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Alona withdrew her gaze from the window and nodded without comment: "Let's go."

After saying that, he glanced at the two American men leaning against the bar drinking, then stood up and walked towards his box.

Custer didn't move his eyes, nodded to his black subordinate Pablo, picked up the beer glass and took a sip.

Watching Alona disappear into the aisle, Pablo asked, "How can you be sure that he will appear in this car?"

Custer smiled and said, "Because that woman is also here, he will definitely come. We must arrest him here."

Pablo asked, "What if he has a valid reason?"

Custer frowned: "Who?"

"Hunter..., what if he has a legitimate reason for not obeying orders?" Pablo asked.

Custer glanced at Pablo. "That's just how he is. He and his gang are all like that. They're always like that."

Pablo pressed on: "But what if they do have a legitimate reason?"

"If you were given the key, what would you do?"

Custer smiled and said, "A key that can make the whole world surrender."

Pablo hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll hand it over to my superiors."

Custer smiled noncommittally: "Think about the feeling of holding that kind of power, wouldn't you hesitate for a moment?"

Pablo nodded: "No!"

Custer looked at him with interest: "Why?"

Pablo is quite self-aware:
"Because that kind of power cannot be controlled by one person. Such a powerful force should not fall into the hands of anyone. Maybe that's what Hunter thinks."

"You're right!" Custer smiled, picked up the beer glass and took a sip, looking at Pablo with a half-smile: "But, where are you, kid?"

Pablo said righteously: "If the world is about to be destroyed, I will stand on the side of all mankind."

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"Don't bother me before I meet with a client."

Alona walked to the door of the box, turned to look at the bodyguard and gave an order, then opened the door and walked in.

"Yes!"

The man with a moustache responded and stood at the door of the box on guard.

Walking into the private room, Alona felt a little dazed as she thought that she only had half of the key and didn't know how to explain it to the customer.

"Click~,"

Just then, the door of the box next to him opened, and Arona looked up. The strong man was surprised to see a woman who looked exactly like him, except that she was wearing different clothes.

Arona thought about it and immediately realized who the person was. He was about to scream, but the woman covered his mouth with her hand. Then a strong electric current hit his waist. Arona's eyes went dark and he fell into a coma instantly.

Grace, who was dressed exactly like Alona, ​​quickly took out the other half of the key from Alona's pocket. Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, there was a knock on the door: "Alona, ​​the client is here..., Alona?"

"coming!"

Grace quickly adjusted her clothes and expression, lifted Alona aside, then walked out the door and nodded to the mustache: "Let's go!"

The man with the mustache did not suspect anything and led Grace to the private room where they had agreed to meet the client.

As soon as she entered the box and looked at the person doing the transaction, Grace was startled. It turned out to be Diego, the director of the Intelligence Bureau.

Before Grace could come to her senses, Diego's words made her feel cold:

"You are not Alona Mitsopolis..., absolutely not!"

Just when Grace was at a loss and thought she had been discovered.

"I remember Alona being this tall, drinking hot chocolate with her mother in the Tuileries Gardens."

Diego's American humor almost made Grace run away. Hearing that he was joking, Grace breathed a sigh of relief and laughed dryly: "Oh, I remember it was in Paris... Haha, in Paris, right?"

"Let's sit down!"

Looking at Grace's stiff smile, Diego felt a little bored and pointed to the sofa beside him: "I am here today to represent my government. Although I am reluctant, we will still agree to your terms in exchange for the real, complete key."

The man with the mustache said, "Yes, about the key. Although we promised to give you the complete key... However, there is a small problem now."

"No, there's no problem. It's just that the conditions I proposed have changed a little." Grace interrupted the mustache man and looked at Diego and said, "... Just one thing."

Diego sat up and looked directly at Grace: "It seems necessary to remind you that your deceased mother and I had an agreement. If it weren't for this agreement, she would have died in prison long ago. And your family can continue because it must serve the common interests of both of us first."

Ignoring the bewildered look of the mustache man, Grace said seriously, "Listen, once I hand over the key to you, other forces will immediately regard us as mortal enemies. For this reason, I need you to provide some extra things in advance."

"Give it to me?" Diego smiled and said, "Tell me first."

"Zora, can you please wait at the bar for a while?"

Grace glanced at the mustache.

"Yes!"

Zora was a little confused, but still walked out the door as he was told.

After Zora left, Grace took out a passport and placed it on the table. Seeing Diego's frown, she asked knowingly, "Do you know her?"

Glancing at Grace's own passport, Diego nodded: "Put it this way, it's hard not to notice her."

Grace boasted on her own behalf: "Well, if you get to know her, you'll find that she has some good qualities."

Diego looked up at Grace, "Okay, what's wrong with this girl?"

"Well, I...she did something for me,"

Grace suppressed her excitement and said slowly: "Now, I need you to protect her."

Diego looked at Grace suspiciously, "Protect her from whom?"

"Everyone...including me,"

Grace said 'seriously': "Don't let anyone know that it was my request, not even Zola. Let me put it this way, when we meet next time, I won't even remember our conversation today."

.........

On the other side of the carriage, two bodyguards opened the door and carefully searched Paris' body before knocking on the door of the inner compartment.

It was Admiral Haas who came out. Looking at Paris, Haas nodded:
"You must be the Paris they're talking about?"

Looking at Haas, Paris raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a cold smile, and suddenly raised her right foot and kicked the bodyguard's head fiercely. The action was swift and accurate, and the bodyguard was caught off guard. He felt a sharp pain and fainted on the ground.

Then, Paris took advantage of the force and pounced forward, leaning forward, clenching her hands into a knife, and slashed at the neck of another bodyguard. This move of knife-wielding was precise and ruthless, and the other bodyguard fell down with a severe injury to his neck, unable to move anymore.

