Chapter 1,284 Actively Join

Chapter 1155 Actively join

"Where did you go before?"

Ethan saw Claire's state of being deeply shocked, and his tone became less serious. He turned to ask why the other party was still alive.

"He said on the radio that the mission was terminated, so I left."

Claire's tone was still very low, as if she had not recovered from the shock of Jim's death.

"That was eight hours ago. Tell me, who are you? Did they send you to catch me?"

Ethan heard that Claire could still answer his questions, and suddenly became alert again.

"Who are they?

Why don't I understand what you are saying? No one sent me here. Didn't we agree to meet here at four o'clock?

The mission is terminated, and we will meet at four o'clock. We can only come at four o'clock.

Four o'clock in the morning, four o'clock, Ethan, meet at four o'clock in the morning, this is the agreement of our team.

Meet at four o'clock, four o'clock in the morning!"

Claire raised her head and looked at Ethan with tears on her face.

After hearing Claire's words, Ethan put away his pistol, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

"I was removed from the organization. They think I killed Jim and others because my parents' bank account suddenly had an extra $100,000. Kittridge thinks I'm the mole they've been looking for."

After both parties calmed down, Ethan told Claire all the news he had received before.

While telling these news, he also deliberately observed the other party.

But there was nothing wrong with Claire's performance. It seemed that the other party also knew these things for the first time.

Especially when Ethan said that he only knew the name of the intelligence broker Max tonight, Claire's reaction was a blank look, as if she had never heard of the other party at all.

"What are you going to do next? Should I contact Kittridge?"

Claire looked like she didn't know what to do, and obviously regarded Ethan as the backbone.

"I want to help Max get the undercover intelligence she wants."

Ethan completely gave up trying Claire at this time, and then stated his purpose without concealing it.

"Ethan, what are you talking about? Why don't we contact Kittridge again and let me explain to him that both of us are alive now, proving that their previous intelligence was wrong."

Claire didn't know that Ethan had met the intelligence broker tonight, and he had reached a deal with him.

"No, Claire, Kittridge won't believe it. He will only regard you as my accomplice and think that we are in the same group."

Ethan shook his head at Claire's words.

"Then what should we do?"

Claire was silent for a moment after hearing Ethan's words, then she widened her eyes and looked at him helplessly.

"This is what I want to do, not our business."

Ethan shook his head when he heard Claire's question, indicating that this was his own business.

"You just said that Kittridge would think we were in the same group, and Jim is my husband, so of course I want to find out who killed him."

Claire's words were reasonable, and Ethan couldn't even find a reason to refuse.

"Are you sure? It's very risky for us to do this."

Ethan seemed a little surprised by Claire's determination.

"Am I not in danger now? If I hadn't been lucky enough to leave the car."

Claire's tone was very firm.

Ethan's heart warmed when he heard the other party's words.

Ethan's nerves were always tense after encountering so many things in succession.

Now that he has a familiar helper, it will naturally be of great help to his current situation.

Especially because Claire herself is a support position in their team, and is actually an indispensable member in the operation.

"Before we want to get the real undercover list, we have to find a few helpers."

With Claire's joining, Ethan began to plan how to successfully get the list of Langley's undercover members in Europe.

"With our current identity, how can we find people willing to join, especially when we have to provoke Langley, a behemoth."

Claire felt a lot of pressure when she heard Ethan's plan.

"It's very simple, just find some people in the same situation as us, isn't it."

Ethan was full of confidence in this, and as he spoke, he opened a list.

The file name of the list is very long, but the most conspicuous is a few big words: Langley's list of removed agents!

As the world's largest intelligence organization, Langley naturally has a large number of people serving it.

When there are more people, various situations will naturally arise.

Many people will eventually leave Langley for various reasons.

Ethan is obviously planning to find some former agents who are unwilling to be expelled from Langley to work together.

"What kind of intelligence officer are you looking for? Maybe I can help."

Seeing that Ethan was going to check one by one from such a large list, Claire took the initiative to take over the search task.

"Find a computer expert, and another action expert, at least two people."

When Ethan heard that Claire was going to take over, he did not shirk his responsibility.

He himself is an action expert, and it is natural that he is a little overwhelmed to do these logistical work.

In fact, when searching for team members, Ethan couldn't help but think of Zhang Pin and Bourne, who had met him twice before, barely cooperated once, and saved his life.

As far as Ethan knew, both of them had a grudge against Langley. If he invited them to participate in the operation of stealing Langley's undercover list, they might agree.

When Zhang Pin looked for information about Langley on their computers before, Ethan saw that Zhang Pin seemed to be preparing to find some handles on Langley.

Judging from the other party's attitude and position with Langley, the other party did not seem to be preparing to publish these handles, but more like adding some chips for himself.

However, because Ethan thought that he could get clues about the insider by meeting the intelligence broker before.

At the same time, he was also worried that getting too close to Langley's enemies would lead to misunderstandings, so the two sides did not exchange contact information.

At this moment, even if he wanted to invite Zhang Pin and Bourne to cooperate, he didn't know how to find each other.

So the cooperation matter naturally had to be abandoned.

Knock, knock, knock——

But just when Ethan felt sorry for not being able to cooperate with Zhang Pin and Bourne, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the safe house.

Ethan and Claire both became alert at the same time.

"Is there anyone else who is not dead and is back now? Could it be Jim?"

Claire's reaction was even greater than Ethan's. While she was talking, she stood up and prepared to open the door.

"Be careful, everyone else is dead!"

Ethan was not as optimistic as Claire.

