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Chapter 509: The Videotape Appears · Oct 11, 2026

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501 Chapter 501: The Ship That Swept Everything Aside 2026-10-11
502 Chapter 502: A Long-Overdue Contact 2026-10-11
503 Chapter 503: Atmospheric Hyper-Acceleration Launch System 2026-10-11
504 Chapter 504: The Armor’s First Real Combat Test 2026-10-11
505 Chapter 505: A Rescue That Wasn’t Quite Perfect 2026-10-11
506 Chapter 506: Withdrawal 2026-10-11
507 Chapter 507: Identity Exposed 2026-10-11
508 Chapter 508: Private Communication Line 2026-10-11
509 Chapter 509: The Videotape Appears 2026-10-11
510 Chapter 510: Informing the Young Master 2026-10-11
511 Chapter 511: Meeting Up 2026-10-11
512 Chapter 512: The Truth Revealed 2026-10-11
513 Chapter 513: Where the Serum Went 2026-10-11
514 Chapter 514: Sentry 2026-10-11
515 Chapter 515: The Tough Guy Who Insisted on Taking the Bus 2026-10-11
516 Chapter 516: The Secret Base Under Surprise Attack 2026-10-11
517 Chapter 517: Hints of the Blood God Ritual 2026-10-11
518 Chapter 518: The Man in the Medical Tank 2026-10-11
519 Chapter 519: Edgewood Tower 2026-10-11
520 Chapter 520: Infiltration 2026-10-11
521 Chapter 521: Corridor Showdown 2026-10-11
522 Chapter 522: Temple of Eternal Night 2026-10-11
523 Chapter 523: Showing Off Gets You Struck by Lightning 2026-10-11
524 Chapter 524: Dr. Johnson 2026-10-11
525 Chapter 525: Cleaning the Field 2026-10-11
526 Chapter 526: Wrapping Things Up 2026-10-11
527 Chapter 527: A Cleaner Los Angeles 2026-10-11
528 Chapter 528: A Distress Call from New York 2026-10-11
529 Chapter 529: The Elderly Woman with Dementia 2026-10-11
530 Chapter 530: The Eye of an Elder 2026-10-11
531 Chapter 531: Escaping Smoothly 2026-10-11
532 Chapter 532: Dinner After Surviving Disaster 2026-10-11
533 Chapter 533: Trouble Returns 2026-10-11
534 Chapter 534: The Only Candidate 2026-10-11
535 Chapter 535: The True Target 2026-10-11
536 Chapter 536: Superman vs. Void 2026-10-11
537 Chapter 537: Quicksilver Joins the Battle 2026-10-11
538 Chapter 538: Stepping on Air 2026-10-11
539 Chapter 539: The X-Men Enter the Fight 2026-10-11
540 Chapter 540: Fierce Battle 2026-10-11
541 Chapter 541: Miscalculation 2026-10-11
542 Chapter 542: The Void’s Temptation 2026-10-11
543 Chapter 543: The Mages of Kamar-Taj 2026-10-11
544 Chapter 544: A Battle Without Restraint 2026-10-11
545 Chapter 545: An Opportunity Too Dangerous to Swallow 2026-10-11
546 Chapter 546: Dormammu Interferes 2026-10-11
547 Chapter 547: A Good Sentry 2026-10-11
548 Chapter 548: Another Battle Against the X-Men 2026-10-11
549 Chapter 549: A Snap of the Fingers 2026-10-11
550 Chapter 550: Blurred Memories 2026-10-11

Chapter 509: Chapter 509: The Videotape Appears

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Jack Reacher noticed that the support drone Little Duck was moving differently now.

Especially the warning light on the square upper body—it had changed from red back to green.

Reacher greeted it.

”You’re back? Earlier I tried talking to this machine, but it only gave simple mechanical replies. That’s when I realized you’d stepped away for a while.

”Hope you don’t mind me borrowing your first-aid kit. I only mentioned it, and that little spherical robot brought everything out.”

Through Little Duck’s electronic voice, Henry replied:

”Don’t worry. Tools are meant to be used. Your injuries aren’t serious, are they?”

”The strength those vampires had was incredible for their size,” Reacher said. ”But still within what I can handle.”

Looking at this man—easily classified among the toughest of humans—Henry knew there was no need to worry much.

Now that the principal had returned, Reacher finished tending his wounds more quickly.

After packing up the first-aid kit, the remaining items—including trash—were collected by BB-2. The small robot then retreated into the hidden second-level space.

Little Duck floated forward and addressed the former Military Police Special Investigations captain.

”Then please explain the progress of your investigation.

”Since we’re speaking over communications, any names or sensitive people involved do not need to be spoken directly. Just tell me roughly how far you’ve gotten.

”Depending on the situation, I may not be the only one listening. To save your time, I need to judge whether the concerned party should also be informed. You understand.”

