[Comprehensive British and American Drama] Vibrant Soul

The text message comes with a location marker on the map, and the distance from the police hospital is not too far away.

According to the information provided by Harold, Hodge already knew that this was an open parking lot, and made the necessary preparations earlier. However, despite this, Hodge still couldn't let go of his heart.

This is a state of mind that has not been felt for a long time. Even if this is the three consecutive cases that BAU has never encountered, Hodge claims that he should not have such a reaction.

But since last night when I learned that there was a case at Black's neighbor's house and Black's whereabouts were unknown, Morgan, Garcia, Reina and Rosie encountered various dangers one by one, and Morgan and Rosie's life and death are still unknown. As a result, Huo Qi has been suffering from this feeling until now.

Everyone is very tired; the other party is extremely cunning; the continuous running around has exhausted everyone's attention to the limit; the profile shows that the other party just hopes to use the targeting of BAU to distract the attention and resources of the police and FBI... Countless Countless excuses can explain everything that BAU has encountered so far and the reasons for the current situation. However, Huo Qi understands that at this moment, he is stronger than ever, and he cannot easily lax.

Excuses are not reasons, no matter what, I must not fall down.

While Huo Qi silently asked himself in his heart, he clenched his right fist tightly. Just a few minutes ago, Huo Qi had just used this hand to take away the family portrait photos he carried with him once again. up.

Beth, Jack, I will definitely rescue you all safe and sound!

According to the plan, when there were still a few kilometers away from the parking lot, all the people involved in this mission had already dispersed, taking various disguised vehicles and heading towards the surrounding area of ​​the parking lot from various locations.

Although there was no request in the other party's text message, Hodge decided to drive alone to the parking lot according to the marked route on the patrol map.

In view of the extent of the crime committed by the other party tonight, Huo Qi really didn't dare to be negligent.

The entrance to the parking lot soon appeared in Hodge's sight.

Huo Qi immediately slowed down, changed the headlights, and slowly drove into the parking lot.

While seeing Hodge changing the headlights, the backup cars that had been carefully following Hodge's car also cut into the traffic one by one and headed towards the parking lot.

This is an attached open-air parking lot located around the commercial center. Because it is free, it is always fully loaded.

However, it is precisely because of the free reason that there are no other additional protective measures, such as cameras, such as automatic door stops, except for a few elderly administrators hired temporarily. Therefore, the car loss rate here It has also been maintained at a number that is a headache for the surrounding police stations—and this is one of the things that gave Harold a headache before coming here. Without cameras and effective data accumulation, Harold's specialty is not here. Useless.

However, even so, this seems to be unable to stop those car owners flocking to save money, so when Hodge drove in, his eyes were immediately filled with a sea of ​​cars next to him.

Although he had already been mentally prepared, Huo Qi couldn't help but frown slightly when he saw the sea of ​​cars, and there were still cars coming in and out even in the early hours of the morning.

What made Huoqi even more troublesome was that the text message was accompanied by a location marker on the map, and the level of detail stopped abruptly here.

Harold's call came very timely. Hodge, who had just found a parking space and stopped the car, answered before he had time to unbuckle his seat belt: "What's the matter, Harold."

Harold: "Agent Hodge, the peripheral operation team has completed the investigation of the sniper location you gave, and has not found anything for the time being. They are currently hiding in place, waiting for the next action instructions."

Hodge unbuckled the seat belt with one hand: "Thank you, Harold, just let them continue to be vigilant, and don't relax."

"Inspector Hodge, although there are no cameras in the parking lot, I just reviewed all the videos of the cameras around the five entrances and exits of the parking lot within three hours, and then I found this." Harold said Zhang sent a screenshot of the improved video to Hodge.

Huo Qi immediately took out his mobile phone and called up the picture, and found that the picture was of a classic 87 Chevrolet. The face of the man in the driver's seat was completely covered by a hat and a mask, making it impossible to distinguish. In the back seat, a small part of a woman's face was exposed. Although the pixels were increased, it was still very blurry. However, Hodge immediately recognized the owner of this face by virtue of this slightly blurred face.

Harold: "I'm very sorry, Agent Hodge, but due to the limited resolution of the camera, there is no way to compare your wife's photo with the partial face of the lady in the back seat. However, from the driver's In terms of appearance, it is still very suspicious. In addition, since the car entered the No. [-] entrance, I have not been able to find signs of its departure in all the cameras after it entered the time. Therefore, this car should be a A worthy target."

