Chapter 38: Unchosen Trust
“…… We at Star TV were specifically authorized to do front-line reporting, and now it's happening that CII agents have zeroed in on the important clues to the target of the JFK attack, right inside the chemical plant behind me, and the Bureau of Investigation agents are preparing to enter the plant for further investigation - the car! Look at the car -- (explosion, signal loss)"
-- Live broadcast on Star TV
"I told you that it was a bad idea to let the reporter in! That's a big deal! It's good that no one died, otherwise we would all have finished playing! The council is already reconsidering the authority of the Joint Defense Command, and next time you make a decision, you'd better bring your brain! ”
-- New York Joint Defense Command, a secret letter from the Joint Defense Commander to the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The violent explosion made the entire factory tremble, and Ling Yu's body slammed slightly against the ventilation duct next to it, making a dull sound.
Fortunately, everyone's attention was focused on the explosion and the ensuing siren, and no one noticed the noise coming from this ventilation duct.
"Vivien, you-"
It's okay, no one is exposed, Ling Yu, you continue, the people of CBI will soon realize that this is a diversion of attention, hold on!
Ling Yu was stunned for a moment, his words about to reprimand Vivian were directly stuffed back by Helis, Ling Yu subconsciously continued to crawl along the ventilation duct, while watching the message from Helis.
In fact, it wasn't that complicated, Payne adjusted the car they "borrowed" and set up an explosive gadget on top of the battery compartment, and then Vivien compressed the telekinetic power and burst out, pushing the car directly to the outer barbed wire of the factory at high speed, hitting the barbed wire and then detonating, the huge explosion of the fusion battery will only affect the outer wall of the factory and will not detonate the chemical raw materials inside, and will also destroy all clues and evidence. Even Vivien's telekinetic traces can be misinterpreted as being created by physical or mechanical TFs with their own physical abilities.
"So no one was exposed?"
Helis's explanation calmed Ling Yu down, and then glanced at the map, there were still dozens of meters away from the vent of the target location, he was a little unsure, and then added.
It would be thought that the factory was deliberately manufactured in order to delay the CBI. Give them time to destroy the number of jù.
So, no one was exposed.
Moreover, Ling Yu, if it was you in the past, you should be able to think of this.
Or you should trust your teammates more.
"The factory deliberately manufactures and destroys several people, I have seen."
Ling Yu responded to Helis's comment with a short silence, and then directly changed the subject when he reached the vent fence at the target location.
Ling Yu lay on the edge of the vent. More than ten meters above the ground.
Underneath the ventilation ducts, among the evacuated workers, two people in security uniforms were heading up against the flow of people in the direction of the safe house in the number of rooms.
Although the explosion was not made by the factory, it must have been prepared to be a thief-minded factory when CBI came to the door, and they naturally did not miss this opportunity.
Ling Yu waited for a while, waiting for the workers in the factory to evacuate at a rapid speed before he came out of the ventilation pipe. Crawling along a drainpipe-like thing, followed by two security guards running towards the room.
Slide down the water pipe. Ling Yu pressed against the wall of the archive room outside the safe house, waiting for the two security guards to enter the file room and start opening the door of the safe house.
It doesn't look like there's any need to apologize to Yang Chengze.
Ling Yu burst into the room through the window before the security guard opened the door of the safe house, struck a security guard in the back of the neck with a knife and knocked him unconscious, and then kicked another security guard in the stomach. Kicked him out of the room straight through the opposite window.
With Ling Yu's speed, it was impossible for the two security guards to capture any meaningful identity information, but Ling Yu still put on his mask before he got out of the window, and he walked directly into the safe house, and then took out a wireless network card and plugged it into the nearest port.
"Move fast. Helis. ”
Three minutes.
As always, Helis reported an accurate time, while Ling Yu subconsciously took a step back, leaning against the wall next to the door, vigilantly observing if there were any other hostile reinforcements.
But when Ling Yu saw the empty factory, he suddenly fell into a trance.
Regardless, Vivien offers the best of both worlds, and she may need to thank her.
But there's not always a way to get the best of both worlds...... Sometimes, some sacrifices may be unavoidable, and trying to avoid them will only end up with a more brutal end.
Or, to put it more bluntly, as long as Charr is caught, only if Charr is caught, this sacrifice can be fundamentally avoided.
For the sake of the many, the few sacrificed......
I've downloaded all the numbers jù, do you want to erase the source text jiàn?
"No, leave some misleading information, let the CBI track it down in other directions, we have to find that guy before the CBI, I don't want to be surprised," Helis's call interrupted Ling Yu's contemplation, and the young man responded directly, then was silent for a moment, and added, "Just leave something that is not too dangerous." ”
That's good to hear.
Herris responded.
"We don't always have the opportunity to choose our way in this way."
Ling Yu shook his head, there was no smile on his face, and then he got up and walked out of the safe house, not forgetting to lock the door reflexively, and then climbed down the drainage pipe to a height of more than ten meters, got into the ventilation pipe, glanced at the CBI agent who had just rushed into the factory in a suit, turned around and disappeared into the ventilation pipe.
***
When there was a knock on the door of the basement, Andy. Keane's nerves were already tense.
Andy. Keane is a mercenary, a normal TF whose abilities are probably in the middle of the range. Even in the League, not all TFs are serving in the League, in fact, TF, as a "super weapon", naturally has needs from outside the military - some dignitaries like to use TF as bodyguards to show their identity, some gang bosses need TF to escort drugs or arms, and some large corporate groups and even the government itself need these TFs with gray backgrounds to deal with some gray tasks......
