Chapter 15: It's a Joke, a Deadly Joke

New York, as the world's largest international metropolitan center, is also a landmark city in the United States.

In the United States, New York has a very special status, and even the 911 incident that shocked the whole world was aimed at the World Trade Center in New York, and New York's status can be imagined.

In this extremely complicated federal country, under the management of more than 10,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States, there are dozens of special anti-terrorist units under different law enforcement units in New York alone, waiting for orders at any time.

Some of these anti-terrorist units are affiliated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some are affiliated with the Federal Police, some are affiliated with the U.S. Homeland Security Agency, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Tax Bureau.

Even the National Health Agency has its own dedicated unit that is responsible for solving problems in the event of a terrorist attack with biological and chemical weapons.

In any case, when the action team located the location of the kidnapper's call, the FBI quickly issued a dispatch order, converting all the service units that could be dispatched by law enforcement units in the vicinity of the target location into mobile formations, and arranging to go to the scene to wait for the arrival of the action team.

By the time the FBI's team arrived on South Broadway, the street had been cordoned off by the NYPD, which had arrived first, and riot trucks and police helicopters were arriving, almost encircling the entire neighborhood.

Standard American-style law enforcement, completely ignoring the kidnappers' ideas, and when Li Yan and Carter arrived at the scene with the action team, they saw this special situation of being surrounded by groups, and their hearts were already half cold.

In a major criminal case like this, which involves the diplomacy of a major power, theoretically speaking, the fewer people who know about it, the better.

Behind the police riot car, on Carter's own black convertible old Chevrolet Corvette sports car, looking at the blockaded apartment building in the distance, the old black Carter was a little dazed.

"Li, this situation is not right, the kidnappers are afraid to run-"

He has worked in the New York Police Department for more than ten years, and he has never heard of such a big battle for a kidnapping case, and basically the rescue of hostages is carried out by elite soldiers, taking the most secret way of action, and suddenly attacking the kidnapper's stronghold, and then rescuing the hostages.

Where is there a lockdown of an entire neighborhood like the one now?

The expression on Li Yan's face was also a little ugly.

If the kidnapping case is successfully solved and the hostages are rescued safely, the Americans will receive the gratitude of the Chinese side, and most importantly, all those involved in the case will also be rewarded.

But if the hostages are not rescued in this kidnapping case, even if they only kill the kidnappers, they will still have the reward they deserve.

And the final result - the hostages died, the kidnappers ran away, the mission ended in failure, Consul Han Ping would lose his daughter, and those Yankees would only be punished verbally.

Thinking of this, Li Yan angrily hammered his thigh.

He was angry because he didn't have law enforcement power here, and those FBI people were also looking at him at the top, not only did they not pay attention to him, but they didn't allow him to meddle in the case, but they themselves didn't care about the safety of the hostages.

The Han family has a great favor to Li Yan, Li Yan regards Han Ping as his brother, and Han Ping's daughter is like a daughter to him.

When she left Hong Kong Island with her father Han Ping, Li Yan once agreed that she would definitely come to the United States to see her, and also promised that she would come to rescue her when she was in danger.

Can ...... now

Looking at the members of the urban anti-terrorism team who were wearing black body armor and preparing to break into the building, Li Yan looked complicated and quickly walked to the side of the commander-in-chief of the operation team, trying to stop their reckless actions.

"Mr. Ross, you can't just break into the building!"

"What are you doing here, Inspector Li, I don't care how you are in Hong Kong, this is our territory, you have to listen to me here."

Ross, the senior FBI agent in charge of the operation team, looked at the little yellow man beside him with a proud expression, and didn't care what Li Yan was talking about.

"The kidnapper demanded a ransom of fifty million dollars, would he hide in a place like this?!"

"Someone, take this clown aside—"

Li Yan wanted to convince the other party, but the answer he waited for was that the agent next to him pulled him away and pushed him to the blockade in the distance.

During the conversation, the special service team of about 30 people had received orders to break into the apartment building, but the unfinished apartment building was of course empty, and no suspicious figures were seen.

The special service team was divided into three teams of ten people, and quickly searched the entire construction facility from bottom to top, and what was waiting for them here was only all kinds of construction waste from the construction site, and it was impossible to see where the hostages were.

"Sir, the entire building has been searched, and there is no trace of the kidnappers—"

"Keep looking, there must be!"

The leader of the secret service team used a Bluetooth headset to connect with Agent Ross downstairs, but Agent Ross didn't believe it.

"Boss, the team on the roof found a satellite phone."

The report immediately attracted the attention of the leader of the special service team, who immediately led people to the top floor.

In the center of the top floor, they saw a trapped bucket covered with wooden planks and a blue cloth on which lay a black satellite phone, which seemed to have been left on purpose.

Before the captain of the special service team could report the incident, the satellite phone suddenly rang.

When the team members were sure that there was no problem, the captain connected the phone, and on the other end of the phone, a somewhat hoarse voice suddenly came out, speaking in English that was not fluent.

"Good evening, officer—"

"Who are you and what exactly do you want to do?"

"Look up at the window."

Hearing the other party's words, the captain of the team slowly raised his head and looked at the window not far away, but then, he was stunned, because on the transparent glass, someone seemed to have written a line of handwriting in white paint.

[It's a joke]

"Captain, there's a bomb in the ventilation duct in the basement, there are a lot of bombs!!"

"Boom-"

Accompanied by the howl of the members of the special service team responsible for searching the underground area from the Bluetooth headset, it was located in the basement area and was installed in the ventilation duct, and a large number of remote-controlled bombs suddenly burst into flames.

The explosion shattered the load-bearing walls of every building the bombs approached, and when all the load-bearing walls were shattered, the entire building began to collapse.

Countless bricks, tiles, reinforced concrete, turned into death, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of all the members of the special service team who remained in the building, while the people outside the building could only watch this happen, and could do nothing.