Leaving Casey, who was sad and crying, the three of them walked out of the house. Sitting in the car, Coleman yawned and raised his doubts: "I think the disappearance of Maders is likely to be related to Mikkelson, what do you think?" ”

Mikkelson loves his daughter too much, and he can do and be able to do such things for the sake of Casey. Casey also said that for two days, she did not receive any phone calls demanding a ransom payment.

Nathan even suspects that Mads has been killed. Wang Lei and Coleman disagree with this point of view, and there is actually a very strange thing about the whole thing.

Mads walked out of the departure hall on his own without any threat, and it turned out that he wasn't there to pick up something, so was he going to meet someone?

And who is this person who would make Mads prefer to give up the flight? And who is tracking Mads? Find the answers to these two questions, and the case of Robert, the biggest boss of the FBI, will gradually be revealed.

After discussing it, Coleman and Nathan had no opinion on Wang Lei's suggestion that everyone should go to meet for a while now. Although it was already early in the morning, the three of them were used to staying up late and were not very sleepy.

It stands to reason that Mikkelsen should also sleep at home now, but Coleman made a phone call to find out that he was still in the company, and he didn't know where a 60-year-old man got such good energy.

Greene is located in downtown Los Angeles, not far from Beverly Hills. Coleman is only a dozen minutes away by car.

It's a 35-storey building with a peculiar bevel and a full-strength glass façade that attracts you from afar.

Mikkelson's office is on the top floor, and the uniforms of the security guards in the lobby indicate that they are full-time personnel sent by the well-known California security services company in Los Angeles.

While everyone waited for the elevator, Coleman said: "I now think Mikkelson's suspicion has increased. Wang Lei, do you know that there are many security companies in Los Angeles, and most of the personnel they accept are retired police officers. However, the California Security Service is different from them, and the executives and instructors of this company are mainly retired FBI agents. ”

Mikkelson is willing to spend a lot of money to hire a security guard trained by retired FBI agents to take charge of Green's security affairs, so it is not difficult to directly hire a retired agent to monitor, kidnap and even kill Mads.

Mikkelson had already finished the meeting and sat in his office waiting for Coleman and the others to arrive. The secretary pushed open the door, and after the three of Coleman were seated, he quickly served a few cups of coffee.

Mikkelson has gray hair and wrinkles on his face, but he is in good spirits and in good shape. He already knew the intention of the three people, and he didn't delay, and opened his mouth with one sentence: "It's my people who sent to follow Mads." ”

Wang Lei didn't expect that an answer he was looking for would be so easy. It is really printed "The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the person was in the lamplight." ”

Mikkelson clapped his hands, and through a side door of his office stepped out a tall, lanky middle-aged man with a peaked cap in his hand. Coleman stood up in surprise when he saw the man.

Matthew? Cook, a former FBI agent, was seconded by the CIA to be deployed overseas to take charge of special services, stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan for eight years, and was shot several times in the process of rescuing teammates and civilians.

After returning to China, he retired due to post-traumatic stress and stress syndrome and was unable to pass the FBI's annual psychological evaluation, and his whereabouts are unknown. Unexpectedly, the idol that Coleman has always admired will appear in Mikkelson's office today.

PTSD is not a mental illness, and Matthew is not psychotic. This is just one reaction to Matthew's psychological dysfunction after experiencing multiple life-threatening and severe physical injuries to his body.

This symptom can make an otherwise skilled field worker lose control when he needs to control himself, which is the main reason for Matthew's retirement.

At the time, the F.B.I. offered to transfer him to a civilian position, which Matthew himself refused.

Matthew, of course, won't be nervous, and now Mikkelson just wants him to come out and give an explanation, and Mikkelson won't want to be on the FBI's blacklist. In that case, the network of relationships he had worked so hard to build over the years would be ruined.

Matthew has been following Maddes for more than a year, and every time Mads leaves Los Angeles, whether it's to Las Vegas or elsewhere, Matthew's mysterious figure always follows him.

Mikkelson is not shy about this: "I know that there are a lot of problems between Mads and Casey, and I arranged for Matthew to investigate, not to kidnap him. Matthew is only investigating Maddes' extramarital affair. ”

It seems that the explosion news thrown by Mikkelson is not small, and there are many situations that even the Las Vegas police do not have. Did Mads really have an affair, or did Mikkelson make it up?

Matthew scoffed and took out a few photos. Inside is a photo of Maddes with a young woman, and in several photos there is a baby, a baby less than 1 year old.

To be fair, the young woman in the photo is far worse than Casey in terms of appearance, but Mads's smile in the photo is so cheerful, or rather lively and energetic, like a young man in his 20s.

