Chapter 19: The Tracers

The Interpol operation had been carried out many years ago, and before the operation was in full swing, Maffei had just finished her Interpol training in the United Kingdom, and she was the most peculiar member of the team - she studied law in the United Kingdom, because she made a bet with her classmates to venture into a cave in the Fairbeck River region of England, and took photos of the way, and the bet was just a dinner.

After half a year of preparation, Ma Fei entered the cave alone, who knew but bumped into the bandits who were there to search for the treasure left by a group of robbers more than 300 years ago, and the bandits also held 5 tourists who were also adventuring in the cave, in order to save people, Ma Fei took the initiative to appear, led the group of bandits to find the treasure, and then tried his best on the way, causing civil strife among the bandits, and finally rescued the hostages at the same time, but also wiped out the group of bandits.

When Maffei walked out of the cave with the hostages, he was confronted by a group of stunned "detectives" from Scotland Yard who were still discussing countermeasures.

But this incident was not reported by the media, because the Cusco company behind the group of bandits was behind them for the purpose of treasure hunting, and Maffei's ability was also noticed by Interpol, and began to send people to persuade her to join, after all, she also studied law.

To the surprise of Interpol, they didn't have to say anything to let this girl from Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, join, of course, because of procedural and nationality issues, they took a lot of effort, and in the end Maffei was still attached to the China office, but the personnel relationship was in the headquarters in Lyon, France.

At that time, Ma Fei didn't know that her later secret training and related series of studies were all absolutely confidential, and even her existence could not be found in the archives of Interpol headquarters, because after she completed her training, she accepted a long-term undercover job, and this work may be very long, and from the moment the whole work began, she was not a policeman, but an international thief who suddenly appeared.

At that time, the person who secretly trained Mafei was the Russian big man Yuri in front of him. Makanov, and the major international cases that Ma Fei committed back then were also directly planned by Interpol, in order to build her reputation, which is why no one can find out where she came from, who it is, and what her original name is.

It can also be said that no one except Makanov and Maffei herself knows who she is, what her name used to be, and what she has been through.

Makanov sensed Maffei's vigilance and explained: "The only person you can trust now is me, and the only person I can trust is you, but I still don't want to believe that the Weasel has infiltrated the Interpol headquarters, because this is extremely unlikely, and every quarter the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducts a thorough inventory of everyone to put an end to the problem of black police*, and, from the beginning, our target was not the Weasel that suddenly appeared, but the Cusco company, you should remember?" ”

Maffei nodded, of course she knew that everything she learned during her training, in addition to the use of various firearms, was more important to learn about history and archaeology, and she had to pass the prescribed exams, if she couldn't pass, she couldn't carry out this mission, because to get into the Cusco company, if you don't have rich experience, then you must have extraordinary knowledge.

"So, this time, you didn't continue to follow up on Cusco's case, but chose to follow up on Weasel's case, because you suddenly received an email that you thought was from me, and after interpreting the cipher message in it, you got an order from me to track down Weasel and unlock those accounts at the same time, right?" Seeing Mafei nodding, Makanov subconsciously picked up the phone, and then put it down, rubbing his fingers there continuously, and said for a long time, "In addition to me, Caesar also knows about this operation, but Caesar knows that there are a total of 7 participants in this operation, but the 7 people I reported are all important informants of Interpol in member countries, not real team members, and they do not include you, and he can't know that you are the only member of this operation." ”

Maffei frowned: "Who is Caesar?" ”

Makanov lowered his voice and said, "Howard. Burns. ”

Ma Fei was taken aback: "Vice Chairman of Interpol!?" ”

Makanov nodded: "According to the procedure, this kind of action must be reported to the high-level, you know, one of the four vice chairmen must sign and agree, and then the file will be put in the safe in the nature of paper, and no information is allowed in the computer, unless the operation is over, and the personal safety of the personnel involved in the operation can be entered into the computer, even if it is to be made public in the future, it also requires a strict time limit, all for the safety of the operation personnel." ”

Ma Fei said: "In other words, even if there are first-class hackers in the Weasel Tattoo, they can't find any information about me in the Interpol system?" ”

Makanov nodded, and Maffei said: "Then according to this theory, there are only three people who have problems, either me, you, or Vice Chairman Howard?" ”

Makanov shook his head: "Burns, he's definitely not that kind of person!" He doesn't betray anyone for money, you know, there are too many temptations he faces at any time, and if he was corrupted, it would have happened a long time ago, not now. ”

Ma Fei said again: "So, it's not me, it's you?" ”

"Although I don't want to admit it......," Makanov grimaced, "but it is, I don't doubt you, but you should doubt me, but I can guarantee that I can't do that, because I have been planning this operation for many years, I can't destroy it with my own hands, there must be something wrong here." ”

Ma Fei was silent, just sat there looking at Makanov in thought, and suddenly, she didn't know who to believe, it should be said that now she would rather believe the boy in the next room who didn't have any hair, than the boss who was also a teacher and friend.

