Chapter 36: The Monster and the Moonlight (2)
The rain was dripping.
Probably because God had mercy on the suffering refugees, it began to rain in the early hours of the morning in Athens, where it didn't rain much. For Hydra, whose fire has not yet been completely extinguished, this is indeed a timely rain. With the cooperation of many chosen ones, the rain of Athens seemed to gather and pour down on the already devastated slums, so that at noon the fire of the entire slum was finally extinguished.
Pattani and Rektzka look out over the Hydra Mansion from another Interpol safe house in the slums, which is almost entirely burned to a blackened frame except for the top 30 floors. In the gray raindrops, the whole building looks like an unfinished building splashed with ink, empty, only a smoky skeleton that stands on the bones, and the dark atmosphere is simmering in it, which cannot be dispersed for a long time. Patani held up his binoculars and stared intently at Hydra's exit in the slum, as if waiting for something.
Napoleon VII, who had learned from Pierre, was to visit Hydra at noon today, and Pattani and Rektzka had been waiting here restlessly.
Napoleon VII and the "Black Death" secretly collaborated undoubtedly an earth-shattering big secret, big news. But Patani didn't want the news and the secret to be true. The Black Death was strong enough, and if a big man like Napoleon VII collaborated with it, her hopes of finding her sister to avenge her father were increasingly slim.
She looked down at her watch, and saw that the time was approaching by the minute, and Patani's heart was gradually beating faster, and she even felt a little dry mouth.
Finally, at half-past eleven, a group of bodyguards in black suits walked out of the narrow gate at the entrance and exit of Hydra. They stood in two lines by the door without umbrellas, followed by the camera crew, who raised their drones and set up cameras on both sides of the square.
A moment later, people came out of the narrow door one after another, and Ayala held a telescope and swept over the faces of these people one by one, all of them were Ou Yu, the Europa Executive Committee, the Europa External Action Agency, the Europa Police Agency, and the big names on the side of the European Union, not only the vice chairman of the Europa Executive Committee, Clott Gaion, but also the Grand Commander of the European League, Thackeray, and even her immediate boss, Interpol Secretary General Leonard Robert.
These big men with heads and faces stood peacefully under the umbrella of the bodyguards, and they didn't know what was going on, and suddenly they began to applaud, and in the applause, Patarni saw Napoleon VII, who was wearing a dark blue double-breasted suit, and walked out of the narrow door, he refused the staff's action of giving him an umbrella, but took a transparent long-handled umbrella from the staff, and waited at the door gracefully after opening it, as if waiting for some big man to come out.
Pattani was guessing about what important person Napoleon VII himself had to hold an umbrella when she saw a face that surprised her - Athena. Dressed in a pale blue overskirt, white gloves and a top hat, she made the drizzle's dark and dirty slum look like she was there. Patani believed that Rekzka would not lie to her, and she also thought that she could never be mistaken, Athena's flawless face and tall and graceful figure were too recognizable to be mistaken. But she really didn't know how to explain the situation in front of her.
"What's going on? I saw her this morning!"
Before Pattani could say anything, Lexka exclaimed, and Pattani frowned and said, "Maybe it's a stand-in, or maybe someone is dressed up as Athena?"
"Stand-in?" Rektzka shrugged her shoulders, "maybe, but it shouldn't be easy to find Athena's stand-in, let's just say it's ......."
Rykcka let out a complimentary exclamation, and Pattani sneered, "You're not afraid that I'll tell Melanie?"
"Oh, sir, I'm divorced a long time ago!
"Don't you want to remarry?"
Rykska smiled bitterly and said softly: "Forget it, isn't it harmful to get married in this business?"
"Now that the hydra has been eradicated, perhaps the end of the Black Death is not far off. Once the Black Death is eradicated, it's still too late to go to Melanie. β
Ryketzka shook her head, "I don't think I'll ever see the end of the Black Death in my lifetime." β
"That's how you believe what that rotten kid with a heart says?"
RekΔka turned his head to look at Patarni, smiled and said, "Sir, you can't be prejudiced against him, do you think that a rotten child can easily deceive two mature and sexy beauties?"
Pattani bit his lip and whispered, "Maybe it's because he's a rotten person that he can trick a good girl's heart." β
Rykcka was about to distinguish for Cheng Mo when he saw the bigwigs in the square looking at the entrance to the basement on the right. Rekska subconsciously raised the binoculars and immediately said in a deep voice: "Look! It seems that the 'rotten child' is not deceiving!"
