Chapter 460: Secrets of the Past (Part 1)

In the dimly lit corridor, a body was lying on the floor of the narrow corridor platform. Alfred stood on the stairs above, and Kayla stood below.

Kayla put away the pistol in her hand, lowered her head, looked at Benjamin's body, and said, "Mr. Pennyworth, you can go to work, I'll handle this."

"My business is to kill him." Alfred walked down the stairs, came to the opposite side of Kayla, and said to her, "Valeria, thank you for the information you passed on to me."

Kayla frowned and looked at Alfred, seeming a little dissatisfied. He said, "As early as a month ago, I had someone send you a message to tell you that they have a conspiracy against the Wayne Group. Why did you let him come?"

Kayla sighed and said, "This matter is not that simple. On the surface, they are tracking down the Philby list, but in fact, everyone knows that this list is just outdated information. In addition to covering up the CIA's mistakes, it can also be used to investigate the Philby list. , not very useful. "

"We all know that the economic crisis in 1980 left endless harm, and the East Coast was also deeply affected by it, but at the same time, many people also benefited from it, including the Luther Group and the Wayne Group. "

"Those big entrepreneurs who fell in the tide of the times always want to regain their former power. The pie occupied by the Wayne Group and the Luther Group is too big, and those evil wolves are already jealous to the extreme. "

"They are really stupid, Alfred, when I heard their plan, I was almost crazy. "

"They actually want to simply gather all the celebrities on the East Coast together, and then take advantage of the chaos to kill the controllers of the Wayne Group and the Luther Group, and then push the blame on the Soviet agents..."

Kayla held her forehead with her hand, as if just repeating this plan made her feel a little speechless.

"They actually think that with the witnesses of these celebrities, the whole thing will become legitimate, without considering that this may push them into the abyss of another economic crisis..."

"Valeria, you have to know that there are always only a few smart people in this world, and even ordinary people with normal sanity are rare compared to idiots."

"I have been to France, Britain, Italy, and finally came to the United States, but it was not until I served in the Air Force and became a middle-level official, and then was selected to join the CIA, that I realized that the so-called elite politics is simply a scam."

"Elite?" Kayla set her eyes on Benjamin's body again Her whole facial features wrinkled, with unspeakable disgust between her eyebrows, she said:

"No vigilance, self-righteous, unable to anticipate certain possible consequences, and also optimistic about the foreseeable bad consequences."

"You can come up with 10,000 bad plans every day, but after making a mess, you blame it on your subordinates for not executing well, and then repeat the importance of the team being elites, while the consequences are paid by ordinary people at the bottom..."

"Okay, stop complaining, Valeria, you have worked here for so many years, don't you know their morals?"

Kayla sighed helplessly and shook her head.

She looked at Alfred's face. He was older than the last time they met. The reflection of the snow outside the window reflected on his cheeks, illuminating the mottled lines clearly.

Kayla also saw himself in the reflection of the glass. She was not young anymore. She was no longer an ignorant and passionate girl. Her peers should have been married or preparing to have children at her age. However, she was still Alfred's descendant.

Kayla still remembered how she met Alfred. The CIA was controlled by some people and wanted to target the Wayne family for a long time. The plan to investigate Gotham had been implemented a few years ago. Unfortunately, Kayla was one of the first agents to enter Gotham.

When she received this order, she thought her undercover work had been exposed, because she really couldn't believe that the CIA's top brass actually approved this stupid plan and planned to start targeting the two largest groups on the East Coast.

The CIA hoped that this group of agents could find some principled mistakes of the group's controllers. Kayla didn't want to participate in such a stupid plan at all, but she had to go because of the order.

Before she went, she had never thought that Gotham was such a dangerous place. Less than two days after entering Gotham, she was invited to the Godfather Falcone.

But she should be thankful, because she was able to see Falcone alive, all thanks to the skills she had trained in the Soviet Union, while his companions were not so lucky.

The conversation with the Godfather was not pleasant. Keira had been prepared to die with her secret identity, but that day, another old man came to visit the Godfather. They seemed to be old acquaintances, and it was on that day that the old man exposed her identity as a Soviet agent and sent her away from Gotham.

In the subsequent correspondence, Keira learned that the mysterious old man was Alfred Pennyworth.

Originally, seeing Alfred's attitude after revealing her identity, Kayla felt that he was a person who could be developed, and the housekeeper of the Wayne family was also a very important identity. If this could really be done, it would be of great benefit to the motherland.

