CHAPTER XXXIII

"You think of me as someone who is willing to help you."

Sophie stared intently at the road ahead, expertly driving the pickup truck.

This kind of help makes people 'hairy' and terrifying, Chen Chaoguang said in his heart. Sophie doesn't act like she's only been trained and dialed by the old "Sophie", to be precise, before this operation, Sophie behaved like a frightened 'woman', but during the operation, everything indicates that she is a well-trained 'woman'.

Chen Chaoguang suddenly thought of a question. The "European Star" program used to be a top secret, but after the "boss" "revealed" this plan to the Americans, it is believed that the whole of Europe will be busy with this plan, but the information fed back from any channel does not indicate this, which is very abnormal. Until now, the French police and counterintelligence agencies have not taken any action, and if it were not for the fact that this time the movement they caused was too big, the contacts of the "European star" would have quietly returned to China with them.

Chen Chaoguang broke out in a cold sweat, could it be that this "European star" contact is actually not a spy on his side?

It doesn't look like she wants Rommon alive either. Under Lai's 'Chun' Lei's instructions, the pickup truck frantically rushed onto the sidewalk and crashed into Luo 'Men', which was speeding away. The roaring sound of the engine startled Luo Men, and he only had time to look behind him before he jumped away from the path of the small truck, and everyone heard the sound of a human body colliding with the body, and then saw Luo Men' being knocked out of the way. Amid the exclamations of surrounding bystanders, the pickup truck crashed into a wall and stopped.

Luo 'Men' rolled over a few times in the street, got up and continued to run, not feeling pain in his shoulders and arms, but a feeling of paralysis, maybe there was a fracture somewhere, but by this time he did not bother to check the injury. Being hit by this car, the distance between him and Lai Chun Lei has narrowed a lot, Lai Chun Lei is an "iron man" known for his physical strength and endurance in Unit 128, and it is almost impossible to get rid of him while running. Romen only hoped that he would get to the Seine before Lai Chun, and he threw off his backpack as he ran, and the pistol, which had only a few bullets, was of little help now.

Lai Chun Lei rushed past the side of the pickup truck, saw the dazed Sophie and Chen Chaoguang climbing out of the smoking car, it seemed that the collision had broken the water tank, too late to reprimand the two people, he threw a grenade into the car, loudly warned the two people to leave quickly, and continued to chase Luo 'Men'. After a few seconds, there was an explosion in the car.

The street is getting wider and wider, and the few pedestrians on the road are looking in amazement at the two men who are running for their lives, and there are bored drivers on the road who honk their horns to cheer for the two of them, as if there is some kind of competition between the two people, and another person gets up from the sunroof of the car, pats the roof of the car to cheer on the two men, and then sps through the street. Sweat began to drip down his forehead, covering the various 'colored' lights on the side of the road.

The speed of Luo 'Men', who was running in front, began to slow down, and Lai 'Chun' pulled out his gun in his hand and quickened his pace.

"Ro'mon, I warn you, I'm really going to shoot!"

Luo 'Gate' slammed through the street, but Lai 'Chun' Lei was not fooled, and changed direction almost at the same time as him, so he was not thrown off, and there were only the two of them on the empty street, and in front of him was a bridge across the Seine. Old-fashioned street lamps hang high above the bridge, diffusing the laid-back atmosphere that is characteristic of the night.

Luo 'Men' stopped, turned around slowly, and looked at Lai 'Chun' Lei and smiled.

"There are only Luo 'Men' who were killed, and there are no Luo 'Men' who were captured alive."

"As long as you're innocent, you don't have to go that far." Lai 'Chun' Lei pointed a gun at him. "My advice is, come back with me and explain things clearly."

"My secret will not be seen, so you will never take me back." Ro' was still smiling. "You only have two options now, either shoot or let me go."

"That's what I told you." Lai 'Chun' Lei also smiled. "It's that you have two choices, live or die. But it doesn't seem like a choice, so you're in a bad position. ”

Luo 'Men' suddenly turned and rushed towards the iron bridge, and Lai 'Chun' Lei chased after him two steps, aiming his pistol at his back.

