American Detective: Starting as a Rookie Cop in an American TV Show

Chapter 1500 Chaos in the Special Zone (Part Six)

Jack could imagine the chaotic scene that must be unfolding inside the emergency call center in the Special Administrative Region at that moment.

But what he could do was extremely limited. In fact, to avoid being misunderstood, he could say he couldn't do anything until he contacted Joey. Who knew if those tense Secret Service agents would mistake him for a terrorist with malicious intent?

The scene before us is roughly the plot of "White House Down," the movie by "Fallen Guy," but the scale is obviously much larger than in the movie.

The world only rationalizes what actually happens, and there is no pattern to whether the consequences will be better or worse.

Jack hadn't yet figured out the other party's purpose in doing this. He knew that even if the president were captured, it wouldn't take the federal government more than a few minutes to find someone to swear an oath on the Bible.

Could it be that there really is something in the White House's underground bunker that can control the self-destruction of all of America's nuclear weapons?
While it's theoretically unlikely that such a thing exists, even if it did, it wouldn't be as depicted in the original series, where once activated, it would cause strategically on-duty intercontinental ballistic missiles to self-destruct in their silos.

Even if we take a step back and assume that the nuclear bomb self-destructs in the silo, it would at most cause some extremely minor nuclear leaks, which would probably be less than one ten-thousandth of the damage caused by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.

Today, the nuclear weapons technology of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, especially the three upper permanent members, is no longer the primitive nuclear weapon of the late World War II era, which simply brought two uranium cakes together to reach critical mass and thus produce a chain reaction.

Even if the military has implemented a final safety measure to ensure that the intercontinental ballistic missile can self-destruct at the last second after launch, it certainly cannot be achieved by detonating the warhead.

This is a very simple logical problem, because self-destruction and self-explosion are completely different things. Once an intercontinental ballistic missile has been launched and entered the airspace of an enemy country, premature detonation is still considered as launching a nuclear strike, and the nature remains the same.

Jack retrieved the bulletproof vest from the back seat and put it on, hoping the glaring "FBI" letters on it would reduce the chance of friendly fire. He restarted "Mammoth" and planned to circle around to the west side of the white house to wait for an opportunity.

Joey's phone was constantly busy, and Kate was unable to reach him, which was understandable. Although Jack was not yet clear about the specific casualties at the Capitol, the situation was clearly not optimistic.

Rossi's phone was also unreachable, but he should be in Quantico today, so Jack doesn't need to worry about his safety for the time being.

In New York, quite a few people who knew Jack was in the D.C. today tried to contact him. Apart from his female boss, his colleagues from the wanted criminals team were already packing their things and preparing to come to the D.C.

“Jack, watch out for those crowds,” Kate suddenly called out.

Even without her reminder, Jack had already noticed the strange behavior of the crowd outside the railing.

Although most people were taking pictures of the white house that had just been shot at with their phones, the proportion of adult men among them was unusually high.

Moreover, although it is still winter, there is no need for everyone to be dressed in bulky clothes and carrying heavy travel bags.

While the overall security situation in the US isn't great these days, it varies from place to place. In places like the Special Administrative Region, where there are various law enforcement agencies everywhere, it's unlikely that situations like those in Europe, where tourists get off the bus for a trip and come back to find their luggage completely looted, will occur.

As Jack glanced at the bus parked on the east side of the road, a sense of unease suddenly arose in his heart.

With a deafening roar, the tour bus, fifty or sixty meters away, suddenly exploded. The shockwave overturned two police cars parked nearby, and flames and smoke instantly engulfed several officers and tourists in the vicinity. The crowd that had been watching the commotion outside the fence screamed and began to flee in panic towards the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the direction Jack was currently in.

Strangely, only about half of the people at the scene had this normal reaction; the rest squatted down after the explosion and took things out of their travel bags.

Jack released the handbrake and sped off. It wasn't that he was deserting, but it was clear that the explosion earlier was the signal that the other side had actually launched their operation.

His current position is quite precarious; he could easily be caught in the middle, facing the dual threat of fire from both the enemy and allies.

"Kate, you take the wheel." After the "Mammoth" reached the west side of the white house, Jack decisively opened the car door and jumped out.

Under Kate's control, the "Mammoth" continued to move slowly forward. When the rear of the vehicle passed Jack's body, the rear hatch opened automatically, revealing the equipment box inside.

Two more explosions rang out, and someone threw a travel bag at the iron fence in front of the oval lawn, blowing a gap in the fence.

Meanwhile, a strange incident occurred on the driveway on one side of the lawn. Several Asian-looking individuals, belonging to the presidential security team, suddenly launched an attack, ruthlessly murdering their colleagues and Secret Service agents.

Gunfire erupted in the driveway, catching the Secret Service agents, who had a numerical advantage, completely off guard.

Although not all security team members from the peninsula defected, they were completely indistinguishable among a sea of ​​Asian faces.

In the chaos, several Secret Service agents who rushed out of the White House to provide support simply used HK416s to indiscriminately shoot all members of the Peninsula security team.

Before the internal chaos could subside, five or six smoke grenades fired from M203 grenade launchers landed on the oval lawn.

The smoke instantly obscured the defenders' vision, and then two terrorists armed with RPG-7 rocket launchers rushed into the lawn through the previously blown-up fence and pulled the triggers at the guard posts at the two gates.

The shockwave from the explosion, carrying shrapnel, pounded against the row of bulletproof cars in the driveway, knocking down several Secret Service agents and Peninsula security personnel who were still engaged in a fierce battle.

By this time, the terrorists disguised as tourists had finished changing clothes and took out various fully automatic weapons from their travel bags, rushing in through the breach in the fence that had been blown open.

Several Metropolitan Police Department officers, disregarding their exposure to Secret Service fire, attempted to use the concrete pillars of the railings as cover to fire at the large number of terrorists from the side, including the fat officer who had previously stopped Jack.

Unfortunately, their heroic actions did not have much effect, because the incident happened so suddenly that they did not even have time to run back to their police car to retrieve their rifles. Glock 17s and similar sidearms pose almost no threat in such situations.

A female terrorist using an HK416 with a 4x variable scope rushed onto the oval lawn, then turned around and used a small fountain in the middle of the lawn to start shooting the police officers outside one by one in the head.

(End of this chapter)