Jimmy's car and the truck were both driven away by the staff and parked in the underground parking lot, suggesting a long-term mission was about to take place here.

Gordon and his team of five began arranging all the materials in the meeting room. Two men entered from outside, one a thin, tall old man with grey-white hair that hinted at being over 50 years old, wearing glasses with not a few wrinkles on his face, expressionless. Following him was a somewhat burly middle-aged man, who looked more like a field agent.

Noah Watson: "I am the head of the Anti-Terrorism Bureau, Noah Watson. Who is in charge here?"

Gordon stepped forward and shook hands with Noah, "Gordon Glenn, head of the FBI's Anti-Terrorism Division. This is Scott, Joey, Harry, and this here is Agent Jimmy Yang from the Manhattan office."

Noah nodded his head and turned to the person beside him, "Kerry, have our people come over and listen to the case details."

Kerry nodded and then left the meeting room. Noah sat down while Gordon and the others continued to arrange all the materials, with video evidence also set aside, ready to be played.

As Jimmy was organizing things, facing Noah Watson, even though he wasn't being stared at, the pressure felt immense. Noah Watson really was as Tom had described: he seemed very dangerous, cold-blooded, calm, with a sharp gaze. Even though the frameless glasses made him look more refined, the preconception made Jimmy feel as if he were in the presence of a venomous snake eyeing its prey.

A few minutes later, the Anti-Terrorism Bureau's people came in, and soon the meeting room was nearly full.

Noah: "Agent Gordon, begin."

Gordon looked at Jimmy, "Jimmy, please give us an introduction."

Having already briefed the case details many times to various people, Jimmy felt slightly nervous in front of Noah Watson, but now wasn't the time to dwell on that. He promptly recounted the case, from the accidental incident to the arising questions, and from obtaining a notebook from the girlfriend of the deceased, Ashi. Then, he moved on to projections, showing on the screen three pages from the notebook with the content enlarged for all in the room to see.

Addressing the content recorded in the documents, Jimmy reiterated his initial speculations and the subsequent surveillance team's monitoring of Jinnie, explaining everything before pausing to see if there were any questions from others.

Noah gestured to continue, and Jimmy went on with their follow-up investigation—from the vehicle information gathered at the parking garage to the arrest of the driver Abdul, discovering the bomb under his vehicle, and then to the phone records of the journalist Ashi obtained from the NSA, which led to the video confirming Ashi's meeting with someone. Jimmy presented all the clues they had discovered so far, then stepped back to let the members of the Anti-Terrorism Bureau digest the case.

Noah Watson looked around at the others, who seemed to have no doubts about the clues the FBI had presented so far, and no one questioned Jimmy's account.

Noah then had to ask himself, "Have you identified the person who met with Ashi?"

Jimmy, "No, we confirmed through the surveillance from shops near the café that the individual entered the parking garage, but since the parking garage's cameras had long been destroyed, there was no way to verify which car the person got into. So, we didn't pursue the parking garage further. After more than a week, no one could remember clearly.

However, we have a burner phone number that journalist Ashi used to contact this person, and we haven't continued the investigation on this phone yet, but it's our next step."

Noah: "And what about the Abdul you caught?"

Gordon took over the conversation, "He is currently detained in a holding cell at the Manhattan office. We obtained two laptops and a damaged voice recorder from the warehouse where Abdul lived. One of the laptops and the damaged voice recorder likely belong to journalist Ashi, but we haven't yet managed to crack the laptop."

Noah: "OK, these are the two clues we need to follow up on. Kerry, take someone and bring Abdul over. Fanny, take the laptops to get them unlocked, and have the tech team see if they can recover anything from the voice recorder. Everyone else, to the command center, start with tracing the burner phone related to journalist Ashi's contact and work from there. Let's begin."

The Anti-Terrorism Bureau's people got up and left the room, Noah Watson left the meeting room, and Kerry also departed with a team. Gordon had Joey accompany him to the FBI's Manhattan office.

A woman in her thirties came over and took the two laptops and the damaged voice recorder, while another person brought in a large box. He said to Gordon, "Agent Gordon, we need to import all of these into the system for easy access in the command center."

Gordon nodded. All the text records, videos, and various reports were scanned and transferred using the equipment in the big box. This clearly showed the professionalism of the Anti-Terrorism Bureau. Gordon noticed that since arriving in Manhattan, he'd always been reviewing all the materials in the meeting room, mostly on paper and videotapes; the FBI office here simply didn't have such an integrated command center and was operating in a mode where individual teams worked independently.

But Jimmy always felt that the box the man brought seemed familiar. That reminded him, three years ago when Tom was processing his identity, he had also brought a box like this, filled with equipment, albeit the functions were different from what this man's box seemed to house.

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