Perhaps because of their rich experience, or perhaps because of their keen senses, Dover, Savi, and Catalina all believed that this young man delivering food was definitely not a killer.
He lacked a spirit, a special something, maybe madness, maybe calmness, but he just didn't have it.
Dogs will not eat mud that looks like shit, but they will not let go of shit that looks like mud. They always have a way to tell the difference.
"Who asked you to deliver food?" Although Catalina knew that this young man was probably just a food delivery person, the work that should be done still had to be done.
She squatted in front of the young man and put the muzzle of the gun against his temple, "Think carefully before you answer!"
The young man's body was shaking slightly. He squeezed his eyes and looked like he was thinking. After three to five seconds, he opened his eyes and told the phone number of the restaurant where he worked and the boss who asked him to deliver the food.
The two agents who were carefully opening the takeout boxes outside the house shook their heads at Catalina. The boxes were indeed food, not explosives. After some simple test paper investigations, they found that there were no toxic ingredients in the food.
While calling the investigation team to control the people in the restaurant and track down the person who placed the order, the other side did not let the young man go, but locked him in the kitchen.
Although I don't understand why the killer would send a food deliveryman to alert them, all this must have a clear purpose, and it is very likely that the killer who came to assassinate Du Lin is a veteran.
Once again asking all the agents to stay at their posts, Catalina returned to the utility room door, knocked on the iron door, and made a dull voice, "Are you still in there?"
"No, I'm not here!", the somewhat off-key voice was full of strong confidence and optimism. The dark enclosed space did not seem to make Dulin feel any fear and depressive atmosphere. He was even interested in joking at this time. !
Catalina has met many seemingly powerful people in the Military Intelligence Office, including trained spies from other countries, celebrities, and politicians.
These people don't need to use many means. Just locking them in a closed space is enough to make them have deep fear. Even after a long time, some people will go crazy and go crazy.
This was invisible to Du Lin. The joking voice and emphasis made her a little disgusted, because she realized that this was an abnormal person.
But it's not surprising if you think about it carefully. After all, Du Lin has many titles. As long as he was a little bit normal, he would not be able to reach this point - this is not a derogatory explanation.
There was silence for a moment both inside and outside the door. Katerina turned around and left, patrolling the villa.
It didn't take long for the agents outside to call back. They found the restaurant, arrested all the staff, and the guests who were dining, and verified their identities.
There was no very special person among these people, and after a friendly exchange, nothing special was discovered.
Now these people have been transferred to the local police station for detention, and special agents have been sent to continue interrogating these people.
In the restaurant, they found a note discarded in the trash can, which stated the time of ordering, the content of the order, and the villa where Dulin currently lives.
According to the front desk of the restaurant, the person who made the call to place an order was a man with a relatively mellow voice. He sounded about thirty to forty years old. He spoke not very fast, but his enunciation was very clear.
After hanging up the phone, Catalina kept thinking about a question. If the delivery person simply attracted their attention, then there would be no need for such a thing.
The more methods you use during the assassination, the more loopholes may be left. As a senior agent of the Military Intelligence Department, Catalina has been working in counter-espionage and anti-terrorism investigations within the empire.
She knew very well that any extra action might be the key to solving the case, just like the information they got from the girl who answered the phone, they could already identify the criminal's voice and approximate age.
This is not a good thing for the killer who tried so hard to hide himself, and he exposed some personal information.
But if this person is useless..., Catalina feels that something is wrong. This young man delivering food will definitely play a certain role in this assassination, but she still can't figure out what use he is.
Let go, that's impossible. He has not completely cleared himself of suspicion. The only thing he can do now is to temporarily detain him in the villa and wait until dawn tomorrow to make plans.
"Cheer up, pay attention to your position, and call for support immediately if there is any situation!" Catalina repeated the instructions several times and began to patrol the villa without missing any place.
Time passed like this bit by bit, as if the assassin's assassination was just a misjudgment based on their guesswork, or the killer had chosen to leave after seeing the strict security measures here.
Catalina was a little anxious. The calmer she was, the more urgent she felt, as if the killer might appear in the villa anytime and anywhere.
