Chapter 906: A Special Route to France

"Buy time? Buy time for what? Why do we need to buy time?"

Cassel was a little confused about the situation. He was holding the photo sent by the kidnappers of three girls holding the Parisian newspaper and his eyes were filled with tears. When he heard Jack say that he couldn't believe that the kidnappers would release the girls, he suddenly became anxious.

"It buys us time to get to Paris," Jack said calmly.

Whoever left the note for him, judging by the way he tortured Roger Hansen, he must have a background in covert operations.

In other words, could a kidnapping case involving secret agents be an ordinary kidnapping and ransom case?

Perhaps it was because Jack was forced to rest this morning that it had some effect, or perhaps it was because of the continuous stimulation of extreme joy and sorrow that Cassel finally recovered some of his IQ.

After a moment of silence, he looked up again, his eyes clearer, "I'll contact those friends who have private jets right away."

Unexpectedly, Jack smiled mysteriously and said, "No, we'll take a transport plane."

Since the TU-144 and Concorde were retired from the stage of history, humans have never had a supersonic passenger plane. The fastest flight time from New York to Paris has degenerated from the original 3 hours and 20 minutes to the current 8 hours.

Even if you take a military transport plane, you cannot effectively shorten this time, because transport planes are not much faster than civil airliners. The most you can do is eliminate the time waiting for the flight and the cumbersome customs clearance process.

Unless Jack could get a two-seat supersonic fighter, stuff Cassel into the ammunition bay or hang him on a missile rack, and then fly over Paris and parachute out, they would have a chance of arriving within the three hours required by the kidnappers.

Jack didn't plan to reach Paris within three hours, nor did he plan to enter France through normal channels, although Rossi gave the Wanted Criminals Team a status similar to that of an international department, which could handle cases across borders and hunt down international wanted criminals.

They had gone to South Korea before on a whim, and even took a military transport plane to save time, but the problem was that they were now going to France, one of the five major gangsters in the United Nations.

Even when handling cases in a semi-colony like South Korea, the FBI would first go through the normal communication process with the embassy and South Korean officials.

Compared with the great powers in the universe, France is, after all, a relatively normal developed country in Europe.

Even though the relationship between the United States and France is quite close to some extent, the FBI often enters France in the name of assisting in anti-terrorism. However, if you follow the normal process step by step, it will take at least one or two days.

Although this world has been adapted into a film or TV series, the underlying logic still follows the logic of the real world. Therefore, even though he was in Korea before, Jack could only try to keep a low profile.

If he raises his fists to beat people up together with God Ma Dong-seok, even if he beats all the gangsters into paralysis, the South Korean side will try hard to help cover it up. However, in ordinary cases, once he fires a gun in an official capacity and attracts public attention, even a dog will bark when it is anxious.

Besides, even if Jack went to France in an official capacity, he would probably only be able to watch and assist in the investigation and would not be able to participate in person.

So can they trust the French police's ability to handle cases?

Sorry, let's not talk about the thieves and robbers everywhere in Paris today. Just the poor response ability of the Paris police in the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in the center of Paris in 15 is enough to make people feel despair.

There was no hope of going through the normal route, and Jack had no plans to enter France with his real identity, because he was sure to bring Cassel and Brian with him.

Jack was deeply impressed by the movie "Taken". Even though many details were blurred, he never forgot the general plot of Brian fighting his way through the Albanian gang and finally rescuing his daughter from the human trafficking organization.

Although the plot has now changed beyond all recognition and an unidentified guy has appeared, judging from his style of doing things, he is obviously a troublemaker who is no less troublesome than Brian.

If Jack gets involved as an FBI agent, he might have trouble going to France or even other European countries.

Fortunately, in addition to Europe, there is a military organization called NATO in the world today. Although the United States has no troops stationed in France, it has another military presence called temporary deployment.

The good relationship that Jack maintained with the Joint Special Operations Command came in handy at this time. Six hours later, a C-6 Globemaster transport plane landed at the Renessens Air Force Base in Metz, Lorraine, eastern France.

Jack, wearing a military uniform and sunglasses, with most of his face covered by a fake beard, walked off the plane, followed by Cassel and Brian, who were dressed similarly.

As Jack expected, three hours ago, the kidnappers who received a ransom of 1500 million euros only released Sarah Elmasri, and Alexis and Kim did not show up at the scene of ransom delivery.

According to Sarah, who was rescued, she was drugged almost the entire time and was in a drowsy state. After waking up, the three girls were unaware that they were actually in Paris until they were forced to take photos holding newspapers.

However, Sarah still provided some clues, such as that their kidnappers had been communicating in Arabic.

In addition, the time from when she was separated from the other two girls to when she was taken alone to the ransom payment site should not have been more than an hour, which also proves that Alexis and Kim should have been in Paris at this time.

"They are just doing it for the ransom, right? Why don't they release the three girls together?" Cassel asked anxiously behind Jack.

When he heard the news on the plane, he almost went crazy and was extremely excited until he was hit by Brian's hand.

It wasn't because he had learned a lesson, he was simply knocked unconscious and didn't wake up until the C-17 landed.

Brian was not as calm as before, and his mood was obviously more depressed. He kept fiddling with the pistol that Clay helped him get, a "Viper" SR-1MP.

"If you think about it from a bad perspective, Alexis and Kim are bargaining chips in this kidnapping case, used to ensure that the kidnappers can successfully complete the ransom delivery.

On the bright side, maybe Sarah wasn’t really the target all along.”

Led by a sergeant into the dormitory area, Jack took out three sets of casual clothes from his bag and motioned for them to change into them.

"What do you mean?" Cassel grabbed Jack and wanted him to explain clearly. Even Brian looked at him puzzledly, as he also failed to understand the logic.

"If it's the former, it means the two girls are worthless and can be disposed of at will, so I hope it's the latter. The other party's use of Sarah to extort ransom is just a cover, and the real target is one of Alexis and Kim, or both."

Jack changed his clothes quickly and urged Cassel not to waste time.

"I contacted some old friends and didn't receive any clear threatening information." Brian couldn't help but frowned.

Cassel is just an ordinary best-selling author. According to his recollections over the past two days, his closest contact with the words "spy" and "agent" was probably when he went to the CIA headquarters in Langley to do some research in order to write a book.

"Is it possible that there are some fish that slipped through the net, such as a child who was spared because of your leniency, but now grew up to become the leader of a terrorist organization and came to seek revenge on you?" A writer began to use his imagination.