Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 620: Locking in the Suspect Behind the Scenes

"It's a good idea to follow the clues, but it shouldn't be easy to implement, right?" Lin Yuan asked.

"That's true, because the tactics they used this time were quite covert. If Major General Ross insists he wasn't aware of the dangers of Route N-13, then at most he made a mistake in command.

For such a mistake, the worst that can be done is dismissal. Even further punishment would be difficult, let alone cracking down on his backers. "Betty's voice came over the phone.

This conclusion is a bit frustrating. It is difficult to make a strong counterattack when someone plots against you.

Because the other party used secret means within the rules and did not leave any handles, even if they were exposed, they could still pretend to be stupid.

I have to say that this is much more sophisticated than the crude methods used by the Mellon Group before.

Despite the setback, Betty's voice remained steady, without a trace of frustration. "It's not impossible to break through. Major General Ross is so unable to open a gap. Isn't there a mysterious visitor from New York?"

If we find that person and make a breakthrough through him, we might be able to break through Major General Ross's psychological defenses."

Lin Yuan said, "This idea is indeed feasible, but how do we find that mysterious visitor? He has no name or surname, so where do we start?"

"Anyone who can directly influence Major General Ross is most likely someone from the Rockefeller Foundation. Combined with Old Tommy's description of his appearance, the range of suspicious candidates has been further narrowed.

I've already sent someone to check if the suspect has been to the Bangor Submarine Base in recent days. We'll be able to confirm the suspect's identity soon. Then you can take the photo to Old Tommy for confirmation. "Betty said.

"Well, this is a very reliable approach." Lin Yuan said.

"Check your email in about five minutes," Betty said.

"5 minutes? So fast? In the eyes of you top consortiums, do ordinary people like us have no privacy at all?" Lin Yuan said.

"Of course! If you want to check into a room with a woman I don't know behind my back, I will rush to the door and block you in the room the next moment." Betty threatened.

Lin Yuan: "..."

This is even more efficient than Uncle Hat's ward rounds. With such a lover, the difficulty of cheating increases exponentially.

But Lin Yuan would not admit defeat. He smiled and said, "It's useless to block the door. I escaped through the window early in the morning."

Betty: “…”

This time it was Betty's turn to be speechless. What's wrong with your cowardly and arrogant attitude?

The scenes of catching an adulterer seen in movies and TV shows are completely untrue to Lin Yuan.

Not to mention blocking the door, even if they surrounded the entire building, Lin Yuan would have a way to jump to another building like Spider-Man.

"You don't really want to monitor me, do you?" Lin Yuan teased with a smile.

"What are you thinking? I'm so busy every day." Betty explained unhappily, "We were able to identify the suspect so quickly only because he came from Washington State. Don't you know this is my territory?"

After hearing Betty say this, Lin Yuan remembered that she was the eldest daughter of the Adams family.

A political family like the Adams family must have its base in the capital, Washington. This is truly her base. No wonder she was able to locate the suspect so quickly.

After chatting for a few more words, they hung up the phone.

Lin Yuan walked back to Director Cohen and others.

"Let's go back to the Virginia to get the computer. I need to receive an email later."

At that time, it was not possible to send and receive emails easily using mobile phones like in later generations.

Especially the emails with pictures sent by Betty require the use of a computer.

Lin Yuan's laptop is currently on the Virginia.

Lieutenant Commander Louis also ended his call with Vice Admiral Joseph King and took them back to the Virginia at the berth.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lin. Lieutenant General Jin will handle the follow-up matters properly. Our filming will not be greatly affected. Lieutenant General Jin has directly taken over the deployment of the submarine this time.

He will plan a new route for us, and we can set off for Greenland tomorrow morning." Lieutenant Colonel Lewis said.

Lin Yuan nodded to show that he understood.

Lieutenant Colonel Louis really couldn't get involved in the game between the top leaders. He just had to concentrate on accompanying Lin Yuan to complete the filming task.

So Lin Yuan did not mention Betty and his plan to them, and neither Lieutenant Colonel Louis nor Director Cohen asked any further questions.

Back on the Virginia, as soon as Lin Yuan opened his laptop, he immediately received an email.

The email briefly identified the suspect:
Andy Lewis, 39, Vice President of Sperry Rand Corporation.

It also includes a photo of him.

The Sperry Rand Corporation, the Rand think tank that we often hear about in later generations, belongs to this company.

This company is a comprehensive strategic research institute with a military focus, and has a series of names that sound very exaggerated:
Terms like "brain concentration camp" and "super military academy" are embarrassing to hear.

But it is undeniable that RAND Corporation has a huge influence on government decision-making, especially in the military field.

Behind this company is the Rockefeller Foundation and... the Mellon Foundation.

