Chapter 63: Mission Impossible
Cooper's caution also saved his life.
Within a minute of his departure from the room, Bourne walked up the fire staircase next to him.
Bang bang bang –
As several gunshots rang out, several clerks who were destroying materials and preparing to retreat were quickly killed.
As early as Europe, when the first wave of Langley attacks was encountered, Byrne warned them, saying that he did not want to have any more entanglements with them, and he would not allow them to come to him again.
If someone does not agree, then he will destroy everyone who comes to him.
Now, he is firmly carrying out his plan.
Just as he had finished off the clerks and was about to go after Cooper, the cell phone he was carrying rang.
"Hey, you're also in Luoji Mountain, meet you, it's okay."
Byrne was obviously a little surprised to receive a call from Zhang Pin.
However, he did not hesitate to invite Zhang Pin to meet him.
"Cooper, he's the head of Operation Stepping Stones?"
The two soon made an appointment on an empty bridge.
After learning from Zhang Pin's mouth that someone was chasing him and determining the name of the person in charge, Bourne suddenly came to his senses.
He was tired of being hunted down endlessly, and what he didn't tell Zhang Pin was that on this trip to Europe to find his memories, he also met a girl who was in love with him.
Because of this, Byrne also desperately needs to live a stable life at this time.
This time I came to Luoji Mountain, in addition to trying to retrieve my memory and solve the problem that I had been hunted down, it was also one of the purposes.
He knew that Langley's power in America was the weakest compared to other places.
Originally, he wanted to find an opportunity to negotiate with the other party, but he didn't expect to be killed before he could do so.
Now hearing Zhang Pin's words, he suddenly knew that he was about to get close to the goal.
"This old fox was running very fast just now, and I didn't meet them in their operations command center."
As the spy ace of the police force, Bourne chose to live in his original position in order to use himself as a bait.
But originally he wanted to attract a few policemen and find an opportunity to sneak into the police station and find the information he wanted.
But he didn't expect Cooper to dare to do it directly in America.
However, Bourne, as an ace spy, had long anticipated Langley's methods, so he also set up traps and waited for the other party.
Plus he was lucky, so he ended up having the last laugh.
"Don't worry, since he has already come to Luoji Mountain, then we just let him not go back."
Zhang Pin is not as sorry as Bourne, and even a little lucky, after all, if Bourne really killed Cooper before, then things will become more troublesome and more difficult to control.
"But just killing people doesn't seem to have much effect, but it makes things more and more complicated."
Knowing that his original direct superior had come to Luoji Mountain and had the opportunity to kill the other party, Bourne was quite happy.
But after the happiness, he was still a little worried.
As the party who was hunted down, Bourne didn't look at the commando team he killed Langley before as if he was killing a chicken, and he even had the strength to go to the opponent's temporary command center to kill him.
But you know, the premise of these things, in addition to Bourne's careful layout before moving in, is also because he is lucky enough.
For example, this time, if he hadn't been woken up by a nightmare in the middle of the night, and went to the bathroom without turning on the light after waking up, it is estimated that he would have no life to see Zhang Pin at this time.
There is one more critical point.
For Langley, a behemoth, even if these few pursuits were unsuccessful, but the losses were not small, as long as they continued to send pursuit teams, there would always be a day of success.
And Bourne, as a lone ranger, even if he can be safe and sound every time he chases him before, as long as he makes a mistake, his life will not be saved.
In this kind of high-pressure pursuit, his psychological pressure is naturally not small.
So if there is a chance to solve this kind of hunting, it is what Bourne desperately wants.
"Of course, it is impossible to do simple killing, but with the cooperation of killing, it is not difficult to achieve this goal."
Regarding Bourne's worries, Zhang Pin is much more confident.
Although he was not constantly chased and killed by Langley's side like Bourne, Sir Zhang would not be stupid enough to think that the other party would really let him go.
The reason why Langley's side is not chasing him now is not because they don't want to or won't carry it out, it's just because the other party hasn't found an opportunity.
Or Langley didn't attack himself, from Warren's words, Zhang Pin guessed that maybe the other party had already laid out against him, but the attack was not as fierce as that of Bourne.
Because of this, Zhang Pin found Bourne as soon as he got the news.
