Los Angeles Legendary Sleuth

"I'll take care of the arrangements. It's not about what you want now, it's about what I give you.

And my attitude depends on your performance." Lynn Brouss sat back down beside the interrogation table, her tone indisputable, "Tell me everything you know, the motives for the terrorist attack, the laboratory making biochemical weapons, raw materials, the more detailed, the better."

Listening to Lynn Brouss interrogate, Luke didn't interrupt. He was secretly learning FBI interrogation methods.

There's no denying, this department is indeed quite straightforward and violent.

Lynn Brouss's attitude was always clear: if you don't talk, I'll make you suffer, make life worse than death for you. Here, terrorists have no human rights.

If this were the LAPD, a suspect threatened like that would have called a lawyer already.

In terms of intimidation, the FBI far surpasses the Los Angeles Police Department.

Severo Joli exclaimed, "In 2018, I was sent to the Middle East to conduct research on biochemical weapons.

We did many experiments, the subjects were local terrorists we captured, the methods were cruel, but indeed broke some technical shackles, achieving remarkable results.

In 2020, I began to feel unwell. Although not yet diagnosed, I knew my body well. I knew something was seriously wrong, so I applied to return home for treatment.

Soon after returning home, I was diagnosed with Yagora syndrome.

I found that there were only a few cases of this syndrome globally, with only 3 to 4 years between onset and death. And because there are so few cases, medical institutions know very little about the syndrome, there's no medication to treat Yagora syndrome at all.

I don't want to die.

I approached several pharmaceutical companies, hoping to ask them to develop related medication. I know they have the capability, but they all refused without exception.

The reason is simple: too few people get this disease, even fewer need the drugs, and the cost of developing the medication is too high. They not only wouldn't profit, they couldn't even recover their costs. So, in a way, they were sentencing me to death.

I don't want to die, so I must save myself.

But self-rescue is easier said than done; I'm a biochemical weapon expert, not an expert in drug development. Faced with this syndrome, I had no solution, so I had to use other means to save myself."

Lynn Brouss asked, "Your way of saving yourself was to orchestrate terrorist attacks."

"Yes, that's what I do best. Those pharmaceutical companies think too few people get this syndrome? Then I'll create more cases, so they'll have the incentive to develop treatment drugs. Even if they don't want to, the government would force them to develop it.

And I also found out that a small group of people are immune to the virus causing this syndrome. If I could obtain that person's blood and bone marrow, there's a chance to develop a special treatment drug.

I know this plan is unlikely to succeed, but it is my only option."

"How did you meet Tapani Reagan?"

"Met him in the Middle East. His team once provided us with protection, and we got along well back then.

Not long after I returned to the States, he also retired.

He's just as unlucky as me, not much better off. I'm close to being physically dead, he's close to being spiritually dead.

When I saw him again, he had already become a homeless man. I bought him a drink, we talked, and shared our miseries. I could feel his hostility toward the government and society.

So, I pulled him into the terrorist organization.

His idea was to kill the adulterer, and I helped him achieve that. If God told him about it, I think he would be very happy."

Lynn Brouss asked, "How did you get involved with Middle Eastern terrorists?"

"Producing biochemical weapons requires funds, laboratories, and raw materials, just myself couldn't handle it. And, I needed an excuse to stage biochemical attacks, so I collaborated with Middle Eastern terrorists who wanted to rescue terrorist leader L338, while I purely wanted to execute biological attacks.

I understand the American government well; they will never release a terrorist leader, which gives me a pretext to continue launching biochemical attacks.

Until the American government forces pharmaceutical companies to develop a special drug for Yagora syndrome or finds someone immune to the virus.

If I was solely conducting biochemical attacks, you guys could easily guess my purpose, and then I would be extremely passive without any chance of success.

As for those Middle Eastern terrorists, they also are pleased to recruit a terrorist on American soil, so we hit it off."

Luke asked, "Did you also kill freelance investigative journalist Anette Stone?"

"Yes, that slaughterhouse was one of our bases. Anette Stone was doing a news investigation on retired veterans. He followed Tapani Reagan to the slaughterhouse and saw things he shouldn't have seen.

We had to kill him, then use the cold storage and machines to dispose of his body.

I know it sounds cruel, but I didn't think much at the time, just wanted to handle the body in the simplest way."

With Severo Joli's testimony, the dismemberment case can also be closed.

After that, they questioned Severo Joli about the location of the biochemical weapon manufacturing, raw materials, funding sources, etc.

The interrogation lasted more than two hours.

Leaving the interrogation room, Luke was starved, feeling his stomach touching his back.

But he was in a good mood, the crisis of a potential biochemical attack was lifted.

The door to the adjacent observation room also opened, and out came an elderly white lady of short stature, gray-haired, kind face, and she approached Luke to shake hands, "Hi, Luke, pleased to meet you."

Luke shook her hand and looked inquiringly at Lynn Brouss.

Lynn Brouss didn't speak, just stood quietly aside, her reaction was easily readable. This update ıs available on novel(ꜰ)ire.net

"I might as well introduce myself, I'm Aysha Gard, the head of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office."

"Pleased to meet you, Madam."

"Likewise, young man, welcome to join the FBI Los Angeles Field Office.

I've already prepared an office for you, you can move in anytime.

Come on, I'll show you around."