Chapter 62 Interception (2/2)

”Oh, you guys are agents. Come on in.”

As Han Xiao took a few steps forward, he discovered that Li Ya Lin was still rooted to the spot, giving him a deathly stare.

”What's wrong? Hurry up.”

Li Ya Lin took a deep breath to compose herself.

”Give me my ID back,” she said stiffly.

”Why so fussy?” replied Han Xiao impatiently. He then casually walked back toward her and slotted the pass back into her rear pocket.

Li Ya Lin's eyes widened.

'I— I'm being taken advantage of again‽'

Han Xiao then strode toward the sentry post to give the military officer in charge of security the sketch of Lu Gao En.

”Please wait a moment as the system performs a footage scan.”

Li Ya Lin entered the sentry post still biting her lips. The way that Han Xiao had felt her up did not seem to contain any ill-intentions at all. As such, she was having a hard time even getting angry at him. She was just very unhappy, for some reason, and she continued glaring at him.

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Lu Gao En worked for an intelligence organization known as Storm Eye, one of the many sub-groups that were secretly under the wing of the Germinal Organization.

In most cities, Storm Eye had one 'head contact' in charge of relaying information back to the Germinal Organization, as well as a few covert agents who gathered intel and only reported back to the head contact.

One of Lu Gao En's agents had reported seeing someone matching Zero's description in District 7. While at first unclear of Han Xiao's location, Lu Gao En had discovered, after repeated investigations, that there was an area in District 7 that seemed to be cordoned off and watched closely by Division 13. It was most likely where Zero was hiding.

Upon finding out that transmissions leaving the city were being blocked, he realized that Division 13 must have gotten wind of him somehow. Hence, he decided to go offline and take his computer apart in order to prevent being traced before heading toward the city entrance to leave.

At present, Lu Gao En was blended in with a crowd of people approaching one of the city's entrances.

'Norsa must have completed the assassination by now.'

Suddenly, the great metal-fenced gate before him closed up.

”What happened?”

”Why are we being stopped?”

”We have orders to temporarily seal the exits,” announced a soldier, starting a commotion among the crowd.

'Why would they close the gates‽' Lu Gao En was shocked. 'Did Norsa fail?'

Still, as he had been extremely careful for the past two to three years, he was not worried of being discovered.

”He's the one!”

The sudden shout from behind caused Lu Gao En to turn around. There was a bunch of troops walking menacingly in his direction. They were obviously after him.

'Impossible!'

Lu Gao En immediately looked around him to find an escape path, but it was too late. Not only was he surrounded by the crowd, there were simply way too many troops in the vicinity. As despair filled him, he allowed a soldier to pin him onto the ground without resistance.

As Han Xiao appeared at the scene, he sighed a breath of relief.

”We made it in time.”

”You really did!” Li Ya Lin was amazed.

”How did you guys know it was me?” asked Lu Gao En as he raised his head to look up at Han Xiao.

Han Xiao looked back at him plainly. In Galaxy, Lu Gao En was the primary contact for all Germinal-allied players in the Western Capital.

As Lu Gao En resigned to his fate, he decided to activate the poison sac stored in his tooth. He would rather die than divulge any information regarding the organization that he had dedicated his whole life to.

Suddenly, Han Xiao pulled out his handgun to fire a shot at Lu Gao En's head, sending a trail of blood and brain matter spurting out.

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You have killed Lu Gao En (Lv.12), gaining 3,500 experience.

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Han Xiao raised his gun up to blow off the smoke from its barrel.

'If you want to die, at least give me the experience.'

”Why did you kill him?”

Li Ya Lin was stunned by Han Xiao's sudden action. Division 13 could obviously have extracted a lot of vital information from him.

”There's poison stored in his teeth, his nails, and he even has some needles concealed in his clothes. We wouldn't have been able to stop him from killing himself.”

Han Xiao shook his head.

In any case, Lu Gao En's death was truly insignificant to him; he already possessed all the information that he needed. Nonetheless, things were getting a bit dicey.

'Looks like I'd better speed things up,' he thought.