Chapter 565: It's almost certainly him
Ten of America's most powerful leaders today are watching CNN's CNN broadcast of the killing of CIA Director Leon Panetta, which the killer sold to major television stations around the world.
When everyone in the house saw the killer put away Leon Panetta's mobile phone, wallet and notebook, the sound of Leon Panetta's bodyguard banging on the door sounded outside the hotel room, just when everyone thought that the video screen was over, they didn't expect the killer in the picture to speak, and he didn't speak English, only to hear the killer say: "Director Leon, I'll give you a pair of elegiac couplets for free, the upper link is: It's not a pity to die, and the lower link: It's more than innocent to die." Horizontal batch: 10,000 years of stench. β
At this point, the TV screen went completely black, and President ObaNiu said: "That killer just now spoke Chinese, right? Hurry up and find a Chinese language expert to translate, I want to know what he said in the end?"
FBI Director Robert Miller picked up the phone on the table and called, and five minutes later a young woman in her thirties came in, who should be Asian in appearance, with yellow skin and black eyes. Robert Miller said: "This is a teacher in the Chinese Department of Columbia University, Chinese name: Ma Jing, English name: Laura. Then he looked at the female teacher, "Laura, please translate the meaning of those words to all of you, please!"
Laura first briefly explained the Chinese couplet culture, and then carefully translated the last words of the killer just now, and finally explained that this kind of couplet is usually used for ancient Chinese traitors and evildoers, and it is not the kind of national hatred and family feud that does not need such cruel words. With that, she stood quietly in a corner of the office.
"Laura, what do you think of this person's Chinese skills?" asked Mark Canton, acting director of the CIA.
"I personally think this should be a native Chinese, his Mandarin is very standard, and has a deep understanding of Chinese culture, at least also Southeast Asians living in the Greater China area, Europeans and Americans through the day after learning to speak such a standard Mandarin is very difficult, almost impossible, and will not understand the meaning of this linkage, can not speak that context." β
Seeing that no one wanted to ask questions anymore, Robert Miller said, "Thank you Laura, it's okay, you can go." Laura nodded and exited the room.
After seeing the female Chinese teacher go out, President Oba Niu said: "Let's talk about it, what do you think?"
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, who is second only to President Obama in this room, said with righteous indignation: "I think this is a slap in the face of the U.S. government, no matter who or organization, even the government of a certain country instigates it, it must not be tolerated." Now Leon's death can no longer be described as an assassination, since this person dares to release the video to television and the media, it has already shown that he is openly provoking the US government and openly shooting senior US government military officials, this is a signal of war, I think we should go all out to investigate, we must use actions to give the people an explanation, otherwise the face of the US government will be lost. β
In fact, what she just said was the same as what she didn't say, it has no practical meaning at all, it's all false, big, and empty words, everyone will say it, and then the two heads of the FBI and the Department of Defense have stated that they will do their best to investigate the matter, and the acting director of the CIA, Mark, also said that he would send all agents to track down suspicious people.
Finally, Oba Niu looked at Hillary next to him, "Hillary, do you have any good comments or suggestions?"
"Before I say what I think, I want to know how much this video costs to sell to a TV station. Clinton looked at White House Chief of Staff Peter Law, who was sitting at the head of the conference table, because he had just called about it.
"Every TV station and website that got the video paid a million dollars. β
"Has the receiving account been checked?" Hillary asked.
"It has been checked, it is the account of a missing citizen, it has not been activated for a long time, and the money was quickly transferred after the account was credited. β
"That means the money is missing!" Clinton said, a little upset.
"Yes, it does!" said White House chief of staff Pete Laws, shrugging his shoulders.
"How much money has been put into the account, have you checked it?" asked Hillary.
"I checked it, and a total of 226 million were transferred. β
"That means 226 TV stations and websites around the world have bought this video, and the video is still selling well! Hmph!" Mrs. Clinton said.
"Hillary, what do you want to say?" Oba, who was sitting next to him, asked a little unhappily, he should have asked these words just now, but now he has asked the old lady to finish, whether you are the president or I am the president, so he is a little unhappy.
Hillary Clinton ignored Oba's angry attitude and said directly: "I still stick to my point of view, and seriously doubt that Leon Panetta's death was done by someone or organization instructed by the Chinese star Zheng Xudong, and even I think it is likely that he himself did it, my opinion is to let the CIA people stare at him, and as long as he shows clues, he will be secretly arrested immediately, and he will be arrested in the United States for trial or simply executed in secret." In any case, the U.S. government cannot allow a CIA director to die in office for no apparent reason. Her words were so powerful that everyone in the room looked at them.
