Chapter 1279: Taking the Blame

As soon as he said that, Joe’s expression turned strange.

John had mentioned in private that he and Luke had killed the robbers together.

What was even more of a coincidence was that Dustin had been in Los Angeles at the time, and was Luke’s direct boss.

Thinking that, Joe’s hair stood on end. So, the explosions were aimed at the Detective Bureau and his three colleagues?

The old man nodded slightly. “That’s right. Peter Gruber, whose real name is Simon Peter Gruber, is Hans Gruber’s brother.”

John looked bitter. “So, that’s why this sh*t locked onto me?”

The African-American agent nodded. “That’s right. We think that Simon is here to avenge his brother. After all, you caught his brother and sentenced him to hundreds of years in prison. He will never be eligible for parole.”

John was lost for words. Wait, that wasn’t right!

He looked at Dustin, who was next to him, only to see his boss give him a look that said, “Hang in there, you have to tough it out alone.”

John cursed inwardly. Wasn’t it Luke who knocked Hans out in the end? Why was Simon looking for revenge with him?

The old man seemed to guess what he was thinking. He said, “Your colleague was indeed involved in the Nakatomi Plaza case, but the survivors don’t know his ident.i.ty. None of the robbers even saw him. As for you…”

John immediately understood and couldn’t help but curse.

The only hostage who died in the Nakatomi Plaza case was the colleague of John’s ex-wife. The man had stupidly revealed John’s relations.h.i.+p to her to Hans, as well as the fact that John was a NYPD detective, before Hans shot him.

So, the criminals knewJohn’s ident.i.ty back then, and it made sense that Simon had come looking for him.

Luke, on the other hand, had been stealthily rescuing people that night. He had even put on a mask. Most of the criminals who ran into him died. Hans was alive, but he had been knocked out when his back was to Luke.

After the incident, the case file had been transferred to the FBI. Few people in LAPD knew that the detective was Luke.

NYPD had also locked down the information, but Hans and the criminals had known John’s ident.i.ty from that night; there was no need to investigate it at all.

Dustin looked at John’s expression with a strange expression of his own.

In other words, Dustin wasn’t the scapegoat this time… Wait, the other party didn’t know that he was Luke’s backer in the Nakatomi Plaza case. So, this was John and Luke’s fault?

Thinking that, he no longer felt depressed, but in fact relaxed.

As it turned out, this matter had something to do with him; he and Luke were now in the same boat.

If they couldn’t solve the case this time, even becoming the head of a smaller department would be hard. It would also be impossible for Luke to be as comfortable as he was now under Dustin’s protection.

Just do your best!

John looked like he had just eaten sh*t.

It wasn’t that he felt wronged for taking the blame for Luke.

If Luke hadn’t intervened, he and his ex-wife might’ve died in Nakatomi Plaza.

But the real question was, why was he always the unlucky one?

It felt like his luck had been c.r.a.p for the last few years. A certain officer suddenly felt like crying.

…

Luke was also stunned when he heard this.

It actually had to do with the Nakatomi Plaza case? That was… d*mn annoying.

n.o.body knew that Hans Gruber’s older brother, Simon, was such a ruthless person.

Simon was basically active in Europe. This person was basically an unknown quant.i.ty, and there didn’t seem to be any traces of him.

Luke hadn’t investigated it too deeply. After all, he had arrested a lot of criminals, and they had even more family members; he couldn’t go through all their records in thorough detail.

But when he remembered how Simon had ordered John to wear only his underwear and a signboard on the street for everyone to see, Luke was creeped out.

Thankfully, he had cleaned up after himself and hadn’t shown his face to the criminals and hostages.

Simon could be considered lucky.

If they had investigated Luke in detail before this, any communication carried out would basically be via the phone or Internet.

As long as these people mentioned Luke multiple times, the multifaceted system would pick it up and warn Luke.

That way, Luke would have gotten wind of these people, and they would be monitored and investigated.

Simon might not have the chance to hide and direct the terrorists.

Thinking quickly, Luke immediately sent a message to Tony.

Tony had already arrived in New York at that moment, but a large number of rescuers had already arrived at the Wall Street subway station that had just exploded, and he wasn’t needed.

Now, the tyc.o.o.n could only investigate in other ways to try and find leads.

Tony felt helpless.

Most of the lackeys of the Ten Rings he had dealt with had been in the mountain wilderness. Even if there were villagers, there weren’t many of them, and it was very easy to screen them.

But these terrorists were in Manhattan, the most populated metropolis in the world. It would be very hard to find them in a sea of people.

After receiving the message from Batman, he finally heaved a sigh of relief. He finally had a direction!

Batman proposed a two-p.r.o.nged investigation.

Firstly, investigate Simon Peter Gruber.

Secondly, start with John McClane, the person from NYPD at the center of this case and whom Simon had a grudge against.

Both directions would lead to Simon himself.

This caller was the key figure in the subway explosions. Even if he wasn’t the main ringleader, he should be second or third in command.

As long as they found the guy who controlled the explosions, the problem would be greatly simplified, and the incident would be completely resolved.

Thinking that, Tony hacked into the phones of everyone in the logistics van.

Luke could do the same, but he didn’t want anyone to detect his multifaceted system, so he hardly ever used this sort of crude invasion method.

Tony didn’t care. It was normal for him to hack into other people’s systems to do snoops;

not

doing so wasn’t his style.

At that moment, Simon called.

This time, Simon directly called Dustin’s cell phone, proving once again that this wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment plan.

This time, Simon was even more smug.

He directly called them out on the fact that John was in a car with the FBI and Homeland Security. He even greeted the three agents over the phone by name.

It was a shock to the people in the car, and the warning the words contained couldn’t be any clearer to the tyc.o.o.n and Luke, who were listening in.