After separating from Tom, he returned to the office, and there was nothing to do for the night, and in the morning when Jimmy was ready to leave, Chris came to the office early.

Jimmy: "Hi Chris, morning. ”

Chris: "Jimmy, it just so happens that you haven't been back yet, Hughes has been contacted by the Dallas office, and they need you to go on a business trip, and it is said that you were in charge of a case that needs to be taken care of in the past. Speaking of which, this is the first time I've heard that you've handled a few cases in Dallas, and it seems that you have a lot of activities during your apprenticeship. ”

Jimmy's head was full of question marks: "What case?" I've got a few cases over there. ”

Chris: "Then I don't know, Hughes contacted me in the morning." Anyway, let's go first, Hughes's arrangement. ”

Jimmy nodded and left the office with a confused expression.

Jimmy got into his car, got out of the parking lot, and called Lambert, the director of the Dallas office.

Jimmy: "Director Lambert, I'm Jimmy from Manhattan. ”

Lambert: "Ah, Jimmy, I got the news so soon. ”

Jimmy: "Yes, Hughes informed my team leader early in the morning. Which case do you need me to close? ”

Lambert: "It's not convenient to say on the phone, we'll talk when you get there." Come over as soon as possible. ”

Jimmy: "Okay, Director Lambert, goodbye. ”

Jimmy hung up the phone, went home and took a shower, changed his clothes and headed out for the airport, hey, another sleepless day.

The flight arrived in Dallas without incident, and Jimmy slept on the plane for nearly 3 hours and was finally in better spirits. I took a taxi from the airport and went straight to the Dallas office, found a restaurant downstairs for a late lunch, and then arrived at Lambert's office.

Jimmy knocked on the door, "Director Lambert, I'm here." ”

Lambert looked up at Jimmy, raised his eyebrows, and said in surprise, "You came here today, I thought you would be here tomorrow." ”

Jimmy smiled and walked over to Lambert's desk and sat down on his own, "Of course I'm coming over right away, Director Lambert must have something very important." ”

Lambert nodded: "It's okay to come early, just have a good rest today, I made an appointment with Father Houghton, and you will come with me to meet him tomorrow." ”

Jimmy frowned, but Father Horton was impressed, "Is that the disappearance?" Could it be that the exorcism failed? ”

Lambert shook his head, "Don't worry, the exorcism is successful, it's just something else, rest assured." You go and rest first. ”

Jimmy said goodbye to Lambert and stood up and left the Dallas office.

Jimmy was familiar with this neighborhood, he went directly to the hotel next door to open a room, put his backpack in the room, and changed his clothes, although it was winter, the weather in Dallas was much better than in New York.

After sleeping on the plane for nearly 3 hours in the morning, and now he is not very sleepy, Jimmy chooses to go out shopping directly, and come back early in the evening to go to bed early to make up for the lack of sleep in the past two days.

The next morning, Jimmy arrived at Lambert's office on time, Lambert tidied up the table, and then drove Jimmy to a church, which was a very small church, not as brilliant as the church in New York, and looked very ordinary.

Lambert and Jimmy walked into the church, and Father Houghton was looking through some books, and when he saw them coming, he closed the books, waved to Lambert and them, and got up and entered the side room of the church.

On a table against the wall was a tin box, next to which was a skull and two books.

Father Horton pointed to the things on the table and said, "These are the things you dug up from the forest, they have been cleaned, do you have an impression?" Jimmy. ”

Jimmy nodded, "That's it, what's wrong?" Shouldn't these be in the evidence room? ”

Father Houghton nodded, "Yes, I just brought them from the evidence room the other day. Because something inexplicable happened over there. ”

Jimmy: "Please continue. ”

Lambert spoke at this time: "This box was moved from Tata Town to the testing center after the case was over, and it was cleaned there, because it was soaked for too long, the two books have been completely scrapped, and there is no way to open the pages inside completely, and after the skull was cleaned, DNA was extracted, and then moved to the FBI evidence room with the box."

