Chapter 691: Pandora's Box
The San Francisco Chinatown bombing quickly spread across the United States and around the world, and continued to evolve over time.
On the morning of the first day, the media coverage was overwhelming, and the whole country was in an uproar, and on the morning of the same day, the mayor of San Francisco made a televised speech expressing condolences to the victims of the bombing and strongly condemning the perpetrators of the bombing.
At noon on the first day, the President of the United States delivered a speech at the White House in Washington, D.C., in which the content of the speech was similar to that of the mayor of San Francisco, expressing condolences to the victims of the bombing, and also saying that he would continue to pay attention to the matter until the truth is revealed.
On the evening of the first day, the people of San Francisco spontaneously organized a large mourning event to mourn the victims of the bombing.
At noon on the second day, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China issued a statement on the bombing incident in San Francisco, in which the spokesman said that the Chinese government was shocked by the bombing incident in San Francisco, denied that the incident was committed by Chinese spies mentioned in the US media reports, and strongly condemned the planners and perpetrators of the bombing, and will continue to pay attention to this matter.
On the afternoon of the second day, the city of San Francisco issued a statement that it would hold a citywide mourning event three days after the bombing, and designated the day of the bombing as a citywide mourning day.
On the day of mourning, the University of Berkeley also spontaneously organized a mourning event, Xia Jiuying also participated, standing on the school square, silent mourning for the victims, she thought more about the safety of Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa, and their whereabouts, although under the guidance of the media, almost everyone believed that the explosion was organized and carried out by Tang Sa, but she firmly believed that Tang Sa would not do it, in addition to believing in Tang Sa's character, more importantly, Xiao Yuan was still trapped in the dance hall when the explosion occurred.
After a week of uproar in the San Francisco bombing, apart from the families of the victims, or the injured who are still suffering painfully, the attention of other irrelevant people gradually shifted, and the heat of the bombing began to dissipate, but the series of effects caused by the bombing have only just begun to be revealed.
A week after the bombing, the President of the United States once again spoke in response to the incident, condemning the perpetrators of the bombing and redefining the incident as a terrorist attack, a global terrorist act against the United States, and at the same time saying that the United States will do whatever it takes to combat terrorism and ensure the national security of the United States.
Twelve hours after the president's speech, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry publicly expressed support for the United States' anti-terrorism actions and once again strongly condemned the San Francisco bombing.
Xia Jiuying is also paying attention to this speech, and at the same time, she has a deeper understanding of the incident than ordinary people, and she also knows that the reason why the president accurately characterized the incident as a terrorist act and stopped mentioning the matter of espionage must be because the high-level leaders of China and the United States have reached a certain consensus after some game.
The result of this consensus made Xia Jiuying feel cold, because Tang Sa became an outcast in this game, not only was she listed as a global wanted target by the United States, but also was wiped out by Huaxia for everything she had done before, and then put on a terrorist hat.
For a week, Xiao Yuan still hadn't contacted her, which made her very worried, but she felt fortunate that all her actions in Berkeley had been strictly monitored, although these people did not disturb her life, but she knew very well what the purpose of these people was monitoring her, and believed that as long as Xiao Yuan contacted her, these people would definitely take action.
Because Xia Jiuying knew that the relationship between Tang Sa, Xiao Yuan and her was not a secret, and it was impossible for the United States to not investigate it for such a long time, but in view of her special status, the United States did not dare to take action against her easily, but she also knew that she was running out of time to stay in the United States.
Sure enough, a week after the bombing, Zhang Chunli flew over from China, and after coming to the United States, she first had several long talks with Xia Jiuying's attending doctor, and then decided to take Xia Jiuying back to China.
For her mother's decision, Xia Jiuying was very calm because she was mentally prepared in advance, obediently cooperated with her mother to go through the relevant procedures, and also made some preparations before returning to China, on the fifth day after Zhang Chunli came to the United States, she returned to China with her and entered Jiangzhou University to continue her studies, while waiting for Xiao Yuan's news.
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In the CIA branch of San Francisco, an agent hurried into the office of Deputy Director Nicholas Carey.
"Sir, the Queen's Ballroom blade servers have been found." The agent said.
"Where, take me to see it." Deputy Director Nicholas's eyes lit up, he stood up from behind his desk and said.
"You come with me." The agent said, and after saying that, he took Nicholas out of the office, took the elevator downstairs, and went to the basement storeroom, where he saw three badly deformed cabinets that had been smashed.
"Why are there only three groups?" asked the director, frowning.
"We only recovered three groups, and the whereabouts of the other five groups are unknown." The agent bowed his head and said to Nicholas.
"Okay, you guys have worked hard, hurry up and do a technical appraisal, and notify me as soon as there is a result." Nicholas suppressed the disappointment in his heart, and instead of blaming the detective, he patted him on the shoulder, comforted him, and turned away.
After Nicholas left, the agent wiped the cold sweat on his head, let out a long sigh of relief, and then took out the phone and dialed out, and after a short time, led a few people to the warehouse, dismantled the deformed cabinet, took down the blade server in it, and took it out of the warehouse.
The agent followed these people to a computer room on the third floor, and a few technicians came to say that the blade servers were taken over, and after some busyness, they came to a disappointing conclusion that most of the blade servers and the hard disks in them were scrapped, completely devoid of analytical value, and could be disposed of as garbage, and only four hard disks were preserved.
"Damn it!" The agent cursed and instructed the technicians to hurry up and read the four remaining hard drives and analyze the data.
The technician saw that the detective's face was not good, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he took the intact four hard drives into another room, and the detective wanted to follow up, but was blocked by the technician and asked him to come over to get the report six hours later, and the detective had no choice but to leave first.
The technician took the four server hard drives into the room, connected them to a special hard disk reading device in the room, then turned on a computer connected to the hard disk reading device, called up a software on it, executed the read command on it, and a dialog box appeared on the monitor, on which there were four yellow progress bars, each representing the reading progress of a hard disk.
The progress bar slowly scrolled forward almost simultaneously, and at twenty percent of the scroll, the monitor screen flickered and then returned to normal.
The technician stood up, reached out and patted the monitor that looked a little old, and then found that everything was normal, so he didn't care anymore, because this monitor has been working for many years, and the circuitry in it has long been aged, and it is normal to flicker occasionally, but he didn't know that the flickering just now was not because of the aging of the monitor, Pandora's box had been opened by him.