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Was it to uncover his undercover agent who was placed at a high level in the Metropolitan Police Department? Could this be their trap?
"Do you still think that behind Hei Lai Jingzhi, there may be... an extraordinary force supporting him?"
Bai Hejing understood the meaning of his words.
"The intelligence right now is not enough to fully determine that."
Bai Heqing shook his head slightly and said, "That may be the case, or it may be that this garden organization wants us to think so...
Ah Jing, immediately notify those people in the European branch and tell them to stop messing around and submit to me all the information they can find about this "Garden" organization as quickly as possible.
This time... what the other party exposed is likely a trap to lure us in. We must find a new breakthrough ourselves."
"Yes."
Chapter 351: To My Best Disciple “Heart”
In an old house in Washington, the United States, Shuichi Akai walked up the stairs to the second floor.
After the rescue operation at Mihua International Hospital was completed, he accepted the order from the FBI headquarters and immediately set off back to the United States, accompanied by James and Judy.
This was not a surprising outcome. Long before the rescue operation began, he and Mamiya Shin had already anticipated that they would most likely be transferred back to the United States in the near future.
After all, in the previous Narisawa Sanpei incident, the FBI's forces in Tokyo, Japan suffered a near-annihilation-style blow and suffered extremely serious losses.
Whether it is for subsequent accountability or redeployment of forces against Japan, they should indeed come back.
But Shuichi Akai didn't expect that Mamiya Shin would actually sacrifice himself.
It was on the night of the rescue operation that Mamiya Shin was chased by members of the organization and eventually killed while trying to attract the organization's attention for him and Judy.
Until now, not only do they not know who killed Mamiya Shin, they haven't even been able to get his body back.
Judy also suffered a great blow from this incident. After returning to the United States, she locked herself in the room and refused to see anyone.
Shuichi Akai was indeed worried about her, but he didn't know how to persuade her.
As for James, his injury has improved a lot after returning to the United States, and he even attended an internal FBI meeting today.
Shuichi Akai was not clear about the content of the meeting, but he knew without thinking that it must be related to their next move.
It might even be time for them to return to Japan after this meeting.
Therefore, Shuichi Akai could only take advantage of this short period of free time to do some things that he had to deal with.
For example, the things that Mamiya Shin left for him.
In the basement on the night of the rescue operation, Shuichi Akai keenly noticed that his military bag seemed to have been tampered with.
Someone stuffed a note inside. On the note was written by Mamiya Shin, which contained an address in Washington.
Out of instinct, Shuichi Akai, who had a bad feeling at the time, concealed the existence of the note from Judy.
Soon afterwards, some low-level undercover agents planted by the FBI inside the organization reported that on the night of the rescue operation, the organization shot and killed an undercover agent lurking inside the organization and recovered his body.
Based on the extremely coincidental time and place, as well as the identity of the undercover agent in the organization that they had learned, Shuichi Akai quickly came to a conclusion that even he could not believe.
The undercover agent who was shot dead by the organization was none other than Mamiya Shin, who had lost contact with them on the night of the rescue operation.
This information came so suddenly and was so certain that they could not even find any room for rebuttal or doubt.
Mamiya died.
After learning this information, Judy, unable to bear the blow, fainted on the spot. James had not yet woken up. Shuichi Akai immediately reported this information.
Soon afterwards, he received an order from headquarters, asking them to set off immediately back to the United States.
To this day, Judy has not recovered from this blow, and although Akai Shuichi is also sad, he has not forgotten the important things.
After returning to the United States, Shuichi Akai first asked his colleagues at the headquarters, and only then did he learn that the address on the note was the address where Mamiya Shin lived during his stay in the United States.
This is the old house he is in now.
This is a two-story villa with ordinary decoration. Since it is not located in a bustling area, the price is relatively cheap. It is reasonable for Mamiya Shin to buy such a villa with her salary.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, this villa was actually allocated to him by the headquarters.
But no matter what the real situation is, after Mamiya Shin left the United States two years ago to join an undercover organization in Japan, this villa has been completely empty.
Shuichi Akai also got the key to the villa from the headquarters under the pretext of helping Mamiya Shin to sort out his belongings.
Although no one has lived there for two years, there is not much dust accumulated in the villa. It must be that someone comes to clean it regularly.
This is enough to show how much the headquarters values Mamiya Shin. He is indeed an agent with outstanding abilities.
