0061 First Wreath of Thorns
In a small town on the border of Tunis, Hou Rui broke up with Father Rick, who had taken care of him for two days, although Father Rick tried his best to refuse Hou Rui's thanks, but in the end, Hou Rui still used his account to quietly donate $20,000 to Father Rick's Church of Saints, which can be regarded as a little gratitude to this life-saving benefactor. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
After Hou Rui returned to acting as a person again, he first returned to ****** City, took out the passport and other things he had hidden, and applied for medical treatment to the organization, because it was impossible for Hou Rui to board the plane to return home with a gunshot wound like now.
Soon, under the arrangement of the organization, Hou Rui was admitted to a private sanatorium on the Mediterranean coast, and then Hou Rui began to recuperate every day.
He is either looking at the beach and palm trees outside the window every day, or looking at the sexy and sultry nurses around him, in Tunisia, a country where Africa and Europe meet, as long as Hou Rui likes it, there are all kinds of blonde, black, red, white-skinned, black-skinned beauties, it can be said that he has lived the boring that most people yearn for. Affluent life, but while enjoying comprehensive care and exquisite food, Hou Rui, who has been accustomed to ordinary life since childhood, still feels that spending $1,000 a day is too expensive, so when Hou Rui's gunshot wounds on both arms are all scabbed, Hou Rui immediately left the sanatorium and began to use a fake passport to travel in Tunis.
Hammamet, Duz, Tozeur, Sousse...... , desert, Gobi, lakes and seashores, all the famous attractions of Tunisia Hou Rui almost all browsed, especially one of the world's three major white and blue towns Sidi Bu Said, Hou Rui is very fond of it, he not only browsed and stayed for a whole week, but also took a large number of landscape photos.
However, no matter how beautiful the days of escapism are, there must always be an end day, seeing that the first semester of his sophomore year is about to start, Hou Rui reluctantly boarded the plane and flew back to Asia from Tunisia.
At the same time, on the other side of the world......
CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia, USA. In a secluded basement, huge screens hang on three walls, where documents, videos, and photos are constantly playing, while more than a dozen civilian analysts in three rows of seats below the screen are dealing with a lot of information and documents.
"Director, this is an analysis of last year's attack in Azabad, Afghanistan. A bespectacled analyst in a gray sweater placed a thick sheet on the desk of a balding supervisor.
The bald supervisor hastily flipped through a few pages and threw the report aside, and said casually: "Okay, I know, you go to work first!"
"But Director, the background of this attack is not simple!" Seeing that his months of hard work were ignored like this, the analyst wearing glasses and a gray sweater was very unwilling, and quickly explained.
"What exactly are you trying to say?" said Bald, a little impatient.
"Director, look here, and here, according to the investigation of the scene, the group that attacked the convoy used advanced individual weapons made in Europe and Israel, and the corpses and residual blood stains of the enemy collected from the scene have been verified by chemical verification, and their team includes members from several different regions such as Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, and all indications prove that this incident was definitely not committed by local tribal militias. The analyst excitedly flipped through the report and pointed out several suspicious points one by one to the bald supervisor.
"And what do you mean?"
"The attack on the convoy was a well-equipped and well-trained team, at least the level of the Blackwater mercenaries in terms of combat level. ā
"It's ridiculous, how could they come and attack our own soldiers from several major private security consulting companies, including Blackwater, which are important contractors for the Ministry of Defense. ā
"Maybe it's the soldiers of other countries who did it in disguise?"
"What proof do you have for that?"
"Not yet, but if I am given more authority, such as telling me what the convoy is carrying, then maybe I can start with other clues until I find the attackers. ā
"That's enough, don't go on, that's the end of the matter for Azabad!" the bald brutal interrupted the analyst.
"Director, 57 U.S. soldiers were killed in this attack, and we lost a lot of vehicles and a Chinook, so that's it?" the analyst is still making a final effort.
"Do you know how many similar actions Congress and the President will sign every day and every hour? Do you know any plans that have started quietly without authorization? Don't say you, even I don't have the authority to know! Now I want you to go back to your seat and devote your energy and time to protecting the soldiers who are still alive and the missions that are being carried out, this matter is over. With that, the bald supervisor lowered his head and ignored the stubborn analyst.
