"Yes, Owen Jermoson, I made the transcript of his parents, a wealthy white family, his father has a hedge fund in his name, and his mother is a housewife, and she is the richest family among the students' parents, and I made special notes."

Hannah looked down and pulled out her notebook, flipped through this morning's notes, and continued, "I asked if their family had received any threats recently, and oh, by the way, Owen's mother was the first to provide information about witnessing a green sedan following the school bus. ”

"Did you mention Owen Jermoson's ability to speak sign language in your conversation?" Jack's question stunned Hannah for a moment, and it also caught the attention of the others.

All the people present were smart people, and when they heard Jack's words, everyone's eyes suddenly focused on the video screen, and the little boy cowered and scaled on his right hand on his chest.

"Play the video again." Jubal commanded in a loud voice, and a group of people all came closer.

I saw that in the video, after the man in the black hood finished the threatening words, he grabbed the back collar of the little boy Owen and pushed him closer to the camera, the latter seemed to be scared and subconsciously stretched out his right hand to protect his chest, but his fingers made two quick gestures.

First, the index finger was extended, the middle finger hung down and the thumb was put together, and then the fist was clenched with one hand, and the thumb was caught between the index and middle fingers, slightly exposing the fingertips.

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"Yes, Owen Jermoson's mother said that his cousin Pepper is hard of hearing, and she taught Owen some sign language." Hannah said, putting down her phone.

"What a smart little boy, these two gestures represent the letters P and T, but what does PT mean?" Jubal wrote the two letters on the paper and frowned.

"I don't know yet, but we'll figure it out, the NYPD just found Givens' dark gray Chevrolet, and I'm on a video call with him right now, please help me connect to the screen."

Jack said as he handed the phone to a technician, and soon Danny's old face appeared in front of everyone, "Hi, everyone, oh, Ms. Moge, long time no see." ”

After a brief hello to everyone, Danny pointed his phone camera at the car that the NYPD had just found, "Hannah, is this the Chevrolet you saw earlier?" ”

"At least the model and color are complete, and I can't be completely sure, after all, I didn't even see the license plate number at the time." Hannah was a little embarrassed, Jack simply looked up at the sky, and when Hannah chased him out, he was still dizzy and circled in the safe passage.

"Oh, it's okay, I found a lot of blood in the car, the technician is taking fingerprints, and I will be able to confirm it soon, so let's talk about what I found first."

Danny said as he scanned the camera roughly, "First of all, this is Queens, and this car is at least ten blocks away from the trash can that was suspected to be Givens' hideout.

The second point is that all the blood stains on the car are concentrated in the passenger seat, and the driver's seat is clean, and here"

As he spoke, he pointed the phone screen at the edge of the co-pilot's door, and continued, "Can you see clearly?" The bloodstains here clearly show signs of dragging. ”

"In other words, Givens was disposed of as garbage, and after being injured by Jack, it was his companion who was driving when he fled." A smile suddenly spread across Jubal's face.

"Can the people at the CSI lab confirm the driver's identity with fingerprints and DNA as soon as possible? If I can confirm the identity of the other person, maybe I can find the children through this person, do I need to send another ERT team? ”

"Probably not, I've made a better discovery here." I saw the camera shake for a while, first two large nostrils appeared, then a dizzying shaking, and finally Danny's cry for help, "Jieji? How the damn camera should switch back? ”

Just when everyone in the operation center was about to vomit by him, the mobile phone was finally replaced, and then switched to a rear camera, aimed at the wall of a building not far away, and it was a white surveillance camera, and it was intact.

"I have got the video surveillance, I will send it to you immediately, I have just seen it, and the clarity is very high."

The video surveillance sent by Danny is indeed very high-definition, but the content is unexpected, because it is a white woman in her thirties who came out of the cab.

Half an hour later, in a separate conference room in the Federal Building, Dana Moge was at the front, flanked by NYPD Director Frank Reagan, Danny Reagan, Jubal, Lacroix, Jack and Hannah, and the only new face, the head of the New York governor's office in a suit and leather with a bit of a politician's temperament, Ron Drexler.

All eyes were on the screen at the other end of the room, where a video was playing.

"What has become of our American dream? Jobs, hopes for the future, they have been taken away by politicians, by outsiders, by immigrants.

