The World of American Drama: From the Los Angeles Patrol

Chapter 316 Red’s fatal mistake

The host of the meeting shook his head helplessly.

"Dr. Nichols, do you know how unrealistic this is? Spending such a huge amount of money to prevent such baseless attacks, let alone Congress, do you know how much panic it will cause among ordinary people?"

However, at the next moment, Dr. Nichols stood up abruptly, and slapped his palm heavily on the table, "You are dereliction of duty, why can't you bastard bureaucrats face reality!"

"This country should panic, look at the situation we have now, these enemies we face."

"Please sit down, Dr. Nichols." The host couldn't help but raise his voice.

"I won't sit down!" Dr. Nichols became increasingly angry, while the host and the congressmen and military representatives standing aside showed speechless expressions.

"This is an era full of asymmetric warfare and weapons of mass destruction. If you continue to ignore this reality, it will kill everyone in this country. I will continue to accuse you bureaucrats in public without mercy. !"

After the video was played, everyone's faces became very exciting. The middle-aged man turned his head and said, "According to the committee, his subsequent remarks became more radical and his mood was extremely manic."

"So they kicked him out of Fort Detrick?" Rossi turned to look at General Whitworth on the other side.

"And cannot join other important departments."

The lieutenant general's expression was a bit subtle, "Dr. Nichols was once very respected in the circle, but he just proposed what he thought was a defensive strategy, not an offensive strategy."

"But it's clear that he doesn't feel like his views are getting the weight they deserve, and maybe he wants to prove his point in some way," Hotchner countered.

To be honest, Jack really thinks that Hotchner's business-like, serious manner is very suitable for dealing with these upper-level figures on this occasion. Rossi's vision in selecting people is really amazing.

"He was exposed to germs, lost a good job, and got divorced, which completely fits your profile." Apparently, even the middle-aged man who didn't know the specific job was on the side of BAU at this time.

General Whitworth was a little hesitant to speak, and he could easily guess that Dr. Nichols came out of Fort Detrick after all.

If it is really confirmed that Dr. Nichols is related to this terrorist attack, or even the murderer, it is hard to guarantee that someone will use this to attack him as the person in charge.

"Anyway, this is an important clue, where is he serving now?" Rossi asked.

"'Biodesign Technology Company' is an outsourcing company affiliated to us, but they don't research anthrax. Their main research direction is influenza." General Whitworth replied.

Rossi went straight out and said as he walked, "Emily and I are going to visit his office, Jack and Rhett are going to visit his house, Hodge and Jiejie are staying, remember to call the director, please He's trying to buy some more time."
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Lawrence Nichols lives in Leonardton, a small town in southern Maryland, less than an hour's drive from Annapolis, but it is already afternoon and the peak traffic flow has arrived.

By the time Jack, Reid and the soldiers of the chemical defense force arrived at the gate of this large villa, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

The villa was empty, and the chemical defense soldiers first checked the surroundings of the villa, and found nothing unusual, so they went into the house to check. Jack and Reid wandered around the villa to see if they could find any clues.

The garden behind the villa is a bit dilapidated. It is estimated that since Lawrence Nichols divorced, it has not been taken care of properly without the hostess.

Finally, the two stopped in front of a small vertical fountain. It was a decorative fountain that looked like a small vertical pillar, about half a person tall, with a basin in the middle.

Jack looked at this little old fountain in a strange way. This thing should have stopped working a long time ago. The water basin was full of dead branches and leaves, but it made a strange buzzing sound.

"Red, is there a fan in here? I think it looks like an exhaust device." Reid leaned forward and observed carefully, "It looks like an exhaust port of a negative pressure device."

Jack looked around and saw a shabby-looking greenhouse in the corner of the garden, with no other buildings.

Just as he was about to go around the small fountain and go up to check, his cell phone rang suddenly. It was a call from Rossi.

Jack answered the phone and signaled Rhett to wait a moment. At this time, the automatic sprinkler in the garden happened to be turned on. He could only take two steps back to avoid the range of the sprinkler.

Rossi and Emily found nothing valuable in the laboratory where Lawrence Nichols worked, and the director of the laboratory said that he had not seen the doctor for at least three days.

That is to say, Lawrence Nichols disappeared before the accident at the bookstore.

The chemical defense soldiers who accompanied the two to the laboratory also failed to find any anthrax spores in his office.

It shows that this doctor did not use laboratory equipment to synthesize the bacteria, or in other words, his hands were handled very cleanly.

Jack hangs up the phone, but when he turns around, he finds that Reid has disappeared.

"Red?" He walked into the dilapidated greenhouse, and unexpectedly saw a staircase extending downward behind the door.

This silly boy won't go down alone, will he?Jack felt anxious and hurried down the stairs.

"Red." Jack called out again.

There seems to be a large space below, and there is a faint echo.

"Don't come in, leave like this." At the same time as Red's voice came, there was a crash in the basement.

Jack took three steps at a time and came to the basement, only to see that Red had closed a glass sliding door and locked it from the inside. He looked at him with panic in his eyes through the glass.

"Sorry, I think I made a mistake."

This is a self-built laboratory. After Rhett closed the sliding door, it became a completely enclosed room. Jack's sight fell on the ground behind him, which was a broken test tube surrounded by some white powder.

And not far away, between two rows of shelves, there was a corpse lying there. Blood was flowing all over the floor, but it had already turned black.

"Wait here for me!" Jack almost turned around and ran away before he was so angry with this guy.

"Set up a decontamination tent, call the CDC's ambulance, and notify Dr. Kimura and General Whitworth of a suspected anthrax leak."

Several soldiers at the gate of the villa couldn't help but froze when they heard the words, and stopped their actions to take off their protective clothing.

"What happened?" The captain who knew Jack asked quickly.

"Behind the garden, there is a basement in that disguised greenhouse. It is Lawrence Nichols' private laboratory. Get me a protective suit. My colleague locked himself in it."

(End of this chapter)