Reacher frowned.

”Wouldn’t it make more sense for me to report to you, and then you relay it to that person?”

Little Duck shook left and right in a very human-like gesture.

”No, no, no. You don’t think that person is too arrogant to deal with you directly, do you?

”It’s not that. I only handle miscellaneous matters. But I can’t predict what details he would want to know.

”So when you’ve gathered enough intelligence and feel ready to report, naturally you should speak to him directly.

”Unless the reason you came to me today was because you ran into difficulties and needed someone to assist you. That falls within my scope of work.

”Of course, only the parts I can solve. If it exceeds my capability, I still have to notify him.”

Reacher nodded.

After a moment of consideration, Henry added:

”Besides, because of my relationship with that person—and with the subject of the investigation—I’m not really a suitable middleman.

”It takes a neutral third party like you, someone completely uninvolved, to restrain some of his irrational behavior.

”At the very least, for a stranger’s sake, he probably won’t say anything too harsh.”

Whether that spoiled rich kid would actually restrain himself, Henry had no idea.

What he did know was that if he wanted to avoid being yelled at, the best strategy was naturally to trick someone else into handling it.

Since they were speaking over communications, both men tacitly avoided mentioning certain names directly, instead speaking in vague terms.

After hearing the explanation, Reacher frowned.

”This complicated?”

”If you investigated the relationship between those two people, then you should understand.”

”I do.”

Reacher stopped dwelling on it and continued.

”Fine. Then I’ll begin.

”The investigation really has hit a bottleneck.

”What happened back then was not the accident everyone believes it was.

”It was deliberate. Planned. Human action.

”Whether the target was a person or an object, I still can’t say for certain.”

Henry’s attention sharpened.

”But I found the culprit.

”More accurately—I know who the culprit is.

”The problem is that continuing the investigation creates many obstacles.

”One of them is authority. I don’t have clearance to investigate certain records.

”And I suspect this kind of sensitive data usually has tripwire mechanisms attached.

”In other words, whether or not I find anything, simply accessing the records could alert certain people.

”If there’s a cleanup protocol behind it, it would definitely trigger.”

Reacher’s expression remained calm.

”I was careful. I never directly touched anything that could lead investigators back to me.

”But I can’t be certain I erased every trace.

”I can’t be sure no one can still find me.”

He paused.

”When I ran into those vampires, I actually thought it was the other side tracking me down.

”But after reviewing the circumstances—and how the vampires behaved—it was probably just coincidence.”

Henry was speechless.

”You knew trouble might already be following you, and you still stopped to save someone?”

”At first I thought the situation would be easy to handle,” Reacher said plainly. ”Who knew I’d run into opponents like that?”

”And that’s why you didn’t want to meet the police?”

”Correct.”

”You came here secretly too?”

”I created several breaks in my trail during travel. Following me wouldn’t be easy.

”But after the vampire incident, I can’t be sure whether the victim saw my face.”

”Mm.”

Having grasped the situation, Henry no longer pursued whether Reacher’s trail had been compromised.

Instead, he returned to the real issue.

”You said you found the culprit.

”Do you have evidence?”

Reacher reached into the backpack he never let out of his sight and pulled out a videotape.

At the same time, he said:

”This is the traffic footage from the crash.”

Far away on the airplane, Henry stared wide-eyed at the image transmitted through his glasses.

Jack Reacher had actually obtained the tape.

Henry asked immediately:

”The investigating authorities said no video footage from the accident existed.

”How did you get it?

”Did it come from inside that agency?”

Reacher explained:

”The existence of this tape cannot be found in official records.

”Because at the time of the incident, the road surveillance system in that area was undergoing an upgrade and replacement process.”

He continued:

”According to my investigation, that stretch of road was upgraded in December—from the original videotape system to a digital imaging system—and the work was officially approved.”

”But the new system was highly unstable in its early phase.

”It often failed to transmit footage or properly save recordings.

”That is why no crash footage officially exists.

”Though I can’t rule out the possibility that footage was deliberately deleted afterward.”

Henry prompted, ”But...”

Reacher nodded.

”But the acceptance process for the upgrade was corrupt.

”The contractor had not actually finished replacing all systems on that road segment.

”They only completed part of it.”

”And the old system had not been fully removed yet.

”Its recording function was still active.”

He set the tape on the table.

”The company had financial problems. To receive payment on schedule, they bribed the inspectors to falsify acceptance records.

”And by regulation, road footage had to be retained for one month.

”Within that month, the contractor finished the upgrade using the newly received funds.

”The old system’s recordings had not yet reached the overwrite deadline, so this tape survived by pure luck.”

Reacher looked at Henry through the drone.

”Only the workers involved knew this.

”That’s why no one else knew the tape existed.

”Even though Howard Stark’s fatal crash was major news, they kept quiet to protect themselves.”

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