The Blacklist

Chapter 148 Completely Eliminate Those Who Disobey

The matter was finally resolved smoothly. With Gibbs's insistence, the body of the extremist Drew was promptly taken out of the submarine's ice storage. Before the poison gas device he swallowed began to release, it was loaded into a torpedo tube and shot into the deep sea, thus avoiding a major disaster!

Except for Carrie who knew the inevitable outcome, more than 130 people in the submarine were so scared that they didn't even dare to dive again. They floated on the water, opened the hatch for ventilation, and drove back to the base at a low speed!

Subsequently, the joint investigation by DOJ and the Navy lasted for almost a month, and ultimately determined that the joint action of the three departments of NCIS, SER, and SLR was completely legal and compliant.
After confirming the results, the Navy Department awarded SLR and Kerry the Navy Cross in recognition of their special contributions! As for the NCIS people, they did not receive this treatment because this was their job.

After this case, Kerry himself and the two departments, SER and SLR, became well-known in the military, especially in the Navy. This made the heads of DOJ and IRS feel proud and felt that setting up these two departments was the right thing to do!
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Over the past few days, Kerry has completed two triggering missions in a row: "Host completed triggering mission 38, killed 'Major' Butt, rewarded with 2.1 crime-killing points, and recovered 3760 million criminal funds."

"Host completed trigger mission 39, rescued 132 crew members of the Philadelphia submarine, and was rewarded with submarine operation skills."

However, Kerry knew that this matter had only come to an end. The German KSG criminal group has not been eliminated yet, so the matter is not over. But now the group is hiding in Europe, and he does not intend to fight across borders because there is no need.

Soon, Reddington brought news that ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) and CIA had planned several operations in Europe in succession, which dealt a heavy blow to the SKG Group. Now it has basically become obedient!
This was good news, and Carrie let down his guard.
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April 4th was Sunday, and Carrie, Gina, Donald and others went to Baltimore. Reddington arrived earlier and bought a house where Elizabeth once lived, and made a birthday patch for her there. Everyone gathered together and it was very lively.

At noon, when everyone was having a BBQ in the yard, Elizabeth received a call from Tom. He also remembered what day it was and wished her a happy birthday as a friend. When both parties were getting along with each other in a normal manner, they thought it was not bad to be friends like this, so they chatted a little more...

Suddenly there was a strange sound on the phone, and then after hearing Tom's scolding, the call was disconnected!

Elizabeth felt something was wrong, and when she called back, she found the other party's phone was turned off. This made her worried, so she immediately returned to her seat and told everyone about it.

Carrie and Reddington looked at each other and frowned.

Reddington said: "Richard, I suspect that the KSG group is seeking revenge."

Kerry nodded and said, "Tom is already our SLR's informant. This KSG is amazing. He recovered so quickly and even dared to come for revenge! Gina, notify the base and find Tom's whereabouts immediately."

Gina responded and immediately took out her phone to call back...

Cooper didn't come to SER, and Donald also called back SER. Although he didn't like Tom very much, it was SLR's business, so he naturally had to help. With such a thing happening, the birthday party naturally had to be stopped, and everyone immediately took a car back to Washington.
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As soon as she returned to SLR, Carrie called Abby, who had been notified to work overtime, took out a "master key" and handed it to her. She briefly taught her how to use it and asked her to immediately search for Tom's whereabouts on various networks across the city - she believed that with the help of this thing, Abby's network skills could be fully utilized.

Before, he had already figured out the pulse of this smiling girl and developed her into a quasi-combat partner. He also specially customized a caffeine-free coffee-flavored soda drink in the system mall, completely conquering her. Now he could naturally give her the best things.

Carrie was right. After Abby got the "master key", she was invincible on the Internet. It only took her more than half an hour to find the kidnapper's traces from the city's surveillance network and determine Tom's whereabouts!
Jeffrey set out with the SLR field operations team and quickly raided the kidnappers' base, killing several gangsters, capturing two, and rescuing Tom who was being tortured.

After interrogating the prisoners, it was confirmed that it was a revenge action by the KSG Group.

At the formal request of the SLR, the SER issued a wanted order to all FBI branches in various regions to arrest all members of the KSG Group in the United States;
As the deputy director of the Special Audit Division, Kerry issued instructions to local IRS branches and cooperated with local FBI branches to arrest people and seize assets...

In addition, Kerry also proactively informed ONI and CIA of the KSG Group-related intelligence obtained during this operation to support their operations in Europe.

The reason why he made such a big deal this time was to announce the strong presence of SLR to all institutions and people in the underground world - if you dare to touch my people, no matter what group you are from, I will kill you completely!

After a month of continuous crackdown, the 30-year-old KSG Group was uprooted, hundreds of criminals were arrested, and more than 1 billion US dollars of illegal assets were confiscated, which made all parties involved very satisfied. In the underground world, all forces were shocked, and SLR's popularity increased greatly!
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Tom was deeply moved by this incident. After some self-reflection, he found Carrie and formally applied to join SLR.

After checking again, Carrey confirmed that Tom Keen had no criminal record in the United States, and took him in. In order to completely say goodbye to the past, Carrey also suggested that he change his new name to Tom Chris, gave him the position of a first-level auditor, and let him start from scratch.

Elizabeth was very satisfied with this result. Although she no longer had any feelings for Tom as a couple, as a friend, she was still very happy to see that he could walk on the right path.

Reddington was still a little worried about Tom getting close to Elizabeth again, but after observing for a while, he confirmed that the two were really just ordinary friends now, so he accepted it.

There is actually another reason why Carrie accepted Tom, which is to keep Elizabeth and Reddington's personal secrets and keep this insider under her control.

Tom himself also cherishes his current job and life very much. He can walk under the sun like a normal person, which is something he never dared to think about before! Of course, as an excellent "disguiser", he has excellent skills in reconnaissance, action, makeup, social interaction, foreign languages, etc. Although he has never collected taxes, he has a strong learning ability and quickly got the hang of it and performed very well.

(End of this chapter)