Chapter 403: Another fatal turn?
For some well-known reasons, almost everyone knows the story of a certain red empire that has dissipated. It used nuclear bombs to open reservoirs and put out fires in oil wells.
But what is less known is that on the other side of the ocean, another big country in the Cold War tried to use "peaceful" atomic energy earlier than the Red Empire.
In July 1962, the federal government conducted the "Satan Experiment" deep in the Nevada desert, detonating a 1.04-kiloton nuclear bomb.
However, due to the configuration of the hydrogen bomb, 30% of the explosive yield of this nuclear bomb was caused by fission. The fission reaction produced huge radiation pollution and radioactive dust drifted all the way from the west to New York on the east coast.
A total of approximately 13 million people in the Federation have been exposed to more or less radiation contamination, and the decay period of radioactive materials produced by fission lasts for decades.
This experiment is part of the "Plowshare Project". As you can tell from the name, this plan is to use the huge power of nuclear bomb blasts to carry out a series of infrastructure projects.
Including, "Experiments using nuclear explosion stimulation to extract natural gas from dense geological structures that are currently unavailable."
Afterwards, several similar nuclear explosions were carried out in New Mexico and Colorado, but they were eventually abandoned because the extracted natural gas contained "unacceptable" radioactivity.
The "Clark Proving Ground" Hotchner mentioned was once one of the "Plowshare Project" nuclear bomb testing sites in Colorado, and the green glass crystal was the product of those nuclear explosion experiments.
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“Jeremy Andrews’ father is Manard Andrews. His wife and daughter died of illness more than 30 years ago. He also moved away with his son who was less than eight years old after going bankrupt.
After that, the whereabouts of the father and son were unknown until Jeremy came of age. Records show that he attended a vocational school in Grand Junction for three years when he was 18, and has lived in the city since then. Nucla."
Garcia sent the information she had just investigated, which verified the previous profiles of the BAU.
"The 'Clark Proving Ground' is located in northwest Colorado, near the state line of Wyoming. If he really goes there, he must pass Highway 13."
Reed quickly pulled out a map, drew a shortest route on it, and then notified Garcia to call up traffic surveillance along the way to try to find traces of the white van.
Female reporter Katrina Townsley regained some consciousness under the care of Jiejie and Emily. She admitted that she was forced to beat Gil Moss under the threat of Jeremy. Telephone.
But she didn’t know what happened after that. After Jeremy kidnapped Gil Moss, he began to torture the two of them in turn until she lost consciousness from the continuous strong electric shock.
An ambulance arrived belatedly and took the bruised female reporter to the hospital. The local Sheriff's Office sent two police cars and several police officers temporarily took over the scene.
The BAU people continued on the road, heading north.
Their current location is almost in the southernmost part of Colorado. If you only look at the straight-line distance, the distance from Jeremy's "hometown" is only over 300 kilometers.
The problem is that this is not the journey that Jack once took across the east and west. The road goes straight west, and it takes a long time to move the steering wheel to keep in the lane.
You have to travel through the Rocky Mountains almost all the way from south to north. The actual distance has nearly doubled, and it is extremely difficult to travel. In four hours, the two cars only covered half of the distance.
The mobile phone signal was intermittent along the way. Fortunately, this time Reid brought a satellite phone. Before 10 o'clock in the evening, Garcia sent a good news.
She used image recognition to find the white van belonging to Jeremy in the pitiful traffic surveillance videos in the towns along the way.
Rossi guessed it right. This guy really planned to take his prey back to his childhood "nest" and "enjoy" it slowly.
Tonight is a moonless night. The dark night has completely obscured the originally magnificent scenery of the Rocky Mountains. A large SUV and a pickup truck are driving quietly on a poorly maintained road. .
Jack's co-pilot was Rosie, and Jie Jie was sitting behind him. Rhett and Emily were in Hotchner's Saab driving the road. Through the radio, everyone chatted from time to time. Gradually everyone started to feel sleepy.
