The Blacklist

Chapter 207 Human Cryonics and Eternal Brain Life
Soon, Alam reported: "Everyone, Lee's judgment is correct. The kidnapping of the econometrician Halmi is not a coincidence. Almost at the same time, a female econometrician disappeared in Florida. In addition, in the past six months, experts in various fields have disappeared, and they are all one man and one woman. So far, fifteen pairs have been confirmed..."

Huh? When everyone heard this, they all felt very strange, as if they had seen it before.

"Oh! I see!" Elizabeth suddenly said, "Someone is building Noah's Ark to continue the bloodline of these smart humans!"

Although what she said sounded far-fetched, combined with the current findings, it was consistent with everyone's feelings on the matter.

At this time, Nawabi reported: "Everyone, I just checked the database and found that a few hours ago, a Hispanic male mathematics professor, Dr. Kuchera, was kidnapped!"

Following the previous "Ark" idea, Abby immediately searched and said, "In the same field, there is only one female mathematician who can be compared with Dr. Kuchera, and that is Dr. Anna Niehoff from the United States. She now lives in Arlington County!"

Kerry and Donald looked at each other, and the latter immediately said, "I'll take people over right away. Mira, Nawabi, follow me!"

Kerry ordered: "Aram, notify Dr. Niehoff immediately and tell her to hide and wait for rescue!"

"Understood." Aram agreed and immediately looked up Nihoff's contact information...
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In a detached house in Arlington County, Dr. Niehoff was writing a paper while listening to music with headphones on. It took her some time to find a message from the FBI on her phone next to her, warning her that she was in danger. At this time, she saw two men breaking into the yard outside the window, and she quickly hid under the bed, but she was still discovered by the kidnappers, who caught her and dragged her into a van outside the yard...

At this moment, Donald and others who arrived in a helicopter happened to stop the truck. After a gunfight, they killed two people, captured one alive, and successfully rescued Nihoff.

After taking the only prisoner back to SER, this guy said nothing when facing the interrogation of Donald and others!

Carrie didn't have time to waste with him, so he took charge of the situation himself, questioning him and beating him up at the same time. After a few minutes, he got the information he needed: the person who hired them to kidnap was billionaire Sir Crispin Crandall, and the kidnapped people were sent to a building near the Boston Regional Airport.

Donald led the team to Boston and found rows of cryonics chambers in a building near the airport. Each chamber contained a frozen person. This was one of the businesses of Sir Crandall's company, which provided freezing services for terminally ill people, waiting for them to be thawed and revived when medical technology was advanced. This business was legal, and each frozen person had signed a service contract and paid enough fees, but the kidnapped people were not among them.

After questioning, it was found that Sir Crandall lived on his A380 all year round and rarely landed. The technical department in charge of Abby and Aram found out from the Aviation Bureau's database that in the past six months, this A380 had only landed more than times, and the time coincided with the date of the missing persons case; more importantly, they found out that the plane had originally planned to land today but it was cancelled, probably because the kidnapping of Niehoff failed.

Kerry said: "Now we can conclude that this plane is Crandall's Ark, and the kidnapped experts should be on the plane."

Elizabeth next to him said, "We have to hurry up. If we are slow, Old Lei will be frozen too!"

Everyone knows what she means - human cryonics technology is a last resort measure for the future. In theory, it is possible, but in reality, no one knows whether a person can survive after being thawed!
After reporting to the DOJ, Deputy Minister Cooper contacted the Aviation Administration and issued a no-fly order to Crandall's tanker to force it to land for refueling!

In this process, Alan Fitch, the current head of the secret society, also actively cooperated and used his power to instruct the Aviation Bureau to fully cooperate with SER's actions. He was also very angry about this matter. The secret society's chief economic adviser Halmi and the most important partner Reddington were kidnapped. This is unacceptable. Crandall must be sunk!
Alam of SER obtained the highest authorization and monitored the Aviation Bureau and all airports in the country, keeping a close eye on the whereabouts of Crandall's plane.

Abby of SLR teams up with Reddington's men Leonard Carr, using the NSA (National Security Agency) satellite network to monitor all communications between the A380 and the ground. In front of two top hackers using the "master key" technology, all external communications on Crandall's plane can no longer be kept secret.
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Crandall was not stupid. After the previous kidnapping attempt failed, he knew that things were going to go wrong. Then his refueling plane was grounded, and the A380, which was flying along the outer east coast of the United States, could only hold out for three hours. So he could only order it to fly to Quebec Airport No. in Canada for refueling, which was one of the few candidate airports he could trust.

However, after the plane landed, it was immediately taken control by a team of Canadian Mounted Police!

Carrie and Donald, who arrived earlier on the Gulfstream G650, boarded the "Ark in the Sky" with Elizabeth, Dembe and others, and quickly rescued the kidnapped Reddington and Marvin, and arrested Crandall...

Originally, Carrie agreed with Donald's opinion, that is, to allow him to arrest Crandall according to normal procedures and bring him to court for kidnapping. But when they saw the conditions in the operating room and life support room on the plane, they were all extremely furious - Crandall cut off the heads of the kidnapped scientists and connected them to artificial life support equipment, claiming that this would allow these experts to have immortality and make full use of their excellent brains to serve the future world!
The latest "head" in the life support room is Halmi who was kidnapped before, and the latest kidnapped Dr. Kuchera himself is severely paralyzed all over and just died in the operating room during an operation!

Seeing the federal agents coming in, the "heads" in the life support room all used the connected computer screens to "plead": "Kill us... Cut off the power... Cut off the power..."

Everyone who saw this scene was horrified and filled with hatred. Seeing Crandall still chattering about how he was "leaving hope for the future of mankind", anger was already bubbling in their eyes...

"Bang, bang!" Two gunshots were heard. Carrie had already shot Crandall to death on the spot. Donald and others nearby had also raised their guns, but they were just a step slower!
(End of this chapter)