The Blacklist

Chapter 310 Architect and Hacker Champion
Reddington captured Isabella (Judith), which naturally aroused the anger of the USMS. They found CTU to complain, saying that a prisoner kidnapping occurred just after the criminal was received, which meant there was a traitor, and demanded an explanation from the post office.

Of course, CTU Director General Cooper didn't buy it and directly hit back: It was the federal court that strongly demanded to take Isabella back after hearing about her arrest. Now that she's missing, you're looking for revenge. What's going on?
However, after hanging up the phone, Cooper contacted Carrie and asked him to handle Isabella's matter carefully and find a way to solve this problem.

Carrie was a little speechless and called Reddington, "Old Reddington, after you're done questioning, just hand over Isabella, dead or alive. The relevant parties need an explanation."

"OK, I understand," Reddington agreed.
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On Friday night, Carrie received a call from Donald, saying that his brother's surgery was very successful, he has now woken up, and will be transferred to the recovery ward soon...

Carrie congratulated him and also reported that the previous case had been solved, and everyone was happy!

This weekend was full of good news, so everyone was able to have a good rest.

In the following week, there were no new cases, and the detectives' job was to compile complete files of previous cases and archive them - because of confidentiality issues, not everyone could see the cases handled by the two departments of the Post Office, but the relevant information had to be complete for reference, so there was still a lot of paperwork involved.
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On Monday, March 3, Reddington gave SER a new blacklist character, "The Architect", through Elizabeth.

Elizabeth introduced: "In 2014, a diesel tanker exploded in London. Ten minutes later, a main water pipe burst and flooded Covent Garden... When the municipal staff pumped out the water, they found that diamonds worth $ million were stolen from a nearby safe!

"More than a year ago, a safety bolt malfunctioned in Cortina, Italy, triggering a series of avalanches... Two weeks before that, a Brazilian art collector's home was invaded. Although no valuables were stolen, the collector was frightened by the invasion and transported a Caravaggio to a safe facility in Geneva for safekeeping. The director of the facility had been killed in a previous avalanche, and someone had signed for the work under someone else's name!

"Reddington says these cases are the work of 'the Architect.'

"The 'Architect' is actually a criminal planner - as long as someone pays enough money or a price, he will help plan and carry out the perfect crime, and in the process, he will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal."

Aram, who was standing by, saw the information on the computer and added, "In the FBI database, the criminal information on 'Architect' is several feet thick, but he has never been caught."

"According to Reddington's intelligence, the 'Architect' is in Philadelphia, preparing to recruit hackers to participate in the Black Mass 13 underground gathering..." Elizabeth introduced.

"Black Mass?" Aram was surprised. "This is a hacking competition organized privately by hackers to see who can hack into a website system with extremely strong security measures. The champion will be called the 'Hacker Star' and enjoy special honors in the hacker community..." As he spoke, he began to search for keywords such as Philadelphia, Black Mass, and 13...

In order to organize the competition, the information of Black Mass 13 was not blocked from the outside world. Alam quickly found key technical posts from some forums and analyzed the gathering location from them.

Donald nodded and said, "That is to say, the 'Architect' plans to recruit the winners of the Black Mass to do bad things. We have to find out what these bad things are, so we have to send people to infiltrate!" Hearing his words, everyone looked at Alam!

Huh? Aram was a little confused. He was a technical agent, and field work was not his strong point!
Without further ado, Donald immediately led his team to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

At the location identified by Alam, the detectives only saw a roadside trash can, on which they found a QR code, which they cracked to obtain an address: 1995 South Hartford Road, Havertown.

After arriving, they found that this was a street-side fruit bar that sold sandwiches and drinks. Alam cracked the pattern in the window and got a small password box. After opening it, he found a memory card. After decrypting it, he got the information: 248 Garfield, : pm, a man wearing a yellow hat came.

After Aram disguised himself, he arrived at the designated location on time, but was pulled into a van...

Then, after the van drove for a while, it disappeared from Donald and his team's surveillance! ——
Reddington finally got the employer's information from Judith. The contact was delivered via anonymous courier, and the reward was transferred via a military-grade encrypted electronic credit card.

This method of contact let Reddington know that the employer actually used the services of the same bank as himself! This was a serious problem. He left in a hurry, ready to find a way to pry open the mouths of the senior staff of this bank and find out who the employer was.
That evening, USMS received a tip from an informant: a wanted criminal was hiding in a cold storage. When they rushed in, they triggered a pre-set bomb, causing the cold storage to explode. The body found at the scene was confirmed to be Judith!
Donald was busy for a while but couldn't find Alam's whereabouts. In a hurry, Elizabeth contacted Kerry in Washington and asked for help.

Knowing that the case had reached a critical moment, Carrie rushed to Philadelphia with Gina and Abby for reinforcement. He was ready to kill the "Architect" himself and earn his crime-solving points!

Based on the abnormal electricity usage in the neighborhood, Abby found the location of the Black Mass gathering. Donald led the team members to raid the scene, controlled the scene, and arrested dozens of hackers, but learned that Alam was taken away by a middle-aged man after winning the championship.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Kerry used the "Atis Network" and used three satellites to locate a convoy that had left the rally site before and began tracking it...
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Outside Greenville Prison in southern Virginia, "The Architect" asked Aram, who was abducted there, to hack into one of the most heavily guarded prisons in the United States, control its operating system, and cut off its communications with the outside world.

Facing the gun, Alam did not refuse, but emphasized that the prison's internal operating system was physically isolated from the civilian network and could not be remotely controlled.

The "architect" smiled proudly and said, "I have arranged an insider in the prison. He is responsible for installing a wireless backdoor in the terminal. If you still can't successfully hack into the terminal, then there is no need for him to exist!"

(End of this chapter)