The reason why Makanov wants to track down the Cusco Company is that since many years ago, the famous Kusco Company has been searching for relics that have disappeared from history and related treasures around the world, and they often do not abide by the laws of the countries that own the ruins and treasures. In some cases, they even cooperate with some international security companies, and spend a lot of money to disguise their personnel as employees of their security companies, and to enter certain conflict zones in search of treasure with armed force, and the methods used are so cruel that they usually leave no witnesses.

Because Cusco is not involved in other things, and Interpol does not cooperate with the intelligence services of various countries involved in politics in principle, the Cusco company has always been jointly investigated with the police of member states, and the relevant intelligence agencies of various countries have determined that Cusco's behavior will not threaten national security, if they get relevant information, they will only hand it over to the police of their own country for processing, and will not cooperate directly with Interpol in a high-profile manner, and when the police of their own countries transfer the news to Interpol in the process, It has passed the best time, and after Cusco gets the information from various channels, it either destroys the evidence or simply manipulates the process of messaging, which is the main reason why Cusco can get away with it for many years.

And after Mafei "became famous", it was not so smooth to set up with Cusco Company, just through planning and layout, the Chinese members of the BM team who were exploring there were established in a certain sea area in Southeast Asia, and were appreciated by their team leader, but even so, Cusco Company was still unwilling to accept Maffei, but needed to conduct an investigation on her, and the topic of the investigation was - looking for Qimen.

Before that, Ma Fei didn't know what "Qimen" was, and it was Liu Zhigang in the Tiandifu incident who led them into Northeast China, and it was he who contacted his old classmates who worked in Cusco Company, hoping that he would help him complete his revenge plan, which made Ma Fei involved with the criminal arts.

When Ma Fei thought of this, she felt that she was already trapped in this whirlpool, and for some reason, she suddenly felt that if the torture technique was here at this time, maybe the problem she was facing would be solved.

"What's next?" Maffei finally asked the last question she wanted to ask, and at the same time she was testing whether Makanov was the inner ghost, and if so, the other party might set a trap for her to get into.

After Maffei's question, Makanov thought for a moment and said, "You make your own decisions, I can't help you." ”

Ma Fei frowned: "What? ”

Makanov immediately explained: "Don't get me wrong, I can't help you because now I am not trustworthy in front of you, you shouldn't tell me what your next step is, I shouldn't instruct you, even if you get into trouble and turn to me for help, under the premise that I am suspected, the help I exert on you is largely a trap, so you can only rely on yourself." ”

After listening to Makanov's words, Mafei knew that she could not refute it, and she knew that this answer was equivalent to proving to herself that Makanov should not be the inner ghost, and if he was, he would definitely not let go of this opportunity.

"Then I'm leaving." Maffei got up and simply packed her things, and then it suddenly occurred to her that if Makanov was not an inner ghost, and that inner ghost knew his contact with Makanov, he must have found out that she and Makanov were meeting here, and maybe at this time, that person was outside staring at this room.

"You go first!" Maffei stood in the doorway and said, "Maybe someone is following you." ”

Makanov, who was wearing a coat, was stunned: "Tracking? Impossible, right? ”

Ma Fei stared at the ground: "If the inner ghost knows about this operation and can use your email to send me an email, then he should be able to enter and exit your mailbox freely, and he should also know that we agreed to meet here with the mailbox, maybe, he is at the door now!" ”

Ma Fei looked up at the door suddenly, and Makanov also subconsciously touched his waist, until he touched the void, and then recalled that he had no law enforcement power in China, and he could not use firearms unless there were special circumstances and he was authorized by the Chinese side at the first level, not to mention, he came to Harbin in the name of tourism this time.

Makanov made a gesture for Maffei to step back, then slowly walked to the door, probed the situation outside with a cat's eye, and then hung the anti-theft chain behind the door, and then slowly opened the door, and the moment it opened, he immediately took a step back. to prevent someone outside the door from suddenly lifting their feet and kicking the door and crashing into themselves.

As the burglar chain was straightened, the door opened a gap, and Makanov looked sideways out of the door, but no one was noticed, then he took a deep breath, made a "I'll go first, you follow" gesture, closed the door, removed the burglar chain, and strode away with his luggage. In the house, Ma Fei wore a hat and covered his face with a scarf as before, so as not to be photographed by the surveillance.

Makanov and Mafei left one after the other, Makanov walked away from the pedestrian street, came to the corner of the street and got into a taxi, and Mafei walked around the street for a long time, making sure that he was not being followed, so he flipped his clothes in the toilet of KFC, changed his appearance and walked back to the hotel, back to Jia Feng's room.

But the two didn't know that a few minutes before they left the room, the hotel's surveillance had all been disabled, and at the same time, a man dressed as a cleaner pushed a cart to their door, and after placing the car in the middle of the corridor, the man carefully took out a dagger from the scabbard at his waist, and then waited at the door, just waiting for Mafei and Makanov in the house to come out.

