After Floch brought "Angel" back, interrogation revealed that the captive was merely an ordinary university student, not the Special Operations Department's supposed Thousand-Faced Killer, Angel.
Floch flew into a rage and was about to lead his troops to arrest everyone at Magath University, but Armin persuaded Marlowe to help him hold Floch back.
Meanwhile, despite searching Marley for a long time, Chen Si had found no trace of Hange. Along the way, however, he had secretly destroyed several of Drus's underground inspection stations in the Governor-General District, as well as several intelligence outposts belonging to an unknown power.
Chen Si was certain that this unknown power was probably the Far East's behemoth, the Soviet Union.
When he learned that Floch's arrest had failed, he immediately realized that Hange's whereabouts were probably connected to the Special Operations Department's Codename Agents. If he hunted down and killed all the remaining Codename Agents, he would surely find a trail leading to her.
At that moment, Chen Si also thought of someone else-an old acquaintance, his friend, a woman he secretly loved: Zoe Mogwin. She belonged to the Special Operations Department. Perhaps she had clues about Hange, or even knew where the Codename Agents were.
But would Zoe help him?
Wait! A sudden flash of inspiration struck Chen Si.
The Special Operations Department's headquarters had been wiped out, most of its remnants had been eliminated, and Marley had fallen. Yet there had been no news of Zoe. Where on earth had she settled down?
What could an ordinary low-ranking agent of the Special Operations Department like her still do? Chen Si recalled what Zoe had once said on Snow Mountain: "I want to protect the children's dreams and the world beyond their reach. For them, I'm willing to give up what belongs to me."