Chapter 30
The blizzard of the Coastal state
Fifteen minutes ago in the director office of the Coastal state field service, the grey hair director finished his recording, and then began to have the material destruction work on his computer.
Several days of uneasiness in succession, after he received a phone call last night, all became the reality. The director left his house, that house had already been put under close surveillance by the federal agents. He was still the same as usual, arrived his office half an hour early, and then began to do the things what he was doing at present.
His expression was very calm, the wrinkles on his face were like the strip-line tie on his neck, meticulous. Since many years ago, he became a member of the anti-government army, he had already known that his this life, would always end with this way. No matter he was a psychology professor in the First Military Academy, or later transferred to the federal department, he always had this kind of mental preparation.
The director didn’t know, why he would be gazed by the FBI, and the security level of the action which aimed at him must be very high, because Shielding was right in the Section Four, but he didn’t find any abnormal situations… it’s presumable that Shielding also entered the monitored scope.
After destroyed all the call records in the computer, the director opened the safe, somewhat difficult to hunch his body, and took out a pile of paper from the interlayer. There were some codes and passwords recorded on these paper, it’s the foundation of the whole network which he was responsible for.
In the science and technology extremely developed present, any recorded in the smart tools things, at least all could be repaired partially after the event. Thus the spy ring of the anti-government, always used this kind of primitive recording method very carefully.
Put the paper into the shredder, used the wastebasket to hold those been turned into shreds paper, then the director walked into the bathroom which was attached to the office, covered the smoke and temperature sensor with a wet towel, lit the lighter, and began to burn those mattered with a lot of people lives codes and passwords.
Flushed the ashes into the sewer, then the director breathed out a long sigh of relief. He considered himself lucky, probably wanted to get more information, then the officials of the FBI would leave him the time to cope with the aftermath.
Walked back to the office, the director played that lighter subconsciously with his those thick fingers. This was the gift which Shielding gave him for his fifty years old birthday. He had a breath deeply, took out the mobile phone and took a look at the time on it, confirmed that there were still several minutes from the promissory time with Shielding. That boy should still not enter the coffee shop yet at this time, then he finally put his heart at rest.
His clumsy finger pressed on a button of the mobile phone, the ready in advance recording, after it was encrypted, was uploaded to a temporary file storage place in the network.
The director turned his back, walked to the door and locked the thick door of the office, then walked to the side of the French window, and watched carefully at the getting more pedestrians gradually Sophie Street and that quiet side lane under the window.
Didn’t know what he had seen. He took a pill quietly, and then took out a pistol from the drawer, pulled the trigger at the French window… after “Pa Pa” several loud sounds, the strong windproof French window had several round small holes, only the arrangement was somewhat not that appropriate. The director shrugged his shoulders, thought in his mind, when he had the training in the mountains, he always thought that the marksmanship was not a very important thing, now it seemed that he was wrong.
He was panting to lift that heavy swivel chair, smashed it at the French window, the swivel chair was sprung back, but the window appeared the cracks which made him feel happy.
The sound smashing the door also came from outside of the door at this time.
The director grabbed the mobile phone in his hand again, looked at the full of spider web like cracks French window, and bumped his whole body over!
The door was broken open by the agents forcibly, and at the same time, the director that obese body also broke the window, began to fall down to the very high and very far ground.
The wind roared. In the air, the director saw those having the breakfast subordinates downstairs, he couldn’t help to have a smile, and then he died.
There were the screams and miserable shouts on the cross of the Sophie Street and the side lane. Early in the morning, whoever witnessed such a tragedy, saw that deformed dead body, the jet out blood and pulp things, all would be sick and scared speechlessly.
Shielding was holding the sandwich bread in his hand, didn’t catch any attention to walk into the crowd. He stared at the grey hair of the director on the top of the car, his face turned somewhat pale suddenly, it’s almost the same as the look of the people by his side.
Not far away from the car, on the snow ground, there was a slammed into pieces and hard to be put together in a short time mobile phone.
The snow is white and the blood is red. Shielding stared his eyes roundly, seemed that he couldn’t stand the stimulation of this kind of strong contrast, then he had a blink.
Today the blizzard had already stopped in the Coastal state, but people still used to wear the with cap dust coat, he was also no exceptional. He was like a pedestrian scared by the terrified and disgusting scene, lifted the snow cap to cover his face, walked slightly quicker but not too fast to pass through the front gate of the bureau building, and walked to the distance.
Not long after he left, seven or eight came from the Capital FBI agents rushed out of the building, and rushed to the front of that car, began to call something in the talker nervously.
“All the signs indicated that you haven’t been exposed yet, or you still haven’t been caught by the government. All my contact tools have been monitored, so I can only communicate with you in this final method.”
“I have contacted with the vice minister Jason Young of the Defense Department, wanted to use the colleague friendship of those years, tried to get some information from him. But not long ago, he died, and I also seems to be exposed.”
