Captain?

Is this bombing related to the military?

No wonder Gillian was so surprised when she heard the name "Saeva" at the time, the colonel officer was already a big leader, according to the American military rank system, one level higher is the brigadier general, if the colonel held some important positions, the power could be very great.

Military, munitions, terrorists, Volut......

Gu Ji connected one information point after another, as if he was about to find out the truth of the matter.

At this time, Gillian and Jamie also followed from behind.

When she learns that the female thug has demanded that "Saeva Mittal" must be present, Gillian can't help but look sad.

Fortunately, a moment later, there was good news from the first and second teams of HRT.

The thug who fled into the mall was killed, and the sniper was captured alive by the second team, and the suspect was using an Mk-13 sniper rifle that fired a .300 Winchester Magnum high-power bullet, no wonder he could knock his head into a bloody mist with a single shot.

Gu Ji pursed his lips when he heard that the sniper had been killed.

"In this situation, the colonel must come forward to stabilize the female thug, her accomplices have been shot one after another, the negotiator is also dead, and now there is no one to communicate, the other party may panic and detonate the bomb at any time, I will drag it first, and take a look at the bomb structure by the way!"

"Wait......"

Gillian wanted to shout to stop him, but it was too late, Gu Ji had already stood up to attract the attention of the female thug, she could only take off Jamie's tactical headset and hand it to Gu Ji, "Listen to my orders at any time!" ”

Gu Ji nodded, took the headset belt, and walked towards the BMW X5 where the female thug was.

Looking at his back, Gillian pressed the walkie-talkie:

"Command Center! I'm Gillian, and the situation is basically under control, but the mob kidnaps Colonel Saeva's son and demands that the colonel be there in person, right, what? The colonel has already left the Quantico base......"

Meanwhile.

Gu Ji slowly walked out from behind the explosion-proof vehicle, spread his palms first, and signaled that he was not a threat.

Inside the rear compartment.

On the right is a young white man in a dark blue suit with a brown back, with 20 kilograms of C4 high explosives tied to a wire rope, his face is pale, white foam is piled up to his mouth, some are out of breath, his legs can't stop shaking, it is the fund manager Lauerd.

And beside him there was a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old woman in gray-green casual clothes, brown skin, and three-dimensional facial features, who was the female thug who was injured by Gu Ji before.

The wound was oozing outward, and the blood had stained her entire shoulder red.

The pain and blood loss made her look a little haggard, but even so, she still did not give up the detonator in her left hand, and her eyes remained vicious, like a female leopard ready to fight desperately.

"Don't be nervous, I just wanted to talk to you."

Gu Ji pulled out the pistol on his waist, rushed out of the muzzle, slowly put it on the ground, and grabbed his trouser pocket again, indicating that there was no weapon in it.

Then, he began to slowly approach the female thug, his eyes secretly looking at the detonator in the opponent's hand, calculating the possibility of various close-range attacks, but he vetoed them.

Because the female thug's thumb is always pre-pressed on the button.

The initiator, on the other hand, is directly connected to the bomb circuit motherboard via a wire, meaning it does not have any signal delay.

Unless Gu Ji can kill the other party at a speed that exceeds the limit of human reactions, at any chance, the female thug will immediately press the detonator, and when the time comes, all the people within two or three hundred meters around will be GG!

"We've contacted Colonel Saeva as you requested, and he'll be on the scene soon, but your injuries are serious, and if you wish, I can ask the first responders to help you with a brief treatment of your wounds!"

"Aren't all my injuries caused by you? Saflo Barron! ”

Just when he tried to use the wound treatment to distract the female thug, he didn't expect the other party to suddenly grin and show an extremely weird smile, like a predator who saw his prey.

Gu Ji's eyelids jumped.

The female thug lowered her left hand, which was holding the detonator, slightly.

"I thought you were just a garbage gangster, but I didn't expect you to hide so many skills, did you learn from your Marine father?"

"So you're 'art needs to be cruel.'"

Gu Ji always felt that the second half of the sentence was a bit familiar, and he recalled it carefully, only to remember that the bomber had also posted a similar barrage in the live broadcast room.

Now it seems that the bomber's performance in the live broadcast is very emotional, and he is indeed more like a woman.

Because the limbic system of the female brain is larger and more active, and the limbic system is the center that mainly regulates emotions, the lower parietal lobe of men is larger, which controls computing power, which proves that men are more rational and women are more affected by emotions.

Could it be that she was the mastermind of the bombing?

There were a total of six soldiers in that group photo, watching the terrorists being killed one by one by HRT special police, except for the last person who did not show up, only the female thug in front of him remained.

