North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 323 The Professional and Unlucky Secret Service
The next day, Jimmy came to the FBI's Chicago office to report. Hughes also gave the phone call from the supervisor here, but he didn't see anyone at all, but was taken directly to the conference room borrowed by the Secret Service.

There were already a lot of people in the conference room, and the agents of the Secret Service were assigning tasks, and Jimmy was still late.

Just by observing their layout, you can see that the Secret Service is really powerful. The whole itinerary has no details, and special people are arranged to take care of it. The hotel where the banquet is located is in charge of the Secret Service. The two blocks around the hotel are managed by the FBI and the Chicago police. Responsible, the traffic control is carried out by the police along the way from the residence of the vice president to the hotel.

Several buildings around the hotel have been assigned special personnel to investigate and control, to avoid any loopholes facing the direction of the hotel. The roads around the hotel have been planned to have 4 entry and exit routes, which can be adjusted at any time according to needs. Two Cadillac extended bulletproof cars interact with each other. For backup, one will be taken by the vice president and will stay in the underground parking lot, and the other will stay hidden outside the hotel for backup and emergency use.

The hotel's fire exits, entrances and exits, restaurants, toilets, and ventilation ducts have all been inspected and monitored by personnel, and manpower has been deployed at each entrance and exit to check the personnel entering and exiting.Of course, it is impossible for them to completely block the entire hotel. After all, there are still other people living in it. The Secret Service only closed the upper and lower floors of the banquet hall and the passages connecting the banquet hall. Other guests of the hotel can still enter and exit through other routes. of hotel.

Guests attending the banquet arranged security inspection equipment at the entrance to check metals, explosives, guns, etc., to avoid incidents that endanger safety.

The arrangements around the FBI have been arranged. Each person is responsible for an area, and the police are responsible for part of the security. Jimmy came a little late, and he didn't hear the arrangement at all.But now is not the time to ask. After all their arrangements are completed and the meeting is dissolved, the follow-up is to lead the team to dissolve. Jimmy quickly walked to the Secret Service agent explaining the security plan.

Jimmy: "Hi, I'm Jimmy Young from the Manhattan Office of the FBI in New York. I'm here to cooperate with you as requested by the headquarters. Sorry, I'm a little late. Is there any task assigned to me?"

The agent frowned: "Did we ask New York for support? You wait here."

The agent left his position, went to talk to another agent, and the two left the conference room.Looking at the empty conference room, Jimmy had no choice but to sit here and wait.

After more than ten minutes, the agent who explained earlier returned, "I'm sorry, because you were not on the previous list, so I didn't arrange your position. You can join us in the banquet hall to guard tomorrow night."

Jimmy nodded, "OK, shall I follow you now? Or go directly to the banquet hall tomorrow night?"

Agent: "Go to the banquet hall at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and report to Agent Tom Burbach. He is responsible for the security arrangements of the banquet hall."

Jimmy: "Understood, then I'll go back first. Goodbye."

Jimmy is completely unfamiliar with the people in the Chicago office. Now his task is also the security of the hotel. There are no arrangements for today and tomorrow morning. Free activities are enough. Anyway, he can do less.

Jimmy had a day off in Chicago, he was really not in the mood to go out and play, Chicago is not a place where you can play casually, one of the most famous history here is the traditional Chicago gang of Italian descent, even now, Chicago is still violent In 2021, there will be more than 3000 shootings in Chicago, an average of 10 a day, close to 800 homicides, almost double that of New York. Of course, most of the dead are black. Relatively better, but only relatively better.

For Jimmy who is not familiar with the situation in this kind of city, if something happens, the impact will be great, and it will be very troublesome to delay the task arrangement.Jimmy still has a very professional ethics. As an FBI agent, when he travels to participate in the mission of the Secret Service, he naturally puts the mission first. As for tourism, we will talk about it later.

The task this time is not easy, life-saving is the first priority, not only do not get shot or accidents, but even though Tom didn't say it, he is still very worried about being cheated and sold by them.Ever since he discovered that Tom appeared beside Frank and the others, Jimmy knew that he had cheated Tom. Even if Tom had more important matters, he was still willing to contact Frank in private and come to them. There was only one reason for him to do this, and that was for Jimmy. And allowing Tom to make up his mind to see Frank shows that Tom is not at ease with Frank and doesn't trust him.

