The Blacklist

Chapter 171 Biological Weapons Target Determination

Chapter 171 Biological Weapons Target Determination
Andropov's identity made everyone nervous. What could a biological weapons research expert and a high-level action agent like Wolf Spider plan together? Without thinking too much, you can guess: a biological virus attack! And they don't know who the target is yet?

The only people who knew the entire plan at the scene were Carrey and Cooper - or rather, just Carrey himself. Knowing that the plan was going well, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Alam, who was in charge of reviewing the station video, found the footage of Elizabeth being knocked down. After repeated adjustments, he found the clearest screenshot and put it on the big screen.

Everyone saw that this person was not "Wolf Spider", but Andropov, whom they were worried about! Everyone couldn't help but look at Elizabeth on the side.

Elizabeth knew what everyone was thinking, so she waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine. I checked in the infirmary when I came back."

Everyone was relieved. Only Elizabeth knew that the injection Carrie had given her in advance had worked and she would not be infected by the virus. After she came back, a female doctor from SLR specially invited by Reddington checked her and found the virus on her hand, which confirmed Carrie's prediction. Of course, she would not tell anyone about these circumstances.

Next, Carrie arranged for everyone to investigate Andropov's whereabouts. This man was different from "Wolf Spider". He was not a spy and was not good at hiding his whereabouts. And since he was involved in this conspiracy, he had to use his expertise. Whether it was studying viruses or making biological weapons, he needed professional equipment, reagents, and drugs. The sales of these things were strictly controlled. Even if he bought them from the "black market", he could not hide them from Reddington's investigation!

Soon, SER found Andropov's whereabouts. Donald led a team to search an underground laboratory in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Although no one was caught, the previous guess was confirmed - this guy was making biological weapons!
Elizabeth participated in the search and brought back a Russian research notebook. The virus expert invited by Reddington, Dr. Lauren Kimberly, was of Russian descent. Everyone could see that this beautiful woman in her forties had a special relationship with Old Reddington!
The next day, in Carrie's office, the core figures of the operation, including Reddington, Wright, Cooper, Gina, Donald, and Elizabeth, were all sitting there, and Dr. Kimberly explained her research results to them.

"The owner of this research notebook is a genius!" Kimberly praised him right away. "He made a special modification to a very common rotavirus that is harmless to humans. I call it a 'custom virus'!
"This custom virus uses gene targeting technology to attack only a certain individual. It is actually a specific individual killing weapon. It can kill a specific target in just a few minutes by directly contacting the infected target and attacking its central nervous system. This has been confirmed by experiments on mice.

"According to the notes, this 'weapon' has been manufactured and verified... However, I cannot determine who its target is, and neither can other experts. Only the maker knows."

Cooper frowned and asked, "Doctor, are there any shortcomings of this virus weapon?"

"Of course there are disadvantages, at least three..." Kimberly said, "First, this virus is extremely difficult to create, especially to integrate the target's gene sequence into the virus, which is not something that ordinary experts can do;

“The second is that this virus can only be transmitted through direct contact of the skin and body fluids, which requires a virus carrier to touch the target;
"Third, after this virus was created, its metabolism was artificially accelerated dozens of times, so no matter if it is refrigerated or administered to a carrier, the virus will only survive for 48 hours before it dies!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. Such a powerful biological weapon would be fine if it had flaws. It would be terrible if it didn't! Several leaders highly praised Dr. Kimberly's work. Cooper and Kerry signed a consulting contract with her on behalf of SER and SLR respectively, with the price calculated on a case-by-case basis - for example, this time, the two departments paid $20,000 in consulting fees.

After signing a confidentiality agreement with Deputy Minister Wright, Dr. Kimberly was sent back by Dembe, and everyone began to discuss the next course of action. The most important thing was to determine the target of attack of the "Wolf Spider".

Everyone agrees that Wolf Spider's operation this time was very painstaking. Although it is still unclear who its ultimate target is, it is definitely aimed at a top figure in the US government!
However, what doesn't make sense is that before actually taking action, according to convention, they should hide their whereabouts and avoid attracting the attention of law enforcement agencies. So why would they plan a huge explosion against the CIA Russia-Euroscience Institute?

You know, this kind of terrorist attack will inevitably cause government departments to be highly vigilant and increase the security level. Law enforcement agencies will go all out to track down the murderer, which will inevitably bring trouble to their subsequent actions.

“Wolf Spider” must be aware of this cause and effect relationship, but it still did it. Why?
Seeing that everyone was confused, Carrie was about to reveal something, but Elizabeth suddenly said, "I know. This time, the CIA Russia-Europe was attacked and 14 agents were killed. The government should hold a special memorial ceremony for them..."

Wright nodded and said, "You are right. Before noon tomorrow, the government will hold a memorial service at St. John's Church. Senior officials from the political, military, and intelligence circles will be sent to pay their respects."

"The target should be one of these senior officials," Cooper said, "but we still can't determine the target."

Reddington, who had not said much since he arrived, suddenly said, "Just now, Dr. Kimberly said that the notebook records that this virus has been verified in practice..."

Donald reacted immediately and continued, "That means there must have been a victim killed by this virus before... I'll tell Alam and ask him to check it out!" Then he stood up and ran out.

Soon, Aram found out that a few days ago, Bethesda General Hospital reported a tissue sample to the CDC, which was from a suspicious death case of a college student. The CDC had just started an investigation, and some doctors believed that the deceased was infected with a special rotavirus...

It was later discovered that the deceased college student was an illegitimate child, and his biological father was Senator Hawkins, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee!
Everyone immediately determined that the target was Hawkins and his son was a test subject!

(End of this chapter)

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