Looking at it this way, it's really a coincidence.

All the old acquaintances have gathered together. If they don't take advantage of the opportunity when he is on the submarine to do something, it would be strange.

Lin Yuan looked at the photo of Andy Louis, who looked like a standard white elite man.

In fact, by 2005, a person's class identity could be seen at a glance in North America.

Don’t think that it’s impossible to tell the class identity of white people at a glance.

Are you just bragging or engaging in metaphysics?

In fact, this is the same as in India, where you can tell a person's caste at a glance.

In North America, a person's economic status can also be seen at a glance.

A set of neat teeth, a well-proportioned and strong body, a sun-tanned bronze skin, and high-end custom-made clothes are enough to distinguish whether a person belongs to the lower class, the middle class, or the elite class.

In 2025, after a big reconciliation between Chinese and American netizens, many netizens were surprised to find that the lower-class people in the United States could not even afford fresh vegetables?

Of course, the planting and picking of fresh vegetables cannot use agricultural machinery on a large scale and requires the employment of a large number of manual labor.

This has pushed up the price of fresh vegetables, and only those who can afford them on a daily basis are middle class or above.

At the same time, North America's corn production is so great that it cannot be consumed by itself, and even cannot be sold for export.

As a result, a large amount of corn was made into corn syrup and supplied to the lower-class people in the United States.

The lower classes in the United States drink lethal amounts of water containing corn syrup and eat foods containing corn syrup.

This means that the average Chinese person eats 20 kilograms of sugar a year, while the average American eats 70 kilograms!

This is just an average. If we only calculate the sugar intake of the lower-income people, it would be even higher.

What's even more frightening is that sugars like sucrose are converted into glucose after digestion and participate in the body's metabolism. Only those that cannot be consumed are converted into fat and stored in the body.

Corn syrup can only be metabolized by the liver, does not participate in energy consumption, and is directly converted into fat storage.

This is also the reason why there are so many super fat people in the United States, and obesity can easily lead to various diseases such as diabetes.

It is worth mentioning that in many medical institutions in North America, the treatment plan for diabetes is to increase the injection dose of insulin!

Your doctor will tell you that your diabetes cannot be controlled because you are not taking enough insulin.

They never tell you that you've consumed too much corn syrup and need to watch your mouth.

Doctors are not stupid. They have worked hard for so many years to study and owed $50 to $100 million in college loans to get such a high-paying job.

If you offend the powerful agricultural capital, you may lose your job in a minute, and then you will slide into the abyss together.

To publicize the harmful effects of corn syrup is to harm your own future and will only cause suffering to the public.

But if you only use insulin without controlling your diet, your body will become fatter and fatter.

So we fall into a vicious cycle and increase the insulin dosage again!
The result of this is that there are a large number of overweight people in North America, and because of their physical discomfort, they become irritable and angry.

For this situation, you can also sell them buckets of painkillers, 999 tablets per bottle! You can buy them in supermarkets and convenience stores.

Therefore, in North America, if you don’t have money, you can’t afford to eat healthy food and can only eat cheap junk food. Then your body will most likely become deformed, and you will have a lot of diseases when you get older.

You feel unwell all over and are tormented by various chronic diseases. Naturally, you cannot be as gentle and polite as people who are middle class or above.

You are poor and have to work two odd jobs every day. Your boss only gives you 2 hours of work to evade labor law responsibilities.

Therefore, you naturally don’t have the time and money to go to the gym to get in shape, nor do you have time to go on vacation to the beach to bask in the sun and get a tan.

Not to mention the exorbitant prices of dentists in the United States, it is even more difficult to have a set of white and neat teeth.

Finally, the clothing. A high-end suit that fits your body is not only a symbol of your status, but also means that you do not need to do heavy physical labor or work in a dirty and messy environment.

Therefore, these conditions put together are like the caste distinction in India, allowing you to guess the economic level of the person in front of you with a high probability at a glance.

No matter how much the United States promotes LGBTQ in the future... and a long list of unspeakable political correctness, the top elites will only shout slogans, but they will not really make themselves short and fat. Instead, they will maintain the traditional aesthetic in an extremely consistent manner.

Andy Lewis is such a standard image of a white elite man.

Lin Yuan took the photos that Lieutenant Commander Louis helped him print out, walked out of the Virginia, and came to the Bolon restaurant again.

Lin Yuan went up the fire escape and found Old Tommy through the back hall.

Seeing Lin Yuan coming back, Old Tommy was stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted.

"Are you sure? Take the N-13 route?" asked Old Tommy.

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "I have verified what you told me. I will arrange for someone to contact you for payment of $5000 million right away."