Don't be sensible, Jimmy, if anything happens to Tom, you are the biggest culprit.

Jimmy was lying on the bed in the hotel, looking at the ceiling, the TV was playing something casually, and he didn't care at all, it was time to grow up.

The next afternoon, Jimmy had arrived at the hotel early and found Secret Service agent Tom Burbach in the lobby who was inspecting the deployment.

Jimmy: "Hi, Agent Tom Burbach, report to Jimmy Young at the FBI's New York office."

Tom Burbach glanced at Jimmy, then lowered his head to open the list in the folder in his hand, looked for it, and checked Jimmy's ID.

Tom Burbach: "OK, the inspection is over, Jimmy, you are in charge of the side door on the left corner of the banquet hall. This is our third escape route. Please hang up your ID."

Jimmy: "OK." After speaking, Jimmy was about to leave, and went to the banquet hall to check the location first.

Tom Burbach: "Wait, I see you look familiar. What department were you in?"

Jimmy: "Assistant Sheriff of Pulaski County, Arkansas."

Tom Burbach's eyes lit up, "I remember you, we worked together two years ago." Seeing Jimmy's puzzled face, he continued: "I was with John Butler in the bombing case, remember? ?”

Jimmy suddenly realized, "Oh, I remembered. At that time, the two of you came to our police station to transfer people to help survey the route. Sorry, it's been too long, I didn't recognize it."

Tom Burbach laughed and said, "It's really a fate. I didn't expect you to become the FBI."

Jimmy: "Yes, at the end of the year before last, the FBI Academy just opened a new training session, and I signed up for it. Speaking of which, I met John Butler a few days ago, and he was transferred to the White House."

Tom Burbach nodded. Of course he knew about John's transfer. It seems that Jimmy and John still have some personal friendship. "OK, let's not talk for now, you can go and see your location, I will continue to check here."

Jimmy: "OK, goodbye, Tom. By the way, give me your number."

Speaking of which, he really doesn’t have much impression of this Tom Burbach. He looks very ordinary, not as impressive as John Butler’s square face. In retrospect, he still complained about the two of them, John and Tom. No matter how you look at the name, it looks like a fake name, but I didn't expect that the names of both people are real.

Jimmy and Tom Burbach exchanged phone numbers, took a walkie-talkie and headset from Tom Burbach, pinned it to his belt, pulled the headset from behind to his shoulder, put it on his right ear, and put the FBI badge on the chain Pull it out, hang it around your neck, and go upstairs into the banquet hall.The frequency of this walkie-talkie has been adjusted, and it can be connected to the frequency band of the Secret Service just by turning it on, so as to facilitate mutual communication.

The banquet hall is not particularly large. There is a main door on the side. There are side doors on both sides of the wall opposite the rostrum for entry and exit. The rostrum also has a side door leading to the backstage passage. This passage is also for the vice president who is about to give a speech on the rostrum. Enter the passage, where the Secret Service is in charge, and outsiders like Jimmy can only look at the corners.

Jimmy opened the side door he was in charge of, and looked around the back passage. Of course, by the way, he checked the surroundings with his mind to see if there were any potential dangers. Fortunately, the hotel that was selected as the vice president's dinner was of course very good. , In addition, the Secret Service has sealed off some areas, and the part Jimmy is in charge of is very safe.

After checking, Jimmy found a corner and took a chair to rest, because the dinner party started late, and there were still a few hours left, and it was too tiring to stand all the time.

In the evening, all the security guards and agents were mobilized, and people with invitation letters entered the hotel one after another. Jimmy could only stand by the side door, staring at the high-class people who greeted each other in a daze, talking , This seems to be the first time that Jimmy participated in a high-level dinner on the spot. Although he just stood on the side, it can be regarded as participating in the whole process.

Jimmy saw two familiar faces among the people attending the dinner, Ivan and Victoria. Their plan had indeed started, but Jimmy didn't know what they were going to do now, because Jimmy didn't participate in the discussion of the plan. And when the old men and old ladies discussed, they didn't have a detailed plan, they just talked about it.

