Chapter 9: The Beginning of Judgment
Since following Rhett, Shen Chao finally feels that he has lived the life of an agent. Although his main business is still solo infiltration combat class. But the treatment and intelligence support received have been raised by a whole notch.
After nearly two years of baptism of dozens of tasks on and off, Shen Chao is no longer the novice who has to kill people for a long time. Especially in the past year and a half, assassination, stealing intelligence, tracking, escorting various missions have been carried out in turn, although there have been many accidents, but none of the missions have failed.
Unconsciously, Shen Chao has become an excellent member of the third echelon of field agents. Director Red's favorite agent. Amazingly, Red always finds a place for him to play to his strengths. From Asia to Europe, and then from South America to Africa, except for Antarctica and Australia, all continents in the world have been covered with Shen Chao's footprints. He sometimes even felt that Red was a better supervisor than Lambert.
His own salary has also risen with the increase of tasks. For example, now he has bought a villa in Washington. Life has a taste. The only regret is that Fisher has left the third echelon early. Lambert's death hit him too hard, and Shen Chao only had time to give him a ride when he left the team.
On this day, Shen Chao was on vacation at home. In the huge air-conditioned room, he was holding a barbell and doing press movements while listening to the news from the LCD TV next to him, which occupied almost the entire wall. At this moment, the mobile phone next to him rang rapidly. Shen Chao picked up the phone, and it was Director Rhett calling.
"Archer, I have an urgent mission for you. Come to the headquarters to report ......"
"Got it, sir. I'll be there right away" Shen Chao has encountered something like this many times, and Shen Chao has already adapted to this kind of on-call life. Life here is so smooth and exciting, Shen Chao has only returned to his own world twice in the past two years. Every time, I didn't stay for a few days and came back. The perilous lives of field agents have become a part of himself.
Back at the headquarters, Shen Chao rushed to the conference room as fast as he could, he had already learned from the front desk that the supervisors were now meeting in the conference room, and Red asked him to go directly to the conference room. All the way to the door of the conference room, even a good soundproof door could not stop the fierce quarrel inside. Shen Chao didn't care what stage the meeting inside was, so he directly pushed the door and entered the conference room. Then he didn't look at the people who were arguing, and stood directly behind Director Red. The people who were arguing also stopped at once. Look in Red's direction, waiting for him to speak.
"Gentlemen, the situation is urgent, we cannot sit idly by and let those WMDs be sold to terrorists, whether you want to or not, I have reached an agreement with the Russian government. Agents will be sent together to recover the WMDs. We must send an elite agent to the other side within 24 hours. "
"Archer, I'm sure you can help us recycle those WMDs?" Red looked back at Shen Chao.
"No problem, Director Red, I won't let you down. Shen Chao replied confidently. He knew that the plot was about to begin. At this time, his strength is much stronger than when he first crossed over, as an elite agent of the third echelon. He has also seen a lot of storms and waves, and he believes that he can survive this crisis safely.
Everyone saw that Red had decided, and they did not continue to object. Only Graeme glanced at Shen Chao before leaving, and then followed the other directors out of the conference room.
Six hours later, Shen Chao got off the plane that went straight to St. Petersburg. It was already afternoon, and the sunset was hanging in the sky, and it seemed that it would set at any moment. Follow the schedule of tasks that have just been made. In a few hours, they were about to start their operation, and in addition to a Russian intelligence officer, they were greeted by a young man with a tattoo on his right arm. …,
"I've heard a lot about you," the shooter (Archer) said hello in Russian English. He stretched out his hand as he spoke.
"You must be the Tea Falcon" (Custer), and I've heard a few of your deeds. Shen Chao also stretched out his hand and shook his hand. I finally met this soy sauce character who was as important as myself.
Since neither side had time to waste, so without saying a few words, Shen Chao took his equipment and left the airport with them in an off-road vehicle. It was a modified bulletproof vehicle, and the two watched images from the on-board television in the back seat and listened to the first mission briefings from the directors of both sides.
As this was a joint operation, multiple pre-mission briefings were conducted to ensure that both men had access to the most up-to-date mission information. The first stop for the two was a mansion in the city of St. Petersburg. Mission objectives will not be announced until later. At that time, they will have to take the Neva River in order to avoid the entry of the outer defenses. Both of them listened carefully to the briefing, and then began to change their outfits in the car. Since it was a high-risk mission, Shen Chao also seriously changed into his full eclipse combat suit, after all, this is not that kind of small task, just wear a body armor with EMP. This is an important place to operate to penetrate a giant cabal, and the preparation must be done.
