Chapter 137 Trust
Colonel?
Is this bombing related to the military?
No wonder Gillian was so surprised when she heard the name "Saeva". A colonel is already a very big leader. According to the US military rank system, the next higher level is a brigadier general. If this colonel serves as a certain In important positions, the power may be very great.
Military, arms, terrorists, Volut...
Gu Ji connected the information points one after another and seemed to be about to find out the truth of the matter.
At this time, Jillian and Jamie also followed from behind.
Gillian couldn't help but look embarrassed when she learned that the female thug demanded that "Saeva Mittal" must be present.
Fortunately, a moment later, good news came from both HRT teams one and two.
The thugs who fled into the mall were killed, and the sniper was captured alive by the second team. The suspect used a Mk-13 sniper rifle, firing .300 Winchester Magnum high-power bullets. No wonder he could hit his head with one shot. Into blood mist.
Gu Ji pursed his lips when he heard that the sniper was killed.
"In this situation, the colonel must come forward to stabilize the female thug. Her accomplices have been shot and killed one after another, and the negotiator is also dead. No one is communicating now. The other party may feel panic and detonate the bomb at any time. I will go first. Drag it for a while and take a look at the structure of the bomb!"
"etc……"
Jillian wanted to call him to stop, but it was too late. Gu Ji had already stood up to attract the attention of the female thug. She could only take off Jamie's tactical earphones and handed them to Gu Ji, "Always follow my orders!"
Gu Ji nodded, took the headphones and walked towards the BMW X5 where the female thug was.
Looking at his back, Jillian pressed the intercom:
"Command Center! This is Gillian. The situation on the scene is basically under control, but the thugs have kidnapped Colonel Saeva's son. The requirement is that the colonel must come to the scene in person. Right, what? The colonel has already left the Quantico base..."
at the same time.
Gu Ji slowly walked out from behind the explosion-proof vehicle, first spreading his palms to indicate that he was not a threat.
In the rear compartment.
On the right is a young white man wearing a dark blue suit and a brown back. 20 kilograms of C4 high explosives are tied to his body with a wire rope. His face is pale, foam is piled up to his mouth, and he is out of breath. His legs Trembling uncontrollably, it was the fund manager Laald.
And next to him was a woman in her twenties, seventy-eight years old, gray-green casual clothes, brown skin, and three-dimensional facial features. She was the female thug who was injured by Gu Ji before.
The wound continued to ooze blood and had stained her entire shoulder red.
The pain and excessive blood loss made her look a little haggard, but even so, she still did not give up the detonator in her left hand, and her eyes were always staring at the surroundings fiercely, like a female leopard ready to fight at any time.
"Don't be nervous, I just want to talk to you."
Gu Ji pulled out the pistol from his waist, pointed the gun out, slowly placed it on the ground, and grabbed his trouser pocket to show that there was no weapon inside.
Then, he began to slowly approach the female thug, secretly sizing up the detonator in her hand, and calculating the possibilities of various close attacks, but he rejected them all.
Because the female thug's thumb is always pre-pressed on the button.
The detonator is directly connected to the bomb circuit mainboard through lines, which means it does not have any signal delay.
Unless Gu Ji can kill the opponent at a speed that exceeds the limit of human reaction, at any chance, the female thug will immediately press the detonator, and then everyone within two to three hundred meters will be GG!
"We have contacted Colonel Saeva according to your request. He will be there soon, but your injury is very serious. If you are willing, I can ask the emergency personnel to help you briefly treat the wound!"
"Aren't all my injuries caused by you? Safro Barron!"
Just when he tried to use wound treatment to distract the female thug, he didn't expect that the other party suddenly grinned and showed an extremely weird smile, like a predator seeing its prey.
Gu Ji's eyelids twitched.
The female thug lowered her left hand holding the detonator slightly.
"I originally thought you were just a trash gangster, but I didn't expect you to have so many hidden skills. Did you learn it from your Marine Corps father?"
"So you are the one who says 'art requires cruelty'."
Gu Ji always felt that the second half of the sentence seemed familiar. He recalled carefully and then remembered that the bomber had also posted a similar barrage in the live broadcast room.
Now it seems that the bomber's performance in the live broadcast was very emotional and indeed more like a woman.
Because the limbic system of the female brain is larger and more active, and the limbic system is the center that mainly regulates emotions, the inferior parietal lobe of men is larger, which controls computing power. This also proves that men are more rational and women are more affected by emotions. .
Could she be the mastermind of the bombing?
There were a total of six soldiers in the group photo. They watched the terrorists being killed one by one by the HRT special police. Except for the last one who did not show up, the only one left was the female thug in front of him.