“I asked myself, the contact with vice minister Young, always was kept within the category of as the dean of the First Military Academy and a professor, and he even is a top anti Green Mountain soldier. So I don’t understand, why his death, would let me exposed.”
“The death of Jason Young, should relate with the Coastal gymnasium event, if the men of intention want to associate that event with the organization, then the connection between Jason Young and me should be the best way.”
“You are the closest people who contacted with me, and you know about Sheilor, so you should also be a ring of this plan.”
“I confirmed, there is a traitor in the upper level of the organization. From now on, nobody you should trust in, besides He. If you were exposed, you can try to go to the Harbor city to find a man, the address of that man is in…”
By the side of a quiet street in the Coastal state, under the frost resisting birch tree, in a small covered by the snow telephone booth, Shielding listened carefully to the last words which his teacher left to him, fell in silence, and his eyes became moisturizing.
Walked out of the telephone booth, he raised that been cold sandwich bread in his hand and gnawed one bite, the sweet and sour ketchup made his stomach a twitch, and almost made him to spit it out. He threw the bread into the dustbin, and then waved fro a cab.
Tens of minutes later, the taxi drove by the Coastal field service building, Shielding looked that strange quiet of that floor which the Section Four located, and his that pair of beautiful eyes narrowed gradually.
He said to the driver with a smile, “big bro, if you drive me to Upper Field, how much will it be?”
A row of cars stop on the tarmac of the Coastal state airport, the dressed in a brown dust coat Charlie Tai, walked out from a brand new no sign black c
ar, his face was pale same as usual, stared at that document in his hand, and he got some angry flush gradually in the pale. He finished reading this document in a hurry in the black car, but it destroyed his calm successfully.
Charlie Tai threw that document onto the snow ground testily, and said to the by his side steward Ken, “what a complete nonsense thing! Jason Young, a director of a bureau, and then it’s Shielding… what that group of government trash really want to do? Don’t they want to tell me, those soldiers in the assassination, got the intelligence from the hand of Shielding?”
The steward Ken followed his steps and walked quickly forward, and whispered in his ear, “the evidence is conclusive, the FBI checked that the call detail record between the vice minister Young and that director was too frequent, although it hasn’t involved the part about the gymnasium event, but who knows whether they have other contact methods between them?”
Charlie Tai stopped his footsteps suddenly, and he looked at the steward Ken and said, “this is the so-called evidence which you believe?”
The steward Ken silenced for a moment and then shook his head, “the vice minister Young, the director, Shielding, and Sheilor… all of these really could point to some kind of possibility, but the problem is that this evidence chain is not too strong.”
“It’s not just not too strong, there is no evidence at all, where the chain comes from?” some rare taunt smile floated on the mouth corners of Charlie Tai, “some people just left no stone unturned, and wanted to relate this event with the anti-government army.”
“Now the evidence at least proved, that once served as the professor of the First Military Academy director, he was the teacher of Shielding when he was in the First Military Academy, and these two people… are all the spies of the anti-government army.”
“We have already known it very long time ago, Shielding is the people of the anti-government army.” Charlie Tai looked at the steward Ken calmly, “and the government didn’t know about it, under the circumstance, the problem must be on that director, some people know about his identity, and it happened that he also could connect Jason Young those tough soldiers with Shielding, Sheilor and me.”
“I don’t care about whether there are some problems inside of the anti-government army.” Charlie Tai stared at the steward Ken and said, “I just know that some people are trying to use the fact which I almost died, stirring some turbulences up.”
“I don’t allow anyone to destroy the agreement reached between Mr. Palmer and the Green Mountain.” Charlie Tai emphasized his tone, “I even don’t want those FBI wolfhounds, put the doubtful eyes on my friend Sheilor… Shielding can’t die, at least not now. Since the Federation has already begun to list him as wanted, you find some ways, and give him some helps.”
“The things we can do in this respect are very little.” the steward Ken insisted his own judgment, “and the federal government is only responsible for giving a logical answer out, once madam couldn’t question the rationality of the result, then we can only accept it.”
“The twelve agents of the Secret Service, also until that day, then knew about master your destination, even that enemy agent among them could send out the information, that also couldn’t let those militants have the preparation half a night in advance.”
The steward Ken continued to say calmly, “the internal checking of the family also was over, there is no any doubt. Now it seems, the only doubtful point, it should be that Mr. Sheilor possibly told his whereabouts to his friends… I am very sorry, I didn’t give the special instruction to Mr. Sheilor about this matter beforehand, and made a mistake.”
Charlie Tai slightly wrinkled his eyebrows a bit, silenced for a long time and said, “it couldn’t be Shielding, no matter how the anti-government wants me to die, it’s also impossible to be at this time… just like that I have the infinite hope that they would all disappear, but also will not urge the Federation to send the troops to Green Mountain at this moment.”
In the snow and wind stirred up by the air stream of the plane, Charlie Tai tightened the scarf on his neck a bit, walked onto the gangway, stepped onto the journey to visit Sheilor, and said the last word.
“Although Sheilor doesn’t have too many friends, but he has not only Shielding one person.”