The Blacklist

Chapter 3 The story begins: The Red Devil appears

In fact, Carrey didn't tell the truth! Galen Most, the deputy director of the IRS who assigned him the task, did send him because he knew that "Red Devil" had fallen into the hands of the FBI, but he didn't expect to collect taxes from him. Instead, he wanted to understand the scale and capital flow of Red Devil's illegal business, as well as the illegal income of other criminals known to Red Devil, in preparation for special audits of these criminals in the future.

In order to arrange an IRS agent to join the FBI special team to participate in the interrogation of Red Devil and grasp the situation, Most specifically asked the director to see the president. After getting permission, he selected people from within the IRS. Carrey was "enthusiastically recommended" by his boss, who called him an excellent agent who was "both civil and military", so this trip was made.
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"Okay!" Cooper said helplessly and took the confidentiality agreement handed back by Carrie.

This matter was ordered by the President himself, and he couldn't refuse it at all. Fortunately, the interrogation of Reddington should be over soon, and then he will be transferred to prison and prosecuted. What happens in the future will have little to do with them. The IRS sent someone just to watch the fun and they can't do anything!
At this time, someone knocked on the door and reported that Raymond Reddington, who had previously surrendered at the FBI headquarters building, had been escorted to the headquarters by an action team after preliminary review and was locked in a "box".

"Okay, let's go see this Mr. Red Devil together!" Cooper stood up and walked out first.
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Entering the command hall, Carrie followed Cooper and looked with interest at the large screens, dozens of computers, cabinets, and various electronic equipment that he couldn't name.

Cooper introduced his identity and asked someone to process a temporary ID for him. He nodded to the staff who were looking at him curiously as a greeting and also went through their information.

At this time, the picture on the big screen switched, and he looked at the legendary "box" - a tempered glass room placed in a deeper underground hall, which can shield electromagnetic signals and is bulletproof and explosion-proof. Once people are locked in, it is impossible for them to get out; without the password, people from outside cannot enter. It is a special cell specially used to temporarily detain serious criminals.

Reddington, with short hair and a bald head, only wearing a shirt, a vest, trousers, and special cloth shoes, has his hands handcuffed to a chair fixed to the ground. He sits in the middle of the "box". Although he is imprisoned, he is extremely calm!
Carrie looked at Reddington and felt a little emotional. This was the first male protagonist who triggered the whole plot. Now the story had just begun and she was fortunate to witness this historic scene in this plot world!

The first main task given to him by the system is to protect the lives of Reddington and Elizabeth Keen. He is ranked before the heroine, which means that he is more important than the latter. But it is also true that Elizabeth seems to have died much earlier than him - huh? Doesn't that mean he should strengthen the protection of the heroine! -
While everyone was observing him, Reddington raised his head and said to the camera in the corner: "Deputy Director Cooper, I know you are here. Now let me tell you the purpose of my coming here -

"The attack on the US Embassy in Damascus in 1986, the kidnapping of six foreigners at the French Consulate in Algiers in 1997, and the robbery of the Krung Thai Bank in Bangkok in 6, these three seemingly unrelated crimes were actually committed by one person, his name is Lanko Zamani!"

Zamani, no one had heard of this person. The intelligence analyst immediately looked it up on the computer and said after a moment: "Ranko Sinisa Zamani, Serbian nationality, educated in the United States..."

After reading Zamani's information on the screen, Cooper said speechlessly: "Reddington, this Zamani has been dead for six years!"

"Ha! He's not dead." Reddington said, "Flight 283 that Zamani was on just landed at Dulles Airport - he's coming to Washington!"

Everyone was not willing to delay and immediately started searching. Soon someone shouted, "I saw him on the surveillance video! Half an hour ago, Zamani landed under an alias and has now left the airport..."

Hearing this, Cooper frowned and could only say to Reddington again: "Okay, you are right, now you can tell us, why did Zamani come to Washington?" Reddington shook his head and said: "I came here on my own initiative to help you catch Zamani, but my principle is: from now on, I will only talk to Elizabeth Keen!"

Hmm, who is this person? Everyone was stunned.

Carrie had been eating melons, and at this time she said, "Elizabeth Keen, your FBI profiler who just transferred from New York should not have reported for duty yet!"

Everyone looked at him at once, wondering how did he know that?
Carrie spread her hands and said, "I accidentally saw her tax records..." This reason was so strong that even the FBI agents couldn't verify it.

"Find her and bring her here." Cooper ordered immediately, and Donald immediately took the order and left. Then, Cooper looked at Carrie and suddenly asked, "Can you see the tax records of all FBI people?"

"In theory, yes, but you are not my main focus." Carrie shrugged and said, "I am affiliated with the Special Audit Department, and I mainly target criminals!"

"Oh? So you know about Zamani's situation?" Cooper asked.

"I can only be sure of one thing: this Zamani hasn't paid taxes for at least twenty years," said Carrie.

Well, everyone felt that they had just heard some nonsense, so they ignored him and got busy.
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Carrie, who had nothing to do, "looked" at the mission status and confirmed that the first stage of the main mission had been completed. "The host has successfully joined the FBI temporary special operations team and is rewarded with elementary pistol shooting skills - the host's original shooting skills are accumulated, and the pistol shooting skill level is raised to intermediate. The host can choose to accept the reward at any time."

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he confirmed that he had accepted the reward. Then, a lot of knowledge about pistol shooting came to his mind, and his muscles all over his body ached slightly, especially his arms and hands...

Although he could endure it, he felt very uncomfortable. In order to avoid being noticed by others, he slipped into the tea room, took a bottle of water and sat on a chair in the corner.

Fortunately, the discomfort passed quickly, lasting only about twenty minutes.

After recovering to normal, he pulled out his service pistol and felt the difference as soon as he held it. Whether he held the gun with his left or right hand, it felt like he could use it with his own arms. Although he couldn't test it out, he was sure that his shooting skills had improved greatly!
(End of this chapter)