The Blacklist

Chapter 204 Rushing to Springfield to Rescue Dumby
Kaplan was sent to Carey's office by Jeffrey and introduced the details...

Two days ago, Marvin Gerard was released from prison, and Reddington and Dembe went to Illinois to pick him up. At that time, Dembe informed her that he had picked up Marvin, but he would stay for one more day because he had to meet someone else...

After that, Kaplan lost contact with Dunby. According to their contact requirements, they should contact each other at least once every 12 hours. If they cannot contact each other due to something, they will notify each other in advance by other means. However, it has been more than 38 hours now, and they have missed three agreed contact times, which has never happened before.

The reason why Kaplan was sure that Reddington and the other two were kidnapped was because an hour ago, accountant Zeng Luli told her that she had received a notice from the customer service of Northwest Commercial Bank that one of their special accounts had been remotely queried, and this account would never be used under normal circumstances!
According to the agreement, if the account is checked, it means that Reddington has been kidnapped; if there are withdrawals from the account, it means that Reddington is missing; if the funds in the account are emptied, it means that Reddington is confirmed dead.

Carrie and Donald looked at each other. Old Lei had prepared all the precautions, but who would kidnap him this time?
"Who is eligible to query this account?" Carrie asked.

"Reddington doesn't count. There are five of us, Demby, me, Zeng Luli, Edward, and Felix. Except for Demby, I've asked all of them, but none of them have checked this account." Kaplan said, "The place of inquiry is Springfield, Illinois." She knew what Carrie meant and told her everything she knew.

Kerry made the decision and said, "Tang, you stay at home. I will take Elizabeth and the SLR people to Illinois."
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At 10 a.m. on October 26, Carrie, along with Gina, Elizabeth, Abby and Jeffrey, a 11-member action team, arrived in Springfield on a Gulfstream G12. The Illinois IRS branch had been notified long ago and had prepared cars and accommodation for them. It also assigned a 650-member armed action team to him for command.

In fact, the local IRS branch did not know the purpose of Kerry and his team's visit, but SLR has a special status in the headquarters. When performing missions anywhere, the local IRS branch must cooperate unconditionally. This is something that the headquarters has clearly stipulated long ago, and they certainly will not neglect it.

Kerry accepted three large SUVs with government license plates and three cars with civilian license plates, and asked the local IRS armed action team to be on standby at the police station. As for other arrangements, he rejected them all and said he would find a location on his own.

After driving out of the airport, Carrie ordered Jeffrey to protect Abby, take his team and four operatives to drive the three civilian-brand cars to a high-end hotel in the city center, establish a communications hub, maintain contact with Washington, and continue to use technical means to search for the whereabouts of Reddington and others.

Abby received the order and turned on the computer in the car, started to connect to the local network, and began to trace the whereabouts of Reddington and the other two from three days ago...

Carrie knew what was going on. Although the "8110" encrypted communicator he gave to Dembe was now turned off, he could easily locate it. Of course, if he was kidnapped together with Reddington, "8110" would not be in his hands. But whether it was in the hands of the kidnapper or thrown away, there would be clues left. Carrie was already doing this while driving. The data on the smart glasses was flowing. In fact, he had done this as early as in Washington, when Kaplan called him, but found that the signal was extremely weak. He inferred that the communicator was in a signal-shielded environment. Although the communication capability of "8110" was much stronger than that of a mobile phone, it could not be contacted in a fully shielded environment.

This time in Illinois, the search was much more effective. When the convoy entered the city center, the smart glasses located an address! Kerry breathed a sigh of relief and told Gina, who was driving...

Then, the convoy suddenly turned and headed northwest of the city.
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The city of Springfield, the capital of Illinois, is also known as "Springfield"... Well, it is the location of the famous "Springfield Armory" in the first half of the 20th century. The Springfield rifle and M1 Garand were born here; however, the Springfield Armory was closed in 1964, and it is difficult to find any trace of it now.

The northwest district of the city is an industrial cluster, but after the subprime mortgage crisis broke out in 2007, the economic environment here has never recovered well, more than half of the factories have closed, and the unemployment rate has remained high. The direct consequence is an increase in the crime rate, and this problem is more serious in the industrial area.

However, when three SUVs with government license plates drove into the Northwest District, no one was so blind as to come forward and cause trouble. The gang members hanging around the streets and roadsides were not stupid. They knew that these must be cars from federal law enforcement agencies, and if anyone dared to provoke them, they would not hesitate to shoot!
Of course, the gangs with guilty consciences were on high alert, some illegal transactions were urgently stopped, and important figures were quickly dispersed to avoid being blocked by federal agents.
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The three cars almost passed through the city and drove directly to a dilapidated warehouse in the northwest corner of the city. The signal was located here, and four team members were left to guard the vehicles - they had to watch over them. If no one was there, the car would be gone in ten minutes.

Carrie, Gina, and Elizabeth all changed into full combat uniforms and asked four fully armed members of the action team to guard the back door, while the three of them pushed open the front door and walked in directly - there were four armed men inside, and Carrie had already detected them clearly, so she was naturally confident.

The warehouse is not big, only about 300 square meters. The front door and the back door are opposite each other. A van is parked in the middle and there is a folding table next to it. Four dark-skinned Mexican immigrants are sitting at the table playing poker. There are also several pistols and some small bills on the table. As for other places, there are some sundries piled up randomly.

At this time, they heard the door open, and the four Mexicans turned around and saw three white men and women in black windbreakers walking in with guns in their hands. They immediately reached out to grab the guns on the table...

The guy facing the gate was the first to get the pistol, but before he could raise it, he was shot in the head! The remaining three people were so scared that they immediately raised their hands and shouted "surrender!"
Carrie ignored them and walked directly to the back of the truck and opened the door. As expected, she found a wounded Dembe lying tied up inside, with the "8110" thrown in a corner!
He hurriedly jumped into the car and checked. He found that Dembe had a gunshot wound on his shoulder, which was bandaged hastily. He also had several skin injuries on his body, which should have been caused by beating.

(End of this chapter)