Suspecting a traitor, Simpson called off the subsequent operations, then personally reported to the President.
After a confidential discussion, they decided the operation against Shen Bing had to continue.
Shen Bing had to stay! Their absolute bottom line was to prevent him from returning to Huaxia.
This man posed too great a threat to the United States' global hegemony. In just six months, he had already shaken the Americans' foundations.
If they could also confirm that Shen Bing had invented Huaxia's new stealth technology, he would undoubtedly use technology to lead Huaxia to become a global superpower in an extremely short time—and the only superpower at that. Even the Americans would be left eating his dust.
No American wanted their country to lose its dominance, least of all the President.
This had nothing to do with right or wrong. It all came down to where their interests lay.
But by this point, their operation at the Turing Award ceremony, which they had considered their surest bet, had fallen through. Not only had it accomplished nothing, it had landed them in a mess.
They had already paid nearly a hundred lives to keep Shen Bing there, all of them battle-hardened elite operatives.
On Shen Bing's very first night in the United States, in particular, they had staged a fierce gunfight to stop the men they suspected were his bodyguards. Instead, their entire force had been wiped out.
The death toll already exceeded what the U.S. Military would suffer in a small-scale war.
Explaining this to the dead men's families would undoubtedly be a headache. They also had to deal with the probing, relentless media, another vexing problem.
Shen Bing stayed in the Immortal Carriage until evening and only came out when the telephone in his hotel room rang.
The call