After Cheng Hao and the HPD officers cleared the area in front of the house, they checked the two cars. The unmarked car was originally parked there.
However, when they checked the police car, they found two bodies stuffed in the trunk. However, they did not speak out immediately because they were worried about affecting Jack's first aid.
"So the killer killed the two police officers beforehand, changed into their uniforms, and drove their car here. That's why the FBI agent left the house without any warning and appeared in the open area."
Danny walked to the place where the old agent had fallen, looked at the house about 20 to 30 meters away, turned back and frowned, and said, "The agent realized something was wrong after he got closer and tried to draw his gun to fight back, but was shot by the opponent who was prepared." "
But where's the killer?" Jack felt that this didn't make sense. There was no sign of a third car from the tire tracks at the scene. Could it be that the killer was still nearby?
"Go inside and you'll see. Julie is a girl full of fighting spirit." Kono, who had previously searched the house with Danny, pointed to the small wooden house.
Many houses in tropical regions are built on stilts, with the ground floor elevated a distance from the ground, presumably to avoid the humidity of the rainy season.
Jack, having lived in the Jiangnan region in his previous life, had some experience with this. Every year during the plum rain season, the ground floor of both high-rise and low-rise buildings was always covered in condensation.
The wooden house, used as a safe house, was quite cozy. It looked like Julie Master and the FBI agent had lived here for some time.
The novels on the bookshelf were a bit messy. Jack even spotted Cassel's new book, the Nikki Hitt series, and his own domineering boss stories on the coffee table. Given the lack of internet and signal here, reading seemed to be his only pastime.
Standing out from the surroundings were the muddy footprints on the ground. Danny, who had just searched the house with Kono, pointed out the footprints and their direction.
"Two tall people, wearing at least size 11 shoes, heading straight for the bathroom."
The group carefully avoided the footprints and walked around the living room hallway, where they came upon a smashed door and more messy footprints.
Kono pointed at the messy footprints. "These are high heels. They found Julie, but what happened next clearly exceeded the killers' expectations."
She led the group into the bathroom, where the footprints were even more chaotic. Besides the footprints, there were also bullet casings and burn marks.
"9mm bullets, at least three shots fired," Cheng Hao confirmed, picking up a shell casing with a pen. Then, looking at the broken door and the dark burn marks on the adjacent wall, he looked puzzled. "What's this? Someone tried to set a fire?
"Let me show you." "Jack put on gloves, picked up a can of antiperspirant and a lighter from the ground, lit the lighter and pressed the antiperspirant spray head at the same time.
The heat wave in his face made Cheng Hao subconsciously take a half step back, his face not surprised but happy, "She is such a smart girl."
"If this girl is still alive, I would like to meet her." Kono walked to a broken glass window in the bathroom, "She burned one of them and then jumped out from here."
Jack looked at the bloodstains on the glass window, then at the tropical jungle in the distance, and frowned, "She was cut by the glass, the injury is quite serious, I hope she was not caught up by the killers."
He raised his hand to check the time, and estimated in his mind, "We are more than three hours behind, but since the two killers did not come back to get the car, I think there should be a chance."
"We not only have to find Julie, but also send her to Honolulu before the trial." Danny looked at the vast jungle and the distant ridges with a little confusion.
"The question is where should we start looking. "
It's not us, it's me." Jack said firmly.
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"Water, energy bars, GPS, satellite phone, everything you need is in there." Danny sorted the things out and helped put them into Jack's backpack, with a hint of hesitation on his face.
"Are you sure you want to go in alone?"
"If any of you have received special training like me, you can come together, otherwise let's wait for the search team to assemble."
Jack didn't have to pretend to be a hero, but the tropical jungle was still a tropical jungle after all.
Although Oahu is the most developed island in the Hawaiian Islands, and theoretically there is no real uninhabited area, this does not mean that you can go deep into the jungle in front of you at will.
The danger wasn't the main issue. The main issue was that there were only two satellite phones, and one had to remain here until the search team arrived, leaving only one operational.
If anyone lost contact in the jungle, it would be like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather, each one having to be rescued one by one.
Jack had not only received training but had also flown through a real rainforest with Team B and even been stranded on a deserted island before. This level of tropical jungle wouldn't be a challenge for him.
"McGarrett would definitely like this guy," Cheng Hao, a local, had originally planned to tag along, but was persuaded by Jack's words.
Kono, though also a local, was a "mermaid" who was familiar with the sea and had never ventured deep into the islands. While the Hawaiian Islands lacked snakes, they were full of poisonous insects and leeches.
As for Danny, a city dweller from New Jersey, the only type of jungle he was familiar with was the "concrete jungle." Therefore, when the search team arrived, Cheng Hao, the only one with some experience, would be needed to lead and organize the team.
The Steve McGarrett Cheng Hao mentioned was Danny's best friend and partner, the leader of "Five-O," the Navy SEAL major.
It was obvious to everyone that if he were here, Jack would have a temporary partner.
"Don't worry, as long as she's still alive, I can get her out safely," Jack said, handing a note to Kono.
"Contact this number. This is my colleague Alice in New York. Ask her to look up all the information on the defendant, Alan Brenner, and the so-called Baha drug cartel. The DEA will surely have information.
Have Alice retrieve all the intelligence on the cartel, especially their assassination methods and team deployments, and then use that information to try to identify the killers."
These killers were bold enough to directly target HPD officers and federal agents. Jack didn't believe they were local hires for the Baha cartel. They must have come from outside the island, and any clues could be used to identify them through flight information.
The fact that these guys didn't directly raid the safe house, but instead chose to intercept the HPD officers who were responding, suggests they might not have known the safe house's exact location.
This suggests both the local FBI office and the HPD are clean. The only potential problem lies with the court.
Thinking of this, Jack instructed again, "Ask the judge for a list of all those who knew about today's witness relocation."
Originally, this case had nothing to do with him, but now the situation had changed. The veteran agent who was shot was an FBI agent. Although they were strangers, they were still colleagues.
Jack didn't really care about getting the witnesses to court before 5 PM. For Jack, or the entire FBI, this case was no longer about witness protection.
With colleagues down on their shoulders, this case belonged to the FBI, and neither the DEA nor the U.S. Marshals would be able to intervene.
Even if the judge granted Aaron Bryner parole, it would be useless. News of the agent's shooting would surely have reached the local office by now, and they would arrest him once he left court.
The charges were all ready-made. He was suspected of having participated in ordering the murder of two HPD police officers and causing serious injuries to a federal agent, which directly brought the case back to the federal level.
As for the evidence, Jack was so insistent on going into the jungle alone not only to find the witness Julie, but also to hunt down those killers.
As long as they fell into his hands, Jack had plenty of ways to make those hired killers "willingly" become witnesses to testify against the Baha drug cartel.
But these methods must be shady. When Jack watched the show in his previous life, he knew that the Hawaiian police "Five-O" were also quite shady, but after all, they had never officially cooperated, so there was no need to scare them right away.
There will be more later. I will try to write more to make up for the number of words I missed during the leave.
(End of this chapter)