Chapter 2440: Stealing Heaven, Replacing Earth

As the eight dockworkers were killed, the assassin disguised as a dockworker emerged from the cabin with complete composure.

After coming out, he skillfully locked the large cabin door and took the elevator down to the ground.

After meeting up with his seven companions who had already arrived earlier, the eight of them immediately posed as dockworkers and orderly drove away the transport truck that had just been loaded with containers.

At this time, the pilot inside the Boeing 777 had already begun requesting takeoff from the tower, demanding an immediate return to Cyprus.

Since the aircraft's original flight plan was to return immediately after unloading, the tower had no suspicions and cleared it directly; thus the plane restarted its engines, carrying eight corpses, and taxied toward the runway end before quickly taking off and disappearing into the night.

Meanwhile, the eight impostor dockworkers, having completed the heaven-switching earth-changing operation, skillfully drove the transport vehicle to the designated customs waiting area and then strutted toward the exit together.

At this moment, Ye Chen, hidden in the darkness, felt deeply puzzled in his heart.

He did not understand why, this time, the eight people sent by the mysterious organization to carry out the mission were all in a state of clear consciousness and freedom.

If what 547 said was true, the mysterious organization, to prevent assassins from remembering the base's location when entering or leaving, would drug them into complete unconsciousness before letting them go out on a mission, while they had not yet left the base.

But this rule clearly did not apply to these eight people.

Could it be that these eight people were not assassins?

From basic logic, since the mysterious organization does not worry about these people remembering the base's location, it proves that their status and importance within the organization are higher than that of assassins.

And since the mysterious organization has not guarded against these eight people on these matters, they have no need to use Bergen as a stepping stone, which means Bergen is their destination this time.

As for the eight dockworkers who were just killed, they were certainly not innocent victims, because they themselves were cooperating with these eight people in concealing their identities.

In Ye Chen's view, these eight people should have originally only temporarily helped these eight assassins enter the country, and after they completed their mission and returned, they would swap out these eight people, thus completing everything without anyone knowing and leaving no clues.

Therefore, he immediately ordered Wan Pojun to find a way to investigate the identities of these eight dockworkers on duty at the airport tonight, to look into their backgrounds and see exactly where they came from.

After giving the order to Wan Pojun, Ye Chen immediately tailed these eight people and left the airport's cargo area.

Along the way, Ye Chen noticed that besides these eight impostor dockworkers, there were no other workers to be seen at the airport, and the departure of these eight people encountered no inspection or obstruction.

The eight people smoothly exited the cargo area; at this moment, outside the cargo area, a pure electric drive box truck was parked, and one person walked to the left front of the truck, reached up above the tire, felt around, and easily found a car key, then gave a glance to the other seven, who immediately understood.

The man who got the key directly opened the driver's door and got in, another person sat in the passenger seat, and as for the remaining six, they directly opened the rear cargo box door of the box truck and one by one quickly jumped aboard.

Immediately after, the man in the driver's cabin shifted into forward gear, pressed the accelerator, and the vehicle body swayed slightly with the turning of the wheels.

But none of these eight people knew that, at that very moment when the vehicle body swayed slightly, Ye Chen in black robes, like a falling leaf, drifted down and landed silently on the roof of the box truck.

No one noticed anything abnormal; the driver pressed the accelerator, and the electric motor-driven box truck emitted only a faint motor whirring sound before speeding off.

After this vehicle left the airport, it did not head toward the urban area but instead went all the way southwest, entering the southern suburbs of Bergen.

Due to its narrow north-south terrain, most of Northern Europe's land lies within the Arctic Circle, so its agricultural strength is relatively weak.

However, Bergen is located in the southern part of Northern Europe, with relatively mild weather and gentle terrain, so its suburbs are mostly farms of a certain scale.

Western agriculture is highly modernized, so in Bergen's suburbs, there are rarely concentrated communities, and since farms occupy large areas, the residents here are also quite scattered, with only one household every several hundred to thousands of meters.

Lying on the truck roof, Ye Chen observed the surrounding environment, and his doubts grew stronger.

This mysterious organization sent eight assassins halfway across the world and did not hesitate to kill eight airport dockworkers, yet they drove the vehicle to such a sparsely populated rural area—what could their target possibly be?

At this moment, the speed of the truck beneath Ye Chen suddenly slowed considerably, and the vehicle's lights were suddenly turned off.

Since the electric truck has no engine roar, its greatest noise while driving is tire noise from the road and a faint whine from the high-speed motor.

Once the vehicle speed drops, tire noise and motor whine also rapidly decrease, so at this moment, this electric truck with its lights off, on this quiet country road at night, moved almost like a ghost—utterly silent.

Ye Chen instantly focused his spirit to the utmost; this group's sudden caution could only mean one thing: they were getting closer and closer to their target.

At this moment, Ye Chen heard from the driver's cabin, the person sitting in the passenger seat speaking in Chinese: "We're still two kilometers away—stop first and let the brothers begin equipping!"

