Chapter 501 Overnight and Good News
This was the second time Jack spent the night in the desert. Compared with the beautiful night the first time, this time it was much more difficult. He roasted a few scorpions and caught them. After a rattlesnake fed two kittens that came out to look for food in the middle of the night with snake meat, the sky finally became brighter.
Watching these two slender-waisted cats that looked like small cougars disappearing into the bushes in the distance, Jack stood up and exercised, then threw the remaining snake heads and skins into the bushes. The corpses were destroyed in the fire.
Comparing reaction speed with a rattlesnake with bare hands, hitting it more than a dozen times and causing its brain to collapse, I would never have dared to think about it in my previous life. Even if I could really keep up with my reaction, I wouldn't have the guts.
There is no need to worry at all now. If you are bitten, it is just a matter of healing. You will naturally become more courageous. The rattlesnake died in a very suffocating way, being stunned until death.
Isabel had no idea about this. Shortly after dawn, the little girl wiped the dried tears from the corners of her eyes, yawned, and got out of the sleeping bag.
Jack heated up two cans for breakfast, and the two of them filled their stomachs, packed up their things, cleaned up the traces on the ground, and continued heading northeast.
The Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico is not a restricted area like the Sahara, but walking for a day under the scorching sun is quite a test of the willpower of an adult, let alone an underage girl.
The route had been planned a long time ago, and Jack knew it well, so he did not save water. However, after walking down the road one day and seeing Isabel starting to limp, he knew that she had almost reached her limit.
He did have a bit of a test in mind, and it was also a kind of training. I think this experience should be remembered by this little girl for a long time.
Some things can only be cherished enough if you have to work hard for them. The same situation also applies to other people. After a lot of hard work, you have to reach your destination. Even if it is a donut, you still have to say with tears that it is delicious. .
With less than half a day left to travel to the small town of Reynosa on the Mexican border, Jack decided to take a rest early. They were lucky today, and they found an abandoned wooden house.
This should be a small farm that was abandoned by a bankrupt farmer. A few scorched corn stalks stood alone in the dry farmland. There was not much green in the vegetable garden in the backyard, but Jack still found a few. Onions and carrots that looked pretty good.
“Is it difficult to cross the border?” Isabel gnawed on the onion with tears in her eyes. It wasn’t that it tasted bad, it was just smoked. Two small ditches appeared on her dirty little face with tears. , looking both pitiful and a bit funny.
“It’s not difficult, it’s much easier than our two-day journey.”
Jack checked the surroundings and found that it was okay. The bed was fairly firm and the windows were intact. He could have a comfortable night's rest.
After searching some more, he found a few pots and jars. He fetched some water from the well in the backyard. There wasn’t much water in the well, but it was still clean. He didn’t use it for drinking, just for washing. One moment is enough.
Seeing that he was busy all the time, Isabel couldn't sit still anymore. She put down the onions and followed him. Judging from his posture, she knew that he was planning to boil water, so she ran outside the house and picked up a pile of broken wood. , and threw it into a tin gasoline barrel.
A little girl who grew up in a wealthy life could actually see something alive in her eyes. Jack felt that he had seen the right person. In just two days, her transformation was amazing.
It’s just that I have a bad picky eating habit. I would rather chew a raw onion with tears in my eyes than take a bite of a carrot.
After boiling water and putting it in the house, he dug out a towel from his bag that he thought was not needed and asked her to take care of her own personal hygiene. Jack closed the door and walked outside, took out his mobile phone and turned it on.
Although the signal was a little weak, it was barely usable. Jack first called the number that Alessandro had given before, hung up immediately after dialing, and then started sending messages to Justin.
First ask her to help everyone make sure they are safe, and then describe the previous events in detail and ask her to pass it on to Rosie through reliable channels.
Not long after, Alejandro called back.
As expected by Jack, after learning that Matt died unexpectedly, Michael was seriously injured, and that an FBI agent was missing, the failure of the entire operation also caused casualties to the Mexican police, the CIA reacted strongly. All those involved in the operation, including Alejandro, the "special adviser", were placed under house arrest and questioned repeatedly as soon as they returned to Corpus Christi Air Force Base.
If Jane Banner, who was left behind, hadn't immediately notified the FBI and DHS when he saw the situation was bad, who knows what these CIA gangs planned to do.
Fortunately, this is a joint action team in name only. Although only agents from the CIA and FBI participated in this operation, other departments are also nominally involved and naturally have the right to know. .
Things turned around after people from all walks of life intervened one after another, either to watch the fun or simply to see the CIA joke.
Alejandro doesn’t know the specific situation. He was just released this morning. After the CIA issued a gag order on him, he was put on a plane. He is now at a resort beach in Colombia. .
As long as everyone is fine, Jack breathed a sigh of relief. Even Alejandro, the "special advisor" who is used by the CIA at will, is fine, which means that the situation has not developed in the worst direction. What he had prepared before It seems that those methods are useless.
Sure enough, after he happily lit a cigar, and before enjoying it for long, the phone rang again. This time, after receiving Justin's notification, Rossi chose to contact him directly.
Obviously Rossi knew much more detailed information. At this time, the BAU team had returned to Dallas and resumed investigating the supermarket bombing.
The direction of the attack has completely changed, because according to the BAU's investigation, the four suicide attackers were all Americans from the mainland and had no connection with foreign countries.
The focus above has also shifted from overseas terrorist activities back to internal ones. The FBI now fully occupies the dominant position, and the CIA can only step aside.
Rosie couldn't say much on the phone, and finally told Jack to return safely. There was no need to worry about Isabel's identity. The Federal Witness Protection Program would arrange a new identity for her.
Jack asked him to help tell Emily that her nightmare was over. Ian Doyle had completely integrated with the land of Mexico, but the promise he made could not be fulfilled. Emily The necklace is still wrapped around his wrist.
Hearing the news, Rosie's mood immediately improved, she laughed and then hung up the phone.
The stone in Jack's heart finally fell to the ground. After making the last phone call, he discussed with a certain Texas Ranger about the specific matters of "smuggling" tomorrow night. After finishing his cigarette, he knocked on the door and entered the house.
Back in the house, Isabel was still sitting on the edge of the bed with tears in her eyes, looking at a loss with her bare feet. Tsk, someone noticed the big blisters on the soles of her feet at a glance. It seemed that It scared her.
Jack was already prepared. He found the first aid kit, used a needle to pop the blisters, squeezed out the tissue fluid inside, sprinkled some Yunnan Baiyao, and then wrapped an elastic bandage twice like a little foot. The little girl curled up her feet comfortably. The little pearls on my fingers and face finally stopped falling off.
After cleaning herself up again, Isabel regained some of her energy, and her big and smart eyes began to move around again, until she saw Jack slicing the carrots, throwing them into the pot and stewing them with several cans. .
The two of them, one big and one small, finished their dinner with grimaces, then looked at each other and laughed. They were really hungry if they were hungry, and it was really unpalatable if they tasted bad. This meal was enough to become someone’s favorite meal. The dark history of cooking that I am proud of.
It was almost completely dark, so Jack found a shovel, dug a hole in the backyard, and buried the assault rifle he had been carrying, including the magazine, and some other unused items in it.
We will pack lightly tomorrow and take care of all these eye-catching things. We also have two pistols as self-defense weapons, which are enough to deal with most situations.
(End of this chapter)