The reason why he chose to cooperate with Bourne to deal with the conflict with Langley, instead of acting alone, was naturally because of the limitations of his identity.
In life, except for specially trained agents like Bourne, it is difficult for ordinary people to be unrelated to society.
Because as long as a person lives in the world, it is inevitable that there will be relatives, friends, and lovers.
If there is really no tie at all, then there will definitely be something wrong with this person.
Zhang Sir not to mention his current identity, just the existence of so many confidantes makes it impossible for him to be as desireless as Bourne.
So even if he wanted to deal with Langley's problems, he couldn't be as out of line as Bourne.
Don't look at Bourne's good killings now, but unless he really isn't ready to live, otherwise, he's not fit to do this.
After all, these guys who were killed by Bourne are different from many criminals who were killed by Zhang Sir.
First of all, most criminals belong to the kind of dangerous people who are not very socially connected.
The death of these people is a good thing worth applauding for most people, and there is basically no possibility of someone helping to take revenge.
But Langley's people are different.
The people who can be recruited by Langley, except for spies like Byrne who are responsible for carrying out risky missions, most of them have strong social attributes.
These people have relatives and friends, and even their own social status is not low.
And often their relatives and friends are not too bad.
So if these people die, it's likely to trigger more ripple effects.
This is obviously unnecessary for Zhang Sir.
Of course, this is not to say that he will not dare to kill.
In fact, when he destroyed the Langley branch on Hong Kong Island, he was much more ruthless than Byrne.
He just didn't want to do some senseless killing.
"We need to find where Cooper is hiding first, and I'm also going to get some information about the stepping stones."
Zhang Pin's plan is very simple, in the face of a behemoth like Langley, it is not advisable to simply fight by force.
Of course, the necessary show of force is also indispensable.
In addition to the show of force, the more critical issue is to grasp the pain points of the other side.
Langley has many pain points, but most of them have nothing to do with Zhang Pin and others.
And many of the other party's secrets are not easy to be known, and if you know too much, you will only get into trouble in the end.
Zhang Pin just set his sights on the stepping stone plan.
It stands to reason that this action should not have continued to exist long before the collapse of the Eastern Union.
But because it's so easy to use, there are obviously people above Langley who are reluctant.
Zhang Pin's plan is very simple, and now Bourne has already opened up the other party.
If the stepping stone plan is exposed again, Langley will definitely have to give an explanation in order to block the pressure of public opinion.
It's true that Langley is a behemoth, but because it belongs to a behemoth, it certainly can't be a monopoly on the inside.
Although the contradiction between Zhang Pin and Langley seems to be very big, it is only a matter of position.
With the rabbit and the woolly bear turning their faces, the relationship with Eagle Sauce in recent years has been in the honeymoon period.
Hong Kong Island is about to belong to rabbits again.
So rounding up, Zhang Pin can be regarded as half of his own person.
After the guy who had a direct conflict with him was pushed out to fight the thunder, the others saw Zhang Pin's methods and knew that it was impossible to get him easily, so whether they still had the mind to fight hard is naturally another story.
"You're going to announce the Stepping Stones?"
When Bourne heard Zhang Pin's words, he couldn't help but be stunned for a few seconds.
Although he has lost some memories, it can be said that most of the first half of his life was in the service of the Stepping Stones Project.
Now when I hear that this plan is about to be announced to the public, my heart is very complicated for a while.
"It may not be announced, but it is a bargaining chip for us."
Zhang Pin naturally doesn't care whether the stepping stone plan is announced or not.
However, this action must be completely punctured in a certain circle.
Only in this way can Langley's side not be easy.
"By the way, have you heard a news, recently in the European market, someone is preparing to announce a batch of Langley's undercover lists planted in countries around the world."
When Bourne heard Zhang Pin say that he was going to announce the stepping stone plan, he suddenly remembered a rumor he had heard when he was in Europe.
"Announcing the Langley undercover list? Who is so capable? ”
Hearing this, Zhang Pin suddenly became interested, he just wanted to use a stepping stone plan that Langley itself should have terminated as a bargaining chip, but now there are people who are even more fierce than him, and they are ready to announce the list of all Langley's undercover agents.
"I'm not sure if it's true or not, but when I first inquired about the news, I barely heard a little, but because it has nothing to do with me, I didn't care, and this kind of news, it's hard for people to believe that it's true."
