Chapter 290: Surfacing

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Seeing off the FBI director, Stokes held a press conference at the vice president's residence and personally announced the news of the crash of Air Force One over the western Pacific. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Obviously, this is definitely a piece of explosive news.

Although some mainstream media had already received the news or found out about Air Force One through other channels, it was only after Stokes held a press conference that the reporter learned that the president's plane had crashed over the ocean.

Stokes did not release any more information, other than to say that the crash of Air Force One was most likely related to the terrorist attack.

Within half an hour, the world's news media focused on the matter. In order to get first-hand information, some news outlets also sent reporters to Papua New Guinea to hire local small planes and rush to the scene. Only before the reporter arrived, the two destroyers of the USS Washington aircraft carrier battle group of the US Seventh Fleet had already arrived, and US fighter jets blocked the surrounding airspace.

Using the active sonar on the destroyer, the wreckage of the plane on the bottom of the sea was quickly found.

Judging from the distribution of the wreckage of the plane, the inference made by the FBI has been confirmed, that is, before the crash, Liu Wei destroyed the control system on the plane, and then used the autopilot system to make the plane enter a stall state. During the fall, the wings of the aircraft separated from the collective.

In such an extreme situation, there will certainly be no survivors.

It was also at this time that Liu Wei and the gray-backed jackal climbed onto the island of New Guinea and met Zhou Yulong, who had rushed to meet them.

Because a large number of reporters were coming, and reporters from several nearby countries had already arrived, the three of them dressed up as reporters and did not pay attention to others.

"How's the rest going?"

"All settled, most of them have returned to their 'homeland', and the rest are rushing over." Zhou Yulong opened a bottle of beer for Liu Wei, "Before you went ashore, I just received a call from Kotone Takeuchi, they have arrived in Mexico, they will arrive in Cuba tomorrow, and then take a business plane to 'homeland'." ”

"That's fine, at least there's nothing to worry about."

"However, we are not wanted by the US authorities."

Liu Wei smiled and said, "As long as the Yankees have a little brain, they will not trouble us at this time, but will make full use of this incident." ”

Zhou Yulong also smiled and said, "Anyway, we have done what we should do." ”

"Is the plane ready?" The gray-backed jackal asked.

"Right at the airport, ready to take off."

"Don't worry, we'll stay for two more days."

"What?" The gray-backed jackal asked Liu Wei.

"Anyway, the Yankees won't trouble us for the time being, so there's no need to rush out of here." Liu Wei picked up the beer bottle and took a sip, "Old jackal, you go and make a call to Sister Bao and ask her to close the net, those mi5 spies should be finished." Then ask her to send Dianbin away and organize the rest of the legion. If the Yankees dare to come and ask for trouble, don't be polite, it really us off, and then go back and make a big fuss. ”

"It's not right now, is it?" Zhou Yulong felt that it was not appropriate.

"If something so big happens, the Yankees will definitely activate all the investigative agencies and soon get information about us from Mi5. It was only a matter of time before Sierra Leone was found. If the CIA and FBI weren't so inefficient, they would have paid off. Liu Wei glanced at Zhou Yulong and said, "Although we have issued a warning in a very clear way, it is necessary to remind the Yankees that we are still alive and have the ability to create a greater disaster for the United States." ”

The gray-backed jackal smiled and said to Zhou Yulong: "Don't worry, if the Yankees really dare to cut us, we have something to do." ”

Liu Wei nodded and didn't say anything more.

In the afternoon of the same day, a U.S. C-17 transport plane sent a deep-diving probe, which was then sent to the destroyer by an MH-53 helicopter.

On this deep-diving probe, there are special salvage tools.

Obviously, what needs to be recovered is certainly not the remains of the victims, but the black boxes on Air Force One, as well as something very sensitive, such as "football", that is, a nuclear lockbox in the hands of the President of the United States. Although less than half an hour after the crash of "Air Force One," the US military activated the spare nuclear lockbox, and handed it over to the vice president, which was kept by an officer who was with the vice president at all times, there were some very sensitive equipment in the lost nuclear lockbox, which must be found, otherwise the consequences would be unpredictable.

Of course, there are a few other things that must be found besides the nuclear lockbox.

Fortunately, the depth of the crash area is less than a thousand meters, and the detection and salvage work is not very difficult.

More importantly, when the "Air Force One" crashed, the fuselage was only broken into two parts, and the spread area was not large, which greatly reduced the difficulty of searching.

The next morning, the deep-diving probe found the black box in the second half of the fuselage.

