I used to believe in science

"Come and we'll meet, there's a case."

"The case?" Antoinette was stunned. It wasn't the first time they were recalled urgently during their vacation.But more than half of their team is not in Washington, and it is not the best choice to call them from the perspective of efficiency or humanities.

"NYPD just confirmed an arson case, they asked the FBI for help, and we happened to be here." When Morgan was explaining on the phone, Antoinette sighed unabashedly, so he stopped and asked " What’s wrong with you?"

"I'm not in New York right now, I'm in Tennessee." Antoinette rubbed his eyes. "Don't worry, I'll hurry back. I guess I can arrive at about the same time as Hodge and the others."

"to make."

"Is there any information to share with me? I will do my homework on the plane."

"Garcia will send it to you."

Antoinette heard a ding receiving tone from the email on the phone, so she said to the other end of the phone, "I'm going to hurry back, if there is any news, just contact me."

"No problem..." The background sound on Morgan's end suddenly became noisy, and someone called him in the background.

"what happened?"

"Another fire," Morgan answered her. "The news is coming."

"Can you turn on the TV?" Antoinette looked at Maya, who turned on the TV very cooperatively and switched to the news channel in New York.

Sure enough, a piece of news was being broadcast, and they could see that the background wall where the reporter was standing was smoky and pitch black, the iron door of the elevator was deformed due to the high temperature, and the sound of the ambulance was used as the background sound. "We interviewed a few survivors on the first floor. , they said they saw a man come out of the elevator shaft, dressed in rags but unharmed, he walked out, no one stopped him, the camera at the scene has been unable to work due to high temperature and fire, so we have not been able to obtain the specific details of the man who changed his name information."

"Hey." Antoinette watched the tragic scene, and it took a while to realize that she hadn't hung up the phone. "Come back as soon as possible?"

After hanging up the phone, Antoinette turned her head away. Instead of leaving in a hurry, she sat opposite Maya, took a sip from her cup, and asked, "Tell me about your research in detail?"

When she just watched the TV news, Maya pursed her lips and tensed her face, staring at the screen tightly, there must be something wrong with it.

"...We have a non-disclosure agreement..." Maya hesitated for a moment, so Antoinette knew that she had asked the right question.

"Do you know what this is, Maya?" Antoinette asked. Under the questioning eyes of the other two people, she muted the TV, but the picture was still shocking. "At present, my teammates will define it as an ordinary serial arson. Because we don't have conclusive evidence yet. But if this incident has something to do with your research, it's not an ordinary incident."

"I don't think someone stole your research results just to set fire to it a few times. No matter what the organization behind him thinks, there must be other plans, but we don't have a clue yet, so take advantage of private affairs to tell me Say, I need all the information I can get, or I'll go to your lab with a search warrant."

"Your behavior just now is very different from usual." When Antoinette was reading the information provided by Maya spread out on the table on the plane, Tony suddenly raised the topic on the opposite side.

"Should I behave as usual? You see the picture, people are dying. Because of Maya's research." Antoinette picked up one of the reports and showed it to Tony "You heard how she described this Extremis virus Already? She wants to replicate the super soldier serum, but look at the lethality rate, 97.5%."

"I heard the same as you heard." Tony pressed the paper and looked at her with a frown. "You're angry, it's scary."

"You mean I can't be angry," Antoinette said, and dropped everything in his hand, stopping Tony before he could explain anything. I can't be angry, I don't feel that way."

Tony's eyes turned sad for a moment, "Don't think so, you just have a good temper."

"We all know it's not true," Antoinette said quietly.

She had been a good-natured child since she was a child, the kind that was too good-natured, and she was never angry, jealous, depressed or in pain no matter what.The lack of these negativity is sometimes a good thing, like she doesn't get too distracted by disturbing things, doesn't get too preoccupied when her parents die, she accepts everything well.Of course sometimes this can turn out to be a bad thing, and there is no way for her to learn and grow from these extreme feelings.

Now Antoinette probably guessed the reasons for these character defects. When she looked at Natalie, the sharp eyes, strong emotions, and those things she lacked were all in Natalie.

