The Race to the Bottom

Chapter 72: The Race to the Bottom

In the international counter-terrorism department of the British Security Service headquarters, Nancy, a beautiful agent new to the Security Service, was looking over Carlos's file. Everyone else was busy and disorganized with various searches, listening, and analyzing satellite photos, and only she was still looking at the basic information. It wasn't because she was new that she needed additional information. Rather, it was because she was eager to make a name for herself and make achievements that she did so.

After Nancy finished reading the information, she already had a guess in her mind, and when she saw Dobbs return, she immediately walked over and said, "Sir, I need to talk to you."

Dobbs had just returned to the headquarters when someone handed him the information and was busy. Seeing that it was a newcomer, he casually said, "Sorry, I'm busy now, can we talk later?"

"Sir, I have important information." Nancy's expression was serious.

Dobbs looked at the information, handed it back to the agent, and said to Nancy, "OK, you only have three minutes, I hope the information you tell me is useful."

Nancy and Dobbs came to the computer and said, "Carlos claims to be a devout Muslim, but he frequents sleazy places, drinks heavily, and fools around with women of all colors. Any Muslim would be ashamed of him. Bin Laden is a wealthy man who lives a life of asceticism and self-restraint; he is always behind the scenes of any major operation. Carlos, on the other hand, is well-dressed, chasing beautiful women everywhere, has always been the playboy look. The kind of guy I don't think would kill himself."

"Hey! I'm more familiar with Carlos' profile than you are, tell me something I don't know, and if it's just analysis, don't say anything."

"Sir, I mean he may have escaped through the tunnels and there weren't any living terrorists in the house that exploded."

"That's not possible." Dobbs' heart had a hint of doubt, but his mouth denied it.

"Sir, why would the other side put a camera on the second floor if they weren't there because they were already gone? It's very unscientific that there is no camera at the entrance of the whole house or on the first floor. Could it be that instead of guarding against people coming from outside, he just put a camera at the stairway on the second floor to guard against his own people?"

Dobbs looked deeply at her and said, "You go back to work."

"Yes." Nancy sat down energetically and continued to look for clues from the data.

Dobbs walked into the office and called for his colleagues on the scene, "Is the room cleared?"

"Yes, our men are preparing to evacuate."

"Were any tunnels found?"

"Tunnels? The bomb blew a big crater under the house, we just cleared the house above the land and didn't check underneath."

"Dig out all the rubble in the pit right away, I need to know if there are any tunnels down there?"

"What do you mean? You suspect that Carlos has escaped?"

"Right."

The explosion site had been sniffed many times by search and rescue dogs, confirming that there was no sign of anyone surviving. It was to be called off, but now it had to be reopened. Fortunately, excavators had been deployed long ago, and with the help of machinery, the ruins were largely dug out after half an hour. A dozen agents from the intelligence agencies came to the pit and soon found evidence that there were tunnels.

On the right side of the big pit, there was a place where a lot of concrete stones were piled up. It would have been normal for a ranch house to have a basement, and even more normal to have concrete blocks. But this piece by a lot of concrete blocks piled up, obviously a whole was crumbling caused.

The excavator went over and gave a few shovels and saw a concrete-built passage. All the agents looked at the blackened passage, their faces full of bitterness. Especially the American cia the sniper, he has not left, originally wanted to wait for the search and rescue completely ended, so as not to have any more compatriots' bodies left here, only to find that these comrades, compatriots all died in vain, people farted, all ran away from the passage!

The cement of this tunnel has a thickness of 30 cm this amount of work can never be completed overnight, it is because the cement is thick enough, in the explosion of this tunnel did not collapse.

A dozen agents and members of the Special Air Service entered the tunnel, turned on the flashlight on their guns and searched for the enemy. Even if they knew the enemy might have run away long ago, they still had to look for them, in case the tunnel didn't have another exit and they were just hiding down there! Or can find any useful clues.

Liao Fei had already left the hotel at this time, by this time the Security Bureau and the Special Investigation Group were busy, chaotic like a pot of porridge, leaving only one person to keep an eye on Liao Fei and the others. Liao Fei easily got rid of him, spared a few more circles, changed his attire in a restaurant, put on a wig and blue contacts, and put folded paper shells in his shoes, so that he changed his appearance greatly. He became a foreigner taller than Liao Fei. He entered a residential building not far from Trinity College, came to the third floor of room 309, looked around, did not find abnormal conditions, opened the door with the key and walked in.

This is a three-room room only, Liao Fei pulled out his pistol, checked from room to room, did not find anyone, walked into the bedroom. He sat on the bed and pulled open the drawer of the bedside table, and there was a cell phone inside.

Liao Fei put the phone into his pocket, pulled open the closet door and pulled out a big black bag from it, pulled open the bag, there were a lot of equipment inside, including pistols, grenades, submachine guns, code breakers, infrared binoculars, night vision devices and other equipment. Liao Fei took out the submachine gun and put it on the bed, took out a few more grenades and night vision devices, pulled the bag shut and put it back in the closet.

He stuck down the firearms before taking out his cell phone and dialing the pre-saved number on it.

