Chapter 842 Highway chase with ASP

Jack's thoughts were not so pessimistic. "Rourke should not be completely crazy yet. He obviously has a predetermined target. Don't forget the package of drugs he took from the safe of the district attorney's office. That was a sample of extremely high purity."

"Do you mean he might choose assassination?" Jubal's eyes were thoughtful. It was mentioned before that drugs can not only be used to get high, but also to kill people. High-purity phenolphthalein only needs two milligrams to kill people.

There was an extreme case in which a drug smuggling ship dropped a large amount of high-purity phenolphthalein during the pursuit of the Coast Guard. As a result, it was washed onto the beach by the waves. After the packaging was damaged, the entire beach was covered with this dangerous substance.

Uninformed tourists just walked across the beach, and the soles of their feet scratched by shells came into contact with high-purity phenolphthalein, and they lost their lives directly.

"If he still has a target, maybe Samuel Gray knows something." Jubal threw the car keys to Aubrey and signaled him to be the driver.

So everyone split up, leaving Alice to rest in the hotel, and Jack took the rest of the group in two cars. After contacting ASP, they went to Mount Crist together.

As the Arkansas State Police, ASP is not only a highway policeman who chases people fiercely, but also has a criminal investigation department, but it is not as famous as their colleagues who drive Dodge "Charger" on the Internet.

When the FBI arrived, several detectives in plain clothes were leading several teams of police officers, cooperating with the police force of the local sheriff's office, and asking about the situation door to door.

It can be seen that these residents have a good attitude towards the local sheriff, and some even opened the door and invited people in.

"Our people found the Dolangge 'TAHOE'! It's in the backyard of a family." The sheriff wearing a cowboy hat put down the walkie-talkie and waved to the FBI.

The detectives of ASP were no less capable than their colleagues in the highway department. When Jack and his men drove behind the sheriff's car and arrived at the house he mentioned, the search was completed in one go.

"We found a body in the house!" A sheriff's assistant trotted to his superior to report.

A few minutes later, the sheriff looked at the body lying in the living room and sucked his teeth, "I know this guy, his name is Chip or something, this is his house."

The deceased was a white man in his early fifties, wearing glasses, his beard was a little gray, his head was completely bald, he was shot several times in the chest, and the carpet under him was completely stained red with blood.

Seeing that there were several bullet holes on the carpet next to the body, Clay and Hannah put on gloves, lifted the carpet next to the dead man, and picked out a bullet from the wooden floor.

".22 LR pistol bullet, it should be Rourke who did it." Clay recognized the bullet model at a glance.

"What does Chip do? Is he related to the Forrest Court or Rourke?" Jiejie asked the local sheriff.

The sheriff shook his head repeatedly, "I don't know. He's just an ordinary person, very quiet, and seems to work in a medical company."

"Here's his driver's license." Jack handed a wallet on the cabinet at the door to Hannah, who was holding a tablet.

"Chip Fox, 52 years old, divorced twice, single with no criminal record, works as a technician in a medical laboratory called "Health Promotion."

Hannah quickly found the information and looked a little puzzled, "Why did Rourke kill him?"

"I don't know, search for any information about him on the Internet, and check his social accounts." Jack said and took out his phone.

Jubal and Aubrey have also caught the hacker named Samuel Gray. According to the boy's account, Rourke had threatened to reject his probation and asked him to hack into the server of the Court of Appeal and get all the "JNE" questionnaire information.

This is consistent with what the FBI speculated, but the hacker also confessed one thing. Just yesterday afternoon, Rourke found him again and asked him to hack into the "Health Promotion" medical laboratory to find the company's employee list.

"What exactly does he want to do?" Jubal was a little confused when he heard Jack say that a dead person was just found to be an employee of this medical laboratory.

From the information, the medical laboratory named "Health Promotion" is just an ordinary medical institution that provides some common disease testing services and does not store any highly dangerous pathogens.

And Chip Fox is just an ordinary technician, and his job is similar to that of a male nurse in a hospital. Jubal really can't think of the reason why Rourke attacked him.

"Jack, I may have found something." Hannah handed the tablet in her hand to Jack, and the others also gathered around.

"There is a report on the local news website, which is also the only relevant information about the name Chip Fox that can be searched in public channels. It says that he personally tested Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders for influenza at St. Michael's Hospital in Little Rock last week."

"Governor? Do you mean Chip Fox can contact the governor?" Jubal on the other end of the phone was a little confused.