Identifying the mastermind isn't just about completing side quests.
It is more related to the direction of Gu Ji's next negotiations.
As the leader of the case, he will certainly not be persuaded as easily as the accomplices.
Perhaps the female thug had already had a death mentality in her heart. She just waited for Colonel Saeva to arrive on the scene, detonated the bomb and died together.
The female thug made no excuses.
"You are quite smart."
"If I weren't smart, I wouldn't be alive now, and I wouldn't be able to help you cause such a big sensation. Now that your goal has been achieved, media around the world are rushing to report the news of the explosion. Maybe we can talk calmly. Let’s talk.”
Gu Ji borrowed the approach of the negotiator just now and tried to guide the female thug to speak.
On the one hand, it can delay time, and on the other hand, it can take the opportunity to obtain some information behind the case.
The female thug lowered her head and pursed her lips, then laughed out loud, with a ferocious look in her eyes.
"Hehehe, let's talk? What's there to talk about?"
"Don't be nervous, just talk casually. You can talk about anything you want, your name, your wishes, your friends, or your family..."
When Gu Ji mentioned the word "family," the female thug's pupils shrank visibly, so he struck while the iron was hot.
"I wonder if your family will see the news about the bombing now..."
"No, they are all gone."
The female thug's expression was silent, her eyes full of sadness, but soon turned into anger, and she clenched the detonator in her hand, scaring Lord next to her almost to the point of fainting.
She is seeking revenge for her family...
So, the other thugs are there for their teammates?
Gu Ji thought for a moment and suddenly said:
"Is that the one in the photo?"
"What picture?"
"It's the photo I found in the taxi. If you don't mind, I can take it out. Do you agree? I'll take it now..."
Seeing that the other party did not deny it, Gu Ji slowly put his hand into his trouser pocket, first exposed a corner of his cell phone to show that it was not a weapon, then slowly took out the cell phone, drew out the military photo, and showed it in front of the female thug.
The moment she saw the photo, the female thug finally couldn't help it.
She was shaking all over, and tears were rolling in her eyes, which were wet and red.
It turns out the last person in the photo is dead.
Gu Ji felt as if he had grasped the key.
"He is your brother? How did your brother..."
"This has nothing to do with you! Why hasn't Saeva shown up yet? Get this treacherous old fox over here immediately!! I will wait for him for another ten minutes. When the time is up, I will detonate the bomb immediately and let him taste the loss." The pain of loved ones!”
"Hey! Hey! Don't get excited! The colonel will definitely come."
Gu Ji stretched out his hand to calm the female thug's emotions. At this time, Jillian's voice came from the tactical earphones, "Colonel Saeva rushed to New York on UH-1Y an hour ago, and it is expected to be 10 minutes away. Arriving at the scene, we are communicating with the pilot, Jamie, go check the identity of Pegg's family immediately..."
Departing an hour ago?
How could he know in advance that his son had been kidnapped?
However, the aircraft model gave Gu Ji the answer. The full name of UH-1Y is UH-1Y Venom helicopter, also known as Super Huey. It is an upgraded and improved version of the American UH-1 helicopter and is a special model of the Marine Corps.
Then Saeva is most likely a colonel in the Marine Corps.
Combined with thug status.
Proving the relationship between the two parties must not be simple.
Lauder's phone number should be the same as "Barron's". It had been monitored by terrorists for a long time and Saeva could not be contacted, so he rushed over by helicopter in advance.
"I just received news that the colonel is on his way to board a flight and will arrive soon."
After Gu Ji said these words, Lauder's originally frightened eyes suddenly burst into a flash of survival light.
He chose to ignore it and continued: "We were just chatting. You don't have to be so hostile to me. Besides, in the Volut R\u0026D Center, you said that if I dismantle your bomb, you would answer a question for me. Have you forgotten?"
"I didn't forget, what did you want to ask?"
"Why on earth did Volut's security kill me as soon as we met?"
The female thug's expression changed several times, but she finally suppressed the anger in her heart and spoke word by word as if she was making a case statement:
"Actually, your analysis during the live broadcast was correct. Volut's New York branch has been secretly involved in modifying arms and selling them to illegal organizations. The first time we pretended to infiltrate, our operation failed, and we finally managed to break out of the siege, so..."
Am I a scapegoat?
Gu Ji frowned on the surface, but in his heart he had a direction for negotiation.
"So your purpose is to crack down on illegal arms trade? What does that have to do with me, Passion Fruit, and Dizard? Why do you have to involve us?"