Identifying the mastermind isn't just about completing side quests.

It is more about the direction of Gu Ji's next negotiations.

As the main messenger of the case, he will definitely not be as easy to be moved as an accomplice.

Perhaps the female thug had already had the mentality of being dead, and when Colonel Saeva arrived, they detonated the bomb and died together.

The female thug did not quibble.

"You're smart."

"If I hadn't been smart, I wouldn't have survived now, and I wouldn't have been able to help you cause such a big sensation, but now that your goal has been achieved, and the media around the world are scrambling to report the news of the bombing, maybe we can talk about it calmly."

Gu Ji borrowed the way of the negotiator just now and tried to guide the female thug to speak.

On the one hand, it can delay time, and on the other hand, it can take the opportunity to obtain some information behind the case.

The female thug lowered her head and pursed her lips, and actually laughed out loud, with a little hideous in her eyes.

"Hehehe, let's talk about it? What is there to talk about? ”

"Don't be nervous, just talk casually, whatever you want, your name, your wishes, your friends, or your family......"

When Gu Ji mentioned the word "family", the female thug's pupils narrowed significantly, so he struck while the iron was hot.

"I wonder if your family will see the news of the bombing now......"

"No, they're all gone."

The female thug's expression was silent, and her eyes were full of sadness, but she quickly turned into anger, clenching the detonator in her hand, and almost fainted to death in fright.

She is avenging her family......

So, the other thugs are for their teammates?

Gu Ji thought for a moment, and suddenly spoke:

"Is that the one in the picture?"

"What photo?"

"It's the picture I found in the taxi, and if you don't mind, I can take it out, do you agree? Then I'll take ...... now."

Seeing that the other party did not deny it, Gu Ji slowly put his hand into his trouser pocket, first revealing the corner of the mobile phone, indicating that it was not a weapon, and then slowly took out the mobile phone, and drew out the army photo, which was bright in front of the female thug.

The moment she saw the photo, the female thug finally couldn't help it.

She was trembling, tears rolling in her eyes, a wet red.

It turns out that the last person in the photo is dead.

Gu Ji felt as if he had grasped the key.

"He's your brother? How is your brother ......?"

"It's none of your business! Why hasn't Saeva shown up yet! Get this treacherous old fox rolling over at once!! I'll wait for him for another ten minutes, and when it's over, I'll detonate the bomb and let him taste the pain of losing his loved ones too!" ”

"Hey! Hey! Don't get excited! The colonel will definitely come. ”

Gu Ji stretched out his hand to soothe the female thug's emotions in the air, and at this time, Gillian's voice came from the tactical headset, "Colonel Saeva has rushed to New York in a UH-1Y an hour ago, and it is expected to arrive at the scene in 10 minutes, we are communicating with the pilot, Jamie, go and check the identity of Peg's family immediately......"

Leaving an hour ago?

How could he have known in advance that his son had been kidnapped?

However, the aircraft model gave Gu a few answers, the full name of UH-1Y is called UH-1Y Venom Helicopter, also known as Super Huey, which is an upgraded and improved version of the American UH-1 helicopter and belongs to the Marine Corps.

Then Sa'eva is most likely a colonel of the Marine Corps.

Combined with the identity of a thug.

Proving that the relationship between the two parties must not be simple.

Lauerde's phone should have been the same as that of "Barron", which had long been monitored by terrorists, and Saeva could not be contacted, so he arrived by helicopter in advance.

"I just received news that the colonel is on his way to a flight and will be there soon."

After Gu Ji said this, Lauord's originally frightened eyes instantly burst into a flash of survival.

He chose to ignore it and continued to speak: "We're just chatting, you don't have to be so hostile to me, besides, at the Volut R&D center, you said that if I defuse your bomb, I will answer a question, have you forgotten?" ”

"I didn't forget, what do you want to ask?"

"Why the hell did Volut's security kill me as soon as we met?"

The female thug's face changed several times, and finally she forcibly held back the anger in her heart, and said word by word, as if she was making a statement of the case:

"Actually, what you analyzed in the live broadcast at the time was not wrong, Volut's New York branch has been secretly involved in the modification of arms and sold to illegal organizations, and we failed to operate when we first infiltrated in disguise, and it was not easy to get out of the siege, so ......"

Am I a substitute?

Gu Ji frowned on the surface, but he had a direction to negotiate the attack in his heart.

