North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 815 Hank's Decision

For Jimmy, there is not much difference between day and night. Night is even better because he doesn't have to pay too much attention to the people around him. The laundry factory is at the outermost edge of the suburbs. Under normal circumstances, there will not be many residents walking around at night.

Waiting is the most painful thing, especially when he didn't know when the person he needed to pay attention to would appear. After watching for two days in a row, he finally saw someone enter the laundry factory's workshop at night, open a device, and come to the basement through the back door.

It was very difficult to judge the equipment or what was being transported by only seeing the outline, but at least you could see that there was a square box on the other party's cart. A small freight elevator brought the box to the ground, and the other party loaded it into the van next to it and drove away from the laundry factory.

Jimmy quickly ran back to his car, turned off the lights and followed the other party from a distance. He was not driving very fast. After turning a few roads in the suburbs, the other party turned and drove towards the chicken farm. Jimmy watched the other party run into the chicken farm, but he did not dare to turn around and follow him in. The surveillance point on the slope that he had discovered before had not been removed yet, and if he drove in to follow him, he would be exposed.

After driving a little further and hiding the car, Jimmy jogged from the side towards the chicken farm. The suburbs were very desolate. There were faint lights on the other side of the chicken farm, which was the signpost.

After walking around the chicken farm and coming to the hillside, we found a space with a simple camp bed and a chair. There were also some weapons on the ground. One person was lying on the bed and another was sitting on the chair. In front of them should be a telescope mounted on a tripod. Judging from the direction of the telescope, it should be facing the road in front of the chicken farm. This is a hidden security room, not facing inside.

This is good, as he won't be seen by them if he enters the chicken farm from the back, and it will also be convenient for Jimmy to move around.

Jimmy didn't intend to kill anyone. He wanted to understand the drug trafficking route and try to take down Gus's gang, not to destroy this chicken farm. Once he killed someone, they would definitely disappear in an instant, and all the clues found before would be interrupted.

The speed was a bit slow, and Jimmy found the van from before, but there was no one inside and the boxes on the van were gone. He looked around and saw five people gathered around a table in a chicken farm. From their actions, they should be weighing, vacuuming, and packaging. This was their processing plant.

Jimmy's mouth curled up, and he just stayed far away, hiding in the corner and staring at the other person.

These people sealed several boxes of goods, then took a barrel-like container from the side and started putting the sealed items in it.

Jimmy could only see the items entering the barrel, but he couldn't see what was inside. It seemed that there was liquid inside. Then someone took the lid and covered it. They stored it in a warehouse on the side and then left the factory. It was obvious that they did not intend to transport the goods away now.

Jimmy was helpless. There must be a lot of people at the chicken farm during the day, and he couldn't sneak in. It would be difficult to find out how they transported the goods.

However, even if we don't know how they transport the goods, we must at least confirm what those barrels are. Jimmy observed the environment around the chicken farm himself, and there was no suspected camera here. It seems that they also know that they cannot leave any evidence of what they did, and it will be easy to leak if cameras are installed to keep surveillance.

This was convenient for Jimmy. He walked over to the side of the factory. Those people locked the door when they left, but it didn't matter. Jimmy walked to the side, hung on the high window, and shone a small flashlight into the room. Inside was a barrel with the image of the Fried Chicken Brothers. It looked like the materials used in their fried chicken shop. If it was put in this kind of round barrel, it should contain pre-mixed batter or something like that.

After confirming the content, Jimmy jumped down and left from behind the chicken farm. From beginning to end, no one noticed that Jimmy had found an important channel for them to transport blue ice.

Jimmy returned to his car, ran into the wild for a while, turned on the headlights and returned. When passing by the chicken farm, he took a special look. There was no movement inside, so they definitely didn't notice him.

