything about her, we will definitely notify you.”
After thanking them profusely, the old man took out a stack of pictures. They were very clear and encompassed pictures of Jennifer from the age of 25 to 70. He handed them to Li Du and his group.
When the old man left, Lu Guan asked helplessly, ”Boss, how can we help him?”
As Adrian understood the reason behind Li Du's actions, he replied, ”This is helping him. If you were to tell him that you were unable to help him, you would make him despair.”
Having just experienced exactly that in the past few days, the three parents nodded simultaneously.
While looking at the pictures, Sophie wondered, ”According to what Mr. Howard has said, Mrs. Jennifer Selberg went missing soon after getting married. Why then does the stack of pictures include pictures of her up through her 70's?”
Adrian and the other parents began explaining to Li Du and the rest that this was one of the advanced technologies Australia used for finding missing people.
It was common knowledge that when someone had gone missing for a long period of time, their faces would have definitely undergone significant changes compared to when they had gone missing.