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Jack noticed that the girl's palms and knees were covered with dried blood.

Although he had experienced so many cases, he still found it hard to imagine what a tragic experience it was for a ten-year-old girl to return home happily only to see her mother lying in a pool of blood.

"Is this your fortress, soldier? Did you build it yourself?" Jack squatted in front of the girl, trying to act like a kind and amiable older brother.

The alertness on the little girl's face was finally not as strong as before, and she responded, "This is my father who helped me build it. Have you found him?"

Jack pretended to check the time. In fact, they came quite hastily this time. NCIS was still busy searching for survivors and rescuing data servers in the half-collapsed building.

In other words, they could not provide any help for the time being.

If it was under normal circumstances, the wanted criminal team would contact the state police or the local police station directly, and things would be simpler.

At least they would not be in the dark as they did when they came here. On the way from New York, they did not get any useful information except the address of the crime scene.

Fortunately, it was just a little time wasted. When they got off the plane, Alice went directly to the local town police station.

In fact, let alone the FBI, even the local state police and town police were confused. It was clearly stated that NCIS would take over the case because it involved suspected naval soldiers and their families, but now it was a group of FBI.

After a reconfirmation of jurisdiction, until Jack and Jubal finished questioning the neighbors, Alice asked for a meeting room at the police station to settle down.

"Don't worry, we will help you meet him soon." In fact, until now Jack has not figured out which department or unit of the Navy the girl's father, Lieutenant Colonel Barnes, belongs to.

But he didn't want to lie to a ten-year-old girl, so he changed his euphemism.

This little girl named Rachel is much smarter and more mature than Jack imagined. Hearing this, the light in her eyes dimmed again.

"Can you please not let me leave here?" The little girl begged in a low voice, "I will be safe hiding here. Even if they come back, they can't hurt me."

"Who are 'they'? Rachel." Jubal's face sank and he asked hurriedly.

"Those bad guys who want to kill my father." The little girl's innocent eyes were full of fear.

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In the meeting room of the small town police station, Clay and Hannah came late.

"The victim, Valerie Barnes, is a clinical psychologist at a psychological counseling service center in Richmond. She is half a colleague of you and Jack."

Hannah took the purified water handed to her by Jiejie, and drank the bottle in a few gulps without saying thank you.

"After asking the neighbors around, Clay and I went to her workplace and talked to her colleagues.

According to Valerie's colleagues, she is a good person, and no one has had any conflicts with her recently, including her patients."

"I'm here to contact the judge and need to get all her medical records." Jubal took the initiative to take over this task.

"Where is her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Barnes? Has the Navy declassified the files?" Jack looked at Alice, who was busy with her head down.

They waited until the people from the child welfare department came and took the little girl Rachel away before leaving. Alice's work was still not going well, and the Navy had not synchronized the data.

Alice answered without raising her head, "Just received that Ryan Barnes is a commander of the Navy SEALs. More information will take time to synchronize.

But he is currently undergoing survival training in an anti-terrorism action group. I have notified him and he should be here tonight."

She used the word "SEAL", which means that Lieutenant Colonel Barnes is a general SEAL belonging to the Navy Special Operations Group, not the SEAL Team 6 where Clay was before.

Clay's face showed no surprise. Only the identity of a member of the special forces needs to be declassified after so many approvals, which delays for so long.

The printer spit out a few A4 papers with a creaking sound. Aubrey picked it up and quickly flipped through it. His expression was a little strange. "Another commander with outstanding achievements. He successfully carried out nearly 20 missions during his time as a SEAL."

"Put away those offensive thoughts in your mind." Clay looked at the boy dangerously. "Not every SEAL is a murderer. Our guns will always be pointed at the enemy."

"I don't mean that. I respect all soldiers who serve the country." What really threatened Aubrey was not Clay's fierce eyes, but his thick arms with bulging veins.

Three of the seven people in the team were women, and Jubal was the commander and a little older, so during normal training, only Jack and Aubrey could really be Clay's opponents.

In this matter, Aubrey was on par with Jack. After all, one could not be beaten by anyone, and the other could not be beaten by anyone either.

So it was natural that he was the one who received the most punches from Clay among the crowd, although they were all wearing protective gear.

It was just that the first case they handled for NCIS not long ago, the murderer was a retired Navy SEAL veteran, so it was no wonder that Aubrey's expression was so strange.

Jubal thought of another possibility, "Is it possible that the murderer's real target is actually Lieutenant Colonel Barnes? The murderer killed his wife just to vent his anger?"

Everyone immediately thought of what the little girl said before, and then Jack asked in detail, but unfortunately you can't expect a ten-year-old girl to know too much.

Rachel told the FBI that she learned from her parents' conversation that her father had been threatened by something because of "work" not long ago, and her mother was very worried about it.

Jack looked at Clay and saw that he frowned and said nothing, and he was also not very sure, "From the murder method, it is unlikely, but this possibility cannot be completely ruled out."

"I'll go prepare a safe house right away." Clay understood.

"I think your guess makes sense." At this time, Alice on the side suddenly said.

"While I was waiting for NCIS to synchronize the files, I looked up the name Ryan Barnes on the Internet, and then I found his identity as a SEAL very smoothly."

"This is impossible! Whether it is SEAL Team 6 or ordinary SEALs, the identity of each member is strictly confidential." Clay walked quickly behind Alice and looked at the computer screen in front of her.