He grabbed Claire, then took out his pistol again, hid in the corner, stared at the door with his gun raised, and then observed quietly.

"It's me, my friend. The situation has changed a little, but we are friends, not enemies. Please open the door and let me in to talk!"

Just then, the knocking on the door stopped, and then Zhang Pin's voice came from outside.

"Who is this?"

Claire looked at Ethan in confusion, and this time her expression was obviously not fake.

"One is a friend."

At this moment, Ethan did not notice that Claire's puzzled expression was different from her previous puzzled expression.

He took the gun and quietly walked to the door, then looked through the observation hole and saw Zhang Pin standing alone with his back to the door.

After confirming that there was no one else around and that Bourne, who had been with Zhang Pin before, was nowhere to be seen, Ethan subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door with some regret.

"What are you doing?"

Just now, Ethan actually considered whether to cooperate with Zhang Pin and Bourne.

But the reason why he had this idea was mainly because he saw Bourne's ability.

As an ace spy, Bourne would definitely help Ethan's next move.

But Ethan didn't have any idea about Zhang Pin.

Because instinctively, he didn't think Zhang Pin could help him.

Ethan was responsible for intelligence in Europe at Langley, so he didn't know the news in Asia.

But in his mind, he didn't think Asians could have any great abilities.

But because the other party had saved his life before, and the news about the intelligence broker Max was also told to him by Zhang Pin, Ethan still opened the door.

"Hey, who is this?"

Zhang Pin didn't have the ability to read minds, so he naturally didn't know what Ethan was thinking. He saw that Ethan seemed to be a little wary, which was not surprising to him. He thought that the other party was worried that someone else would come.

After entering, he saw Claire and also showed some doubts.

"This is Claire, one of my teammates."

Ethan briefly introduced Zhang Pin, and then chose to remain silent, obviously preparing for Zhang Pin to explain his purpose.

"Hey, you said before that the reason why Kittridge suspected you were a traitor was that you were the only one in your team who survived. Now it seems that there are other survivors in your team, and you are sure that you are not a traitor, then..."

Zhang Pin did not rush to explain his purpose, but raised another question.

Claire's face changed drastically when she heard Zhang Pin's words.

"The traitor can't be Claire!"

But before she could find a reason, Ethan had already taken the initiative to shake his head.

"If she was a traitor, she couldn't come back now."

Ethan was really sure that Claire was not an undercover.

The reason why he was so sure was that he knew Claire's background.

Ethan has been working in Langley for many years. For intelligence teams like theirs, because they need to do some infiltration or undercover work or even replace other people's identities to play each other's work on weekdays, the tacit understanding between the team members is also very important.

Generally speaking, there are usually four members in a team, and as long as there are no accidents in the middle, the members of a team will often cooperate until retirement.

Ethan joined the current intelligence team when he was selected as an elite action member when he entered Langley.

Their team is a little different from ordinary teams, that is, the members are not four, but five.

There are naturally some reasons for this.

The reason is also very simple, that is, Claire actually joined later.

The most fundamental reason why the other party became a member of this team is because she is the wife of the team leader Jim.

Before Claire married Jim, the other party did not even work in Langley.

And Claire has only been in the team for a short time, and her movements don't match those of the insider.

Because of these facts, Ethan only suspected whether Claire was a spy planted by Kittredge in the team, and didn't suspect that she was a insider.

"It's hard to say."

Zhang Pin disagreed with Ethan's affirmation of Claire's identity.

But after thinking about it, he didn't continue to argue with him.

"It's like this. I got some information from you before, but later I found that these chips didn't seem to be enough, so I thought about finding some more important chips. It happened that you, a former employee of Langley, were here, and I wondered if there was a chance for cooperation."

The reason why Zhang Pin suddenly changed his mind was actually very simple.

Albert and his agreement were very simple. The other party only wanted Zhang Pin to help find the insider of Langley, and the evidence to prove the insider must be sufficient.

Albert didn't have any requirements for how Zhang Pin could achieve this goal.

So after Zhang Pin agreed to the other party's request, he did not contact Kittredge, who was currently investigating the insider, but went directly to Ethan.

Originally, he wanted to ask Ethan for some information about Jim, the old captain of the other party.

After all, he had seen with his own eyes that the guy named Jim jumped off the bridge on his own initiative.

So he could be sure that the other party was the traitor.

But now that he saw that Ethan suddenly had a teammate around him, Zhang Pin did not choose to directly tell his purpose.

When Ethan introduced his experience to them before, he also introduced the team members.

Although there was no photo, Zhang Pin guessed that the current woman should be the wife of Jim, the traitor.

Since Jim was the traitor, Sir Zhang would definitely not believe how innocent his wife was.

So if he said that he wanted to investigate Jim at this moment, he would not only fail to get the information he wanted, but would expose himself.

"Cooperation, how good are your computer skills?"

Hearing Zhang Pin's words, Ethan did not refuse immediately.

He had been removed from Langley at this time, and he also wanted to go to Langley headquarters to steal the list of European undercovers.

In order for the operation to succeed, Ethan naturally needed someone to help him.

His original plan was to find some people who were also expelled from Langley, and then find a way to persuade them.

In this case, whether it is to find a suitable helper or to persuade the other party, it is a very difficult thing for Ethan.

So now that Zhang Pin, who is half an acquaintance and has half a common goal, wants to join, Ethan naturally did not choose to refuse at the first time, but asked about the other party's ability.

The reason why he asked about the other party's computer technology was that Ethan was in urgent need of a computer expert, and secondly, because of Zhang Pin's Asian identity, Ethan subconsciously regarded the other party as a technician.