But when the discouraged analyst left the office, the bald supervisor picked up the report again and read it carefully.
After 10 minutes, the bald director, who had hesitated repeatedly, still picked up the phone: "Hey, inform the Operations Department to pay more attention to the black market trade of cultural relics in the Afuhan area, and if there is any collection that originally belonged to the Afuhan National Museum, it will be monitored immediately, and I want to know the whereabouts of every statue and every linen scroll." ā
After a brief order, the bald supervisor put the thick stack of documents in a drawer and put the matter aside, knowing that Hou Rui's blood sample was also recorded in the report.
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Two days before the start of the sophomore year, Hou Rui finally returned to the capital, he first contacted Jin Shanshan to solve the pain of lovesickness, but who knew that Miss Jin Shanshan's school was different, and classes had started in advance.
So Hou Rui could only move the time of meeting to the weekend, and he used WeChat to contact Lao Xiao, and set off to Pengcheng Driving School.
"Wild dog, I really want to congratulate you this time!" Lao Xiao's WeChat message called Hou Rui inexplicable at the beginning.
"Congratulations on what?
"Not only that, you've already earned your first wreath of thorns?"
"What the hell is a wreath of thorns?"
āā¦ā¦ This is an honor awarded by the organization, which is a rare and practical thing. ā
"What's the use of that?"
"It's useless to you at the moment, but once you've accumulated three garlands, you'll know what it means. ā
"Then let's talk about it then, by the way, what's my next training?"
"Hey, hey, the next training session is the ultimate dream of most men! After speaking, Lao Xiao directly sent an address and a phone number.
"It's still the same old thing, and there's nothing new at all. Hou Rui muttered and beckoned directly, stopped a taxi and went straight to the address, he wanted to see what this so-called man's ultimate dream was.
20 minutes later, Hou Rui looked at the hut in front of him with a suspicious face, this is a tin house built on the extension of a small building next to it, it is estimated that the size of 7-8 square meters inside, it looks very unreliable in the near distance, there is always a feeling that it will collapse at any time, and at the door of the tin house is written in eye-catching red letters: copying, typing, unlocking, with keys......
"There must be a mistake. Hou Rui turned his head and left, but someone barked behind him as soon as he took a step: "Young man, are you a wild dog?"
"You're a wild dog? Your whole family is a wild dog. The mention of this name Hou Rui instantly exploded, especially in such a large place on the street, calling this nickname is even more unbearable for Hou Rui.
"That's you, come in, wait for you for a long time. A little old man with a goatee kept waving at Hou Rui, his whole body was a typical charlatan, and Hou Rui was very speechless when he saw it. Waiting for Rui Mo to get into the tin house, he found that this hut full of all kinds of miscellaneous things was far more cramped and cluttered than he thought.
"Puppy, you've been working here since now, ...... every day," the old man with the goatee said with his back to Hou Rui as he fiddled with a key under a magnifying glass.
"I'm not a puppy, I'm not a wild dog, my name is Hou Rui. Hou Rui viciously squeezed out this sentence from between his teeth, and he stared at the back of the old man's neck from behind, estimating if he could break the dead old man's neck in a second.
"If you really want to, you can try it!" suddenly the old man said. This made Hou Rui quiet, judging from past experience, every training instructor arranged by the organization has amazing specialties, but he doesn't know what the old man in front of him is good at.
"If you're not going to try it, sit down! Seeing that Hou Rui didn't say anything for a long time, the old man turned his hand and patted a small bench beside him.
You can't easily let an old man be despised by him, and Hou Rui also wants to know if he can compete with the personnel of the organization, at most, after a while, he can subdue the old man, and don't hurt him too badly.
Thinking of this, Hou Rui suddenly made a move, and grabbed the hand that the old man carried behind him, and when Hou Rui was about to use his arm to twist the old man's hand aside and completely subdue him, Hou Rui grabbed the old man's wrist and shook it and pulled it back flexibly.
Oops!
When Hou Rui, who was not convinced, was about to strike again, the old man's hands had already reached over like lightning, and only to hear the two sounds of "click, click", a pair of shining handcuffs had been magically handcuffed on Hou Rui's wrists.