As seen from the outside, everything in the room was normal, everything in the room was not messy in the slightest, even the food in the refrigerator was sufficient, most of the clothes in the wardrobe were still hanging there, everything was so well organized.

But after a closer look, Eric still found something strange in it, all the photos of their family and some documents were gone, and there was nothing valuable on the computer at home, in other words, if ordinary people broke into this room, they would not be able to find any information about this family.

"Captain, come on." David, who was looking for clues in his study, called Eric over.

"Look at this."

David was just looking through some books and materials that Faisal had piled up under his desk when he stumbled upon a crumpled ball of paper.

They had checked almost all the trash cans in the house before, and there was nothing of value, and the paper ball happened to be in a pile of papers next to a wastebasket, which must have been thrown outside when they were thrown without noticing.

This scrap paper ball alone has no practical value, but its shape is very special, it is a perfect circle cut out of a book, and it is two pages of paper superimposed on top of each other, which proves that this part of the cut has a certain thickness, maybe it is not only these two pages that have been cut, and the other pages that have been cut out may have been destroyed.

With this only clue, Eric and his assistant David returned to the FBI, and after intense investigation and search, they finally basically locked down Faisal's movements after leaving Thunderbird.

"Gentlemen, after a few days of investigation and evidence collection, we have basically determined the approximate trajectory of Faisal and his family before and after their disappearance."

At the briefing on the case, Eric briefed Director Curt and the relevant person in charge of Thunderbird on the progress of the case.

According to Andy and Bill, the company's security personnel who had contact with Faisal that night, Faisal was the last employee to leave his work area, and it is said that Faisal, as a core employee in the company and one of the main members of the R&D department, overtime work is almost his norm. As a result, it didn't cause much alarm for Andy and Bill, the guards who patrolled the area, and Faisal made it through the company's security check, but his whereabouts were unknown. ”

The projector in the conference room projected an image of a woman with two children, and the mother and son were supposed to be waiting in the departure hall of an airport.

"This is Faisal's wife Lisa and their two children, Enwar and Jesse, this photo was captured in the airport's surveillance video, the time is on the morning of June 30, that is, three days before Faisal finally left the Thunderbird company, this is the video data before they boarded the plane, the investigation shows that they were on an international flight to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia."

"We have previously learned from surveys of the residents of the neighborhood where Faisal lives that Lisa and her two children were seen leaving the house on June 29 and have not been seen since, and that Lisa told her neighbors before leaving home that she was going to a certain place for a vacation, and that she would join Faisal there and then go to another place, but now it seems that all this is just a public claim that we have found no whereabouts of them in the place where they are going according to their neighbors."

Eric glanced at the bigwigs and his colleagues sitting below, and then introduced:

"A search of Faisal's office and his residence reveals little valuable information other than the fact that Faisal stole confidential technical documents, but it is not for nothing."

"This is a cropped out of two pages of the book that we found from Faisal's house, and by comparing them we found the book in the bookstore."

Eric said as he picked up a book from the table in front of him, projecting the contents of both the fragment and the corresponding page of the book.

"This is a very popular novel on the market, and the content of the fragment is part of the epilogue of this book, and we know from the investigative statements of the company's internal security personnel that Faisal happened to be among the items he carried on the day he left the company, and this is the question, why did Faisal go around with a fragment of the book that had been cut off from the climax at home, and we concluded that the book was a prop for Faisal to carry the stolen confidential company information."

"The initial question we were asked about why the fragments of the book were so regular in a perfect circle was quickly answered at Faisal's office."

Eric said as he picked up another disc and showed it to the audience.

"This is a CD-reading CD, and it is also a state-of-the-art storage tool that has just begun to flourish recently, not to mention this small disk, but it can store a large amount of information, and the size of the fragments cut from the book coincides with the size of this CD, so we conclude that this book is a tool that contains this CD-ROM that stores a large amount of confidential information, and it is placed in front of our security personnel, but it has been neglected to check it."

"Now that we have a general idea of what happened during the period before and after Faisal and his family's disappearance, we have the feeling that everything is so orderly, and this is not like the behavior of a researcher who is engaged in design and research and development.

"The biggest question surrounding us now is, why did Faisal, who has always been conformist and content with the status quo, never have any bad records, and has a good reputation among employees and neighbors, suddenly make such a shocking move, what is the reason for him to steal these confidential information, and what will he do with it after stealing it? What is his motivation? ”

"As far as we know, Faisal came to the country with his parents when he was very young, and he was educated here since he was a child, and belongs to the second generation of immigrants, and it is said that his way of thinking and philosophy of life have been deeply imprinted on the country, and he has no deep impression of the land where their ancestors lived, and for many years, he has only set foot on the land of their ancestors once, and that was in the year he got married, and he only returned home to meet the patriarch of the family for the purpose of getting married."

"Faisal's wife Lisa has not been in the United States for as long as Faisal, Lisa, who grew up in Syria, was in the early stages of Syria's beginning to seek change when she was a teenager, and at the age of sixteen, she came to the United States to study, and met Faisal who was about to graduate in college, and then the two fell in love, and the two held a wedding immediately after Lisa graduated, and introduced here, Faisal and Lisa's resumes are very clean and uncomplicated, and there are no doubts that can be questioned."

With that, Eric picked up another thing from the table.

"This is the second time we've been to Faisal's house and it's brought back something, and at first it didn't catch our attention, yes, it's this newspaper that we have here and can be seen all over the street."

"Judging from the clutter piled up in Faisal's house, this should be a newspaper that Faisal has subscribed to for a long time, and the strange thing is that this newspaper that is sandwiched on Faisal's desk with other documents and books is not the latest newspaper, and the time displayed on it is a newspaper more than a year ago, from the degree of wear and tear of the newspaper and the analysis of the fixed creases, this newspaper should have been read countless times, and the same page has been flipped for a long time, because the handwriting on this page has been somewhat blurred."

The projection then shows the page of the newspaper that Eric described.

"You can clearly see the difference between this page and the other pages, and there are some subtle differences, you can see here."

As Eric manipulated, a detail in the newspaper was magnified and cleared up, feeling like a drop of water falling on it.

"Please trust your judgment, this is the trace of water dripping, there are many such traces on this page of this newspaper, our initial judgment is that Faisal himself accidentally spilled on it while drinking water, but our technician gave us a different answer, this is the identification report."

Eric said as he handed out copies of several identification reports to the crowd.

"Our technical staff told us that this is not an ordinary water drop, this is the tears secreted by the human body, yes, this is Faisal's tears, and then we wonder what caused Faisal to read this newspaper repeatedly for a long time, and thus left tears, which must have touched his innermost emotions."

Although the Gulf War was nearing its end at that time, the coalition led by the United States also wanted to give Saddam Hussein a more profound lesson to the ruler in the final stage of the campaign, and also to destroy the elite armed forces of Saddam Hussein as much as possible, so that they would no longer become a threat to the region, so the commander-in-chief of the coalition launched the last campaign aimed at clearing the potential threat of the other side, This battle was known as Operation Storm at the time."