North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 817: Escape? Give up!

Skye had no idea why Walter was so impatient, so she asked nervously, "What did you say? Didn't the FBI come to help Hank?"

Walter didn't answer, but waved his hand anxiously to let Skye open the hole. He tried hard to push a bag out of the hole, and then reached for the second one. At this moment, the voice of little Walter came, "Wait, I'll open the door."

Walter and Skye quickly stopped their actions and listened carefully to the sounds outside.

Little Walter came to the door with his cane and opened it, "Hey, Agent Yang, how do you know our family? What's the matter?"

Jimmy smiled and said, "Hi, Little Walter, I'm here to see your father, Mr. White. Can you call him for me?"

Little Walter had just met Jimmy at his uncle Hank's house. He knew they were good friends, so he was not wary. "Of course, come in."

Making way for Jimmy to enter, Walter Jr. walked toward his parents' bedroom and shouted, "Dad! Dad! Agent Yang is here, looking for you."

Jimmy also spoke up: "Mr. White, I am FBI agent Jimmy Young. Please come up and meet me first. We need to talk."

When Jimmy left Hank's house, he did not go back to the hotel directly to rest. Instead, he drove away for a while and immediately returned to the road he had to take to leave Hank's house.

He believed that part of what Walter said just now was true, and even a large part of it was true. After all, Hank didn't seem to doubt it, which was obviously in line with Hank's consistent impression and reasoning. But Jimmy didn't believe that everything Walter said was true. For drug dealers, it is necessary to prepare a way out. Even if Walter was only a drug maker who had joined the drug dealers for a few months, the people and environment he came into contact with determined that he must have considered what to do after being discovered.

Walter lied to Hank for months, and now Hank can speak for him just by telling him some real situations. His brain must be very good. Although the scene where he is found now is definitely not what he expected, if he can leave Hank's house, he will definitely take action.

In fact, Jimmy was right. After Walter left Hank's house, he only drove normally for a short distance and then accelerated home. Fortunately, his anti-detection ability was relatively poor, and Jimmy followed him to the outside of his house. Walter ran into the house in a hurry and didn't even see Jimmy's car behind him stopped following them.

Originally, Jimmy planned to wait and see. He wanted to judge whether his family knew about him based on Walter's actions, but when Walter crawled under the house, he knew he had to take action.

Little Walter, leaning on a cane, was sitting in the living room with his newborn girl Holly in the cradle. While Mr. and Mrs. Walter were talking in the bedroom until Walter came downstairs to the house, it was obvious that Skye did not cooperate with Walter in packing up his things, and her actions almost showed that she was confused. Perhaps she had no idea what Walter had done.

Jimmy has to assess Walter, who has already joined the drug dealer team, from the worst perspective. The bag he put under the house must have his backup plan, which may be cash and fake ID documents. In order to escape, he might attack Skye who has discovered his abnormal behavior, and he may even attack the child. If Jimmy does not take action, it will be too late to stop him when he really takes action.

Little Walter shouted twice, and seeing Jimmy shouting beside him, he shrugged and made way. It was inconvenient for him to move, and since Jimmy shouted like that, Mr. and Mrs. Walter would definitely come out.

Walter originally gestured with his hand to Skye to go out first, but when Jimmy told him to come up first, everyone was shocked. Skye also looked at Walter below in surprise, not knowing why Jimmy said that.

Walter reached out and grabbed the bag placed at the entrance of the hole and dragged it to the ground. He climbed up himself, closed the secret door simply, and immediately opened the bathroom door and walked out.

He looked at Jimmy with a smile on his face, and said as he walked over: "Hey, Jimmy, why are you here? Is there anything else? I was just about to take a shower."

Jimmy also smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Walter's hand, "Just now I remembered that there are some things, so I came to confirm with you, is it convenient? Let's go out and talk."

Walter: "Oh, it seems you are really anxious, let's go out and talk. Skye, I'll go out for a while and come back soon."

He shouted in the direction of the bathroom at the back and then motioned for Jimmy to leave with him.

After closing the door casually, the smile on Walter's face disappeared. Jimmy continued to walk forward and came to his car, "Get in."

Walter hesitated for a while, then reached out to open the car door and sat in the passenger seat. Jimmy drove away from Walter's house and came to a small park nearby. There was no one there, so it was quieter and safer.

Walter: "What do you want to do?"

Jimmy: "I should be the one asking you this. Hank asked you to take your family away from his house, so you were planning to run away alone? Don't make excuses. The bag you put under the house is not hard to find."

Walter looked at Jimmy in horror: "You installed surveillance in my house?"

Jimmy: "Oh, you think too much. You don't need to install surveillance cameras in your house. You are not that important. Do Skye and the others know about you?"

Walter was silent for a while, then shook his head: “No, they don’t know anything. They only know that I made a lot of money from gambling. My medical expenses and the car wash were bought with this money. The shop is enough for them to live a normal life after I die.”

Jimmy: "So you plan to go alone? How long can you live? I think you should be very clear about the meaning of advanced lung cancer for a genius scientist. If you flee under the name of drug dealer, Skye and the others will definitely be monitored and investigated for many years. You are not protecting them, but framing them."

Walter's straight body relaxed, and he leaned back in his seat and looked at Jimmy. "I just want to protect them. I can't be caught. Gus will do something to them."

Jimmy: "You know that we FBI can apply for the witness protection program. Tell me, I know you lied to Hank, and I need to know the truth before I can decide how to deal with you. Don't worry, I didn't record it."

After thinking for a while, Walter whispered, "I need two witness protection plans. In addition to our family, I also need you to prepare one for Jesse."

Jimmy nodded: "As long as the content you provide is valuable enough."

