Chapter 1157: Collecting Interest
“Ah, I remembered wrongly. I want to take stock of what we have left. Please give me a step.”
Of course Claire knows that room. There was nothing, so she took Zhang Pin in.
In fact, Zhang Pin’s guess was correct. The reason why Claire survived was naturally because she was the mole.
Or one of the inner ghosts.
The real mole is, of course, Claire’s husband and Ethan’s captain, Jim.
The reason why Claire appears here is also very simple.
Jim’s original intention was to earn enough money for himself for the rest of his life through this undercover list transaction.
But who would have thought that his little move would have been noticed by Langley a long time ago, and this time he even used it to lay a trap, preparing to find out the mole in one fell swoop.
However, it must be said that Jim has served Langley for decades and is extremely familiar with the internal processes.
Although he did not realize that this mission was a trap, he had already made preparations to clear his suspicions.
In fact, if Zhang Pin and Bourne hadn't happened to save Ethan, although Jim had not achieved his purpose of stealing information, he had let Ethan take the blame for him, and he had Escaped successfully.
However, despite the unexpected appearance, Ethan survived by coincidence.
But in Jim's view, this is not a bad thing. On the contrary, it gives him an opportunity to turn around.
Because he is familiar enough with Langley and Ethan.
The people on Langley's side are used to being strong, so they will never listen to the weak's explanation until they have the situation under control.
And Jim also knew better that Ethan was young, energetic, and very capable, and he would not swallow this breath.
Of course, the more critical information is that he learned from the intelligence broker Max that Ethan had reached a deal with the other party. The other party would provide Langley's undercover list in Europe, and the condition was naturally that Mike Si told him who the mole was.
After learning the news, Jim immediately changed his plan and arranged for his wife Claire to come back. He wanted to take Ethan's ride and get the undercover list himself.
After Claire came back, relying on her excellent acting skills, she quickly convinced Ethan and successfully learned the other party's plan.
But now Zhang Pin's appearance is not in Claire and Jim's plan.
Before Claire came back, based on Ethan’s knowledge, Jim guessed what the other party would do to get Langley’s undercover list.
He even considered that Ethan had reached an agreement with Kittredge, just to lure him out again.
According to Jim's guess, if Ethan wants to successfully obtain the undercover list, it is obviously impossible for him and Claire alone to do so.
No matter what the other party’s plan is, they will definitely have to find other helpers.
Claire's original position in the team was to be a support person, so the job of finding someone would definitely fall on Claire's side in the end.
For this reason, Jim has arranged for a very skilled helper. When the time comes, the other party will pretend to join Ethan's team, and then wait until the undercover list is obtained before the other party starts to rob him.
But who knew that before Claire could arrange for the mole to come in, Zhang Pin would join the team first.
Teams like them that engage in situations always have as few people as possible.
Now that Zhang Pin, a guy who looks very strong, has appeared, it is almost impossible for Claire to arrange for their people to join the team.
In order to prevent any setbacks in the plan, Claire prepared a beauty trap.
Her original intention was to introduce Zhang Pin into the house, and then immediately pretend that Zhang Pin had taken advantage of her.
Claire knows that Ethan has always been a person who is not used to the moral bottom line, let alone her status as a widow.
At that time, they can naturally drive Zhang Pin out, and even take the opportunity to silence him, and then free up a place for their own people to join Ethan's team.
Claire thought perfectly, but she overlooked one thing.
That is Sir Zhang himself.
In Claire's stereotype, almost all Asians will be very humble when facing white people, or even people with a different skin color than them, and usually behave like clowns. You can't even look at them.
The reason why Claire suddenly stopped was because she wanted to deliberately have physical contact with Zhang Pin, so that when she entered the room, she could make an excuse to say that Zhang Pin would take advantage of her.
But Claire never expected that Zhang Pin was completely different from the Asians he imagined.
Logically speaking, she stopped suddenly. After the two of them made physical contact, Zhang Pin should immediately step back and show his so-called gentlemanly demeanor.
But who would have thought that after Zhang Pin bumped into her, not only did he not move away, but he took the initiative to get closer, so that the two of them were tightly pressed against each other. He also stretched out his hands and hugged Claire tightly. chest.
It was Zhang Pin's move that made Claire scream.
The first time she was hugged by Zhang Pin, Claire's first reaction was not to be afraid, but to call Ethan over to take a look, and then use the other party to take advantage of her to drive Zhang Pin away.
Who knew that before she could say these words, Ethan discovered that there was something wrong with her excuse when she called Zhang Pin.
At this time, in order to experience the feel of the hand, Sir Zhang began to tighten his hands on her chest.
Claire was confused by the completely unconventional behavior of Ethan and Zhang Pin.
In a hurry, Claire just wanted to escape from Zhang Pin's claws as soon as possible, and naturally she did not dare to use the excuse that Zhang Pin had taken advantage of her to drive him away.
"Forgot? This is your safe house. You have such a bad memory and you can still be summoned as an intelligence agent by Langley. You didn't come in through the back door, right?"
But listen When it came to Claire, Zhang Pin did not let go of her.
It must be said that people of different races have very different habits.
I don’t know if it’s because of freedom, but many women in America don’t seem to like wearing bras.
For example, Claire is wearing a windbreaker outside her dress, but after Sir Zhang has personally experienced it, he can be sure that there are no other obstacles under the dress.
Zhang Pin actually guessed that Claire had bad intentions as early as when she wanted to help him.
But with the boldness of an expert, Sir Zhang was naturally not afraid.
Now that Claire has taken the initiative to send it to the door, Sir Zhang will suffer a loss if he does not charge any interest.
"No, I, I was just so nervous that I forgot about it. In fact, I just thought that I was going in the wrong direction, so I stopped."