"So your purpose is to combat the illegal arms trade? What does that have to do with me, passion fruit, and Dizzard, and why do you have to involve us? ”

"You all think you're innocent? I saw with my own eyes a grandmother who was stunned by that anchor's prank, fell to the ground and bled out, and is still lying in the hospital, and how many thefts you have done with that black man on the streets of Queens, do you need me to tell me one by one? ”

"And what about the spectators at the US Open, who are also guilty? And the underground parking security guard you shot and killed, the visitors in Times Square, the CTA SWAT, and the Rauld and Saeva next to you......"

"Enough!!"

The female thug, who had been choked speechless, suddenly roared, stared at her bloodshot eyes, and slammed the detonator in the face of the hostage, Laurd.

"Father and son are the most damned! If it weren't for Saeva's attempt to fill the huge deficit in the hedge fund for his wasted son, covering the illegal arms dealers......"

When they heard the second half of the sentence, the eyes of many SWAT, FBI agents, and police officers present at the scene all widened in surprise.

It seems that this terrorist bombing attack also involved a military scandal.

Just when Gu Ji was about to sort out the clues.

There was a propeller vibration in the sky behind them.

He glanced sideways.

It was a gray-green medium helicopter carrying an M240D general-purpose machine gun that slowly landed in front of the intersection in Times Square.

The next moment.

The carrying hatch opened, and seven or eight Marines dressed in yellow dead leaf camouflage and armed with black M4 rifles instantly jumped down and quickly approached the scene of the terrorist attack.

But Gu Ji didn't see a colonel-level officer appear.

After seeing the army soldiers, Lauer shouted at the top of his voice as if grasping at a life-saving straw: "Dad! Save me! Dad——! ”

"Shut up! Saewa! Get over here! I want you to apologize to my brother and the dead soldier in person and publicly confess the crimes you have committed! ”

The female thug shouted at the top of her voice, the green tendons on the back of her hand holding the detonator burst out, her knuckles were white, and the tips of her four fingers were stuck into the palms of her hands, which showed how angry she was.

In Gu Ji's tactical headset, Gillian is also trying to contact the helicopter console.

About three or four seconds passed.

The radio finally responded, and the voice was the voice of a middle-aged man, with an unmistakable majesty:

"I am Marine Corps Colonel Saeva of the MAGTF Air and Army Task Force at Quantico Base, and I am under the orders of CE Command to carry out counterterrorism operations targeting five defected Marines at Camp Quantico, and the FBI and NYPD are responsible for cooperating......"

Then came a murmur.

It is presumably Sa'eva who switched the military's internal channels.

Gillian then shouted inside the tactical headset:

"Barron, the military has decided to set up snipers to shoot targets and rescue hostages, whether the IED bomb detonation environment in the compartment is suitable for sniping, if so, you will step back with your right foot."

After listening to the order, Gu Ji did not move his right foot.

It's not that he pities this female thug, but the sniper environment is really too bad.

I have to say that the female thug's choice to take hostages in the trunk of the car is really subtle enough, under the cover of the rear tailgate ajar, she can only see her full picture within ten meters, and her head is actually not visible from ten meters away.

If a sniper can't get a headshot.

There is still a constant risk that the suspect will pinch the detonator to detonate the bomb.

"Get Saeva out of here!"

"Don't get excited, since you said that the colonel was involved in the illegal arms deal, you can report it to your superiors or the Naval Criminal Investigation Bureau, and the law will naturally punish them severely, there is no need to use such an extreme situation!"

Gu Ji opened his mouth to delay time, but his left hand naturally fell, quietly hid behind him, and shook twice.

"Report? My brother was assassinated by them because of the report, who else can I trust? When you yourself were held hostage by us and fled all over the city, did the New York police believe your words? ”

The female thug didn't eat this set at all, but became more and more emotional.

"Barron, the military has informed the sniper that he is in position and approves a one-shot kill! Barron, what do you mean by your gesture, not to get a headshot, but to hit the left arm holding the detonator? Colonel, Colonel, on-site personnel assessed the IED bomb situation and considered the blow to the arm ......"

"One shot kills!"

"Colonel ......"

"Now I'm the commander of the armed operations on the scene, follow my orders, and let your people get out of the way immediately!"

In just a moment, Gu Ji's tactical headset hurriedly repeated N commands, coupled with the fact that the female thug in front of him became more and more emotional, and the pressure from many sides almost made him nervous.

"Colonel! The sniper's line of sight is blocked, and the certainty of killing with one shot is not great, and hitting the arm seems to be a better option......"

"I said it! One shot kills! ”

"Barron, get out of the way so you don't get hurt by mistake!"

"Let Saeva come over and apologize immediately and admit the crime, or I'll kill his son right away!"

"Dad, save me!"

"Sniper, shoot!"