At this time, the U.S. military had airlifted a second deep-sea submersible, and it was a manned deep-sea submersible.

Because the black box had already been found, the search shifted to the first half, focusing on the nuclear lockbox, as well as some classified documents stored in the president's room.

Comparatively speaking, the search is not very difficult.

The room where the president was located was completely airtight and made of bulletproof materials, which was very strong and did not suffer much damage at the time of the crash.

Before going inside, the submersible found a gap in the fuselage and judged that it was artificially made, not created at the time of the crash.

Apparently, Liu Wei, who had kidnapped the president, and another accomplice were not on the plane, or jumped out before the plane crashed.

This conclusion formalized Liu Wei's words.

Whether Stokes believes it or not, he must admit that Liu Wei is still alive and has survived by jumping from a plane that crashed at high speed. Obviously, he is definitely not an ordinary person, otherwise he would have been thrown to pieces a long time ago, and he would not have the guts. He must be a reformed warrior, and he is a very powerful reformed warrior.

Of course, these things, the US authorities do not disclose to the outside world.

After the deep submersible entered the cabin, it quickly found the nuclear lockbox, as well as the stored classified documents. In addition to this, there was also a windfall, which was a voice recorder left behind in the scene.

Technical analysts at the F.B.I. immediately saw that it was a voice recorder used by journalists.

Soon, this judgment was confirmed, because when passing through the security check channel of the airport, Liu Wei and the others handed over all the equipment, including the voice recorder.

Did Liu Wei unintentionally drop it?

Regardless of whether it is or not, there is a good chance that the recorder has a conversation in it that has not been recorded by the listening system, and this is likely to be of great value.

Just a few hours later, the voice recorder was delivered to the CIA intelligence station in Australia.

Because the damage is not very serious, plus the CIA has enough advanced data recovery technology, it didn't take much effort to recover the audio files inside.

By the time Stokes got the C.I.A.A. report through the F.B.I., it was already evening.

After listening to Liu Wei and Scott's final conversation, the vice president's mood can be imagined. From the very beginning, Liu Wei did not intend to let Scott go, but wanted to use Scott's death to warn the US authorities that it had little to do with whether the United States attacked North Korea, nor did it have much to do with the future policy of the United States.

However, there are not many people who hold this view.

At least the director of the FBI thinks that Liu Wei is deliberately distancing himself from North Korea by doing so, so that the US authorities believe that he has no relationship with North Korea, so as to start a war against North Korea. It can be said that this is Liu Wei's real purpose, because only in this way can the mainland be involved in a war against the United States under a relatively favorable situation, and defeat the United States on the battlefield and deal a blow to the international prestige of the United States.

Unfortunately, the FBI director doesn't have much say in strategic decision-making.

As the wreckage of Air Force One was found and the black box surfaced, it was not the American authorities that needed answers, but the American people.

It is certainly no coincidence that Scott was killed on his first foreign mission less than a month after he was sworn in.

More importantly, the information recorded in the black box is enough to prove that the "Air Force One" was not an accidental crash, but that the flight control system was damaged, causing the plane to enter a stall state and eventually crash.

There is no way to avoid this question, you can only find a suitable reason.

On the third day of the salvage work, Liu Wei and others left New Guinea and set off for Chile.

On this day, Stokes also appeared in public again, publicly admitting for the first time that the "Air Force One" crash was deliberately committed by someone.

As in his last appearance, Stokes declined to give more information, citing an ongoing investigation.

At this point, the US authorities will have to consider who will take on the responsibility.

It is obviously unlikely that the truth will be announced. Even if you don't consider whether Liu Wei will retaliate against the United States for this, I am afraid that even the ordinary people of the United States will not believe it.

If you have to point the finger at a country, you have to choose between Iran and North Korea.

Although Stokes knew that the consequences of going to war against North Korea would be very serious, and that the United States would have only one way to go, that is, to win the war at any cost, and the consequences of defeat would be very serious, but it was not up to Stokes to decide who to fight and how to fight.

At least among the many generals, there are far more supporters of fighting North Korea than of fighting Iran.

For whom these generals spoke, Stokes knew very well in his heart. In fact, he knew better that even if Scott wasn't finished, he would start a war against North Korea.

It is this that makes Stokes feel that what Liu Wei is doing is not deliberately leading the United States to the battlefield.

If Liu Wei wants the United States to attack North Korea, he should not get rid of Scot at this time, but should wait until after the outbreak of war. With his relationship with Scott, it is impossible not to know that the president has long made up his mind to go to war, but it has not yet been implemented immediately.

At this point, there is no suspense about the war.

(To be continued)