Albert reacted quickly. With a raised hand, he pressed a button to shut off the camera—this was a phone designed specifically for CIA agents, with few functions but considerable practicality.
To prevent the other party from secretly taking control of his camera, he covered the lens with his hand and asked, "Who are you?"
Feng Jun chuckled. "You ran back to Mairui Country to hide from someone. I'm that someone."
"You're mistaken. I'm vacationing in Ba Country," Albert replied, quickly regaining his composure. Rather than hanging up immediately, he tried to gather more information. "How is Paul?"
"Take a guess!" Feng Jun continued to laugh. "All right, I made the video call as promised. I just wanted to confirm what you looked like... Believe me, we'll meet again soon."
"Bullshit!" Albert was just about to curse at him when he realized the call had already ended. When he called back, the other party could no longer be reached.
He stood there in a daze for nearly ten seconds, then turned and ran outside. He started a car by the roadside and sped away, grabbing the vehicle-mounted Two-Way Radio as he did so—another internal CIA communications device with extremely strong confidentiality.
"This is bad. Paul is finished. Xia people found him. It sounded like that Luo Hua group, though it can't be ruled out that Xia Nation's intelligence department is impersonating them. Worse yet, they actually threatened me..."
What Albert feared most, naturally, was the other side coming after him. The mention of Luo Hua, who seemed to appear and disappear like a ghost, gave him a tremendous headache—according to people from the Overseas Wanderers Society, this person possessed all sorts of supernatural methods and had created numerous paranormal incidents in Mud Country, killing quite a few people.
If Sophia had