"Tell them to try not to go out in the last few days and use this phone to call." Jack pulled out the disposable phone he had with him and gave it to her.

"But." Jiejie still looked a little hesitant.

"No, but." Jack turned on his phone and forced it into her hand.

"Don't give out any specific information, just hint at it." Jack gave a general account of the biochemical terrorist attack he had experienced at LAPD.

"We are not saints, and if we can't even protect our own families, who will believe that we can protect strangers."

"Next time, remember to agree with them in advance on a few keywords, so that you can avoid some trouble."

Jiejie quickly dialed the phone, and after a few brief conversations, Jack took the phone back, broke it and threw it in the trash.

"If Hodgner knows about this, he'll definitely kick me out of the action team." Jiejie said this, but after getting into the car, she came up to Jack and pecked him quickly on the lips.

"Well, if you ask him in advance, he'll advise you not to do it, but if you tell him afterwards, he'll pretend he didn't hear it, and he'll only be kicked out of the action team if he sees what you did."

Jack grinned so hard that he was punched angrily by the girl.

By the time the two of them rushed back to the command center, Red and Emily had just arrived, and Rosie and Hodchner were already waiting in the conference room.

"General Whitworth is giving a briefing with a member of Congress, and our director will be meeting with the president in an hour and wants us to provide as much information as we can."

With that, Hodgner dialed the video phone terminal on the table, connecting Garcia and Dr. Kimura.

Dr. Kimura's expression on the screen was a little excited.

"Dr. Reid previously raised a possibility with me that the suspect may have conducted a small human test prior to this attack, but it was ignored."

"I found out through the CDC system that about two days ago, there was one person in each of the two emergency rooms in Baltimore and one person in the emergency room in Philadelphia, a total of three people, all of whom died suddenly after falling into a coma."

"The cause of death was all diagnosed with meningitis, and normally, doctors do not test for anthrax, and the symptoms of the two are similar, and I have notified the local hospital to conduct a test immediately, and the results will be available soon."

"Didn't the doctor find such a lesion as gangrene?" Rosie asked.

"If the disease progresses too quickly, it's too late to develop these symptoms." Red explained.

"How fast?" Hodgner habitually frowned.

"Hmm" Dr. Kimura, who was on the other side of the screen, paused, and glanced at the report in his hand.

"Three hours, all three died about three hours after being admitted to the hospital."

"But the first death this time was 10 hours after infection." Hodchner said.

"This is determined by the concentration they inhale, and the higher the concentration, the faster the strain will multiply, which leads to rapid failure of the organs, and there are no external symptoms."

"Based on the data I got at the hospital, the anthrax bacillus doubles almost every 30 to 40 minutes in the average person."

Before Red could finish speaking, Jack, who was standing beside him, asked Dr. Kimura.

"Is the combination of antibiotics at the hospital still not working?"

The other party shook his head, his expression a little gloomy.

Combination antibiotic therapy is a combination of antibiotics that the patient can tolerate in order to find out which one is effective against the bacteria.

Because even artificially created anthrax strains are unlikely to be resistant to all antibiotics.

You know, even those "superbugs" that are immune to almost all antibiotics have too much to deal with with colistin and colistin.

In addition, as a murderer of germs, you must also leave a back door for yourself, which is equivalent to an antidote, so that if you are accidentally infected during the manufacturing process, you can get treatment in time.

The problem is that there are hundreds of antibiotics available today, and only eight patients remain, and the strains are multiplying so fast that Dr. Kimura is running out of time.

Similarly, there is also not much time left for the BAU team, which is almost predictable, because the news of being blocked by the FBI, although the public is not yet aware of it, this lid will not be able to cover for long.

Because the murderer's purpose is not only to kill, but also to become famous and create panic, it is obvious that when he finds that there is no relevant report in the news, he will soon shoot again, and he must be aiming to make a big news.

Once they can't stop the killer before he strikes again, then because of the heavy casualties, the news will inevitably be exposed, and the satisfied murderer will disappear.

So it is likely that in the end, this will be another unsolved case that has been investigated for several years and ultimately fruitless.

Fortunately, now that he finally has some eyebrows, Garcia directly began to analyze the information after receiving the information of the three patients who died suddenly from Dr. Kimura, and the results were quickly available.

The eldest of the three, the deceased, was Albert Franks, who owned a small bookstore on Sunset Avenue in Washington, D.C., where the other deceased, Gail Mercer, had spent money at exactly two days earlier.

"Jack, Emily, go to General Whitworth immediately and ask him to send his chemical defense forces to that bookstore." Hodchner looked at Jack.

So Jack changed his partner and rushed with Emily to the little bookstore with the same name as the owner, called Albert Franks.

In order to avoid causing public panic on the crowded Sunset Boulevard, the two of them stood guard at the door of the locked store, and soldiers in red biochemical suits entered the store through the alley at the back door.

It wasn't long before the captain's voice came from both of their headsets at the same time.

"Anthrax spores have been detected, and I'm going to give a police ring order."

Rhett was right, this was where he tested it for the first time. Jack looked back at the shop window behind him that was blocked by blinds.

Only through a layer of glass, there are passers-by coming and going.

"He must have chosen this place for a reason, revenge, or something else." Emily looked around nervously.

Jack pulled out his phone and called Garcia, "Immediately investigate the owner's relationships and get a list of all the people who have had a conflict with him, including his former employees and customers." ”

"I shudder at the thought that we are separated from this weapon of mass destruction by a quarter of an inch of glass."

Emily took two steps forward with some trepidation.

(End of chapter)