At first, there was no problem, but about ten days ago, some strange things began to happen in the evidence room, first someone began to hallucinate, and then the monitoring center found that the surveillance video would shake, and even disappear for a short time, and the camera seemed to be disturbed.

I contacted Father Houghton to check it out, and after examining the evidence room and its surroundings, we didn't find anything out of the ordinary, we investigated the contents of the evidence room, and it was this box and its contents that had been stored in the warehouse for a while and related to the strange incident, but nothing could be found.

Since you were the first to spot the box's anomaly and dig it out of the ground with precision, Father Houghton thinks you might be able to fix it. ”

Jimmy looked at Lambert and then turned to look at the skull. He had already opened his eyes when he entered the church, and it was his habit to scan every corner of a new place to prevent danger.

After entering the church, he didn't notice the kind of silk thread that the box had emitted before, and now he looked very calm. Jimmy frowned, observing the skulls and books in front of him, the last time because they were all in the box, he didn't observe where the threads came from.

The reason why I didn't remind everyone before was because this box was obviously not harmful, and the main effect of the box was to make the surrounding plants appear greener and look like they were growing better, and there was nothing wrong with the campers in Tata Town and the river, and even he was very suspicious that this thing was a very precious thing, because even in broad daylight, it could attract the resentful spirits in the river to sacrifice themselves to take it.

This benign anomalous object should not cause much trouble even if it were taken, so he only hinted to Lambert that there was something wrong with it, and then didn't ask about it again.

Jimmy looked at Father Houghton, "Father Houghton, have you been here since you brought it back to the church?" Are there any anomalies? Smaller ones are also counted. ”

Father Houghton shook his head: "No, it has been quiet for the past two days. ”

Jimmy: "Wouldn't you consider storing it in a different place first?" After all, this is a church, and there are more holy relics, maybe he was suppressed? ”

Horton frowned, he really hadn't thought about this before, he turned his head to look at the skull, and then looked at Lambert: "Lambert, do you have a place where you can't be disturbed?" It's better to have no residents around. ”

Lambert nodded: "Send it to my farm, I'll have someone clean up the room first." ”

A few people packed it, and Father Horton also specially brought his own box, which should be the same box that his assistant took when he was exorcised last time. This time, because he didn't know how long he would stay, his assistant had to stay in the church to preside over the daily activities.

Lambert's farm is very large, and for the sake of this broken box, he specially arranged for all the family members to drive to Dallas or Houston to play, so as to give up the farm house, so as not to have any problems affecting his family.

They emptied a small warehouse, and put the chest, the skeleton, and the two books that could not be opened on the table in the middle of the warehouse, and as for them, they lived in the main room, and arranged for one person to be on duty in turn to watch the movement here.

Lambert could not stay long, and after two days he returned to Dallas, and Father Houghton found two apprentices to come over so that he could take the evening shift.

On the third night, the vision finally appeared, Jimmy was in the afternoon to the first half of the night, but at 9 o'clock, he found the silk thread floating in the air.

Jimmy shouted, "Father Houghton, come out!" ”

Horton and one of the apprentices immediately ran out of the main house, and the other apprentice should have been resting and came out a few minutes late.

Father Horton came up to Jimmy, "What did you find?" ”

Jimmy looked at Father Houghton in surprise: "What? Oh, sorry, I wanted to ask, you can't see the threads in the air, can you? ”

Father Houghton's eyes widened, and he stood outside the warehouse and looked at it, but he still didn't see anything. "Chests." Horton shouted, and the apprentice behind him handed the box in his hand to Father Horton, who opened the box and took out a very small bottle, the size of a thumb, from which he poured out a drop of water and smeared it on his finger and rubbed it on his eyelids.

"Holy Father!" After reading it, Horton turned his head to look at Jimmy, his eyes lit up, "You can see this directly?" ”

Jimmy pouted and shook his head: "No, it requires a lot of concentration and it lasts for a short time. ”

Father Horton nodded, and shook his head again: "You are very talented, I am more sure now, but it's a pity that ......" Father Horton is really sorry for Jimmy now, such a talent, if you enter the seminary since you were a child, after a few years of training, you will become an excellent exorcist priest, but now Jimmy is too big, and it is difficult to go to the seminary to study now, the key is that it is difficult to get loyalty.