So, she began to frequently communicate with Alfred, but she didn't know when the style of the content of the letters changed.

Kayla found that the old man she was communicating with had extremely rich experience as an agent. He was by no means the kind of layman that Kayla thought. On the contrary, he was a better and more experienced agent than Kayla.

Kayla began to ask him many technical questions in the letters, and at the same time, she would pass on the information of the CIA to Alfred.

Under Alfred's guidance, Kayla's disguise became more and more meticulous. While disguising herself more and more like a CIA agent, because of the improvement of her work ability, she rose step by step in the CIA, and even became the deputy of Benjamin, the captain of the special operations team, in just two years.

This is actually a very high position, because the special operations team has a lot of authority, and now that Benjamin is dead, this position will only fall to Kayla.

Thinking of the years when Alfred had worked tirelessly to teach her the skills of those agents, Kayla became a little worried again. She frowned and asked Alfred:

"I still have the same question. I have already passed the information to you in advance. Why did you let Little Wayne get involved? This is really dangerous..."

"Is it more dangerous than Gotham?"

"Uh..."

Kayla was choked, but she still argued:

"You can't compare it like this. There are indeed many gangs in Gotham. There are gunfights every day, and there are also many crazy people. The traffic is also very chaotic, and there are constant natural disasters and man-made disasters. Even children are very wild. There is really no public security..."

Kayla's voice became lower and lower. Finally, she sighed helplessly and said, "Well, it seems that Gotham is more dangerous."

"Bruce can't stay under someone's wings forever. He must learn to face these conspiracies on his own."

When Alfred's old voice echoed in the stairwell of the corridor, Kayla heard the sigh in his tone.

Such a tone made Kayla miss her hometown. She remembered that the last person who spoke to her like this was her father. They stood on the vast snowy plains by Lake Baikal and talked about her own future and the future of this great country.

"Today, some oligarchs and the CIA came up with a stupid idea to trick him here in a very clumsy way, and even the prepared personnel were not professional."

"But if he has never seen these methods, then tomorrow, when the smart people who really have power carefully prepare a conspiracy and make full preparations, how will he deal with it?"

"Excuse me, Alfred..." Kayla was still a little worried. She said, "If it's just Benjamin and his agents who use it to practice with Little Wayne, it's fine, but the thing under the mayor's mansion may be very dangerous..."

Kayla sighed again and began to tell some unknown information:

"Most people who know about this think it's The previous mayors or even earlier people were preparing secret radiation experiments underground. Americans love to fantasize about these things, but their government does like to do so. "

"But in fact, the CIA has more detailed information about this. My level is not high enough, so I can't view all the information, but Benjamin once revealed to me that there is indeed a mysterious mineral underneath and it contains radiation, but the existence of this mineral is not to radiate the human body."

Kayla said worriedly: "As far as I know, it may be to seal something more dangerous."

"I don't know what it is, but judging from the attitude of Benjamin and his superiors, I'm afraid it's definitely not a good thing."

"It's an egg." Alfred said suddenly.

Kayla looked at him with wide eyes, and then narrowed her eyes, because she saw only a flat emotion on Alfred's face. Obviously, he knew what was going on.

"That's an even older story, but you should have heard of it. Do you remember the case that happened in Gotham thirty years ago?"

"Uh... I hadn't been ordered to go to the United States at that time, but I seemed to have taken a look at the files. The records on them were a bit weird and I couldn't understand them..."

"Valeria, I remember telling you in the communication that sometimes, agents don't need to understand what the intelligence is talking about. You just need to take them back, and naturally there will be professionals to analyze the truth."

"But now, you don't need to do that anymore, because this case happened almost 30 years ago, and intelligence is time-sensitive. After so long, it's unlikely to attract attention."

"What's going on? I don't quite understand. Haven't you been staying in Gotham all the time? How do you know what's underground in the mayor's mansion in Metropolis? What does this have to do with the case 30 years ago?"

"Don't be impatient, listen to me slowly..."

Alfred's tone returned to his usual unhurried British accent, which made the listener a little anxious, but soon, the content of his words attracted Kayla.

"It was not my first time to come to Gotham to work as a butler for the Wayne family. The first time I came here was about 26 years ago, in the spring of 1962."

"And the reason I came here is because I have an important mission..."

Kayla saw that Alfred's eyes gradually lit up, as if he was proud of the great cause he had done when he recalled his youth.

"In March 1962, I received an order from Moscow to find a way to contact Harold King Philby, who was under close surveillance, and bring an important list of all spy intelligence back to Moscow."

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