Chapter 31 Spear Agents in Hell's Kitchen
On the west coast of Manhattan Island, there is a rectangular area bounded by 59th Street and 34th Street to the north and south, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. Here It's the legendary "Hell's Kitchen".
Hell's Kitchen was a famous slum on Manhattan Island in its early years. It was mainly inhabited by the working class of Irish immigrants. It was famous for its messy and backward living quality, serious ethnic conflicts and high crime rate.
If American comics only used this area to create the stories of Spider-Man, Daredevil, Kingpin, Bullseye and others, then Chinese novels used this area to create many transcendent bosses. .
Walking into this area, Lin Hao didn't feel the gazes from the big guys, but he saw Hong Guoguo's greedy eyes.
In almost every alley, there are a group of black ghosts, white ghosts, and drug addicts staring at the Asian face who walks in alone, making no secret of their intention to "purchase for zero dollars."
Lin Hao now has another layer of vest, named Kurosaki Ichigo.
He is a regular businessman with legal status in Tokyo.
In the real world, Hell's Kitchen is due to the soaring housing prices in Manhattan. Real estate developers have intervened in this area and vigorously developed the real estate industry. They have driven out the low-income groups living in this area by raising rents and living costs. .
This completely solved the security problem that the New York government and police department had been unable to solve for many years.
The master is kind-hearted and looks down on the poor, so there are no poor people here.
The continuous "gentrification" has led to more and more "gentlemen" in this area, and the public security has improved accordingly.
But in the Marvel world, editors need an area in New York that is often prone to unrest so that superheroes can have a stage to appear. Therefore, in this world, no real estate developer dared to intervene in Hell's Kitchen until more than ten years later.
At this point in time, the blind lawyer should still be in school, Spider-Man is still an eight-year-old kid, and Kingpin has already taken control of the gang organization in this area...
These are all related to Lin Hao's trip has nothing to do with it. He came here to find someone.
A person named "Lan Kenian" in the files of the Divine Spear Bureau is a seventh-level agent and one of the agents of the American branch. The life card in the ring fortress shows that this person is still alive. The safe house is on record. It just so happens to be in Hell's Kitchen.
Lin Hao came to New York this time to attend Tony Stark's banquet just to give himself a logical reason to come to New York.
Unexpectedly, Tony happened to be going to Afghanistan, so he took a trip to Wall Street, which led to the Adam Smith cutting incident.
The main purpose of his trip is to find the surviving agents of the American branch.
Currently, there are only 63 surviving agents in the Americas Division, distributed throughout the American continent, including 11 in South America, with relatively small losses. The remaining 52 are distributed in North America and the United States, with more in the United States.
Due to the importance of the American branch, in the Spear Bureau system, the person in charge is an eighth-level agent, and there are four seventh-level agents under his command, two of whom are in the United States, and the other two are in Great Canada and West Pakistan.
Now that the person in charge, Cheng Yi, has died, another level seven agent from the United States has also died. Only Lan Kenian, the highest level seven agent, is left. He wants to know the details of the incident a few months ago. , it is most direct to ask him.
Currently, the American branch has suffered heavy losses, and all the surviving agents have fallen silent in accordance with the rules. Except for the director Zheng Xian and the new person in charge, no one knows their specific locations.
The safe house registered by Lan Kenian is located in the center of Hell's Kitchen. Lin Hao walked nearly half of the street with an Asian face, followed by many guys trying to "buy for zero dollars."
When they arrived at Lan Kenian's apartment, the group of tailmen behind him suddenly stopped. They first looked at Lin Hao with surprised eyes, and after a moment they showed sarcastic and cruel smiles. Some even directly gestured to cut their throats. Actions, no concealment of malice.
Lin Hao walked into the apartment. This old apartment actually had a white administrator. The administrator was bald and covered in tattoos.
"Hey, kid!"
The big man from the dormitory sneered: "This is not the place you should be."
Although the words were unpleasant, the strange thing is that this However, people did not show ridicule or malice because of Lin Hao's appearance and skin color.
Lin Hao looked at the big man in charge of the dormitory and said calmly: "Tell Lan Kenian that someone is looking for him in his hometown."
"Are you looking for Mr. Lan?"
