The Blacklist

Chapter 26: Using favors to exchange for weapons, a win-win situation
Kerry smiled, drank the beer in his glass, stood up and said, "Lao Lei, you don't have to owe me a favor, just do me a favor..."

Then, he went to meet Surens DeChambeau, checked out her nightclub, drank two glasses of whiskey with her, and only felt relieved after he was sure that she really agreed to be an informant and had no other intentions except hoping to get a certain degree of protection.

Before leaving, Carrie gave her an emergency contact number, declined the invitation to stay in the nightclub all night, and drove home.

After he got home, he took out his phone from the shielding bag, and it immediately started vibrating, with several missed calls and text messages. He saw the text messages and knew they were all about Elizabeth and Tom, and that everyone else had gone back to work overtime, and Cooper asked him to go back too.

But when he looked at the time, it was already early morning. Forget it, just go to bed!

As usual, I reviewed today's experience before going to bed and found that there was nothing wrong. I killed the "messenger", completed the triggering task 6, obtained 1.1 crime-killing points, and recovered 340 million US dollars of criminal funds. The harvest was not bad.

As for Elizabeth and Tom, it seems that there will be many twists and turns in the future, and Reddington should be very troubled now. I have already given him a lot of hints, and it depends on whether he can do the right thing.

As for the help, he was too lazy to think about it anymore, so he asked Reddington to help get some brand new, unused, unrecorded mainstream and special firearms, just one of each, as soon as possible.

When Reddington heard that he wanted so many kinds of guns, he thought he was going to do something big, but when he heard that he only wanted one of each type, he thought he was just a young man with curiosity or wanted to collect them, so he agreed with a smile and refused to take any money.

Now that I think about it, there is certainly some risk involved, but it is actually very small, and it cannot do anything to him. After all, these are all brand new and unused weapons. Apart from proving that he is a gun enthusiast, it does not prove anything else.
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The next day at work, since Kerry didn't come to work overtime the night before, he thought it would be a good idea to show his appreciation, so he bought dozens of cups of hot coffee and brought them to the post office. When he entered the command hall, he gave a cup to everyone he met, as a way of shutting everyone up.

His move made everyone laugh and cry, and they felt embarrassed to blame him. Only Cooper was still angry, so he had to add another cup of coffee.

Then, he took the remaining coffee to the office, and seeing Elizabeth sitting behind her desk in a daze, he took a cup and handed it to her, asking, "Liz, are you okay?"

Elizabeth took the coffee and said, "Thank you, I'm fine, I just feel very uncomfortable. I don't know if what I did was right?"

"It must have been done right!" Kerry also opened a cup of coffee, took a sip and said, "Don't worry, Tom will be fine this time, this matter can be resolved in a day or two."

Hearing this, Elizabeth's eyes lit up and she said, "Lee, do you know something?"

"Know what?" Carrie said, "I mean, we are SER. We can catch even the most vicious criminals, let alone these little things between you and Tom!"

"It's just a small matter?" Elizabeth said bitterly, "Lee, do you really think so?"

"Of course, compared to your life, this kind of unexpected incident in marriage is of course a small matter." Carrie said as a matter of course. Elizabeth smiled, "Thank you, Lee! Hearing you say that, I feel much better."

"Cheer up, it's no big deal..." Carrie continued to encourage her.

At this time, the office door opened and Cooper appeared at the door. He said with a dark face: "Carrey, come to my office for a moment." Then he turned and left.

Carrie could only get up and walk out with her coffee. When she reached the door, she turned back and said, "See, Liz, this is a smaller matter and it will be over soon!" After that, she walked out.

Elizabeth laughed again, twice in a row, and she really felt much better.
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Sitting behind his desk, Cooper drank coffee and looked at Carrie sitting opposite him, not knowing what to say. This guy has always been reluctant to work overtime, but he is still very good at work, especially in hunting criminals... If only he didn't kill people every time!

When we arrested the "messenger" before, we finally caught him alive. But he shot him again yesterday because he escaped and killed someone. So, no one survived in his hands! However, he is not to blame for the "messenger". On the contrary, he avenged the three bailiffs and performed meritorious service.

Thinking of this, he actually didn't have much anger anymore, but he still wanted to warn him about his bad habit of not answering the phone, so he asked, "What happened last night? Why didn't you answer the call from the base?"

"Cooper, speaking of this, I really have to say something..." Carrie really had an opinion, and he thought it was very important. "Yesterday, after I left work, Reddington asked me out. He even wanted me to drink with him. Of course I refused, but he said that as long as I drank with him, I would have to pay this month's personal income tax. Otherwise, he would let me continue to wait. What can I do?"

"So, if you drank, did he pay the tax?" Cooper asked.

"I paid it. I paid it after I finished drinking!" Carrie said, "I contacted the IRS's tax collection accountant overnight and collected the money and sent it to the bureau." In fact, the tax was collected the night before. He said this because he expected Cooper to be unable to verify it.

When Cooper heard that it was about the IRS, he didn't dare to ask any more questions, but he suddenly realized that he was asking why the man didn't answer the phone!
At this time, Carrie said again: "This Reddington is too cautious. When we met, he took out an electromagnetic shielding bag made of metal wire and asked me to put my phone in it, saying that it was unsafe and the NSA's monitoring was too powerful... What can I do? In order to collect taxes, I can only put my phone in! After I finished my work and went home, I remembered to take my phone out of the bag, but it was already out of battery!"

Cooper didn't know if he was talking nonsense, so he asked, "Electromagnetic shielding bag? Does he usually use this thing to hide his cell phone signal?"

"I don't know." Carrie said, "I've noticed a few times that Reddington never carries a cell phone with him. When he needs to make a call, he uses Dembe's or Zeng Luli's cell phone." As he spoke, he took out a small shielding bag from his pocket and handed it to Cooper. "I think this thing is good. Who knows when it might be useful, so I asked Dembe for a few. This is yours."

Cooper blinked, took it, and asked doubtfully, "Can such a small bag completely block cell phone signals?"

(End of this chapter)