Urgent footsteps ran past, and people kept urging. Owen listened quietly. He didn't carefully open the door until it became quiet again outside.
At a corner of the wall, Owen got out of the pipe room in disgrace, probably to prepare for the police raid. During this period, the robbers were mobilized very frequently. Owen had already encountered three groups along the way. Fortunately, he
I'm pretty lucky, I can always avoid it in time without noticing anything.
He didn't know where he should go next. When he and McClain were together, McClain was the one who made the decision. Now that they were separated, Owen was really uncomfortable. Just thinking that McClane might come down to find him, Owen decided to go up
Walk.
In the elevator room, Owen looked around to see if there was anyone, used a tool to pry open the elevator door, and climbed in quietly.
He and McClane climbed through the elevator shaft together. Compared with the stairs, the elevator shaft was obviously the safest way at present. Owen felt that there was a high probability of meeting McClane in the elevator shaft.
...
Outside the building, Javier was angrily cursing a low-level police officer because the media dragged him to bring a message to Javier and said they wanted to interview him. Is this guy an idiot? He just lost two elite teams. At this time, the media said
Want to interview him and see his jokes?
He waved his hand and told the little police officer to get lost, but what really bothered him was the raid just now. He also watched the live broadcast, but fortunately there was no content about Owen contacting him, otherwise his face would have been lost at his grandma's house.
When he received Owen's warning, the operation had already begun. Even if he gave the order, it was too late.
Who would have thought that the robbers were actually equipped with anti-aircraft missiles. Javier felt that the world had changed. It was different from when he was a front-line police officer. Oh my god, they were just robbers. Now the robbers are equipped with so much firepower.
Well, will those who rob banks in two days need to carry nuclear bombs?
In the sky, two helicopters and a team of elites were destroyed by two missiles, and the operations on the ground were not smooth either.
Just like Owen said, the robbers must have been professional soldiers in the past. These guys actually installed bombs in various locations on the first floor. As soon as the SWAT team entered, the people who were bombed were turned upside down, and then the robbers started to harvest.
From the video collectors carried by the team members, it can be clearly seen that the robbers shot the injured police officers one by one.
A 12-man team was all killed, and even the bodies were still inside.
For Javier, this is no longer a robbery, this is war.
Now the media are all reporting on his incompetence. This damn media, what else can they do besides complaining? They are just a bunch of mad dogs, they only know how to bark.
While Javier was cursing those guys crazily, his assistant hurried over.
"Director, we found it."
The assistant stopped in front of Javier, handed over a piece of paper, and then said: "McLean's identity has been verified. He is indeed a New York police officer..."
That's not what Javier wanted to hear, so he interrupted him impatiently: "Get to the point!!!"
"Oh well"
The assistant also knew that the director was in a bad mood, so he quickly picked the most important part and said: "The leader of the robbers is Hans Krupp, a member of the West German People's Liberation Front.
The West German People's Liberation Front is an emerging terrorist organization that has carried out many terrorist attacks in Germany in recent years. They were responsible for the Berlin train station bombing at the beginning of this year.
But the strange thing is that the West German People's Liberation Front basically only operates within Germany and never comes out. And not long ago, Hans Krupp was publicly expelled from the West German People's Liberation Front.
In addition, the intelligence coming from the CTU shows that Hans Krupp himself does not know anyone from the Red Front, nor does he have any interactions with Sara and others."
It was indeed a smoke bomb. It was just an excuse to release the hostages on the Red Front. Their target must be the treasury.
But Javier's brows immediately knitted together again. A good robber turned into a terrorist. He wanted to be quiet. He waved his assistant away and lit a cigarette for himself. He didn't take two puffs.
I saw a police officer on duty leading two men wearing bulletproof vests towards his location.
"Director Javier, these two are from the CTU. They said they want to find the person in charge of this operation."
Someone from the CTU? Harville suppressed his annoyance and said to the two of them: "What do you two want from me? I am Wayne Harville, the person in charge of this operation."
"Not anymore from now on."
The other party was not polite at all. One of them took out his ID and showed it to Javier, then put it away and said: "I am Jack Bauer from the CTU, and I will be in charge here from now on."
Javier was stunned, and then a feeling of shame and anger rose in his heart, but then he forced himself to calm down. Yes, it was embarrassing to have his command taken away, but it was not without merit if he thought about it carefully.
He knew that the CTU department had just been established in the past two years. Its full name is the "United States Counter-Terrorism Bureau". It was originally a branch under the CIA. It is now independent and specializes in counter-terrorism operations in the United States.
The law in the United States is like this. The state police have the right to handle all kinds of cases within the state, but once the case crosses the state, the FBI has the right to take over. In the same way, as long as the case involves terrorism, even if it is just a terrorist, the CTU has the right to handle it.
The right of full discretion.
Now that the identity of the terrorist Hans Krupp has been confirmed, there is no problem at all for the CTU to take over command. Even Havel has to cooperate fully. After all, terrorism is different from other things.
And Javier is very happy to do this. As long as CTU takes over, he will only play a supporting role, and CTU will naturally take the blame.
"What's going on now?" Jack Bauer asked in a deep voice. He didn't know that Javier had already regarded him as the one taking the blame, and he wouldn't care even if he knew.
Javier hesitated for a moment, but decided to cooperate fully: "The robbers hijacked the building half an hour ago, and the hostages were detained on the 46th floor. The number of hostages is still uncertain. We tried to launch two attacks just now, but they both failed and we lost two people.
A helicopter and two elite squads.
The opponent is equipped with anti-aircraft missiles, and judging from the style, the opponent is likely to be a professional soldier, or at least once was a professional soldier.
There are two of our people inside now. You should have seen the live broadcast just now. One of them is a New York police officer named John McClain. We have verified his identity and there is no problem.
The other one is a police officer under my command, named Steve Irwin. In addition, we also arranged a sniper in the building opposite..."