Chapter 909 Clues and more questions

"It must be here, they must have been here before." Cassell muttered to himself, staring at the ceiling of the corridor.

Although the church does not ring bells at night, through the sound-absorbing panels on the ceiling, the sound of the fans of the large commercial exhaust system installed on the roof of the building and connected to the restaurant downstairs can still be vaguely heard.

"Here." Brian opened a door and noticed something strange, and snapped his fingers at the two of them.

Different from the slightly outdated layout of the original guest rooms on both sides of the corridor, this room is completely open, without any partitions or windows. It looks like a large container.

The walls were covered with corrugated soundproofing panels. Jack walked into the room and found that the floor had sunk slightly, and it should have been filled with soundproofing cotton or something like that.

He raised his hand and patted the wall. He could guarantee that even if a shock bomb was thrown inside, as long as the door with a mezzanine was closed, there would not be much noise outside.

There were two single beds in the room. Cassell quickly stepped forward and twisted a piece of reddish blond hair from the pillow, and murmured, "They were locked up here before."

Jack sniffed. He didn't know if Kim used perfume, but he was very familiar with the smell of toilet water. Alexis had pestered Hannah to buy several bottles.

Brian looked at the two single beds in the room with an inexplicable look in his eyes.

There were really more and more doubts, and Jack's eyes stayed on a wired telephone placed on the floor in the middle of the room. There was something wrong with this thing placed here.

"Is the phone connected?" Cassel picked up the receiver and heard the beeping clearly, feeling unbelievable.

"They knew we would find this place." Brian said solemnly, looking at Jack at the same time.

The latter let out a soft "shh", turned the flashlight and carefully observed the surroundings of the room, and finally stopped at a slightly raised place on the wall. Compared with the surrounding soundproof panels, this place looked a bit awkward.

Brian walked to where Jack's light was shining and used a knife to cut a layer of wallpaper on the soundproof panel, revealing the bug underneath.

"Why?" Cassel asked silently with slightly exaggerated lip language.

Jack did not answer his question. He walked up to the bug and deliberately imitated Brian's hoarse voice and said, "Hello? Stupid pig? Mahaba?"

After greeting each other in three languages, he switched back to English, "No matter who is listening on the other side, we just want to declare one thing. You have got the money you want. Those two girls are very important to you." Has lost value.

Since you left a phone here, indicating that you are waiting for someone to find this place, please contact us and state your conditions. We are the fathers of the two girls who were kidnapped by you.

We came to Paris privately, there were no police, and we didn't care about other legal issues. We just wanted our daughter back. "

Before Jack finished speaking, the ringtone rang in the room. Cassel couldn't wait to answer the phone, "Hello?"

"Tomorrow at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the woods outside the Palace of Fontainebleau. The specific coordinates are as follows: 5 million euros. Only two of you are allowed to come. As long as we find a third person, those two girls will be dead."

After the other party finished speaking in English with a strong Arabic accent, he hung up the phone.

Before Cassel could say anything, Jack covered his mouth and dragged him out of the room.

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"This place has long been set up as a detention center, but only two beds were placed, indicating that they probably only planned to kidnap two people at the beginning. Only one of the three girls appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time. "

The three returned to the hotel and entered the room, and Brian finally spoke to break the silence.

"Instead of installing network surveillance probes that could easily expose the location like before, they used bugs connected to phone lines. The phone is also a wired phone. It is impossible to track it without advance preparation."

Jack's implication was that they had been lured to Paris on purpose.

"What is going on?" Cassel sat on the edge of the bed and pulled his hair in pain. "It's a bug and an anti-tracking device, so are we actually dealing with a bunch of intelligence agents?"

"Are you sure you are not involved in any espionage incident?" Brian squatted in front of him and asked seriously.

Cassel's eyes widened and he didn't understand how the guy in front of him dared to knock him down. "Of course not. Shouldn't you be the only person here who can have anything to do with spies?"

Brian shook his head and said nothing, but Jack answered for him, "If the other party is going for Brian, there is no need to go to such trouble, his confidentiality level is not that high, and he has been staying with his family since he retired. "

"Think about it with your clever detective writer mind. If you were to deal with Brian, would you need to go to such trouble?"

"Of course not. Even if you want to kidnap Kim and lure him away from the United States to an unfamiliar area for easy access, there is no need to kidnap other people.

The 15 million euros that those guys extorted from Sara's parents was just a cover, and the same was true for the 5 million euros just now. They just wanted to lure people to Paris for other purposes."

Cassel suddenly got stuck as he spoke, his eyes widening wider and wider, "So, their real target is neither Sara nor Kim, but actually Alexis?"

"This seems to be the only answer after removing all the impossibilities." Jack had a headache. He swore that there was absolutely no plot about Alexis being kidnapped in the first three seasons of "Castle" that he watched.

In the fourth season, he followed "Person of Interest" and basically skipped through the following seasons. There was a plot about time travel that was impressive, but he really had no memory of Alexis being kidnapped.

"But I'm nothing! Alexis has nothing to do with spies, and..." Cassel became less and less confident the more he spoke, and fell into self-doubt for a while.

A ringing cell phone broke the stagnant air in the room. Cassel and Brian looked at Jack at the same time. In order to prevent being followed and exposing their identities, they did not bring their cell phones on this trip. Only Jack brought two, one was his own FBI cell phone, and the other was left by a mysterious person.

It was Jack's FBI cell phone that rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Beckett calling, so he turned on the speakerphone directly.

The policewoman found out two things. She found Roger Hansen's girlfriend and learned from her where the guy lived. The FBI searched a computer there and found many photos taken while tracking Alexis on the hard drive.

She also contacted Sera's mother privately. Sera is now being escorted back to New York, but the mother and daughter talked about many things in private.

According to Sarah's crying, during the kidnapping, two Arab women checked the bodies of the three girls at the request of the kidnappers, which was extremely private.

After hanging up the phone, Jack and the two fathers looked at each other.