"He is indeed my idol. He is so honest." said Old Tommy.

"Can I ask you for another favor?" Lin Yuan asked. "Help? Are you planning to take revenge on Major General Ross?" Old Tommy shook his head and said, "If you want me to step forward and identify Major General Ross, I'm sorry to refuse."

Lin Yuan knew that Old Tommy would not do this. After all, Major General Ross had chosen Old Tommy's restaurant as the meeting place with Andy Louis.

This shows that he must have a close relationship with Old Tommy. Major General Ross even made a lot of efforts when Old Tommy opened this restaurant.

But Old Tommy turned around and sold out Major General Ross, which must have made him feel a little embarrassed.

The main reason for secretly selling the information is that the money is too much.

But if he openly stood up and made the accusation, it would be a blatant act of ingratitude. Old Tommy's entire social circle would stay away from him, and he would become socially dead in a sense, and he might even be retaliated against.

Therefore, Old Tommy did not want to stand up and identify Major General Ross, which was more the result of weighing the pros and cons.

But is it really that easy to make this kind of money?

Once you get on board and take the black money, is it possible to get away easily?

In fact, Lin Yuan could have put some pressure on Old Tommy. After all, Old Tommy had already betrayed Major General Ross and was no longer clean.

Then Lin Yuan could force him to come out and identify the person. If he didn't, not only would he not get the money, but he would also suffer social disgrace.

But Lin Yuan would not do that, because the information given to him by Old Tommy was too important.

Although the Virginia might not necessarily encounter an accident if it took route N-13, if an accident did occur, there would be no chance of survival.

Old Tommy's information could even be considered to have saved him and everyone on the Virginia.

Therefore, Lin Yuan would not force him.

Betty also knew that Lin Yuan would not do this, so she did not mention this method of operation at all. Instead, she went around in circles to find the suspect and sent emails to transfer photos.

Noticing that Lin Yuan had been staring at him, Old Tommy said helplessly, "Mr. Lin Yuan, I really can't stand up and identify Rear Admiral Ross. Back when I was the head chef on the USS Pennsylvania, he was my benefactor as the captain.

He later helped me establish connections and open this restaurant. If I publicly identify him, those old friends will probably shoot me.

Being able to secretly tell you this information is already the limit for me."

Pennsylvania?

Lin Yuan knew that it was an Ohio-class strategic missile nuclear submarine. It turned out that Old Tommy had served as a submarine soldier and Major General Ross had served as the captain of a strategic missile nuclear submarine.

Although they are all nuclear submarines, attack nuclear submarines like the Virginia often follow aircraft carrier formations and rarely engage in underwater activities in Greenland.

Because the sea was covered with thick ice, aircraft carriers and other surface ships could not pass through at all, so Lieutenant Colonel Louis did not discover the hidden risks of route N-13.

However, the Ohio-class strategic missile nuclear submarine, as a lone wolf, prefers the concealment brought by the Greenland ice sheet and cruises under the Greenland ice sheet all year round.

No wonder Old Tommy acted so professionally. He knew full well that the El Niño phenomenon would have a profound impact on the safety of the N-13 route.

If Old Tommy understood it, it was even more impossible for Major General Ross not to understand it. This also confirmed that arranging the N-13 route for the Virginia was definitely not an unintentional accident, but a carefully planned one.

Lin Yuan took out a photo and placed it in front of Old Tommy. "I'm not asking you to identify Major General Ross. I just need you to confirm for me if this is the person he was talking to."

Old Tommy breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Lin Yuan did not force himself.

In fact, he had prepared himself in his heart that if Lin Yuan forced him, he would have to risk his life and stand up to identify Major General Ross.

After all, a huge sum of 5000 million US dollars is not so easy to earn. As long as you can earn this money, it is not impossible to go far away and live in anonymity.

But he didn't expect Lin Yuan to be so easy to talk to, so he took the photo handed to him by Lin Yuan with surprise.

After just one look, Old Tommy immediately gasped.

The man in the photo was the one who had met Major General Ross before.

Old Tommy was quite surprised that Lin Yuan was able to find this man.

But what made Old Tommy even more incredible was that Lin Yuan actually located the suspect so quickly!
You know, it has only been about half an hour since he finished talking with Lin Yuan.

In such a short time, they found the suspect based on just a few of his verbal descriptions?

What speed is this?
What kind of huge and efficient intelligence network does he have?

The fact that Lin Yuan was able to find the suspect so quickly meant that if he wanted to force him to identify Major General Ross, he would have no resistance at all.

There is not even the slightest possibility of escaping.

In this situation, he did not force himself, but was very considerate and considered himself, and just asked for help to confirm the photos.

What a noble sentiment this is!

