Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 830 - 835: It’s Love, Not Fear

Chapter 830: Chapter 835: It’s Love, Not Fear

"What have you settled?"

Yang Yi was a bit curious because he didn’t understand why Schultz insisted on coming along and why he insisted on using a physical connection to hack into a computer.

Schultz urgently said, "We can go now, I’ll explain later."

Several people exited the house one by one, careful not to leave any traces, especially Hank, who checked several times to confirm there were no visible footprints left before he was the last one out of the door.

Carefully closing the door, Hank let out a sigh of relief and said with satisfaction, "Everything went smoothly, let’s pull out."

There was plenty of time, and everything could be done very meticulously and perfectly, but all in all, they only had four minutes.

Yang Yi picked up his phone and whispered, "Objective completed, restore power."

Paul let out a sigh of relief, then he said solemnly, "Received."

Paul hung up the phone and then walked into the control room and gave Brian a thumbs-up.

Brian smiled, then he said to Michel, who was intently watching the data monitoring screen, "Alright, you can restore the power now."

Michel was startled, then he said in surprise, "Now?"

"Yes, right now."

"I need to remind you, if we restore power now, it’ll be much more difficult to cut it again later."

"It’s fine, restore the power, we’ve already gotten what we came for."

Though his face was full of astonishment, Michel pressed a few buttons, and as the circuit breaker automatically closed, the power was quickly restored.

Michel took a look and then cautiously said, "The power outage lasted less than five minutes, although it is already considered a power failure, the duration was so short that it shouldn’t have any impact."

Brian pointed to the fixed telephone beside them and smiled, "Now, you can answer the phone, put it on speaker."

The phone had already rung once, it was just that Michel hadn’t answered, but with Brian’s permission, Michel pondered for a moment and as soon as the phone rang again he immediately answered it.

"Michel! Why did you just answer the phone, what’s going on over there!"

"Sorry my friend, there were some minor issues with the control system here, but the fault has been cleared now, it was a little problem with the computer system, sorry for the trouble on your side, is everything okay over there now?"

After answering the call, Michel’s tone was calm but slightly apologetic, and then to the person who had phoned he said, "Nothing major, it’s back to normal now, what’s up with you, are you not feeling well?"

Michel sighed and then he said with slight annoyance, "I dozed off for a moment, I’m a bit groggy, it seems I’ll have to write a written report for tomorrow."

"Forget about it, buddy, just come up with any excuse, we’ll figure out how to write it, it’s not a problem if it wasn’t for long, as long as there are no repairs to make, they won’t care that much."

"Thanks, I owe you one, I have to take another call, have to hang up."

Michel ended the call, then he took a long breath and said to Brian, "My colleague, someone from another substation, I know him, everything is fine and there won’t be any trouble."

Brian stood up, casually placed Michel’s wallet back on the table, then he holstered his gun and said indifferently, "Here’s your wallet back, don’t worry, I’ve memorized your bank account number, you’ll receive ten thousand Euros tomorrow."

Michel looked somewhat distressed, then after hesitating for a moment, he finally mustered up the courage and said with a face like he was about to cry, "Can I just not take it? Right now, I’ve just made a small mistake at work, nobody should investigate it, even if they investigate, I won’t have a problem, so I really don’t need to report you, but if my account suddenly gets a sum of money, although the possibility of being caught is low, if ever it is discovered..."

Anton frowned, "You don’t want it?"

Michel was almost crying as he spread his hands and said, "I just want this to go away quickly, rest assured, I won’t tell anyone, not even my wife and kids, definitely not! But if my wife finds out I suddenly got some extra money, that would be... trouble, no, for me that would be a real disaster."

Brian suddenly smiled and softly said, "So you’re saying you have a very dominant wife, huh?"

Michel smiled awkwardly and said, "I just love her too much."

"So you tolerate your wife... well, how should I put it, sometimes being rather excessive in her remarks and attitude towards you?"

"Occasionally excessive? Uh, as long as she’s happy, that’s alright by me."

Brian suddenly burst into laughter, then he nodded and said, "Considering how much you value your family, I believe you won’t report us, because that would mean someone would come back to kill your whole family, so let’s fulfill your request then."

Michel couldn’t get the money, but he seemed relieved instead, continuously saying, "Thank you, thank you so much! I’m so grateful, thank you."

Brian gave a shrug to Paul and said, "Then let’s go."

Paul gave Michel a meaningful look, not hiding the murderous intent in his eyes, but then Brian gestured with his hand and said, "Michel is sensible, let’s go, don’t harm him."

Once they were out of the substation, Paul quietly said, "Boss, this isn’t like you."

Brian sighed and said, "If Michel had wanted the money, I would have killed him without hesitation, but you saw that Michel didn’t want the money, indicating he’s thinking about how to resolve this issue smoothly, my judgment is he won’t report us to the police, don’t worry."

Paul sighed quietly and said, "You’ve changed from before, the old you would have definitely killed him."

Brian laughed, "Are you eager to kill him?"

"Not anymore, I guess not."

"Well then, that’s good, we’ve completed the task very smoothly, and there won’t be any repercussions, isn’t that good, why must we kill?"

Paul didn’t speak, he pulled open the car door, but after getting in he didn’t immediately start driving, instead, after being spaced out for a while, he suddenly said, "Boss, you’re different from before."

"You’ve already said that."

"I mean, you’ve changed completely after reuniting with Annastasia."

"Have I?"

"Yes, your decision not to kill Michel came after he said... he’s very afraid of his wife."

"It’s love!"

"Actually, it’s fear."

Brian looked at Paul very seriously and said, "I said it’s love, not fear, would I fear Anna? That’s a joke!"

"I wasn’t talking about you, it’s about Michel."

Brian pursed his lips and sheepishly said, "Oh."

Paul started the car, and after being silent for a good while, he suddenly said, "Because you love her, you fear her, so love is fear."