By the time Jack and Red arrived at the hospital, it had been surrounded by reporters and emotional family members.

Some of them wept silently, some of them vented their mouths, and some of them sat on the ground in complete despair.

At present, there are no official channels to make a statement, but it is impossible to ban private gossip.

Rescuers who go to the scene, medical staff in hospitals, and even drivers who transport corpses, even if these people are given gag orders, there will still be rumors that the truth is not true.

The airport where the crashed flight originally landed was Phoenix, which is only more than 500 kilometers away in a straight line, and as time passes, more and more families of passengers will rush here.

Several local police officers assisted the hospital staff as they struggled to maintain order, and Jack and Red did not dare to show their identities in public for fear of being surrounded, but sent a message and waited for Jiejie and Emily to answer.

Just as the two of them were looking around, watching this scene of all beings, a young woman with a beautiful face pushed open the glass door and rushed into the hospital, grabbed a staff member and loudly identified herself.

"My name is Shelly Hicks and my husband is also on the plane and I would like to know how he is doing."

However, the hospital staff did not hear her words clearly at all, but just repeated them loudly and repeatedly.

"Ma'am, and all of you, please, please all go to the family area, someone will be there to help everyone, please listen to me, I promise, please believe me, we will inform everyone as soon as we get the news."

The young woman's voice became a little high-pitched and sharp, and for a moment it overcame the noisy voices in the room and clearly reached Jack's ears.

"Please, please, his name is Frank Canfors, someone must know him, please, someone must know him, he is. He is"

Jack subconsciously stabbed Rhett beside him and whispered in his ear, "Do you remember what the surviving co-pilot was called?" ”

"Frank Canfors, what's wrong?" Red didn't have the superhuman perception that Jack had with the system attribute bonus, and for him, the voices of so many people were so loud that he couldn't hear what someone was saying.

"Follow me." Jack didn't talk nonsense, grabbed Red's shoulders and squeezed into the crowd, he was tall, and he could already see that in the corridor inside, Jiejie was walking towards this side with high heels.

Coming to the woman's side, Jack grabbed her arm directly with his other hand, and pulled her to his side without waiting for her to react, "Madam, did you say that your husband is the co-pilot?" ”

Seeing the woman looking at him with a frightened expression, he leaned in a little closer and whispered his identity, "FBI, don't talk, come in with us." ”

Although Jack's operation was a bit abrupt, his righteous and handsome face directly increased the trust to a full score, and the woman hesitated and followed behind him without saying a word.

The three of them smoothly entered the corridor leading to the surgical ward under the help of Jiejie.

"Who is she?" Jie Jie looked at the woman behind the two in surprise.

"It should be the co-pilot's wife." Jack's voice didn't fall.

The woman who called herself Shelly Hicks said with red eyes and a look like she was about to cry.

"Yes, yes, my name is Shelly Hicks, Frank Canforth is my husband, he is the co-captain of the plane, I didn't change my name after marriage, I just got the news of the plane accident, and I drove more than 6 hours to get here."

Jiejie hurriedly comforted the woman who was already incoherent.

"Calm down, Ms. Hicks, the doctor is operating on your husband, he is seriously injured, but he should not be in danger of life."

Jiejie's voice did not fall.

"Thank goodness."

Shelly Hicks collapsed on the ground as soon as her feet went limp.

Jack and Red reached out at the same time, one left and one right, and Jiejie took her and led her to sit down on a bench by the hallway.

Shelly Hicks couldn't stop crying, "Thank you, thank you. ”

Jack didn't bring her in out of pity.

The co-pilot is still in the middle of the operation, and even if he does, the predictable concussion and the anesthetic used during the operation can make his brain into a mess.

In case of the worst-case scenario, such as an internal bleeding that the doctor failed to detect in advance and caused him not to survive the operation, then the confession of Cherie Hicks, the wife of the client, at the first time is very valuable.

Sure enough, perhaps because of the great favor brought by Jack's previous behavior, Shelly Hicks was full of trust in him for a while and provided a lot of valuable information.

For example, Frank Canforth took a vacation for mild depression two years ago, and then took fluoxetine for a period of time after that, and did not stop taking it until four months ago.

Another example is that the captain Jerry Vermayer rented out a room in his house to an international student from Indonesia, who has a strange personality and often asks the two about the plane.

And so on, and so on.

"You know she might wake up and take back these testimonies afterwards, right?" Jiejie asked privately as she saw the two leave.

Unsure when the co-pilot's surgery would be completed, Jack and Red prepare to go to the Emergency Command Center to meet up with Hodchner and Rossi, leaving Jiejie with Shelly Hicks.

And Emily was always waiting at the door of the operating room, in order to prevent accidents and be able to question the co-pilot at the first time, everyone in BAU did not dare to relax in the slightest.

"It doesn't matter, our priority now is to rule out the possibility of a terrorist attack, which will determine how the higher authorities will respond in the future.

If similar attacks are expected, many lives could be saved if they are dealt with in a timely and appropriate manner. ”

Red replied for Jack.

The two sides said goodbye, and the three of them drove to the command center without stopping.

It was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and when I walked into the brightly lit hall, in front of dozens of computers, nearly 100 technicians and liaison officers from various departments were busy.

When the trio found Hodchner, he was talking to a black female major in an army uniform.

"He knows who did it, but if he doesn't tell us, there's definitely something wrong with this guy's brain." The female major was a little annoyed.

"It's clear that I think he has a deep animosity towards you." Hodgner still had the same matter-of-fact tone.

The female major suppressed her anger, "Because I'm a woman or because I'm black?" ”

"Maybe both." Hodchner shrugged.

"Great, then this guy is over to you, pry his mouth open as soon as possible, we don't have much time to waste on him."

With that, she turned and left.

(End of chapter)