As a Republican stronghold, Arkansas has also produced many famous Democratic politicians, such as Zipton, but since the 1970s, the state legislature has basically been controlled by the Republicans.

The current governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is from a local old political family. She is just in her early 40s this year and has served as a press spokesperson in the White House for several years.

Of course, the pressure on the big golden retriever to be a spokesperson can be imagined. Two years later, Sanders resigned in the name of taking care of the family.

After leaving office, she returned to Arkansas, and while taking care of the family, she also participated in the gubernatorial election. She became the first female governor in the state's history, and her resume is even more dazzling than Zoe.

Of course, if Zoe can really successfully obtain a seat in the Senate before the age of 40, that would be another matter.

"As governor, Sanders has the right to select judges of the state appellate court, so it is not surprising that she will become Rourke's target of venting anger, but the question is what he plans to do?"

It feels like the answer is about to come out, but Jubal can't figure out how Rourke plans to approach the heavily guarded governor's wife around him. This is much more difficult than rushing into the school with an automatic weapon.

"Of course, pretend to be Chip Fox." Jack pulled up a photo of Rourke on the tablet, covering his chin and sparse hair on his forehead.

Hannah opened her mouth without any image. "Aha, as long as they shave their heads and wear masks and glasses, even acquaintances would find it difficult to tell them apart, right? Rourke is not very good at being a judge, so why is he so skilled in planning such things?"

"Perhaps this is the few experiences he has gained in his long career as a grassroots judge."

Jack complained rather venomously. Some people are like this. They can't do any serious work, but they are very good at doing bad things.

"Jubal, contact the governor's office immediately and ask them if the governor wants to do a nasal swab test for influenza today. Rourke only needs to sprinkle a sufficient dose of phenolphthalein powder on the cotton swab to kill her in a few minutes."

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The wind was whistling, and the scenery on both sides of the highway disappeared on both sides of the car window at a speed that was almost indistinguishable to the naked eye. Clay held the seat belt with one hand and the handle above the car window with the other hand, and his nervous eyes dared not blink.

"Jack, I think with those ASPs here, Rourke shouldn't be able to escape."

No one would believe it if I told them that an elite special forces soldier who had undergone rigorous training and could jump down from a height of 10,000 meters without changing his expression was actually frightened by two consecutive rapid turns.

After all, when playing HALO (high jump and low opening), the parachute rope is held in one's hand, and when Jack was turning continuously at a speed of 220 kilometers per hour, he could only sit passively in the passenger seat and let the past experience run in front of his eyes.

"But they are behind us now." Jack glanced at the rearview mirror and said in a light tone.

Behind the Dodge "Charger" police car they "robbed", there was also a line of ASP "Chargers" of the same model with flashing police lights and sirens, and they seemed to be extremely resentful of being robbed of the limelight.

Clay looked suspiciously at the Ford F150 driven by the suspect Rourke in front of him, and then turned his head to look at the rearview mirror on the right. He was surprised to find that just as the marquee in front of him was running, Jack had overtaken two consecutive curves without slowing down and caught up with all the ASP police cars.

Time went back to ten minutes ago.

The governor of Arkansas originally had a charity fundraising dinner tonight. In order to attend the dinner, she had to take time out of her busy schedule to go to St. Michael's Hospital for a nasal swab test accompanied by her bodyguard.

Don't be "deceived" by the poor performance of the Americans in a global epidemic on another world line. The upper class people are usually more cherishing their lives.

Attending social gatherings with test reports is normal operation. It doesn't matter whether to wear a mask or not, but as long as everyone present has been tested and confirmed to be fine, the chance of infection will be greatly reduced.

Jubal's call was very timely. When the secretary of the governor's office contacted the female governor, her bulletproof SUV had just entered the hospital parking lot.

The nasal swab test site was in the parking lot. The bodyguard who received the warning immediately raised the car window, turned the steering wheel and drove away from the scene quickly.

At the same time, Rourke, who was wearing a blue isolation suit and a mask and holding a poison swab, was about to step forward, but was almost run over by the governor's bulletproof SUV.

The former judge, who sensed something was wrong, reacted very quickly, tore off his isolation suit, and ran all the way with agility that was extremely inconsistent with his age, rushing to the Ford Raptor pickup truck that was parked not far away in advance.

This car was stolen from Chip Fox's house, including the hospital parking pass in the car and the ID card on his chest. These were the key to his successful replacement and approaching the governor to poison him.