Patani also hurriedly raised the binoculars, and saw a woman wearing traditional Albanian clothes slowly walking out of the basement, and behind her there was a tricycle of vehicles constantly going up the slope, and the dump of the tricycle was full of food, bread, biscuits, milk, and water.
The applause rang out again.
Pattani also recognized the beautiful Albanian woman at a glance, and there was no doubt that she was none other than the agent of the "Hydra", "Ayala the Hellhound". Pattani had only heard of this woman's name before, but he didn't have Ayala's details and photos in his hands, which he got from Ryktska yesterday, but he didn't expect it to be verified today.
Thinking that things seemed to be slipping in the direction Cheng Mo said, Patani's heart also fell to the bottom. She looked in the direction of her immediate boss, Leonard Robert, who had given the information about Ayala to the organization as soon as possible, she didn't believe that the secretary general didn't know the identity of the woman in front of her, but he was also smiling and applauding.......
Patani put down her binoculars and turned her back to the window, as if she didn't want to see everything in front of her, she suppressed her anger and said in a deep voice: "The leader of a notorious underground organization has appeared on an official occasion in such a grand manner, and it seems that he is still going to be whitewashed...... It's ironic......"
Rektzka didn't react much, he smiled and said, "Sir, do you know why I applied to be an undercover agent?"
Patani sighed and whispered, "Yes! Why?"
It was obvious that Patani was very disappointed at this moment, and did not have much interest in Rekcka's mental journey, but just asked casually as if in agreement.
"Do you know how I met your father?" Rykcka didn't wait for Pathani to answer, and said to herself, "In 2013, I participated in a case investigating 'counterfeit drugs', and that case inevitably involved you Tianzhu, because your Tianzhu has always been the main producer of counterfeit drugs. It produces 20% of the world's generic drugs, and also makes the pharmaceutical industry one of the pillars of Tianzhu's economy. β
Patani said with some dissatisfaction: "It is also the largest drug clinical trial site, those pharmaceutical giants have just finished testing on animals, and they are doing human experiments in Tianzhu, and some black-hearted pharmaceutical companies have not even done animal experiments, so they directly invest in the Tianzhu market." For this reason, we have to die countless people in Tianzhu every year! This is completely deserved......
"I know all this, and I participated in the investigation only to find out that there are so many poor people in the world who cannot afford medicine, not only some underdeveloped countries, but in fact, 60% of Tianzhu's generic drugs are smuggled to lighthouse countries and Europazhda....... Every year, these medicines save countless lives. β
Patani's tone softened when he heard Rekska say this, "To be honest, some of the drugs are too expensive! I have a friend who takes a medicine for kidney cancer, the original version costs 20,000 US dollars a box, while our Tianzhu production only costs 600 US dollars. β
"Then did you know that the largest generic drug factory in Tianzhu was the Black Death? The generic drugs they produced were famous for their good efficacy and cheap prices, and they followed the drugs to the world through the underground network of the Black Death. β
Patani frowned, "Anyway, it's illegal to produce counterfeit medicines. We should find a way to get the government to increase investment, so that ordinary people can afford to eat those expensive drugs, instead of encouraging counterfeiting, so that the companies that develop drugs will suffer losses, otherwise the pharmaceutical companies will have less and less incentive to develop new drugs!"
Rekzka smiled and said lightly: "Yes, you are right, so these pharmaceutical companies sponsored us 4.5 million euros to fight the Black Death and the counterfeit drugs they produced, and these pharmaceutical companies will continue to sponsor them...... Not only that, but we also received 20 million euros from FIFA, which is actually money from the bookmakers to fight match-fixing! In addition, we received 1,500 euros from tobacco companies to combat tobacco .......smuggling."
Patani was silent.
"Do you know why I believe that 'rotten boy with a heart'?" said Rektzka, in a low voice, "because when he called me to persuade you, he did not tempt me with any interest, but asked me, 'What is justice?......'"
"What is justice?" Pathani repeated softly.
"I've seen patients grieving because they can't afford medicines, and I know how important those expensive things are to them, but I also know that it's illegal to make counterfeit medicines, and even if they are legal in Tianzhu, I have to fight smuggling. I was caught in a conflict in this case....... I didn't know what to do right, and I asked myself what justice was, until I knew that the organization had received a large amount of donations sponsored by pharmaceutical companies...... "Is there pure justice in the world.......? So it's only normal for Napoleon VII to cooperate with the Black Death, and I'm not surprised at all!"