"You all think you are innocent? I saw with my own eyes a grandma who was frightened by the anchor's prank and fell to the ground and bled. She is still lying in the hospital. How many times have you and that black man fucked on the streets of Queens? Do you still need me to tell you one by one about the evil deeds of stealing?"
"What about the spectators at the US Open, are they all guilty? And the security guard in the underground parking lot who was shot by you, the tourists in Times Square, the Counter-Terrorism Bureau SWAT officers, and Lord and Saer next to you. watt……"
"enough!!"
The female thug who was choked speechless suddenly yelled. She stared with red bloodshot eyes and thrust the detonator into the face of the hostage Lauder.
"The father and son are the worst! If Saeva hadn't covered up the illegal arms business transactions in order to cover the huge losses of the hedge fund for his good-for-nothing son..."
When they heard the second half of the sentence, the many SWAT officers, FBI agents, and police present all widened their eyes in surprise.
It seems that no one expected that this terrorist bombing attack would also involve a military scandal.
Just when Gu Ji was about to sort out the clues.
There was a sudden vibration of a propeller in the sky behind him.
He glanced sideways.
It was a gray-green medium-sized helicopter carrying an M240D general-purpose machine gun, and it slowly landed in front of the intersection of Times Square.
next moment.
The transport bay door opened, and seven or eight Marines wearing yellow dead leaf camouflage and armed with black M4 rifles jumped out instantly and quickly approached the scene of the terrorist attack.
But Gu Ji did not see any colonel-level officers appear.
After seeing the army soldiers, Lauder shouted at the top of his lungs as if grasping a life-saving straw: "Dad! Save me! Dad——!"
"Shut up! Saeva! Come here now! I want you to apologize to my brother and the dead soldiers in person, and publicly admit the crimes you committed!"
The female thug shouted at the top of her lungs. Veins popped out on the back of her hand holding the detonator, her knuckles turned white, and the tips of her four fingers dug into her palms. It was obvious how angry she was.
In Gu Ji's tactical headset, Jillian was also trying to contact the helicopter console.
About three or four seconds passed.
The radio station finally responded. The voice was that of a middle-aged man, with an unquestionable majesty:
"I am Colonel Saeva of the MAGTF Ground and Air Task Force at Marine Corps Base Quantico. I was ordered by the CE command to conduct a counter-terrorism operation targeting five defected Marines at Camp Quantico. The FBI and NYPD are responsible Cooperate……"
What follows is a murmur.
Saeva probably switched the internal military channel.
Jillian then shouted into the tactical earpiece:
"Barron, the military has decided to set up snipers to kill the target and rescue the hostages. Is the IED bomb detonation environment in the carriage suitable for sniping? If so, take a step back with your right foot."
After listening to the order, Gu Ji did not move his right foot.
It's not that he pities the female thug, but the sniping environment is really too bad.
It has to be said that the female thug’s choice to take the hostage in the trunk of the car was quite clever. Under the cover of the half-open rear tailgate, she could only be seen clearly within ten meters, but her head could not be seen from ten meters away. Ministry of.
If the sniper can't get a headshot with one shot.
There is always a risk that the suspect will squeeze the detonator and detonate the bomb.
"Get Saeva over here right now!"
"Don't get excited. Since you said that the colonel is involved in illegal arms trading, you can report it to your superiors or the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The law will naturally punish them severely. There is no need to use such an extreme situation!"
While Gu Ji opened his mouth to stall for time, his left hand naturally dropped and he hid it quietly behind his back, shaking it twice.
"Report? My brother was assassinated by them just because he reported it. Who can I trust? When you were kidnapped by us and fled across the city, did the New York police ever believe your words?"
The female thug did not accept this trick at all, but became more and more agitated.
"Barron, the military has informed that snipers are in position and has approved a one-shot kill! Barron, what does your gesture mean? Don't shoot the head, but shoot the left arm holding the detonator? Colonel, colonel, on-site personnel assessment Thinking of hitting the arm after the IED bomb situation…”
"Kill with one shot!"
"Colonel..."
"Now I am the commander of the on-site armed operations. All obey my orders. Get your people out of the way immediately!"
In just a moment, Gu Ji's tactical earphones quickly repeated N orders. In addition, the female thug in front of him became more and more agitated, and the pressure from many sides almost drove him insane.
"Colonel! The sniper sight is blocked and there is little chance of killing him with one shot. Shooting the arm seems to be a better choice..."
"I said! Kill with one shot!"
"Barron, get out of the way quickly to avoid being accidentally injured!"
"Tell Saeva to come here immediately and apologize and admit his crime, otherwise I will blow up his son immediately!"
