The Blacklist

Chapter 138: Impersonating to Participate in the Auction
Mira also retrieved some information from the CIA database and said, "For nearly 150 years, the Kim family has been engaged in this kind of high-value underground auction. The objects range from the Swedish diplomat Raul Wallenberg who disappeared in 1945 to the Stradivarius violin worth $1995 million that was stolen in 340. They are diverse and all of great value. If they are cracked, it will solve countless cases of missing persons and stolen artworks..."

Hearing this, Cooper asked, “Why don’t Mossad and the CIA arrest this family?”

Nawabi and Mira looked at each other and said almost at the same time: "Keeping them will be useful to the organization."

Everyone understood the meaning of this statement, but it was difficult to comment. They all understood one thing: the intelligence department acts based on interests and does not care whether it is a crime or not.

However, the subsequent investigation reached a deadlock because the Jin family acted in a secretive manner. The location of each auction they organized would be changed and they had never held it in the same place twice. The participants were all invited and the location was different each time, so there was no way to determine the location this time.

Elizabeth came up with a plan to find potential buyers from the auctioned items and get auction information from the buyers. After investigation, it was found that a Van Gogh work stolen from the Amsterdam Museum at the beginning of the year was probably made by the Kim family, and the Russian oligarch Koskov, who loves such works, should be interested in it. Since he is on the no-fly list, he should participate in the auction through an agent.

Next, Alam found out that the female agent who specialized in providing acquisition services to the oligarch was named Josephine Sullivan. She had just flown from Los Angeles to Washington this morning and checked into the Pioneer Hotel.

Donald immediately led the SER action team and secretly arrested the man in the hotel.

During the interrogation, Sullivan explained the process of registering for the meeting in order to be acquitted, but she did not know what happened afterwards, let alone the exact auction location...

After discussion, Elizabeth proposed to pretend to be Sullivan to attend the auction, and Carrie offered to go with her, as he was unwilling to let her take the risk alone. Donald and others also wanted to go with her to take charge of the periphery.
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The next day, Carrie accompanied Elizabeth to the Harleston Reed Hotel in the west of Washington, D.C. This hotel was owned by the King family trust fund, and all the employees there were employees of the King family.

Elizabeth registered at the hotel front desk and requested a room with a view of the Capitol. She was given a room card numbered 1861 and was told that she would need to swipe the card to go up and down the elevator.

After entering the elevator, a waiter who was already there saw two people coming in and immediately said, "Miss Sullivan, your room only allows one person to stay. This gentleman must leave."

"Oh?" Carrie said, "Your hotel is so weird. I'm Miss Sullivan's boyfriend and bodyguard, and you want me to leave! Is the Jin family so shameful?" With him present, Elizabeth naturally didn't have to worry. She just stood aside and watched the show. Now her mission was basically completed.

The waiter was stunned. He had never met a guest who showed no regard for the Jin family in his words. He could only ask his superiors through the walkie-talkie... After a moment, he received instructions and said, "Okay, this gentleman can go too, but he must hand over his weapons." "I don't have any weapons with me." Carrie said nonchalantly, motioning the other party to search.

The waiter went forward to check and confirmed that he really had no weapons on him. He felt relieved, thinking that the other party was not here to cause trouble.

Afterwards, after the elevator started, it went directly down to the garage on the second underground floor. The two then discovered that 1861 was not a room number, but a parking space number. A luxurious Bentley sedan was waiting there.

After the two got in the car, the people in the car asked them to drink a glass of wine. Carrie refused without thinking and directly stated: "Don't try this trick. If you knock us out, you can do whatever you want. What a joke!
"I know you don't want us to know the route you drove. The windows of your car are completely black and opaque, and there is a lifting partition between the front and rear seats, which completely prevents us from seeing outside. This is enough! Don't do these things that make me look down on the Jin family. Do you understand?"

The bearded man in the car said in a bad tone: "Sir, since you have come to participate in our event, you must abide by our rules, otherwise..."

"What else? Are you going to attack us?" Carrie sneered, and his left hand shot out like lightning, grabbing the man's neck. His right hand reached into the man's suit, and pulled the pistol from his armpit into his hand. Then he let go of his left hand, checked the Beretta 92F in his hand, and confirmed that it was fully loaded. Then he pointed at the man and said, "See, this is how you treat guests! You don't allow us to bring weapons, but you are fully armed. If you really want to do something, won't we be unable to resist?"

"Ahem...Sir, you've gone too far!" The big man was hurt badly and said while coughing, but his tone was weak this time and he was obviously frightened.

"No need to waste time, you have two choices now..." Carrie said, "One is to get out front immediately and ask the driver to take us to the auction, and the other is to report to your boss and ask him if he no longer agrees to invite us. Then I believe no one will pay a high price for that Van Gogh painting, and we will tell all our friends about this and let them know how ridiculous the Jin family's actions are!"

The bearded man thought for a moment, pushed the door and got out of the car without saying a word, then sat in the front passenger seat. The driver started driving, and the partition between the front and back rows rose up. When it was about to reach the top, Carrie in the back seat threw the 92F to the front seat. Now, the two people in the front seat looked obviously relieved!

Elizabeth, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, was not in a hurry at all because she didn't know if there was a bug. She didn't ask Carrie why she was so tough. She just felt relieved.

When the Bentley drove out of the hotel's underground garage, Donald, Mira and others who were waiting outside immediately drove up to follow it from a distance. With Carrie's special communicator, they would definitely not lose the target.
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Because Sullivan was Koskov's agent, and his target was the Van Gogh painting, Tyler, the second son of the King family who listed the painting as an auction item, was naturally the host in charge of the reception. After receiving the call from the receptionist, he thought for a long time and finally agreed to bring both of them because he could not afford to lose the auction money of millions of dollars!

(End of this chapter)