Lyktka's words touched Patani so hard that she turned around and picked up the binoculars again, her hands still trembling slightly.
In the telescope, she saw a drone with a camera hovering in the sky, and a cameraman with a camera following Napoleon VII and Athena. Ayala, dressed in Albanian costumes, led in front, Napoleon VII held an umbrella in his left hand, and Athena in his right hand, the two walked along the center line of the square towards the slums, the concrete floor dried at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the misty and dense white mist suddenly rose in the square just now, and they walked in it elegantly and calmly, setting off the scene of the disaster like a cyberpunk beautiful scene.
The pair entered the crowded slum with a tricycle full of food and personally distributed it to the ragged refugees, and when Napoleon VII picked up a lovely child with a face covered in soot, the whole slum burst into applause and shouts.
"They were the ones who burned Hydra, and they were the ones who were the saviors....... It's just a show. Rektzka said with a smile.
Patani held the binoculars and stared at Napoleon VII, posed a friendly smile to the camera, and said with some confusion: "I..... What should I do?"
"I remember your father said something to me......" Rektzka pulled a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket, poured out one and put it in his mouth, "If you want evil to win, as long as the good people do nothing!"
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When he left Hydra, he was even faster than Cheng Mo had imagined. Originally, he thought that Pattani would not only have to see Ayala, but also find out that Napoleon VII's people were mixed with the Black Death before he could believe him. It is not enough to believe in him, but we must also go through a fierce ideological struggle before we can make up our minds.
After all, she is out of the scope of working for Interpol, and she has to take on a huge responsibility herself.
Unexpectedly, he saw Pattani brave the rain to come to Athena's safe house at night.
The two entered the basement from Athena's bedroom, and before entering, Patani stole a few glances at Athena, who was sitting on the bed with a notebook. But Athena didn't even raise her eyelids to look at her.
Cheng Mo closed the door, and the basement fell into boundless darkness, because Athena pressed the destroy button, the entire underground passage has been completely blown up, and the power supply in the basement has been completely cut off. Cheng Mo lit the flashlight, and a cone-shaped pillar of light lit up in the basement, but it was even more gloomy. He pointed his flashlight at the wall beside him, casting a heavy circle of light on the white wall, and said faintly, "Miss Patani, I think you must have made a decision to come here now." β
"I need a guarantee that you'll give me information about the Black Death when you leave Hydra, and that it's detailed and deadly enough! After a pause, Pattani said, "I think you should believe me, it's best to give me the information about the Black Death first, and I'll send you and Athena out as soon as I read it......"
Cheng Mo did have a lot of information about the Black Death, but the information he obtained when he was the "Black Death Doctor" was far from fatal, and he believed that the database that Nuwa downloaded from Ou Yu must also have information related to the Black Death, and the memory that could be loaded with Nuwa was also in Jing Quan's hands.
Of course, Athena must have also had information on the Black Death, but Athena couldn't have given it to him. So he had only one choice, so Cheng Mo thought for a while and said: "Don't hide it, such a thing is too important and too deadly." So those things were put in a very safe place by me, and if you want me to give it to you now, I can't do it at all. β
"And how do you make sure that these things exist and that they will be handed over to me when you get out?"
"What kind of assurance do you need?" Cheng Mo asked rhetorically.
Patani took a deep breath and said softly, "Uroboros, I want a blank Ulopolos as a guarantee! For the safety of each other, I will activate this Ulopolos here to verify its authenticity." After verifying, you put Uloporos away, and give Ulopolos to me when you are out of the hydra. After you get out, no matter what information you give, I won't be able to return this Uroboros, but if you give enough information, I will definitely return you a blank Ulopolos in the future!"
Patani learned a lot about "Uroboros" from Pierre, and one of them was the activated "Ulopolos", which no one else could use. It's just that she doesn't know how the activated "Urobolos" turns into a tabula rasa. Pierre did not mention this at all.
Cheng Mo thought for a while and felt that Patani was really not a lion's mouth, and the way was reasonable, and such an offer was completely acceptable to him, so he pretended to hesitate and said, "You wait...... I'll talk to Athena about it......"
Patani nodded.
