Chapter 88 Chapter 88

The two of them stared at the man lying on the ground together.Puller didn't think he was dead because his whole body was bound tightly.A dead body is not tied up.To be sure, Puller crouched beside the man, took off his gloves, and felt for his pulse. He looked up at Cole and said, "The pulse is slow, but steady. He's been anesthetized." "I also found this," Kerr said. Puller looked in the direction she was pointing, and saw something he had never expected to be there. Several cardboard boxes for documents.Puller opened a small box and found it full of financial documents.Puller pulled out several ledgers.He saw that there were still some small bags inside the box, which contained labeled USB drives.

"What's that?" Cole asked. "It seems to be some financial information. I told you that your sister said that Roger was in some trouble. Maybe there are some secrets in these books that can never be revealed, secrets that only Roger knows." "But who did that to Roger?" "I can guess a thing or two." "Who? I mean—" She couldn't finish, because Pooler was looking over her shoulder. Puller asked, "Have you scoured that area?" "No, I was searching and suddenly found Roger lying on the ground. What's the matter?"

He pointed there and said, "This is what happened." Cole turned away, seeing clearly what attracted Pooler's attention. Opposite them was an object that was glowing.Soft green light.It had just come on, or Puller would have noticed it in the darkness. Cole ran after Puller, drawing her revolver as she ran. Puller stopped, and so did Cole.Cole followed Puller's gaze. A metal box about 1.2 meters square, the outer shell seems to be made of stainless steel.The workmanship is exquisite, and there is no obvious seam, as if it was cast from a large piece of metal.Puller knelt down beside it, touched it with his gloves on, and took them off again.

He looked up at Cole and said, "It's running hot." "What does it heat?" Cole said. "There's no power here." "There's a lot of energy here, Cole. There's probably enough in those drums to power New York City for a thousand years if it went into a nuclear reactor." Cole stared at the metal box in front of him. "This... this is it? Is it a nuclear bomb? It doesn't look like a nuclear bomb." "When have you ever seen a nuclear bomb up close?" "I've seen them hang under the wings of airplanes. I've seen how they were dropped on Japan on the History Channel show. They don't look like boxes."

"Well, shapes can be deceiving." "Is it just powered on? I didn't see any light here." "I didn't see it either, which means this guy just started working." She took a deep breath and said, "Does it have a timer? Is it ticking?" "You've watched too many movies." Puller scanned every inch of the box's surface, looking for a gap, a crease, or a chip.He reached out to touch the box again, hoping to make up for what the vision under the night vision goggles might have missed. "So it doesn't have a timer?" Puller couldn't help but snapped, "Cole, I don't know. Do you understand? I've never been around a nuclear weapon before."

"But you are a soldier." "Not the military that does that. Most of the nukes go to the Navy and Air Force. We infantry do the blue-collar menial jobs, shoot at people, get shot at, just like we did two hundred years ago. Biggest weapon I've ever fiddled with It's a 50 machine gun. You can kill hundreds of people with it. This thing can kill thousands of people, maybe more." "Pole, if you open it, don't we all die, no matter what's in there?" "It's possible, but if I don't open it, we're probably going to die too, plus countless others, no matter what's in there."

His fingers stopped to explore, and they were fixed on the right side of the stainless steel box about ten centimeters from the top. "Did you find anything?" Cole asked. Puller didn't answer, but took out what looked like a dumbbell and pressed a set of numbers.Then he said: "It's time to call in the superiors." "What if the phone doesn't work?" "Then we're screwed, simple as that." Cole was saying something again, but Pooler held up a finger. "The phone is connected." Puller said into the microphone, "Hey, Bobby. Can you tell your little brother how to defuse a nuclear bomb?"