Spy-x-War Showdown-Chapter 42 - 41 Public Bus

42: Chapter 41 Public Bus

42 -41 Public Bus

Yang Yi was utterly shocked, for he had never known a person who would be willing to do anything and pay any price just to be able to die.

Shouldn’t a killer remain tight-lipped?

Shouldn’t a killer face death without fear?

Yes, this killer indeed faced death without fear, because he was eager to die.

But, shouldn’t a killer be indifferent to everything, never revealing any secrets even after being tortured over and over again?

“My name is Igo Thomas, I’m Spanish, and I joined Destroyer two years ago.

I’m not very familiar with the inner workings of Destroyer because we always operate on a need-to-know basis.

My contact person is named Kevin Stuart, which is probably a pseudonym.

His nickname is Bass, yes, like the vehicle ‘bus’.”

The killer couldn’t wait to confess the things Danny wanted to know, but at that moment, Danny interrupted him, speaking gravely, “Need-to-know basis?

So what’s Bus’s position in Destroyer?

Is he the leader of Destroyer?”

“I don’t know, but I think he might be, because everyone listens to him.”

“Good, tell me how you usually contact each other.”

“I don’t know about the others, but I have a phone number that never changes.

When there’s a task for us, Bus will call and direct me to a designated meeting place.

Then he’ll give me the information about the person I need to kill.

After the target is eliminated and I provide him with the evidence, I’ll receive the payment.”

“Are you saying you weren’t trained by this Bus, but joined the organization after you became a hitman?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Do you take private jobs on the side?”

“No, private jobs are strictly forbidden.

Bus said if he found out I was taking private jobs, I’d definitely be killed.

Private jobs are very unstable, and there are enough tasks in Destroyer to keep us busy, at least two missions a year, which is what Bus promised me when he recruited me into Destroyer.”

“How many missions have you taken on for Destroyer?”

“Five.

This is the sixth, and also the first group operation.

It’s the first time I’ve worked together with the other five people, so we’re all strangers to each other.

I know one of them has a very thick Welsh accent; he must be from the United Kingdom.

There’s also someone whose English is poor, probably from Eastern Europe, but I don’t know where exactly.”

“You’re doing well, keep going.

Tell me in detail about your mission this time.”

“I was called to London this time.

It was Bus who summoned us.

He said there was an urgent mission.

The employer demanded that a group of corporate spies be killed within twenty-four hours, and the item demanded by the employer recovered, which is a piece of confidential information, probably hidden in a computer or hard drive.

We’d have to capture the spies and get the information out of them.

The total payment was six million British Pounds to be split among the six of us after the job.”

“Then what?”

“Then, Bus gave us an address and the name of a man, John Jones.

The six of us went to his home and found him.

The interrogation wasn’t optimistic because we all felt he truly didn’t know where the information was; he didn’t even know what was happening.

But we got the names and addresses of three other people, one of whom was a computer hacker.

We all thought the intelligence might be with the hacker, so we decided to split up, kill them all and find the item.

Then the payment would be split.”

“Go on.”

“I went to a man named Ryan’s home.

The two of us found out more, and that’s when we learned John Jones had lied.

There weren’t just four spies but seven.

He had hidden the fact that he had an ex-wife and a daughter, as well as a newcomer.

According to the employer’s instructions, we had to kill these three as well.

So we split up again.

I stayed to continue the interrogation and killed Ryan, while my partner went after the woman, the older one.”

Kate was already starting to shake.

Yang Yi held her shoulder, and after glancing at them, Danny spoke indifferently, “What’s his name?”

“Peggy, I only know this name.

He went to kill the woman and came back injured, with a gunshot wound.

The team that went after the hacker had failed; they didn’t find the hacker.

But Peggy had seen the woman’s cell phone and noted down a few phone numbers.

We then tracked these numbers through the phone company and eventually managed to follow them.

However, the operation went wrong; we had to capture the hacker alive to get the information, but one person died, and another was injured during the action.”

Danny nodded, as things fell into place from here.

He said sternly, “Continue.”

“We temporarily lost track of them during the chase, but we quickly found the whereabouts of the man and woman.

They had taken refuge in a nice restaurant.

We originally wanted to go in and kill them directly, but that Steve Marvin, the guy with the Welsh accent, said you can’t go into a nice restaurant, let alone kill someone there.

He said it was taboo, but he didn’t know why, just that one must never cause trouble in a nice restaurant.”

A twitch appeared at the corner of Danny’s mouth as he murmured, “You really should have listened to Steve, but clearly you didn’t.

So what happened next?”

“We decided not to enter the nice restaurant but to keep watch outside.

We discovered the two had checked into a hotel, so we tapped the hotel’s phones.

After a day, Bus told us we might not receive the payment because the employer had already obtained the information.

Naturally, this was infuriating.

Bus said he would negotiate with the employer, but we still had to complete the employer’s request, which was to kill all the members of the spy ring.

Therefore, Peggy, who was vehement about it, insisted on killing those two hiding in the hotel, and then… then they did it…”

“Who did it?”

“Peggy.”

Danny took a deep breath and said, “Peggy, his name is Peggy.

Alright, Torres, tell me where Bus met with you, and his phone number.

Don’t tell me you can’t contact him.”

“I have his phone number, but our meeting places have always been different.

However, three times it was in Paris.”

“Three times in Paris?”

“Yes.”

“Describe what he looks like to me.

Can you draw it?”

“I can’t draw, but I can help you piece together his appearance, like the police sketching a suspect’s profile.

Is that alright?”

“That’s fine.

Let’s start now.”

“Wait, wait!”

Torres sighed, and then he looked at Danny and said, “I have no hope of leaving alive, but how can you guarantee that after I speak, I won’t be tortured?

How can you assure me?”