Cheng Mo handed the flashlight to Pathani, pushed the door and walked out of the basement, and then walked out of the closet to Athena's room, where she was still sitting cross-legged on the bed staring at her laptop, reading something intently and seriously. Cheng Mo coughed slightly and said, "Miss Athena, I want to discuss something with you." β
Say. Athena didn't look up.
"Lend me two blank Uroboros........ I would ......."
Before Cheng Mo could say what he would pay, Athena had already bent down and dragged out a black backpack from under the bed, she rummaged through the bag casually, and casually threw two watches at the end of the bed.
Athena's simplicity was so incomprehensible that Cheng Mo looked down at the two shiny watches, and was stunned for a while before he said, "Thank you......"
Athena said coldly and earnestly, "Don't bother me anymore!
Cheng Mo didn't feel embarrassed, and he didn't explain that he needed to accumulate energy as a last resort, but silently bowed down and picked up two watches, feeling that it was really a happy thing to know a rich woman, and two pieces of Uroboros, worth billions of dollars, were thrown in front of him like a few coins to send a beggar. No wonder Napoleon VII was so obsessed with Athena.
As for Athena's unpleasant tone, it was insignificant compared to the two pieces of Uroboros. Cheng Mo put the diamond-encrusted Vacheron Constantin in his trouser pocket and held the Cartier blue balloon in his hand. He wasn't a verbose person either, and he turned around and re-entered the closet.
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After Cheng Mo activated Uloporos for Patani, he took back the "Blue Balloon", confirmed the escape plan with her, and agreed to meet tomorrow morning, and walked out of the basement with Patani.
When Patani left, he couldn't help but look at Athena several times, and Cheng Mo didn't say anything to Athena, and closed the door directly. Seeing Patani walk out of the safe house, Cheng Mo returned to his room.
Gao Yuemei was lying on the bed and playing with her mobile phone boredly, in fact, the signal of the entire slum has been blocked now, and she can only look at the photos. Hearing the sound of Cheng Mo closing the door, Gao Yuemei hurriedly turned over and jumped up from the bed, and said with a smile: "Are you done talking?"
Cheng Mo nodded.
Gao Yuemei walked up to Cheng Mo, wrapped her arms around Cheng Mo's neck and asked nervously, "How are you talking?"
"No problem. β
Hearing Cheng Mo say that there was no problem, Gao Yuemei's tone instantly lowered, she hugged Cheng Mo tighter, buried her head next to Cheng Mo's neck, and asked pitifully, "Then when are you leaving?"
"I'll leave tomorrow morning. β
Gao Yuemei's breath froze for a moment, and then she didn't say anything, just began to kiss Cheng Mo, after the intense deep kiss, she held Cheng Mo's cheeks with both hands, looked at Cheng Mo's eyes affectionately, and gasped and said, "Then what are you waiting for? I must squeeze you dry tonight....."
"Wait. Cheng Mo pushed Gao Yuemei away a little, he took out the Vacheron Constantin artist Uloporos from his pocket, and handed it to Gao Yuemei, "Didn't you say that you want to be the chosen one......?"
Gao Yuemei looked down at Uloporos in Cheng Mo's hand, the diamond-encrusted dial shining brightly under the light. Gao Yuemei's gaze was a little dull, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and the rapid heartbeat and breathing sound were particularly obvious in the cramped room.
"Uroboros is now the most attractive thing in the world, there is no one!" Cheng Mo thought to himself, he shoved Vacheron Constantin into Gao Yuemei's hand, and whispered, "You don't want to wear it now." The day after tomorrow, Rekcka will arrange for you to leave the Hydra slum. You don't linger in Sila, go straight to Paris and find an Ennoth man named Nicholas, who is my subordinate, who will protect you and show you how to activate Uroboros and complete the registration ......"
The reason why Cheng Mo told Gao Yuemei not to wear it now is because after activation, Ulopolos has a signal, although it will not be detected by other chosen ones during the novice period, but if there is a detection device at the customs airport, it can still be detected. Under normal circumstances, within the Europa Alliance, there will be no signal detection of "Uroboros", but the current Greece is an extraordinary period, and Cheng Mo thinks it is better not to activate it.
Gao Yuemei grabbed Vacheron Constantin to admire it under the light, she completely forgot about squeezing Cheng Mo dry, and said excitedly: "This is Ulopolos?
