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Chapter 1097 Missing

At the same time that Gibbs was trying to delay the call, Jack was driving an Audi R8 speeding through the streets of Washington, DC with police lights flashing.

"Within 3352 meters of 50 Spring Street? Got it. Notify the SWAT team to meet us there."

Clay hung up the phone and stared at the morning glow in the distant sky for a long time before he slowly spoke, "Jack, I hope you can understand."

"I understand, but have you ever thought that even if we can successfully arrest Luke Dolan, we can't change what has already happened."

Jack thought he could understand Clay's thoughts. As a SEAL, it was understandable that he didn't want his comrades to die meaninglessly.

But Luke Dolan killed his parents and best friend with his own hands. Even Jack finds it hard to imagine how he would react when he wakes up and realizes the truth. Although according to Red, there is currently no corresponding medicine or treatment for this disease.

Not to mention putting himself in someone else's shoes, he wasn't even willing to make the assumption.

"I know, but what I want to say is that even if it is necessary, it should be me who does it." Clay said in a serious tone.

"You shouldn't have seal blood on your hands."

"Ah?" Jack didn't expect to get such an answer. Clay's words were a little beyond his expectations.

Clay gave him an ugly smile and said, "Your relationship with the SEALs shouldn't be strained because of this. I know Jason and his men were almost sent to Korea not long ago, but some things just don't make sense.

If things really reach a point of no return, I believe Luke would prefer to die at the hands of his own comrades."

Jack really didn't expect that Clay had been thinking about him from beginning to end, but when he thought about it carefully, it was indeed the case.

It might be okay if Luke was just an ordinary soldier, but he was a SEAL who had participated in many secret operations. If he died inexplicably at the hands of an FBI agent, it would be hard not to make some unwarranted associations.

Even if the friendship between Jack and Jason is not broken because of this, the rumors will increase and the situation of the old friends in Team B will become very awkward.

"OK, then let's try not to let this tragedy end in a more unfortunate way."

It would be a lie to say that I'm not touched, but sometimes the friendship between men does not need to be expressed in too many words.

Just like how Jack secretly used healing magic to save Clay, who was on the verge of death due to sepsis, and saved his left leg, although the SEAL was not aware of it at the time.

But later, someone used the "magical" acupuncture to save his lame leg, which the doctors asserted would never be fully recovered. For Clay, this was no less than a life-saving grace.

He had woken up from his sleep countless times, in which he had really lost one of his legs and was living a life worse than death.

Clay is always silently grateful to Jack, who cured his lameness and provided him with a job that gives him a sense of fulfillment.

As they were talking, the Audi R8 came out of the alley and stopped in front of an open space surrounded by barbed wire.

"Alice, this is an empty area, we need more precise guidance." Jack made a phone call immediately after getting off the car. "Sorry, I'm retrieving more accurate satellite images. Can you tell me directly about the buildings you see around you? You should be looking for an old building with thicker walls.

Only buildings like that could block GPS signals, causing positioning errors. "Besides Alice's deliberately low voice, there was also the crisp tapping sound of a mechanical keyboard.

"Hmm." Jack and Clay looked to both sides. The former SEAL who was putting on a bulletproof vest was the first to discover it. "To the southeast, there is an old five-story building."

Alice's voice suddenly became excited. "It's right there. It's a hotel built in 1928. It's now abandoned."

The two got back in the car, and Jack didn't hang up the phone, but continued to ask, "How is the communication between Agent Gibbs and Luke Dolan going?"

Alice didn't answer, and after a moment Jubal's voice was replaced by hers.

"The call continued, and as we expected, Luke's request was for the authorities to hand over his family. He believed he was being hunted, and no matter how Agent Gibbs explained, he would not listen.

As for General Milgram, he was the one who ordered the elimination of all witnesses during Operation Drado Falls, and who ordered Luke to shoot and kill the two children."

This was more or less a retribution, Jack complained in his mind, and he had no comment on the elimination of witnesses in covert operations.

Regardless of whether the action itself was just, the Navy SEALs once let three shepherds go during Operation Red Wings because of a momentary weakness, resulting in the tragic consequence of 19 deaths.

Before that, during the first Operation Desert Storm, the Green Berets were surrounded by heavy troops and almost wiped out because they let an Iraqi boy go.

Putting aside the stance of aggressive war and the like, from the Americans' own standpoint, even if the details of Operation Drado Falls were leaked to the media, Luke Dolan personally had no merits and no faults.

But as the saying goes, if you don't do bad deeds in your life, you don't have to be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night. It was precisely because the former Navy SEAL felt guilty about killing two innocent children with his own hands that he overreacted after suffering from "Capgras delusion".

This also has some flavor of cause and effect.

Jack and Clay put on their communicators and rushed into the abandoned hotel without waiting for the SWAT team to arrive. The call between Gibbs and Luke was disconnected 3 minutes ago, and the situation was extremely urgent.

There were no bombs, no traps, and no Luke Dolan. The two found General Milgram and his cell phone unconscious in a room on the second floor of the hotel.

"What's going on here? Where did Luke Dolan go? Why did he give up his 'chips' so easily?"

After Jack and Clay confirmed that the general was safe and sound, but had just been frightened, everyone who stayed in NCIS fell into confusion, and Jubal was even unable to move a pencil.

Gibbs's expression looked better. To him, if the Navy really lost a lieutenant admiral because of something like this, even if it was just a retired lieutenant admiral, it would be a huge scandal.

But just like the story of the thrown boot, although the general was found, the culprit who caused all this is still missing. It's like the second boot that has never been thrown, which makes people even more uneasy.