[Comprehensive British and American Drama] Vibrant Soul

"Who are you?!" Carter instinctively reached out for the gun, but when he opened the drawer beside the sofa, he found that the gun that had been kept here was gone.

"Bastard!" Carter hurriedly turned and retreated, ready to go back to the porch to get the armed belt, but before he could finish his turn, he was bounced back immediately, and after a few staggers, he managed to stand still.

Carter focused his eyes, only to realize that in the middle of the living room and the entrance, at some point, another strong man who was two meters tall and also wearing a black hood appeared there.

An uneasiness flooded into Carter's heart immediately.

"Who are you?! What do you want to do?!" Before the words fell, Carter rushed towards the strong man like a beast descending from the mountain.

To Carter's surprise, the strong man didn't dodge anything.The strong man just stood there, letting Carter's fist hit him hard in the face.

"Ahhh!" Carter's fist seemed to be pounding on a piece of pig iron. The strong man's body didn't move at all, but Carter felt that the bones of his fist seemed to have fallen apart.

At the moment when Carter was in pain, the strong man suddenly stretched out one hand, grabbed Carter's wrist and twisted it forcefully. With a "click", Carter's right arm immediately dropped down limply.

"Ah!" Carter yelled in pain, and beads of sweat immediately poured out from his forehead.

The strong man kicked again, and Carter fell heavily on the floor. His clothes were drenched with sweat in a short while.

The strong man raised his right foot and stepped on Carter's chest. Carter let out a muffled groan, and immediately grasped the strong man's ankle with his left hand, pulling it outward forcefully, but to no avail.

The strong man's feet slowly added force, and Carter felt his chest suddenly sink. With the groaning of the bones, he gradually couldn't breathe, his vision became blurred, and the pain gradually began to go away.

"Enough." The hooded man, who was drinking coffee leisurely just now, has come over at some point. The strong man stepped back half a step, watching him walk in front of Carter, and knocking down Carter on the ground with one hand. Pull up and sit against the wall, then attach Carter's dislocated right arm.

"Officer Carter, don't be nervous." The coffee man's smile was sunny and warm, "Your family is very safe at the moment. As for us, we just want to talk to you."

"If you kill me now, I will never promise you anything!" Carter breathed hard, but his tone was extremely firm.

"Don't talk too much, officer. To be honest, we have no enmity with you. It's just that there are some small things that no one can ask for, so I have to ask you for help." The coffee man's tone was relaxed and confident.

"Don't even think about it!" Carter's forehead was exposed.

"Bang!" However, before he could finish his sentence, a large-caliber pistol with a silencer was added to the strong man's hand, and at the same time he fired a shot at the ceiling directly above the living room.

Among the debris all over the sky, a few low and subtle humming sounds came from nowhere immediately.

Although the voice was very small, Carter immediately recognized that it was the voice of his wife and a pair of children.

"You bastards!" Carter gritted his teeth, trying to struggle to get up, but before he had any extra movement, the strong man's second shot rang out immediately.

Same location, same dusty sky.The difference was that a faint smell of blood began to permeate the air.

Carter couldn't be more familiar with this kind of taste. The picture in his mind instantly began to crack a corner of his tense heart. Suddenly, he seemed to understand the state of mind of the two colleagues at that time.

"Our time is limited, officer, I hope you can give us an answer immediately, otherwise, you will only embarrass us all." The coffee man raised his hand and gently slapped his own dust, and retreated to the corner of the sofa. On the other side, at the same time, he took out a mobile phone and put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa, and smiled meaningfully at Carter.

The moment he saw the phone, Carter felt completely out of balance in his heart.

"What do you want?"

"This is the attitude you should have when talking." The coffee man gave a slight gesture to the strong man, and the strong man put away his pistol, turned around and walked up the stairs leading to the second floor.

Hearing the constant "creaking" sound of the stairs due to the weight of the strong man, Carter's heart was like a knife.

The police conference center.

Anthony's key, allowing Hodge and Morgan to retrieve a solid-state drive from the bank's VIP safe.

The password of the hard disk was quickly cracked. Facing the huge sea of ​​data, Garcia, who had already prepared, was still a little surprised.

Thanks to Kevin's joining, Garcia's data screening work quickly progressed, and the list of Anthony's former clients was quickly sorted out.

