Chapter 34: Reunion after a long absence
On the second day of July, the weather was particularly hot and humid, as if the whole environment was like a giant furnace.
Although the word "hot" exists almost all year round in Southeast Asia, the heat of that day is still fresh in Shock's memory.
Lying on the bed in his apartment, he collapsed, because just 12 hours earlier, he had lost his only companion here, a young man two years older than him, who spoke fluent English but did look Chinese. Of course, he also speaks Chinese.
The two were instructed by their superiors to go to the Dilson Company to steal a document.
When they heard this task, the two of them both smiled in unison, compared to those assassinating specific characters, stealing documents is equivalent to petty theft, and it is not worth mentioning at all.
However, after taking the contract, both of them were taken aback, because the commission was ridiculously high. This made the two even more overjoyed.
But just as the two of them were leaving, a sentence suddenly popped out of the mouth of the person who gave the task: "The high commission naturally has its high reason, and there are at least five teams that have not been able to get out of this company alive before you." β
For people who walk on the tip of the knife all day long, such a reminder can't reach their ears at all, it may be that they have already been paralyzed by killing, and it is not the first time that they have seen the people around them die.
In their opinion, the operation methods of these people are extremely clumsy, and the fact that they will die is purely a matter of strength.
Lying in bed now recalling this, Shook realized that his thoughts were still too naΓ―ve, and he sat up from the bed in a daze, with a blood-stained contract next to his pillow.
He had thought about giving up on this mission, but he really needed the money so much that it would allow him to end his life a year earlier.
Now his only friend died during the mission, and he couldn't even retrieve his body and bury it.
Nowadays, the desire to escape from this life has become more and more intense.
He looked down at the wound on his forearm, the bullet had grazed through the epidermis and left a clear burn mark, it hurt, but as long as he didn't deliberately touch it, he wouldn't notice it.
"Knock knock..." There was a knock on the apartment door, and Shock's nerves tensed, and then instinctively grabbed the pistol under the pillow and leaned quietly towards the door.
He put it on the cat's eye and looked at it, and on the other side of the door was a woman blowing bubble gum, wearing a tight leather coat, revealing a slender waist, and a heart-shaped tattoo at the corner of the eye on the right side of the face, which looked quite like a nightclub girl.
The woman waited for a while and saw that the door did not open, and immediately reached out to knock again, but Shook opened the door first.
"It's a mess, it seems that the failure is complete." The woman glanced at Shook nonchalantly.
As soon as she said this, Xiao Ke immediately remembered what the organization had said to him not long ago.
Roughly speaking, Shook was the only one who survived the Dilson Company, and he must have some knowledge of the insiders, so he had to dive into the company again.
The upper echelons also specially assigned him an ace to be his partner.
It is imperative to complete the task.
Xiao Ke also understood that this time the task was to carry out the order, and it was completely up to him to make a personal choice.
He refocused his attention on the woman in front of him, although it was difficult to judge a person's ability in terms of appearance, but he never expected that the person who came would be a woman.
He carefully recalled the name of one of the women he heard the most in the company.
With a little hesitation, he shouted, "Rose? β
She nodded, and the bubbles burst open at the edge of her mouth, and her tongue chewed back into her mouth.
"Rose?" Shook blurted out as he remembered in his mind.
"Correction, my name is Jasmine now." Jasmine smiled and said, "We shouldn't have seen each other in years, right?" β
The smile on Jasmine's face now has never been seen even by the Iron Wolf, who has been a companion for many years.
"Since that mission." Without a hint of hesitation, Shook replied, "Seven years." β
The group followed Xiao Ke's footsteps into the house, except for the two people involved, the rest of the people couldn't say a word at all, and could only keep looking around.
"I'll just say that you are not a simple woman, and you actually wear such a handsome uniform." Shook said.
"Because I'm a police officer." Jasmine smiled confidently.
Xiao Ke slapped his thigh as if he had just woken up from a dream and said, "No wonder you have such good skills, it turns out that you are an undercover agent." β
"Our company has taken great pains to eradicate this organization, and I have been in it for a lot longer than you." Jasmine looked at Xiao Ke with evil eyes and said, "Count yourself smart and quit early, otherwise you should be surrounded and suppressed together." β
"That's not thanks to your help, if I hadn't gotten that task commission, I guess I would have died in it." Xiao Ke pretended to be angry, looked at her and said, "You didn't even remind me at the time. β
"Although we have shared hardships, I still have to say sorry to you, if I had to do it again, I should still make the same choice, after all, our camp is different." Jasmine said seriously.
"It's really sad, can't you lie to me?" Shook sighed and said, "Still, even if I die, I won't blame you." β
The second half of the sentence made Jasmine's eyes flash a little, but she didn't open her mouth to ask.
