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Chapter 562 - 556, Global Wanted_1

Chapter 562: 556, Global Wanted_1

Mark Pen and his team began chasing the trail of the hotel where the sniper had stayed, but found that not only had the other party erased everything, but they had also left a mysterious encrypted file in the surveillance system.

The encryption method was outdated, but the problem was they didn’t even have a decoder at hand, so they could only rely on their current equipment to slowly decode it, which was estimated to take about two days. Mark Pen decided to continue with the decryption. He could afford to wait these two days; he was very curious about what the other had left in this surveillance system.

However, decrypting the encrypted file was one thing and did not hinder the CIA from continuing their search for the killer of their team member.

In fact, Ren He had been considering whether to play a big game with the CIA openly and aboveboard, or to snipe at this intelligence agency in secret?

There were disadvantages and advantages to both options.

If he chose to fight against them openly, he would be under a lot of pressure when this powerful violent institution began targeting him specifically. By then, there might be more than just Mark Pen’s combat team chasing after him.

But if he didn’t make his presence known outright, he would have to remain incognito when going abroad in the future, since the other party wouldn’t know who exactly was behind it all.

However, as Ren He was weighing the pros and cons, Mark Pen had already started to mobilize all his informants within Europe to search for the traces of those assassins.

This organization that even the EU hadn’t found, the CIA managed to locate their secret base in just two days. Moreover, it was Mark Pen himself leading the team on a covert infiltration, entering and leaving without a scratch, killing all the assassins present at the base and rescuing Allen.

During the interrogation of those assassins, Mark Pen suddenly discovered something very surprising: none of these people knew who the sniper was!

This left his clues abruptly severed. In fact, Mark Pen was very aware that the person he was looking for was that sniper!

Before, Mark Pen had thought about one thing: although these assassins were also not weak, they were not on the same level as that sniper; the difference was very clear.

Now the truth was clear, that sniper was a lone wolf!

But why did the other party want to ambush the CIA? Mark Pen felt that he might eventually find the answer in that encrypted file from the surveillance system.

The decoding progress was already at 90%, just another 4 hours of waiting, and the file would be opened. Mark Pen was very curious about what was inside that file. Why did the other party deliberately leave it behind?

Meanwhile, Ren He had already thought it through. From the perspective of a master of reconnaissance evaluating the entire sequence of events, he suddenly realized he would find it very difficult to remain completely hidden. After all, he was not an anonymous, ungrounded person back in his own country, unlike those professional warriors who had been incognito from the start.

He had decided to enter into conflict with the CIA in the Netherlands partly because the Divine Punishment System had warned him of danger, and partly because Steve had reminded him that the CIA had already begun listing him on the global manhunt. The combination of these factors led him astray, making him believe the CIA was coming specifically for him.

But no matter who they came for, it did not change the fact that he was on the CIA’s global manhunt list, which was a very unpleasant feeling.

In his second life, Ren He always wanted to experience different life paths. What he was experiencing now was both accidental and something he had once longed for; it was hard to say whether it was good or bad.

However, Ren He felt that it was quite boring to always be in hiding, which is why he had Xu Nuo leave that file in the surveillance system. While the file did not reveal his identity, with his mastery in reconnaissance, Ren He was quite clear that his identity might not remain secret for much longer—at most until the conclusion of the drama competition.

With one hour left before the file would be cracked, Mark Pen suddenly received an internal CIA briefing: Global fugitive Ren He had left China a few days ago and had appeared in the Netherlands to participate in the Amsterdam Film Festival’s drama performances. The CIA’s Dutch branch was coordinating a plan with Mark Pen’s combat group to capture him.

This was the reason Steve had warned Ren He. Ren He was now very clear on this. Although it was safe domestically, it did not mean that there were no CIA informants in China.

Although the information was somewhat delayed, who could guarantee to be one hundred percent timely in the field of intelligence work?

When Mark Pen saw this message, he sat silently in the safe house for a long time, his eyes cold.

Attached below the briefing was detailed information about Ren He. Mark Pen didn’t need to look to know what it contained; because he had once been in charge of the case, he was very clear about Ren He’s background.

Now, Mark Pen suddenly understood the identity of that sniper...

A long time ago, when he first saw the information, he had wondered just how skilled this young man was in sniping, to have caused such a stir in downtown New York. At that time, he thought the FBI and the National Security Agency were really incompetent.

In the information about Ren He, it was clear to anyone who saw it that he was not a figure from the Chinese military, nor was he involved with any mysterious organization.

The files could be easily accessed, with his primary, middle, high school, and university enrollment information all verifiable. His entrepreneurial records were also traceable. There were no gaps in his timeline and no forged files. They naturally had professionals who had judged this.

So when had he trained with a sniper rifle?

His actions in the U.S. seemed more like... like an act of bravery!

Ren He’s information in China was added by the CIA afterward. At first, Mark Pen was very interested in this young man but felt he was probably just an ordinary student who had practiced shooting, especially while in China. Once a target entered China or Russia, the plan would generally be automatically frozen; this was an unwritten rule within the CIA.

That’s why he turned his attention to tracking down the hackers who had exposed the Prism program.

But today, when this new capture order reached his hands, Mark Pen realized where the problem lay...

Although Ren He was just an ordinary person, a normal student, and a man with a clean record in China, he was the sniper who had targeted him the night before last; this was something Mark Pen intuitively knew.

The opening drama competition of the Amsterdam Film Festival was tomorrow. His side had already lost four men, but he could wait for the Dutch branch to contact him, and his manpower could be replenished.

In this foreign field of the Netherlands for both parties, Mark Pen suddenly felt a familiar sensation from his time in the Middle East—the sound of gunfire and blood spurting.

And the opponent he was facing, was a drama actor, a billionaire, and also a master sniper at the age of 17.