"Dad, save me!"
"Sniper, shoot!"
"Colonel, sight..."
"shot!!"
boom--!
Saeva, the military sniper, Gillian, Lauder, and the female thug, the five of them shouted louder and louder in the tactical earphones, until the moment when many emotions exploded to the extreme, the gunshot .
The blood mist exploded.
The female thug's wrist was broken by a powerful sniper bullet on the spot!
pretty!
Gu Ji's feet worked in vain, and he rushed towards the female thug. He had been waiting for this moment for so long that he had rehearsed it countless times in his mind, and his speed was as fast as a ghost.
At the moment of contact, his hands were like claws, and his five fingers grasped and buckled. But with a sound of "ah", he stopped the female thug who was about to seize the detonator with her injured left arm!
"Block the signal immediately!!"
The counter-terrorism bureau special police stationed nearby reacted quickly. When Gu Ji shouted his first shout, they rushed up with guns and controlled the female thug on the spot. The EOD bomb disposal team also immediately established a signal shield. .
[Side goal: Find and solve the mastermind behind the explosion successfully! 】
The female thug tried her best to twist her body, but she could not resist the force of several special police officers. Her head was pressed to the ground, and she could only shout hysterically:
"Fake! Saeva! Your whole family will go to hell! Go to hell!"
"Dad! Save me! Save me!"
On the complete opposite side, it was Lauder who cried with joy.
Gu Ji was about to step forward to check the bomb circuit board when his ears suddenly heard the sound of rapid footsteps coming from behind, and his body subconsciously swerved to the left, just in time to avoid being grabbed.
He looked back and saw a middle-aged officer wearing a fallen leaf camouflage training uniform.
He is in his forties or fifties, with brown hair. Except for a slightly higher hairline, his facial features are very similar to Lauder.
Colonel Saeva!
Seeing that Gu Ji had not been caught by the collar, Saeva immediately pulled out the pistol from his waist, pointed it at his head and roared:
"Which department do you belong to? Who gave you the courage to hinder military operations!"
"Colonel, I never hindered any operations. I just tried my best to avoid the sacrifice of hostages and police officers. The suspect held the detonator in his left hand. If the view of the head is blocked, hitting the arm is the best solution."
At this point, Gu Ji paused deliberately and looked directly at Saeva.
"But you keep shooting the suspect. Is it to silence him?"
"Fake! You..."
"Colonel! This is an important witness for our FBI! Please don't make a mistake!"
Jillian ran over in a hurry, fearing that Saeva would kill Gu Ji on the spot if she got excited. For this reason, she even did not hesitate to use some threats in her words.
Saeva's face turned green and red, obviously very angry with Gu Ji.
But with so many police around, he didn't dare to have an attack.
"Rescue my son immediately. If he is a little injured, I will definitely call your boss's house!"
"Don't worry, Colonel!"
Jillian called the bomb disposal team, and after removing the bomb circuit casing, Gu Ji also took a look.
Sure enough, as the HRT bomb disposal expert said, it was an integrated circuit.
This is the most complex type of bomb circuit board. One end of the four red and blue wires is connected to the 12V power supply, and the other section is connected to the detonator. Both of them are connected to the integrated circuit. There are two diodes, R1 and R3 connected in parallel on the circuit board. 10Ω resistor, a 1Ω R2 resistor.
In addition, there are two 10uF and one 1000uF capacitors, and at the end are transistors and electronic detonators.
The most complex core of this integrated circuit is the central operational amplifier.
When the forward input voltage is lower than the reverse input voltage, the operational amplifier will only output a very low voltage, which is not enough to detonate the detonator. Otherwise, it will output a high voltage to detonate the detonator.
Resistors of different sizes are used to adjust the voltage values throughout the circuit.
While diodes only allow a single current to flow, large capacitors discharge when external power is lost.
That's right.
In other words, regardless of cutting the detonator or any of the four red and blue wires, the 12V power supply will be cut off, prompting the large capacitor to discharge and detonate the detonator.
The difficulty lies in:
How to find the correct line to cut off, so as to avoid the 12V power supply and large capacitance.
Fortunately, there was outside help at the last level, and the thugs were eliminated before the IED timing mechanism was triggered. Otherwise, Gu Ji simply would not be able to defuse the bomb within five minutes with his current knowledge of explosive disposal.
HRT bomb disposal experts also checked the integrated circuits and believed that the risk of bomb disposal was too great, so they should transfer and destroy them. So they touched all the wire ropes with their fingers and confirmed that there were no hidden wires, pressure sensors, tactile devices, etc. before letting them go. The EOD bomb disposal team snipped them one by one.