Walter seemed much more honest this time. Although Jimmy didn't know how much he had hidden, he at least corrected several things he said at Hank's house.

Gus' team hid many aspects of the drug trafficking operation from Walter. He was positioned as a supplier from the very beginning of his cooperation with Gus. Later, he directly joined Gus' team and used the underground laboratory provided by Gus for mass production. He went from supplying drugs at a small cost to a partner who shared the salary.

However, Gus has never trusted Walter, and has found several waves of people to replace Walter, but Walter and Jesse basically avoided the crisis of being replaced. The same was true of Gail's death this time. At that time, Walter had been taken to the laboratory by Gus's men Mike and Victor who were planning to kill him. Jesse acted in time to kill Gail, and successfully allowed both of them to survive.

However, Walter also provided a piece of information. Two of Gus's men were shot and their bodies were sent to the laboratory for processing. Obviously, something went wrong on their side.

Jimmy nodded. "I know. Those two people were shot at the chicken farm. The attacker escaped very quickly and we were not able to catch him. We are not sure who did it yet."

Walter looked at Jimmy in horror. Is the FBI so powerful? Why does it seem like they know everything? He knew that Jimmy had only been in Albuquerque for less than a month, and he had already figured out the personnel and operation mode of the Gus gang. Walter only learned about Jimmy's investigation tonight and had not discovered anything before.

Jimmy: "So the source of everything is Gus. He should be the biggest boss of the Mexican cartel in Albuquerque. Anything else to say?"

Walter shook his head. He even told the story of Jesse. There were many things that could not be avoided. The reason why Hank was suspended was because of Jesse, and the reason why he beat Jesse was because he followed Jesse to the RV. He had no way of breaking off contact with Jesse after confessing the previous crimes, and could only try his best to protect Jesse.

Jimmy reached out and turned the key to start the car. He stopped outside Walter's house and turned to look at Walter: "Don't think about running away. Little Walter is in poor health and little Holly is still too young. It is most important to spend the last period of your life with them."

Walter glanced at Jimmy, opened the car door and walked straight towards home, and Jimmy also started to leave.

Outside Gus's house, Jimmy frowned as he looked at the white house in the distance. Gus's house was connected to the house next door by a tunnel, and the surveillance personnel arranged by the DEA had never mentioned it before. They were just monitoring and tracking Gus's comings and goings from outside.

He even has an escape tunnel in his house. It seems that this guy really has no sense of security.

Jimmy looked at a man in the house who was processing documents behind a desk. It should be Gus. There was no one else in the house. Gus had no family members listed in the information registration. He must not even have hired a live-in nanny. But that was normal. After all, he was a drug dealer. If he hadn't been so cautious, he might have been exposed long ago.

But the house next door was different. There were three people inside. One of them was sitting in front of a monitoring desk. You could roughly tell what was going on just by looking at the many square-shaped display-like things in front of him. The other two had already gone to the window, observing Jimmy's car from the side.

It wouldn't be a good idea to just leave like this, Jimmy thought about it and decided to say hello to them.

He pulled out one of his business cards, got out and waved toward the house next to Gus's. When he saw them turning their heads and saying something behind the window, they obviously noticed him. He gestured and put the business card on the sidewalk and drove away.

Seeing Jimmy leave, the two people near the window looked at each other, went to where Jimmy parked his car, picked up the business card, and immediately returned to the house to inform Gus.

Gus walked through the tunnel to the next door house, picked up Jimmy's business card, asked about the situation expressionlessly, and then returned to his study.

Things have been going badly for him recently. The two killers from Salamanca were bewitched by him to attack Hank, but they failed. Bolsa, who was behind the scenes, became suspicious of his actions and was killed by Gus using the Mexican special police.

He tried to control the channels himself and stop cooperating with the cartel. The cartel boss Eladio also took action against him, attacking the transport trucks several times in a row and throwing his blue methamphetamine directly to the gangsters in Albuquerque. It was obviously not to take his goods, but to force him to return to the organization and continue to cooperate. The chicken farm was attacked and two of his men were killed. It was them who did it.

Now FBI agent Jimmy Young, who was supposed to be keeping an eye on the Eladio and Salamanca cartel groups, has also been targeting him, and the previous operation to divert Jimmy's target seems to have completely failed.

Gus looked at his watch and called Mike, who soon arrived at Gus's house.

Mike was also surprised to see Jimmy's business card in Gus's hand. Jimmy had been changing cars and license plates during this period, and they were unable to track him normally. Obviously, they didn't know how much Jimmy had investigated, but they had already obtained the information about Jimmy. No one could completely ignore being targeted by such a person.

Mike told Gus the contents of Jimmy's file again. Even if he was just repeating the file, Mike still looked very ugly. There was no doubt that this was one of the most difficult people they had to deal with.

Gus: "Take that guy with you tomorrow, we need to go to Mexico."

Mike: "What about Jimmy? He must have left his business card to do something."

Gus: "I'll take care of it, go inform Jesse."

Mike nodded and left Gus's house.

Gus looked at the business card on the table and reviewed his plan in his mind. It was time to settle the feud with Mexico, even though now was not the best opportunity. If he succeeded, many things would be easy to handle. If he failed, there would be no need to consider what happened next.

People like Gus are used to preparing everything before taking action, but their work style is too steady. It is difficult to open up a channel without special unexpected events. Although Jimmy's investigation has almost figured out the logic and plan of Gus and his team's actions, there is no way to obtain the corresponding evidence legally, which will seriously waste his time.

As the case was investigated, Jimmy missed Nia and little Liam more and more. Although he would take time to chat with them on the phone every day, he would definitely not feel more at ease when he was with them in person. If he wanted to resolve the issue here as soon as possible, he would definitely have to provoke Gus to make him reveal his flaws.

(End of this chapter)