Chapter 172: Muddy the Waters
The church shook its head, not sure of his judgment, just staring at the video.
Seeing this, Eders did not disturb the church, but only instructed the security personnel to reduce the playback speed several times, and by the time William walked to the back of the car, the picture had slowed down more than ten times.
Fortunately, William has storage space, and he has only stood in the back of the car for 2 seconds, and there is no picture of him touching or holding the declaration in the video, which makes the church very distressed, is his judgment wrong?
Cedes asked anxiously, "Did you find a clue?"
The church looked at William with a calm face, and from his face he couldn't see any uneasiness and panic at all, he could only shake his head with Cedes, "No."
This disappointed Sedes, who complained loudly to his subordinates: "Why didn't our Secret Service receive any clues or information beforehand, you are derelict in your duties."
At this time, a special agent looked hesitant, and Eders stared at the other party after hearing it and asked directly, "Agent Hunter, what do you have to say?"
Hunter's face was full of nervousness, and he stammered a little when he spoke, "That, that, I and we really seem to have received a call the day before yesterday that someone was coming to steal the declaration of the founding of the country."
When Cedes heard this, he happily asked, "Do you have any information about the whistleblower?"
"I'm sorry, sir, we thought it was nonsense, so, we didn't build a file," Hunter stammered.
Edus was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, "Do you still think it's nonsense, idiot, don't tell me you only have this bit of news to tell me, if you lie and hide what I found out, I will definitely put you in the blackest prison."
Hunter heard that his head was already sweating, and said in a panic: "This is the person who called the police", Hunter pointed to Ben Gates in the video.
Cedes grabbed Hunter's arm and "continued".
"Ben Gates and another man came to the police and said that there was a gang of Englishmen named Ian who would steal the Declaration of Statehood."
"Wait, Englishman," Said said, turning to William, "is this your man?
"Wow, NO, NO, I don't know them, these people are the same as Ben Gates, I didn't know them before."
Surprised, Eddes asked, "What, Ben Gates has been in contact with those people before?"
There was a chance to confuse the public, and William immediately spoke: "Of course, that guy named Ian is Ben Gates's patron, I heard Riley say that they have been together for two years, and you may be able to find out something from this."
Cedes nodded and said to his subordinates: "Hear, I want to know anything about Ben Gates in the past few years, or check his address and his immediate family for me immediately."
A female agent on the side hurriedly said: "We have found Ben Gates's address, we have sent someone to check, and there will be news in a few minutes."
When Sedes heard this, he hurriedly shouted: "Wait, if Ben Gates has other accomplices, then the agents who go to check will be in danger, call the special operations to go, and we will rush over."
Everyone thought to themselves, yes, if Ian and those people were also at Ben Gates' house, it would really be very dangerous for a few agents to arrest people, "I understand, I'll call the people from the special operations team to go."
As they were about to go to Ben Gates' house, William suddenly said to Cedes, "Can I go to the bathroom? You know, the evening is a drinking party, and I drank a lot of champagne."
"Robt and Caesar, you two follow Mr. Devon Hill to the bathroom, follow him every step of the way, and find someone to check on Mr. Devon Hill to see if he has anything hidden on him that we don't know," Edus commanded.
After instructing his subordinate Eddes to say to William, "You only have two minutes, William, we will wait for you in the hall, hurry".
Agent Caesar checked William's whole body with the instrument a few times and nodded to Cedes, indicating that it was okay, Cedes hummed, and William went to the bathroom accompanied by the two agents.
Walking into the bathroom, the two detectives also specially checked the partition before letting William in, standing at the door of the partition and staring at William.
"God, you don't want to look at me, man, you've all checked this partition, for God's sake, don't be so perverted, Cedes only gave me 2 minutes, gentlemen, I don't have much time, if you're late you explain to Cedes."
Caesar and the two had to turn around, and William closed the partition and took out a spare cell phone from the storage space to send a text message to John Wick, who had been following Ben Gates.
William had been thinking about a solution since he saw the church, and now there was not much time to do it, so he could only let John Wick snatch the replica from Ben Gates's hand first, and mix up the water first to buy him some time.
After sending the text message, William didn't care if John Wick couldn't reply to the text message, put the phone on silent and threw it directly into the storage space, and after washing his hands, William hurried to Ben Gates's house with everyone.
More than ten minutes later, Cedes hurried to Ben Gates' home in Washington with his men and William, and a pair of heavily armed special operations teams were already waiting downstairs.
After Edus instructed him to pay attention to the matters and the situation, the team of 12 people slowly touched it according to the code of conduct, and a few minutes later, the intercom in the church next to William came from the intercom with the voice of "safety".
The church secretly cursed 'Hell', it seems that Ben Gates and they are not here.
followed the church into Ben Gates' house, and as soon as he entered the door, William screamed, "Look what this is, it seems that this guy Ben Gates is really trying to steal the declaration of the founding of the country,
Look, this guy even has the detection equipment and environment ready, the dust-free environment, the EDS equipment, the air particulate filtration system, well, and what is this? Lemon?".
William looked at Lemon a little confused, and suddenly understood, "Ha, this guy Ben Gates is really talented, he actually thought of using citric acid as a method."
The surrounding agents were looking at Lemon in confusion, and they all looked at him curiously when they heard William's words.
William didn't sell it, and said with a smile: "What is the founding declaration written in?"
The church thought about it and said, "It should be parchment."
"That's right, more than 200 years ago, parchment paper was soaked in lime water to remove hair and fat during the production process, lime water is alkaline, and lemon can neutralize the alkalinity on the parchment paper, as long as it is heated on the parchment paper again, the hidden secrets on the parchment paper can be revealed, Ben Gates is really talented, this method is simple and does not damage the paper."
William looked at Lily, the only female agent in the group, who was picking up a stack of papers with gloves on, and asked curiously, "What are these?"