Chapter 315, Praying Mantis Catches Cicada
Frank walked away with two names. Frederick's attitude shows that providing two names for 'free' is already his limit, and if you want to watch more, you need to pay.
Frank is still quite satisfied with the current harvest. These two names are enough to deal with reporters at a press conference later.
An hour and a half later. A piece of news made New York completely explode. NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan announced at a press conference that police would investigate a city councilor and a wealthy man.
Director Frank did not say at the meeting whether the investigation of the two men was related to the shooting, and when a reporter asked the question, Frank only smiled back.
Whether city councilors and tycoons have anything to do with the shooting immediately became a hot topic of discussion among the people of New York City.
At the same time, Bellevue Public Hospital, in the intensive care unit. Brooklyn has finally woken up. After an examination, doctors decided that Brooklyn was out of danger for the time being.
Brooklyn's injuries look scary, but they're not that serious. At least according to doctors, 20 shots in the body, just removing a lung lobe, is already extremely lucky.
It was Ray's body armor that saved him. Otherwise, 20 rounds would be enough to beat him into a sieve. Don't say that the operation was successful, Dexter got out of the car to check that he was already out of breath by that time.
According to scientific research, people have a total of 42 respiratory units, including 6 respiratory units in the right upper lung, and it is optimistically estimated that the predicted lung function of Brooklyn after surgery will eventually return to 85.7% of the preoperative level.
That's a pretty good number. In particular, when the body is faced with various injuries, it will carry out various remedial measures to compensate, and if Brooklyn cooperates with rehabilitation training, it is not impossible to recover to about 90% in an ideal state.
Playing football, basketball, or being a swimmer is a no-brainer, but it doesn't interfere with your normal life.
After listening to the doctor's words, Brooklyn pointed to his chest and said that he did not feel that he still had 95% of his breathing capacity, and that he was now feeling heavy in his chest and had difficulty breathing.
"Don't worry, it's a normal reaction." Dr. Sean said bluntly
"The recovery period after lung surgery is divided into three stages."
"The first stage is from the operation until 2 weeks after the operation, during which the body is in the acute injury phase of repair surgery, and the patient will feel difficult to breathe, shortness of breath, or even unable to breathe."
"The second stage is from 2 weeks to 6 months after surgery. During this time, the patient's body will adjust to the defect, and if you want to recover, you need to train yourself to adapt to the loss of one lobe of the lung from this stage onwards. It is possible to start with a walk, gradually increase the area and time of the walk, or even take a brisk walk. ”
"The third stage is from six months after surgery and beyond. During this time, your lung function is basically stable, and the results of the second phase of exercise will be reflected during this time, and the quality of your breathing ability recovery in this phase is almost equal to your ability to breathe later. ”
"So I need to live like this for 2 weeks?" Brooklyn asked with difficulty. Such a sentence already made his chest dull, and he began to feel breathless.
"Yes." Dr. Sean said.
"I can't go to court like this." Brooklyn grumbled bitterly, and he whispered the remark because of the heaviness in his chest.
But it happened to be heard by Dr. Sean, who was wearing him with an oxygen mask.
"You won't be discharged from the hospital until at least two weeks later." Dr. Sean kindly reminded him
"So, you don't have to worry about not being able to go to court."
"I thank you."
"No thanks." Dr. Sean replied grimly.
"Judge Brooklyn. The recovery period may be difficult at first, but if needed, we can provide guidance on rehabilitation to help you adapt to your new condition. Dr. Claire hurriedly stepped forward to divert the subject.
"Your injury is severe, 2 weeks is just ideal, and we recommend that you stay in the hospital for a while longer."
"But after 2 weeks, his body has fully adapted to the lack of a lung lobe, and after adapting to the lack of breathing ability, his body will automatically activate the compensatory function, which is more beneficial to him." Dr. Sean continued to speak with a straight face
"Although the process can be painful." Krair gently slapped Sean with his elbow to shut him up.
Sean uncomfortably dodged away, turning his head to look at Kelle for some reason.
