After separated from Tom, he returned to the office. Nothing happened all night. When Jimmy was about to leave in the morning, Chris came to the office early.
Jimmy: "Hi Chris, morning."
Chris: "Jimmy, just before you go back, the Dallas office contacted Hughes. They need you to go on a business trip. It is said that you need to go back to handle the follow-up to a case you were responsible for before. Speaking of which, I am still the first I once heard that you actually handled a few cases in Dallas. It seems that you had a lot of activities during your internship."
Jimmy's head was full of questions: "What case? I've finished several cases there."
Chris: "I don't know, Hughes contacted me in the morning. Anyway, let's go there first, it's Hughes' arrangement."
Jimmy nodded and left the office with a confused look on his face.
Jimmy got into his car, got out of the parking lot, and called Lambert, the director of the Dallas office.
Jimmy: "Director Lambert, this is Jimmy from Manhattan."
Lambert: "Ah, Jimmy, such quick news."
Jimmy: "Yes, Hughes informed my team leader early in the morning. Which case needs me to close?"
Lambert: "It's not convenient to talk on the phone. We'll talk after you arrive. Come over as soon as possible."
Jimmy: "Okay, Director Lambert, bye."
Jimmy hung up the phone, went home, took a shower, changed clothes, and ran to the airport. Alas, it was another sleepless day.
The flight arrived in Dallas smoothly. Jimmy slept on the plane for nearly 3 hours and finally felt better. I took a taxi from the airport and went straight to the Dallas office. I found a restaurant downstairs to have a late lunch, and then came to Lambert’s office.
Jimmy knocked on the door: "Director Lambert, here I come."
Lambert looked up at Jimmy, raised his eyebrows, and said in surprise: "You came here today, I thought you would arrive tomorrow."
Jimmy smiled and walked to Lambert's desk and sat down by himself. "Of course I'll be here soon. Manager Lambert summoned me. There must be something very important."
Lambert nodded: "It's okay if you come a little early. I just have a good rest today. I have an appointment with Father Holden. You can come with me to meet him tomorrow."
Jimmy frowned. Father Holden impressed him deeply, "Is it the disappearance case? Did the exorcism fail?"
Lambert shook his head, "Don't worry, the exorcism is successful, it's just other things, don't worry. You can go and rest first."
Jimmy said goodbye to Lambert, stood up and left the Dallas office.
Jimmy was already familiar with the area. He went directly to the hotel next door and got a room. He put his backpack in the room and changed his clothes. Although it was winter, the weather in Dallas was much better than that in New York.
He slept for nearly 3 hours on the plane in the morning and was not very sleepy yet. Jimmy chose to go out directly for a walk and go shopping. He came back and went to bed early in the evening to make up for the lack of sleep time in the past two days.
The next morning, Jimmy came to Lambert's office on time. Lambert tidied the table, and then drove Jimmy to a church. This was a very small church, not as glorious as the churches in New York. Looks very ordinary.
Lambert and Jimmy walked into the church. Father Horton was looking through some books. When he saw them arriving, he closed the book, waved to Lambert and the others, got up and entered the side room of the church.
There is a tin box on a table against the wall, a skull next to it, and two books.
Father Horton pointed to the things on the table and said, "These are the things you dug out of the forest. They have been cleaned. Do you remember them? Jimmy."
Jimmy nodded, "That's it. What's wrong? Shouldn't these be placed in the evidence room?"
Father Holden nodded: "Yes, I just brought them here from the evidence room a few days ago. Because something unexplainable happened there."
Jimmy: "Please go ahead."
Lambert spoke at this time: "After the case was over, this box was moved from Tata Town to the testing center and cleaned there. Because it was soaked for too long, the two books were completely scrapped and were not used at all. The method was to completely open the pages inside, and after the skull was cleaned, the DNA was extracted, and then moved with the box to the FBI evidence room.
