Free Web NovelChapter 1323: Chapter 1322
Chen Long, an international Interpol officer from Huaxia, was set to retire in a year. After a lifetime of hard work, his greatest wish was to spend time with his daughter. This trip to the United Kingdom was a rare vacation before his retirement, coinciding with his daughter’s birthday. He planned to leave from Hong Kong to celebrate with her.
At the airport lounge, Chen Long’s phone suddenly rang. Upon looking, he saw it was from an unknown number. If it were a Huaxia number, Chen would assume it was an advertisement and wouldn’t answer. However, this number was from the United Kingdom.
Out of caution, Chen Long answered the call.
"Is this Detective Chen Long?" said a man’s voice on the other end, speaking fluent Huaxia.
Chen Long replied, "Who are you, and how do you have my number?"
The male voice said, "Hello, Detective Chen Long. We need your help with a task. On your upcoming flight, there is a passenger we are looking for. Detective Chen’s task is simple: identify and eliminate this person before the plane lands in the United Kingdom."
Chen Long frowned and asked, "You still haven’t said who you are?"
The male voice continued nonchalantly, "We will provide the information we have via a document sent to you. We hope Detective Chen can successfully complete the task; it’s very important to us."
Chen Long was a bit annoyed: "If you don’t clarify who you are, I’m not going to do anything for you."
The male laughter: "Detective Chen, you might misunderstand. We’re not negotiating; we’re giving you orders."
Chen scoffed, "Is this a prank? Why should I take orders from you?" freēwēbnovel.com
The male voice said, "I think Detective Chen has no other choice, because your daughter is in our hands, unless you don’t want to see her again."
Chen Long’s face changed: "Nonsense, I just had a video call with her ten minutes ago. Stop playing games with me!"
The male voice responded, "Coincidentally, we just captured your daughter less than ten minutes ago. Would you like to hear your daughter’s voice... remove her tape..."
Immediately, a female voice shouted on the other end: "Dad, I’m in a black..."
The female voice tried to relay some information to Chen Long about the kidnappers, but they quickly reacted and covered her mouth.
Chen Long sank into an icy abyss; it was his daughter’s voice, indeed in the hands of these people!
"Detective Chen, remember your task; you need to complete it by yourself, without any leaks. If you can’t identify this person before the plane lands, be prepared to collect your daughter’s corpse."
The male voice said.
Beeeeeep!
The call was abruptly disconnected.
With the phone clutched in his hand, Chen Long felt cold all over, his mind in chaos. Though as an international Interpol officer he’d faced many harrowing situations, this time, with his daughter’s life at stake, his heart was in disarray.
His wife had left them when his daughter was just three years old. He had raised her through hardship and toil. It was hard to imagine how a globetrotting Interpol officer managed to raise his daughter alone. The pain and difficulty were incomprehensible to outsiders.
His daughter meant everything to him; he could not let anything happen to her!
This strong belief soon forced him to calm down. He needed to figure out a few things.
Assuming the kidnappers were a group, they kidnapped his daughter to coerce him into identifying someone on the flight and eliminating that person!
This task, at first glance, seemed simple, like that of a professional assassin — just eliminate the target.
However, in reality, this task was not simple at all but rather absurd!
Because the kidnappers didn’t tell him precisely who the target was, only that they were on the flight, which had at least a hundred people. How was he supposed to find them?
Ding!
A notification sound rang just then; Chen Long received an anonymous email.
Opening the email, there was a document, just as the kidnappers had mentioned, containing information about the target.
Chen Long quickly scanned the document and only grew more anxious because it still didn’t provide specific characteristics of the target, only a vague clue that the purpose of this person’s trip to the United Kingdom was unusual.
This was a joke, wasn’t it? What did unusual mean, and what exactly was this person going to do in the United Kingdom?
Didn’t know.
Whether this person was male or female, he didn’t know.
Whether they were old or young, didn’t know.
Their skin color, didn’t know.
Their nationality, didn’t know.
With no specific features, everyone on the plane could be a suspect!
Finding and eliminating this person was like finding a needle in a haystack!
Time was running short for Chen Long as the flight began boarding. He considered whether to report this to his superiors or seek help from colleagues, but ultimately restrained himself; the kidnappers warned him not to leak information.
He needed to stealthily identify and eliminate this person on the plane!
To save his daughter’s life, he had no choice, as he knew nothing about the kidnappers or his daughter’s whereabouts. His daughter’s life was entirely in their hands!
Chen Long boarded the plane with a heavy heart.
From the moment he stepped onto the plane, he started observing the passengers, but lacking clues, everyone on the plane seemed suspicious!
However, he had no idea where to start, no leads at all!
Seated, he found himself next to Lin Fan, leading to their initial conversation. With nowhere to start, he decided to first investigate Lin Fan.
After a series of probing questions, he found nothing suspicious about Lin Fan. As an experienced Interpol officer, he was well-versed in reading micro-expressions, and his peers admired his special ability. Some even praised his eyes as being more effective than a lie detector.
This might be why the kidnappers approached him; perhaps they also didn’t know who they were looking for and hoped to use Chen Long’s expertise to identify the person. freewebnoveℓ.com
At the time, Chen Long didn’t realize that during his conversation with Lin Fan, nine out of ten things Lin Fan said were false, rendering his lie detector-like eyes ineffective.
The reason being, Lin Fan possessed top-notch insight, even better than Chen Long’s, having already predicted Chen Long’s predictions. What seemed like casual chatter was in fact a duel between two masters of insight, and Lin Fan emerged victorious.
In short, Chen Long ruled out Lin Fan as a suspect. This manner of conversation was his forte and an effective method, but he couldn’t realistically question every passenger.
He had to come up with a way to identify this person.