"Dr. Kleer, I'm not used to physical contact." Claire looked at Brooklyn awkwardly, smiled, and left a word
"You have a good rest", and pulled Sean out of the ward.
"I remember when we were kids when we ran away from the orphanage." Wearing a breathing mask made Brooklyn's voice muffled, and coupled with the damage to his lungs, he didn't dare to speak loudly, which made his voice unclear at all, and it sounded like a random hum.
Ray leaned closer to hear clearly.
"Do you remember?" Brooklyn nodded lightly and told Ray about the operation. This is the first time Brooklyn has talked about his childhood.
In the past, although he would also talk about his childhood experience, he never touched on specific circumstances. This is the first time that it has been described in such detail.
Ray listened carefully and couldn't help but laugh along.
"That sandwich was dug out of the trash can by me and David. On the way back, I was so hungry that I tried to hit the sandwich more than once, but David stopped me. Brooklyn laughed and whispered
"Thank you." Warm relationships are always short-lived. Brooklyn is not used to showing a warm side, he is more accustomed to taking action.
I can tell Lei about my childhood, because I walked between life and death this time, and I couldn't help myself.
After saying this little thing, Brooklyn's sanity returned and began to get down to business. Brooklyn asked Ray for his cellphone, but he didn't call it right away.
He slowly recalled in his mind the conversation he had with Ben Stone when he was unconscious, and sorted out his thoughts.
Brooklyn, of course, doesn't really think he's having a conversation with Ben Stone, he's sure it's the result of his subconscious processing of information.
The subconscious wanted to tell him two things. First of all, the gunman is from the [Patriot]. The second thing was that Frederick attracted the gunman.
Combine the two, and things become a lot clearer. The person who was afraid of Frederick confessing to himself, who happened to be a customer of [Patriot], posted a task on the [Patriot] platform and hired a gunman to shoot himself!
This set of procedures made Brooklyn can't help but think of New York Harbor killers and immigrants. All of them are through the [Patriot] platform, the tasks are released from the network, and the actors receive the tasks as players to complete.
Brooklyn suspects this is the usual procedure of the Patriots. He edited his thoughts into a text message and sent it to David.
While Brooklyn was editing text messages, Ray went out to deliver a message to Winston, informing him that Brooklyn had woken up.
After a while, Winston's call came in. After the pleasantries, Brooklyn took the initiative to talk about the eucalyptus.
He now needs to recuperate from his injuries and cannot work normally, and some of the daily signing work can still be taken to the hospital by Nelly, and there is nothing he can do about the trial.
Brooklyn handed over all the pieces he had to other judges, including Winston's.
Winston's eucalyptus is actually a 'sweet and small'. Although the case requires a closed hearing, the status of the parties is here, and the successful handling of such a case will bring a lot of gains to the judge.
Not only the proficiency of the work, but also the network and experience in handling high-level personnel. Brooklyn didn't interfere too much in the arrangement and designate the judge who took over, leaving it to the other judges to decide for themselves.
When they make their own decisions, Bob will come forward on the Brooklyn side to hand over the materials, and if the judge who takes over is more responsible, he will also need to come to the hospital, and Brooklyn will explain the main points of the case to help the judge better understand the case.
"Frank Reagan was shot as well, and now the streets are crazy." After getting down to business, Winston chatted about gossip.
"The streets are full of police cars, and there are police officers everywhere. All of them wore body armor and carried guns, and when they saw unfamiliar faces, they surrounded them. ”
"The New York City government just came to me to protest."
"What are you protesting against?" Brooklyn asked.
"Protesting against the police's actions has caused panic among the people, and they want me to come forward and restrain the NYPD." Winston said dismissively.
Brooklyn thought for a moment
"Is that what the mayor's office means or what the councillors mean?"
"Mayor."
"Does Mr. Mayor have anything to do with Frederick?" Brooklyn asked
"Did he participate in the New York branch of Advocacy for Children?"
"What does this have to do with Frederick?" Winston asked, puzzled. Brooklyn recounted his analysis, and finally said
"We'll wait quietly now."
