Chapter 399 - I Have Bad News (1/2)

“Where did you meet that cyber enforcer?” “On the travel bus, from Toulon to Ma.r.s.eille. He was holding a laptop, and he was the only person on board who could speak English. I had no other choice. How about you?” “Monaco, casino, I met a young couple that hacked poker machines.”

“Do you speak French?”

“Yes.”

“You’re so lucky. It’s nice to enter a quest with no communication barriers,” the man with piercings sounded envious.

Zhang Heng simply smiled.

“Sorry, I just asked two questions. You can

man with piercings was very cautious, he was also very upright and insisted on not taking any advantage.

He was also a relatively alert person. Those who were not cautious wouldn’t be able to survive a compet.i.tive mode quest. This made Zhang Heng regret his previous proposal about the division of labor.

“Have you met other players?”

“No, I came here from Ma.r.s.eille. You are the first player I met.”

The answer of the pierced man also confirmed Zhang Heng’s conjecture that each player would be placed far apart from each other. It basically eliminated the possibility of them meeting before the faction selection process. The skin color of every player in this quest was also different. ‘Piercings’ was a typical white man, and it was only by coincidence that Zhang Heng got to keep his original skin color. Hence, it wasn’t realistic to recognize a player by skin color. “You said you kidnapped someone from the Black Nest. What did you ask him?”.

“I wanted to know how many people from Black Nest were a.s.signed to capture Leah and how powerful Black Nest’s forces in Gren.o.ble are. For the first question, the person that I captured didn’t have clearance to know about it. He only told me that those secrets were in the hands of a man named Vincent Naceri. As for the second question, Black Nest’s armed forces in Gren.o.ble are not as powerful as I thought they would be. However, they can ask the police to help them when it is necessary. I abandoned the car on the bridge because I was worried that they might notify the police to set up a roadblock.”

Then he thought for a while and asked, “How much do you know about Edward?”

“Not much, I only know that he is an important R&D staff member of CTOS. He is supposed to be very skillful, but no one has seen him before, and there are no photos of him either. He said that he would contact us after we rescue Leah.”

“My situation is similar,” Piercings concurred, “If you know where this guy is, force him to hand over the evidence to you. After that, you can tie him up and bring him away to complete the main quest. We don’t need to go through so much trouble.” “I have no further questions. Do you have anything else to ask?” Zhang Heng said. “How do I contact you?” Piercings asked.

“Oh, my phone…” before Zhang Heng could finish, his phone screen suddenly lit up, and he received a message.

“I am Little Boy. Please tell me you are not with the man in the picture.”

Zhang Heng looked down and saw the Piercing’s somewhat blurry face in the attachment. In the photo, he was holding the steering wheel with both hands. “There’s bad news,” Zhang Heng said. “What’s wrong?” Piercings frowned. “Yor face was indeed blocked when you jumped off the bridge, but remember how you said that Black Nest could make use of Gren.o.ble’s police force? Your face was captured by a high-speed camera.”

“d.a.m.n!” Piercings was shocked.