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"That guy is crazy. He took us 45 miles in less than 124 minutes." Cassel looked at the Eiffel Tower not far away, then clenched his fist and waved at the driving taxi.

"In France, we use the metric system; it's 200 kilometers." Jack corrected him and flipped his fingers, stuffing the business card Daniel gave him into his wallet. He hadn't seen many French movies, but he didn't expect to see a familiar face as soon as he arrived here.

Neither Cassel nor Brian spoke French, so Jack used fake ID made by the FBI to book a large three-bedroom suite at the Four Seasons Hotel George V in central Paris.

As soon as he landed in France, he turned on the anonymous mobile phone, including the positioning function, but he still did not receive any calls.

While waiting for the call, Jack first contacted China, where Jubal found some clues and figured out how the three girls were sent to France.

According to FAA records, six hours after the three girls were kidnapped, that afternoon, a Dassault Falcon 6X private jet flew from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Brussels, Belgium.

Because this private plane did not fly directly to France, the FBI had to spend a lot of effort to investigate it.

A bribed official of the Belgian Immigration Bureau admitted that he saw three girls who were obviously unconscious being helped off the plane and put into an ambulance. The other party explained that they had food poisoning, but their whereabouts after that were unknown.

The private jet belongs to a Brazilian tycoon. According to Jubal, he himself probably has nothing to do with the incident because the plane was supposed to be under maintenance.

"This doesn't make sense." Cassel's eyes widened. "They stole a private plane just to exchange hostages and ransom in Paris?"

This really doesn't make sense. A Dassault Falcon 7X is worth 4500 million US dollars. How could such a private jet be stolen and flown across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris, France, just to extort 1500 million euros.

Today, the exchange rate of the euro to the US dollar is close to 1:1. Even at its peak more than ten years ago, it was only about 1:1.6. This is equivalent to driving an aircraft carrier to deal with a group of local armed forces who are so poor that they can only wear slippers.

Well, this comparison seems to make sense again.

The CSI also made some progress. Through voiceprint analysis of the kidnapper's background noise, including church bells and ventilation ducts, they roughly confirmed the other party's location at the time, which almost matched the IP address tracked by Justin.

Jack was quite surprised at the richness of their database. They even collected voiceprint data in the city of Paris. Stella Bonasilla explained that they had cooperation with some well-known crime laboratories in Europe.

The NYPD, including Beckett, is also working hard to further dig up the background information of Roger Hansen. The Narcotics Unit shared some information about this person: he has a girlfriend.

By the time Jack had summarized the current progress, another hour had passed. It was already 10 o'clock in the evening in Paris, but the phone still didn't ring.

"We can't wait like this any longer." Cassell became impatient again.

"Of course we can't wait any longer." Jack agreed, and then turned his gaze to Brian, "Let's go to that hotel?"

The latter nodded, and then both of them looked at Cassel in unison, with some ill intentions, which scared him so much that he quickly raised three fingers to assure himself.

"Don't knock me out again. I can promise to stay in this room!"

Jack sighed, "You can come along, but if there's any danger, you have to make sure you don't run around."

After all, this is the city area of ​​Paris, and the opponent should not take out heavy firepower such as RPG. He is confident that he can protect Cassel, and the protagonist's halo must be used. Bringing this guy along may bring some unexpected gains.

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"There are no lights and we can't see anyone from the window." Brian, pretending to be a night runner, returned to the two and said.

"They may have moved Alexis and Kim to some other place after getting the ransom. There are fresh tire tracks in the underground parking lot, but no car is there."

Jack nodded and led the two of them into the five-story hotel building in front of them, which was closed under the pretext of renovation.

The first and second floors of the building are a restaurant that is still open for business. There is no light above the third floor, and even the elevator is closed.

Avoiding the careless security guard, Jack went up to the third floor through the emergency stairs. He listened at the security door, took out a ski mask from his pocket and put it on, then pulled out the "Viper" and installed a silencer.

The "Viper" SR-1MP is a pure Russian military pistol. It uses a special 9x21mm pistol bullet and is widely used by Russian intelligence agencies, special forces and the presidential guard.

The Russian model of this gun is called "Victor", but the export model will have a viper pattern on the slide, so it is called "Viper" in Europe and the United States.

Jack's use of this pistol was somewhat confusing, after all, the appearance of Russian intelligence officers in Paris sounded reasonable.

因为不清楚敌人的装备水平，杰克在弹匣内混装了7N28（SP-11）铅芯普通弹和SP-12扩张弹，除了备用弹匣，还带来两个装填有7N29（SP-10）穿甲弹的额外弹匣。

Needless to say, the SP-12 expanding bullet has a semi-jacketed hollow point structure. It has a white plastic bullet tip at the head and a lead core at the back. The blooming and deformation effect after hitting the human body is much better than that of ordinary hollow point bullets.

The hollow-point bullet is the "dum-dum bullet" that was once praised as miraculous by some military idiots. It is said that anyone who uses it will be brought to a military court. In fact, it is the most common type of ammunition on the U.S. civilian arms market, and it has a very good stopping effect on unarmored targets.

Considering the possibility of dealing with guys wearing bulletproof vests, Jack's extra two magazines of 7N29 (SP-10) armor-piercing bullets are prepared for them.

The design of this semi-jacketed open-point armor-piercing bullet is extremely ingenious. The front end of the jacket is open, with a steel core in the middle, and a layer of polyethylene lining between the steel core and the jacket.

When this type of bullet hits a lightly armored target, it will peel off the outer layer of armor, allowing the steel core in the middle to continue moving forward, giving it extremely strong penetrating power.

According to the Russians' own tests, this armor-piercing bullet can penetrate a 50 mm thick steel plate at a distance of 5 meters, which is an extremely excellent performance among pistol bullets.

However, when fighting in a confined space, using ammunition with too good armor-piercing properties would tend to cause ricochets after penetrating an unarmored body, so Jack kept this special armor-piercing pistol bullet as a backup.

It took the three of them nearly an hour to search the three floors from bottom to top, and as expected, the place was empty.