Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 501 - 489: To grasp with both hands

Chapter 501: Chapter 489: To grasp with both hands

Yang Yi was extending his goodwill, but whether the janitor had accepted his goodwill remained unknown, as Terry, although sitting opposite Yang Yi, certainly did not have the authority to make any decisions on behalf of the janitor.

Terry opened a tablet computer, after swiping a few times on a satellite map, he said in a grave voice, "The Grey-cloaked People’s airport for receiving the gold is near a military airfield outside Krakow, then a military transport plane took off, with an unknown destination, and two other cars left the airport."

Yang Yi kept quiet, as Terry was relaying information obtained by the janitor, and now was not the time to interrupt.

"Both cars were seen in the city of Kielce, then one car drove toward Warsaw and the other headed in the direction of Lodz."

After a moment of silence, Terry said quietly, "It now seems that neither car had the gold."

"How can you be sure the other car doesn’t have the gold?"

"It’s an empty car."

"Then how did you track the two cars?"

"By utilizing the road monitoring system, without contact, nor close observation, but it is certain to distinguish whether the vehicle is carrying something heavy."

Yang Yi pointed to the satellite map, then shook his head and said, "From the city of Kielce all the way to Warsaw, the car never went out of sight?"

Terry shook his head and replied, "No, it was only after entering Warsaw that we started tracking it again; before that, we could only search through the monitoring system."

"Which means, the car could potentially have stopped mid-route to unload the gold or may have directly gone to Warsaw; also, although there were heavy items on the car, it wasn’t gold, this could have been switched out mid-route, or it might have been to divert someone’s attention."

Terry had already said the gold was in Italy, yet Yang Yi was still willing to go through the janitor’s information gathering method from the beginning, so he could be more certain in his mind.

"Yes, it may have been to attract attention," Terry agreed.

After contemplating for a moment, Yang Yi asked, "Tell me about the transport plane that took off."

Terry returned the satellite map to the location of the airport and said gravely, "Simultaneously with when the two trucks drove away, a transport plane also flew off."

"What kind of transport plane?"

"An An-26."

Yang Yi immediately said, "An An-26? If I remember correctly, the An-26’s maximum payload is just over five tons, right? And the gold weighs 33 tons."

Terry let out a sigh and replied softly, "Yes, which is why we initially thought it was impossible for that transport plane to carry the gold away, unless there were more than six An-26s to transport 33 tons of gold."

Yang Yi waved his hand and asked, "So why do you now believe the gold is in Rome?"

Terry spoke softly, "A lot of time has passed, and by the time we began to search for the routes of the planes and trucks, many details could no longer be accurately known, but we do know that the An-26 eventually landed at Warsaw airport, and after landing at Warsaw airport, it waited a long time. That Lloyd you mentioned boarded a Boeing 747 cargo plane that had been waiting at Warsaw airport, and an hour after the cargo plane took off, that truck convoy entered the city of Warsaw."

Yang Yi took a deep breath and said, "Transport like ants moving house, using two trucks as bait, and then transporting the gold directly to the airport, indeed you have been distracted by a decoy."

Terry said gravely, "It’s not necessarily a decoy. We only began to search for the gold’s transportation route after the fact. It’s more likely that we found that train only after the gold had been sent away."

So it wasn’t a trap but rather delayed information that caused the operation to fail. This explained the weak and uncoordinated force Trident encountered at the warehouse; those people near the warehouse, along with two armored vehicles inside, had actually finished their escort mission before going to the warehouse. One wrong move led to a series of mistakes.

Yang Yi smiled and said, "Okay, continue about the plane."

"The plane landed in Rome."

"And then what?"

"Then they unloaded a shipment, not large in volume but very heavy. We have received concrete information from the ground crew at Rome airport, unfortunately, this information was obtained after your operation failed."

Terry also seemed somewhat regretful because if they had received this information earlier, the Warsaw operation would have been entirely unnecessary.

The failure in Warsaw wasn’t serious, what was feared the most was that they had alerted the Grey-cloaked People who were now prepared, and this had become a reality rather than a possibility.

Yang Yi also let out a regretful sigh and said, "What happened after it reached Rome?"

Terry said seriously, "After arriving in Rome, we lost track of that batch of gold."

Yang Yi looked at Terry in surprise and asked, "What you just told me was that the gold made it to Rome, so if it disappeared in Rome, does that mean it stayed in Rome? What kind of joke is this? Can we use that sort of information?"

Terry pressed his lips together, then exhaled and said, "This was originally our biggest secret, but now, I can tell you, in Rome, there’s a base of the Grey-cloaked People, a piece of intelligence we’ve attained after many years of effort."

Yang Yi nodded and asked, "Assuming that’s the case, where is it?"

Terry swiped on the satellite map a few times and then placed his finger on a point.

Yang Yi looked and then his eyes widened, "The Rome Bank?"

Terry shook his head and answered, "If the gold has already been placed into an underground vault of some bank, then we need not think about getting it out anymore. This is a branch of the Rome Bank, but the gold is not inside there; it’s here, in an auto repair shop."

The satellite map showed a bank and not far from the bank, there was an auto repair shop.

"There is a bank, an auto repair shop, a nightclub, and a glassware store. We believe these four locations are directly controlled by the Grey-cloaked People."

"Are you certain?"

"Certain. The Grey-cloaked People’s reach is quite extensive; there always needs to be a base to facilitate actions. If the gold has reached Rome, the most likely place is inside the auto repair shop, where it’s easy to melt down the gold."

Yang Yi hesitated before asking, "Is this intelligence... reliable?"

Terry smiled and extended his left hand, "This is our current understanding and the reasonable deductions made based on this understanding. To confirm this intelligence, we need a professional spy to figure out whether the gold is really inside. And Organization of Water is a Spy Organization, isn’t it?"

"Uh, yes..."

Terry extended his right hand and continued, "We need a team with strong combat capabilities to snatch the gold out. So, Trident is a Mercenary Group, right?"

Yang Yi raised his hand and said, "Enough, you don’t have to say anymore, I got it. You’re telling me the whole matter is now in our hands, right?"