This time we can basically deduce the opponent's route of action. Under the cover of the laundry factory, a laboratory for large-scale production of blue ice is established underground. The special ability of Walter, a genius chemist, is used to produce blue ice. The finished blue ice is then packaged in the chicken farm, and then delivered to the Fried Chicken Brothers stores throughout the city. As long as someone picks up the goods at the Fried Chicken Brothers store, the next step is to distribute them to drug dealers in their respective ranges.

Fried Chicken Brothers has stores not only in Albuquerque, but also in several states surrounding New Mexico. This unified supply will not attract other people's attention at all. Moreover, the fried chicken stores have such a large flow of customers that as long as you pay a little attention, anyone entering and leaving the store will not attract other people's attention. No matter whether they are rich people or street thugs, fried chicken, hamburgers and cola are all needed.

After resting for a night, Jimmy went back to the DEA office again. This time he needed to get some special equipment from the technical department, including a remote-controlled drone, a long-range radio, and a camera with a high-power lens. He had planned to handle it himself, but because these devices were for special purposes, the technical department rejected Jimmy's request. With the permission of Assistant Agent Hawke, the monitoring team brought a technical support staff member to accompany Jimmy to monitor the chicken farm.

The location of the chicken farm is so good that Jimmy has no way of getting close to observe it during the day. It is still reliable to use a drone to observe remotely from high altitudes. The only problem is that both the DEA and the FBI have strict management of this kind of monitoring equipment.

In the afternoon, Jimmy brought the monitoring team's van to the vicinity of the chicken farm. After confirming the location, he released the drone about two kilometers away from the chicken farm.

Several people got into the van and stared at the images observed from the drone. Soon the chicken farm appeared in the field of view of the drone camera.

"Wait, don't come near."

Jimmy shouted immediately, and the technicians stopped the operation, and the drone hovered high in the air.

"FK!" Although the drone image is not very clear now, it is obvious that there are two people lying on the ground, a truck is parked next to them, and several people are hiding around. It's just that the resolution is not high enough, so the details are not clear for the time being.

What's happening here?
"Turn the camera angle and look in the direction they are avoiding."

The technicians were also adjusting, and finally they saw a cloud of dust in the distance and a motorcycle running wildly across the desert. It soon disappeared from sight, leaving only the smoke and dust gradually dissipating.

Judging from the situation at the scene, it was obvious that the motorcycle that had just left was the reason these people were hiding. Were two of them shot and killed by someone from a distance? This was not a good sign. Anyone who dared to shoot at drug dealers must be someone extraordinary.

Jimmy looked at the technicians, "Is our drone noisy? Will we be discovered if we continue to approach?"

The technician nodded and said, "You can get closer, but not too close."

Jimmy: “OK, go ahead.”

The picture gradually became clear, and several people hiding around began to approach the two people lying on the ground. They lifted the two people and moved them directly into the truck, while cleaning the truck body.

“Did you record everything?”

"We recorded it, but the clarity is not good enough and the signal is not very good. If we want to get closer, we need to move some distance over there."

Jimmy looked at the situation and ordered the surveillance vehicle to start and move some distance towards the chicken farm to ensure sufficient signal strength. However, just as they started to move, the truck at the chicken farm also started. Jimmy immediately asked the technicians to recover the drone, save the surveillance video, and catch up with him as soon as possible after the recovery.

He left the surveillance car and ran towards his car in the distance. Before he got in, he saw the Fried Chicken Brothers' van driving past them at high speed on the highway not far away.

Damn it, I wasted a lot of time when giving the instructions just now. Jimmy accelerated onto the road and chased forward. Soon, the truck with the obvious Fried Chicken Brothers logo appeared in front of him.

After following them to the back of a fried chicken shop, they took a few batter buckets out of the truck and delivered them to the store. Then the truck started and left again. Jimmy looked at the truck with a frown. Was he wrong before?
I thought they would hurry up and deal with the two bodies in the truck, but now it seems that in order to ensure that no mistakes are made, they have prioritized the delivery process, at least so that other people won't notice anything unusual about them.

After visiting two stores, the truck turned and headed towards the suburbs and drove directly into the laundry factory.