Byrne also had a little doubt on his face at this time.
Originally, when he heard the news, he thought it must be fake news, so he didn't care.
But now that he heard Zhang Pin say that he was going to announce Langley's plan, he felt that the so-called undercover list was probably true.
"Whether it's true or not, that matter has nothing to do with us, just pay more attention to your own safety, let's do it first, by the way, do you have enough money?"
Zhang Pin was not interested in Langley's undercover list.
As for Bourne, he used to be an agent and was not an undercover agent, so naturally there was no need to worry.
The two discussed their next plans and decided to go their separate ways for the time being, waiting until the next step to get in touch.
In the end, Zhang Pin deliberately asked Bourne one more sentence.
He had just made a large amount of money now, and he didn't have time to spend it if he had any money, so seeing that Bourne seemed a little down, he asked more.
"Not enough."
Bourne is actually quite rich, and in order to facilitate his movements, he uses different identities to store a lot of money and weapons in many countries.
But the last time he was on Hong Kong Island, he spent a lot of money on Liu Piaopiao.
Later, when he was trying to regain his memory in Europe, he met another woman, who was also financially poor, and Bourne gave the other party a lot of money.
Coupled with the fact that I have fled all the way recently, I need to cover up my identity with a false identity, as well as prepare various weapons, as well as living expenses, and I really don't have much money on my body.
"This money should be spent as the fund for this operation."
Zhang Pin generously took out 20,000 US dollars and handed it to Bourne.
"Thank you."
It was already Bourne's instinct to take money to do things, so when Zhang Pin handed over the money, he subconsciously put it away.
After giving the money, Sir Zhang turned his head and was about to leave, when he suddenly found that when he was talking to Bourne, not far from the bridge, there were two people talking sneakily, and their eyes were looking at this side from time to time.
"Those two are agents!"
Just as Zhang Pin looked at the two opposite, Bourne also noticed this scene.
Compared to Zhang Pin, who was still thinking, he recognized at a glance that those two people, like himself, were both agents.
"Hey!"
Zhang Pin was not surprised to hear that the two were agents.
Then not only did he not dodge, but greeted the two of them in a bright way.
Bang –
Bang –
Suddenly, just as Zhang Pin was looking at the two people on the bridge, suddenly there was a gunshot over there.
The targets of the shooting were not Zhang Pin and Bourne, but the two seemed to be engaged in some kind of infighting.
One of them, an old man with glasses, was shot by a strong man.
After firing two shots, the strong man glanced at Zhang Pin and Byrne warningly, then raised the gun in his hand again, shook it at the two of them, and then left on the other side.
"Ethan! Ethan! ”
After the strong man left, the old man with glasses covered his stomach with both hands, and his entire abdomen was instantly drenched with blood.
He staggered to the edge of the bridge as he shouted for someone, and then jumped headlong on it.
Da Da Da –
Not long after the old man jumped, a man in a suit ran to the bridge panting.
The other party first glanced at Zhang Pin and Byrne vigilantly.
Then he looked down at the place where the old man had jumped, and when he looked at the river, he propped his hands on his chest, as if supporting his body.
However, seeing his movements, Byrne did not hesitate to pull out his pistol and then aimed at the other party.
"Hey, brother, you've found the wrong target, we're not enemies with you, and if you still have buddies, you need to tell them to be careful."
Zhang Pin didn't care about Bourne's reaction, but took the initiative to hold down the other party's hand that wanted to shoot, and then reminded the guy opposite.
"Who are you?"
Hearing Zhang Pin's words, the man opposite turned around, his hands that originally seemed to be propped up on the fence, but at this time he was holding a pistol.
The reason why Byrne reacted this way was because he saw through the other party's actions to disguise the shooting.
"You two may be peers, maybe they were colleagues before, but as for me, of course I'm a good and enthusiastic citizen."
Zhang Pin didn't seem to care about the weapon in the other party's hand at all, but instead introduced himself.
Boom –
Just as the man on the other side was about to say something, an explosion suddenly broke his thoughts not far away.
"Oh no, Claire!"
When the man saw the explosion that was not remote, he suddenly had no time to say anything to Zhang Pin and the others.
He yelled, then ran back again.
(End of chapter)