"The whole school bus with all the people on it? What's going on? Isn't there supposed to be positioning on the school bus? Hannah's eyes were filled with worry.

"It's not clear yet, the school bus didn't arrive on time, all the mobile phones on it lost their signal at 7:41, and the same goes for the school bus positioning system, and I just sent a helicopter to assist in the search.

Whether it's a mass kidnapping or a terrorist attack, we have to consider every possibility. ”

Dana More said this very quickly, and beckoned to Hannah, "Hannah will follow me to Tuft Elementary School, Jubal will connect with the domestic intelligence department, check the recent terrorist threat information, Jack, you are fully responsible for the search mission on the scene." ”

After saying that, she turned to leave, Hannah looked at Jack, and hurriedly followed, Jack took out his phone and looked at the time, at this moment it was less than half an hour before the incident, and he unlocked the screen and called Frank.

West Chester County is a suburban county located in the north of New York City, and Connecticut is located in the east.

It is not under the control of the NYPD, but since it is a search mission, the local county police and the FBI will definitely not have enough manpower, especially the lack of experienced PAW team, and the New York Police Department has the largest police dog training base in the United States, so it is natural to need their K9 detectives to support at this time.

Hanging up the phone, Jack glanced at Jubal, who was staring at the big screen in a daze, when the analysts from the operations center had arrived one after another, and the heads of the 26 missing students had just been projected on the big screen.

These are 26 cute little faces full of childishness, maybe they have different skin tones, some yellow, some black and some white, but the same thing is that everyone is marked with the word missing under their avatars at this time, which is extremely worrying to look at.

Jack took two steps forward, touched Jubal's shoulder, and whispered, "Why don't you call your ex-wife?" ”

As everyone has been together for more than half a year, they have become familiar with each other, Jubal has two children living in West Chester County with his ex-wife, and his eldest daughter is only about the same age as the children on the screen.

Jubal shuddered all over his body, and then he woke up from his daze, looked at Jack gratefully, and walked to the side to take out his mobile phone and make a call.

"Samantha, it's me, did you send the kids to school? Why don't you let them stay at home today, no, it's fine, just in case, well, you know the rules, that's all. ”

Jack glanced at the increasingly noisy operations center, turned to leave the large office, and took the elevator up to the top of the building, which was the most convenient way to drive out of the city at this point, and it was most convenient to take a helicopter on a search mission.

There was already a helicopter that had already set off first, and this one was specially arranged to pick him up, and Jack did not waste time, and began to use the radio to contact the local county police as soon as he got on the plane.

Fifteen minutes later, an F.B.I. helicopter dropped Jack down on a country road, and he was greeted by a white sheriff who looked to be in his early 30s with curly black hair.

"I've brought NYPD K9 support, and it's about 10 minutes away, is there anything else I can do to help?" After the two sides briefly introduced themselves, Jack's next words immediately filled the favorability of Sheriff Mayed Shaun.

Knowing that the FBI was coming, Sheriff Sean was emotionally somewhat resistant, and he was busy with a shocking case on his side, and he had to be pointed at by the FBI who came in the air.

After all, this kind of small place is an acquaintance who looks down and doesn't look up, and the pressure he faces as a local sheriff can be imagined, and in this kind of area with good law and order, the county police are usually used to it, and it is inevitable that such a big thing suddenly happens, and it is inevitable that they will be in a hurry.

The sheriff, who was already mentally prepared to be criticized, couldn't help but feel warm in his heart when he heard this sentence, and his attitude took a 180-degree turn.

"Thank you very much, there are now a total of three helicopters in the vicinity to carry out the search work, all of them are sent by the state police and your FBI, I sent my men out, set up cards along the way to interrogate passing drivers, but there is no harvest yet."

"Are there no eyewitnesses?" Jack followed him and looked up to see the sparse woods on both sides of the road, but fortunately it was late autumn and the leaves were almost gone, otherwise even a helicopter would not have worked very well.

"I haven't found it yet, and the closest resident here is half a mile away." Sergeant Sean walked over to the area surrounded by several police cars and gestured with his hand.

"According to the last GPS positioning coordinates, this is the last location that the school bus can determine, and the search range I arranged is also centered on this."

Jack looked at the police cars around him, there were only five of them parked, and it was really like looking for a needle in a haystack with such a small amount of manpower, and he only hoped that the K9 officers of the NYPD would arrive as soon as possible.

He squatted on the side of the road and carefully inspected the road, there were no obvious brake marks, and there were no blood stains, which was mixed news, "Mind talking about what you know?" Are you a local? ”

Depending on the size, the local police chief is usually appointed by the mayor or mayor and is not necessarily a local, but the sheriff and rank-and-file police officers are usually recruited and promoted locally.

Sheriff Sean frowned, his face worried, anxious, and puzzled, "Of course, my neighbor's kid was in that car, and I know the driver, Mike McCabe, and he's a nice guy. ”

Seeing Jack's eyes looking directly at him, he hurriedly emphasized, "I mean, Mike is the kind of good person in the true sense of the word, he was born and raised here, his family is happy and happy, you should understand what I mean, this is a small place, and something will spread soon." ”

Seeing that he was overreacting, Jack hurriedly expressed his understanding, "I understand what you mean, has anything unusual happened around here recently?" ”

"Not at all, the people here are very well educated, and there have been occasional cases of foreign tourists drinking and fighting over the years, and there have not even been murders for many years." Sheriff Sean stared a little dazed, in fact, since he became a sheriff, he had not dealt with a case more serious than a fight.

It doesn't sound like it's in the United States, and Jack is also a little dazed, this is a country two-lane road that is too ordinary to be ordinary, and the road monitoring is as bad as ever.

It seems that we can only gamble on luck and call back to the combat center to see if we can retrieve satellite surveillance images, to be honest, this kind of probability is not very large, this kind of place is too far away from the city, and the near-earth satellite passes by once every few hours, and the possibility of taking photos at the time of the accident is almost zero.

Fortunately, the PAW team that arrived later was as reliable as ever, and the 6 dogs scattered along the road to search in the woods on both sides, and within ten minutes someone shouted on the sheriff's intercom to report the discovery.

A Labrador found a pile of smashed phones and tablets under a pile of dead leaves, and it is not difficult to judge the identity of the original owner from the colorful phones and childlike stickers.

Jack grabbed Sheriff Sean, who came forward impulsively, "Don't touch anything, pull a cordon around it, and try to avoid possible footprints." ”

He was picking up his phone to call Mike Taylor from the CSI Lab, when he saw a dark green velvet glove under a tree not far away.

(End of chapter)