Andy. Keane is the seller who satisfies these markets. He has been operating in North America all along, working as a bodyguard for big names and being hired by drug dealers, so he is nothing special compared to other hired TFs active in North America. If I have to say, he doesn't like to work with gangsters, and he has always been very careful to stick to his own rules - money has to be spent on life, and no one can stand against a working alliance, no matter how strong.
Therefore, it is not too dark on the CBI list, although it is unlikely to show up, but it is also unlikely that buying a pack of cigarettes on the street will attract the siege and interception of the alliance.
But this convention was broken, and a week earlier, a mysterious man had approached him with his intermediary and offered him a price he could not refuse—his own life.
When a person's neck is cold. When the blade made of ice condensed against it, and the person holding the knife held a staggering amount of check in his other hand, Andy had no choice - the other party dispatched several TFs to directly catch him, and any of these TFs were stronger than him, especially a TF in his early twenties, who could use the terrifying ability of freezing gas.
Obviously, there is no shortage of TFs for buyers this time, but these TFs can't do it because of their status. Therefore, he can only become a scapegoat for surviving.
Andy's mission is simple and weird - go to a chemical factory in Brooklyn and pick up a suitcase. Then fly to Cuba, smuggle a lithium battery, and finally combine the two to find a way to make a big deal at New York's JFK airport.
If it weren't for the skate blade around his neck, Andy would never have taken on the task, and he tried to escape while in Cuba. But apparently he can't escape from the palm of the other party's hand.
No matter who the other party is, the power must be terrifyingly strong.
So Andy can only "obediently" complete half of the task assigned by the other party, and then hide here according to the other party's instructions - half of his task is still not completed.
That is, you must either escape, and once caught, you must be sure that you are the vanguard of the ACA within 10 days. While Andy suspects that if he says so, the allies will use "Yuri" to read his own brain directly to him, but the employer tells him that it will be their people who will interrogate him.
Andy couldn't trust the other party, so the best thing to do was not to get caught - it was almost an impossible task, but he wanted to gamble.
Andy swallowed a mouthful of saliva as he listened to the rhythmic knock on the door, and he carefully discerned that this was indeed the contact information they had agreed on in advance, and the person who had come to pick him up had arrived.
But he still stood up and drew the dagger from his waist, and he cautiously walked to the door, his whole body tense and on the highest guard, and then raised his hand to unlock the door.
In the next second, the entire metal door was directly dismantled, slamming heavily on Andy's head, and his whole person was smashed backwards and flew out, and while sitting in the corner of the wall, a black figure directly choked his neck.
"If I were you, I wouldn't want to resist."
The young man in black, wearing a hat and covering his face with a mask, whispered, then raised his hand to remove the mask as he inserted his fingers deep into the muscles of Andy's neck, pinching his spinal nerves and trachea.
"You...... You are......!! ”
"The person who came to pick you up has become a snack for the Brooklyn stray dogs tonight, so don't be under any illusions, I have a few questions for you, and if I can get a satisfactory answer, I may not kill you, and I have money and life to spend, right, Andy. Keane. ”
Andy opened his mouth, and as soon as the suffocating sensation spread, he nodded.
"Good, I think we're off to a good start." Ling Yu sneered and nodded, it seemed that his face could still suppress some small ones in North America.
"Who hired you?"
"I, I don't know, really, really! You know what we do, regardless of the identity of the employer!! ”
Andy's voice trembled, and he could feel the blood on his neck seeping out from Ling Yu's fingers and landing on his shoulder.
"Very good, last question." Ling Yu nodded, and suddenly went straight to the topic, "If you can't give me some clues about your employer then you're useless, and you know my identity, you know that I'm coming to New York, you're a potential threat to me, I have no reason to let you live, right?" ”
Ling Yu narrowed his eyes and showed a smile, and he had just loosened his grip on the other party's vital finger slightly, tightening it again.
"I ...... I...... I ......"
Andy was about to cry, he knew that the young man in front of him was definitely not joking, but as Ling Yu said, he really couldn't find anything that could prove the identity of his employer.
"They...... There are a lot of TF......"
As if halfway through the sentence, he realized that this clue was meaningless, and Andy himself did not continue.
"They, they have a TF, it's with frozen gas!!"
This time, Andy was like grasping a life-saving straw, but Ling Yu just shook his head, the frozen gas type TF belongs to the chemistry department, similar to the compression explosion, but the mechanism of action is different, although it is not too common, but it is not a clue.
"I really don't know...... I don't know...... I knew it earlier, I would have surrendered if I knew it, anyway, they said that I could not use 'Yuri' on me......"
Andy was really about to cry, but Ling Yu didn't realize that he had invisibly used his perception ability to affect the feelings of this barely battle-hardened TF, making him already struggling on the verge of collapse.
However, as soon as these words came out, Ling Yu's hand loosened slightly.
"That's it, it's so! They have inside lines in the CBI, and they promise that if I get caught, they can send someone to keep me from dying, it's true! ”
The expression on Andy's face, who felt the change in the strength of Ling Yu's hand, suddenly changed from despair to struggle, and even the speed of his breathing instantly increased a lot.
"You're saying that if you're caught by the Allies, the person who interrogates you will be sent by your employer?" Ling Yu raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, yes, !!" Andy's chick nodded like a peck of rice.
"Very good," Ling Yu loosened the strength of his hand a little again, "We haven't met, if you expose my storage...... With my ability, it's not difficult to kill you and get out of the way. ”
"I know, I know!!"
Ling Yu let go of his hand and didn't look at Andy lying in the corner again, but took out his mobile phone and dialed 911.
"Hey, the police, I'm going to report it......"
“…… No need to ask, I'm just a responsible Allied citizen. ”
After speaking, Ling Yu crushed the phone and turned around and left the basement. (To be continued......)