The truck immediately came to a steady stop by the roadside, and then the two people simultaneously jumped down from the driver's cabin and ran quickly to the rear.

The driver lightly tapped the tailgate with his fingertip, and the tailgate immediately opened from inside.

The six people inside the cargo box had by now already put on full combat gear—bulletproof vests, helmets, firearms—almost identical to the equipment 547 initially carried when assassinating Ye Chen's grandparents.

After the two jumped into the cargo box, the others immediately handed over the prepared equipment to them and quickly helped them put it on.

As these two also became fully armed to the teeth, the person who had been sitting in the front passenger seat spoke in a very solemn tone: "Everyone, pair up, check each other's equipment—absolutely no negligence allowed!"

"Yes, sir!"

The others immediately responded, and soon the sound of magazines being inserted and firearms being chambered came from inside the cargo box.

After everyone finished checking their equipment, the leader spoke: "Let me reiterate the mission requirements one last time—Yingzhu's demand is that, besides capturing the target alive and bringing him back, all others are to be killed without mercy, none left! Do you understand?"

The other seven said without hesitation: "Understood!"

The leader said seriously: "Today is our lucky day! The one we need to capture alive is said to be a target Yingzhu has painstakingly searched for decades! Yingzhu only just now received definite news about him and, moreover, assigned this important task to us, the Jinyingwei, nearby—we must give it our all and absolutely not let Yingzhu down! This is our perfect opportunity to regain our prestige before Yingzhu!"

The other seven's expressions tightened, and one by one they struggled to hide their excitement as they said: "Commander, rest assured—we will give it our all and absolutely not let Yingzhu down!"

"Good!" the man called Commander laughed heartily: "Brothers, achieve merit and establish our careers—tonight is the night!"

After saying that, he looked at the driver and said: "Xiao Si, according to the plan, the truck will just stop here for now—you come with us to sneak over; if the mission goes smoothly, you can come back later to drive the truck."

The driver said without hesitation: "Understood, Commander! I got it!"

The Commander nodded and said loudly: "Good! Get out!"

As he gave the order, the cargo box's tailgate opened, and eight individuals clad in black, holding black firearms, wearing black masks, jumped down silently and then swiftly vanished into the farmland by the roadside, moving soundlessly toward their target.

Ye Chen lay on the truck roof, closely watching the eight figures, preparing to strike like a mantis catching a cicada, with the oriole waiting behind.

Wan Pojun's voice came through the earpiece: "Mr. Ye, I have already investigated the identity information of those eight dockworkers on duty; the information shows these eight people are all genuine Northern European local citizens, and their historical records are spotless—they do not resemble people with mysterious identities or unknown origins."

"Moreover, their bank accounts, this afternoon, each suddenly received a transfer of one million euros in cash from an American company; the transfer time was only one hour before this flight applied for the Bergen route—I suspect they were temporarily bought off by a huge sum of money, which is why they cooperated with these people."

Speaking, Wan Pojun added: "By the way, Mr. Ye, the American company that made the payment is one controlled by your aunt's maternal family."

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen was slightly startled and could not help but sigh: "It seems my aunt's connection has been completely exposed—they dare to transfer money so openly, likely having already eliminated all risks; from now on, this line probably won't yield any valuable information."

Wan Pojun said: "I also think so."

Ye Chen said: "Based on the timeline, I estimate this mysterious organization only temporarily bought off these eight dockworkers earlier today, then, within the four hours before takeoff, according to these eight people's facial features, made silicone molds for masks, and subsequently let those eight assassins enter the country secretly in this manner."

"And these eight dockworkers, originally thinking they were just cooperating with these people in a heaven-switching earth-changing scheme to easily earn huge money, never imagined that although the organization is willing to spend money, it would leave no living witnesses—each person's account holding that one million euro sum is merely money earned with life, not to be spent."

Saying this, Ye Chen could not help but sigh: "This organization's work is indeed extremely meticulous—their arrival plane, which had just taken off again, left information at Bergen Airport showing that after these eight people unloaded the cargo, it simply took off normally and returned; moreover, it took off before these eight people went missing, so on the surface, there will be no suspicion—even if these eight people are later discovered missing, no one will suspect this plane."

At this moment, Li Yalin's voice came through, saying: "Young Master Ye, the cargo plane of Taiyu International Express in Nigeria has just applied for a takeoff route twenty minutes from now, flying from Lagos, Nigeria, to Gothenburg, Sweden."

Ye Chen frowned and asked, "Sweden should be next to the Nordic countries, right?"

"Yes!" Li Yalin said: "Gothenburg is about six hundred kilometers from your current location."

Ye Chen asked again: "How long does it take to fly from Nigeria to Sweden?"

Li Yalin said: "About seven hours or so."

Ye Chen nodded: "It seems that after these eight people complete their mission, they will have to rush all the way to Gothenburg, Sweden, to meet up with another plane."

After saying that, Ye Chen smiled slightly and said jokingly: "It seems this plane will have to make a trip for nothing!"