Father Houghton turned his head to look at the warehouse, while the potion was still valid, he opened the door and entered the warehouse, and found the source of the silk thread, but it seemed that his potion effect was not good, he couldn't see where the source was at all, although there was a difference in concentration, but the effect of his potion was not enough to observe where the concentration was the highest with only a few silk threads.

Jimmy walked over and pointed to the forehead of the skull, or the center of the eyebrows, about the same distance. "This is where the threads come from."

Father Horton looked at the apprentice behind him, "Do you sense anything is wrong?" ”

The apprentice shook his head, and Jimmy said, "I had a guess about this silk thread, this should be a beneficial anomaly, you can take a look at the aerial photos I asked for earlier." In the forest where the box is buried, the plants affected by the silk thread will be greener than the other plants, which should also mean that the affected plants grow better and have stronger vitality than the others, of course, this is just my speculation. ”

Father Horton nodded, "If it's really what you say, it could be a beneficial change, but why are there auditory hallucinations and other abnormalities over there?" For example, surveillance cameras are interfered with? ”

Jimmy: "There's a possibility that this beneficial mutation is not only good for plants, but also attracts other spirits or other monsters, and those anomalies are caused by other spirits, but because they are too far from their roots and too weak, they only affect a few people and interfere with monitoring. ”

Fr. Houghton: "Well, if there is such a possibility, we will observe for two more days, and if there is no other abnormality, we will go back." I'll send this one for a good test. ”

Jimmy nodded: "It's time for a shift, I'll go back and rest, your people will look at this first." ”

At noon the next day, while Jimmy was still resting, suddenly there was an exclamation outside, and Jimmy got up and came to the window, where a large wild boar was running after the apprentice on duty, and the apprentice was running to avoid it while blocking it with something from the farm.

Jimmy pulled out his gun, aimed at the boar from the window and shot it in the head, unfortunately, the boar is not something that can be done with one shot, seeing that it is still rushing forward, Jimmy directly emptied the bullet in the revolver, anyway, no one eats the boar, and the bullet fragments on the body should not have any effect.

After taking down the boar, Jimmy shouted and asked, "What's going on?" How did this wild boar come about? ”

"I don't know, I didn't find the boar until it came to my side just now."

Father Horton also went outside, "It could be the skull, Jimmy, let's go back right away." ”

Father Houghton arranged for one of the apprentices to pack the boxes, the other to go back to the room to tidy up, and the four drove back to Father Houghton's church in Dallas.

"Jimmy, thank you for everything you've done for us." At parting, Father Houghton thanked Jimmy.

Jimmy: "You're welcome, yes, I haven't thanked you for the exorcism you performed for me last time. ”

Father Horton took out a small box from his pocket: "This is for you, as a souvenir." I did it myself. ”

Jimmy opened the box, and inside was a small cross pendant, the kind on the necklace, which was very small, only about 3cm in length.

Jimmy closed the lid, "Thank you, Father Houghton. Then I'll go back first, and if there's nothing else here, I'll need to rush back to New York. ”

Jimmy returned to the Dallas office, Lambert briefly inquired about the results, he looked at the time, "Jimmy, your business is over, Father Houghton will take care of the rest, you can now think about what you are going to do in the next few days." ”

Jimmy's eyes lit up: "The next few days?" ”

Lambert: "Well, I'm applying for a secondment for two weeks. Go ahead. ”

Jimmy: "Thanks, Director Lambert. Then I'll go back first. ”

Jimmy left the office, it was quite unexpected, he thought he was going to rush back to New York immediately, but now it only took 4 or 5 days to get it done, wouldn't it be another day off? After thinking about it, Jimmy decided to call Frank's phone, Tom just strictly forbade himself from the training center and the Counterterrorism Bureau, and now he has time to see how the retired CIA agent does his job.

