Ruiz was not in a very good mood, half a dozen beers and Jimmy drank directly, and they were idle, so they talked about Jimmy's investigation process during this time.

Although it has been a long time, more than a month, the investigation of the case itself is actually not particularly difficult, but Jimmy's advantage is much stronger than the others, so even if there is an accident, he can still make up for it directly, and it seems that the whole process is smooth.

Ruiz, of course, did not believe that it would be so easy, knowing that this was a case of kidnapping and human trafficking, and if it were that simple, tens of thousands of people would disappear every year without being found.

To make an inappropriate analogy, the police and the FBI offer a lot of rewards every year, and not many criminals can be caught, even if the FBI headquarters has a special serious crime team responsible for the pursuit of major criminals, there is still no way to arrest many dangerous elements.

However, he looks at Jimmy's mood seems to be good, even if he is out for more than a month, it seems that he is only slightly tired, which is mainly caused by the lack of rest time, and there is no slack because of this, it seems that Jimmy really likes to work on these cases, and staying in the office for a long time is really not a thing.

This also strengthened his determination, this time Jimmy's case is registered in the headquarters, and it has involved multiple branches, once this kind of case is over, Jimmy and Hope can get impression points far more than ordinary cases, in case they are pulled to the headquarters, the New York office will lose a lot.

After drinking the beer, Ruiz got up: "Okay, I'll go back to rest, and I'll go back to New York tomorrow, be careful here." If you need to go to Juarez later, I hope you will pay attention to your own safety, you are more important than others. ”

Jimmy also got up to see him off, "Don't worry, I'm fine." ”

Ruiz: "You can rest, someone will contact you if it is arranged later, this time it is a formal task of multi-department cooperation." ”

Jimmy nodded, which meant that the anonymous phone number they had contacted before would not be given to anyone else, and if someone did, it would definitely be on their official mobile phone.

Ruiz left early the next morning, and Jimmy just said hello to him, and didn't even eat breakfast, so it can be seen that he should have acted privately this time, and he has been busy for more than half a month, and it is finally over, and it is estimated that Ruiz will have a little better life after he returns.

The investigation here in Albuquerque is still in full swing, and Hope follows up the whole process on behalf of the headquarters, and when he comes back from work, he also brings a copy of the current investigation progress to Jimmy, so that he can understand the progress of the case and become the most qualified tool.

Jimmy and Steven's surveillance video has been extracted, and a team has been formed by the DEA and FBI to verify the video and check the content of their interrogation records, of course, Jimmy is very sure that he will not leave any clues in the video, otherwise the scene he deliberately did would be in vain.

Everything was normal, but on the third day, when Hope retrieved the confession of the arrested person, Jimmy suddenly found that there were two people missing, "Hope, is this all?" ”

Hope nodded, "I see what you mean, yes, that's all." ”

Jimmy frowned and stared at Hope: "The other one aside, I remember there's another scumbag here, caught on the third floor......"

Hope interrupted Jimmy: "No, I checked all the detainees today, and the number of confessions matched. ”

Jimmy took a deep breath, well done, this is a person who was temporarily detained in the FBI office building, and was not transferred to the detention center, and just disappeared two people? How much energy does the person behind it have to handle it so cleanly?

Jimmy nodded and returned the information to Hope: "So, those three underage girls, how did they get to the club?" Has this been investigated? ”

Hope nodded: "There is one thing that has not been confirmed yet, the three of them did not come to Albuquerque together, someone will send one over every once in a while, and the three of them are all illegal immigrants, the most recent one came from the US-Mexico border more than half a year ago, and then was kidnapped, so I am not sure of my location." ”

Jimmy: "In other words, the source of the prostitutes in the club should be a kidnapping gang, and their target is basically illegal immigrants at the border?" That has little to do with what we're going to investigate. ”

Hope: "It's not certain for now, the club's management arrested three, but they kept insisting that they didn't know anything, they just took money to run the club, and they didn't handle the drugs and women here. Now the Albuquerque office is conducting an investigation into the past of the three people, as well as their relatives, friends and social relationships, and hopefully there will be progress in the future. ”

Jimmy: "OK, I see, thank you, Hope. ”

Hope picked up the information and got up: "Then I'll go back and rest." ”

Jimmy watched Hope leave his room, closed the door, and punched the wall of the bathroom, these people have gone too far, this is New Mexico on the US-Mexico border, not a Mexico where drug dealers are rampant and dare to threaten the president and politicians, and it must have been a big man to erase a suspect in this kind of openness, and it must have taken these two days to open up the entire chain to ensure that no one will mention it, and the cost will not be less, and the price is really big.

If he can save two people at such a big price, will he continue to track down the people who captured them? What Jimmy and Steven are doing in this case is open internally, and you can find out if you ask.

This is a problem, the last time I encountered this kind of trouble was when I raided a gang in New York and killed the son of a big man, and he later brought Jimmy several inexplicable assassinations, should I do it again this time?

Jimmy sat on the bed, leaning on a pillow and watching TV, finally deciding that he couldn't wait any longer. He called Steven and asked him to come out tomorrow, then turned down the volume on the TV and lay down to rest.

The next day, Jimmy and Steven meet outside, and instead of going to a café or something, the two stand in the corner of a square and smoke a cigarette.