At around two o'clock in the evening, there was an almost inaudible sound from the closed window in the kitchen. In the gap of less than a millimeter between the window and the window sill, an iron wire quietly passed through. This iron wire was at a ninety-degree angle. , after most of it penetrated, the horizontal right-angle wire slowly rotated.
Part of it slowly moved upwards and was already against the latch of the window.
The movement of the shadow outside the house, which was so blurry that it was almost invisible, was quite slight and very patient.
Just a little bit, the latch was pushed open silently, and then a gust of wind moved the curtains, and something squeezed in from the window less than 35 centimeters long and wide.
The curtains were bent out of shape, and a pair of feet had already fallen on the cupboard.
The next second, a smooth head appeared behind the curtain, and he jumped down as nimbly as a cat without making a single sound.
The delivery boy who was locked in the kitchen was lying on the bar, fast asleep. He walked over quietly and stood behind the boy like a ghost. His left hand passed through the gap between his arms and neck. , and then jerked back!
At the same time, he held his head with his right hand and twisted it slightly. The delivery boy didn't make a single sound, and the power of resistance disappeared completely.
He quickly took off the delivery boy's clothes and stuffed him into the cupboard under the cupboard. Then he put on the boy's clothes, put on a yellow safety helmet, and lay down where the boy had been sleeping.
At this time, he was counting silently in his heart.
ten…
Nine…
eight…
…
three…
two…
one… !
With a loud bang, the boiler in the basement of the villa suddenly exploded violently. If there were professionals at the scene, they would be able to tell others immediately that this must be caused by the excessive internal pressure of the boiler.
Yes, the wrench comes in handy!
After two days of careful observation and planning, he even bought an identical boiler to try, and found out how long it would take for the boiler to explode if it could not release the pressure. Then he connected the pressure relief port outside the villa. Completely shut down.
The explosion alerted all the agents in the villa, including Du Lin.
When Catalina and Dover rushed into the basement, an agent on duty had already fallen in a pool of blood.
The exploding boiler is like a huge bomb, and anyone close to it has no chance of survival.
Dufo stepped forward, ignoring the steam and boiling water, and checked the vents and water inlets. There was no damage. Catalina was watching behind him.
The two of them ran upstairs almost at the same time. If this was not an accident, then it must have been an accident created to attract their attention!
But they didn't notice that next to the boiler room was the villa's constant temperature system. The constant temperature system and the boiler were actually connected together.
It may not be used in the summer, but in the winter the constant temperature system will send steam and hot water to the entire building through the water circulation system buried in the walls and floors, keeping the temperature in the entire villa at a suitable temperature.
In the summer these are not needed to heat the entire villa, so one of the water inlet valves in the circulation system is closed.
At this time, the boiler has completely exploded. The water outlet of the water circulation system and the water outlet of the boiler are connected together. The water distributed in the various pipes of the villa in the entire water circulation system is losing rapidly.
After losing the ice water, the temperature in the villa began to rise significantly. It was dark at this time, and the people in the house could not see it at all, nor could they notice that there were some on the walls, eaves, and some special places outside the villa. Small things of different sizes and shapes.
The places where these things exist have one characteristic - they are all located at the vents of the ventilation system.
Because the villa in Dulin is much larger than ordinary villas, some rooms in the house cannot be directly connected to the outside world, so a ventilation system is required for regular ventilation.
At this time, the temperature in the room increased, and the wind blown out during the exchange was no longer cool. Suddenly, a fist-sized object hanging under the vent emitted some white smoke, and then the smoke became thicker and thicker. The smoke was drawn into the vents during ventilation!
Catalina, who was guarding the first floor of the villa, searched several times and found nothing. But at this moment, she and several others suddenly coughed a few times, and then they discovered to their horror that some rooms began to open from the cracks in the door. Breathing out some white smoke.
Catalina's face darkened. They were here to protect Du Lin from assassins, not to fight against biological and chemical weapons. Who would put on a gas mask at this time
Catalina was weighed when she thought that the killer would most likely enter the empty villa after they left.
He took Dulin away with him to avoid a one-on-one situation between him and the assassin.
Let Du Lin stay in the safe house and wait for rescue.
What, a logical flaw
It doesn't exist, I just don't have a specific explanation!
(End of chapter)