Chapter 1078 Bad News and More Bad News
"Have you heard of me?" Jack helped him stuff the duffel bag into Sababan and raised his eyebrows.
"Ah, no, not before." Stanley just put his hand on the passenger door, with a shy expression on his face that was somewhat inconsistent with his age.
"In fact, before yesterday I had been working at the FBI laboratory in Washington and had never been out in the field.
Yesterday they suddenly took me to New York, David Rossi Mr. and Ms. Dana Moge told me about the situation here and introduced you to me.
But before that, I did hear some rumors in the laboratory, but they were just small rumors circulating among us, about someone rushing into a fire in Dallas to rescue a baby with a punctured heart, and successfully resurrected it. It survived.
He also drove an armored car full of explosives and destroyed the entire Central Park."
After he got in the car, he talked for a long time, although the story was a bit outrageous and the Stitch Monster , but Jack can still distinguish his own part of the "great achievements".
It feels like the chemical weapons expert may have held back too hard in the laboratory, and his desire to talk was too strong, and Jack couldn't help it. Don't interrupt when he started to analyze whether the mutated ogre is real.
"Doctor, uh, Stanley, the lucky person who was stabbed in the heart and still survived is an adult male. The successful rescue was not only due to my own luck, but also thanks to the military doctor who was present at the time.
A baby was indeed rescued in that fire. At that time, its mother used her body to protect the stroller."
After briefly refuting the rumor, Jack also made a joke, "Please let me know about these things. Rather than spreading it any further, I wanted to preserve some of the mystery for my future memoirs when I retire. "
Stanley looked at Jack's overly handsome face and couldn't help but joke, "Then I sincerely hope you can retire a few years ago, so maybe I can see you before I die. Memoirs, I believe it will be very interesting. "
After the joke was over, Saboban also drove out of the Osan Air Force Base. Jack straightened his face and asked, "So Stanley, how much do you know about VX poison? "
"VX is an unexpected product of an insecticide research and development experiment in 1952. It is a colorless and odorless oily liquid that will decompose into a small amount of mercaptans during long-term storage, so it actually has a slight odor.
But usually by the time you smell something like this, it’s not long before your respiratory muscles stop working.
This thing is like champagne. When the monks were making wine, a secondary fermentation accidentally occurred, causing carbon dioxide bubbles to be mixed into it."
Obviously this chemical weapons expert has some thinking. Seeing that he was about to change the topic somewhere, Jack had to forcefully return to the topic.
"Stop, stop, Stanley, we are talking about VX, not champagne. If you want to have a drink, I'll treat you to the best wine here and some authentic Cuban cigars while we get over this trouble. "
"Oh, sorry, I was a little too excited. "Stanley scratched his head in embarrassment, and then his face became serious.
"A tablespoon of VX poison poured on the ground can kill all creatures within a radius of one hundred feet, and due to its relatively stable volatile properties, its effectiveness can last for several days and nights.
In 1968 The military conducted a test using an F4 Phantom fighter jet to conduct a VX spraying test. Unfortunately, a tank malfunctioned during the test.
About 9 kilograms of the poison drifted about 100 meters away from the test site. More than 6,000 goats died in a valley 32 kilometers away, and that valley was not allowed to reopen until half a year later."
He paused when he said this, until he was driving. Jack turned to look at himself and then continued, "Although they call me a chemical weapons expert, I prefer that this kind of thing has never been invented."
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The expert was indeed an expert. After inspecting the scene and flipping through several chemical analysis reports, Stanley dove into the military laboratory.
An hour and a half later, he left the laboratory and told Jack, who had been waiting outside, "Although I don't know the identity of the other party, this guy is definitely a top expert in this field. I roughly deduced him in reverse In the synthesis process, the intermediate product itself contains highly toxic substances, and this step can be carried out just by relying on the crude equipment on site. If luck is not considered, he must have presided over similar work countless times.
He is familiar with every key step and has found a suitable alternative. Otherwise, if the operation is slightly careless, there will be no sign of life within a few kilometers. "
After listening to him for a long time, he didn't even say a single key piece of information. Jack forced himself to restrain the urge to roll his eyes and asked, "So where exactly has he progressed and how long is it before he can get the finished product? Can he deduce it? What dose of VX can the other party finally obtain? ”
"The last step, but I don't think the other party can find a suitable chiral separation reagent. I guess he will use high performance liquid chromatography with a chiral preparative column to prepare it. In that case, the amount of the final product will not be too much.
In terms of time, we can get up to about one kilogram of high-purity VX poison in three days, which is almost the limit."
This guy finally doesn't have the problem of breathing heavily, even though he talked a lot. He didn't understand the terminology, but still gave him the answer he wanted, but what he called "not too much", even someone who is not very good at mathematics can directly calculate the result.
“In other words, if we simply convert it based on the lethal dose of 10 milligrams, after three days they can obtain VX poison that can kill at least 100,000 people.”
“Theoretically, this is the case. , if the actual dissemination conditions are not considered." Stanley nodded in approval and then added.
"However, the nature of VX is too stable. Even if the explosive dispersion method is used, only a small amount will be decomposed by high temperature."
In other words, the other party does not need to modify any missiles at all, and can just find two drones that spread pesticides. It can be done with a plane. If the weather conditions are suitable, you can also fly directly to high altitude and detonate it.
Jack let out a long sigh, "Yes, I already know about this.
The good news is that the other party's experts who are proficient in blasting have died in last night's explosion. The bad guys The news is that everyone in their organization has a military background, and making simple explosives is not a problem.”
The fat man was the instigator of the remote-controlled bomb on the streets of Manhattan, and the pony-tailed man was an engineering expert. He's the guy who blew up his drone and injured Clay and Hannah.
The CIA finally gave him sodium thiopental and used psychological suggestion to get him to confess some of the contents. However, the military personnel responsible for guarding him were too rough. This morning, he was accidentally strangled to death by a man with a ponytail using a torn sheet. .
The DEA's estimate is quite accurate. According to the ponytail man's confession before his death, Zhang Mingjun did have a sum of money in the hands of the youngest son of a Korean chaebol, totaling one billion US dollars.
This billion of dollars has long been laundered and has been scattered and saved in various forms, such as stocks, bonds, funds and even Bitcoin of large companies.
More than a month ago, Zhang Mingjun led his men to find the youngest son of the chaebol, and gave him a month to restore these assets into cash, and then deposit them into a secret account in a Swiss bank.
Tomorrow night is the time Zhang Mingjun agreed to come to pick up the electronic key to this secret account again. The location is located in the top-floor box of a nightclub in Cheongdam-dong.
Jack's guess was basically correct. The billion was used as bait to fish out the important person.
Because not only Zhang Minjun and Kim Cheol-soo, the chemical expert who made VX poison, but almost all of their family members, including the ponytail man and the slightly fat man, disappeared mysteriously or disappeared after a certain "political turmoil" Died accidentally.
“Perhaps I can help.” Stanley volunteered. “Based on some container remains found at the scene, I tend to use atomization to spread.
Whether it is simple Explosive devices or aerosol dispersion devices, dealing with these are my expertise.”
(End of this chapter)