Chapter VI: Interrogation
"mr.link, where were you an hour before the World Trade Center crash this morning?" In the small enclosed space, a white woman looked at Link with a serious expression, flipped through a stack of papers in her hand, and asked with a suspicious look.
Link sat across from his desk with a huge reflective glass in front of him, he had seen this scene more than once in the movies, and knew that behind the glass he couldn't see, he didn't know who was watching him, and he never thought that one day, he would be in such a place.
"I was in Ziyou Square at the time." Link said expressionlessly.
The white woman Xing took out a file, put it in front of Link's eyes, and said, "This is the call record you made to the Manhattan Jing Bureau at 8:04:23 this morning before the incident, please confirm it." ”
Link glanced at the file, then nodded, "That's right, I made this call." ”
The white woman Xing put down her Chinese hand, crossed her hands against her chin, squinted her eyes and said: "According to this call record, you knew at that time, or earlier, that there would be a collision in the World Trade Tower, right?" ”
"No!" Link only now understood what she meant, and it turned out that the other party had taken him for someone involved in the case.
Link hurriedly said, "I...... I don't know how to explain it to you, but I was absolutely not involved in the plane collision incident, and this matter has nothing to do with me. ”
"Unrelated?" The white woman's eyes became sharper, he suddenly raised a hand, pointed in the direction of Manhattan, glared at Link, and said: "The most terrifying disaster in American history is happening there, and now at least more than a thousand innocent American citizens have lost their lives, including dozens of rescuers who have just entered the scene, do you really feel that this matter has nothing to do with you?" ”
Link's face was flushed with excitement from the other party's words, and he had just witnessed the disaster today, and his nerves had been suppressed for a long time, and he finally broke out at this time.
I saw him stand up with a bang, his hands on the table, looking down at the white woman in front of him, and shouting hoarsely: "I have called you, but who of you has believed it?" I've done everything I can to go to the department, but you're taking what I'm saying as a joke? ”
Link's expression twisted and roared, "If you believe me, would so many innocent people still die now?" All this because of you, because of you! ”
The white woman Xing was stunned by Link's sudden madness, she knew that what Link said was right, if the Jing Investigation Department had responded when they received his call, so many people would not have died by now.
At this moment, the door of the silver room was opened, and a black man in his forties walked in, he first looked at Link, and then said, "You go out first." ”
The white woman Xing nodded, packed up the papers in her hand and walked out.
Link covered his face in pain, lying on the table, he was just an ordinary person, after suddenly "foreseeing" the coming disaster, he did the duty of a citizen, he informed Jingcha, but no one believed him.
And now, he's sitting here as a suspect and being interrogated by the FBI, how can Link not go crazy?
The middle-aged black man gave Link enough time to calm down, and then he spoke: "Mr. Link, I hope you can understand, you are also an American, I think you should be able to understand us." ”
Link wiped tears from his face and nodded numbly.
The middle-aged black man looked at him with gentle eyes, and his tone was very light, like an elder talking to a junior: "I know that you are under a lot of pressure now, although I would like to believe that you are innocent, but you must know that American law is about evidence." ”
"So, you have enough evidence to arrest me?" After Link calmed down, his mind became clear.
The middle-aged black man was stunned for a moment, he really didn't have enough evidence, but the FBI is not a prosecutorial department, nor is it a court, and they have just been given the privilege of "acting cheaply".
Thinking of this, the middle-aged black man became calm again.
"We are the FBI, we are the investigation department of this country, although the evidence against you is not enough now, but we have the right to detain you indefinitely, you have to think clearly."
Link's heart tightened, he knew that what the other party said was likely to be true, what was happening in the United States now was the biggest crisis since the founding of the country, and the United States was likely to give the FBI a special authorization.
After thinking about it for a while, Link became calmer, thought about it for a moment, and said: "My father was just buried last weekend, and the TV station he runs needs me to take over, but the partner of the TV station has asked for the withdrawal of shares at this time, and I don't have so much money in my hands. ”
"So you helped an organization start this catastrophe?" The middle-aged black man naturally came to a conclusion.
