In the dimly lit corridor, a body was lying on the floor of the narrow corridor platform. Alfred was standing on the stairs above, while Keira was standing below.
Keira put away the pistol in her hand. She lowered her head, looked at Benjamin's body, and said, "Mr. Pennyworth, you can go do your business. I'll take care of it here."
"The main thing I have to do is to kill him." Alfred walked down the stairs. He came to look across from Keira and said to her: "Valeria, thank you for passing me the information.
"
Kayla frowned and looked at Alfred, seemingly dissatisfied. He said, "As early as a month ago, I had someone send you a letter telling you that they had a conspiracy against the Wayne Group. You
Why do you want him to come over?"
Kayla sighed and said: "This matter is not that simple. On the surface, they are chasing Philby's list, but in fact, everyone knows that this list is just outdated information. In addition to covering up
Except for the CIA's mistakes, it's not of much use."
"We all know that the economic crisis in 1980 caused endless disasters, and the East Coast was also deeply affected. However, many people also benefited from it, including the Luther Group and the Wayne Group."
"Those big entrepreneurs who have fallen in the tide of the times are always trying to regain their former power. The cake occupied by Wayne Group and Luther Group is too big, and those evil wolves are extremely jealous."
"They are really stupid, Alfred. When I heard about their plan, I almost went crazy."
"They actually want to simply gather all the celebrities from the East Coast together, and then take advantage of the chaos to kill the controllers of the Wayne Group and the Luther Group, and then blame the Soviet agents..."
Kayla held her forehead with her hands, as if just repeating this plan made her feel speechless.
"They actually felt that under the witness of these celebrities, the whole thing would become justifiable, without considering that it might push them into the abyss of another economic crisis..."
"Valeria, you have to know that smart people are always in the minority in this world. Even ordinary people who are sane are very few compared to idiots."
“I went to France, the UK, Italy, and finally came to the United States, but it wasn’t until I served in the Air Force and reached the middle level, and then was selected to join the CIA, that I realized that the so-called meritocracy was basically a scam.
"
"Elite?" Keira set her sights on Benjamin's body again. Her entire facial features were wrinkled, and there was unspeakable disgust between her brows. She said:
"There is no vigilance, self-righteousness, unable to predict certain possible consequences, and a sense of luck about the foreseeable bad consequences."
"I can come up with 10,000 bad plans every day, but after creating a bunch of mess, I blame it on the people under my command who did not implement it well, and then repeat the importance of the team being elite, while the consequences are borne by the ordinary people at the bottom.
People pay the bill…”
"Okay, stop complaining, Valeria, you have worked here for so many years, don't you still know their morality?"...
Keira sighed helplessly and shook her head.
She looked at Alfred's face. He was older than the last time they met. The reflection of the snowflakes outside the window reflected on his cheeks, illuminating the mottled lines clearly.
Keira also saw herself in the reflection of the glass. She was no longer young. She was no longer an ignorant and passionate girl. People of her age should have been married or preparing to have children. However,
She is still Alfred's descendant.
Keira still remembered how she met Alfred. The CIA was controlled by some people and wanted to target the Wayne family for more than a day or two. The plan to investigate Gotham had been implemented several years ago, and very
Unfortunately, Keira is one of the first agents to enter Gotham.
When she received this order, she thought her cover had been exposed, because she really couldn't believe that the top brass of the CIA actually approved this stupid plan and planned to start targeting the two largest companies on the East Coast.
A group.
The CIA hopes that these agents can find some principled errors among the group's controllers. Keira doesn't want to participate in such a stupid plan at all, but she still has to go because of the order.
Before going there, she had never thought that Gotham was such a dangerous place. Less than two days after entering Gotham, she was invited to be in front of Godfather Falcone.
But she should be lucky, because her ability to see Falcone alive was all due to the skills she developed in the Soviet Union, while his companions were not so lucky.
The conversation with the godfather was not pleasant. Keira was already prepared to die keeping her secret identity, but that day, another old man came to visit the godfather. They seemed to be old acquaintances, and that day,
The old man revealed her identity as a Soviet agent and sent her away from Gotham.
In subsequent correspondence, Keira learned that the mysterious old man was Alfred Pennyworth.
Originally, after seeing Alfred's attitude after revealing his identity, Keira felt that he could be developed, and the butler of the Wayne family was also a very important identity. If this could really be done,
It will be of great benefit to the motherland.
As a result, she began to correspond with Alfred frequently, but she didn't know when the style of the contents of the letters changed.