"No, that's enough, Harold, I can recognize that the person in the back seat is Beth, and what we're looking for should be this car." Hodge suppressed his emotions a little He continued, "Notify everyone immediately, and start searching for this car quietly, but don't act rashly immediately after you find it, and act after I arrive."

Harold: "I see."

Unexpectedly, within a few minutes after Hodge's order was issued, plainclothes police officers discovered the Chevrolet that Harold mentioned.

After receiving the news, Huo Qi hurried over.

Huo Qi rushed to the car, and immediately recognized the Chevrolet parked in a corner of the parking lot. Through the rear glass window of the car, Huo Qi has already seen the blindfolded person tightly bound Beth was being fastened to the rear driver's seat.

Perhaps because of the noisy footsteps just now, Beth, who couldn't figure out the situation, seemed a little frightened. Her slightly curled body moved slightly, and at this moment, under her body, a wire was like Nothing reveals a little bit of it.

Everyone who saw this scene immediately felt like an enemy.

Hodge hurriedly called the explosive ordnance disposal team on standby, and then signaled for everyone to be quiet, and shouted at Beth in the car through the window glass: "Beth, can you hear me? It's me, Hodge , I'm here to save you!"

Beth, who was convinced that she heard Hodge's voice, immediately let out an excited "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" At the same time, her tightly fixed body also began to struggle desperately.

"Beth! Beth! Listen to me, you must not move now!" Seeing this, Huo Qi hurriedly shouted, "Now there is a little situation that I need to deal with, so please wait quietly for a while , I will rescue you right away, don’t move around now, just maintain the current posture and wait for me, okay? If you can hear me and understand what I mean, just nod your head gently!”

After a moment of silence, as Beth calmed down steadily and nodded slowly, everyone's tense bodies and minds eased up.

The explosive ordnance disposal team was quickly in place and got to work right away.

Under the car, the place inside the car can be seen from the outside without touching. The endoscope observed the gap between the trunk and the door. After confirming that these places were not dangerous, the explosive ordnance disposal team decided to open the door.

The members of the explosive ordnance disposal team in explosion-proof suits confirmed that the door was not locked, and carefully put their hands on the handle of the rear door.

Looking at this scene, everyone present felt sticky in their palms, and the various support teams outside the parking lot and outside the parking lot had their hearts in their throats at this time, for fear that someone would take the opportunity to check for leaks.

Inside the parking lot.

The previous unfinished scene continued.

"Three, two, one!" The two people pulled the handle of the car at the same time, and the two rear doors slowly opened a gap.

The opening work was suspended immediately, and after reconfirming that there was no danger inside the door, the two team members continued to open the door slowly.

"Beth, hold on, it will be fine soon." Hodge kept comforting Beth, he tried his best to control his voice, so as not to show the tension in his heart.

Because of Beth, the members of the explosive ordnance disposal team in explosion-proof suits could not enter the car as a whole. One of them was holding the corner mirror, and the other stretched out his arm as much as possible, in the small space in the rear seat. Check it out along that wire.

Just a few minutes, in the feeling of Hodge and everyone else, seemed as long as years.

Finally, the members of the explosive ordnance disposal team retreated from the inside of the vehicle to the outside of the vehicle.

Huo Qi waited until the two stood up, and then asked: "How is it?"

A team member who had no time to take off the explosion-proof suit immediately gestured "OK" to Hodge.

"There is no bomb inside, so we can get the hostages out directly." Another team member managed to get his head out of the explosion-proof suit, took a deep breath and said at the same time.

"Thank you!" Hodge said sincerely.

Looking at Huo Qi, the team member who showed his head smiled faintly.

When Hodge loosened the tightly bound Beth and untied the blindfold with his own hands, after confirming that everything in front of him was real, Beth, who had been terrified all the time, threw herself into Hodge's arms and cried loudly.

Hodge caressed Beth's back and comforted her softly in her ear.

"Hodge, where's Jack? Is he alright?" Beth, who calmed down a little, suddenly remembered Jack who was captured together. She immediately broke out of Hodge's arms, and looked at Hodge with a worried face. asked anxiously.

"I'll save him right away." Looking at Beth like this, after a moment of silence, Hodge said seriously.

Beth, who had hoped to hear good news from Hodge, immediately dimmed the light in her eyes, and the surprise on her face instantly turned into sadness and sorrow.

"I'm sorry, Hodge, I, I didn't like Jack...I, I..." Before the words finished, two lines of tears rolled down Beth's cheeks. Beth covered her mouth forcefully, but whimpered. The voice still cannot be completely covered.

"It's not your fault." Hodge gently pulled Beth into his arms, "Trust me, I will definitely bring Jack back safe and sound, just like what I'm doing now!"

