Chapter 648: Hide and Seek Ends
Brasilia, a few kilometers east of the city, in the jungle on a clearing.
The excited shout from Winslow through the communicator was abrupt and startled Reesi, while Chenier quickly asked:
"Signal? What signal are you talking about, Winslow?"
Luo An smiled and explained for Winslow:
"It's a positioning signal."
Not long ago, while in that clearing and meeting with Sarls, seeing a black female subordinate helping her treat a wound, it reminded Luo An in his pocket (refer to Chapter 644) of the CIA positioning chip Roland had shown.
During the breakout, Luo An had several times rescued Sarls at critical moments, pulling her and running together.
During this time, without Sarls noticing, Luo An secretly took out the positioning chip and stuffed one into both her clothing and near the wound.
The sudden hijacking by the black female subordinate was indeed unexpected, but Luo An was not panicked then, because he was confident in finding Sarls.
An exploding RPG appeared later causing Luo An's brow to furrow.
At that time, the distance between the two parties exceeded the range of "emotional perception," and he couldn't detect whether there was any emotional fluctuation from the other side, making it impossible to judge whether the other side had really died. As more enemies approached, he could only choose to leave temporarily.
At the abandoned building, Luo An began to suspect that Sarls and that black subordinate faked their deaths.
At that time, there wasn't sufficient evidence, clues, or reliable information, and Luo An couldn't figure out why the two women did it.
It was true that the black female was an undercover sent by Phillips, but it was just a simple case of being mistakenly killed.
Therefore, Luo An finally decided to lead his team back to the battlefield for a sudden raid to arrest Phillips, hoping to find clues and uncover the truth from him.
At the same time, Luo An also mentioned the positioning chip to Mona, explaining that the chip emits a signal every thirty minutes and remains silent otherwise, and he asked her to continuously monitor her computer and be ready to receive the signal in a timely manner.
"You're so clever!"
After listening to Luo An's description about the positioning chip, Chenier incredulously widened her eyes, and Reesi was equally dumbfounded. Then, both women's eyes lit up, and an excited Reesi asked:
"So, Mona has already located Sarls, right? Winslow?!"
"Hmm..."
Winslow paused for a moment on the other end of the communicator and answered:
"All I can say is that Mona received the signal from the positioning device.
The signal was very brief and it only transmits once every thirty minutes, so we can't determine the specifics yet."
"There are absolutely no clues from Phillips, having some signal is better than none."
Suppressing the surprise and excitement inside, Chenier looked at Luo An with some admiration, and then pressed the communicator to ask:
"Where is the location of the signal?"
"In a certain urban area north of Brasilia!"
"OK."
Turning off the communicator, eyes gleaming, both Reesi and Chenier simultaneously turned to Luo An, waiting for his next command. Luo An grinned and said directly:
"Take Phillips and Ian back, then go to the location of the signal and find the person! It's time to end this hide and seek game."
"Understood!" x2
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The overall structure of Brasilia's city center area, as seen from satellite images, looks somewhat like a bow ready to shoot an arrow.
Apart from the core governmental area, most places are built around parks, memorials, museums, and other famous venues, with beautiful scenery, once listed as a World Cultural Heritage.
In the northern urban area, on a highway not far from a lakeside hotel, there stands a bus stop where many tourists and residents are waiting for the bus.
At the very end of this group of waiting people, stood a very tall tourist-dressed woman with dark skin wearing a mask, silently bowing her head without talking, seeming intrigued by the ants on the ground.
Ding—
Before long, a bus appeared in the distance, bringing joy to people's faces, but as the bus gradually approached, disappointment appeared because it wasn't the bus they were waiting for.
Those who had picked up their luggage silently placed their bags down, preparing to continue waiting for their own vehicles. Unexpectedly, this bus slowly pulled up in front of them.
The bus doors opened, and instead of people boarding, several men and women stepped down and headed straight for the dark-skinned woman at the back under the puzzling gaze of the bystanders.
Ignoring the curious glances, Winslow, Chenier, and Reesi surrounded the woman from three sides. Looking at the woman dressed like a tourist in front of them, Luo An's lips lifted slightly:
"Good afternoon, Miss Sarls, the bus has arrived, it's time for you to board."
The light-skinned woman was indeed Sarls. Surrounded, she remained calm and unhurriedly pulled down her mask to ask:
"How did you find me?"
"This is not the place to talk."
Luo An stepped aside to clear the path, smiling:
"Let's get on the bus and talk in detail."
Under the watchful eyes of Chenier, Reesi, and Winslow, Sarls stayed silent for a few seconds before finally standing up and walking towards the bus.
The bus door closed, and Michelle started the bus moving forward. Sarls sat in the middle, heavily surrounded by the members of Team 13.
"You don't seem surprised to see me."
Handing Sarls a bottle of water, Luo An sat down opposite her, smiling:
"It seems Miss Sarls had already guessed it was me, right?"
This time, Luo An did not wear the black hood as before but openly showed his ordinary yet handsome face.
However, when getting off the bus and meeting Sarls, Luo An did not sense her surprise or shock; it was more of confusion and query.
Sarls smiled and countered:
"You still haven't answered my question, how did you find me?"
"Mona!"
Luo An waved his hand, and Mona immediately came over and pulled open Sarls's shirt.
Due to a fracture and bleeding, Sarls' right arm had previously been wrapped in several layers of bandages by a black female subordinate. Mona unwrapped the bandages layer by layer, and when it came down to the last two layers, a piece of metal the size of a pinky nail cap fell out.
Sarls realized this scene and was annoyed:
"I should have taken a shower."
Because of time constraints, and unable to manage her wound alone, Sarls only changed her clothes. The tracking chip that was in her clothes was thrown away, but she kept the bandages.
Mona took the chip and left, and Luo An smiled:
"I've answered your question, now it's Miss Sarls' turn."
Sarls raised her eyebrows and smiled, saying:
"I do know you, Group Leader Luo An Greenwood, but I really didn't guess that it would be you who found me."
"Who did you think it would be?"
"MI6, CIA, my enemies..."
Sarls smiled:
"I've offended quite a few people; any of them were possible."
Chenier asked from the side:
"This black woman who held you hostage earlier, who exactly is she?"
Up to this point, Sarls was very straightforward, not hiding or being evasive, answering everything:
"An agent from MI6."
Reesi immediately followed up asking:
"Where is she now?"
"Dead."
"How did she die?"
"I killed her."
Sarls grinned at Reesi, her white teeth giving off a chilling sensation at this moment:
"Backstabbed, a shot to the head.
I threw her body to some guy who picks up trash in the slums. He promised me he'd take good 'care' of her."
"..."