But what the killer didn't expect at all was that while he was clinging to the wall of the door, a figure quietly jumped over the cleaning car, came to his side, and directly stuned him with a wave of his palm, and then stuffed him into the car, pushed him to the corner of the corridor, and then carried him up, stuffed it directly into the cleaning room, and threw it with the real cleaner who was stunned by the man.

When the man came to his senses, he only saw a man wearing a ski mask standing in front of him, and his hands and feet were tied tightly, and he couldn't exert his strength up and down, and his jaw was also dislocated, and he couldn't speak.

The masked man squatted down, closed his chin, looked at him coldly and said: "Fifteen minutes left, fifteen minutes later, the hotel front desk will call the cleaners, if the cleaners don't answer, they will definitely come to check where the people have gone, and they will definitely come to this room, then I can escape, but you may not, once you fall into the hands of the police, it will basically be over." ”

The man looked confused: "Who are you?" Why are you doing this to me? I don't have any money, I don't have anything, please let me go! ”

"Kou Yun, 45 years old, a former member of the Banner Society, was arrested during the crackdown and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The masked man said, pulling out his dagger, "This dagger is also filled with snake venom, if you are cut, if you don't get medical attention in time, you will die of poison within 5 minutes, how much money do you charge people, you dare to do such a thing?" ”

After the masked man finished speaking, he stretched out two fingers and pinched Kou Yun's left collarbone, and at the same time covered his mouth with a slight force, Kou Yun's eyes widened in pain, but his body couldn't move, and he could only make a miserable "whine" sound.

The Banner Society was a hooligan organization during the Cultural Revolution, which was rampant for a period of time after the end of the Cultural Revolution, and then the state began to crack down, during the crackdown, all the people in the Banner Society were wiped out and all imprisoned, and later after these people were released from prison, most of them changed their minds, but there were still a small number of people who tried to imitate the gang associations in Hong Kong and revive the Banner Society, and Kou Yun was one of them.

The masked man continued to pinch his collarbone for two minutes before letting go, and said, "I'll give you a chance now to tell me who the person hired you is, name, gender, and physical characteristics, otherwise, I will make you ten thousand times more painful than just now." ”

After all, Kou Yun is just a daring hooligan, he is not the kind of killer who really has principles, and he immediately said: "He gave me a deposit of 100,000 yuan, saying that if I kill everyone in the room, he will pay me another 400,000 yuan!" ”

"What's it called, what does it look like?" The masked man asked, "If I find out that you lied to me, I will chase you to your house on Daowai Sandao Street and make you into dumpling filling!" ”

Kou Yun saw that the other party even knew where he lived, and immediately replied truthfully: "It was introduced by Guisan, and the money was also transferred by him, I haven't seen that person, and I don't know what that person's name is, what he looks like, what I said is the truth, I don't believe you asked Guisan!" ”

The masked man asked coldly: "Gui San is the ghost third who claimed to be a military advisor in your banner meeting before?" His original name was He Degui? ”

Kou Yun nodded again and again, surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that someone would be so clear about the banner that had been eliminated by the police a long time ago.

After thinking for a long time, the masked man cut Kou Yun's rope, pressed his shoulder and said, "Your body is weak now, and it will gradually get better within three hours, get out!" ”

Kou Yun stood up against the wall, stumbled out of the cleaning room, and after almost rolling down the stairs, he struggled to get up, and escaped as fast as he could.

After Kou Yun left, the masked man quickly left, walked to the end of the corridor under surveillance, and then took off his mask - he was none other than the master of torture, the Zheng Cangqiong who everyone thought was still in the mental hospital and didn't ask about the world.

Zheng Cangqiong exhaled the breath held in his chest, recovered into an old man who had a hard time walking, walked slowly to the elevator, took the elevator to the first floor, left the hotel, went straight to the opposite Kokura to buy it, handed the boss five yuan, and borrowed the landline there to make a phone call out.

Waiting for the phone to be connected, Zheng Cangqiong just whispered: "Help me check the current location of the ghost three, yes, it is the ghost three who used to be a dog-headed military advisor in the bullshit banner club, call this phone if there is news, I'll wait." ”

After Zheng Cangqiong finished speaking, he hung up the phone, spent money to buy a bottle of water, looked at the people walking around with mobile phones on the street, and said to himself: "Should I really buy a mobile phone?" ”

After waiting for an hour, the landline rang again, Zheng Cangqiong picked up the phone, but heard the person on the other end of the phone answer: "Ghost San is missing, half an hour ago, half an hour ago he was still playing mahjong in a chess and card room in Xiangfang District, after answering a call, he went out and got on a 13-year-old xx brand car, the people in the chess and card room did not write down the license plate number, do you need me to continue to check?" ”

Zheng Cangqiong said calmly: "No need, it's hard work, you can't find anything, the ghost three will definitely evaporate from the world from now on." ”

After speaking, Zheng Cangqiong hung up the phone, raised his eyes to look at the Modern Hotel, and muttered: "Demons and monsters have all appeared, what happened?" Who the hell are you, Maffei? ”