Before Haas could react, the two bodyguards had already been knocked to the ground by Paris. The whole process was so fast that Haas was so scared that he stepped back repeatedly.

Paris pushed As onto the sofa, smiled coldly, and opened the bolt on the door. Gabriel was standing at the door.

Gabriel had a blank expression on his face and said calmly, "You sent a message saying that the key is in your hands?"

"I said the key would be on this train."

Looking at the two people who were staring at him eagerly, Haas said calmly, "The transaction is in progress now."

Gabriel said, "We all know that."

Haas nodded: "Then you should also know that it is not difficult to get rid of the person who bought the key."

Gabriel said coldly: "It's the same no matter who you want to get rid of."

“You may think you know what the key is for,” Haas laughed, “but you don’t know exactly where the lock is. If anything goes wrong for me, the key is useless.”

Gabriel smiled. "So you're going to tell me a story, right?"

Seeing Gabriel's cold eyes, Haas swallowed and said, "The artificial intelligence we stole, once weaponized, can be transmitted to any corner of the world via satellite. It can penetrate any defense network, complete its mission silently, and then self-destruct without leaving any trace."

Gabriel nodded, "Yes, a perfect invisible agent."

"We previously transferred a rudimentary version of this AI onto a new Russian submarine, a top-secret submarine, the Akula-class Sevastopol."

Haas nodded and continued:
"Its original mission was to destroy Sevastopol's cloaking capabilities so we could spy on its AI's objectives. It was in the submarine's sonar room, the heart of its defenses, but for whatever reason we don't know, the AI ​​went haywire and...overfulfilled its mission."

Gabriel smiled and continued, "The frozen bodies of the crew were not found until the beginning of the next spring, floating under the ice, and the two keys mysteriously disappeared. The Sevastopol just disappeared, and no one knows where it is."

"I know, I know exactly where it is,"

Haas said proudly, "And I'm the only one in the world who knows this. Later, they tried to make the artificial intelligence obey orders, but it became more difficult to control. It disobeyed orders and rewrote itself, and finally evolved into an intelligent entity. Now, only by using the original source code of the intelligent entity can we completely control it or destroy it."

Gabriel's smile faded: "What does this have to do with us?"

"If it really didn't matter, you wouldn't be here."

Haas smiled and said, "Now that things have come to this, let's all show our cards. We all know what the key can open, and we also know that the secret to controlling the intelligence is buried in the storage of the Sevastopol."

"Likewise, that thing contains evidence of your silencing of the submarine," Gabriel said coldly.

"Since neither you nor I want anyone else to find it,"

Haas said: "Then why don't we work together."

Gabriel smiled and said, "Work together?"

Haas's eyes flashed with enthusiasm: "Try to imagine, if one day the amazing computing power of intelligent bodies can be combined with the powerful force of our American military-industrial complex, what will happen?"

Gabriel had to admit, "That would be really impressive."

Haas went on to say: "In this way, certain stumbling blocks within the government that cling to outdated patriotism must be removed."

Gabriel looked at Haas with an intriguing expression on his face. "So... what do you mean? You want to work together with the intelligence, clear out the old ideas in your government, and establish a new superpower to rule the world?"

Haas smiled and said, "You know, for a higher ideal."

Gabriel looked directly at Haas. "And you are sure that, besides you, no one else in the world knows the exact location of the Sevastopol?"

Haas smiled confidently: "Only I know."

Gabriel's eyes changed, and just when Haas felt something was wrong, a sharp dagger had already cut his throat.

"You will betray us!"

Gabriel waved the blood off the dagger, looked at Haas who was struggling on the ground with his throat covered, and said coldly: "You will tell Hunter everything you know."

Paris' heart skipped a beat. She looked at Gabriel who turned around and looked at her. Then she realized that he was talking about her. She was about to explain when she saw Gabriel stabbing her in the heart with a knife.

Paris, who was unable to dodge, felt a pain in her chest. She covered the handle of the knife that was piercing her heart and did not dare to look at Gabriel confidently.

"Because he spared your life before!"

Gabriel looked at Paris slumped on the sofa and smiled coldly, then turned and walked out of the box.

Paris felt the fear of death enveloped her, and she covered her chest tightly with both hands. Blood gushed out from between her fingers, staining her white shirt red. Her eyes were full of shock and disbelief. She couldn't understand why Gabriel would do this to her.

Paris fell to the ground, breathing rapidly and weakly, and she felt her life slipping away bit by bit. Her vision began to blur, and she saw Gabriel's back getting farther and farther away until he disappeared at the door of the box. Paris's consciousness began to blur, and her hand slowly loosened the handle of the knife, and blood dripped from her fingertips.

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"Then it's settled,"

Although Diego felt somewhat baffled, he agreed to 'Alona's' request: "I will include Grace's immunity and new identity in the terms."

Then, he handed his phone to Grace: "Next, you just need to enter your bank information..."

Grace couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth. She took Diego's phone, blocked Diego's view with her palm and began to enter her bank information.

Diego looked at Alona across from him and narrowed his eyes thoughtfully: "Okay, now it's your turn."

"OK!"

Grace placed the two keys on the table and pushed them to Diego.

"The moment of truth..."

Suppressing his excitement, Diego picked up the two keys and slowly put them together.

Zora watched as Diego put the two keys together and they began to flash red. His eyes suddenly widened. Is this true?!
Since when did Alona have two keys?
Grace smiled: "So, the key is real!"

Diego looked at the key flashing red with an obsessed look in his eyes, as if he was mumbling: "Your choice is correct. This key will change the world!"

(End of this chapter)