Old Tommy became more and more convinced that being a fan of Lin Yuan was absolutely the right path.

A perfect artist like Lin Yuan, who has both character and ability, should be an idol of the public.

And Major General Ross actually wanted to harm such a person?

It's so shameless!
Even if he is my benefactor and has committed such a sinful act that is hated by God and man, I must stand up bravely to stop him and not let him go down the wrong path to an irreversible point.

Thinking of this, Old Tommy felt more and more clear-headed, and the guilt he had felt for betraying his benefactor was now swept away.

I'm doing the right thing!
Old Tommy was quite proud.

"Old Tommy, is this the person?" Seeing that Old Tommy didn't speak for a long time and was lost in thought, Lin Yuan couldn't help but ask.

It's just recognizing someone by looking at a photo. If it's yes, it's yes. If it's no, it's no. Is it that difficult to answer?

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, Old Tommy nodded immediately: "Yes! It's this man! I'm 100% sure!"

After receiving a positive answer from Old Tommy, Lin Yuan put the photo away with satisfaction and stood up from his seat.

"Thank you for your help and cooperation. The money will be transferred to your card as soon as possible. Please forget what happened today. Just pretend that you have never seen me and I have never been here." Lin Yuan walked out.

"Take care, I've forgotten about this matter now." Old Tommy said with a flattering smile.

Lin Yuan didn't believe a word he said.

How could I really have forgotten?
That's 5000 million US dollars.

But Lin Yuan said this not just to look good, but also for old Tommy's sake.

After all, taking $5000 million from him was the biggest flaw for old Tommy.

Even if Major General Ross was punished, he was not alone. If others traced the source of the leak, they would easily find Old Tommy.

If Old Tommy couldn't act as if nothing had happened, he would most likely face retaliation if any flaws were exposed.

Therefore, Lin Yuan did not question Old Tommy's offer at all.

He took a huge risk and helped Lin Yuan avoid life-threatening danger, so asking for $5000 million is very fair.

Lin Yuan could only silently wish Old Tommy good luck in his heart.

After all, the cheese-baked Boston lobster in his restaurant is very delicious, affordable and I like it very much.

I hope that if I have the chance to come here again, I can enjoy the same delicious food again.

Lin Yuan descended the fire escape, pulled out his phone, and called, "Betty, I've confirmed that the person who met with Major General Ross was Andy Lewis."

"That's good. My people have already found out his itinerary. Andy Louis is still in Washington. It seems that he wants to stay here and wait for the news of the accident. But he doesn't know that not only will he not be able to wait for the expected good news, but he will soon face bad news." Betty said.

"Bad news? Are you planning to arrest him?" Lin Yuan asked.

"What else can we do? If we don't control him, how can we get solid evidence from him?" Betty asked.

"But... he is the vice president of a big company after all. It won't cause any adverse effects, right?" Lin Yuan asked.

After all, Andy Lewis is the vice president of Rand Corporation, and he has the Rockefeller and Mellon consortiums behind him.

If we lose contact without any reason, it will definitely cause backlash from the two consortiums, and then we will probably be the one in the wrong.

"Which American elite doesn't have tax problems? This time I let the tax department step in to control him, and the Rockefeller Foundation can't say anything." Betty said.

Lin Yuan: (1`1;)
As we all know, which violent organization in North America is the most difficult to offend?
Not the military or police, but the tax collection agency!

This is the real fight where people start fighting at the slightest disagreement. It's absolutely tough.

The most effective way is to have the tax department take him away for investigation on the grounds of tax evasion and tax arrears.

Betty's move was indeed a heavy sword without an edge, not fancy at all, but extremely simple and effective.

Lin Yuan silently gave her a thumbs up in his heart.

"But I need you to do me a favor," Betty said.

"You say!" Lin Yuan asked.

"I'm worried about the tax department's interrogation capabilities. Although we can take Andy Louis away for investigation for a short period of time, we can't control him for a long time. If the tax department can't get the information we want quickly, we can only let him go." Betty said.

Obviously, Betty needs Lin Yuan to personally participate in the interrogation.

Betty had already witnessed Lin Yuan's buggy ability that was similar to "mind reading" before they confirmed their relationship.

Lin Yuan's performance that night deeply shocked her, so much so that Betty, a business woman who had been involved in intrigue for a long time, never thought of lying in front of Lin Yuan, but always maintained a sincere way of getting along with him.

"After arresting Andy Louis, tell me where he is being held and I will rush over to help immediately," said Lin Yuan.

"Then you can prepare to leave. I think the capture has been completed by now."

"Clam?"

Isn’t the United States a society ruled by law?
Why do you just arrest people? At least take some time to go through the procedures!

(End of this chapter)