"According to our investigation, Zheng Xudong has no military training, Hillary, do you think he is the one who did it directly, is there any basis?" asked FBI Director Robert Miller, who was sitting diagonally across from Hillary.
"Hehe! It looks like the quality of your FBI investigators is getting worse and worse!" Hillary said mockingly.
"You... FBI Director Robert Miller pointed his hand at Hillary Clinton who was about to speak, and President Obama, who was sitting at the top, said, "Okay, stop arguing! Hillary, make it clear, everyone here wants to know." β
Hillary gave Robert Miller a blank look and said, "I have two pieces of hard evidence. She paused deliberately, and sure enough, all eyes were on her.
"Oh, don't sell it, let's hear it!" said Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Hillary enjoyed everyone's gaze for a while, then cleared her throat and continued: "First, Zheng Xudong went to Texas for the second stop after arriving in the United States. β
"What's wrong with traveling to Texas!?" said FBI Director Robert Miller, echoing Hillary's mockery of him.
"There's nothing wrong with traveling to Texas, of course, but do you know where he went?" He went to the most famous militia training camp in Texas or the most famous militia in the United States, according to the information I received, he received firearms training in the training camp, including sniper rifle training, although the time is not long, but as far as I know, his shooting performance can be described as perverted, whether it is a pistol or a rifle is a hundred shots, sniper rifles are not a problem, if you hit a target of more than a thousand meters, I dare not say, but he is definitely more than enough to hit the torso, you just watched the video, Leon was hit in the abdomenοΌβ
Everyone nodded when they heard what Hillary said, and it seemed that they really didn't have this information.
"And what about the second piece of evidence?" asked President Obama at this point.
"Who of you knows that there's a famous club on the outskirts of New York that specializes in shooting for gun enthusiasts. Hillary asked.
"I know. Attorney General Eric Holden, who had not spoken in the conference room, said: "It was run by a rich kid from the United Arab Emirates, called the Lazag IPSC Shooting Club, and I went to play there, and the people who went there were really professional, no worse than the military police in our country." β
"Yes, there it is. Do you remember some time ago when the Indian Defence Minister sent his son to secretly contact us to buy arms?"
"How does this have anything to do with India's arms purchases?" asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates in surprise.
"Well, according to the information I received, the son of the Indian Defense Minister, oops, what is the name, it doesn't matter, that day he was in that club and five other club members to play IPSC together, this game happened to be Zheng Xudong was also present, and he personally participated in it, guess what, what is his rank?" Hillary sold another pass at this time.
"It's not going to be number one, is it?!I know it's going to be a hard game!" said Attorney General Eric Holden.
"Erik, you're right!"
"Ahh
"Yes, not only first, in fact, he played two games that day, and he also made a bet with the son of the Indian defense minister, Zheng Xudong was the first in both games, and he won a total of 22.5 million US dollars for the second generation of Indian officials. β
Hearing that Zheng Xudong won more than 20 million US dollars in the IPSC shooting competition, everyone present opened their mouths in shock.
Hillary continued: "As far as I know, there are several American shooting enthusiasts who participated, and the shooting level of those shooting enthusiasts I dare to say is at least the level of ordinary special forces, so I say that Leon's death is likely to be done by Zheng Xudong himself." Seeing that everyone at the scene began to agree with her point of view, Hillary continued: "In fact, some time ago, Leon sent the killers of the CIA operation team to kill Zheng Xudong, but the killers of these action teams are all missing, and they were all tortured before the disappearance, I listened to the recording played by Zheng Xudong at Wendi Deng's house, and I suspected that it was probably this young man who personally arrested them. And then kill the operatives! At the time, we all thought he was just a minor, with no military training, but we were all deceived by his appearance, he was not only trained in the military, but he was also a master!"
"Okay, we now admit that Zheng Xudong is a master shooter and has the ability to snipe and kill Leon, but Hillary, don't forget, just now we went to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in TJ, China to investigate him, and that was two hours after the crime, how do you explain the problem that he appeared at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Chinese city of TJ more than 10,000 kilometers away two hours after the crime?" FBI Director Robert Miller asked with a sneer.
"This... β