"What's the reason?" Finally, the strongman deputy director spoke, so the office fell silent in an instant, and several high-ranking officials all shut up in unison, waiting for Negan's answer.

"It's very simple, as far as we know, the members of the "Shadow" organization have all received special education, so in so many attacks, we haven't been able to catch a single one alive, if this Hou Rui is really a member of the "Shadow", I doubt that we can pry his mouth open, will it still be in vain in the end, and the only result is a corpse. Negan unhurriedly pointed out the difficulties facing the joint investigation team.

"If you say that, then we don't have to do anything!" said a high-ranking official, who had the strongest opposition, and couldn't help but sneer again.

"On the contrary, there are many things we can do, we can follow Jin's advice, release Hou Rui according to the law, and then follow him, if he is really a member of the "shadow" organization, then he will definitely have contact with other members. Of course, Negan does not trust Jin Shanshan unconditionally, but his methods are more roundabout and secretive.

"To put it simply, what if Hou Rui leaves here and disappears completely? It was still the guy who was retorting just now, and the deputy director of the strongman was also happy to see such a situation, and someone asked all the doubts in his heart instead, so that it would be easier for him to make a final decision.

"Yes, it's possible, but it's more valuable than a can't speak corpse, and let's not forget those pesky lawyers, who really have the ability to cause us a lot of trouble. ”

"Hmph, we really want to deal with Mitchell's guys, we can't even use a little thumb, and we can easily make them disappear directly. ”

"But do you really want to go that far with us citizens of America? Sir, have you forgotten what we're going to protect?"

"......" And this time, in the face of Negan, who occupies the high point of righteousness, the high-ranking officials who hold an opposing position, finally stopped arguing, he was once in charge of the operations department of the CIA, and his hands were already stained with the blood of enemies and friends, but he could do those dirty jobs, but he could not take them out in public.

Seeing that the debate between Negan and the senior officials finally came to an end, including Jin Shanshan, everyone's attention was once again focused on the deputy director of the strongman, but the deputy director of the strongman suddenly asked a new question at this time: "Miss Jin, do you think Hou Rui is the criminal we are looking for?"

"Huh!" several eyes were directly fixed on Jin Shanshan's face, the way these guys looked at people could definitely make a coward have nightmares for a week.

"I ...... I'm not sure, the two of us really haven't seen each other for too long, and I feel like he's a different person, a little stranger. Jin Shanshan replied cautiously, without dripping between her words, leaving no one with a handle that would be doubted or pursued afterwards.

"Then if you have to choose an answer?" But the deputy director of the strongman obviously didn't intend to let Jin Shanshan go so easily, and had to force her to make a statement.

As a result, Jin Shanshan hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "Then I am more inclined to believe him, not the person we are looking for." ”

When Jin Shanshan finished speaking, her heart immediately beat wildly, she didn't particularly protect Hou Rui, but as soon as she spoke, she still had a feeling of emptiness in her heart, as if it was part of her faith, and it collapsed.

“…… Negan, what is your point of view? Do you think this was a false arrest?"

"It's not just me, according to the previous video of Jin's interrogation of Hou Rui, I and a number of behavioral analysis experts and polygraph experts all agreed that when Hou Rui answered the question, his small movements, micro-expressions, brain waves, heart rate, and blood pressure all said that he did not lie to us, and all his physiological reactions were within the scope of normal people, and ......"

"And what?"

"And the Tokyo branch also found Matsuda Feng, he should be interrogating him at this time, I don't think Hou Rui will present us with a witness who will expose his lies, he will only try to prove his innocence. ”

“…… I understand, I will report this to the president truthfully, you all go back to work, even if the worst happens, we lose the suspect Hou Rui, then we still have a lot of work to do. When Jin Shanshan, Negan, and the executives left the office, the deputy director of the strongman immediately called the White House......