Matthew pointed to the young woman in the photo: "Rachel, 30 years old, was married once, divorced four years ago. Married to Mads in Las Vegas 2 years ago and gave birth to a boy a year later. ”

Mads bought a house in Las Vegas and lived with Rachel. The two of them were secretly taken many photos by Matthew, walking, shopping, playing, and walking the dog with a stroller......

Rachel now works as a warehouse supervisor at a store and has no connection to Green's Las Vegas branch. That is to say, the reason why Mads only comes back once a month is because some of the branch's business has to go back to Los Angeles to report, otherwise he would probably prefer to live in Las Vegas all the time based on his appearance in the photo.

Subsequently, Mikkelsen threw out another piece of news. In the most recent year, the Las Vegas branch has seen a significant increase in expenses, more than doubling from the previous year.

Not only did the cost increase, but Mikkelson called Las Vegas, and the people who answered the phone were all operators. She told the boss of the head office that Mads had something to do and that it was unknown when he would return.

Under normal circumstances, when Mikkelson sees this situation, he will directly call the branch manager's mobile phone and reprimand him. But because of Mads's special identity, Mikkelsen could only give up after thinking about it and suppress these things in his heart.

This went on for some time, and Mikkelson couldn't bear it anymore and arranged for an accountant at the headquarters to begin auditing all the accounts of the Las Vegas branch.

Mickelson was shocked when the audit results came out, and last year, the Las Vegas branch reported more than $200,000 in expenses. You must know that there are only 3 people in the branch, including Mads.

The salaries of the employees of the branch were paid directly in Los Angeles, and Mads was reimbursed only for his own expenses. It became clear that Mads was suspected of embezzlement.

Mikkelson had a secret conversation with Casey and told her about it. Casey strongly objected to his father's suggestion to discipline Mads and paid for the shortfall out of his own pocket.

"So, you mean that Mads is not actually missing, nor has he been kidnapped, but most likely absconding, right?" Wang Lei looked at Mikkelsen.

Mikkelson shrugged with a smile, "I wouldn't say that until I didn't know what Casey thought and decided. However, that's why I don't care much about Mads' disappearance. ”

Matthew threw all kinds of bills from Las Vegas and Los Angeles to Coleman in the past six months: "You can check, there is evidence of my whereabouts." ”

Next, Matthew talked about the incident in the airport waiting hall that day.

Mads went to the airport bar first, and Matthew followed. After sitting at the bar for a while, Matthew actually noticed that Mads's expression was a little strange, but he thought it was the emotional exposure of Mads's reluctance to leave Rachel's mother and son, and he didn't care much.

Subsequently, Matthew followed Mads into the hall again, and he also went to change his boarding pass, and also watched Maddes change his boarding pass. As Mads walked out, Matthew followed him and saw Mads hailing a taxi.

In Matthew's thoughts, no matter where Mads goes, he will be back in a few minutes, after all, the boarding pass has been changed, the luggage has been checked, and it will only take ten minutes to board the plane.

So, this time Matthew decided to read the newspaper in the lobby. Until Matthew boarded the plane, he actually stopped paying attention to whether Mads came up, this is not Afghanistan, so there is no need to be so nervous.

As the departure hall began calling out to the late passengers to hurry to the plane, Matthew had a vague sense that something was wrong. As the flight attendants and captains panicked, the sirens sounded around them, and the heavily armed SWAT officers began to surround the plane.

"So you didn't see Mads disappear either?" Coleman hated, people Mikkelson paid you, how can you, as a person who is about to become a legend in the FBI, be so irresponsible.

"Yes, I didn't see it. It was my negligence and I would have returned a portion of the money I had advanced to Mikkelsen. As an agent recruited by the CIA, Matthew is very honest and disdainful of taking advantage of this small advantage.

A few of Rachel's photos on the table were put away by Nathan, and now that there are new clues in Las Vegas, he can't say that he can't fly there at sunrise.

"Go ahead, we're going to hurry. By the way, Coleman, is there a way to check the accounts of the Green branch in Las Vegas? Wang Lei didn't seem to believe Mikkelsen's words.

This is the third time in one day that I have traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Boeing, which was refueled, started slowly again and slowly picked up speed.

(Today's fourth watch.) There are a few typos in the first few chapters, Bai Qi thinks that the plot is too concentrated, and he failed to modify it in time, Bai Qi apologizes here, and will strengthen the inspection in this regard in the future, Xie Lu Xie supports genuine subscription book friends, please smash the ticket to support the only crime scene suspense detection series in China! ）