"Colonel, sight ......"

"Shoot!!"

Bang——!

Saeva, the military sniper, Gillian, Lauerde, the female thug, the five shouted in the tactical headset one by one, each with more urgency, until the moment when the emotions of all parties exploded to the extreme, the gun rang out.

The blood mist exploded.

The female thug's wrist was broken on the spot by a high-powered sniper bullet!

Pretty!

Gu Ji's feet were in vain, and he pounced on the female thug, he had been waiting for this moment for a long time, so much so that he had rehearsed countless times in his heart, and the speed was as fast as a ghost.

At the moment of contact, his hands were like pincers, and his five fingers grabbed and buckled, but when he heard the sound of "ah", he restrained the female thug who was about to grab the explosive weapon with his injured left arm!

"Block the signal now!!"

The special police of the Anti-Terrorism Bureau guarding nearby reacted quickly, and when Gu Ji shouted the first sound, he had already rushed up with a gun and controlled the female thug on the spot, and the EOD bomb disposal team also established a signal shield at the first time.

[Side Goal: Find and solve the mastermind behind the bombing! 】

The female thug twisted her body desperately, but she was still unable to resist the force suppression of several special police, her head was pressed to the ground, and she could only yell hysterically:

"Fack! Saewa! Your whole family is going to hell! Go to hell! ”

"Dad! Save me! Save me! ”

In contrast, Lauud cried out with joy.

Gu Ji was about to step forward to inspect the bomb circuit board, when he suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from his back, and his body subconsciously flashed to the left, just avoiding the grabbing.

He looked back and saw that it was a middle-aged officer wearing a deciduous camouflage training uniform.

Forty or fifty years old, with brown hair, except for a slightly higher hairline, his facial features are very similar to Laurald.

Colonel Saewa!

Seeing that he didn't catch Gu Ji's collar, Saeva immediately pulled out the pistol on his waist, pointed it at his head and roared:

"What department are you in? Who the hell gave you the audacity to dare to hinder the actions of the military! ”

"Colonel, I have never hindered any action, but I have done my best to avoid the death of hostages and police officers, the suspect is holding the detonator in his left hand, and hitting the arm is the best solution under the premise that the view of the head is blocked."

Speaking of this, Gu Ji deliberately paused and looked directly at Saeva.

"But you keep shooting the suspect, is it to kill you?"

"Fack! You ......"

"Colonel! This is an important witness for our FBI! Don't make a mistake! ”

Gillian on the side hurriedly ran over, for fear that Saeva would kill Gu Ji on the spot as soon as she was excited, and for this reason, she even did not hesitate to carry a little threat in her words.

Saeva's face was blue and red for a while, obviously confused by Gu Ji's anger.

But with so many police around, he didn't dare to have a seizure.

"Get my son out immediately, if he is injured a little, I will definitely call your boss's house!"

"Don't worry, Colonel!"

Gillian called the bomb disposal team, and after removing the bomb circuit shell, Gu Ji also glanced at it.

Sure enough, as HRT bomb disposal experts said, it was an integrated circuit.

This is the most complex of the bomb circuit board, four red and blue wires are connected to a 12V power supply at one end, and the other is connected to the detonator, and the two are connected to the integrated circuit, and the circuit board is connected in parallel with diodes, R1 and R3, two 10Ω resistors, and a 1Ω R2 resistor.

In addition, there are two 10uF and one 1000uF capacitors, terminated by transistors and electronic detonators.

The most complex core of this integrated circuit is the central operational amplifier.

When the input voltage in the same direction is lower than the reverse input voltage, the op amp will only output a very low voltage that is not enough to detonate the detonator, and vice versa, it will output a large voltage to detonate the detonator.

The resistors vary in size to adjust the voltage value at various points in the circuit.

Diodes, on the other hand, only allow a single flow of current, while large capacitors discharge when an external power supply is lost.

That's right.

In other words, cutting the initiator or any of the four red and blue wires will cause the 12V power supply to be de-energized, prompting the large capacitor to discharge and detonate the detonator.

The difficulties are:

How to find the right line cut-off, which can avoid both 12V power supply and large capacitors.

Fortunately, with the help of an external force in the last level, the mob was eliminated before the IED timer was triggered, otherwise Gu Jishan would not have been able to defuse the bomb in five minutes with the EOD knowledge he has now.

HRT bomb disposal experts also checked the integrated circuit, thinking that the risk of bomb disposal was too great, and it was still mainly to transfer and destroy, so they touched all the wire ropes with their fingers to confirm that there were no dark lines, pressure sensitivity, touch and other devices, and then asked the EOD bomb disposal team to cut them one by one.

