Heading to Langley

Of course, such trust was built upon numerous past operations, accumulated from the victories Zhou Yi had brought to Chris.

If an ordinary agent under his command suddenly went to Chris, saying they wanted to infiltrate CIA headquarters to steal a list of agents and asked Chris to cooperate, do you think Chris would just kick him out?

Just kicking him out would be light; perhaps the next day, he'd be fired for being the first to step in with his left foot!

If you want sufficient trust and support, you can have it, but you first need to demonstrate enough ability and qualifications, and Zhou Yi possessed both.

"Since that's the case, then it's basically settled," Zhou Yi mused. "The rest is up to Ethan."

"If all goes smoothly, with this ten million counted as experience points, I can activate the next world again. When I return later, I can jump directly to those major event timelines and rake in a huge amount of experience points..." (The background for these movie events is arranged in chronological order according to their release dates.)

Although returning to other worlds requires consuming experience points, for example, if Zhou Yi wanted to return to the Fast & Furious world now, it would cost ten experience points, there were corresponding benefits—

That is, the ability to select known time nodes and jump directly.

Zhou Yi had tried to confirm this. These known time nodes were actually the release dates of the movies in his previous life when he transmigrated. For instance, Zhou Yi could choose to transmigrate to any time node between Fast & Furious 6 and Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw!

If Zhou Yi were in the Fast & Furious world itself, he couldn't operate like this. But now, if he were in the spy thriller world and returned to the Fast & Furious world from it, he could save his time this way, directly joining the plot and obtaining a massive amount of experience points!

In other words, this was like having multiple games with many time nodes. If Zhou Yi were only in one game, he could only progress slowly as time passed.

But if he went from one game to another, he could directly slot into a time node of his choice and participate in those major events.

Except for the inability to reload (meaning returning to a previously experienced time), everything else was good.

Of course, the system wouldn't solve the problem of where Zhou Yi's "missing" time went, so after much thought, Zhou Yi had to admit one fact—

In the future, he would likely have to frequently experience "living in seclusion in the mountains and forests, leaving no trace."

But it was also fine. According to Zhou Yi's way of handling things, he generally didn't get too deeply involved with others.

Moreover, if necessary, he could directly return to the time node of the world he had just left. For example, if he were in a life-or-death situation in a certain world, he could instantly leave for another world, become stronger, and then return!

"So, after finishing this job, I can open up the next world and a new profession. I'm really looking forward to it... Hmm, the more I listen, the more I feel like a robber."

Zhou Yi put on his headphones and began monitoring Ethan's movements.

He had indeed taken the bug he had planted... but he never said he only planted one!

He only took out that one to explain to Ethan why he knew about their internal operation intelligence, making his actions more convincing.

As for the other side—

Ethan removed the coat of his team leader Jim's wife and team member Claire, patted her down all over, and then pushed her onto the bed.

As for why the CIA would allow two agents to date, get married, and still operate within the same team, Zhou Yi, who was eavesdropping from a distance, still couldn't figure out the reason.

However, this could be ignored for now.

It wouldn't be useful to dwell on it anyway.

And what exactly was Ethan doing with that series of skilled actions just now...

Ethan: "Of course, it's to search Claire to see if she's carrying any weapons, to prevent her from posing any threat to me (serious face)!"

If, according to the original plot, Ethan was thinking this when he did this, but now, after Zhou Yi communicated with him and shared some information... Ethan had already developed some suspicions about potential targets.

This suspicion reached its threshold when Claire, just as Zhou Yi had said, returned to the team assembly point precisely at 4 AM.

In Ethan's heart, he had almost certainly identified Claire as the mole, or one of them.

So, if Claire was the mole, what role did Jim, who was also missing and Claire's husband, play in such an event?

At that time, Ethan was completely overwhelmed by the devastating news of his team members being ambushed one by one due to the leak of operational intelligence. His emotions were highly volatile, and he couldn't calm down.

Zhou Yi's arrival earlier had pointed out some things to him and provided some information, which allowed Ethan to regain his thinking ability.

Upon careful consideration, Ethan discovered numerous suspicious points, and each suspicious point added more suspicion to Jim!

Ethan didn't want to think this way, but he had to. He had to admit that the person he respected the most, the mentor who had guided him onto the path of being an agent—Jim—was the most suspicious.

Only a few key pieces of evidence were missing for a conviction!

Of course, that was something Ethan would confirm later. For now, Ethan was using this opportunity to subtly vent some of his dissatisfaction and anger.

However, Ethan also knew when to stop. After confirming that Claire was not carrying any weapons (seriously), Ethan pressed Claire onto the bed and sternly interrogated her about who sent her.

"Tsk tsk," Zhou Yi, who was eavesdropping, clicked his tongue twice and took off his headphones. "This Ethan doesn't seem very proper either..."

Zhou Yi knew very well that Ethan's actions had little to do with his own operations. The phone he gave Ethan could indeed contact him, but it was just one of the means. Ethan would definitely be wary of him and hide some information.

However, Zhou Yi himself didn't need to exchange information with Ethan to proceed to the next step. After all, in terms of information channels, personal strength, or the magnitude of energy he could mobilize, Zhou Yi was much stronger than Ethan.

"It's time."

Zhou Yi began packing his belongings, and soon, everything was packed.

After sending a text message to that phone, Zhou Yi, carrying his luggage, left Prague and boarded a plane back to the United States.

He was going to Langley, the city where the CIA headquarters was located, to make arrangements in advance to ensure everything was foolproof!

Why were the chapter title and author's notes gone from this chapter??? Damn it, who deleted them?