Chapter 249 - The Special Present
Inside a conference room in a secret location, three n and one woman all with stern expressions sat around the round table. The monitor flashing a confidential doc.u.nt, supposed to be limited to the eyes of those who are only granted access to classified information.
However, though, the military does give sanctions in special cases.
"We ran the blood in our database and found a match." Xiu Min pressed a button and a classified profile flashed on the monitor.
"The blood matched with Sgt. Fang, who died by suicide in his family ho in Chicago seven years ago. A man was sent to confirm the factors surrounding his death, which concluded with no foul play. Died by slashing his own wrist and was found dead by a relative the day after."
Multiple pictures of the cri scene were displayed on the monitor yet the people in the room didn’t even flinch from the gory sight in front of them.
"Well, it looks like the man you sent needed more practice." Lu Chen said offhandedly.
"How we train our n is in the least of your responsibility, Mr.Lu." A man in military uniform, with five-star rank, coldly retorted to his word.
"If it weren’t for Lt. General Yu’s endors.e.m.e.nt, you wouldn’t be allowed to even breathe in this place." His tone laced with threat as he looked at the man, who is supposed to be their natural enemy, sitting just across from him.
Lieutenant General Yu Shi Huang rely glanced at the exchange of the two n and kept her eyes in front.
On the other hand, Xiu Min kept his expression blank but he was already scolding his brother-in-law in his mind. Provoking the highest person in the army, was he asking for a beating?
It would be chaos if the Military General and the Leader of the Underground City clashed. It would be bloodshed, and their family will surely get caught in the crossfire.
He sighed and continued their findings on the rose and letter dyed with blood that Lu Chen had sent over to them.
Lu Chen initially didn’t plan on turning those items over to the military, but since they didn’t find a match with anyone when they tested the blood, they had to conclude the possibility that one, this person’s data isn’t on any database which technically ans that their non-existent or second, that the blood match belongs to classified and restricted information which could only be accessed by authorized individuals.
Hacking the governnt’s database, specifically the military’s, may sound amusing but Lu Chen wasn’t the least interested in provoking the military’s anger especially now that he is now indirectly connected with the military as Xiu i’s husband.
Lu Chen only decided to send over those two items after getting inford about the findings related to Albert Chen.
Yesterday.
"I can’t believe that he was bold enough to plant a device in the pot of the cactus." Xiu i was bewildered after finding a chip installed in the clay plot. Lu Chen’s subordinate has confird that it wasn’t just a listening device but was also able to bypass the cybersecurity of various devices but with a limited number.
God knows how much company data was stolen by Albert Chen until today.
"We need soone to sweep the whole building who received one from him. I rembered he had a box full of these kinds of plants so it’s probably not limited to the Marketing Departnt," said Xiu i.
So three of his subordinates disguised as a cleaner and used an excuse to take away all the succulents within the building.
"To think that a gift like this could be dangero—" She was stunned instantly in her words as a familiar sentence flashed in her mind.
P.S. I wonder how my special present is doing as well? I would not entirely consider it as a present, but since you willingly received it so that makes it a special present then.
A present?
Her eyes darted back to the plant on her hand.
"Oh, Ms.Xiu! Hello."
"Oh my, do you not rember ? I introduced myself to the party last week."
"Really?! Wow, that’s great. I thought Ms.Xiu already forgot about ."
"Ms.Xiu, here."
"A small gift from . Actually, I’m planning to give these plants to my other co-workers as a gift."
"You just have to water that once a day and keep it sowhere with sunlight then it’s going to be fine."
A special present that she willingly received...
Willingly...?
Could it be..?!
Xiu i stared incredulously at the plant in her hand.
Was it possible? That Albert Chen and the man who kept sending her those parcels... could they be the sa person?!
Or maybe it was just a coincidence or the sender was bluffing to her that she received so special present just to confuse them?
Xiu i was instantly thrown in confusion. She originally didn’t think that the sender of the letter and Albert Chen could be the sa people, after all, there was nothing to connect it to him and they haven’t found anything on the man yet except that his movents are clean without any crumbs left to trace at all.
But... was it really possible?
She was worried that she might be having this train of thoughts just because there were too many complicated things happening right now. So after carefully contemplating it for a little longer, she decided to share her thoughts with her husband.
Lu Chen could understand her suspicions at the mont, but since they couldn’t find anything on the letter nor on the previous things that the sender sent, instead of trying to connect the sender to Albert, then they will connect Albert to the sender instead.
How?
By noting the most notable souvenir that the sender always ntions on his presents. That is the blood from his first kill.
If they’re trying to connect it with Albert Chen’s, then they have to find who was his first kill.
In this line of work, Lu Chen was sowhat similar to Albert’s. Both of them grew and trained to have blood in their hands, except that Lu Chen’s objective was to keep the ssy powers in the underground city under control while Albert was most probably for revenge.
For Lu Chen, the blood of the first kill doesn’t necessarily an literally the person whom they killed for the first ti. It is definitely a mory that he would never forget, but first kills are usually the least important or in other terms, sothing like a practice ga.
What Lu Chen considers his first kill would be the first subject he had to kill as his first assignnt after he finished his training which already involved getting used to the bloodshed. He was the heir to one of the big organizations underground, but because of his rampant killing to the point that he was starting to involve civilians in his killing spree, Lu Chen had been ordered by his master to remove him completely.
It was a necessary kill to establish his role as the successor of the leading underground organization, so for him, that person was what he considers his first kill. Who ca after wasn’t as morable as this one in his opinion.
So following this line of thought, Lu Chen had to consider Albert’s motives. Rembering how he tried to erase his past, then it must an that it was a piece of s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e information that Albert wanted to hide from everyone.
Sotis, it could be the sa reason why he chose to follow this bloody path.
Albert’s motive.... Was he doing this as revenge for the death of his family?
And knowing that it was done by the military, then could it be that his first kill was...?
A killing for the first step in his revenge. What if this blood belongs to a person in the military? Sothing personal, maybe directly involved in that incident?
Maybe that’s also the reason why they couldn’t find any match on the blood? Because most of the information on the mbers of the military is protected heavily by the governnt.
This reasoning was sohow a bit far-fetched since they’re trying to connect Albert to the sender, but there’s still room for the possibility that it was possible. That the sender’s first kill was a soldier.
And today, Lu Chen calmly stared at the cri scene on the monitor.
The sender’s first kill was indeed a soldier. And the sender was Albert Chen.
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