There were no problems at first, but about ten days ago, some strange things began to happen in the evidence room. First, someone started to hear voices, and then the monitoring center found that the surveillance video would shake, and even the screen would disappear briefly. It's like the camera is being interfered with.
I contacted Father Horton and went to check. After checking the evidence room and the surrounding area, we found nothing unusual. We investigated the objects in the evidence room. They were put into storage recently and were related to strange events. It's just this box and its contents, but no problem can be found.
Because you were the first to discover the anomaly in the box and dug it out of the ground accurately, Father Horton thinks you might be able to solve this problem. "
Jimmy looked at Lambert and then he turned to look at the skull. He had already opened his mind when he entered the church. This was his habit. When he arrived in a new place, he would scan every corner to prevent danger.
After entering the church, he did not find the thread-like thing that the box had emitted before, and it looked very peaceful now. Jimmy frowned and observed the skull and books in front of him. Last time, because they were all in the box, he didn't observe where the thread came out.
The reason why I didn't remind you before is that this box is obviously not harmful. The main effect of the box is to make the surrounding plants appear greener and grow better. People camping in Tata Town and the riverside have no problem. , even he was very doubtful that this thing was a very precious thing, because even in broad daylight, it could attract the ghosts in the river to sacrifice themselves to take it.
Even if such a benign abnormal item was taken away, it shouldn't cause much trouble, so he just hinted to Lambert that there was something wrong with it, and didn't ask anymore.
Jimmy looked at Father Holden: "Father Holden, have you kept it here since you brought it back to the church? Are there any abnormalities? Smaller ones are considered."
Father Horton shook his head: "No, it has been quiet these two days."
Jimmy: "Then can we consider changing the place to store it first? This is a church after all, and there are many holy objects. Maybe he was suppressed?"
Holden frowned. He really hadn't thought about this issue before. He turned to look at the skull, and then at Lambert: "Lambert, do you have a quiet place where you won't be disturbed? The best place around you. There are no residents."
Lambert nodded: "Send it to my farm. I'll have someone clean the room first."
Several people packed it up, and Father Horton even brought his own box, which should be the same box that his assistant took during the last exorcism. This time, because he didn’t know how long he would stay, his assistant had to stay in the church to preside over daily activities.
Lambert's farm is very large. For this broken box, he specially arranged for all his family members to drive to Dallas or Houston and give up the farm house to prevent any problems from affecting his family.
They emptied a small warehouse and placed boxes, skeletons, and two unopened books on the table in the middle of the warehouse. As for them, they lived in the main house and arranged for one person to be on duty in turn to watch what was going on here.
Lambert couldn't stay long, so he returned to Dallas after waiting for two days. Father Horton found two apprentices to come over to facilitate the night shift.
On the third night, the vision finally appeared. It was early afternoon to midnight, but at 9 o'clock, he discovered the thread floating in the air.
Jimmy shouted: "Father Horton, come out!"
Holden and an apprentice ran out of the main room immediately. The other apprentice should have been resting and came out a few minutes late.
Father Holden came to Jimmy's side and asked, "What did you find?"
Jimmy looked at Father Holden in surprise: "What? Oh, I'm sorry, I want to ask, you can't see the thread in the air, can you?"
Father Horton's eyes widened and he stood outside the warehouse and looked towards the warehouse, but he still saw nothing. "Box." Holden shouted, and the apprentice behind him handed the box in his hand to Father Holden. He opened the box and took out a very small bottle, only the size of a thumb. He poured out a drop of water from it and dripped it. On your fingers, apply on your eyelids.
"Holy Father!" Holden finished reading and turned to look at Jimmy, his eyes shining, "Can you see these directly?"
Jimmy curled his lips and shook his head: "No, it requires a lot of concentration and the duration is very short."
Father Holden nodded, then shook his head: "You are very talented, I am more sure now, but it's a pity..." Father Holden really felt sorry for Jimmy now. With such a talent, if he entered the seminary from a young age, After a few years of training, he will become an excellent exorcist priest. However, now that Jimmy is too old, it is difficult to go to seminary to study. The key is that it is difficult to gain loyalty.
