Chapter 674: Confirm the goal
Although Jack had studied explosive ordnance disposal skills when he was a seal, there was no need to overstep the line when it came to bomb disposal, and the two experts from the explosive ordnance disposal team were already waiting in bomb disposal suits.
In film and television works, in order to render the atmosphere, a certain degree of artistic exaggeration has been made in the appearance of explosives such as time bombs, and in fact, under normal circumstances, no fool will deliberately make a red timer, and add an additional audible sound device to remind people.
Most of the explosives are also handled in a simple and crude way, removing them on the spot, removing the detonator or trying to disable the detonator, or moving it to an open area to detonate it directly if the power of the explosion is confirmed.
The Barrett M82A1 brought by Jack is also an EOD tool, and after confirming the power of the bomb and the safe distance, it is more commonly used to use an armor-piercing incendiary bomb to detonate it by direct fire.
As for the remote-controlled bomb made by using the remote control and receiving chip of the remote-controlled toy car, it is easier to deal with, the wireless signal jammer is the standard configuration of the bomb disposal expert, and all the frequency bands are blocked as soon as the machine is turned on, and the other party cannot detonate the remote control if it is broken.
So the real trouble was finding the bomb rather than defusing it, so when two experts scrutinized the Ford Raptor F150 inside and out, gesturing to say they found nothing, Jack and Hannah reacted not with relief but with disappointment.
"Now it's your job, there's a corpse in the back compartment." One of the experts took off his heavy helmet, which resembled a spacesuit, and shook Jack's hand with a smile.
The ERT team quickly arrived and pulled out the body of a naked man, a white man in his early 30s, with a gunshot wound to the head, preliminarily 9 mm in calibre, from the tarp in the back of the pickup truck.
The deceased's fingers were intact, and forensic officers at the scene identified him through fingerprints, named Salin Kendall, a local janitor who looked after long-unoccupied properties.
"He has the keys to these properties, is it possible that one of them was the target of the attack?" Hannah carefully disassembled the G28E and put it into the gun case, frowning.
"It's very unlikely." Jack shook his head, although the extremists of the Kane couple are not professional, they are definitely not soft-hearted, which can be seen from the previous church massacres.
Salin Kendall was mostly in charge of private real estate, and mainly long-term uninhabited vacation homes, and Jack quickly flipped through the list sent by the Operations Center, and there were no particularly famous political or public figures in it.
The Kane gang spent 400 pounds of high explosives just to attack a private house? Jack thought it was unlikely, as evidenced by the threatening text messages they had sent to Lacroix, that they were trying to attract attention and create a sensational incident.
"Salen Kendall and his work car have just been reported missing, and last night someone saw him leaving with a woman in a local bar, and the county police asked the bartender to identify a picture of Emma Kane, which was almost certain to be her." Jubal said in a video call.
Jack frowned and tried to diverge his thoughts, their time was running out, the other party's plan was to launch an attack this morning, and it was already half past eight in the morning.
"Check if Salin Kendall has any other part-time jobs or substitute shifts, and they snatched his keys and work car, and stripped him of his uniform, the purpose must be to take advantage of his identity, we must have missed something."
Jubal nodded, "It's already being checked, and to be on the safe side, I've also arranged for a bomb disposal team to go door-to-door according to the addresses on the list." ”
"The Kane gang chose remote detonation instead of a timer, indicating a clear purpose, and they want to control the time precisely, look up the rallies or events that will be held in Ulster this morning, and prioritize those related to immigrants and minorities."
Before Jack's words fell, Jubal had already taken a few pieces of information from an analyst and read them to him as he read them, "What you said is also being investigated, this is the information of Salin Kendall, 31 years old, single, grew up in Ulstershire.
His boss said that everyone liked him, that he was a good hard-working young man, that he had no political affiliation, that he had no ties to any white supremacist group, that he had a clean past, and that he had no criminal record."
At this point he paused, his eyebrows raised slightly, "Oh, here's one, he was summoned by the Allenville Country Court in August this year, and the local park management caught him stealing five trout without a fishing license, and was sentenced to five months of community service."
Poor guy, he lost his life just because he hooked up with the wrong woman in a bar, so it's still necessary to watch TV once in a while, especially to keep an eye on the wanted list"
"Where?" Jack asked suddenly.
"Uh, Lily's Bar, a regular country pub, do you want to go over? I asked, there is no surveillance around the bar"
Jubal was interrupted by Jack before he could finish his sentence, "I mean community service, where is he sentenced to community service?" ”
"At the Ulstershire Recreation Centre in Kingston. Damn it! Jubal was suddenly shocked, and waved at the camera in an excited tone, "That list. It's the list that we sifted through earlier, and I remember there was an event there this morning. ”
Soon another piece of information was handed to him, "There will be a citizenship ceremony at the Alstershire Recreation Centre this morning, and there are thousands of participants and spectators, and I will notify the local police immediately." ”
There's nothing more to talk about, so Jack immediately takes Hannah and two bomb disposal specialists and rushes to the Ulstershire Recreation Centre in a Saabban.
"Guys, you can't go in in bomb disposal suits, that's going to cause chaos." Jack started with a slap of the steering wheel and then the throttle to the end, before turning back and reminding.
"No problem, I heard that it was a 400-pound semtin, but it doesn't really mean much whether you wear it or not." The two bomb disposal experts, who are also members of the FBI's own family, immediately helped each other to start taking off their equipment, in fact, even if Jack didn't say it, they didn't plan to continue to wear this heavy bomb disposal suit.
Within ten minutes, Jack's cell phone rang again, and it was Lacroix, who did not talk nonsense, but explained the current situation succinctly.
"The ceremony was originally scheduled to start at 9 o'clock, and people have entered the auditorium one after another, metal detectors have been set up at the entrance, and the local police have been notified to slow down the pace of entry, but the police on duty do not know the truth for the time being."
The toy car with the remote control removed was 200 meters away, which meant that Emma Kane and her men must have been watching nearby, and it was not a good idea to evacuate the crowd at this time.
In order to prevent the leakage of information from causing the other party to be alerted and detonated in advance, the next operation must be carried out in secret, and it is time to race against time again.
Jack's position was only fifteen minutes' drive from the target, and Lacroix, who was also heading this way, was closer.
As he approached the entertainment center, Jack began to slow down, and the large SUV like the Saaban was already a bit eye-catching, but fortunately it was only a single one this time, so it shouldn't attract attention.
Lacroix had already dispersed with the members of the Wanted Criminals Division, who had just returned to New York, who would be tasked with finding Emma Kane and his accomplices.
After parking Saabban in the parking lot, Jack and Hannah and two bomb disposal specialists get out of the car with hidden headphones and disguise themselves as ordinary people and walk to the auditorium entrance.
The two bomb disposal specialists were carrying toolboxes, and in Jack's hand was a gun case covered by a black bag, and inside the gun box was the G28E that Hannah had just used and was in a disassembled state.
(End of chapter)