His unexpected sacrifice was indeed a big blow to the headquarters.
There is a study on the second floor of the villa. Inside the study is a large bookshelf with a pile of books neatly and densely arranged on the shelf. There are books from different countries and regions, which are very diverse. It seems that their owner should be a reading enthusiast.
Although he really wanted to say so, Shuichi Akai keenly noticed that these books were actually very new and had basically no signs of having been read. They were most likely just used to fill the bookshelves.
One of the books corresponded to the information on the note.
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?”
Shuichi Akai raised his hand and took the book off the bookshelf.
Shuichi Akai had heard of this book. It was published a few years ago and was hailed as a representative work of American postmodernism, a philosophical book full of Zen philosophy. Unfortunately, he was not interested in this kind of book.
Opening the book, a small hand-painted postcard fell to the floor. Akai Shuichi reached out and caught it before it hit the floor.
At the top of this postcard is written "To the heart of my most outstanding apprentice", and the signature below is...
Black Feather Chikage.
[Heart? You mean Mamiya? Then this postcard was written to Mamiya by the person named Kuroba Chikage?]
And he even used the term "disciple"... Is he Mamiya's teacher?
The art of disguise.
In an instant, Akai Shuichi thought of this.
Mamiya Shin has mastered a very special disguise technique, and her disguise level is no less than that of the organization's Thousand-Faced Witch Vermouth.
This person named Heiyu Chikage is most likely the one who taught Jianmiya Xin the disguise technique.
[Kuroba Chikage...]
Shuichi Akai thought about it carefully, but could not find the relevant information in his memory.
It was someone he didn't know. If he had the chance later, he should probably investigate...
Holding the postcard, Shuichi Akai carefully flipped through the book in his hand again, but did not find anything noteworthy.
[It seems that there is only this postcard. ]
Is this the postcard that Mamiya wanted to pass on to him?
Akai Shuichi put the book back in its place and looked down at the postcard in his hand.
There didn't seem to be anything special on the postcard. It was just a simple message of comfort and blessing from a teacher to his students. The words were not bound by any format, but they revealed the true feelings.
On the other side of the postcard, Shuichi Akai saw the address from which the postcard was sent.
"Queens, New York..."
"Om."
Just then, there was a noise outside the villa. Akai Shuichi looked out the window and saw a black car parked outside the villa.
This chapter completely clarifies the relationship between Mamiya Shin and Kuroba Chikage
Chapter 352: Shuichi, what do you think?
"James, how did you know I was here?"
Inside the villa, Shuichi Akai walked down the stairs and saw James who just opened the door and walked into the hall.
The person in the black car outside the villa just now was James.
"I asked my colleagues at the headquarters. They said that you, Shuichi, took the key to the old house in Mamiya. I knew you would be here, ahem..." James explained while standing in the lobby on the first floor.
His voice was a little weak, and he coughed from time to time while speaking. His mental state was also very bad, giving people the feeling that he was an old tree that was about to die.
His previous injuries had never fully healed.
The severe internal bleeding caused by the explosion at close range is a very fatal injury at James' age.
Even if he could barely save his life, it would cause extremely serious damage to his body... and James himself was well aware of this.
"You're in such a hurry to come here, is there something you want to tell me?"
Akai Shuichi walked to the hall and the two of them sat on the sofa nearby.
"Well, it's about today's meeting..."
After covering his mouth with a handkerchief and coughing violently twice, James nodded and put the handkerchief away.
【The smell of blood.】
Seeing this, Shuichi Akai frowned slightly, with a hint of worry in his eyes. Although James concealed it well, he still smelled the smell.
James' injury may be more serious than he thought.
"The top brass at headquarters approved an action plan some time ago."
Without giving Shuichi Akai a chance to ask questions, James went straight to the point.
"An action plan against that organization, codenamed Operation... Garden."
【garden?】
Without interrupting, Shuichi Akai waited quietly for James' explanation.
“This plan was originally proposed by Mamiya, and was revised by special consultant Mr. Kudo Yusaku, and finally submitted to the headquarters as a special action plan.
The purpose of its actions is to open up a new underground front against that organization and thereby eliminate that organization's reverse infiltration into the intelligence agencies of various European countries."
"James."
As soon as James opened his mouth, he announced some bombastic news, so much so that Shuichi Akai couldn't help but interrupt him.
"You just said that the organization is conducting... reverse infiltration into the intelligence agencies of various European countries?"