Jimmy stopped far away, got out and walked to the surveillance car following behind, and asked them to try to launch a drone to see the situation inside the car wash. He drove forward slowly and soon found a clue. Several people pushed a cart to the underground laboratory. It was obvious that they planned to dispose of the body here.

Although Jimmy is not a chemistry expert, he knows that there are many strong acids that can directly dissolve corpses. Since the other party can build such a large laboratory, it will not be too difficult to do something else.

Jimmy left the laundry and called the surveillance team to ask them to continue monitoring the laundry. If they could get some video evidence later, many things would be much easier.

He can see what's happening in the underground laboratory that others can't, but all the surveillance records of the monitoring team can be used as evidence. That is to say, if they are lucky enough to get some key information, they can undoubtedly apply for a search warrant or arrest the suspect. In this regard, there is little point for Jimmy to stay here now.

A day had passed since Jimmy had discussed Walter's matter with Hank. Jimmy finally received a call from Hank, asking him to come to his house in the evening. It seemed that he had thought it through.

But when Jimmy arrived at Hank's house in the evening, he found that he was not the only one invited today. Walter's family was also there. However, seeing them smiling and chatting, it was obvious that Hank did not tell Walter about their doubts.

Hank greeted him and Jimmy came over. After saying hello to everyone, he sat on the single sofa in the living room.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Jimmy always feels that Hank has talked a lot about him intentionally or unintentionally, and even took the initiative to bring up the topic and asked him to introduce some cases he had handled before. Especially when he mentioned his nickname "Butcher", he exaggeratedly said that Jimmy had killed dozens of criminals and was a famous star detective in New York.

Jimmy did not deny these things, but he did not exaggerate them either. It was just a casual chat after all, and it would not be a big problem to let them know about some of the things the FBI handles. The FBI is not an organization like the CIA that needs to keep secrets. Many things are widely circulated, especially the frequent appearance of the FBI in movies and TV series. Mary, Skye, Walter and his son Walter Jr. were all very interested, and they took the initiative to ask whether the situations that appeared in many TV shows and movies were true.

The topic about Jimmy accounted for a large proportion of the small talk, and soon Mary stood up and asked everyone to take a seat. Everyone sat around a long dining table and continued the previous topic while eating.

After dinner, Hank called Walter and Jimmy, and the three of them came to his bedroom. "Walter, let me show you something interesting. It's on that table."

Hank motioned to Walter to go and see for himself. He sat in a wheelchair and watched Walter sit on the bed and pick up the information and photos on the bedside table. After just one look at the first photo, Walter's body stiffened with nervousness. This was a photo of his car driving into the laundry factory. The dark green SUV was too conspicuous. He had never seen a second one of the same model and color.

He didn't dare look back, his back gradually felt cold, and Jimmy and Hank just stared at Walter.

"What is this?" Walter pretended to be calm and looked through the photos Jimmy took one by one.

Hank: "Don't you want to say something?"

Walter turned his head and looked at Hank. He crossed his hands, supported his elbows on both sides of the wheelchair, and looked at Walter expressionlessly. Walter said nervously, "This is my car. Are you following me?"

Hank: "Why did you go to the laundry? What's there?"

Walter: "It's just delivering clothes that need to be cleaned. The car wash has a lot of dirty clothes that need to be cleaned every day. It's just work."

Hank just watched Walter talking nonsense. After a while, he said, "We are the only ones here. I just want the truth. I think you should be familiar with Jimmy. Don't force me to hand you over to him."

Only then did Jimmy understand why Hank had shifted the topic to himself during their previous conversation. It was obvious that he wanted to escalate the situation and use him to intimidate and threaten Walter. He did not want to give up Walter directly, otherwise he would have let Jimmy get rid of him.

Jimmy sighed, unbuttoned his suit, and revealed the FBI badge and gun on his belt. "Walter, I took those photos. I think you should think about why Hank showed you the photos."

(End of this chapter)