Chapter 534
Chapter 534: Make an Example
Translator: _Min_ Editor: Rundi
The headquarter of Leilian sat in the rural area of Norway, a coffee shop that was closed all year long. Perhaps because no one took care of the place, the wooden hat with a strong North European flavor was covered by thick snow.
Wearing a thick trench coat and holding a briefcase, Kelly scanned the street. After confirming that no one followed her, she walked to the door of the coffee shop and cautiously knocked on the door.
There was a particular rhythm to her knocking; it seemed like some form of code.
Quickly, a barely audible sound came from behind the door, then the door opened. Without stopping, Kelly immediately pushed the door aside and went inside. She closed the door and hung her trench coat on the hanger at the door. The server that opened the door greeted her and courteously returned to the front desk of the coffee shop.
Under the trench coat was a gorgeous body. Kelly with a turtleneck sweater sat on the sofa beside the fireplace as she elegantly crossed her legs while looking at the man sitting right across her.
The man under the hood in a black sweater grinned.
“Is that so? I don’t feel anything. Where is the thing?”
“Catch.”
Kelly flicked her finger, and in the next second, the USB appeared in the man in black’s hand.
“The concept map of the deep water mining technology? You finally obtained it.”
“Where is the money?” Kelly asked.
“Don’t worry, it has already been wired to your account.” The man in black connected the USB to the tablet he brought along. He scanned the science fiction mining system and transportation track while he exhaled.
Moments later, he put away the tablet, and destroyed the USB.
Kelly expression remained unchanged, but she was shocked as she glanced at the USB crushed into pieces. The USB was not made of plastic, but rather aluminum. The person’s fighting ability must not be underestimated by how easily he crushed that USB.
The man saw the look of caution on Kelly’s face feeling pleased as he gradually leaned against the sofa.
“The next mission, I hope you can obtain the blueprints for the transportation track on the concept map. Of course, it would be better if you could obtain the blueprints for the tidal general or the mining module.”
A troubled look surfaced on Kelly’s face.
“It’s going to be difficult. Even Future Mining’s manager has no rights to access such core technology. Based on the deduction by our people, Future Mining’s technical department operates independently from its main operation and is directly managed by president Jiang Chen.”
Leilian Private Investigator Company had years of commercial espionage experience, but it was the first time they had seen such an odd operating structure. Modern enterprises promoted the interrogation of technical and operation management, so that technical could fully serve production. But Future Group seemed to have done the complete opposite. Operation management had a high degree of separation where technical could not serve the actual operation?
To the troubled look on Kelly’s face, the man in black only smiled and pointed up with a finger.
“If you could obtain the technology, money is not a problem. We’ll pay ten million for this concept diagram, and one hundred million for the blueprints.”
Kelly gulped as her heart pumped furiously.
Normally the commission for their work was around one million with the highest being five million. But this man started with ten million and offered up to one hundred million.
Was it BHP being a major player in the global mining industry? Or was it Future Group’s technology really worth that much?
“Now, do you have a plan?” The man in black smiled.
Kelly nodded mechanically.
If Future Mining’s manager was not enough, then they just need to go higher. For example, Future Group’s president – Jiang Chen.
She heard that man seemed to love beauty.
Then she just needs to create a beautiful encounter…
When Kelly thought about this, a charming curvature appeared on her red lips.
“Looks like you have a plan already. I look forward to hearing your good news during our next meeting.” The man in black smiled and stood up. “I still have a flight to catch in a moment to Ber. I will head out.”
“Ber? I heard that Frankberg is not the most peaceful place now,” Kelly said nonchalantly.
Precisely speaking, Europe was not peaceful.
“To ordinary people.”
He left those words as the man in black headed to the door.
Just as he reached the door, he suddenly stopped. The narrowed eyes locked onto the water stain on the carpet by the door.
Suddenly feeling alerted, he reached for the gun around his waist.
Bang—
But he was a beat slow. The Ghost Agent with her crosshair locked on him pressed the trigger first. The man in black looked at the woman that appeared in thin air in disbelief before silently collapsing in the pool of blood.
The pitch black figure suddenly appeared in the room. The fluid-shaped rifle and black muzzle cast a vibe of deadliness.
With the unexpected change, Kelly quickly flipped and rolled behind the sofa. She took over the MP7 assault rifle thrown to her by the server at the front desk, loaded the gun, and began firing back along with the coffee house server.
She didn’t know how the infiltrator managed to find their headquarter nor how the person appeared in the room out of nowhere. There was only one thought in her mind, kill her!
Her animal instinct thought told her that the person was extremely dangerous.
With the bullets flying, the Ghost Agent wearing a carbon Nano combat suit was calm. Two bullets managed to land on her chest and one hit her in the thigh. But their weapon only shook her body before she fluidly rolled behind a table.
The bullets left a trial of wooden specks of dust around her.
She ignored the enemy’s firepower and fired back with the Reaper Assault Rifle at Leilian Company’s people.
The bullets easily ripped through the structure that the enemy hid behind.
The server docked behind the front desk was shot in the head and smashed back into the counter behind him. Then the server hidden in the hallway had his chest shredded along with the concrete wall as he dropped the rifle in his hand.
With her people dying one by one, Kelly threw out a smoke grenade in fear. She fired back while retreating to the safety tunnel.
“Dammit, who is it!”
Suddenly, the words popped up in her head.
‘The Ghost Agents!
Could it be them?!’
But that’s impossible, regardless, they were just a bunch of newbies. Could it be BHP’s enemy? Or people they had rivaled during previous missions?
Kelly used the bullets to bust open the lock, kicked open the steel door with a fierce kick, and ran for her life toward the underground tunnel.
As a contingency against the gathering spot being attacked, they had prepared a boat in the underground tunnel. If only she could escape to there!
Kelly smashed through the steel gate of the underground tunnel, hopped onto the boat frantically, and stuffed the key into the engine.
She looked back at the empty door before she felt relieved and started the boat.
The enemy didn’t follow.
But before she could let out a breath, something struck her throat.
When she looked back, she met a black muzzle.
She didn’t know when the person was at the front of the boat.
The cold gunshot echoed inside the underground tunnel.
Without the time to beg for her life, Kelly collapsed in the pool of blood.
The Ghost Agent agilely hopped into the boat, pressed on her collar, and replied in an emotionless tone.
“A total of 12 individuals killed, including primary target Kelly, BHP representative. ‘Package’ is retracted, over.”