Father Holden turned to look at the warehouse. While the potion was still working, he opened the door and entered the warehouse to find the source of the thread. However, it seemed that his potion was not very effective. He could not see where the source was at all. Although there was There is a difference in concentration, but the effect of his potion is not enough to observe where the concentration is the highest in the originally only a few threads.
Jimmy walked over and pointed to the forehead of the skull, or between the eyebrows, which was about the same distance. "This should be the source of the thread."
Father Holden looked at the apprentice behind him, "Did you feel anything was wrong?"
The apprentice shook his head, and Jimmy said: "I had a speculation about this kind of silk thread before. This should be a beneficial mutation. You can take a look at the aerial photos I requested before. In the forest where the box is buried, the plants affected by the silk thread will be stronger than Other plants are greener, which should also mean that these affected plants grow better than others and have stronger vitality. Of course, this is just my speculation."
Father Holden nodded, "If it is true as you said, it may indeed be a beneficial change, but why are there auditory hallucinations and other abnormalities in the evidence room? For example, the surveillance cameras are interfered with?"
Jimmy: "There is a possibility that this kind of beneficial mutation is not only good for plants, but also attracts other supernatural ghosts or other monsters. Those abnormalities are caused by other ghosts, just because they are far away from them. The foundation is too far away and the power is too weak, so it only affects a few people and interferes with monitoring."
Father Holden: "Well, it's possible. Let's observe it for two more days. If there are no other abnormalities, we will go back. I will send this for a thorough examination."
Jimmy nodded: "It's time to change shifts. I'll go back and rest. Your people should watch here first."
At noon the next day, Jimmy was still resting when suddenly there was an exclamation outside. Jimmy got up and went to the window. A big wild boar was chasing the apprentice who was on duty. The apprentice blocked it with farm things and ran to avoid it. .
Jimmy pulled out his gun, aimed at the wild boar from the window and shot it in the head. Unfortunately, the wild boar could not be killed with one shot. Seeing that it was still charging forward, Jimmy emptied the bullets in the revolver. No one would eat the wild boar anyway. , the bullet fragments on his body should not have any impact.
After putting down the wild boar, Jimmy shouted: "What's going on? How did this wild boar get here?"
"I don't know. I didn't notice the wild boar until it was not far from my side."
Father Horton also went outside and said, "It could be the skull, Jimmy. Let's go back right away."
Father Horton arranged for one of the apprentices to pack the boxes and the other to go back to the room to clean up. The four of them drove back to Father Horton's church in Dallas.
"Jimmy, thank you for everything you have done for us." Before leaving, Father Horton specially thanked Jimmy.
Jimmy: "You're welcome, that's right. I haven't thanked you for the exorcism you performed for me last time."
Father Horton took out a small box from his pocket: "This is for you as a souvenir. I made it myself."
Jimmy opened the box, and inside was a small cross pendant. The pendant on the necklace was very small, only about 3cm in length.
Jimmy closed the lid, "Thank you, Father Holden. I'll go back first. If there's nothing else here, I need to rush back to New York."
Jimmy returned to the Dallas office. Lambert briefly asked about the results. He looked at the time and said, "Jimmy, your matter is over. Father Horton will handle the rest. You can now think about the next step." What are you going to do in the next few days?"
Jimmy's eyes lit up: "The next few days?"
Lambert: "Well, I'm applying for a secondment for two weeks. Go ahead."
Jimmy: "Thank you, Director Lambert. I'll go back first."
Jimmy left the office quite unexpectedly. He originally thought he would rush back to New York immediately, but now it only took 4 or 5 days to get this done. Doesn't that mean he has another day off? After thinking about it, Jimmy decided to call Frank. Tom just strictly prohibited himself from contacting the training center and the Counter-Terrorism Bureau. Now that he has time, it would be good to see how retired CIA agents work.
