Heading to Langley

Of course, that trust had been built upon the victories Zhou Yi had delivered to Chris through their many previous operations.

If some ordinary agent under him suddenly went to Chris and said he wanted to infiltrate CIA headquarters to steal the agent roster, demanding Chris cooperate with him, do you think Chris would not kick him straight out?

Getting kicked out would be getting off lightly. He might even be fired the next day for stepping through the door with his left foot first!

If you wanted sufficient trust and support, fine—but you first needed to demonstrate sufficient ability and experience. Zhou Yi happened to possess both.

"Since that's the case, it's basically settled," Zhou Yi mused. "All that remains is Yinsen's side of things."

"If everything goes smoothly, once these ten million are converted into experience points, I can unlock the next world again. When I come back later, I can jump straight to the time periods of those major events and rake in a huge amount of experience..." (The events of these films are set in the years when the movies were released, in chronological order.)

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

He could select a known point in time and jump directly to it.

Zhou Yi had tried confirming it. Those known points in time were actually the time periods of movies that had already been released when he transmigrated in his previous life. For instance, Zhou Yi could choose to travel to any point between "Fast & Furious 6" and "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw"!

If he were in the Fast & Furious World itself, Zhou Yi would be unable to do this. But if he was in this espionage world and returned to the Fast & Furious World from here, he could save time this way, join the plot directly, and obtain enormous amounts of experience!

In other words, it was like having multiple games with countless time nodes. If Zhou Yi stayed within just one game, he could only wait for time to pass and slowly advance.

But if he traveled from one game to another, he could directly slot himself into a time node of his choosing and take part in those major events.

Other than being unable to reload a save—that was, return to a time he had already experienced—everything else was great.

Of course, the system would not solve the problem of where he had been during the time he had "disappeared," so after thinking it over, Zhou Yi had to admit one fact—

In the future, he would probably often have to go through the whole "living reclusively in the deep mountains and wilderness, impossible to locate" routine.

Still, that was not too bad. Given the way Zhou Yi handled things, he generally did not become too deeply entangled with others.

And when necessary, he could directly return to the point in time when he had just left a world. For example, if he fell into a life-or-death predicament in one world, he could instantly leave for another, grow stronger, and then return!

"So, after pulling off this job, I can open up another world and unlock a new profession. I'm really looking forward to it... Hmm, the more I say it, the more I sound like a robber."

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

Yinsen had indeed taken away the bug Zhou Yi had planted on him... but Zhou Yi had never said he had planted only one!

The one Yinsen found had merely been meant to explain why Zhou Yi knew the internal intelligence about their operation, making his actions more convincing.

As for the other side—

Yinsen took off Claire's coat, searched her from head to toe, then pinned her onto the bed.

As for why the CIA would allow two agents to date, marry, and still operate within the same team, Zhou Yi, listening in from afar, still could not figure it out.

But that could be ignored for now.

There was no point in worrying about it anyway.

And what exactly had that string of practiced actions Yinsen had just performed been for...

Yinsen: "Of course, it was to search Claire for weapons and prevent her from posing any threat to me." Straight-faced.

According to the original plot, Yinsen might really have been thinking exactly that when he did it. But now, after communicating with Zhou Yi and sharing some intelligence... Yinsen had already formed suspicions about certain targets.

That suspicion reached its threshold when Claire really did return to the team's gathering point at exactly four in the morning, just as Zhou Yi had said she would.

In Yinsen's heart, he had now practically concluded that Claire was the mole, or one of the moles.

Then if Claire was a mole, what role did Jim—Claire's husband, who had likewise vanished without a trace—play in this incident?

At the time, Yinsen had been utterly overwhelmed by the terrible news that the entire team's operation had been leaked, resulting in his teammates being ambushed and killed one after another. His emotions had been in turmoil, leaving him completely unable to calm down and think.

But Zhou Yi's earlier arrival had pointed out certain things and provided some intelligence, allowing Yinsen to regain his ability to think.

After considering it carefully, Yinsen found numerous suspicious points. Every single one added another layer of suspicion to Jim!

Yinsen did not want to think this way, but he had no choice. He had to admit that the man he respected most, the mentor who had led him onto the path of becoming an agent—Jim—was the most suspicious of all.

All that remained before conviction was some crucial evidence!

Of course, that was something Yinsen would need to confirm later. Right now, he was taking the opportunity to vent some of his dissatisfaction and anger in a subtle way.

However, Yinsen also knew when to stop. After confirming that Claire was not carrying any weapons anywhere on her body seriously, Yinsen pressed her onto the bed and fiercely demanded to know who had sent her.

"Tsk, tsk," Zhou Yi, who had been listening in, clicked his tongue twice and took off his headphones. "It seems this Yinsen isn't all that serious either..."

Zhou Yi knew very well that whatever Yinsen did had little to do with his own operation. The phone he had given Yinsen could indeed be used to contact him, but it was only one means among many. Yinsen would certainly remain wary of him and conceal some information.

However, Zhou Yi did not need to obtain information from Yinsen before proceeding to the next stage of his plan. Whether in terms of information channels, personal strength, or the resources he could mobilize, Zhou Yi was far superior to Yinsen.

"It's time."

Zhou Yi began packing up his things. Before long, he had packed everything away.

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

He was heading to Langley, the city where CIA headquarters was located, to make arrangements in advance and ensure nothing could go wrong!

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