"Yeah." Amidst the faint sobs, Beth nodded vigorously in Hozzie's arms, then raised her head to look into Hozzie's eyes, "Hozzie, I leave everything to you."

"I will." Feeling the warmth in his arms, Huo Qi cast his eyes far away: the originally heavy night has begun to gradually fade away, and there is a faint trace of light in the sky between the tall buildings and the summer. The morning light was emerging, and through this faint smear of morning light, an inconspicuous light flashed past the junction of the tires and the body of the Chevrolet behind the two of them...

At the same time, on the other side, Lena and Reid led a small team to follow silently behind the guy who was still running away.

The reaction of the suspect she saw not long ago made Lena have high expectations. However, for nearly an hour from then until now, the other party turned out to be only in various means of transportation. The time is constantly changing, while aimlessly circling almost half of the central Washington block, but at the same time, it does not show that there is a specific goal to go to.

Looking at the red dot on the tablet that was still moving at a constant speed, and the real-time transmission of the other party sitting on the bus as if enjoying the scenery, Lena couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

That's when Harold's connection came.

"Harold, do you have any good news?" Reina, aware of her impatience, tried her best to suppress it, but she still unconsciously revealed a trace of emotion between the lines.

"Of course, Agent Reina, Agent Hodge has already rescued his wife." Harold's calm and magnetic voice seemed to slightly extinguish the anger in Reina's heart.

"Really?! This is really great!" Lena just wanted to be happy, but she immediately thought of something, and immediately asked, "Then how long is the time before Huo Qi made an appointment with the other party?!"

Harold: "Less than three ten minutes."

"Is it less than 10 minutes?!" Looking through the car window at the sky with a little morning light outside, Lena felt that she was starting to lose control of her emotions.

Harold: "Agent Hodge has also learned about your operation this time from me."

Lena's heart tightened: "Did he say something?"

Harold: "Agent Hodge did have something to convey to me. He said that time is tight and there is no way to contact you directly. However, I hope that you must be careful in everything and put safety first. No matter what, don't do it again. Enter the opponent's trap."

For some reason, Reina felt even more depressed when she heard Hodge's words conveyed by Harold.

"Mr. Harold, have Hodge and the others encountered any danger?" Rhett interjected.

"It's just that there was no danger." Harold roughly told Rhett about the process of Beth's rescue.

"The other party managed to take hold of the hostages, why not exchange them for their accomplices or offer some more valuable conditions, instead of doing so?" Rhett didn't understand the other party's behavior pattern, "Could it be that they didn't know that their accomplices had been captured?" Catch?! Or do they have another real purpose?!" Seeing the relaxed expression of the released suspect on the real-time transmission screen, Rui frowned tightly.

Harold: "Agent Hodge said that the other party may want to find out about Agent Hodge's arrangement through the incident of Ms. to carry out targeted actions; of course, it is also possible that the other party is just pretending to be generous."

Reid is still very worried: "The smooth operation of this operation just shows that the meeting in three or ten minutes may be even more dangerous."

"Therefore, we must have some breakthroughs here, and only in this way can we give Huoqi enough support!" Lena looked at the red dot on the screen, and she did not conceal her true emotions in the slightest. .

Rhett: "Mr. Harold, I'll leave it to Hodge."

Harold: "I will try my best."

Harold, who had just finished talking with Rhett, immediately received a call from Xiao: "Harold, do you really want to just watch this chick messing around like this?"

Harold's tone was very calm: "Ms. Xiao, I know you are also very tired, but I hope you can persevere. I have been in constant contact with Mr. Reese."

Shaw: "At least his number didn't show up in your call from your little one, did it?"

Harold: "I trust Mr. Reese."

"I believe him too, but that's not an excuse for us to waste time here, Harold, don't you feel it?! I don't know if I'm superstitious, since the explosion on the bridge, our Something is wrong with Miss Target, as long as she encounters certain things, her emotions will suddenly become irritable, and then she will become disorderly. If this continues, we will be very passive!" Xiao's emotions are rare A little excited, "I hope it's because of my misgivings. I don't want to cause us any more trouble because of her."

Harold looked at Lena who was talking to Rhett through the computer screen: "No, Ms. Xiao, our target this time, she will definitely not be a troublemaker."

"I hope it will be as you wish, and I will contact you again if there is anything to do." Xiao ended the call.

"Mr. Reese, where are you now, and what are you doing?" Harold was worried silently in his heart while switching the call frequency band of the headset to the police frequency band.