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Danny brought a group of NYPD to clean up the mess. Fortunately, this is a cemetery. Apart from the relatives who came to attend Franz's funeral, there were also the army soldiers in the honor guard, so it was not difficult to block the news.

Originally, Jack planned to arrange for Franz's wife and son to temporarily take refuge in Los Angeles after the funeral, but Chief Reagan, with an embarrassed look on his face, firmly opposed it. Now the protection mission will be taken over by the NYPD's Internal Affairs Department.

To be honest, although he has a good relationship with the Reagan family now, Jack's trust in the NYPD is just so-so. After all, the largest police department in the United States is too large, and the mixed quality of its personnel leads to endless problems.

However, considering that the NYPD Internal Affairs Department had just gone through a round of purges, and that it was arranged personally by Chief Reagan, he didn't say anything more.

Danny was responsible for sending the injured to the hospital and promised to keep the news secret for a while, because Reacher and the others planned to follow the gunman to the place in Queens where the balance was to be delivered.

Jack took off his disguise and took Jiejie and Hannah back to the federal building. Clay and Aubrey were sent to Colorado by Jubal early this morning. They were going to investigate the "New Age Technology" factory in Denver and find out why "AM" appeared there.

Alice and a dozen analysts were busy in the operations center. Reacher and his team had "looted" too much information last night. There were dozens of hard drives pulled out from the server in the computer room alone, in addition to a large number of paper folders.

If they wanted to sort out all the information in a short period of time, they had to pile on more manpower. Jubal temporarily isolated the large office of the operations center and assigned the back one-third to them. From time to time, people came in and out with thick documents in their arms.

Jack placed two heavy bags on the table, which contained packaged coffee and desserts. Caffeine and sugar help the brain think.

"Did you find anything?" He put a cup of cappuccino with hazelnut powder on the table, but Alice had her head buried in a pile of documents and didn't see it at all.

"There is some, but not much. Most of the information matches what you have already found out and can corroborate each other, such as the situation of the security department of New Era Technology.

Shane Langston and his men from the NYPD's Third Precinct occupy almost all of the key positions, except for the deputy chief."

Alice slapped a list in front of Jack without even looking up. He had seen a similar list before, which listed all the people holding positions in the security department of "New Era Technology".

She also carefully compared this list with the list of corrupt police officers provided by Director Reagan. Almost everyone's name was circled on the list, except for one person.

"Yes, except for Deputy Director Tony Swan, we were attacked while attending a funeral just now. The murderer confessed that he was hired by Swan, but this is obviously a frame-up. I suspect that the real mastermind is most likely Shane Lanston."

"You were attacked?" Alice looked up in surprise, and then she found the Band-Aid on Hannah's face. "Honey, are you okay?"

Hannah, who was wearing a Band-Aid, seemed full of energy. She pointed at Jack with a smile and said, "It's just a little skin breakage. Some people's heart is hurt more seriously. Jack's Hellcat was smashed."

"But it protected both of you, so I will find a way to fix it, even if it means spending the money for a new car." This is the Federal Building, so Jack couldn't do anything intimate, so he could only whisper some sweet words.

This is the difference between having something to hide and having nothing to hide. When he was in BAU, he and the fat girl Garcia and Emily often flirted with each other, but now in New York, he has to pretend to be a gentleman.

These words made Hannah and Jiejie smile sweetly, but Alice, who had been fed a mouthful of dog food, felt disgusted. She shuddered and got to the point.

“I’m very surprised that Tony Swan, who was a private investigator a year ago, suddenly joined a large company and became the deputy director of the security department. It’s obvious that his background is somewhat incompatible with those black policemen.

So I carefully studied his corporate email, hoping to find some clues. "

"And then?" Jack knew from her expression that she must have discovered something.

Alice turned her computer screen towards him and moved the mouse to open a few emails. "You can see that almost all of Swan's emails are copied to his superior, Lanston, and several other security supervisors by default."

"It makes sense. They are a team, so they naturally need to share information. Is there anything strange about that?" Jiejie was a little puzzled.

Alice closed the emails and opened another one, “Those emails weren’t weird, so the remaining ones are interesting.

Swan did have several email exchanges with operations director Marlo Burns without copying anyone, even though the content did not appear to involve any official business at first glance.

Jack frowned and read the contents of those emails. They were all some small talk about music. He didn't understand why Alice paid special attention to these emails.

"Is there anything special about this Marlo Burns?" The operations director is usually at the vice president level of a company, a top management level, second only to the CEO.

However, the security departments of defense companies like New Era Technology are relatively independent, so it seems reasonable that Swan, the deputy director of the security department, has some personal relationship with the operations director.

But when Jack thought of what Alice said about Swan being just a private detective a year ago, he couldn't help but wonder, "Is it possible that Swan was actually planted in the security department by Marlo Burns? The purpose is to conduct some private investigations?"

"I don't know, but I know they are not a couple. It is obviously safer and more convenient to use mobile phones to communicate secretly. There is no need for them to use the company's monitored corporate email to send ambiguous emails, unless they think using mobile phones is unsafe."

Alice said as she highlighted the key points in an email.

"Here, Tony Swan wrote 'I think you might like Jimi Hendrix's Axis: Bold as Love, especially track 6. Give it a listen and tell me what you think'."

Jimi Hendrix is ​​known as the god of electric guitar in Europe and the United States. Jack doesn't quite understand this noisy pop music and asked curiously, "Is there anything wrong with this passage?"

“Of course.” Alice snapped her fingers, and an analyst quickly handed over a thick file, “The sixth song in the album ‘Axis: Bold as Love’ is ‘Little Wings’.

This is a document you found in the office of the Director of Operations, Marlo Burns, relating to a defense project also called 'Little Wings.'

She flipped the document to the middle, pointed to a line with an amount and said, "This is the largest defense project contract signed by New Era Technology so far. It's as high as nine figures, almost ten figures."

Jack was overjoyed and quickly took the document and started reading it, but he was immediately disappointed because it was just a memorandum and did not specify the specific details of the "Little Wings" project, nor did it even mention what kind of weapon it was.

However, the memo described that the project had completed final testing and had been demonstrated to some important people in the military and Congress.

Jack quickly scanned a string of names he didn't recognize, and unexpectedly saw a name that he was somewhat familiar with.

“I think I’ve heard of this senator.”

He was about to say something to Hannah and Jiejie when the cubicle door was suddenly opened and Jubal, who looked a little nervous, appeared at the door. "Jack, something might have happened to your friends."

An urgent news report was being broadcast on the big screen outside. Just now, an explosion occurred in a house in a deserted community in Queens. Multiple NYPD departments have been dispatched urgently, and the current casualties are unknown.