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After taking off his jacket, he touched the folding knife in his trouser pocket and the tablet on his back waist. Gloria looked back at Jessica in the cockpit when he opened the cabin door.

"Good luck!" Jessica smiled and gave her a thumbs up.

"Good luck to you too!" Gloria also extended her thumb to express her gratitude.

Grasping both sides of the cabin door with both hands, staring at the horizontal wing on the right side of the plane, and then shrinking back and suddenly jumping out of the cabin, Gloria successfully jumped out of the plane only 100 meters away from the sea. Jump into the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.

From Jessica's point of view, her behavior can no longer be described by the word "crazy".She really couldn't imagine where this woman's courage, persistence and adventurous spirit came from, so that she wanted to jump into the sea desperately from the plane flying 260 kilometers per hour.

"What kind of woman is she? Ordinary people are wounded by gunshot wounds. Even if they are in good physical condition, they need a month's recuperation to fully recover. But...she recovered completely in a few minutes, and even the gunshot wound There is no trace left behind??"

"This is simply a miracle! Well, we must investigate this matter clearly." Jessica was thinking, planning where to start investigating everything about Gloria.

However, when she drove the plane back to Paulding Airport, she was taken into the car by FBI agents who had already been waiting.Restricting her personal freedom and interrogating her in detail, of course, is because she once "assisted" NEP1 to escape from Georgia by air.

After visually measuring the distance to the coast, Gloria, who was floating in the sea, struggled to swim towards the beach 8 miles away.If all goes well, she will land on Bal Harbor Beach near Collins Avenue, just north of Miami Beach.

At this moment, a medium-sized quick-response boat of the US Coast Guard suddenly appeared on the sea far behind Gloria.According to the mission of the Coast Guard, the purpose of sea area activities and the field of law enforcement, it is completely possible to send armed guards carried on the quick response boat to capture him at this time.

"Report WFRC1150, NEP7 was found 8 miles from Bal Harbor Beach in the 1th Coast Guard. Over." A white man wearing a US Coast Guard combat cap and a tropical blue uniform said into the intercom.

"Received. Please wait for further instructions, Lieutenant. Over." There was a reply from the intercom.

The U.S. Coast Guard, which belongs to the Department of Homeland Security, has taken over the task of continuing to monitor Gloria's whereabouts from the "Reaper 6" artificial intelligence drone high in the sky.

When the artificial intelligence controlled a small aircraft to conduct an ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming flight in the Florida waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, the artificial intelligence drone quickly reported the situation to the Intelligence and Surveillance Center of the Department of Homeland Security.

Dr. Kevin Watkins stood in front of the huge surveillance screen wall in the intelligence center, staring at the large screen on the upper left side and pondering over and over again. One minute later, he asked the FBI deputy director standing beside him, "Where do you think NEP1 will go, or who will he meet?"

After thinking for a few seconds, the deputy director said, "Doctor, NEP1, Captain Gloria Curtis, is still attached to the F-3B Fighter Squadron of the 35rd Air Wing of the Marine Corps. No biological parents, no Relatives, only one adoptive father lives in Floresville, Texas."

He also said, "On July 2025, 7, Captain Curtis married a woman, that is, a same-sex marriage. After marriage, he had a child through artificial insemination. Currently, her wife and child live in San Diego, California."

"So, is there any information that NEP1 has any connection to Miami?"

"Well, a friend of NEP1 in high school applied to join NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) after graduating from college. Currently, he works in the NCIS Miami office."

"You mean, NEP1 is going to find her friends?" Kevin asked.

"Possible. But I think she's killing herself by doing it. Now, NEP1 is an active duty officer in the Marine Corps and her friend is a 'Navy Police' for a federal agency. So...  "

The deputy director glanced at Kevin, "Doctor, what do you think Miami has?"

Kevin blinks. "Ugh, beaches, bikinis, illegal immigration, drugs and guns?! Oh, and Latin American food, language and music."

"Good. So, what do you think of a private plastic surgeon in Miami?"

"Plastic surgery? Oh, God, NEP1 wants to go to Miami to find a private doctor to forcefully remove the encryption chip!?"

Miami, which is warm and humid, still maintains a pleasant average temperature of 21 degrees this Christmas.It can be said that every day and every hour of the year, people can freely soak their bodies in the sea water of the North Atlantic Ocean.

And Miami Beach, with its white sandy beaches stretching out to the sky and tall palm trees with tropical rhythm, is filled with a large number of tourists with different accents, languages ​​and skin colors from all over the world.

Blending into the crowd and finding some tourist clothes to change into is an effective way to hide.However, no matter how Gloria puts on her makeup and how she hides, there are always countless pairs of human eyes and electronic eyes closely following her behind, on top of her head and around her.

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