The Blacklist

Chapter 388: Using a Clever Tactic to Capture a Drug Lord
Reddington once again placed the blueprint of Zalak's residence on the long table and explained it carefully to Carrie, wanting to see his opinion...

Carrie looked at the security layout in front of her, stretched out her hand to take the hot tea handed to her by Gina, sipped the tea gently, and thought in her mind - in the original plot, although the process of Lao Lei, Dumby, Donald, and Nawabi was thrilling, they did it and successfully captured Zarak. Now that she is here, can she prevent this from happening?
After listening to all the introductions, Carrie said, "First of all, our goal is to capture Zalak, that is, to kidnap him out of the hotel. To achieve this goal, we must first solve a series of problems, such as: how can we enter the building without being discovered, how can we get rid of Zalak's bodyguards without alerting the police, and how can we safely leave the building after successfully kidnapping him...

"Lao Lei, I know you have people here who can be called upon, so you need to solve the following problems:

“First, we need to get the access card for the apartment in this building, which requires the cooperation of the residents in the building;
“Second, we need to arrange for employees of telecommunications companies with legal identities to enter the building and control or hack into the surveillance system;

“Third, arrange for suitable evacuation vehicles, preferably bulletproof ones.

"How about it, can you do it?"

After listening to this, Reddington began to think about it. After more than ten minutes, under the expectant gaze of everyone, he finally said: "Well, I can do these, but what about the specific plan?"
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On the morning of Wednesday, June 6, Paris time, Reddington's informant found a college student who once rented an apartment in the eight-story building, and took the access card that had not been returned from him. Elizabeth tried it and was able to enter the building smoothly.

Dembe once lived in Paris and knew an old man named Jean Philippe, who is now retired, but used to be a maintenance engineer for a telecommunications company. He spent 30,000 euros to hire him to enter the building and install a wireless access port in the closed-circuit surveillance system inside the building.

Felix prepared a stolen pickup truck with a fake license plate for the evacuation. At this point, the preparations for the operation were basically complete.

That evening, Carrie personally hacked into the building's surveillance system, modified the footage, and reversely monitored the scenes inside the building.

At 6:30 pm, the pickup truck drove into the underground parking lot of the building. Felix and Dumby used the access card to open the elevator. They worked together to install directional explosives on the steel cable at the top of the building's passenger elevator and installed a quick-inflating air cushion at the bottom of the elevator shaft...

At seven o'clock in the evening, Carrie saw through the surveillance camera that Zarak walked out of the room with four bodyguards, and immediately notified everyone to prepare for action!
When Zalak and his five companions entered the elevator and began to descend, Dembe pressed the remote detonator. With a few small explosions, the elevator cables were all blown off, and the passenger elevator lost control and fell straight to the bottom. Although there was an inflatable cushion at the bottom of the elevator shaft, the five people in the elevator were still shaken and semi-conscious...

Dembe and Felix, who were waiting on the ground floor, immediately pried open the deformed elevator car. Four "bang bang bang" anesthetic bullets knocked the bodyguards down completely. They dragged the dazed Zarak out and loaded him into a pickup truck. Gina, who was in charge of the start, stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out of the underground parking lot.

There were six policemen sitting in three police cars on the street outside, waiting to escort Zalak to dinner. Although they saw the van coming out, they had no idea what was happening. They waited until it drove away before they received a notification that there was an accident with the elevator in the building. But when they rushed into the building, they had no idea what was happening...
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This time, they did not return to the hotel, but went to a safe house arranged in advance. However, what they did not expect was that Zarak, who had just woken up, did not ask them why they arrested him, but begged them to release his son and took out a bag of dozens of diamonds!
Reddington and others looked at each other, not understanding what Zrack was talking about. Only Carrie sat aside, drinking a freshly opened can of local beer, tasting the different flavors and thinking it was pretty good.

After asking, they found out that Zalak's son was a student at the university and was kidnapped a few days ago. He came to Paris to redeem his son. The diamonds were the ransom demanded by the kidnappers, worth 10 billion Afghanis (about 1400 million U.S. dollars). Reddington couldn't help asking, "Who are those kidnappers?"

Zalak hesitated to answer, looked at the people in the room, and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Raymond Reddington." Old Ray didn't introduce anyone else. "You should have heard of me."

Zalak nodded and said, "I know you, the 'Gatekeeper of the Underworld', the FBI's most wanted criminal for more than 20 years! But I don't understand, if you didn't catch my son, why did you catch me?"

Reddington did not hide it from him and said directly: "I have some grievances to settle with the Nash Group, and you are the largest supplier of the Nash Syndicate, so I want to talk to you about cutting off the supply to him."

The corner of Zarak's mouth twitched, and he grabbed him violently. Did he want to "talk"?

After thinking for a while, Reddington said, "How about this? I'll find a way to rescue your son, and you'll cut off the supply of opium to the Nash Group. How about that?"

In fact, for Zarak, who controls a large number of scarce "supplies", although the Nash Group is a major customer, it is not indispensable, but... "Mr. Raymond, I know you are very powerful, but it may not be so easy to rescue my son - it is the Taliban who kidnapped my son!"

Taliban? Everyone was stunned! The Taliban is now one of the main forces in Afghanistan, controlling a large area of ​​territory, and is now cooperating with the local government. They kidnapped the son of a government official, which is very strange!

Reddington narrowed his eyes and looked at Carrie who was sitting on the sofa in the corner, but found that she was still expressionless. He couldn't help but think about it.

Elizabeth, Gina, Dembe and others who had been listening to the conversation were also surprised. Of course, they knew about the Taliban. Not to mention its previous style of behavior, in recent years, it has advocated cooperation with the government. So this kidnapping incident was a bit strange.

After thinking about it, Reddington vaguely guessed the secret, but if it was really as he imagined, it would be a bit troublesome!
(End of this chapter)