"It's impossible for that old guy Frank not to be silent, it's enough for him to rush in front and startle the snake, let's wait quietly, whoever picks it out first will be the biggest suspect."
"Now that Mr. Mayor has jumped out, it's time for us to look at Mr. Mayor's past attendance at events."
"I can't cut off that lobe of my lungs."
"Wait a minute." After Winston said a word, he didn't hang up the phone and left. After about ten minutes, Winston returned.
"After checking, our mayor has nothing to do with the child rights protection organization. He's supposed to be a simple idiot. "Winston has a point in saying that the mayor is an idiot.
The whole of New York knows that NYPD Director Frank Reagan is a grumpy, and the whole of New York knows that Frank was assassinated, which is a slap in the face of the NYPD.
At this time, the nypd was holding back a fire and searching for the murderer everywhere. No one wants to provoke a furious Frank at such a time.
For fear of being implicated and touching the ashes, it's too late for everyone to hide, how can they rush up to find it?
It is precisely this reason that Brooklyn believes that those who jump out of this period are very likely to be murderers.
Especially when the NYPD gets closer to the truth, the more the killer can't sit still. Mr. Mayor is not the murderer who issued the mission, but he chose to pick it out and brush up on the sense of existence, isn't it stupid?
"In the morning, the police held a press conference, and at the press conference, Frank announced that the police would open an investigation into a city councilor and a medical oligarch." After talking about the stupidity of Mr. Mayor, Winston brought up the matter of the press conference again.
"This is the time to publicly announce an investigation......," Brooklyn pondered. Winston has already filled in the rest for Brooklyn
"Frank probably already has a clue."
"Although Frank didn't say anything wrong with these two people at the press conference, it shouldn't be just in time to launch an investigation at this time." Brooklyn shook his head.
He didn't have a very good impression of Frank. The only few times I had dealings, Brooklyn didn't take advantage of it once, and I was put on a show by the other party last time.
This led Brooklyn to insist that Frank was a fox disguised as a black bear, brutal and impatient, but also cunning and patient.
Think about it, what a terrible combination of fox intelligence and cunning a bear has?
"Leave him alone." Brooklyn Road
"We don't do anything, we just watch them toss. It would be even better if Frank could actually catch the killer. After saying this for so long, Brooklyn felt his breath scarry again, and hung up hastily.
But Brooklyn didn't rest, he chose to put on an oxygen mask, grab his phone and wait. He's waiting for a phone call.
Just after dark, the call he was waiting for came. It's John Manning.
"How's your body?" John Manning was concerned about Brooklyn's physical condition first, and only after getting an answer that didn't affect his career did he get down to business.
"We just had a meeting with the Yale people and decided to put the dispute on hold and calm the storm. Both sides will restrain their hands and remain silent. Let's see who is so brave as to run to our turf and swim naked. ”
"Brooklyn, you can rest assured, we're going to hang up naked swimmers and parade them through the streets." After talking about the outcome of the recent messy plea bargain dispute, John Manning brings up another matter.
"Arrange a time, go back to school, and meet with everyone, Brooklyn, a lot of old guys are very interested in you." Brooklyn agreed
"No problem. I'm going to attend this year's graduation ceremony. ”
"Haha! No problem, but you have to prepare your speech and give the lads a little bit of advice and experience. Let them take fewer detours. ”
"Of course, that's what I'm supposed to do." Brooklyn immediately understood
“e.. I am going to recruit a batch of interns this year, and if the funds are sufficient, I am considering recruiting more. It's also our e.. Contribute a little to the cause of justice in the Federation. "Brooklyn is from Harvard, and he has the label of Harvard, and these interns are naturally preferred.
"Maybe you should go back to school now, meet the students in person, talk to them, and there's more to know than to look at resumes." John Manning said.
"That's exactly what I'm going to do." Brooklyn said with a smile
"I'm going to wait three weeks, maybe two weeks, and then I'll see the boys when the doctor agrees with my request to be discharged."