Chapter 465: Past Secrets (Part 2)

In the corridor with dim lighting, a corpse lay on the floor of the narrow stair landing. Alfred stood on the stairs above, while Kayla stood below.

Kayla put away the pistol in her hand, looked down at Benjamin's corpse, and said: "Mr. Pennyworth, you can go and do your business, I will handle this here."

"The business I have to do is to finish him off." Alfred walked down the stairs. He came to Kayla's opposite side and said to her: "Valeria, thank you for the intelligence you passed to me."

Kayla frowned, looked at Alfred, seemingly somewhat dissatisfied. He said: "As early as a month ago, I already sent someone to send you a letter, telling you that they had a conspiracy against the Wei En Group, why did you still let him come over?"

Kayla sighed and said: "This matter is not so simple. On the surface, they are investigating the Philby list, but in fact, everyone knows that this list is just an outdated piece of information. Besides being able to cover up the mistakes in the CIA's work, it has no great use."

"We all know that the economic crisis in 1980 caused endless trouble, and the East Coast also suffered deeply. But at the same time, there were also many people who benefited from it, including the Luthor Group and the Wei En Group."

"Those big entrepreneurs who fell in the tide of the times want to regain their former power all the time. The cake occupied by the Wei En Group and the Luthor Group is too big, and that group of evil wolves is already red-eyed to the extreme."

"They are really stupid, Alfred. When I heard their plan, I almost went crazy."

【Author's Note: "Love Reading Book Fragrance"】

"They actually wanted to simply gather all the celebrities on the East Coast together, then take advantage of the chaos to kill the controllers of the Wei En Group and the Luthor Group, and then push it to the Soviet spy..."

Kayla supported her forehead with her hand, as if just repeating this plan made her feel somewhat speechless.

"They actually felt that under the witness of these celebrities, the whole thing would become justified, without considering at all that this might push them into the abyss of another economic crisis..."

"Valeria, you have to know, in this world, smart people are always in the minority, and even normal people with normal sanity are rare compared to idiots."

"I have been to France, the UK, Italy, and finally came to the United States. But it wasn't until I served in the Air Force, reached the middle level, and was selected to enter the CIA that I knew that the so-called elite politics was simply a scam."

"Elite?" Kayla cast her gaze on Benjamin's corpse again. Her whole face wrinkled, and there was unspeakable disgust between her eyebrows. She said:

"No vigilance, self-righteous, unable to foresee some possible consequences, and holding a fluke mentality for the bad consequences that can be foreseen."

"They can think of ten thousand bad plans every day, but after making a mess, they blame the subordinates for not executing them well, and then repeat the importance of the team being all elites, while the consequences are paid by the most ordinary people at the bottom..."

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

Kayla sighed helplessly and shook her head.

She looked at Alfred's face. He was more aged than when they last met. The reflection of the snowflakes outside the window shone on his cheeks, showing the mottled lines clearly.

Kayla also saw herself in the reflection of the glass. She was not young anymore, no longer an ignorant girl full of enthusiasm. Peers at her age should have been married or preparing to have children. However, she was still Alfred's junior.

Kayla still remembered how she met Alfred. The CIA was manipulated by some people who wanted to target the Wei En family. The plan to investigate Cat Getan had been implemented since a few years ago, and very unfortunately, Kayla was one of the first batch of agents to step into Cat Getan.

When she received this order, she thought her undercover identity had been exposed, because she really couldn't believe that the high-level of the CIA actually passed this stupid plan and intended to target the two largest groups on the East Coast.

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

Before going, she never thought that Cat Getan was such a dangerous place. Within two days of stepping into Cat Getan, she was invited to the front of the godfather Falcone.

But she should be lucky, because she could see Falcone alive entirely because of the skills she exercised in the Soviet Union, while her companions were not so lucky.

The conversation with the godfather couldn't be called pleasant. Kayla had already prepared to die guarding her secret identity, but that day, another old man came to visit the godfather. They seemed to be old acquaintances, and that was the day the old man called out her identity as a Soviet spy and then sent her away from Cat Getan.

