50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 320 Deckard's Haunted House

Although, when they were first established, the Skull and Bones Society and the Freemasons were one civilian and the other militant.

However, the two organizations were composed of social elites, and they were well aware that pure literary or pure martial arts skills have significant flaws.

Later, Skull and Bones members expanded their involvement beyond the military and economy, into many fields such as education, business, law, industry, and government.

Many members of Skull and Bones go on to work in the intelligence community, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Their longtime member, George H.W. Bush, served as CIA director for a year after returning from China last year.

George H.W. Bush stepped down on the same day Jimmy took office, and his successor as CIA director was a retired Navy admiral, Stansfield Turner.

This CIA agent, Turner, is no match for FBI agent William in terms of ability, but Turner was also chosen by Jimmy and is under Jimmy's leadership.

However, Turner's tenure was marked by mismanagement within the CIA, which failed to garner much support for Jimmy. It must be said that Jimmy was an overly idealistic individual, making his failure almost inevitable.

William Webster of the FBI was completely different; he joined Skull and Bones in 47 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Washington.

After graduation, he entered the legal profession, serving successively as a member of the state legal examination board, prosecutor, district judge, and circuit judge.

In terms of organizational skills, William is far superior to that retired general. His only weakness is probably his lack of expertise in economic matters.

It's not difficult to obtain intelligence about William domestically.

Since Jimmy nominated William Webster, he must have his resume and file, which is just a matter of going to the White House.

He was wondering whether he should bring up the Skull and Bones Society and Freemasonry.

This involves the entire West, including the political and economic core of the United States, and cannot be explained by just one or two pieces of intelligence.

But given his current status and background, it's clear he shouldn't know the inside story of these two secret societies.

After much deliberation, he finally decided to add a brief piece of information about the Skull and Bones Society to William Webster's intelligence report, without providing any explanation.

In fact, this intelligence gathering was not so simple. The White House is not a place he can go wherever he wants.

Otherwise, the residence of this American general manager would be too degrading.

The main difficulty this time lies in its proximity to the White House.

He was able to easily obtain the cabinet member list last time because he was able to get close to the White House during a visit to the White House.

He is unlikely to have the opportunity to visit the White House again, given that it has been less than a month since his last visit.

If an ordinary person like him frequently applies to visit the White House in a short period of time, he will definitely be investigated by the FBI.

He had no intention of putting himself in William H. Webster's sights.

The only solution now is to build an underground tunnel leading to the White House.

Digging tunnels was no big deal for him; he'd done it more than once before.

However, whether it was in China, at the British Museum, or in the basement of my current apartment building.

These are all civilian areas, so the chances of them being discovered are very small, and the risks are not high.

But he never underestimated the current level of technology, because America now has underground detection equipment, it just hasn't been miniaturized yet.

Underground detection equipment can discover underground cavities, such as the tunnels he dug.

If the tunnel is illuminated by underground detection equipment, it will be discovered immediately and attract the attention of the FBI.

Nobody's a fool. A long, straight hole suddenly appearing underground is clearly a tunnel. Whoever discovered it would definitely call the police. After thinking for a long time, he finally came up with a solution: to approach the White House through the existing passageway.

This method came from a story he had heard in his previous life.

The story tells of how, during the founding of the United States, the first president, George Washington, kept nine female slaves in the basement of his residence.

In 07, media outlets revealed that there was a hidden underground passage beneath the Washington, D.C. presidential residence.

His idea was to use this existing underground passage to reach the Prime Minister's residence.

Then, based on the actual conditions of the tunnel, we will decide on the next steps.

This passage is theoretically located underground in the White House. It is not very deep, but it is quite long and leads directly to the outside world.

This tunnel was where the female slaves lived and secretly entered and exited the official residence.

In order to find out the location of the tunnel, he used his spatial abilities to steal several ordinary cars.

Then it took three days, changing vehicles repeatedly, and circling the White House dozens of times, before they finally figured out the tunnel's layout and exit location.

The original exit, located at 850 16th Street, is now occupied by a building.

It is located on the north side of Lafayette Square, and from the south-facing windows of the building, you can clearly overlook the entire square and the obelisk.

This building was originally intended to be purchased by the Reagan Foundation and used as its office, but it is currently a luxury hotel.

He didn't plan to enter the underground passage from the original entrance, as it was a hotel with many people coming and going, and there was nowhere to hide to open an entrance.

What he had his eye on was an old house across the street from this building: Decatur House.

This place is deserted year-round and is known as a haunted house by the locals.

However, because this house is one of the few historical buildings in the area, it has not been demolished by the government.

There's an interesting story behind the Deckard House.

Decatur was an officer in the Anglo-American naval battles. He had a distinguished career, and his whole family lived happily in this house.

Later, he was invited to attend a military court to try then-Commodore Beren, who was found guilty and stripped of his command of the navy.

Beren thus took his anger out on Deckard and kept challenging him to one-on-one duels.

Deckard initially tolerated Beren's provocations and insults for a while, but it was to no avail; Beren continued to provoke him every day.

Unable to bear it any longer, he accepted the challenge to a duel.

That was it. Decatur was no match for Beren in the duel, and was fatally wounded. He died in his own home, the House of Decatur.

In the decades that followed, there were continuous reports.

They said they saw a gentleman in military uniform silently gazing outside Deckard's old house. Occasionally, people also saw Deckard wandering alone in Place de la Fayette.

Who could stand that? Soon all the residents of this house moved out, leaving only an empty old house abandoned there.

It has been abandoned for 150 years, and even now, no one dares to approach this haunted house.

Sun Zhiwei was a proletarian fighter and an atheist. He wasn't afraid of ghosts or anything like that, and this house was perfect as the entrance to the tunnel.

(End of this chapter)