After successfully removing the bomb from Lord's body.
This guy was as excited as Sun Wukong who had just escaped from Wuzhishan. He rolled and crawled away from the black X5.
The explosives were transported by the bomb robot to the EOD pit arranged with sandbags, and were demolished using a professional explosive destroyer.
This is what Gu Jiji reminded Gillian early in the morning.
The so-called explosive destroyer is a water cannon, which mainly fires high-speed water flow to decompose explosive devices at close range. It also sprays water bombs through the detonation mechanism. The high-speed water flow can reach 800 meters/second at the fastest, and can directly crush and explode within one meter. Objects, as long as the surface of the explosive is not too hard, it can be decomposed directly.
Accompanied by a "bang" sound.
The 20 kilogram C4 high explosive was instantly torn apart by water bombs.
[Ultimate goal: Completely solve the live broadcast bomb crisis and control the number of casualties to less than 15 people! Success! 】
[Open the hidden goal: Find the reason behind the explosion! 】
In fact, Gu Ji basically has a rough understanding of the explosion case.
This group of thugs are all members of the Marine Corps, and may even be Saeva's direct subordinates. Because the fund managed by Lauder suffered huge losses, they probably did bad things. Saeva had no choice but to collude with the arms dealers and collaborate with Volut to sell, Modified weapons sold to illegal terrorist groups.
After several people found out, they reported it to no avail. Instead, they were labeled as "defectors" by Saeva and were hunted down by the military.
Pegg's death was the trigger for their decision to take revenge.
Unfortunately, Saeva has been living at a military base and has no way to take action.
So they could only shift their target to his son, attack the arms dealer with the mysterious computer, obtain the computer, explosives, and weapons, and then go to New York to set up locations, ambush, threaten, and create today's series of terrorist bombings.
Gu Ji took out his cell phone.
After the EOD bomb disposal team unblocked the signal, they began to investigate recent scandals in the Marine Corps.
As a result, I found one thing:
"On August 2, six Marines at Camp Quantico, Virginia, were arrested by the military on suspicion of smuggling drugs and arms by sea. One of them was shot dead on the spot, and the remaining five are still at large."
Just when Gu Ji was fascinated by it.
Suddenly, the phone vibrated, it was a new email.
He originally planned to skip it, but the words "The Answer You Want" in the title suddenly aroused his curiosity.
Click to take a look.
First, there was a blurry recording. The general idea was that several soldiers were performing tasks on the coast and encountered a logistics merchant ship suspected of smuggling transactions, and the two sides exchanged fire.
After locking in the evidence, the captain reported to his superiors.
And the voice of this boss was none other than Saeva.
"It's just as I guessed..."
As Gu Ji continued to browse, he was instantly startled by all the evidence on the screen, leaving aside the fact that Volut was suspected of illegally selling robots and entrusting PM to secretly transform arms.
From 2021 to 2024, due to poor management, the Marine Corps Quantico Base lost a total of 2,179 automatic rifles, 3,694 pistols, 174 machine guns, 236 grenade launchers, 134 rocket launchers, 75 mortars and 200 shotguns and thousands of kilograms of C4 high explosives were stolen.
There are countless equipment such as body armor, bulletproof helmets, night vision goggles, and gas masks.
There are all kinds of reasons why weapons are stolen, such as the custodian eating out, the door being unlocked, the guard dozing off, the surveillance equipment malfunctioning, etc.
Actually.
These were all contrived by Saeva and several logistics executives, and were sold to illegal terrorist organizations around the world through arms dealers at increased prices. Among them, South American drug lords and terrorist organizations accounted for the most, with a total value of up to 230 million US dollars.
Good guy.
Steal your own goods to feed your enemies!
No wonder the female thug said that the matter was far more serious than I imagined. No wonder Saeva would rather kill six of his men to cover up the illegal transaction.
This crime is too serious. Is it considered treason?
[Hidden goal: Find the reason behind the explosion completed! 】
【Level statistics in progress! 】
Just as Gu Ji hesitated, the Times Square in front of him was gradually covered by a layer of black smoke, and a vast and desolate BGM sounded.
But he wasn't exactly looking forward to the reward settlement.
Instead, a question arises:
Six Marines, the captain was killed, and five other members, four dead and one wounded, even the captain's sister had just been subdued.
That last piece of email evidence.
Who posted it?
I finally got through the most uncomfortable first three days. Now I just have a cracking throat and cough, and the rest is almost healed. The experience I can impart to everyone is to drink more water, drink more water, be sure to drink more water!