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

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

So, she began to correspond with Alfred frequently, but I don't know when, the style of the letter content changed.

Kayla found that the old man who corresponded with her had extremely rich spy experience. He was definitely not the layman Kayla thought. On the contrary, he was a more excellent and veteran spy than Kayla.

Kayla began to ask him for advice on many technical aspects in the letters, and at the same time, she would pass the information of the Central Intelligence Agency to Alfred.

Under Alfred's guidance, Kayla's disguise became more and more meticulous. While pretending to be more and more like a CIA agent, because of the improvement of her work ability, she rose step by step in the Central Intelligence Agency, and even became the deputy of Benjamin, the leader of the special action team, in just two years.

This was actually a very high position, because the special action team had very large authority, and now, with Benjamin dead, this position would only fall to Kayla.

Thinking of the spy skills Alfred taught her tirelessly over the years, Kayla became a bit worried again. She frowned and asked Alfred:

"I still have that question. I already passed the information to you in advance, why did you still let little Wei En participate? This is really dangerous..."

"Is it more dangerous than Cat Getan?"

"Uh..."

Kayla was choked, but she still argued:

"Can't compare like that. Cat Getan does have many gangs, gunfights every day, and there are many madmen, traffic is also very chaotic, and natural and man-made disasters are constant, even children are full of wildness, it really can't be called public security..."

The more Kayla spoke, the lower her voice became. Finally, she sighed helplessly and said: "Okay, it seems Cat Getan is more dangerous."

"Bruce cannot stay under anyone's wings forever. He always has to learn to face these conspiracies himself."

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

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

"Today, it was just that some oligarchs and the Central Intelligence Agency came up with a stupid idea, using a very clumsy means to lure him here, and even the people prepared were not professional."

"But if he had never seen these means, then tomorrow, when truly powerful smart people carefully weave a conspiracy and make full preparations, how should he respond?"

"Forgive me for speaking bluntly, Alfred..." Kayla was still a bit worried. She said: "If it was just Benjamin and the agents under him, it would be fine to use them to practice for little Wei En, but the thing under the mayor's mansion, I'm afraid it will be very dangerous..."

Kayla sighed again and began to say some unknown intelligence:

"Most people who know about this think it was the previous mayors or earlier people who prepared secret radiation experiments underground. Americans love to fantasize about these things, and their government does like to do so."

"But in fact, the CIA has more detailed information about this internally. 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 underground and it contains radiation, but the existence of this mineral is not to radiate the human body."

Kara spat out a sentence, filled with worry: "According to my understanding, that might be to seal something even more dangerous."

"I don't know what that is, but looking at 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 only saw calm emotions on Alfred's face. Obviously, he knew what was going on.

"That's a more ancient story, but you should have heard of it too. Do you still remember the case in Cat Getan thirty years ago?"

"Uh... at that time I hadn't been ordered to go to the United States. However, I seem to have glanced at it in the file. The records on it were a bit god-like, and I couldn't understand it..."

"Valeria, I remember in the correspondence I once told you that sometimes, agents don't need to understand what the intelligence is talking about. You just need to bring them back, and naturally there will be professional personnel to analyze the truth."

"But now, you don't need to do that anymore, because this case is already a matter of nearly 30 years ago. Intelligence is time-sensitive. After so long, it is unlikely to attract attention."

"What on earth is going on? Why don't I understand a bit? Haven't you always stayed in Cat Getan? How do you know what is under the mayor's mansion in Metropolis? And what does this have to do with the case 30 years ago?"

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly..."

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

"Going to the Wei En family to be a butler was not my first time coming to Cat Getan. I came here for the first time about 26 years ago, which was a spring in 1962."

"And the reason I came here was because I was burdened with an important mission..."

Kayla saw that the light in Alfred's eyes gradually brightened, as if he was proud of the great cause he had once done when recalling his young years.

"In March 1962, I received an order from Moscow to find a way to contact Harold Kim Philby, who was under close surveillance, and bring an important list with all spy intelligence back to Moscow." ===== CHAPTER 466 =====