The waiting time was almost up. The people on the rostrum introduced and invited Vice President Robert Stanton to everyone. Speaking of which, the vice president’s skin is really good, and he looks very good. He is in his 40s and his hair is neatly arranged. He was meticulous, he simply greeted, and then announced that he was about to run for president.

There was a dance before the dinner, and when the dance was over, Ivan suddenly started to run away. He shouted "gas", causing a panic, and then he turned on the fire alarm button on the wall. At this point, the chaos broke out completely. The crowd began to run in all directions in a panic, and the vice president, under the escort of Secret Service agents, ran towards the first evacuation passage, the main door of the banquet hall.

Jimmy had seen it before. Victoria left through the main gate and didn't pay attention at the time. Now it seems that she really planned to leave. The vice president and the agents came to the gate, but they couldn't open it. Jimmy had seen it from behind. Something was entangled on the handle behind the door. In fact, as long as you hit it a few times hard, you can go out directly. Unfortunately, the detectives didn't stop, and directly chose the second escape route, the side door on the other side, and Jimmy The side door here is where many guests escaped.

Seeing the vice president and the others leave the banquet hall, Jimmy followed them and began to evacuate. He had observed in advance that the riot was only in the banquet hall, and the so-called gas leak did not exist at all, let alone a fire.

Followed all the way to the end, while observing the surrounding environment, Jimmy looked back to avoid being followed, and came to the underground parking lot. The Secret Service agent pressed the vice president's head into the bulletproof car and was about to leave. Unfortunately, these cars There was no place for Jimmy here, so he could just stand and watch them go.After only a short drive, a Browning M2HB heavy machine gun fired at the convoy. The armored vehicle resisted the heavy machine gun fire, but the cars of other agents were not so lucky.

The agent and the vice president got out of the car to escape, and a second extended bulletproof Cadillac drove in from the outside. Unfortunately, it exploded suddenly as soon as it arrived at the position.Seeing that the spare vehicle also had an accident, they could only return to the hotel through a small gate on the parking lot, and leave the hotel through other routes.It was luck, Jimmy was able to follow the Secret Service again, avoiding the shooting range of heavy machine guns, Jimmy quietly followed the vice president and his party.

When passing through the kitchen, the vice president and his party were shot, and only one person heard the gunshots. They used a fully automatic weapon, which should be a submachine gun, not the M14 and M16 rifles that Jimmy and his colleagues usually used. Jimmy followed up a few steps. There are people from the Secret Service in front of him, so he won't join in the fun, he just needs to hide in the corner to prevent stray bullets.

Here you can see the image of the shooter. There are two figures, one is shooting, the other is loading the magazine, and then handing it to the person in front. Judging from the shape of the body, it should be Victoria and Marvin. They are really reckless. Ah, two guys are going to intercept a bunch of Secret Service guys.

The agent and the vice president and his party did not stop, but after some people fought back, they left the kitchen through the side door. A team of SWAT police had followed the vice president's route to the kitchen. Jimmy followed the SWAT instead of the Secret Service. Let's act together,.

SWAT is still good. Under their attack, the two people on the opposite side were suppressed in the corner, unable to stand up, and in a place where no one else could see, Jimmy found Victoria leaning against the wall with her hands on her waist. It seemed that she had been shot up.

Marvin, who was taller, threw a few smoke pops from the corner, followed by smoke, and SWAT pressed forward while shooting at the smoke.Jimmy looked at their situation and felt pessimistic. With so many SWAT members, it would be difficult for Victoria to escape if she was shot. Even if she escaped from the kitchen, it would be difficult for her to escape from the hotel after being shot.

Jimmy followed SWAT, trying to make sure if they ran away. Soon Victoria and Marvin separated in the passage. Victoria came to a dead end. Jimmy could see something blocking the passage. It seems that SWAT will turn around later. You can see her around the corner.

Jimmy made preparations, but before they arrived, someone appeared behind Victoria, followed by holding Victoria and left. Fortunately, it seemed that there was no need to make a move.

(End of this chapter)