Claire didn't expect that Zhang Pin would be so bold. After a while, I even grabbed my own advantages and started to pinch them lightly.
In her anxiety, she was so nervous that she almost cried.
"Oh, what do you want to get? Just point it to me and I'll get it for you." After realizing that the other person's body was getting hard, Sir Zhang finally let go of his fingers.
"I want to take stock of the weapons in the safe house. Jim should have put everything in the next room."
After hearing Zhang Pin's words, Claire reached out and pointed to another room. .
Then she stood there honestly and watched Zhang Pin walk in.
It is indeed inconvenient for her to leave now. Sir Zhang is definitely a veteran of Hua Cong. He has experienced so many women, so he certainly knows how to quickly make the other party become honest.
Although it was just a few casual moments just now, Claire's body was already extremely limp. When she could stand up straight, Sir Zhang hugged her.
"There are only three small pistols, and less than 200 rounds of ammunition. There is not a penny left. Didn't you say that he went out in a hurry to rescue him when an accident happened? This is also available It’s too clean.”
Zhang Pin walked into the next room and took out the weapon Jim left in the safe house.
Then he complained casually.
After hearing his words, Ethan and Claire had different reactions, but neither of them said much at the moment.
Claire was afraid that if she said too much she would make a mistake. In addition, she was so embarrassed by Sir Zhang before that she didn't dare to say anything at all now.
Ethan was checking the list of suitable members that Claire had found for him, and did not care about the performance of Zhang Pin and Claire.
"Why don't we just look for these two."
Ethan quickly identified two candidate team members from the group of people selected by Claire that he could win over and were good enough.
One of them is a computer expert. The other person was expelled from Langley because he had nothing to do and hacked into the network of NATO headquarters and exposed all the other person's work plans.
The other person is not only very skilled, but more importantly, he has a lot of energy and can get a lot of things that exist on the market but are almost never circulated in the market.
Seeing Ethan choose these two goals, Claire, who was still a little nervous at first, felt reassured instead.
Because the mole she planned to arrange to join the team happened to be among them.
"I'm not interested in going into Langley, so why not just stay outside and take care of it."
Zhang Pin doesn't care about Ethan's choice. What he cares about is that after the other party gets the information, , the mole will appear.
Before getting the information, Sir Zhang naturally had no interest.
Originally, Sir Zhang was somewhat interested in the information that Ethan had obtained, but before coming to see Ethan, Sir Zhang specifically contacted Yang Jianhua.
Then I learned from Yang Jianhua that Langley’s undercover list was not so easy to obtain.
Not only are things like this kept very strictly, but more importantly, even the saved lists are actually encrypted.
Even if you get a separate list, it is of no use to ordinary people.
Unless he can get the password list specially set by Langley for his undercover list, and at the same time get several pieces of information corresponding to it.
Then you need to know the information corresponding to the code sheets, so that you can decipher the other party's undercover list.
So in theory, as long as there is one thing missing, this undercover list will actually be ineffective against other forces except Langley.
In this case, Sir Zhang naturally lost interest in this information.
As for this information being theoretically useless to other forces, why is Max, the intelligence broker, interested in it and willing to pay a large price to buy it.
This question is naturally very simple. The reason why Max is interested in this information is naturally because she has obtained other information about Langley's undercover list from Jim.
Even the other party has obtained the code book for deciphering the undercover list in advance.
If this were not the case, how could Jim be prepared to leave Langley after selling out this piece of information?
It stands to reason that if this is the case, if Zhang Pin and others want to get Langley's undercover list in Europe, they only need to get the intelligence broker Max, and then get the information from the other party.
But this is just a theory.
When Yang Jianhua learned that Zhang Pin was going to take a ride to obtain information from Langley, he specifically reminded him not to ask for any information from him.
For Rabbit, Langley's problem has never been about intelligence, but the forces behind the intelligence.
As the only superpower in the world, America does many things openly and does not need intelligence at all.
For example, if they suspect that other forces have weapons of mass destruction, then even if there is no evidence, the other party can do it if they want to.
Especially after reaching the size of Rabbit, many disputes between the two sides are not so much intelligence wars as they are completely competitions of strength.
As for the undercover list this time, it actually means the same thing.
For forces that reach a certain level, such as most authorities in Europe, this list is actually not a secret.
After all, even if there is no list of undercover agents, you can know what kind of person the other person is by just looking at their usual tendencies.
So those who need this information are not orthodox forces like Rabbit or the European authorities, but some shady forces, such as gangsters, arms dealers or white-faced businessmen who have business competition with Langley. opponent.
After Zhang Pin learned about this situation, he naturally had no interest in this information.
This is also the reason why he chose to join Ethan's team.
When the information was of little use to him, he was naturally more concerned about the mole.
“Okay!”
Hearing Zhang Pin’s words, Ethan and Claire breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time.
The reason Ethan was relieved was that the reason why he agreed to Zhang Pin's joining was not because of the other party's ability, but because of the other party's hostile relationship with Langley.
After all, Zhang Pin, as Langley's enemy, can be regarded as a bargaining chip for Ethan to negotiate with Kittredge.
Not to mention that it seems that Bourne is also involved with Zhang Pin.
If we can take the opportunity to solve the hidden danger of Bourne, it will be of great help to Ethan to atone for his sins.
Before that, if Langley’s intelligence was leaked due to Zhang Pin’s joining, Ethan would be blamed.
Now that Zhang Pin has actively stated that he will not participate in the acquisition of intelligence, then the other party will naturally have no chance to get involved in the intelligence.
Claire didn’t think that much.
She felt that since Zhang Pin did not participate in the intelligence acquisition, their plan would not be affected.