A few minutes later, when the strongman deputy director ended his direct call with the president of the United States, in the olive-shaped office of the White House, four men and one woman fell into silence for a while, and everyone was considering the pros and cons of this matter, whether to release Hou Rui, or simply indulge the people below and continue to be illegally detained.

If we say that we change the time and change the object, it seems that this kind of trivial matter cannot reach the ears of the president at all, but this time the situation is somewhat special, and the president and others must make more appropriate and thoughtful considerations, and as of this moment, in the "double flash" incident, the number of residents and soldiers who have developed early radiation sickness has exceeded 500, and the state of the whole country has shown an abnormal calm.

At a time like this, if a small spark emerges, the knock-on consequences are terrible, and it may even shake the rule of the current president of the United States.

So after about five minutes of silence, the president suddenly asked, "Do you think it is still necessary for the second suspect to be in our hands?"

"Mr. President, I think the method of investigating a group of people is feasible, and it will only be a burden for us to keep him, so it is better to solve it sooner. Vice President Owens was the first to respond.

"Yes, it should be solved, but the specific solution is still up for debate! I am not in favor of releasing people, because it will only bury hidden dangers, and I think it should be called Suspect No. 2...... Gone forever. Next, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a little old man with a Mediterranean hairstyle, said with a smile that in this meeting, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not wear a military uniform, but a suit.

"That's right, the current United States can't afford any scandals, and it's the safest way to put everything under the table. The third speaker was the president's security adviser, the only woman in the room, a beautiful woman about 40 years old, but in this way, two of the five people were in favor of covering up the matter.

But a man in the corner of the room, a general standing as straight as a flagpole, looked as if he didn't mean to speak, just looked intently at the tips of his shoes, and looked up along his left arm with his hat between them, his epaulettes with several stars, this was actually a taciturn special forces general.

The silent admiral did not express his opinion, and the president did not force him, but he first lowered his head and thought about it, then grabbed a piece of paper from the table, looked up and down carefully, and asked curiously: "What do we all know about this Hou Rui?"

"According to our information, his mainlander, in the capital of the university, second-rate university, and then during a trip to Cairo, was kidnapped by the Muslim Brotherhood for more than half a year, after returning to China suffered a car accident, and then came to the United States for the purpose of treatment, after recovering from the injury, stayed on a student visa, continued to study photography in New York, and won some awards during the period, the famous "The Death of the Ambassador" is his work, and later obtained a green card with the help of his aunt, and is currently a Tokyo special photojournalist for a magazine in New York. ”

Owens, the vice president who directly leads the joint investigation team, is naturally the most familiar with this information, so he briefly introduced it to everyone.

"Doesn't sound like anything special. The president commented intuitively.

"Yes, I don't have a military or special education background, I don't have a red family background, I am well-known in the New York photography industry, and I have been a classmate of the Princess of Morocco and have been dating for a while. The vice president added.

"Alright guys, let's make the most of this Mr. Hou's value, make sure he has nothing to do with the Shadow Organization, and then give him his freedom. At this time, the president finally expressed his opinion, but it instantly attracted the opposition of the national security adviser and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It's a pity that the president has made up his mind, and then he blocked the mouths of these two people in just a few words: "I want to release him, first of all, because we don't have enough evidence in our hands, as for this little person, I don't care if he lives or dies, even if he is Robert Capa, I just hope that the members of the multinational joint investigation team can see that the United States we represent is still operating in a normal and orderly manner, and we are still adhering to the spirit of the law." ”

Well, since it is said that it is an image project, then it is naturally inconvenient for everyone to oppose it, but when the national security adviser and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were dissatisfied, the president suddenly added: "But before releasing this Mr. Hou, Admiral Terrence, be sure to let your "1 project" confirm that Mr. Hou is really not the enemy we are looking for." ”

"Yes, Mr. President, I'll go back and confirm it myself. "Admiral Terrence, who looks like a sculpture, doesn't roll his eyes when he speaks, and looks really like a puppet, and his whole body is full of weirdness and rigidity, which makes people look particularly awkward and uncomfortable.