Legendary FBI Detective
Chapter 381: Discoveries and Battles in the Hospital

On the streets of Los Angeles, an SUV raced forward like lightning.

Putting down the phone and maneuvering the steering wheel to overtake the car in front, Luo An slightly relaxed.

Just now, when hearing the name Judas and those thirty silver coins, Luo An immediately guessed that Gerald Morris, who self-proclaimed as Jesus, had identified Nicki as the traitor Judas and planned to eliminate him.

Fortunately, Luo An had just contacted the four SWAT agents guarding Nicki in the hospital, and they had not noticed any abnormalities, which meant Gerald Morris hadn't made his move yet.

Turning the SUV to the right into another road, Luo An thought for a moment and then called Mona:

"Mona, how is the investigation going on the real identity of Mary, Gerald Morris's wife?"

"In the Federal territory, I only found several fake identities that Mary had bought with money.

However, I just checked the records from Federal Customs and Border Protection and found her true situation."

Mona stretched lazily on the other end of the phone, looking at the computer screen and said:

"She is not a federal person; she's Mexican, named Catherine Hidalgo.

No records of her mother, and her father is a drug lord from a city very close to the federal territory, her brother has been involved in the flour business with their father since childhood.

The operation that Gerald Morris participated in was against the drug trafficking organization led by Catherine's father.

Customs and Border Protection records showed that Catherine had died in combat, and I couldn't find how she met and fell in love with Gerald.

But two people who survived the battles, a man and a woman, holding grudges against each other… I already have a movie script and scenes in my mind."

"…After we resolve this case, we should go to the cinema together."

Luo An casually responded to Mona. Hearing about Catherine's nationality, he understood another reason for the murder based on the conditions related to the Twelve Disciples of Jesus:

The main religion within Mexican territory is Catholicism, accounting for about eighty percent of the population. It is highly probable that Catherine is a Catholic, and it's normal for Gerald to start practicing religion influenced by her.

The SUV soon arrived at the hospital, and Luo An went to Nicki's ward, where a nurse was preparing to change his dressing.

The nurse was the same one they had seen when Nicki came out of the operating room.

Luo An frowned slightly and reached out to stop her:

"Wait a moment."

The nurse paused, her face puzzled, and seeing the four SWAT officers change their expression and grab their weapons, she was greatly startled.

"It's alright, don't be nervous."

Luo An waved his hand, showing a sunny smile, and took the medicine bottle from the nurse's hand, smiling and asking:

"Did you mix this medicine yourself just now?"

The nurse breathed a sigh of relief and shook her head:

"No, it was mixed by a colleague."

"Then please mix a new bottle yourself."

The smile still on his face, Luo An took the nurse out of the ward.

Having worked at this hospital for many years, the nurse naturally guessed Luo An's intention. Her heart skipped a beat, but she didn't say much and led Luo An to the medication room.

There was nothing unusual in the medication room, and the nurse mixed a new bottle of medicine in front of Luo An as usual.

Exiting the medication room, the nurse, now calm, asked while walking:

"Agent sir, may I know a little about the case involving the patient in the ward?"

Luo An chuckled:

"A case related to murder."

The nurse rolled her eyes upon hearing this and was about to continue speaking when she suddenly noticed Luo An pulling an item from his lower back. He threw it through the door of the medication room next to the dressing room.

"You..."

The nurse's pupils shrank upon seeing this and she had barely uttered a word when Luo An forcefully pushed her to the ground a short distance away.

Boom!

The next second, a deafening explosion erupted, shattering the glass of the dressing room door, and the nurse quickly raised her head to see Luo An dashing into the room like a cheetah.

On the way to the hospital, Luo An had been contemplating how he would kill Nicki.

There were four SWAT members guarding both inside and outside Nicki's room. Trying to disguise as a doctor to enter the room, or breaking in directly, both seemed to have too low of a success rate.

Nicki's bed was situated in the corner of the room; long-range sniping wouldn't offer a proper view. After much deliberation, Luo An figured that tampering with Nicki's medicine would have the highest chance of success.

Since entering the hospital, Luo An had activated his "emotional perception". Along the way, both SWAT members and nurses seemed unproblematic; however, as he passed the medication room, Luo An sensed a deep-seated malice.

Indeed, just as Luo An rushed into the medication room, a harsh white light slashed at his neck, prompting him to quickly dodge the dagger and prepare to shoot back. The attacker fiercely pushed the handgun aside with the dagger, and swung it towards Luo An's right hand holding the gun.

Judging by the sharpness of the dagger, if it had hit, his right hand would likely have been severed on the spot.

Glancing at the person in front of him—a middle-aged Caucasian man with a cold face and a large eagle hook nose, wearing an unfamiliar lab coat, looking exactly like Gerald Morris in his photos—Luo An snorted internally. He swept his handgun horizontally to block the attack, while his left hand drew a dagger from his leg and thrust it viciously towards the man.

Snap—

Gerald Morris reacted quickly too. His other hand immediately rose to parry Luo An's left hand, while his right hand continued wielding the dagger towards Luo An's neck and lifted his knee to fiercely strike Luo An's abdomen, but Luo An defended against and countered these attacks.

Nearby, in the room where Nicki was located, four SWAT members heard the explosion. The two standing at the door immediately grabbed their guns and dashed towards the medication room.

"Freeze!"

"Hands up!"

The two SWAT members ran to the entrance of the medication room, guns raised and shouting, just as Luo An and Gerald had created a slight distance between them.

With a cold smirk, Luo An caught Gerald's swinging arm with his right hand holding the handgun, and with his grip on the dagger, he suddenly back-sliced towards Gerald's wrists while quickly pulling the trigger with his right hand.

Bang! Bang!

Two blood sprays flew from Gerald's wrists, and two gunshots blossomed blood from his shoulder and chest. Without waiting for a response, Luo An then forcefully kicked Gerald in the chest.

Thud—

A pained expression on his face, Gerald flew backwards, crashing right in front of the two SWAT members. Luo An tucked away his dagger, walked out of the medication room, and said with a tone of disdain:

"It's convenient that we're in a hospital. Cuff him and take him to the surgery room!

And don't forget, add the cost of the medicine just wasted to his bill!"

"...Understood!"

The two SWAT agents, their eyes wide and faces in shock, quickly nodded and together they firmly cuffed Gerald, pulling over a medication cart to push him towards the surgery room.

The two SWAT agents clearly saw that the gunshot wounds in Gerald's chest and shoulder looked severe, but were not fatal.

What was really serious were Gerald's wrists. Luo An's strikes had severed his tendons, effectively ensuring that Gerald would no longer be able to wield a dagger or kill again in the future.

Ding-a-ling—

Ignoring the nurse's rapid and constant distraught gazes, Luo An pulled out the ringing phone from his pocket:

"What's up?"

"Good news."

On the phone was Mona's voice, as she said with a laugh:

"We've found Mary."

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