These parasites cling to the body of this country, and if we want to take this country back for the real Americans, we need a moment of violence and transition, so that white people can stand in this country again, and it's not easy, but it's everyone's in this room."

On the podium with the Stars and Stripes hoisting, a middle-aged white man with square face, blond hair and blue eyes, was giving a passionate speech, but the content of the speech was empty and full of dry sensationalism and agitation.

Even though his gestures and tone of voice were somewhat learned from a certain mustache gentleman, they were too much worse than the German language without the addition of German.

Jubal turned off the video with a look of surprise, then got up and introduced, "This man's name is Tiger Kane, the head of a white supremacist organization that advocates violent extremism, and we believe that the kidnapped child is in his hands, and this is a public speech he gave two years ago."

We compared the audio of this speech with the blackmail video, and as you just heard, the results showed a match.

According to the DHS (Department of Homeland Security), Tiger Kane has planned and organized a series of illegal assemblies in recent years, and has incited violence and advocated attacks on non-Christian religious sites. ”

He then switched to another video, which was the same surveillance that Danny had sent earlier.

"This is his wife, Emma Kane, the driver of the dark gray Chevrolet, who has no criminal record at the moment, but we believe she was involved in the kidnapping as well, and our facial recognition program retrieved her fifteen minutes ago."

"I don't quite understand why people like him haven't been arrested before." Ron Drexler, from the governor's office, asked, confused.

"Obviously, he is not at the top of the list of terrorists in the country, and he has been going underground for a long time, and according to the NSA (National Security Agency), they have recently received some rumors that Tiger Kane may be planning something big."

Dana Moge sighed after explaining, closed the information in her hand and pinched her eyebrows.

Frank Regan's face shook with a mustache that resembled that of Detective Polo, "So, the reason why Tiger Kane extorted a million dollars from the governor is most likely to plan a large-scale terrorist attack?" ”

"Maybe there's still some left over to fund their activities, after all, the price of explosives on the black market is not high right now." Jack added that although the border between Da Mao and Ermao is tense and frictional, it has not officially started.

"So what are you going to do? If the ransom is not paid, it will be the lives of 26 children, and it will be no different from a terrorist attack. Ron Drexler was a little anxious.

"Continuing to pay the ransom, of course." Frank Reagan glanced at him and said lightly.

"It's just that you need to be cautious, the other party is well-planned, but when asking for ransom, as long as cash, there is obviously a better way, such as overseas account transfer or cryptocurrency, there must be a problem here.

It is likely that the other side has everything in place, and when the cash arrives, they can immediately trade for the supplies they need to carry out the attack, whether it is explosives or munitions, and perhaps a bigger crisis will erupt in New York City just as we are busy rescuing those children. ”

There was a moment of silence, and Frank's words hit the nail on the head.

Without waiting for the rest of the people to continue speaking, Lacroix, who had been holding a notebook to write and draw, suddenly spoke, "Can we start with their base of operations?" ”

Seeing that the crowd was looking at him with doubt, he explained, "Givens should be their new recruit, and it is obviously impossible for a group of extremists to be squeezed into the small apartment where he usually lives, which is too eye-catching."

So they needed a base that was remote enough to be frequented without suspicion, but it was clear that they didn't have much money on their hands and had to extort money from the operation through kidnappings before planning a terrorist attack.

Can we start by investigating the backgrounds of all the known members of that group, especially the property they own, and the kind of place where a school bus and 26 crying kids can be hid without arousing suspicion from those around us? ”

Jubal nodded in agreement, took the tablet and operated it, "Sounds reasonable, I'll arrange it now." ”

The discussion continued for a while, until there was a knock on the glass door of the conference room, and an analyst entered, nervously, "Ladies and gentlemen, a new video has been sent. ”

On the big screen in the operation center, Tiger Kane, who didn't know that his true identity had been exposed, appeared on it again, still wearing a black hood and standing in front of the white sheets, in an arrogant tone.

"I knew the F.B.I. was involved, so I asked an FBI agent to come in person and bring a million dollars in cash full of 100 dollars to the alley between Brixton and Reeves Streets.

It's just one person, no trackers, don't play tricks, don't let me see SWAT, or the kids will all die, you only have 30 minutes, not a second more. ”

(End of chapter)