Chapter 108: Overturning the Chessboard
Jiang Lan's analysis is not unreasonable, as far as the known intelligence goes, Everett is in a delicate position in Congress, although there are several political enemies who are not on good terms, but they are not endless.
If the attacker's real target was not Everett, but Everett's good friend Albert Amos, this would explain a lot of suspicions.
According to Everett, Caesaro had asked him to push through an amendment to the Microbial Drug Safety Act in Congress, so it was likely that Caesaro was the source of Everett's campaign funds, and Albert, who had a personal relationship with Everett, was the best person to go to the dinner party.
When Ouyang Jie persuaded Everett to revise the arrangement, Everett's dinner party was postponed, Albert's banquet time also changed, and the attackers hidden in the shadows also kept changing their plans, so the time of the bomb attack and Everett's death were repeatedly postponed.
This makes perfect logical sense, but there is a doubt.
Assuming that the security of the underground laboratory building of Caesaro was watertight, and that the assailants intending to assassinate Dr. Albert Amos could not do anything, the assassin or assailant would have to wait until Albert left the laboratory building before assassinating him.
Assuming that the intelligence work of Caesaro and Albert's team was also leaky, leaving the attackers with no way of knowing Albert's route to the banquet, they would have to wait and wait at the location of the dinner party held in Everett.
But why did the explosion cause so many casualties?
Choosing a location, setting up a sniper rifle, and firing a deadly large-caliber bullet will also do the trick.
Why the most extreme method of assassination? Not only did they catch one or even more senators, but they also caused dozens of innocent people to die with serious injuries! These people are not insignificant people on the margins of society, and most of the people who can attend political dinners are high-class people with considerable energy and social influence.
At that time, the joint pressure exerted by the relatives of the dead and the injured, coupled with the media that is not too loud to add fuel to the fire, the US federal authorities will surely be outraged.
Is the anger of the world's number one power a joke?
Could it be that the attackers were confident that they would be able to get out of the way? If you really have the ability to withstand the wrath of the U.S. Federation, how can you not deal with a biopharmaceutical company?
Unless the attackers were desperate and didn't think about their own way out.
All kinds of ideas were entangled in his head, and the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, Fang Ziyu shook his head vigorously and said, "It's just your guess." ”
Jiang Lan pouted and shrugged his shoulders again, and his body language was easy to interpret: Although there is no evidence that Everett's assassination was related to Albert, we are not police officers and do not need evidence.
"What now?" Fang Ziyu felt groggy in his head, and couldn't help but want to be lazy and throw the burden of thinking to Jiang Lan.
"Ask a few more questions, and let him go." Jiang Lan replied very quickly, and it seemed that he had already thought about what to do next when he was browsing the news just now.
"Just let him go?"
"Well, if he suddenly loses his memory, he will definitely go for a full examination. As you just said, the contract is in his head, so he can't be asked to have a head check-up. Of course, you can also do a little more decoration and put some drugs, spirits or something in his car after he loses his memory. However, the safest way to do nothing is to release the person directly after asking. ”
Jiang Lan looked at Everett, whose facial muscles were tense, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have a way to shut him up." ”
Fang Ziyu made a gesture of please feel free and said no more.
After some Q&A, Everett seemed to realize that the "kidnapper" did not seem to have the intention of harming him, and his emotions gradually stabilized, and after Jiang Lan asked for ransom, he decisively gave Albert's private contact information, and very cooperatively recorded a recording of Jiang Lan's request for help.
After the recording was in hand, Jiang Lan immediately changed his tone.
"Thank you very much for your cooperation, Mr. Charles, but in fact I am not interested in the ransom, I just want to see if you cooperate, and now it seems that you are willing to cooperate, which is a very smart thing to do. So, I guess we can start talking for real. Actually, I'm more interested in J's contact information than Dr. Amos's private contact information. ”
Hearing Jiang Lan's last words, Everett suddenly felt like he was sitting on an electric chair with electricity, and all the muscles that could be mobilized in his body were tensed.
"Don't bother thinking about how to get rid of the relationship, I know J has contacted you more than once. Don't be nervous, I have no ill will towards you or J. In fact, J and I are in a cooperative relationship, but I can't contact J for the time being, so I found you in desperation. ”
"I know you won't admit it unless you're tortured, and you won't give me J's contact information, but torturing a senator isn't a smart thing to do, is it? It's okay, you can keep silent, I will put a note on you with a phone number written on it, I believe that when I let you go, you will naturally contact J, or receive a call from J, please tell him this phone number at that time, and he will take the initiative to contact me. ”
"By the way, Mr. Councillor, your awareness of the crisis needs to be raised urgently, and if you meet some desperate thug instead of me, I'm afraid you won't be so lucky."
Everett was in a fog and before he could figure out how to respond, his consciousness fell into infinite darkness again.
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"Just let him go?"
Fang Ziyu pinched the cigarette filter and asked questions while lighting the fire, in order to strip Everett of his five senses as much as possible when kidnapping him, he and Jiang Lan had endured not smoking, and after Xiong Wei sent away the unconscious Everett, the two couldn't wait to open the cigarette case.
"Now he knows that we know that he has a relationship with J, but he doesn't know if we have any evidence in our hands, and once this comes to light and his political career is over, he doesn't dare to take any chances." Jiang Lan exhaled smoke in almost groaning satisfaction, "Maybe he will secretly call the police, that's exactly what I want, cough, it's not a bad thing to have the Capitol Police raise Everett's security specifications." In short, he will not deal with this matter with great fanfare, let alone let the media know about it. ”
In other words, there will be no news coverage of the event. Looking at Ouyang Jie's reaction after learning about this, we can basically infer whether our guess about his celestial artifact is correct. ”
Fang Ziyu pondered for a long time and sighed: "In the end, I still let you give you a pit." ”
"Hey, don't say that." Jiang Lan grinned, pointed to the chessboard on the table and asked, "Another game?" ”
In this game of chess, Jiang Lan played very slowly, and every move was like making a major decision, and he had to think repeatedly before he could make up his mind.
An hour later, the mobile phone rang suddenly, and Jiang Lan suddenly got up, seemingly accidentally overturning the chessboard.
"Don't get angry just yet." Jiang Lan raised his mobile phone and deliberately raised his voice, "I have an idea to discuss with you." ”