"Anyway, you're not going to arrest me right now, are you?" Shook joked.
"What should I say?" Jasmine was still serious, which made Shook lose his smile soon.
This time, on the contrary, Jasmine couldn't hold her face, and she laughed out loud.
"If I want to arrest you, why wait until this time." Immediately after that, in front of everyone, she suddenly approached Xiao Ke's ear and whispered, "I burned the information about you before I handed it back to headquarters. β
With that, she quickly retreated back to her original position. Xiao Ke, who already had a great impression of Jasmine, heard her say this, and his heart was even warmer. For a while, I didn't know how to express it.
"I said you two have been talking about it for so long, can you get out of here first." Ma Rui couldn't help but step forward and said. Both of them glanced at him at the same time.
Jasmine paused, then continued to call for the rescue machine. Shook whispered Marry's ins and outs.
After learning that Ye Yao was the mayor's daughter, Xiao Ke didn't show any surprise, compared to being able to meet Jasmine again was a real miracle for him.
However, although she is still her, it still feels like Xiao Ke has changed a lot compared to her in the organization. The most obvious is the heightened sense of distance.
It may have something to do with the uniform she was wearing. Xiao Ke subconsciously glanced at Jasmine again, and the other party was still busy communicating with the person on the other end of the phone.
The rose, which used to have a casual face but an extraordinarily sharp eye, is no more. Thinking of this, Xiao Ke's mood seemed a little low.
I still remember the first time the two of them spent the night in the same room, in that hot apartment.
Because the room is a combination of only one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom, Xiao Ke offered to let Jasmine sleep in the room, and he planned to spend the night in the living room. But the other party didn't hear it at all, so she sat on the sofa, her headphones on, her eyes closed, and she shook her head while blowing bubble gum.
It wasn't until Shook pushed her shoulder that she reacted in hindsight, took off her headphones, and looked at Shook blankly.
"I said, go to your room and sleep. I'm a small place, with only one room. β
Jasmine glanced back at the room, then looked back again, frowned slightly, and said, "It's okay, I can sleep on the couch." β
"I'm a macho person, I can't tolerate a woman sleeping on the couch, if you don't go to sleep, I'll be with you." As soon as Xiao Ke finished speaking, he also sat cross-legged on the sofa.
This sofa is quite spacious, and it is not a problem to sit four or five people, and two people will sit at one end each.
"If you stay, stay and stay, I won't go to bed anyway." Jasmine said by turning up the MP3 volume to the maximum, and even with the headphones around her neck, she could now hear the music playing clearly.
Shook hadn't heard the song, but he could tell it was some hot rock music.
"I said, why are you so weird, you have to lie on the sofa if you don't sleep in a bed." Shook looked at her sideways.
"You care about me." Jasmine gave him an angry look, and then she lay down on the sofa, because the length was not enough, she could only curl up, and then felt uncomfortable and simply put her head on Shock's lap.
"You wouldn't mind, would you?" She looked up at Shock.
Because it was very close, the other party raised his head again, although he was wearing tights, he could still peek through the neckline, which made Xiao Ke's eyes become erratic, he was embarrassed to look directly, but the other party seemed to look indifferent.
Maybe it's been too long since I've been in contact with a woman, but just relying on it like this immediately made Xiao Ke's blood gush all over his body and his heart beat faster.
Even as he sat still, he felt his cheeks burn.
However, Jasmine seemed to know how he was feeling now, and immediately said, "Don't think anything wrong, or my gun will easily go off." β
Without looking, she reached out to the outside of her thigh, pulled the pistol out of her wallet, and threw it on the cushion of the sofa.
"If you just leave the gun in my hand like this, I think it's going to be hard to go off." Shook glanced at the pistol, which was a silver-gray Beretta Model 92F pistol.
"Oh?" Jasmine suddenly turned her head, looked up at Xiao Ke and said, "Then you say that, it seems that you really have something wrong with me?" β
"Although I'm not that kind of person, I'm also a man, not to mention that you're not bad-looking, right?"
"You're so interesting, I'll assume you're complimenting me."
After that, the two talked a lot, but the topic always revolved around Xiao Ke. At that time, he naively thought that the other party was just good at listening and didn't like to talk about himself.
Now it seems that it was just her duty as an undercover agent.
As soon as I figured this out, the excitement of the encounter was quickly cooled down, and after all, I still thought too much about myself.
Shook deliberately hid the Beretta pistol at his waist, he didn't want to be discovered, but he couldn't escape Jasmine's sharp eyes.
Some things can be hidden, but the bullet marks left on her body can never be hidden.