Cheng Mo nodded, "One billion is just the starting price, but in fact, there is no market." β
Gao Yuemei hugged Cheng Mo tightly again, and said in a sweet tone: "Master, you are so good to Xiaomei, how can you repay Xiaomei if you want it?"
Cheng Mo raised his hand and rubbed Gao Yuemei's hair, "You don't have to repay me, as long as you can use this piece of Ulopolos to protect yourself while I'm away." β
Gao Yuemei closed her eyes and said in a warm breath in Cheng Mo's ear: "Master, whatever you ask Xiaomei to do in the future, Xiaomei will listen to you." Xiaomei won't be angry with the nineteenth sister, as long as the owner is happy, Xiaomei is still willing to serve you with the nineteenth sister......."
Cheng Mo involuntarily remembered Bai Xiuxiu, I don't know why, the light snake in his body seemed to have received some strong stimulation and began to tremble violently. Cheng Mo understood that "black magic" is to inspire human primitive yearning, brutal battles, and heroic love, which is a very destructive and extremely wanton prosperity. His heart then stopped beating suddenly, as if he had stepped into a cliff from which he would never return.
Gao Yuemei raised her hand and pressed it on Cheng Mo's heart, and asked with some confusion: "What's wrong?"
Cheng Mo forcibly controlled the desire that seemed to be overflowing, and said lightly: "It's nothing, no one can say what will happen in the future now, I don't know when I can go back, at that time...... Maybe the teacher ......"
Gao Yuemei shook her head and interrupted Cheng Mo's words, "You still don't know enough about the nineteenth sister, she is very stubborn, and she has a kind of literati loftiness, no matter how long, she will wait for you." β
Cheng Mo sneered: "Even if you know that you slept with me?"
Gao Yuemei flattened her mouth and said with some grievances: "I'm sorry...... I'm not good, I apologize to you. β
Cheng Mo pushed Gao Yuemei away and said coldly: "Sleep! I have to get up early tomorrow." β
Gao Yuemei didn't dare to disobey Cheng Mo's intentions at all, and put the watch on the bedside table with a pitiful look, and lay down on the bed again.
Cheng Mo didn't take off his clothes either, and lay on Gao Yuemei's side, a little farther away.
After a long while, Gao Yuemei moved her body and leaned towards Cheng Mo, and asked cautiously, "Can I sleep with you in my arms?"
Cheng Mo thought that he had promised Athena, and he also wanted to teach Gao Yuemei a lesson, so he closed his eyes and said coldly: "No." β
Gao Yuemei didn't dare to continue to get close to Cheng Mo, but curled up sideways beside Cheng Mo, staring at Cheng Mo's side face quietly with her eyes open until the sky was shining......
When he heard a knock at the door, Cheng Mo opened his eyes. Until this time, Gao Yuemei hadn't slept yet, put her hand on the back of his hand, and looked at him with red eyes stupidly. Seeing Gao Yuemei's pitiful look, Cheng Mo couldn't bear to continue to make her sad, and took the initiative to kiss her on the forehead after getting up, "Learn how to use Ulopolos and wait for me to come back obediently." β
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An hour later, Cheng Mo and Athena put on the human skin masks made by Patani and left Athena's safe house. After waiting a little longer at the electrical repair shop, Pattani led Pierre to the safe house.
After entering the safe house, she pointed to Cheng Mo, who was wearing a Lektzka human skin mask, and said: "This is my colleagues, Bryce and Wendy who are lurking in the Hydra headquarters, I told you, and now I finally found the two of them, but their undercover identities are quite special, I hope there is a special channel to get them out of the slums......"
"This ......."
Seeing that Pierre had a sense of prevarication, Patani snorted coldly in front of Cheng Mo and Athena and said: "If you can't do it, forget it, I'll directly ask the Secretary-General to tell Napoleon, although I don't want to see the Secretary-General, but now there is no way." β
"Why don't you want to see Secretary General Leonard?"
Pattani raised his head slightly and said lightly, "He has been pursuing me." But I don't want to make the relationship between my superiors and subordinates awkward, so I've been avoiding ......."
Pierre couldn't stand this kind of stimulation, and hurriedly said: "Don't look for him, don't look for him, I'll get it for you!"
Pattani smiled and said, "Then I'll invite you to drink at night...."
It was rare for Patani to smile at him, and Pierre's heart was full, "Come with me, there is absolutely no problem......"