After Xiaoyun finished reading all of the integration plans, he couldn''t find any flaws in them.

"You planned this with Yueyue?"

Xiaoyun curiously asked, noticing how well each section of foreign intelligence was divided to fit Yueyue''s department.

"Perhaps... Boss, you wouldn''t be mad because of that, right?" Renqin nervously asked.

"Why would I be mad? Working together is better than having you two be rival departments.

Anyway, I''m going to head back home now... Call me when you finished investigating the list. "

With Xiaoyun out of the office, Renqin opened his drawers to put away the plan.

But just as he grabbed the plan from the table, the picture frame inside the drawer caught his attention.

The picture was a woman holding a man''s arm, standing on a grass field with a bridge right behind them.

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After staring at it for a bit, he put the picture and the plan back into the cabinet before looking over to the paper on his table.

"Where did the boss get this paper?" Renqin muttered to himself as he read the names inside his head.

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Just as Xiaoyun left the intelligence department and put on his face mask, he bumped right into someone around the corner.

"Sorry." Xiaoyun apologized, reaching out to help the fallen woman he had bumped into.

"It''s fine."

After helping her back up, he suddenly felt a sense of familiarity, almost as if he had met the woman before.

But when he turned around to check her face again, she was already far off into the distance.

With only seconds to think, he immediately started through the busy street, moving past the crowds to catch up with the woman.

However, the mysterious woman suddenly started running as if she could tell someone was following her.

Just when he was about to lose her, he decided to skip the sidewalk and run on the road.

Fortunately, no cars were driving by, only bikes and electric bikes riding beside him.

"What the hell! Go back to the sidewalk."

Several bikers started ringing their bell in protest, but they soon were shocked to see Xiaoyun faster than them.

Within a blink of an eye, he was back on the sidewalk as the mysterious woman took a sharp turn to the right.

As they ran through the sidewalk, they were out of the busy street and into a single-unit housing zone.

"Hey! Stop running!" Xiaoyun finally yelled as he could see the woman only a few steps away.

The mysterious woman started running even faster, constantly taking various turns to widen the gaps between them.

After what felt like a ten-minute chase, Xiaoyun finally caught up to her, and she ran out of the zone.

They were now in the wilderness, with only undeveloped grassland and a few trees in the distance.

"Who are you? Have we met before?" Xiaoyun asked, unable to believe a woman almost outran him.

"Now that we''re alone. We can finally have a little talk."

"I''m sorry. This is for the great good."

After her explanation, Kate quickly pushed him over to the grass before grabbing the paper bag.

As she took out a walkie-talkie, she immediately got a message.

"Is target capture?" The mysterious voice asked.

"No, he''s dead... Can you let go of my parents now?"

"You''ll need to deliver his dead body to Taishan if you want to see your family alive next week."

As the walkie-talkie message ended, Kate suddenly raised her pistol before shooting it right at the forest.

With a scream inside, her bullet had hit a target as she turned her attention back to Xiaoyun.

"Get up. I know you''re not dead."

After kicking his leg for a bit, she immediately started to get a little worried as he remained unconscious on the floor.

With a rapid amount of blood continuously flowing out, she quickly squatted down to check on him.

"Stop acting. It''s not funny... Wake up."

Just as she was about to reach over to his neck, her hand was quickly stopped by his hand.

"Did I do a good job acting?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he opened his eyes.

"You did pretty well... How did you know there''s someone else out there?"

Kate curiously asked as she pushed his blood-stained hands away, wiping the blood off of her finger.

"I mean, there''s no world you''re killing me with that pistol. I have to be blind to not see that as an obvious bait."

As Xiaoyun sat back up, the bullet wound around his neck had long disappeared. But all the blood on the ground indicated he had actually bled for a long time.

"Anyway, did those terrorists really kidnap your parent?" Xiaoyun asked as he created a bottle of water to wash the blood away.

"They were kidnapped before the outbreak... I had been blackmailed to act as their spies."

Kate answered as she snapped the bottle out of his hand, washing her hand before handing it back.

"Really? What did they make you do before the outbreak, then?"

"I wasn''t lying about the mission to Africa. They were using me in the past as a government spy.

And just before the outbreak, the CIA contracted me to bring those four to an African warlord." Kate explained.

"Huh. What are you going to do now, then? You still haven''t gotten your family back yet." Xiaoyun asked.

"I... I don''t know."

After a short silence, tears fell onto the grass. Her face looked conflicted and exhausted as she couldn''t hold back anymore.

"Fuck it, I''m going there myself. You can just forget about me——"

Just as Kate got up from the grass, Xiaoyun quickly pulled her back onto the grass.

"You know, I actually have a little idea to rescue your parents... Do you want to hear it?"

"What idea?" Kate asked as her sobbing slowed down a little.

Xiaoyun didn''t say it right away. Choosing to move a little closer to whisper it into her ears.

After a few seconds, she couldn''t believe the words coming out of his mouth.