It's no wonder that Jimmy is impulsive now, mainly because he already knows that his CIA identity is in the stumbling block project, and he will always have to deal with them later, and maybe he will also experience Frank being cleaned up by the CIA assassination team, Tom's side of the dragon is not the end, and the only one who can have something to do with them is Frank. With your current ability, as long as you are careful, there should be no problem.

Jimmy: "Hey, how's your side doing?" ”

Frank: "What's the matter?" ”

Jimmy: "Ah, make sure you checked the other two?" ”

Frank: "Gabriel Singer is dead. ”

Jimmy: "Oh, where are you?" There's something I need to check with you. ”

Frank: "I'm very busy right now, can I talk about that later?" ”

Jimmy: "Please, you're single-handedly picking them up right now, what if something happens?" Let's meet first. ”

Frank: "Okay, we should be able to get to DC tonight, so you can come over if it's convenient." ”

Jimmy: "OK, I'll go now." ”

In the evening, Jimmy came to Washington, D.C., wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat all the time, and wrapped himself tightly. Using a fake identity he had hidden when he was a county sheriff in Little Rock, Jimmy drove to dinner at a roadside restaurant and waited for Frank's notification.

Jimmy leaves the restaurant, parks his car in an open space, sits in the car and closes his eyes, waiting for Frank to arrive. It's just that he didn't have such good luck to rest, in just 2 hours, Jimmy had scared away two waves of idiots who tried to pry the car door, because there were no lights around, and Jimmy didn't have a driving light, and the people who came to pry the door outside couldn't see anyone in the car at all, and Jimmy had to put a gun at the window to scare them off, otherwise it might really evolve from stealing a car to a robbery.

A car came from a distance and stopped next to Jimmy, Jimmy and Frank got out of the car, there were still people in the car, but because of the lights, Jimmy didn't see who it was.

Jimmy: "Frank, are you driving from Arizona?" ”

Frank: "Of course, someone is chasing me right now, and it's best to drive." What do you have to say to your face? ”

Jimmy gestured, and the two moved away from the car, "Frank, do you remember the name Tom Kodaiski?" ”

Frank didn't speak, but looked at Jimmy, who was far away from the car, with only a little moonlight, and didn't really see much of his expression.

Frank: "What's your relationship with him?" How could you possibly know him? ”

Jimmy: "Well, he trained me. ”

Frank: "You're also a CIA?" ”

Jimmy coughed, "I don't admit it and I don't deny it. ”

Frank: "You're really a CIA, Kodaiski I certainly remember, I trained him. But he's supposed to be dead, and I've heard before that he had an accident on a mission. ”

Jimmy: "Do you remember him?" ”

Frank: "Looks like he should have learned from Marven in the first place." Where is he? ”

Jimmy: "I don't know, but I'll let you know when he contacts me." ”

Frank: "Well, that's it?" ”

Jimmy: "Well, it's mainly for this matter, and I happened to be on vacation recently, do you see if it's ......?"

Frank shook his head: "It's too dangerous. You'd better go back. ”

Jimmy: "For the sake of how long we've known each other, let me join in and learn from the old-timers." ”

Frank: "Can you get into Langley?" ”

Jimmy shook his head, and at the same time waved his hand: "No, I'm currently in a latent state, and I can't actively activate my identity, there will be big problems." ”

Frank looked at Jimmy and didn't speak, Jimmy also knew that he was thinking, and didn't interrupt him, and finally Frank nodded, "Follow from afar, don't get involved." ”

The two of them returned to the car, and an old man got out of Frank's car, "Oh, Mr. Bright, long time no see. ”

Frank: "He's Marven, Marven on that list." ”

Jimmy turned to look at Frank, "He's been dead in the system for a few years. Continue to turn his head to look at Marven: "Marven, I really can't think of it." ”

Frank: "Alright, we're leaving. Marven didn't say anything, and went straight back to the co-pilot.

Jimmy nodded, since Frank didn't say where he was going, he just drove away and followed them, anyway, Frank must have a plan.

(End of chapter)