CHAPTER 1416: CHAPTER 1411: I WANT TO LEAVE

Twenty-four hours and twenty-four seconds after the agreed time with Ivan, Yang Yi’s phone rang.

Yang Yi glanced at the phone, shook his head, then answered it and immediately nodded heavily, indicating that it was Ivan calling.

Porter let out a long breath, and in a not very large meeting room, everyone’s expression became solemn.

"Hello, Mr. Ivan."

"Hello, Sea God, I am someone who keeps my word, right?"

"I have never doubted that, Mr. Ivan."

"On the outskirts of Baltimore, at the intersection of Route 99 and Route 32, go find it. I believe you can find it, and that’s it."

Ivan hung up the phone, Yang Yi looked up, with an extremely grim face said, "On the outskirts of Baltimore, at the intersection of Route 99 and Route 32, very clear."

In a short period, within a matter of seconds, the atmosphere solidified, to put it in a cliché way, it was deathly quiet.

Why is that? Because the city of Baltimore is just north of Washington D.C., very close, extremely close, which means a nuclear bomb is hidden next to the capital of the United States.

Moreover, who knows from where the nuclear bomb was transported?

After a brief silence of ten seconds, someone shouted, "Right here."

On the screen of the projector on the wall, a location was marked out, hmm, about a hundred kilometers from the capital.

Porter waved his hand and said, "Move out, you go ahead, notify the FBI when you’re close."

The operation is to be a joint operation with the FBI, a direct order from the president himself, and over at the FBI, top agents have also been assigned, ready to coordinate with the CIA in the operation.

However, though it’s a joint operation, the nuclear bomb must be discovered and secured first by the CIA, so some timing considerations can be made.

Yang Yi said nothing, naturally, it wasn’t his place to say anything.

A dozen people quickly exited the meeting room and boarded helicopters that had been on standby ready for takeoff at any time.

Two helicopters lifted off.

No one knew where the nuclear bomb might appear, perhaps in New York, perhaps in Los Angeles, and of course, perhaps right near Washington, so not only were helicopters prepared, but aircraft designated for transporting the team were also on standby, and as it stood now, there was no need for long-distance aircraft, the helicopter could fly directly there.

There was no seeing the nuclear bomb, and still, no one dared to assume it was already over.

The helicopters quickly arrived above the location Ivan mentioned.

Yang Yi was the contact but not the commander, because the commander now was Walter. Clearly, after fulfilling his duty, Yang Yi’s status wasn’t sufficient for commanding this operation.

Walter said into the intercom, "Turn on the searchlights, observe if there’s anything unusual on the ground."

The searchlights were turned on, and at a corner of a field where the two roads intersected, the searchlight quickly discovered a pickup truck.

"Look at that vehicle?"

Walter nodded after Yang Yi pointed, and then immediately said, "Land a bit farther away, block the road."

The helicopter landed, a dozen people quickly set up barricades on nearby roads to stop and keep cars from approaching, then the helicopter landed on the road.

Under the protection of four special forces soldiers, Yang Yi, Walter, and a nuclear weapons expert quickly ran towards the pickup.

The rear half of the pickup was covered with a tarp, and Yang Yi immediately climbed into the back of the pickup, pulling back the tarp to reveal a wooden crate inside. Walter waved his hand and said, "Open it!"

Walter shouted to the four soldiers beside him, "You can leave here now!"

"Sir! We..."

"Leave here, nothing for you here anymore."

The four soldiers instantly turned and left, and Yang Yi lowered the tailgate of the pickup, Walter and the nuclear weapons expert immediately climbed onto the vehicle.

Yang Yi nodded, then directly uncovered the wooden crate.

There was a rack inside the wooden crate, on the rack was a white painted cone-shaped object; the nuclear weapons expert only needed a glance and didn’t even use a personal Geiger counter, immediately saying, "Repainted, I believe it was originally disguised as something to mask its original shape, this is a nuclear warhead that can be mounted on ss-19 and ss-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles, with a megaton yield."

Walter quietly asked, "Megaton?"

"Yes, megaton, this is a nuclear warhead for strategic intercontinental missiles... as for whether it’s a live or a dud warhead, I’ll need to conduct a detailed examination to be sure."

Live warheads are those that can be detonated, dud warheads are those that can’t.

This isn’t a movie, so there wasn’t a display showing the time, with a countdown usually just a few hours from detonation; whether it can be detonated still needs to be determined.

The nuclear weapons expert is an expert on nuclear weapons; his eyesight or observation skills aren’t necessarily sharp.

Yang Yi quietly said, "No need to check, it’s live, because they left us the detonator."

Of course, triggering a nuclear bomb isn’t that simple; to prevent accidental launches or explosions, nuclear bomb triggering is very complicated, ordinary people picking up a nuclear warhead couldn’t set it off.

But a nuclear warhead with a complete detonation controller is certainly a live one, right?

Yang Yi pointed to a small case beside him and quietly said, "This is the nuclear button."

The box hadn’t been opened yet, the nuclear weapons expert immediately opened it, then seeing the not very refined or high-tech looking box inside, he sighed and said quietly, "That’s right, this is the nuclear button, the detonator, the nuclear trigger, call it whatever you like, but this nuclear bomb can indeed be detonated. I don’t know if a password is needed, as it could be built-in, just press to detonate, or perhaps a temporary password is needed; I need to see if there’s a place to input a password, and if there is..."

"Wait, that’s enough."

Walter stopped the nuclear weapons expert and then, with a gloomy face, said, "That’s enough, study it when we get back slowly, now your work here is finished."

The nuclear weapons expert nodded, but then quietly said, "Transporting nuclear weapons requires a lot of care."

"Well, someone didn’t seem to care too much about safety when bringing this thing here."

The nuclear weapons expert continued, "I need to measure the radiation levels, it will help us later in the search, gentlemen, I suggest you step back a bit if you understand the dangers of nuclear radiation."

Walter twitched his face, looking helpless, and said, "No one can get close here now, because this damned nuclear bomb has a detonator attached! Sir, please leave now, the research can only be conducted later."

After he finished, Walter looked helplessly at Sea God and said, "You leave too, security here is on the highest level, notify the FBI to come over, and don’t forget to tell our superiors to quickly send someone to replace me, I really don’t want to be standing next to a nuclear bomb!"