Antoinette arrived at the gate of the FBI branch in New York, just in time to meet Hodge JJ and Rossi who had just arrived.Hodge nodded when he saw her, "Have you already understood the case?"

"I saw it on the plane." Anthony nodded. "I have some ideas."

"..." Hodge gave her a strange look as if he wanted to ask her what happened, but in the end he didn't ask out of trust, but just nodded, "Look at what information we can get now."

"The surveillance video at each scene was damaged due to the fire, and the video cannot be retrieved." Garcia's fingers flew over the keyboard, and his tone was urgent but it didn't sound like he had gained nothing. "However, I called up this Perimeter cameras in several cases, compared suspicious characters ... and then I found a problem."

"Are there any similar figures for cross-comparison?"

"No, the problem is that there is none." Garcia shook his head. "In these few fires, witnesses in each place identified suspected people from the surveillance. I compared the height and pace dynamics, and it turned out that there were at least three different people in the fire. Crimes were committed in these places."

"So it's a gang thing," Emily said, not surprised that they might have had some discussions about it.

"These crime locations have nothing in common, from the geographical location to the crime scene." Reid pointed to the map he drew circles all over, "Hell's Kitchen, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, almost all over the New York, with office towers, private homes, convenience stores ... nothing in common."

"And no arson tools were found at the scene." Morgan questioned, "There are no signs of explosions at the scene, but at least such a fire requires a lot of gasoline, and carrying these things will be very noticeable."

"About this, I have some news." Antoinette raised his hand, "I know a friend... The experimental sample of the institute was lost a few days ago. According to her, it is an injectable virus that can make the The receptor becomes the human body."

"..." For a while, everyone was silent because of the news she gave, and Rossi frowned and asked the question everyone was most concerned about, "Is this ability controllable? Is it possible to explode out of control? "

"Maya...my friend thinks that since the subject is alive and able to move, the experiment should have been successful, so it should be controllable."

"Then what should we do? A human body that can be set on fire at any time, what can we do with him?" JJ asked softly, she seemed very worried about this matter.

"The Avengers will take over this," Antoinette said. "We just need to find clues, and then they will find a way to stop it."

"..." Hodge's expression was calm, or he tried his best to make himself calm, when other team members were full of worries.He must become the person who stabilizes the morale of the army. "We just need to treat it as an ordinary case and try our best to find clues, and then hand it over to someone who is more suitable for handling this matter."

"Then, if this is an ordinary case, we should give priority to observing it from a private perspective." Rossi was the first to respond, and he pointed to the pasted cases on the whiteboard. The case where the location was a private family "As a case, this is the most private. Is there anything special about this family? Enemies? Questions?"

"Walker's house." Garcia quickly tapped on the keyboard to call up all the information she could find, "A father and son, the father, Old Walker, is an alcoholic, and has called the police several times. The first domestic violence, and then his wife left him... when Walker Jr. was six years old."

"Generally speaking, domestic violence will not stop easily, and most of it will be transferred to the children after the wife leaves." Rossi said softly, and knocked on the whiteboard, "An alcoholic father will inject violence into the children when they are formed. Were there any victims of the fire?"

"The old Walker's body was charred, his son left the house three years ago and the neighbor next door was badly burned."

"I have a list here." Antoinette rummaged through her pocket. The paper that Maya tore off from nowhere contained some names. Fortunately, she brought it back in her pocket. "This is within three months." You can make a cross-comparison with the visitor list of that research institute."

She handed the paper to Garcia, but she let go before he could reach for it.There was a dull pain in her head, sudden and violent, as if her head had slammed into a wall, and she felt dizzy.

Someone behind caught her just in time to prevent her from falling to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Morgan's voice was as hazy as if it was far away in the sky. Antoinette looked up and saw not her team members for a moment, but a stranger with a typical Middle Eastern beard , talking to her in a language she didn't understand.

But only for a moment, she blinked, and Rhett's worried face appeared in front of her eyes.