Jimmy: "You got it? Someone disappeared. ”

Steven frowned: "Who disappeared?" ”

Jimmy: "Two of the people we brought back were gone, and the testimony was gone, as if they hadn't been there at all. ”

Steven: "I don't know, I didn't participate in the follow-up investigation. Moreover, as long as we are investigating the club operators and tracing the source of their drugs, we do not intervene in the others. ”

Jimmy: "I see, can you help make a copy of our footage?" ”

Steven: "Why? ”

Jimmy: "Do you remember the first time I came to you?" It was when we killed a couple of people in a raid on the gang, one of whom was the kid of a big man, and since that operation I've been assassinated and attacked five times in quick succession before I found the reason to come to Albuquerque to cut off the assassination. ”

Steven stared at Jimmy with wide eyes, five assassinations and attacks, he was still intact, and even traveled to most of the United States to hunt down the behind-the-scenes masterminds, are you sure this is not a movie?

Steven: "Do you think that's possible?" ”

Jimmy nodded, "It's not just me, you're there this time, if, I mean if, the people behind the scenes are going to do it, maybe you're in their target range too, if they're the same people I've met before." ”

Steven put the cigarette to the corner of his mouth, took a hard puff, then threw the cigarette butt to the ground and stomped it hard, "Do you know who it is?" ”

Jimmy: "I don't know, but I suspect it's the guy we saw on the third floor, because the confession was missing the customer of the second prostitute, you know, the first guy had been shot by the gangsters. ”

Steven: "I see, you wait for my news." ”

Jimmy: "You have to be careful these two days, pay attention to the people and cars around you. ”

Steven: "Well, I'll go back first. ”

When Steven left, he still looked left and right at his surroundings, his right hand was placed at the waist position, there was no swing, and it seemed that the movements were still a little awkward, it seemed that Jimmy's words just now made him feel a little embarrassed.

Jimmy was still standing there, waiting for the cigarette to finish his cigarette and pick up the cigarette butt that Steven had thrown on the ground, extinguished it on the trash can, and threw it in, before clapping his hands and leaving the plaza and returning to the hotel.

Jimmy is a bit of a trick this time, in fact, this time is still different from the last time, after all, people are still alive and not dead, so they can't assassinate Jimmy and Steven for revenge.

It's just that Jimmy really didn't want to let go of the scum on the third floor, when he was at the scene, if it wasn't for the forgery conditions, he would have done it a long time ago, but now he didn't even have to go to jail after being caught, and disappeared directly from the FBI office, which is too slap in the face, even if no one knows what Jimmy thought at the time.

Using Steven DEA's resources to get their videos, it is possible to find the portrait they took from the door, and then you can determine the identity, now the only question is whether the video can clearly recognize the person's appearance.

The only question now is whether Steven can get the video, after all, the case has not been closed, and the video as an important evidence theoretically needs to be kept strictly confidential, and it is impossible for Steven to bring it out easily.

It's a matter of life and death, Steven really worked hard this time, not only went to the DEA office to deal with the technicians, but also carried his own guns and body armor with him, and he would wear body armor when he drove in and out, which looked very weird, so that Hank felt that he had participated in a shootout before and had some sequelae, and considered whether to arrange another psychological intervention for him.

According to the process, Jimmy of of course also needs psychological intervention, but under Hope's arrangement, the person in charge of Albuquerque's side retrieved Jimmy's file, and after reading it, he still agreed with Hope's statement, even if he wanted to carry out psychological intervention, he would arrange to return to the headquarters.

So Steven is actually quite busy during this break, and Jimmy only needs to wait for news in the hotel, even if he goes to the FBI office, he will still be temporarily isolated from the investigation of the case, in fact, this time the reconnaissance mission turned into a shootout, and caused four deaths, Jimmy is confined is normal, and it needs to be checked to rule out the suspicion that he and Steven deliberately caused a conflict and killed people.

Steven was very efficient, and called Jimmy that night, came to his room, and played a video on the laptop he brought with him, which was taken from Jimmy's personal video, and the scum on the third floor of their target could clearly see half of his face, but there was no positive picture.

Jimmy: "Can you find out who he is?" ”

Steven: "It's going to be harder, but I can confirm that there aren't many people who can do it to this level, so I'll check their family information and give me some time." ”

Jimmy nodded, "Thank you, great work." ”

Steven turned off the computer, put it back in his bag, and then sat down and looked at Jimmy with a serious expression: "Jimmy, tell me, after the investigation comes out, can you handle it?" ”

Jimmy raised an eyebrow and sat down to look at Steven, "What do you mean?" ”

Steven: "I know your uncle Tom and know what you're capable of, and now this matter may jeopardize my safety, so I have to make sure, do I still need to worry?" ”

Jimmy understood what he meant, and said with a smile, "I'll wait for your news." ”

Jimmy got up to see Steven off, the serious expression on Steven's face had disappeared, and it seemed that he understood what Jimmy meant.

Jimmy had already found out the situation of the hotel, and the monitoring positions of some stores around the outside had also been figured out, he still went out as usual during the day, first went to buy a second-hand motorcycle, and then found some second-hand stores and hardware stores to buy some old clothes and small equipment, and brought them back to the hotel room.

Taking an envelope from the waiter, Jimmy tipped, closed the door, pulled out a piece of paper from the envelope, pasted two addresses with cut printing paper, he took the envelope and paper to the bathroom, lit it and burned it, threw the ashes down the toilet and flushed it out.

In the early hours of the morning, Jimmy made sure that the people in the surrounding rooms had rested, so he came to open the door and left his room, followed the fire escape to the second floor, then entered the staff bathroom next to him, climbed out of the small window, found the bicycle he had placed here in advance in the alley next to the hotel, and rushed out after riding it.

The hood, gloves, face is also covered with a pre-prepared cycling face towel to ensure that no features of yourself are visible from the outside, and there is a backpack on the back with some makeshift gadgets inside.

Leaving the hotel area, he found the motorcycle he had prepared in advance and drove quickly towards the target address, he was short on time and had to return to the hotel before others found out that they were not in the room.

(End of chapter)