According to the three conditions listed at the beginning, Garcia quickly made a preliminary screening, and the team members were divided into three groups by Hodge, and began to contact each other with the help of the police.

What cheered everyone up was that they seemed to have found their intended target very quickly: the Balkers, who used to live in Illinois.

However, what everyone didn't understand was that the Balkers, who had an adoption record, had died in a car accident a few years ago.

Hodge: "Garcia, is there no information about the child in the crash report?"

Garcia: "It seems that because the Balkers did not have any relatives, and the car accident was caused by the collapse of a certain bridge, everything was extremely chaotic at the time, and because of the responsibility for the bridge collapse accident afterwards, a large number of consecutive marathon lawsuits almost It took up everyone's energy and resources, resulting in incomplete information, and of course, no one added it afterwards."

Rossi: "What about the adoption report?"

Garcia is also very headache: "Their adoption seems to be just a formality, so there is no specific information for inquiries."

Everyone fell silent.

At this moment, Reina, who had been carefully checking the data of the car accident at that time, seemed to have discovered something. After trying to identify it, she asked a question: "Miss Garcia, can you improve the clarity of this photo of the car accident scene? ?"

Garcia: "I'll try."

"Wait a minute." Reina grabbed Porter, who came to deliver the materials, and pointed to the photo that Garcia had tried to make clear: "Come and see, is this Sergeant Kurt?"

"This, it seems to be the sheriff when he was young." Potter carefully identified, "This should be him. I saw a photo of him when he was young in the sheriff's office. Although this photo is a little blurry, it's not the same. There will be mistakes."

"He's right." Garcia sent the results of the software comparison, "This is indeed Sheriff Kurt."

Rossi asked Porter, "Where's Sheriff Coulter?"

Porter: "Looks like he just went out and said he'll be back soon."

Hodge immediately picked up the phone, but Sheriff Coulter couldn't get through.

Porter: "Maybe the sheriff's car is going through the tunnel area right now, where there won't be a signal."

Rhett: "Sheriff Coulter doesn't seem to be on the roster for this operation."

Potter: "The sheriff's house is over there. Maybe he wants to go back and have a look. After all, he hasn't been home for many days."

Hodge: "To save time, let's take a walk."

Carter's.

After the coffee man helped Carter treat the wound, he didn't do anything anymore.

He didn't put forward any conditions, and didn't make any threats for the next step. He just sat at the kitchen table, sipping coffee quietly, like a person who hasn't been relaxed for a long time, enjoying the relaxing time comfortably. Tea time.

Carter found that his mobile phone had been searched at some time, and the location of the landline in the living room was too conspicuous.He tried his best to calm himself down, and then inferred the other party's intentions in his mind, but he couldn't find the slightest clue.

Countless possibilities flashed through Carter's mind, but he couldn't make up his mind to realize it: for some reason, his eyes never turned to the coffee man over here, which made Carter's heart shrouded in an unfathomable feeling.The lives of his wife and children are in his hands, and he doesn't want to take risks casually.

The strong man did not reappear, but Carter has not been able to act rashly.

The other party's abnormal behavior made Carter feel extremely upset. He asked to see his wife and children several times, but was ignored by the other party.

Just when Carter felt restless, the annoying "squeak" sounded again, and when he turned his head, he suddenly found that the strong man had already changed into a police uniform that fit him, and walked into the living room with another one inside.

There was a chill in Carter's heart.

Suddenly, the chord bells of "The Fifth Element" sounded from the kitchen.

The coffee man who had been ignoring this side seemed to suddenly wake up from a dream. After a little hesitation, he picked up the phone.

"Yes, I understand." Just listening quietly, and then, in response, the coffee man hung up the phone, and threw the phone into the fish tank that Carter has always been proud of.

The coffee man quickly changed into his police uniform, picked up his mobile phone in the living room, and walked up to Carter: "Officer Carter, I will leave the rest to you."

"Are you planning to attack the police station?!" The broken belief in Carter's heart was regained.

"Don't worry, we just want you to show us the way." The coffee man gestured slightly, and Carter couldn't help resisting, and the strong man carried Carter out of the room.

What surprised Carter even more was that just outside his yard, an indistinguishable police car was opening the door, waiting for their arrival...