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Chapter 446 - 440, Staying Out Of It (First Update)_1

Chapter 446: 440, Staying Out Of It (First Update)_1

Yang En and Skydrive both knew that Ren He was no ordinary person, but Yang En and his team were unclear about Ren He’s situation, or rather, about the current situation. Skydrive, including Yang En, was well aware that Ren He was Knight. After all, when Lin Hao had investigated the people around Yang En, he knew that the person closest to Yang Xi was none other than Ren He.

Even if Yang En didn’t say it, Skydrive should also understand the fact that Ren He was Knight.

However, whether as Knight or in Ren He’s past experiences, there was little association with firearms. In the country, it might be alright, but at times of true crisis, having a gun and not having one were completely different concepts. It wasn’t like in the movies where the hero, alone and armed with only a knife, could cut through the villains.

That was completely impossible.

With Ren He maintaining vigilance, it was very likely he wouldn’t comply with arrangements. Since it couldn’t be discussed over the phone, there was nothing more persuasive than his own appearance.

Of course, Yang En also felt that the situation hadn’t escalated to a critical point, or else they wouldn’t have allowed Yang Xi and the others to return to the United States. After all, it had been just a month earlier when the situation was more elusive, and they had received an anonymous call offering to exchange the contents of a plan just passed by the American National Security Agency in return for political asylum in China.

Until now, Yang En and his team still didn’t know the specifics of the plan, only that it involved information security for countries around the globe, including America.

The reason Yang En felt the current situation was relatively stable was that the contact between the two sides hadn’t yet reached a critical step.

In addition, Yang En’s secret departure was precisely because the other party refused to meet at the Chinese embassy and expose their movements, agreeing only to meet with the ambassador alone. After meeting with Yang Xi and Ren He, Yang En would immediately head to the suburbs of New York to meet this informant.

Ren He sat quietly across from Yang En, having lived through an era of an information explosion. Between 2010 and 2017 in his former life, so many secrets had been exposed, making him profoundly aware that the seemingly calm world was actually hiding turbulent undercurrents.

During those years in America, China, and Russia, a large number of espionage agents mysteriously disappeared within the opponent’s country. They didn’t face trial, nor were they convicted, they simply vanished without a trace.

It’s obvious to think about it—they must have been captured.

On July 8, 2010, Russia released four American operatives and their families in exchange for ten Russian spy suspects held by the United States, an incident that had long been exposed.

This was what Ren He, an ordinary person, could know. So what about the things he didn’t know? What happened to the many inexplicably missing spies? Where did they go?

Ren He even deeply understood the enormous risk Yang En took coming from Washington to New York for the safety of Yang Xi and himself, which was utterly heroic.

As long as the other party stayed inside the embassy, they retained their ambassadorial status. But once they left in secret, their identity was just an ordinary Chinese person, and on top of that, engaged in espionage. If anything went wrong, their disappearance from the face of the Earth or an exchange back to their home country years later would be quite normal.

What situation could make Yang En so concerned and anxious? Yang En’s expression was one of a smile, yet the content of his words completely unrelated to his demeanor. Ren He saw in his eyes a sense of disconnection, as if experiencing a dream.

Yang En didn’t give any information, simply telling them that if the situation went south, they were to arrange an evacuation. In history, numerous espionage agents’ family members were held captive. Real warfare had no room for sentimentality; humanitarianism was merely a veil of decency.

But Yang En didn’t say it, so Ren He had to think for himself. The current historical direction was actually consistent, so what happened in America in 2007?

Multiple school shootings? No.

The subprime mortgage crisis? No.

In his former life, there was a famous terrorist attack in 2007, but it wouldn’t cause Yang En this much worry.

With his extraordinary memory, Ren He searched through his mind for all the significant events in America, then suddenly froze. There was indeed a big event in 2007—the start of the Prism Project!

In his former life, Snowden, no matter what his motives, claimed that his conscience compelled him to expose America’s Prism Project, which included the surveillance of German Chancellor Merkel, the Mexican president, and even former presidents’ phone calls, among other things.

Snowden himself declared that he came forward because, within this system, even security personnel under military contractors could easily access nearly every American’s phone records, emails, and so on.

The incident involved the National Security Agency cooperating with nine major internet companies to create the Prism Project, which allowed intelligence agencies to freely access any content on servers.

But in his former life, Snowden didn’t expose this until much later. If Yang En’s team was receiving this news now, it wouldn’t quite fit.

Forget it, it was useless to think too much. Ren He felt these matters weren’t significantly related to him. He even wanted to take Yang Xi back to China right now, why wait until the situation actually reached that point?

Taking advantage of the music, Ren He also expressed his thoughts, "I think we should just leave now, shouldn’t we?"

To him, Ren He fully supported what Yang En and team were doing. After all, it was because of such individuals bearing the burden for the country that they could enjoy a comfortable life.

His duty was simply to ensure that all of Qinghe Faction’s industries paid their taxes in full, contributing to the country’s economic prosperity, and the support of Qinghe Fund towards educational endeavors.

That was what he, as an ordinary citizen, should do. Perhaps it was self-serving, but he always believed that, at least, he was doing much better than those keyboard warriors in his previous life who shouted patriotism without action.

What else could he do? Assist Yang En and team in completing their mission with his own marksmanship and physical abilities? He must be dreaming! Individual force was always trivial compared to state machinery!

Ren He was very clear-headed and didn’t let the superhuman combat ability bestowed by the Divine Punishment System cloud his judgment. What he needed to do was to stay out of it and get back to his country before getting embroiled as family members in something about to unfold—that was indeed the sensible thing to do.

Professional matters should be left to professional operatives, and Yang En never intended to involve him in any of it, otherwise, he wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble to warn them to leave.

Ren He couldn’t imagine what it would be like for Yang Xi to end up in a secret prison. He couldn’t let that happen.

So he must take Yang Xi back to China now.