"It's not like that!" Link's anger rose again, and he yelled, "Do you want the news of the FBI's confession to appear in the headlines of the major media outlets?" ”
"Well, you go on and say, I won't interrupt you again this time." The middle-aged black man shrugged his shoulders tepidly.
Link was really annoyed by the other party's performance, but he couldn't help it, the other party represented the state apparatus.
So, he continued, "Just yesterday I sold everything I could be worth, plus my father's savings, and I was able to make up that money. ”
"This is the most depressing moment of my life, you see, I'm only 21 years old, and I've just graduated from college!" Link said, staring into the other's eyes.
"Because I was in a very dull mood, I went for a walk in Ziyou Square early in the morning, planning to plan my future plans, but also to relax."
Link struggled slightly, and the middle-aged black man knew that he was going to talk about the main thing, and his expression became more solemn.
"I'm ......" Link tore at his hair, as if there was something unspeakable.
The middle-aged black man's tone was even kinder: "It's okay, keep talking." ”
"That's when I suddenly received instructions from God!"
When he said this, Link let out a long sigh of relief, as if he had told his biggest secret.
"What? God's instructions? The middle-aged man obviously didn't believe it, and his expression began to become a little angry.
"Mr. Link, if you are not willing to cooperate with our investigation, I'm afraid you will have to stay here for a while."
Link suddenly raised his head and said loudly, "What I said is true!" It was at that moment that a terrifying image popped into my head. I saw a passenger plane crash into a building, and then another passenger plane crashed into it......"
"At that time, I was in Ziyou Square, and I could see the World Trade Center when I looked up, and the building that appeared in my mind was exactly the same as the World Trade Tower, so I called the newspaper number, I thought this was what I should do, this is the heavy responsibility that God gave me to show everyone, but it's a pity...... No one believed me. ”
After Link finished speaking, he lowered his head guiltily.
Middle-aged blacks had a hard time believing what he said, but they couldn't openly deny the existence of God. And in the FBI archives, there are hundreds of archives that can prove the existence of God.
Perhaps, this is a new one.
The middle-aged black man rubbed his swollen forehead, then stood up: "Someone will ask you to sign the transcript in a while and swear." Now, you're going to stay here for a while. ”
Seeing the middle-aged black man go out, Link breathed a sigh of relief, if he hadn't reacted fast enough just now to think of this attention temporarily, otherwise he really didn't know how to explain it.
In fact, Link also thought in his heart that he was not lying, if it wasn't for God who put those images on his mind, how could it be such a coincidence? Although those images are not limited to "911".
On the other side of the mirror, the seventeenth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Hayden. Goss silently watched Link in the interrogation room.
Everything Link had just said was heard in his ears through the PA equipment.
Hayden, who is almost 60 years old this year. Goss has more than 10 years of military career and more than 20 years of experience in murder and interrogation.
He'd already sent someone to check on Link from childhood to adulthood, and even to the point that he had gone to the toilet several times this morning. And Link's personal file is now in his hands.
There is nothing strange about that file, like that of the majority of the American population. And his people have also checked, Link's father did just die of lung cancer last weekend.
"What do you think, Mr. Director?" The middle-aged black man who had just interrogated Link was in Hayden at this time. Behind Goss.
Hayden. Goss frowned and said, "Even if a person lies, as long as he is not a specially trained person, his eyes will always betray himself." However, there was indeed that struggle in Link's eyes just now, the look that revealed the biggest secret in his heart. ”
"So, do you believe he really has nothing to do with it?" The middle-aged black man couldn't help but ask.
Hayden. Goss shook his head: "Although my experience tells me that the young man in front of me is innocent, what happened today is too terrifying, and I dare not make up my mind easily." ”
"You mean ......?"
"Let's detain it for 24 hours first, and everything will be done according to the rules." With all said and done, Hayden. Goss turned and walked away, today is his biggest test in more than two decades in politics, he still has too many things to solve, and the president is still waiting for him to report.
Link, on the other hand, was subjected to non-stop fatigue interrogation for twenty-four hours, and they only had a few questions, but they asked Link countless times.
"Are you ...... involved in this?"
"Do you have any other accomplices......
"Are you all true......?"
Link was almost driven crazy by them, until the next afternoon, when someone finally came to visit him.
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