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Chapter 502 - 496, No Such Person (First Update)_1

Chapter 502: 496, No Such Person (First Update)_1

Does the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA have agents or informants in China? Without a doubt, they certainly exist.

In a past life, two members of an operation team, John and Richard, were captured during an operation in China and imprisoned for up to 20 years. Afterward, the United States awarded them with the Intelligence Cross for exceptional intelligence work, simply because during their captivity and interrogation, they didn’t disclose any information regarding informants or team members related to China...

The mental resilience of these two men is admirable; however, such conduct by the U.S. government must be despised.

The Central Intelligence Agency formed an action team for the Prism program leak, with a person named Mark Pen serving as the action commander.

Yet when he began handling this task, he discovered that the adversary’s clues were untraceable.

Indeed, within a week of the leak, the National Security Agency had already found the reason for the leak.

First, the source of the leak could basically be identified as security consultants; otherwise, there wouldn’t have been so many detailed images.

So they systematically checked each security consultant and finally found one consultant whose emotions were somewhat unstable during interrogation.

In the end, it was confirmed that the leak occurred because the security consultant took away information privately, stored it in his car and garage, and it got stolen.

The cause of the leak turned out to be so simple! So foolish!

The director of the National Security Agency had already resigned, taking the blame, and his career had likely come to a halt. A new director would take over.

But finding these clues seemed to be of little use; precisely because the cause was too simple, there were no leads to pursue.

The night his house was burglarized, even the nearby surveillance didn’t spot any suspicious individuals — the perpetrator easily took the intelligence.

Moreover, it was clear that the thief came with a very direct purpose, aimed solely at the materials, without touching anything else.

At this moment, Steve felt very fortunate for his prudence back then...

Mark Pen was flipping through all the materials and leads; he wondered, who had stolen the data? Or perhaps, was it a self-staged act by the security consultant, with the intelligence being leaked by him in the first place?

The key issue was that there was no motive!

The National Security Agency preliminarily judged that the suspect came from abroad because the network trails they could trace only proved the attack originated overseas, and that’s when the CIA took over dealing with this matter.

No matter is too small for the CIA; they hadn’t received such a provocation in a long time. Meanwhile, a case had been transferred to them from the FBI, the very case that involved a person in New York City becoming an enemy of the entire city.

At that time, the CIA internally mocked that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation could tolerate such an incident; had the CIA been on the scene at the time, they could have killed the perpetrator immediately. A sniper, after all, was not much; the CIA had plenty of elite snipers.

Lately, they hadn’t heard any more about the incident; they thought the other party had been killed, but now they found out the perpetrator had actually escaped!

This was a disgrace to the U.S. intelligence agencies!

Mark Pen looked at the sniper’s profile — a 17-year-old teenager who owned a business empire and was himself a sniper, emerging unscathed from combat.

In fact, Mark Pen felt his interest in this youngster was far greater than in the hacker.

However, that person was off-limits. At most, they would need to be cautious if they encountered him during international missions because the initial incident started with some injustice on their part, so transferring the file to the CIA only served as a record, letting them know of this individual’s existence.

The CIA had already sprung into action, starting to investigate all countries that could possibly manipulate this event, mobilizing their informants and the officials they had turned to investigate who was behind it, and then all the CIA needed to do was deliver a precise strike.

Usually, those who use hacking means and preemptively stir up anti-authoritarian sentiment to expose the Prism program are either an unfriendly country, a terrorist organization, or a powerful individual.

Such acts are done for a purpose; where there is benefit, there are clues.

The world is big, yet so small, and the CIA was confident in their ability to find this organization.

However, a week passed, and the other party seemed to have vanished from this world, leaving no trace to follow...

No one could have imagined that Ren He was just an ordinary person; with Xu Nuo, a top-tier hacker at his side, the two of them carried out the act, driven merely by revenge, without any political gains.

They never told anyone other than Yang Xi, and refused to have any dealings with government departments. Even the hard drive was delivered into the Chinese embassy using a drone.

As a result, nobody in the world knew who was behind the incident...

This caused the Central Intelligence Agency to lose face; they even dispatched a combat team to breach a suspected major terrorist group’s base abducting one of their leaders, to interrogate about the incident.

Yet they still came up empty-handed.

The opponent managed to undermine much of the U.S. government’s credibility in just one night while they couldn’t find the faintest trace of them... this was seriously fucked up!

Mark Pen remained calm; as long as the matter was in his hands, the truth would come out eventually.

Because the missions in his hands had never failed, not even when he led the team into Iran for negotiations.

...

These days, Xu Nuo had been relishing the turn of events following the exposure of the Prism program, and every time he saw someone praise the hacker, a great sense of satisfaction swelled in his heart because he was that hacker.

During this time, everyone had overlooked the violent means of the hacker, focusing instead on the hacker’s boldness in revealing such dark secrets.

In an instant, the hacker became a champion of democracy in people’s eyes.

Becoming a champion of democracy? Xu Nuo thought smugly to himself, the term had a certain cachet...

Ren He was returning to the Capital, having achieved his goal. The feeling of having avenged a great wrong left him with pleasant contentment, finally free of burdens.

Upon leaving, Ren He specifically reminded Xu Nuo to be extremely careful not to expose his identity for a bit of vanity, all the more to avoid making a name for himself in the hacking world. Ren He felt that only a fool would do such a thing.

To seek a worthless reputation at the risk of creating many security hazards for oneself was unnecessary.

Yet Ren He also wondered, having been renowned as Knight, maybe he no longer cared about fame.

But Xu Nuo had not yet experienced the feeling of being lauded by countless people; perhaps he really might do something foolish.

This is like wealthy people considering money as mere numbers, whereas the poor see it as their lifeline. With different levels, the perspectives vary.

He’d have to keep reminding him when he had the chance!