Keira discovered that the old man he was corresponding with had extremely rich experience as an agent. He was by no means the layman Keira thought he was. On the contrary, he was a better and more experienced agent than Keira.
Keira began to ask him many technical questions in letters, and at the same time, she would also pass on information from the CIA to Alfred.
Under Alfred's guidance, Keira's disguise became more and more sophisticated, and while she was pretending to be more and more like a CIA agent, due to her improvement in work ability, she rose up the ranks in the CIA, and even took only two
In the year, he became the deputy of Special Operations Team Captain Benjamin.
This is actually a very high position, because the special operations team has very great authority, and now, once Benjamin dies, this position will only fall on Keira's head...
Thinking of Alfred's painstaking efforts to teach her the skills of agents over the years, Keira became a little worried again. She frowned and asked Alfred:
"I still have the same problem. I have already conveyed information to you in advance. Why do you still let Little Wayne get involved? This is really dangerous..."
"More dangerous than Gotham?"
"Well……"
Keira was choked, but she still argued:
"It can't be compared like this. There are indeed many gangs in Gotham. There are gun battles every day, and there are many lunatics. The traffic is also very chaotic, and there are constant natural and man-made disasters. Even the children are very wild. There is really no security..."
The more she talked, the lower Keira's voice became. Finally, she sighed helplessly and said, "Well, it seems Gotham is more dangerous."
"Bruce can't stay under someone's wing forever. He has to learn to face these conspiracies on his own."
When Alfred's old voice echoed in the corridor stairwell, Keira heard the sigh in his tone.
This tone made Keira miss her hometown a little. She remembered that the last person who spoke to her like this was her father. They stood on the vast snowfield by Lake Baikal and talked about her own future and this great country.
s future.
"Today, some oligarchs and the CIA just came up with a stupid idea and used a very clumsy method to trick him into coming here. Even the preparation staff were not professional."
"But if he has never seen these methods, then tomorrow, after a smart man with real power has carefully crafted a conspiracy and made full preparations, how will he respond?"
"With all due respect, Alfred..." Kayla was still a little worried, she said: "If it's just Benjamin and his agents who are used to practice for Little Wayne, then forget it, but there are people under the mayor's mansion.
That thing might be very dangerous..."
Keira sighed again and began to tell some unknown information:
"Most people who know about this think that the previous mayors or earlier people were preparing secret radiation experiments underground. Americans love to dream about these things, but their government does like to do this."
"But in fact, the CIA has more detailed information on this. I am not at a high level, so I cannot view all the information. However, Benjamin once revealed to me that there is indeed a mysterious mineral underneath and contains radiation, but the mineral's
It does not exist to irradiate the human body.”
Keira said worriedly: "As far as I know, it may be to seal something more dangerous."
"I don't know what it is, but judging from the attitude of Benjamin and his boss, I'm afraid it's definitely not a good thing."
"That's an egg." Alfred said suddenly.
Kayla looked at him with wide eyes, and then narrowed her eyes again, because all she saw on Alfred's face was a dull emotion. It was obvious that he knew what was going on.
"That's an older story, but you should have heard of it. Do you still remember the incident that happened in Gotham thirty years ago?"...
"Well... I had not been ordered to go to the United States at that time, but I seemed to have taken a look in the file. The records on it were a bit confusing, and I couldn't quite understand..."
"Valeria, I remember I told you in the communication that sometimes, agents don't need to understand what the intelligence is talking about. You just need to take them back, and professional personnel will naturally analyze the truth.
"
"But now, you don't need to do that. That's because this incident happened almost 30 years ago. The information is time-sensitive. After such a long time, it is impossible to attract attention."
"What's going on? Why don't I understand? Haven't you always been in Gotham? How do you know what's under the mayor's mansion in Metropolis? What does this have to do with the eucalyptus 30 years ago?
Related?"
"Don't worry, listen to me slowly..."
Alfred's tone returned to his usual unhurried British accent. The listeners were a little anxious, but soon, the content of his words attracted Keira.
"Being a butler in the Wayne family was not my first time coming to Gotham. The first time I came here was about 26 years ago, in the spring of 1962."
"And the reason why I am here is because I have an important mission..."
Keira saw that Alfred's eyes gradually lit up, as if he was proud of the great things he had done when he was recalling his youthful years.
"In March 1962, I received an order from Moscow to find a way to contact Harold King Philby, who was being closely monitored, and bring an important list of all spy information back to Moscow."