The first bullet hit Luo 'Gate', Lai 'Chun' Lei watched him stagger a few steps, fell on the bridge railing, almost subconsciously, Lai 'Chun' Lei pulled the trigger again, and with the sound of gunshots, Luo 'Gate' turned over and fell into the Seine. Lai 'Chun' thunder rushed to the place where Luo 'Men' fell into the water, and searched under the bridge with a flashlight, but the 'waves' were sparkling, and no trace of Luo 'Men' was found. On the bridge railing, Lai 'Chun' Lei 'touched' his hands full of blood, which indicated that at least one bullet had hit Luo 'Men'.

Lai 'Chun' Lei didn't know what it was like in his heart.

He quickly looked around and walked away from the scene of the incident.

As a result of the detailed evacuation routes and evacuation plans in advance, Team B had already evacuated the target point before the police and GIGN arrived, returning to the assembly point in different ways from different routes, and everyone left France according to their own plans after 'handing over' their equipment at the assembly point, leaving silently as if they had infiltrated separately a few days earlier. This is the end of the mission, except for the fact that there is no clear indication of the death of Ro'mon.

"I still think this task needs to be reported to the organization."

At the assembly point, Lai Chun Lei found Chen Chaoguang, who was alias Xie Youwei, and expressed his views to him. There have been too many things that have happened in the past two days, and Lai Chun Lei himself is a little uncertain.

Chen Chaoguang once wanted to persuade Lai Chun Lei that there was no need to report his course of action, but this would definitely arouse Lai Chun' Lei's suspicions, so he hoped that Lai Chun Lei's superiors could intercept the report. Lai 'Chun' Lei belongs to the Ministry of Security, no matter what, he will tell his superiors about Paris, so it is better to let him report it completely, so that in the next few days, Lai 'Chun' Lei and Team B will not have the right and obligation to 'expose' the secret of the security to others, so as long as he controls the information 'exchange' channel between the "boss" and the Ministry of Security, he can continue to conceal the facts. At first glance, this plan is a bit risky, but Chen Chaoguang, who is good at figuring out the intentions of his superiors, understands that the "boss" will not actually pay more attention to the life and death of Luo 'Men', and he has more things to deal with. With the loss of Xu Chenglong's position, his influence in the intelligence system has also been rapidly weakened, and the focus of intelligence work has begun to shift under the impetus of the "boss".

All he had to do was to maintain his impression of loyalty in the eyes of the "boss", and in fact he was not unloyal, and it was precisely because of this "loyalty" that he fell into the trap of the "boss": he was anxious to maintain his position in the eyes of the "boss", because he knew that many people in the LTTE were watching him and waiting for an opportunity to replace him. Even now, sometimes he even wants to create an opportunity to sacrifice the entire LTTE so that he doesn't have to be threatened by the double threat from outside here, and the reason he didn't do this for the time being is because he knows that the "boss" has always had another secret team doing more secret work for the "boss", and to abandon the LTTE at this time is to cut off his own arm. One of his 'legs' is no longer useful, but he doesn't want to lose any help, Chen Chaoguang thought sarcastically.

"I agree with you, because we all have to 'turn in' a full work report." Chen Chaoguang didn't want to dwell on this matter. "But should I write that you killed Romen with your own hands?"

"It would be more accurate to say that he is missing." Lai 'Chun' Lei was silent for a moment and continued to pack his bags. "You'd better write that I pulled the trigger with my own hand, and if anyone makes trouble with this in the future, I want to target me alone."

"No one is going to trouble you with this, you're on a mission." Chen Chaoguang's tone was reassuring. "We all know that you can't mix personal emotions when you're on a mission, that's the bare minimum for people like us."

Lai Chun Lei smiled, zipped up his backpack, and began to put on a coat.

