Chapter 753 Central Park Destroyer
“Boom!”
A shining mushroom cloud rolled up into the sky, and car alarms sounded one after another on the streets of almost half of Manhattan Island. Voice.
Danny's arm on the ground was shaking slightly. As a veteran, he still knew the basic posture of lying down to avoid gunfire.
The movement when lying down is similar to a plank support. Use your elbows to support the ground to keep a certain distance between the chest and the ground. Otherwise, the shock wave transmitted through the ground during the explosion can directly damage the human internal organs, making death extremely painful.
The fragments carried by the shock wave hit the body of the police car driven by Danny with a crackling sound. Although it was six or seven hundred meters away, people could still feel the rolling heat wave coming from the center of the explosion.
Jack climbed up from the ground in a hurry, not caring about shaking off the glass shards on his body, opened the back seat door with the shattered window, and pulled Danny in who was still on the ground in a daze.
After a while, the sound of crackling and falling debris was heard again on the roof of the car. This was the wreckage and gravel of the ambulance that had been blown up into the sky, returning to the earth under the influence of gravity.
Jack has experienced bomb explosions before, but this is the first time he has seen a serious mushroom cloud. Unfortunately, it is difficult to see clearly at night. If it were during the day, the scene would have been spectacular.
There was a "ding" sound when he polished the lighter and took a puff of the cigar amidst the strong smell of gunpowder smoke. Danny had the illusion of returning to the battlefield in Afghanistan, and almost suffered from PTSD.
Only a moment after the silence was restored, sirens blared all around. Dozens of fire trucks on standby rushed into Central Park and began spraying water on the trees that were ignited around the center of the explosion.
"This year there will be no place for New Yorkers to sunbathe and have picnics. The Bethesda Fountain is finished. I wonder what the animals in the zoo will be like. My sons will hate me to death." Danny looked at Explosive Point muttered to himself.
Jack shrugged, "The statues of Burns and Columbus are probably not saved either. They are too close. The Beethoven statue is not a big problem, but the carousel amusement park will definitely need major repairs."
Danny slapped him in the face and lamented, "Fortunately, the kids have grown up. You know, Sean had to go ride on the carousel there every week until he was five years old."
"I hope no tramp was injured." Jack blew out a smoke ring, and his beating heart finally began to slow down.
The NYPD was quite capable. When he drove into Central Park, the police had already completed the emergency evacuation and designated an area that would cause as little damage as possible.
It is a small piece of flat grassland called Sheep Meadow, which is the preferred place for New Yorkers to picnic and sunbathe from May to October every year.
When Jack drove an ambulance full of explosives into the South Gate of Central Park, Danny, who was already waiting there, gestured and drove ahead to lead him the way.
The two drove to Sheep Meadow one after another. Jack abandoned the ambulance and got into the police car driven by Danny. Then the two made a U-turn and began to run away desperately, stopping the car before the explosion. After arriving at a small mound.
The whole process is not as thrilling as shown in Hollywood blockbusters, but it is scary enough. It is estimated that many New Yorkers will be awakened from their sleep by this huge explosion tonight. The explosion fell from the sky. I don’t know how many flowers and plants the debris will destroy.
It’s really not that Jack didn’t want to rush into the lake in Central Park or the Hudson River, or drive onto the pier and rush into the sea. It could be shot like this in the movie, but at the speed just now, even if he could jump out of the car in time at the last moment, it would probably be too much. Can't escape the explosion range.
The nature of C4 is indeed very stable. It is said that it cannot be detonated by direct fire, but what Jack saw at the time was only part of it. Who knows whether the metal-encapsulated thing under the messy lines is C4 or its nature? More unstable oxidizing chemical explosives.
The charge of a 155 grenade is about 10 kilograms of TNT, and its killing radius on flat ground exceeds 50 meters. Even if the fragmentation power is not counted, its shock wave is enough to shred light armored targets within three meters, or Destroy multiple layers of brick walls within ten meters.
If the ambulance was detonated due to the huge impact the moment it rushed into the water, Jack would die without knowing how. Several Saber cars followed the NYPD police car convoy and drove into Central Park. A group of FBI got out of the car. Hannah jumped into Jack's arms like a deer and hugged him tightly. Jie followed behind. Jie was not as excited as she looked, but she also looked sad.
Jack sighed and reached out to hug her into his arms, making Danny's eyes widen.
After comforting his two girls, without waiting for Jack to say anything, Emily also joined in the fun with a wicked smile and put several red lip marks on his face. Finally, even the female boss also I couldn't help but get excited and gave him a big hug.
"We'd better get out of here as soon as possible." Rossi seemed to be the calmest one at the scene, pointing to the long motorcade approaching in the distance. At this time, the sound of helicopter propellers could be heard in the sky. In addition to police helicopters, there were also helicopters from various television news stations.
"Director Reagan, Mr. Mayor and some big shots should arrive one after another. Of course, Detective Reagan must stay. New York City needs a hero who can show his face."
"Me?" Danny pointed at himself in astonishment. He didn't know whether to cry or laugh. He hadn't figured out what happened before, but half of Central Park was destroyed, and he was an accomplice.
"Just tell the truth. After all, you also risked your life, right? Of course, Jack doesn't want you to reveal his name." Rosie opened the driver's door of a Saber class, rarely taking the initiative to admit it. driver.
“No matter what, I still hope that the FBI can use more models of vehicles in the future, instead of always using Saab class, and preferably not always black SUVs.”
Jack was sitting in the back seat of the car, surrounded by two balls of warm-smelling nephrite on each side. He couldn't help but feel distracted. The sequelae that he hadn't had for a long time were coming back fiercely. He could only try to divert his attention and start looking for something to say.
"What do you say?" Dana Moger, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned a blind eye to the scene of the three embracing each other and the current posture of hugging each other, and asked without looking back.
“The attack on Hotchner and Joyner was probably just an accident. The other party was targeting federal agents, but it was not aimed at them. In fact, it was Saboban with federal government license plates. So easy to spot.”
Although Jack's purpose is to divert attention, it is not completely aimless.
The location chosen by the planner is roughly determined, ensuring that the nearest emergency hospital is St. Buckley, but the person chosen is random, as long as he is a federal agent or agent, no matter what People from the FBI or DHS, even from the NSA.
Because St. Buckley has been sealed off by the Secret Service, only people with federal agent status can get through.
Even if the person driving the car was not Jack and did not know Secret Service Director Joey Reacher, it was enough as long as there was a seriously injured federal agent in the car.
For this reason, the other party has even prepared nitroglycerin to treat angina pectoris in advance, so that they can create the illusion that the wounded person is about to die from serious injuries at any time. It can be said to be an exhaustive strategy.
So Hotchner and Joyner were selected by the other side purely because of their official cars. Except for the odd car like Jack, the cars provided by FBI field agents are basically Saban or large black SUVs with federal government license plates.
After the other party created the illusion that a large-scale terrorist attack was imminent, they only had to guard the offices of several nearby relevant agencies that night.
20 minutes later, when Jack, who was surrounded by everyone, stepped into the combat center again, he was greeted by everyone's standing salute and warm applause.
After someone experienced the embarrassment of digging his toes on the ground for what seemed like half a century, Hotchner, who hurried back from the hospital, summoned everyone to the small office, although everyone had already done something about it. It's clear what's going on, but the details still need to be confirmed.
(End of this chapter)