After a long time, Michelle moved her face away from her palms, raised her head and looked at Qin Fei, her tone was extremely firm: "I don't plan to report the situation for the time being. I will report the situation after we recover the real hard drive in Johannesburg. Qin
, I can order my subordinates, but for the time being, you are the partner introduced by Ms. M, and I want to hear your opinion."
"My opinion?" Qin Fei was a little stunned.
Do you think a strong-willed female commander like Michelle would actually ask for her opinion?
From here, Qin Fei could see that the MI17 major actually had some hesitation in his heart.
After all, an organization like the Cornerstone Project may be a secret organization underground in a certain USA department, but it exists at least in a semi-official form. Once there is a head-on conflict with them and the situation escalates, I am afraid things will become difficult to handle.
The reason why Michelle decided to do this was actually Qin Fei also knew exactly why.
The simple reason is that Michelle also has a gambler's mentality.
If things get really big, it will actually be of no benefit to Michelle, unless she can successfully obtain the hard drive and make the case.
Once the hard drive is back in your hands, of course it cannot be handed over to the Cornerstone Project Office. In this way, even if the Cornerstone Project is a derivative organization of the Eagle Project, it cannot prevent the contents of the hard drive from being leaked.
Taking a step back, the Cornerstone Project is not a derivative of the Eagle Project. It is just a right-wing secret counter-terrorism department affiliated with a USA intelligence agency or the military. It has nothing to do with the Eagle Organization. It’s just that their methods and practices look similar to those of the Eagle Project.
The Eagle Project is just similar, so even if the Cornerstone Project requires MI17 or itself to share the information on the hard drive, it is up to itself. What to share and what not to be shared is entirely up to MI17 and itself.
In this way, MI17 completely takes the initiative, which is more in line with Michelle's dislike of the usual practices of those USA secret departments.
Thinking of this, Qin Fei certainly had an idea in his mind.
Since Michelle is willing to take the lead and raise the flag, why not give her a push from behind?
It’s not that I’m so cunning, but it’s also very beneficial to me. What if the cornerstone project really has something to do with the Eagle Project? Cooperating with these people? That’s not seeking skin from a tiger. You have to be wary of these bastards at all times.
Shoot yourself in the back?
This is certainly not in your own interests.
"I support your approach! Major!" Qin Fei gave Michelle reassurance, "Don't worry, Mist, Yuri, and I will always support you, but for safety reasons, I suggest that you gather them together as soon as possible.
South Africa’s operational personnel strength, after all, we have no idea how many people came to South Africa for the Cornerstone Project.”
"Don't worry, the people we can gather here in a short period of time include the people in our safe house and two outlying groups, with a total of sixteen people. Plus we have twenty-three people, we should be able to handle it." Michel
Er said: "You take the time to rest, we will return to Johannesburg immediately early in the morning."
After saying that, Michelle stood up and moved her hands and feet, stretching her waist.
"Damn it, I need to have a good sleep too, I've been really exhausted these past few days."
As he spoke, he walked to the equipment room and explained to George, then went up the stairs and returned to his room.
Qin Fei's room is on the first floor, just to the left of the living room. He is not in a hurry to sleep. Too many things happened today, and his nerves are still in an extremely excited state at this time.
So he went to the large refrigerator in the kitchen to find a few cans of drinks, and walked to the equipment room to chat with two technical geniuses responsible for logistics support.
After a busy day, both George and Yuri were already yawning nonstop.
Qin Fei went in with two cans of refreshing energy drinks and shook them at them.
"Do you need this?"
"I need it so much. I just wanted to go to the kitchen to find something to drink." George was not polite at all. He grabbed a can and opened the lid and drank it.
Yuri said thank you and then took the drink.
"Yuri, if you have nothing to do, go and take a rest." Qin Fei said, "And George, you two have been busy all day, so it's time to take a rest."
"I'm fine." George said, "At least I don't have to risk my life."
After taking a sip of cold beer, I saw George holding the energy drink while slowly adjusting the image progress on the computer with his fingers on the touch pad.
Qin Fei couldn't help but ask: "What is this? Surveillance?"
"Yes, it is the surveillance data of all the cameras that can still be turned on in the Hill Robe neighborhood in Johannesburg that we can find, that is, all the videos before and after your shootout in the cafe, including the surveillance data of the nearby pawn shops that Yuri and I can invade.
It has been obtained and is currently being screened.”
"All pawn shops?" Qin Fei felt a little strange.
"Is it weird?" George looked at Qin Fei with a surprised expression.
Qin Fei said: "No, I'm just asking. I'm not good at what you do."
Yuri said from the side: "Actually, it's easy to get. Every pawn shop doesn't have to have anything else, but for security reasons, they will install a monitoring system, and their monitoring systems are usually connected to the Internet, which facilitates remote monitoring by the pawn shop owners, so they have to invade their
The Internet is actually too simple.”
"It makes sense." Qin Fei thought for a moment and found out that he was no match for these two computer technology geniuses when it came to these technical things.
When he got here, Qin Fei also felt a little tired, so he said: "I'm going to have a rest. You guys should go to bed early. Maybe there are still many things to do next."
"etc."
Seeing Qin Fei going out to leave, George suddenly stopped Qin Fei.
"Qin, after you talked with the major just now, did she decide not to report what happened tonight to her superiors?"
After a moment of hesitation, George asked.
Qin Fei nodded: "Yes, the major has indeed decided to do this. Why, do you have any objections to this decision?"
George is a member of the action team. They are members of the intelligence agency, but they are soldiers in status and have military ranks. Generally, if soldiers are dissatisfied with the way their superiors are handled, they will reserve their opinions and even report it beyond the hierarchy.
He turned around and leaned against the door and looked at George.
"Are you going to report to Baron Harvey?"
"No, you are wrong. I will support the major's decision." George grinned: "I just asked out of curiosity. In fact, I also guessed that the major would do this. She has never been a stickler for rules. If this were not the case,
Her military rank is definitely more than just major."
"Listen to what you said, Michelle is a very characterful female commander." Qin Fei also smiled.
George said: "Qin, you have to remember that in the intelligence circle, it is not easy for you to find someone as reliable as the major. I hope you and the major will cooperate sincerely. If you betray us, I think you will run to the ends of the earth and we will
Everyone will hunt you down."
Qin Fei's eyes widened and he couldn't help but said: "MI17 is the same as the people in the Cornerstone Project? You people who are engaged in black operations seem to like to threaten people like this."
"It's not a threat, but you have to understand one thing. Most of the people in our action group were saved by the major, otherwise we wouldn't be where we are today." George said, "So, we are a very united team.
I don’t want to see my superiors punished.”
Qin Fei was stunned for a moment, and then he understood the meaning of George's words.
I was also worried that George would jump over the top and make a snitch. In fact, George was worried about what information he would reveal to Ms. M. This was actually a reminder to himself.
"Yes, you are a very united team. I can see it. Don't worry, I won't report anything to M. This is a deal between us."
Qin Fei pointed at himself and then at George. (To be continued)