After successfully removing the bomb from Laurd.

This guy was so excited that he was like Sun Wukong, who had just escaped from Wuzhi Mountain, and he crawled and escaped from the black X5.

The explosives were transported by the bomb robot to the EOD's sandbag-based pit and dismantled with a professional explosive destroyer.

This is also what Gu Ji reminded Gillian early in the morning.

The so-called explosives destroyer is a water cannon gun, which is mainly used to launch high-speed water flow to decompose explosive devices at close range, and also spray water bombs through the detonation mechanism, and the high-speed water flow can reach up to 800 m/s at the earliest, and the explosives can be directly broken within one meter, as long as the appearance of the explosives is not too hard, they can be directly decomposed.

With a "bang".

The 20-kilogram C4 high-explosive charge was instantly torn apart by a water bomb.

[The ultimate goal: to completely solve the live bomb crisis and control the number of casualties within 15 successfully!] 】

[Open Hidden Target: Find the Reason Behind the Bombing!] 】

In fact, the explosion has developed so far, and Gu Ji basically has a general understanding in his heart.

The mob was all members of the Marine Corps, and perhaps even a direct subordinate of Sa'eva, because the fund in charge of Lauerd was hugely empty, and most of them were also doing bad things, so Sa'eva had no choice but to collude with arms dealers to sell and modify weapons with Volut to sell and modify weapons to illegal terrorist organizations.

Several people found out and reported to no avail, but were bitten back by Saeva as a "defector" and were hunted down by the military.

And Peg's death was the trigger for their decision to take revenge.

It's a pity that Saeva has been living in a military base and has no way to do it.

So they could only shift the target to his son, attack the arms dealer with the mysterious computer, obtain the computer, explosives, weapons, and then run to New York to step on the spot, ambush, threaten, and create today's series of terrorist bombings.

Gu Ji took out his phone.

After the EOD bomb disposal team unblocked the signal, they began to inquire about the recent scandal of the Marine Corps.

It turned out to be one:

"On August 2, six Marines at Camp Quantico, Virginia, were arrested by military order on suspicion of smuggling drugs and arms at sea, one of whom was shot dead instantly, and the remaining five are still at large."

Just when Gu Ji was fascinated.

Suddenly, there was a vibration on the phone, and it was a new email.

He was going to skip it, but the words "the answer you want" in the title immediately aroused his curiosity.

Click to take a look.

The first is a vague recording to the effect that several soldiers were on a mission on the coast and encountered a logistics merchant ship suspected of smuggling transactions, and the two sides exchanged fire.

After locking up the evidence, the captain reports it to his superiors.

And the voice of this boss is none other than Saeva.

"As I guessed......"

When Gu Ji continued to browse, he was instantly startled by the various evidence materials on the screen, putting aside Volut's suspicion of illegally selling robots and entrusting PM to secretly transform arms.

In 2021~2024, a total of 2,179 automatic rifles, 3,694 pistols, 174 machine guns, 236 grenade launchers, 134 rocket launchers, 75 mortars and 200 shotguns were lost due to poor management of the Marine Corps Kuantiko Base, as well as thousands of kilograms of C4 high explosives were stolen.

Body armor, bulletproof helmets, night vision goggles, gas masks and other equipment are countless.

There are a variety of reasons that can lead to the theft of weapons, such as custodians eating out, unlocked doors, guards dozing off, malfunctioning surveillance equipment, and so on.

As a matter of fact.

All of these were carried out by Sa'eva and a few high-level logistics executives, and sold to illegal terrorist organizations around the world through arms dealers at a higher price, among which South American drug lords and terrorist organizations are the most, with a total value of up to $230 million.

Boy.

Steal your own things to feed your enemies!

No wonder the female thug said that the matter was far more serious than I thought, and no wonder Saeva would rather kill six of his men than cover up the illegal trade.

This crime is too serious, it is considered treason, right?

[Hidden Target: Find the reason behind the bombing to complete!] 】

[Level statistics are in progress!] 】

Just when Gu Ji hesitated, the Times Square in front of him was gradually covered by a layer of black smoke, and a vast and desolate BGM sounded.

But he wasn't exactly looking forward to the settlement of the reward.

Instead, a question arises:

Six Marines, the captain was killed, five members, four dead and one wounded, and even the captain's sister had just been subdued.

That last email is proof.

Who sent it exactly?

Finally survived the most uncomfortable first three days, now it's a throat rattling and coughing, and the rest is almost fine, and the lesson I can pass on to everyone is, drink more water, drink more water, drink more water!

(End of chapter)