"When I pulled the trigger on Rommon, I thought of the crocodile first, then my mission, and then," he paused, not saying that he was still thinking about the two men's previous grievances. "I didn't think it was a mission, I felt like I was more like I was executing. Let's just say that, for the first time, I've had questions about my mission. I don't know if you've ever felt that way in your own work. ”

"Later in my career, I often encountered situations like you, and I was also 'lost' at that time. However, clandestine work is such a torturous job, and most of the time, you can't ask yourself whether you're doing it right or not, but only whether you're getting your goals there. No one can judge us but ourselves. Chen Chaoguang nodded with deep feeling. The important thing is that we all made it through. Regarding this mission, I am the main person in charge, so let me take the administrative responsibility, and the moral responsibility will be borne by yourself, so you will feel better? ”

Lai Chun Lei gently patted Zhou up and down, and then looked at Chen Chaoguang.

"I'll probably never feel good about shooting at Romon. But, whatever, we have time to regret what we did, and now I'm more concerned about the aftermath of the 'crocodile'. ”

"I'll do it for his 'girlfriend' friend when I get back." Chen Chaoguang solemnly patted Lai Chun' Lei's shoulder. "Moreover, I am always ready to do such things for my comrades in need, so you must not be polite to me."

Lai 'Chun' Lei looked at Chen Chaoguang for a few seconds, and then gave Chen Chaoguang a military salute.

"It's been a pleasure working with you, ***."

Chen Chaoguang also returned a standard military salute. When he did this, a very special feeling came over his heart, and he couldn't help but ask himself, how long had it been since he had saluted a military salute in such a serious manner.

Watching Lai 'Chun' Lei leave the apartment that had been used as a meeting point, Chen Chaoguang turned to Sophie, who had been sitting quietly next to him.

"Now it's time for you to tell me who you are?"

"If you knew you were cheating on him, what would this 'mustang' think?" Sophie looked at Chen Chaoguang with interest. "It doesn't look like he understands yet, it's you who single-handedly pushed him to kill Luo 'Men'."

"If he didn't have that desire in his heart, no matter how hard I pushed him, he wouldn't shoot." Chen Chaoguang smiled coldly. "I'm just trying to get started. But now the question is, who are you? ”

Looking at Chen Chaoguang, Sophie suddenly laughed.

"If you're in your right mind, you should know that I'm the liaison between the 'European star' and China."

Chen Chaoguang looked at her coldly.

"You can't go to China unless you can convince me of that."

Sophie smiled and lit herself a cigarette.

"The data on the hard drive is my passport. Do you know what's in your hard drive? I'm sure you can't reach your level yet, but I'm willing to reveal one thing to you, that is, the information inside is encrypted, and there are two decryption keys for the password, which are kept in my hands and China, that is, me, unless I go to China to meet with the person in charge of this secret, no one can see the information on the hard drive. ”

"Then why do you want Rommon to die too?" Chen Chaoguang is most concerned about this issue.

"Because I don't like him." Sophie smiled. "If a 'woman' doesn't like a man, then she can't wait for him. Are you satisfied with this answer? ”

"Why didn't you tell me the sun was coming out of the west?" Chen Chaoguang paused on the ground with his cane.

"What I mean by that is, why I want Luo 'Gate' to die has nothing to do with you." Sophie leaned comfortably back on the couch. "After all this, I should be a new 'European star', so I am worth at least more than you now, if you don't bring me back to China, how can you explain it to your bosses?"

Surprisingly, when Chen Chaoguang reported the problem to the "boss", the "boss" told him that he had to bring the contact person back safely. As for her true identity, it is natural that the relevant agencies and personnel will screen her, and she is even more important to the "boss", and if the encryption method is really as she said, then it will be necessary to rearrange the work to sabotage the "European star" plan in order to complete the first attempt at cooperation with the Americans.

Chen Chaoguang has been able to determine that this 'female' person is definitely not just a simple figure like a 'female' who contacts her, she seems to have ulterior motives when she came to China, this part is not Chen Chaoguang's concern, he has long learned to ignore the destruction around him. The strongest fortresses are breached from within, and if the people inside are intriguing, then what danger is the threat from the outside? Did King Louis X of France once say, "After I die, what does it matter if it floods"? Chen Chaoguang didn't have the same status as him, so he said to himself, "As long as I'm okay, who cares if others live or die?" ”