Chapter 980 In Hawaii (Part 7)
"Jack, are you going to deal with the bad guys with your dad?" Grace looked up at Jack with her innocent little face.
Jack pinched her chubby cheeks and it felt great. Now he understood Danny somewhat. Protecting one's own cubs is an instinct deeply embedded in the genes of every normal human being, especially when someone like this is trying to trick you into giving birth. The templates from the Daughter series are so cute that they are so adorable.
"Yes, can I play with you when I come back?" Jack and Grace hooked their fingers, smiled and nodded to Rachel, and quickly returned to their room.
He really didn't bring any equipment with him on this vacation. Apart from a spare magazine and not even extra bullets, he did prepare a lot of toilet water, cooling oil and DEET.
Stuffing the Type 83 kettle and two bottles of purified water that had not been used for a long time into a backpack, Jack went downstairs and waited at the door of the hotel for less than three minutes when he saw Danny's Camaro arriving in a hurry.
"Where are your other colleagues?" Jack got into the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt.
"Cheng Hao and Kono went to meet up with HPD. The two missing police officers are their people." Danny stepped on the accelerator and drove the car toward the highway anxiously.
"You, the FBI, hid the witness in a safe house in Kahuku, a very remote location."
"Yes, an abandoned sugar cane farm." While the two were talking, Jack's cell phone kept ringing, and Alice, who was already in New York, was sending pieces of compiled information.
"The defendant is Allen Brenner, an important member of the Baja drug cartel, responsible for the entire sales network, and Julie Master is currently the only witness. According to the prosecutor, this is also the only one they can currently identify first. Chances of sending the other person to jail.”
Jack quickly flipped through the information and briefly explained the situation to Danny.
"I don't quite understand what the FBI is thinking. Kahuku is deep in the area and is close to the tropical jungle. There is not even a mobile phone signal there. Isn't it good to let the witness stay in a hotel?"
Danny complained with a headache.
"The detective responsible for protecting him has a satellite phone, but it is currently out of contact. According to the local office, due to the experiences of the previous witnesses, they were not allowed to use this safe house away from the crowd."
Jack showed several bloody photos to Danny on his mobile phone, "These are the fates of witnesses who once wanted to accuse the Baja drug cartel. They are not afraid of assassinations in broad daylight, and they don't care about collateral damage."
"Then how did this Julie Master get involved with the drug cartel?"
After driving onto the highway, Danny kept overtaking other cars. He slowed down slightly until he reached an on-ramp. He opened the window and reached out to make a gesture. A dark blue Ford F150 with its police lights flashing followed along with two HPD police cars. .
Jack looked out the window. Kono was driving, and Cheng Hao sat in the passenger seat and waved to them.
"She used to be an accountant for an import-export trading company in Honolulu, and that company was actually a link in the drug sales network spun by Ellen Brenner.
According to the information, one night a dock worker was packing boxes for a container ship and accidentally discovered some "special cargo" hidden inside. "
"Poisonous?" Danny was not surprised at all. He had heard too many similar stories.
"Well, cocaine. Alan Brenner, who was at the scene, killed the dock worker with his own hands, but was accidentally bumped into by Julie Master. He tried to silence him, but the girl ran away."
At this point, Jack sighed, "A very smart and brave girl. Before she was found by the FBI, she escaped to New York alone."
"Very beautiful too." Danny turned his head and glanced at the enlarged photo on Jack's phone.
"Hopefully they're okay, otherwise things are going to be in trouble and if the girl doesn't get to the Honolulu courthouse by 5pm today, the judge will have to grant bail to Ellen Bremner."
Jack was in a bad mood. It was originally a simple escort mission, just to send the girl back to New York after the trial, but now it has become a rescue and limited-time escort, and it is still on Oahu, a tropical island where he is unfamiliar.
Soon the convoy got off the highway and drove on a winding road along the coastline. Finally, it turned onto a small road, and the asphalt road disappeared and was replaced by a bumpy gravel road.
The Hawaiian Islands are a famous volcanic activity area in the Pacific. All islands here, including Oahu, were formed by volcanic eruptions in the Pacific crustal fault zone.
Therefore, even Oahu, the most populous island, has extremely rugged terrain. The island has a total area of less than 1,600 square kilometers and has two long mountain ranges. The highest peak, Mount Kahala, has an altitude of 1,228 meters.
Kahuku is located at the northernmost tip of Oahu, while Honolulu is at the southernmost tip. The straight-line distance between the two is only more than 40 kilometers.
However, the group of people drove along the coastline road for nearly an hour, and after half an hour of bumpy roads, they finally came across a somewhat dilapidated farm.
There should have been some wire fences around the farm, but because of the lush plants climbing up, the original appearance was completely unclear.
However, it can be seen that someone has been maintaining this place. Except for a wooden house that looks a bit like a stilt house, some fruit trees are sparsely planted in the open space in front of the house, and the weeds are also very clean.
"Stop!" Danny stopped the car as soon as he drove into the farm, feeling that the situation was not good.
I saw an unmarked car and an HPD police car parked one behind the other in the open space in front of the house. A person could be vaguely seen lying backward in front of the car.
Jack got out of the car, pulled out his sidearm, and said to Danny, "Let the HPD officers find cover and guard the intersection. Let's go over and take a look."
The F150 stopped behind them. Seeing that the two men had guns in their hands, Cheng Hao took a lever-action shotgun from the back seat and followed, "I'll cover you!"
Jack bent over, trying to avoid the shooting line in the direction of the cabin, and trotted towards the position of the fallen man.
"Who is this?" Cheng Hao squatted next to the car and pointed the shotgun at the wooden house. Danny and Kono squatted at the back of the car.
The man who fell to the ground was an old white man in his fifties or sixties. He was wearing a white shirt and a very old-school sling-type gun holster. He had a Glock 17 in his hand.
"It was supposed to be our person, but he is no longer alive. He is still alive?!"
The old FBI was shot once in the chest and abdomen. The blood had already soaked the grass beneath him. There was no visible rise and fall in his chest. There were even unknown insects that smelled of blood flying around him.
But when Jack reached out and touched his carotid artery, he felt an extremely weak pulse.