It’s no wonder that Jimmy is impulsive now. The main reason is that he already knows that his CIA identity is in the Treadstone Project, and he will always have to deal with them later. Maybe he will also experience Frank being cleaned up by the CIA assassination team, and Tom’s dragon will be seen. No end in sight, the only place that has anything to do with them is Frank. With my current ability, as long as I'm careful, there should be no problem.
Jimmy: "Hey, how's it going over there?"
Frank: "What's the matter?"
Jimmy: "Ah, give me a call to confirm. Have you checked the remaining two people?"
Frank: "Gabriel Singer is dead."
Jimmy: "Oh, where are you? I need to confirm something with you."
Frank: "I'm very busy right now, can we talk about it later?"
Jimmy: "Please, you are challenging them now. What if something unexpected happens? Let's meet first."
Frank: "Okay, we should be able to get to DC tonight. Come over if it's convenient for you."
Jimmy: "OK, I'm leaving now."
In the evening, Jimmy came to Washington, DC. He wore sunglasses and a cowboy hat the whole time, covering himself tightly. After renting a car using the false identity he had concealed when he was a county police officer in Little Rock, Jimmy drove to a roadside restaurant for dinner and waited for Frank's notification.
Jimmy left the restaurant, parked the car in an open space, sat in the car with his eyes closed, and waited for Frank's arrival. It's just that he wasn't so lucky to rest. In just 2 hours, Jimmy had already scared away two waves of idiots who tried to pry the car door. Because there were no lights around, and Jimmy didn't have his headlights on, the people outside who came to pry the door couldn't see inside the car at all. Someone had to hold Jimmy up to the car window to scare them away, otherwise the car theft might have turned into robbery.
A car drove from a distance and stopped next to Jimmy. Jimmy and Frank got out of the car. There was someone else in the car, but because of the lights, Jimmy couldn't see who it was.
Jimmy: "Frank, are you driving here from Arizona?"
Frank: "Of course, someone is following my whereabouts now. It's best to drive. What do you have to say to me in person?"
Jimmy gestured, and the two of them moved away from the car, "Frank, do you remember the name Tom Kodesky?"
Frank didn't speak, but looked at Jimmy. He was far away from the car and only had a little moonlight, so it was hard to see his expression clearly.
Frank: "What's your relationship with him? How could you possibly know him?"
Jimmy: "Well, he trained me."
Frank: "Are you also a CIA?"
Jimmy coughed: "I don't admit or deny it."
Frank: "You are indeed the CIA. Of course I remember Kordesky. I trained him. But he should be dead. I heard before that he had an accident while on a mission."
Jimmy: "Do you remember him?"
Frank: "It seems he should have learned from Marvin. Where is he?"
Jimmy: "I don't know, but I can let you know after he contacts me."
Frank: "Well, that's it?"
Jimmy: "Well, mainly because of this, and also because I happened to be on vacation recently. Do you think..."
Frank shook his head: "It's too dangerous. You'd better go back."
Jimmy: "Since we have known each other for so long, let me participate and learn from the old-timers."
Frank: "Can you get into Langley?"
Jimmy shook his head and waved his hand: "No, I am currently in a latent state and cannot actively activate my identity. Big problems will occur."
Frank looked at Jimmy and said nothing. Jimmy also knew that he was thinking and did not interrupt him. Finally Frank nodded and said, "Follow from a distance and don't get involved."
The two returned to the car, and an old man got out of Frank's car, "Oh, Mr. Bright, long time no see."
Frank: "That's Marvin, the Marvin on that list."
Jimmy turned to look at Frank: "He has been dead in the system for a few years." Then he turned to look at Marvin: "Marvin, I can't believe it."
Frank: "Okay, we're leaving." Marvin didn't say anything and went directly back to the co-pilot.
Jimmy nodded. Since Frank didn't say where he was going, he just drove and followed them from a distance. Frank must have a plan anyway.
(End of chapter)