The Chinese Embassy in London, Tang Minghao's backup phone rang, he looked around and ducked into a corner to answer the phone, "You're here?"

"Yes." Liao Fei replied.

Tang Minghao heard it was Liao Fei's voice before he said reassuringly, "Got it?"

"No. Is the line safe?"

"Very safe."

"I need you to find someone to kidnap Magtalena Cooper and Isabelle."

Tang Minghao asked in surprise, "Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not in the mood to joke with you, contact your superiors and go kidnap them."

"You remember your duty, you are to get the formula. You were also given the safe house, equipment and phone to complete your mission, not to kidnap people." Tang Minghao suppressed his anger.

"Lin Jiaqin was kidnapped, and the only way to know Carlos' location is to find Carlos' two wives."

"I know she was kidnapped, I also know that she has been blown up and Carlos was blown up, you don't have to kidnap them again for a dead person to find the blown up Carlos."

"Listen, Lin Jiaqin is not dead and Carlos escaped. I want you to inform your superiors to make the arrest."

"The higher-ups won't agree, Magdalena Cooper is in America and Isabelle is in France. If we kidnap them, and may expose our people."

"Lin Jiaqin is my friend, her life and death is also related to the potential formula. No matter what, I will definitely not let any danger happen to her."

"OK. I'll contact my superiors and do my best to facilitate it, but you have to go and steal the formula while the British are busy in a mess."

"I'll only steal the formula if I get Lin Jiaqin out of the way."

"Liao Fei, you have to sort out the priorities."

"If the British find out that the formula was stolen, the first one will suspect me. I don't want to have my hands tied when it comes to saving Lin Jiaqin, not only will I not steal it, I won't allow you to do it either."

"You ..."

"Contact me with news." Liao Fei hung up the phone.

For Tang Minghao's approach, Liao Fei did not think he was wrong. Tang Minghao was obviously someone who was dead set on doing things by the rules, and Liao Fei had to break the rules for Lin Jiaqin's sake.

Tang Minghao contacted domestic Director Kang and told Liao Fei's request.

Kang Tianyi and Lin Dong are good friends, saving Lin Jiaqin can be said to be obligatory. But he also had difficulties, the nff organization is small in number, everyone is an elite, whether undercover in a foreign country, or is on a mission, everyone is critical. The hair has been okay, after all, the power of the hair is not large, their intelligence relative to other countries can be put aside for the time being. But the United States is very difficult to deal with! First of all, Liao Fei's girlfriend Feng Feishu faked her death and mutiny, and last time Liao Fei was ambushed, not only Liao Fei returned home, but also lost two elite agents, and the head of the United States Zheng Yuan also had problems, and is now arrested, resulting in a very shortage of manpower in the United States. If we mobilize our manpower now to kidnap Magdalena Cooper, it will be easily exposed, resulting in an extreme shortage of manpower and the loss of an important pipeline to intelligence.

Kang Tianyi was in a dilemma. If he didn't kidnap them, he wouldn't be able to save Lin Jiaqin, and it would be a problem if he could save her, because foreigners are not as reliable as their own people. And if something happens to Lin Jiaqin, Lin Dong will go crazy!

Lin Dong has been sad for so long because of his wife's death, and he poured all his love into the two girls.

Kang Tianyi will consider, finally made up his mind, sent someone to kidnap Magdalena Cooper and Isabel, after all, the agent still may not be exposed.

The international counter-terrorism department of the British Security Service headquarters, Dobbs informed everyone that Carlos had escaped and his whereabouts were unknown, so that everyone could cooperate to find him as soon as possible. After announcing the news, Dobbs made a point of coming over to Nancy and asked, "Nancy, anything else?"

"Sir, I think Magdalena Cooper and Isabel may know Carlos' whereabouts. Magtalena Cooper was Carlos' first wife, and even though the fake Carlos entered the prison, he wrote a letter to Cooper every day. Although the prison is fake, but he did so to imitate the real Carlos habits, enough to prove that Carlos loves Cooper and his daughter very much. Isabelle, Carlos' third wife, was his defense attorney in France and eventually fell in love. I think it's likely that she also knows Carlos' whereabouts."

For the time being, it was also impossible to find any clues about Carlos, and repeated interrogations of Colin did not lead to anything useful. Dobbs thought this was also the only time to go to his wife and see if he could ask anything.

Dobbs did not have the right to contact foreign countries and ask for assistance to inform his superiors. The superiors contacted the FBI in the United States to help capture and interrogate Magdalena Cooper, the reason why they didn't go to the cia was that they really couldn't be trusted anymore. The French side, on the other hand, approached the territorial custody bureau.

The two intelligence organizations immediately sent their men forward to make the arrest. Four agents from the FBI came under an apartment building on the edge of Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and the four looked up at the building, one stayed downstairs, and three walked up. When they opened the elevator, three people stepped out of the elevator, a man walked out with two women in his arms, all three in casual dress with hats and sunglasses. The man posing as a foreigner is a member of the nff organization, he is highly nervous at this time, his hand is in the two women's jackets straddling them, under the jacket is a pistol, he is ready to pull out a pistol and take out the three.