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Elden had been desperately running for his life, his legs were trembling with exhaustion, and his body was twitching with nervousness for what was about to come, in case he was caught.
Sweat poured down his face, irritating his eyes, he was huffing and panting, his lungs felt like bellows, and the rush of footsteps behind him were like steps of death that were about to catch up to him.
In this life-and-death pursuit, he recalled his previous 15 years of life, he wasn't some thief who was being chased for stealing something.
He was an elite spy, he worked for a behemoth of an assassin organization, named Dark Knife, which has been in operation in the lighthouse country since the 1900s and has a foundation of more than 100 years.
Its tentacles have spread all over the world, no one knows about its founder and there is no information on the person operating the organization either.
Dark Knife doesn't have any scruples in assassination targets, if money is enough, they will even dare to assassinate the country manager.
For this reason, it is loved and hated by the capital, because they can use Dark Knife to remove their opponents from the way.
In the same way, one day they may also be the ones being removed.
Dark Knife doesn't have action teams, instead, it uses the freelance model and just provides the platform for assassins and customers to complete transactions.
It doesn't have action teams, but it does have an intelligence network, and it is very efficient.
Elden was also a part of this network, he has put his life on the line for the organization many times in the past.
This time also he was performing an undercover mission assigned by the organization, in a well-known technology company.
He was exposed, he didn't know what went wrong at first, as he was sure his cover wasn't blown.
But, when he tried to reach out to the contact person assigned to him by Dark Knife, he was blacked out.
After this incident, he realized that he was betrayed by the organization, and maybe the organization itself had ratted him out, in exchange for some interests.
He didn't have the idea of interest involved, but he was sure his end would not be good if he was caught, after all, he had sold many of the company secrets to Dark Knife.
It had been 15 minutes since the chase started, and despite running at his full strength he couldn't get rid of the tail following behind him.
His specialty was disguise, where did he have the fitness to outrun these veterans?
So, let alone widen the gap between him and the catchers, instead, he was being caught up.
If a certain friend in the industry hadn't alerted him of his exposure, he might have already been thrown into the sea to feed the fish.
With the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer to him, despair begins to spread in his heart.
He began to regret joining Dark Knife, just for some monetary benefits he gave up his life and was played as a fool by the organization.
Just when he was about to be swallowed by despair, he was awakened by the ringing of his phone, at a moment a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart.
Maybe the organization hasn't given up on him, maybe his contact person was just busy with some other matter, maybe...
With hope he glanced at the number displayed on the screen, then his heart sank by half, it wasn't his contact person.
Still gritting his teeth, he answered the call.
"Hello, who are you?" he spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Do you want to live" an equally hoarse voice sounded in my ears.
It wasn't a person's voice, it looked like the person on the other end was using a voice changer.
But Elden didn't have the time to take care of these details, with a strong will to survive, he answered.
"Live, I want to live" There was noticeable excitement and joy in his voice.
"Very well, then follow my instructions" answered the same voice
"yes, yes, listen to you, I will listen to you, please tell me" Elden was like a drowning person grabbing a life-saving straw.
"Run for 30 meters ahead, there is an alley to your left side, go there" came the instruction.
"OK," Elden squeezed every bit of his potential and ran hard.
But just as he entered, he was stunned, and then he was so angry that he was trembling because it was a dead end, there was no way forward.
"Fuck you, what enmity I have with you that you want to put me to death" Elden roared in the phone.
.....
Meanwhile, Mexico
It had been quite some time since John had been paying attention to this chase drama that was being staged on the streets of Chicago.
When he woke up in the morning, he wanted to set up a framework for an intelligence network, for the assassination organization he was planning to create.
For this reason, he hacked into the servers of major intelligence organizations around the world.
One thing that piqued his interest was the name, Dark Knife, almost all the intelligence organizations around the world are paying attention to their movements.
Dark Knife has very high confidentiality among all intelligence organizations.
This aroused his interest, and after reading through all the materials collected by intelligence organizations around the world, he decided to hack into this Dark knife's database.
What surprised him more was yet to come, when he hacked into this organization's server, he was almost discovered and counter-tracked, it took him a lot of work to cut off his tracks.
It took John less than a minute to break open the CIA firewall and get into its server, from this you can imagine his proficiency in hacking.
But still, he almost capsized when hacking into the Dark Knife server.
Encountering a setback didn't dampen his spirit, instead, it aroused his fighting spirit.
John spent five hours writing a program, used for infiltration, information collection, and disguise, he named it Flash.
This time he hacked into Dark Knife smoothly, while he was reading materials stored in the server.
Flash prompted him about a piece of information, that was heavily encrypted.
Checking the information, he found out, it was the address of intra chat group of senior executives of Dark Knife.
It didn't take long for him to get into the chat group unnoticed.
Although this chat group flushes chat history on a day-to-day basis, he still got a hang of the deal between, Simon Technology Company, where Elden was undercover, and Dark Knife.
Elden guessed it right, he was thrown out by Dark Knife to get a bargain on a negotiation table, how laughable.
As Elden was an elite spy, John decided to provide him charcoal in the snow and get him to his side, anyway he was going to set up an intelligence network, help from an expert may make his job easier.
So, there was this affectionate scene.
Listening to Elden roar coming from his headset, John tried to hold back his laughter and pretended to be serious.
"Nonsense, didn't you see drainage cover under your feet, get in there!" replied John
....
Listening to the voice coming from the other end of the phone, Elden was stunned for a moment, he quickly glanced down, then he was embarrassed.
"Ahem, sorry brother, I didn't see it just now" Elden spoke dryly.
John was impatient with Elden "Hurry down, they are catching up, I do not need to remind you, what will happen to you if you get into their hands"
Listening to approaching footsteps, Elden shivered imagining the scene of his body being cut into pieces and thrown into the sea to feed the fish.
Without any further delay, he quickly removed the drainage cover and got in.
After getting Elden into the drainage system, it wasn't difficult for John to lead Elden to escape, using a map of the Chicago city drainage pipeline.
Half an hour later, Elden got out from underground near an abandoned factory, according to John's instructions.
From here on, it wasn't difficult for Elden to get out of the trouble, after all, he was a spy, and disguise was like drinking water for him.
"Thank you, brother, I owe you my life, if you need me to do anything come to me, and I will do my best"
"By the way brother, what's your name?" Elden inquired.
He had no other meaning he just wanted to get to know his benefactor better.
John was silent for a while, then replied "You can call me Mr.X"
Elden knew it was a false name but he didn't mind, at least he got a little information.
"Well, I have to be busy with something, when I need you, I will find you, Goodbye" spoke John
"Ok, bye, brother" spoke Elden.
With this, call hung up from the other side.
Elden let out a heavy breath, today was a close call for him.