I checked the status of the various tools on my combat suit, as well as my own gun. After confirming that it was correct, he looked to the side, and Custer was almost finished. It seems that the other party is also experienced. When encountering such a high-risk mission with unclear mission objectives, there is no tension in the slightest.
Shen Chao took a look, although the two of them had already prepared, they would have to wait for another two hours for the boat and other arrangements to be answered, so they began to chat with Custer.
"How many missions have you ever been on a mission?" Custer? Shen Chao asked curiously.
"No less than you." Custer, who was already dressed, replied, his tone seemed a little stiff. It was a bit unexpected for the other party to ask this kind of question directly. Didn't he know that it was a taboo?
"Oh, can you let go?" I mean, the enemies we're going to deal with in a moment are mostly Russians. Shen Chao continued to ask.
"They're all criminals, so you might as well worry about what you're doing." I've heard you Yankees aren't very flexible," Custer snapped.
"Don't worry, this Yankee is different. He pointed to himself as he spoke. The two of them chatted without a word, and neither seemed to care at all about the task they were about to perform. It was very embarrassing for the Russian intelligence officer who was sitting in the front and nervously looking at his watch. If it weren't for the fact that both of them were sitting in the back of the car in full gear, he would have almost thought that these two guys were tourists here.
Of course, they are not tourists after all. As night fell, the dinghy that had come to pick them up slowly sailed to the river. The two said goodbye to the intelligence officer and jumped directly onto the dinghy. Drive down the river towards the target. Within a few minutes of getting into the dinghy, Hansen's familiar voice came through the headphones.
"This is Hansen, and I'm in charge of directing the operation. Now let's start the communication check. ”
"Archer received. ”
"Custer received. ”
"All right, gentlemen. In the last 48 hours, the third echelon received the message. Some unscrupulous elements within the Russian army have obtained a small batch of advanced nuclear warheads and are preparing to sell them on the black market. The third echelon shared intelligence with the Russian government, and the two anti-dumping forces decided to act together and organize the transaction at any cost. ”
: "Andrey. Cobain, an informant in the black market in the third echelon. A man named Varian was confirmed. Lowski's mob boss acts as an intermediary in the deal. According to Cobain's intelligence. Most of Lovesky's income comes from drug trafficking and solicitation. But recently, he has begun to use his connections in the military to monopolize the nearby underground arms trade. Archer, Custer, you have to stop him before he finds a buyer for his nuclear warheads. ”…,
"Our mission is to execute Lovsky and his partner Polis. Sechev. and try to get Lofsky's contact list. This way we can determine who is working with him within the Russian army. "Speaking of which, the AK duo (after the initials of the two codenames) has arrived at the mission location. The two of them quickly climbed ashore.
"Loveski likes to entertain the gang leaders, and his baths will be full of potential witnesses, and the risk of our exposure is high. Casta said as soon as he came ashore. ”
"How do you know?" Shen Chao asked.
"Hey, I'm a local. Casta replied.
"It has been resolved, the St. Petersburg police have been notified by Interpol that a raid on the baths will be carried out at a later date. They would have taken Lowski's men and provided no background cover for the operation. Hansen's voice came through the headphones. It seems that the preparations of both sides are quite thorough.
"So, we're cleaning up the slivers. Right, Hansen? Shen Chao complained very cooperatively.
"No, you're not here to clean up the garbage for the strips, you're here to help us maintain regional stability, Yankees." Custer's sarcasm followed.
"Custer is right, Archer. Nuclear warheads in the hands of gangsters are a serious threat to both of us. That is why we both agreed to act cooperatively. Don't mess it up. Hansen was a peacemaker in the headphones again.
The two didn't say anything more, and they all showed their professionalism and prepared to act. Both of them were well-trained veterans with a lot of actual combat experience, so they didn't have much trouble sneaking into the garden, and one by one killed the two guards on the periphery.
Immediately afterwards, Shen Chao climbed to the second floor and killed two of them. By this time, it had been less than a minute since the two of them came in. Then, the two worked together, Shen Chao was in charge of the upper level, and Karst was in charge of the lower level. It took less than two minutes to kill all the remaining people.
Then the two rushed to the central control room and connected their portable EMP to the power line. A few minutes later, a strong electromagnetic pulse swept across the building. All electronics in close proximity were burned. The two of them immediately eliminated several gangsters who had come to check the situation. The first phase of the operation was very smooth.