The big dormitory man stood up straight, looked Lin Hao up and down, and finally showed a cruel smile: "Boy, I don't care where you heard Mr. Lan's real name, if after calling If Mr. Lan doesn’t see you, I guarantee you will die in an ugly way!”
Lin Hao turned his eyes and ignored him.
The big man in charge of the dormitory did not dare not to report, so he picked up the microphone.
A moment later, he walked out of the duty room, put on a flattering smile, bent down to lead Lin Hao to the elevator, and pressed the button first.
"Sir, please, Mr. Lan is waiting for you on the seventh floor."
Lin Hao walked into the elevator and arrived at the seventh floor after a while.
The entire floor is Lan Kenian's office. As a seventh-level agent of the Divine Spear Bureau, it is normal to have a career in New York. This is also the other party's disguised identity.
As soon as the elevator door opened, Lin Hao saw a man wearing green casual clothes sitting behind the desk. This man had strong muscles and looked to be in his early thirties. He had short hair and an upper lip. With a beard. "Where are you from?" Lan Kenian looked at Lin Hao carefully, but there was no impression of this person in his memory.
"Coming from my hometown." Lin Hao changed to Chinese.
“Where is your hometown?” Lan Kenian continued to ask in Chinese.
"A place of peace of mind." Lin Hao replied calmly.
Lan Kenian's pupils shrank, but he remained calm and continued to speak: "It's raining heavily outside, why don't you bring an umbrella?"
At this time, the sky outside was clear and there was no cloud in sight.
Lin Hao then said the last sentence: "An orchid has eight leaves."
After all the codes were matched, Lan Kenian finally got up excitedly, quickly ran to the wall, opened an embedded iron box, and pressed Click the red button inside.
"I turned on the jammer."
Lan Kenian stepped forward with excitement and stretched out his hands towards Lin Hao, his hands even trembling a little.
“Comrade, you are finally here!”
Lin Hao stretched out a hand towards him and continued to observe the other person's micro-expression.
From the moment he was downstairs, Lin Hao used his knowledge to figure out the number of people and threats in this apartment. After entering the seventh floor, he focused on observing Lan Kenian. If the other party made any abnormal behavior, , he will kill it quickly.
Up to now, Lin Hao has not noticed anything unusual about the other party, there is no problem with his micro-expressions, he has not perceived any threat from his sight and appearance, and he has not even foreseen the future episodes in which the other party will take action.
Although Whitebeard's Sense Color did not show the ability to foresee the future in the original work, it is most likely that Oda has not thought about the setting in the early stage. Anyway, the Sense Color copied by Lin Hao can foresee a small part of the future.
This is the confidence that Lin Hao has the courage to come through alone and with his real body.
"What happened a few months ago?" Lin Hao got straight to the point.
“I can’t figure it out either!”
When talking about this matter, Lan Kenian’s expression became very complicated, including anger, sadness, and a hint of fear.
"At the end of last year, on Christmas Eve, Minister Cheng suddenly issued an emergency order to everyone, asking us to activate a state of silence."
"Then the comrades were hunted down by S.H.I.E.L.D. , only one of the groups I personally led survived, and the other two groups I was responsible for contacting lost contact immediately.”
"When this happened, I had no choice but to come back here as planned and cut off all contact with other groups."
"Before the accident, when was the last time you saw Minister Cheng?" Lin Hao asked.
"September 10th last year." Lan Kenian answered immediately.
"Okay, I will come back to you in a while." Lin Hao actually turned around and left.
"You..." Lan Kenian hesitated, his eyes filled with anticipation: "When will you reorganize..."
After saying that, he realized that he shouldn't ask more questions and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm just a little anxious."
Lin Hao turned back and took a deep look at him, but still found no flaw.
“Don’t worry, we won’t keep our comrades waiting for too long.”
When someone walked to the elevator door, a faint voice came: “There is a traitor in our team!”
Entering the elevator, Lin Hao turned around and saw the shock on Lan Kenian's face and the anger that naturally showed after a moment.
The elevator door closed, blocking the view, but the anger on Lan Kenian's face still remained.
As the elevator went down, Lan Kenian walked to the window and quietly watched Lin Haoyuan on the street.
It was only then that he suddenly touched his chest and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "The new guy is quite interesting!"
(End of this chapter)