Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 219 - 218 Unqualified

Chapter 219: Chapter 218 Unqualified

Xiao Ran walked out, and soon she brought back a middle-aged man.

Unlike Xiao Ran, who sat on the hospital bed swinging her legs, the middle-aged man entered Yang Yi’s ward, nodded at him, then said formally, "Hello, my name is Patrick."

"Hello."

Patrick appeared to be in his fifties, with a stern expression. Holding a folder in his hand, he nodded at Yang Yi again before moving a chair next to Yang Yi’s hospital bed.

Sitting up straight in the chair, Patrick opened the folder in his hand, looked up at Yang Yi, and said in a deep voice, "Let me introduce myself, I’m the head of Cleaners in the Los Angeles area. To show our sincerity, I will explain many highly confidential matters to you."

After finishing his speech, Patrick took out a stack of documents stapled together from the open folder and placed them next to Yang Yi’s hand, saying solemnly, "This is our sincerity. Please look."

Yang Yi picked up the documents with his left hand and only glanced at them before his eyes widened.

There was a black-and-white photo, a picture of Yang Yi’s father.

Yang Yi did not flip through the documents but, surprised, looked towards Patrick.

With an impassive face, Patrick said, "Yes, we have detailed information on your father because he was a collaborator with the Cleaners, a deeply involved collaborator."

"Collaborator?"

"Yes, collaborator. Your father was an intelligence broker. He had plenty of reasons to work with us. At the same time, he was also a collaborator with the Grey-cloaked People. So, in a sense, he was a Double Agent who provided crucial intelligence to the Cleaners."

Yang Yi exhaled and said in a low voice, "A Double Agent... My father was a Double Agent. Then what are you? What are the Cleaners? Do you serve the US government?"

Patrick raised his right hand and stated in a deep voice, "No, we don’t serve any government, nor are we affiliated with any country. We only serve our own clients."

Yang Yi frowned and said, "I don’t understand."

With an expressionless face, Patrick replied, "You don’t need to understand. Your father was a collaborator with the Cleaners, and he was killed by the Grey-cloaked People. That’s all you need to know."

Yang Yi looked at Xiao Ran and then back at Patrick, saying, "I don’t understand. You keep emphasizing the word ’collaborator.’ Does that mean my father wasn’t one of the Cleaners?"

"Yes, he wasn’t one of the Cleaners, just someone who cooperated with the Cleaners. We helped him, and in return, he provided us with what we needed, which of course was information."

Yang Yi immediately said, "So the Cleaners is also an intelligence organization?"

Patrick said in a deep voice, "No, the Cleaners isn’t an intelligence organization. It’s just a company that solves problems for our clients, strictly speaking. We specialize in solving troubles our paying clients can’t handle themselves, mainly cleanup work, hence the name Cleaners. But we also need intelligence."

Yang Yi said quietly, "I don’t understand."

Patrick, still expressionless, replied, "It’s alright not to understand. You don’t need to. As a show of our sincerity, we’ve done many things for you."

Taking another document from the folder and placing it next to Yang Yi’s hand, Patrick said in a low voice, "You’ve killed many people in Los Angeles. We’ve taken care of the trouble for you. You won’t become a wanted fugitive in the United States, nor will anyone know these acts were committed by you. This document is the fabricated criminal profile of the perpetrator, and all you’ve done will be attributed to him. The police have already issued the warrant, and it’s unrelated to you."

Taking another document and placing it next to Yang Yi’s hand, Patrick said solemnly, "This is Hawkeye’s information."

Grabbing another document, Patrick continued, "This is the information of the Mercenary Group you fought against, as well as the assassin’s personal information. Considering they no longer pose a threat to you, their information has been compiled together. Now, if you have any questions, you can ask me."

"How did they find me, how were they able to track me continuously?"

Patrick indifferently said, "It’s quite simple, by watching surveillance videos. Hawkeye is a team responsible for collecting intelligence, rather low-end, but their key member Love can identify anyone by their body characteristics. Once he saw your video, he could pick you out from a crowd."

Yang Yi stared, dumbfounded, and said, "It can be done like that?"

Patrick nodded and replied, "Yes, it can be like that. It’s not too difficult, actually."

Yang Yi took a deep breath and asked, "What did those mercenaries and assassins want?"

"To capture you, to find out where Brian is. They have no other choice but to turn to you."

Yang Yi’s major suspicion had been resolved, and then suddenly, he asked, "Then do you know who directed Hawkeye?"

Patrick smiled and said, "I can’t tell you that."

"You know, but you can’t tell me? Why, is payment required?"

"Yes."

"How much? I’m willing to pay!"

Yang Yi wasn’t about to pass up the chance to effortlessly find out who had set up Brian as the mole.

But Patrick shook his head and said, "I am sorry, but you do not qualify to make a payment,"

Yang Yi let out a sigh and asked in a serious voice, "Then how can I qualify to make a payment?"

"Unfortunately, whether or not you qualify is for us to decide. But with your current identity, status, and the power you possess, you’re not qualified to ask me that question."

No qualifications, still no qualifications, not even the right to inquire how to become a member.

Yang Yi felt a sense of defeat, but he did not dwell further on that topic. After thinking about it and realizing that there wasn’t much left to say about being hunted, he finally posed the most crucial question.

Why ask the key question last? Because Yang Yi feared that if he started with it and the conversation went sour, then he wouldn’t be able to ask anything else.

Pointing at Xiao Ran, Yang Yi asked, "She approached me three years ago. Was that a setup by you? Why did you do that?"

Patrick looked at Xiao Ran, then replied solemnly, "What happened three years ago has the same objective as today. All of this was done just to ask you one thing. That is, what was the cause of your father’s death? What I mean is, what information did he acquire that led to his death?"

Yang Yi opened his mouth to speak, but Patrick quickly said, "Wait, if you’re going to tell me the answer, then you should not speak now because I’m not authorized to know this information. But if you’re going to say you don’t know, then you can speak now."

Yang Yi sighed resignedly and said, "Alright, what I wanted to say is that I don’t know."

Patrick remained expressionless, but he stood up and said in a serious voice, "I regret that. If you say you don’t know, then we’ll just have to find another way to ask you. If you change your mind now and say you know, someone authorized to know the answer will come to see you. Do you still continue to say you don’t know?"