Everyone is not very interested. This case is probably the most unsatisfactory one since the team was established. If Jack hadn't caught it right, everyone would still be kept in the dark at this moment.
Emily originally had a good impression of Gil Moss deep down in her heart, but of course that was only before she contacted the media on her own initiative. Although it is not to the extent of "girlshelpgirls", as a female agent, she understands how difficult it is for a woman to make a difference in a male-dominated workplace environment such as the FBI.
It is different from that Eastern country that experienced a thorough ideological change in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which fundamentally eradicated the soil of discrimination.
In European and American countries, discrimination against women cannot be eliminated by labeling it as politically correct and then launching a few so-called feminist movements.
On the contrary, after experiencing the baptism of McCarthyism, the federal government is very familiar with the skill of mixing sand and guiding directions when guiding various so-called movements.
Even whether it is environmental protection, fighting for the interests of the bottom class, race, skin color, and the status of women, they have all been reduced to seemingly bright and bright flags, which can be waved when needed.
It might be a bit far-fetched, but when driving on this dark road, the only sight in front of me was the taillights of the Saber driven by Hotchner more than ten meters away, and there wasn't even a passing car in the opposite lane.
Jack could only whisper nonsense to Rhett and Emily on the radio. After all, the old man beside him was already snoring slightly, and his woman was also sleeping in the back seat. Zhengxiang, he was so miserable that he didn't even dare to turn on the music.
Of course, he would never dare to reveal his political coordinates. Occasionally, he would make one or two heart-wrenching remarks, which would keep Emily and Red at odds for a long time. For example, the foundation of women's rights comes from labor rights and Economic base and so on.
The time came to 12 o'clock in the morning, and seeing that their car was running out of gas, Jack and Hotchner discussed finding a place to rest nearby. The car needed to refuel, and the people needed to eat and rest.
They have now driven out of the mountains and are on Highway 13, which Rhett mentioned before, less than 100 kilometers away from their destination.
"There is a small town ahead. Maybe we can find a restaurant there that is still open, eat some local food, and then find a motel with an air conditioner that is not broken, and sleep comfortably for a night."
Emily's voice came over the radio again.
"Maybe I can replenish my refrigerator with some ingredients. After the case is over, I have to drive back to Los Angeles." Jack felt a little overwhelmed when he thought of this.
Not only was this case not smooth, he was driving almost every day during this period, almost driving all the highways around Denver.
Saroban, who was leading the way, turned onto a branch road. According to Red, they could reach the place called Meihu Town in fifteen minutes at most.
"Speaking of which, this town has become quite famous in recent years. Although the population is only a few hundred people, in order to revitalize the local tourism industry, they modeled the 'Burning Man' festival in Nevada and organized a 'Mountain Man Music Festival'. It should be there"
Reed was still chattering on the radio, and was immediately interrupted by Hotchner.
"Reed, there is still no cell phone signal near here. Please use the satellite phone to contact Garcia and report our whereabouts. We may need assistance from the nearby Sheriff's Office tomorrow morning."
"Beautiful Lake Town, 'Mountain Man Day'." Jack had an unpleasant premonition in his heart. After the last ogre incident, he belatedly remembered that it was the famous horror film "Dead Turn" series. .
This is Meihu Town again, and it is also the "Mountain Man Music Festival". Which part is it from?
"Red, the 'Mountain Music Festival' you're talking about isn't a festival like a Halloween party where a group of people wear masks and pretend to be man-eating mountain monsters, right?"
Jack still hugged me I asked with a sense of luck.
"Have you heard of it? It's actually not that big. Uh, wait a minute, I'll call Garcia first."
"Hodge, I think we can drive slower. " Before Jack finished speaking, Saboban, who was opening the way ahead, made an explosion.
Now that I feel better, I’ll update my book friends quickly.
(End of this chapter)