Owen took Nicky up a few flights of stairs and then took the elevator down to the lobby on the first floor.
Everything seemed normal in the lobby. They came out of the elevator without attracting anyone's attention. It seemed that no one knew that a murder had just occurred upstairs.
Owen pretended to be nonchalant and put his arms around Nicky's waist, whispering in his ear: "Don't panic, just pretend nothing happened..."
Nikki didn't speak, but swallowed nervously. She had always done intelligence and support work. Although she had also gone on missions, this was the first time she had experienced face-to-face fighting of this level.
Feeling that Nicky's body was shaking a little, Owen hugged her, and the two walked out of the door like a couple. After walking along the street outside for a while, Owen confirmed that he was not being followed, and turned around and turned into an alley.
A few minutes later, Owen and Nicky appeared on another road again, and then turned into a market again. There were many people in the market, including many foreign faces, and it was noisy and busy.
The two blended into the crowd and quickly disappeared. A few minutes later, they reappeared two intersections away. Irving hailed a taxi and the two went straight to a nearby tourist attraction.
The Philippines has been a Spanish colony for centuries, and most of the attractions here are full of Spanish style. Owen and the others went to Rizal Park, which is a free park with many exquisite theme parks worth visiting near the entrance.
After getting off the car, the two of them went straight to a park with the most people. The name at the door stated that this place was called the Orchid Pavilion.
Owen was observing carefully along the way and could confirm that no one was following them. They should be safe for the time being, unless the other party used technical means.
At this time, Owen's phone rang. Looking for a place with few people, Owen took out the phone. The call was from Jack. Owen answered the call and listened to Jack on the other end.
"Owen, their identity has been found out. The person who wants to kill you is named Cheby Dan. He is not the CIA, but a member of the core group. The deceased has been confirmed to be the CIA's liaison officer in Manila. It seems that he was
The people in the core group have been silenced. I just confirmed with the CIA that none of their agents in Manila can be contacted."
"You mean, the CIA branch in Manila was eradicated by the core group?"
Owen was a little unbelievable. If the core group could find an office of CIA so easily and kill them all, then this core group would be very powerful.
"I'm afraid so."
Seemingly guessing Owen's question, Jack continued to explain.
"Director Martin of the CIA said that they had a list of latent agents leaked. This incident in Manila and the exposure of the female agent caught by Mikhail last time should all be related to this list. But this
It has nothing to do with us, they have a dedicated team of people following up on this..."
"Then why did they ambush us?"
Irving has never understood this. To be precise, he has no contact with the core group at all.
"I'm afraid it has something to do with the fact that we intercepted the video. I suspect that Chebi Dan who killed you is also Makarov's man. They wanted the video to be exposed, but the video was intercepted by CIA, so they approached CIA.
Then you showed up, and they thought it was normal to kill them easily..."
Irving thinks this explanation is very reasonable. CTU does not have a branch in Manila, so the person who took the video must be CIA. The reason why Makarov does not hide his appearance is simply to let the Philippine government disclose his incident. Obviously, the government
What he says publicly is much more convincing than what he says publicly, and then the moderates won’t be able to catch anything.
Owen imagined a picture in his mind: Chebi did not get the information he wanted when he killed the CIA liaison officer. Then the liaison officer's cell phone rang, and the headquarters sent a message asking him to pick up the person at the airport and explain the matter.
ctu is in charge.
Then someone came to pick me up at the airport pretending to be a CIA, and then there were all sorts of other things.
"Owen, please be careful in the next few days..."
Jack Bauer said this and hung up the phone. Owen knew what he meant.
If this situation were normal, as long as you notify the CIA, they will send someone to deal with the corpses. When they return to the hotel half an hour later, everything will return to the past, and even you will doubt whether everything just happened is true.
But now that the CIA stronghold in Manila has been wiped out by the group, the corpses can only be left there, and the cleaning staff may find them when they clean the room.
However, Owen and Nicky did not deliberately avoid surveillance before. Their faces will definitely be found by the police, and they may even become wanted criminals in the Philippines, and their actions will not be recognized by the U.S. government. In other words,
Once they are arrested in the Philippines or other accidents occur, the U.S. government refuses to take action.
Putting down the phone, Owen pulled Sha Baitian into a corner and asked, "Delete all the images of us and that person just now, can you do it?"
Nicky looked up at Owen, thought about it for a moment, and then nodded affirmatively. In the end, he actually found a bench nearby, turned on his computer, and started working.
Owen saw Nicky's fingers beating rapidly on the keyboard, and then images of various angles of waiting at the airport appeared on the screen. Owen was dazzled by Nicky's operation.
Then the image began to change, from the initial airport to the road, and then the hotel. As long as they appeared in the video along the way, they were all gone.
"nailed it!"
Owen and Nicky celebrated with a high-five. If it weren't for Silly Baitian, they would have been wanted criminals this time. But now, even if the police later used technical means to identify the truth of the matter, they would have left the Philippines long ago.
All members of the CIA branch in Manila were killed, but the local safe house of the CIA still exists.
Owen followed the address Jack had given him before and quickly arrived at the safe house. According to the plan, he was supposed to get supplies here and conduct the first exchange of information, but now that the CIA was gone, they had to rely on themselves.
Looking at the building in front of him, Owen felt that this should be what a safe house should look like, calm, low-key, with clear responsibilities. The safe house had everything from a firearms room, an intelligence room, and a pharmaceutical department. Owen finally found a weapon, and he still chose one for himself.
Sig Sauer P226, he is used to using this gun. Unless there are special circumstances, he will generally not suffer from it.
CIA obviously has more than one safe house here. Owen chose a relatively remote one. It can be seen that everyone has been to these safe houses. It seems that the person was exposed and the address was not.