The Blacklist

Chapter 464 Solve the problem and wait for the New Year
Carrie knew very well that Cooper was a very sentimental man, especially since he still felt guilty about what happened back then, he would definitely not give up investigating Daniel, so he asked Reddington to continue tracking his whereabouts.

Sure enough, after he told Cooper the news, the other party's tone immediately became low. Although he did not bring it up, he knew that he still wanted to find Daniel and find out the truth. So he said, "Harold, don't worry. When there is specific information from the Middle East, I will go there in person and check it out. If Daniel is okay, I will bring him back!"

Cooper understood what he meant and said, "Thank you, Lee. I believe you can do it, but be sure to pay attention to safety!"
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On Friday, January 1, Carrey boarded the Peak 10 jet alone. This time, he and Reddington only brought Felix and his four elite mercenaries. They first flew to Chahar Burjak in Afghanistan, landed at a US military base, took a car to the Iranian border, and then headed south...

Reddington's subordinates in the Middle East found some information that the base of "Sam Tornado" was in the mountainous area of ​​the Sarhad Plateau on the west side of the I-Pakistan border - Zahedan was just west of the plateau.

Originally, Carrie did not plan to let Reddington come, but the old man insisted, claiming that he was very familiar with the terrain and local conditions in West Asia, and he very much wanted to "hunt" with Carrie!
The group was divided into two Hummer military vehicles and drove along the rugged mountain road South Street. Their destination was a dilapidated palace built in the Middle Ages. Intelligence showed that it was the lair of "Sam Tornado".

Although he told Cooper that he was here to find out about Daniel, Carrie knew very well that Daniel was "Sam Tornado" and had long since transformed from a traitor and informant seller into a real terrorist. This time he was going to kill him in order to let Cooper completely let go!
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The mountain roads were difficult to travel on, and it took them more than seven hours to complete a journey of more than 416 kilometers. When they saw the checkpoint ahead before the sun rose in the east, they knew they had found the place - the police at the checkpoint were dressed decently, but the weapons they held were HK. This German-made assault rifle is very expensive, not to mention in Iran, even in the United States, it is not equipped in large quantities to the troops, let alone allocated to the police!

Carrie told Reddington not to get out of the car, but he got out and started shooting. With his marksmanship, plus the help of five mercenaries with good combat skills, including Felix who got out of the car with Guan, they killed all the less than ten fake policemen with one attack!

Afterwards, Kerry released a small drone and spent more than 20 minutes searching for the half-collapsed Persian-style palace building ten kilometers away. He also saw armed personnel stationed there.

After advancing to a place not far from the palace, they simply divided the work, leaving a mercenary as a sniper to block the back door of the palace, Carrie took three mercenaries as assaulters, and Felix protected Reddington and followed up.

It took too much time to get there, but the actual battle lasted less than ten minutes. The so-called "Sam Tornado" was really the former Sergeant Daniel. He and his twenty-odd men had never expected to be attacked in their lair. Facing Carrie with a bug, most of them were quickly killed and the rest were seriously injured...

Before his death, Daniel smiled and said to Carrie: He knew this day would come!
Previously, he wanted to trick Cooper, who had already become the national security adviser, to the Middle East in order to take revenge and make Cooper taste what he had experienced back then, and at the same time slap the face of the United States that betrayed and abandoned him.

He is going to die now, all the grudges are in vain, I hope my former comrade Cooper is alive and well! ——
After two days of traveling, Carrie and Reddington returned to New York. Cooper, who had received the news long ago, was waiting in the tenement building. He was the first to see the video footage brought back by Carrie. After watching Daniel's last words, he sighed and was speechless forever... That night, Cooper did not return to Washington, but took Carrie and Reddington to drink. However, he could not drink much and fell down after half a bottle of whiskey. He was arranged to sleep in the guest room on the 14th floor. Then, Carrie, Reddington, Elizabeth, and Demby drank to their heart's content...

The next morning, Cooper took a helicopter directly to the National Military Cemetery in Arlington and placed the Navy Cross he had won on Daniel's tombstone, thus completely ending the friendship that had lasted thirty years!
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After solving Cooper's problem, Carey began to plan for the Chinese New Year again - this year's Spring Festival was earlier, on January 1th, and the 25th was the Little New Year. He started preparing early because he really didn't want to worry about work.

However, there are people like Lao Lei who are so blind that they have to cause trouble. Just after returning from the Middle East, he has brought about another case involving the fake Katarina, which he cannot ignore!
January 1, Monday, is the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month in the Chinese calendar, which is the Great Cold solar term.

The new clues provided by Reddington point to a very famous genius killer, Norman Devine, who is rumored to be good at using illness to cover up murders. More importantly, he found out that the fake Catalina had used the pseudonym Constance Drucker to remit money to Norman many times, and the purpose was naturally to hire him to kill people.

Since the fake Katharina was involved, Elizabeth naturally took it very seriously and arranged for SER agents to conduct a detailed investigation of Norman. However, information collected from the CIA and other departments showed that after Norman was identified as the mastermind behind the Libyan biological weapons project, his laboratory was blown up by a U.S. drone and he disappeared without a trace. At present, only a payment was found to have been made to the Ukrainian hacker Anton Gurakin, but this happened seven years ago.

There is intelligence that Anton is currently hiding in Havana. Elizabeth knows that Reddington has friends in power in Cuba, and it is much easier to find someone than the US government, so she gives the matter to him.

Reddington soon learned that Anton Gurakin was obsessed with collecting salt shakers, so he flew over personally and used a pair of handmade silver salt shakers from a hundred years ago to make him open his mouth: several years ago, Norman had secretly hacked into the server of the National Diagnostic Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Health and obtained administrator privileges, but no one knew what he was doing!

This situation made Elizabeth and the agents nervous. The National Diagnostic Laboratory provides diagnostic tests to hospitals and clinics across the United States and records information on 1.1 million patients.

After Norman gained administrator privileges on the laboratory server, he gained access to detailed medical and financial information of one-third of the U.S. population, which was extremely harmful.

(End of this chapter)