The Blacklist

Chapter 158: Uncovering the Secret Society's True Secret
Ten minutes later, everyone sat on the sofa and the office chairs that were brought in. Gina asked several girls to get various drinks from the small bar to entertain everyone, while he made some new tea for Kerry.

At this time, everyone present except Gina had become quasi-battle partners and could tell some inside information. So, Carrie "took out" a small silver metal box from the safe at the back, put it on the desk, and began to operate the slightly complicated instruments inside while saying, "Everyone knows that the day before yesterday, Raymond Reddington, the most important informant of the two departments of SLR and SER, was assassinated on the street and was in critical condition. Later, with our joint efforts, we eliminated the killer and saved him..."

Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, Carrey continued, "Today, Deputy Minister Wright of the DOJ was ordered to go to SER to inquire about Reddington's whereabouts and the truth of what happened, but due to special reasons, Director Cooper could not tell it directly...

"Ms. Wright, you must be wondering, with your Level 4 confidentiality clearance, is there anything you can't know? But there shouldn't be many Level 5 secrets in the United States, right?"

Hearing this, Raven Wright nodded and said: That's what she thought. And the others also understood why Kerry solemnly summoned everyone to the office and required everyone to take the red bottle. Then he got to the point and saw that he was going to reveal some hidden confidential content next.

Carrie said: "SER was established relatively early. Its early members included Deputy Director Cooper, Donald, Elizabeth, Mira and me. Everyone had doubts about cooperating with Reddington at first..."

Cooper and others all nodded in agreement. After all, Reddington's reputation is "the gatekeeper of the criminal world"!
"However, the series of criminal blacklists provided by Raymond Reddington have helped SER gain a firm foothold in the FBI..." Carrie said, "In the past two years, SER has arrested no less than a hundred criminals, and solved thousands of major, important and serious cases. Everyone here is an unsung hero who has made great contributions to the country, society, the people and the victims!"

Everyone in the audience straightened their backs immediately after hearing this. Even Deputy Minister Wright felt that SER was indeed too important, and the balance in his heart began to tilt.

"Later, some bad things happened to SER one after another. The FBI and DOJ both interfered with SER..." Kerry said, "At first, I didn't understand why, just like everyone else. But gradually, I discovered some special circumstances, and finally determined that there were enemies in our government system and even in law enforcement agencies!"

The senior agents knew what he was talking about, but Wright and those who came later were somewhat confused.

"The secret society!" Kerry said directly, "This is a secret organization that spans the political and economic worlds, has a huge influence and is powerful, and can influence the policies of many countries. It has existed for more than 70 years!

“This organization uses its own strength and influence to exert influence on many international and domestic political, military and economic situations in order to obtain huge benefits…

"For many years, it's not that no one has discovered the traces and actions of this organization, but it has used its own strength and adopted various methods, including violence, to cover up its crimes, planning crimes, killing people to silence them, manipulating the market, seizing people's property, planning conspiracies, and subverting the regime... It can be said that it has used every possible means!

"This organization has reached a cooperation agreement with Reddington's forces before. There are two reasons for this. One is that cooperation can bring benefits. The other is that the Red Devil has a special device in his hands called 'Fulcrum', which records a series of criminal facts and video evidence committed by the secret society since its establishment..." This 'Fulcrum' is Reddington's life-saving measure, and it is also what the secret society is determined to obtain as soon as possible!

"For a long time before, it was uncertain whether Reddington had this 'fulcrum'. The Red Devil claimed that he had it, and the secret society suspected it but could not be sure, so they could only cooperate...

"But not long ago, the leadership of the secret society changed. Some people in power believed that Reddington did not have a real 'fulcrum' in his hands, but was just using it to threaten them. So there was a dispute among the top leaders. About half of them thought: It is better to do less than more, isn't it better to do business honestly and make money? The other half believed that Reddington had deceived and threatened them for twenty years, and he should be punished, and it would be best to eliminate him directly!
"A few days ago, the secret society's board of directors voted in favor of killing Reddington, and then an assassination took place in the street..."

After hearing this, everyone suddenly realized that this was the inside story of the attack on Reddington!

Wright was a deputy minister who had worked his way up from the grassroots. This was the first time he had heard of such high-level, deep-seated secrets. He opened his mouth in surprise, not knowing how to express himself.

After everyone digested the information for a while, Kerry continued, "Everyone, listen to me, only knows that the secret society exists, but has no direct impression of what it has done, what harm it has done to the world, and to the United States. The 'fulcrum' that is valued by both the secret society and Reddington and regarded as the focus of threat has become the top priority. So what exactly is this 'fulcrum'?"

Having said that, he turned the silver box on the desk so that everyone could see the very strange and delicate mechanism inside the box, including an array of gears, a number of indicator lights of various colors, and a side-illuminating projection lens. Judging from the thickness of the box, there should be a complex mechanism hidden under the conspicuous panel...

Carrie placed a small one-inch square device in a position in the box, then took out a very classic brass key and inserted it into the corresponding keyhole on the panel. With a slight turn, a strong beam of light immediately shot out from the projection lens on the side and hit the prepared screen on the south wall!

It's a very old-fashioned projection mode - not a continuous documentary, but frames of pictures are projected onto the screen, including newspaper clippings, photos, detective records, confessions of criminals, death records, case closure reports, signatures of senior officials... and so on, all corresponding to each other, they are all detailed criminal records and evidence!
What is even more shocking is that all the events shown in it... no, the cases, were major cases that once shocked the entire society and even the world!

After watching only a few dozen frames, Wright asked in a trembling voice: "Cooper, are these real?"

"It should be." Cooper was actually shocked as well, but he still tried to answer in a steady tone.

(End of this chapter)