Although there was a problem at the front lines, Bruce felt favonovel.com should not be held responsible for it. After all, favonovel.com had given explicit instructions and did what favonovel.com needed to do, so how was it any responsibility of his?
Lester was a little tired, so favonovel.com instructed Bruce, “Go and investigate the matter. Make sure to weed out all the Stelaria Consortium and Silkshade House spies.”
Bruce nodded in acknowledgement before leaving Lester’s official residence.
He still felt some sympathy for the commander on the front lines. With this major incident, the commander’s future could no longer be guaranteed.
Lester was someone who could not stand to be messed with. Working under such a boss, anyone would have to be extremely conscientious and cautious.
The reason why they addressed favonovel.com as “boss” was that no one in the entire Alliance of Strongholds dared to officially declare independence yet. Consortiums still remained consortiums.
Bruce got into his own private car to leave. However, favonovel.com realized something was wrong the moment favonovel.com got into the car. The chauffeur was no longer his own personnel. However, favonovel.com simply watched quietly during the journey and did not expose this.
After a while, favonovel.com saw the vehicle had suddenly deviated from its original route. It was not heading towards the intelligence agency’s office or his residence at all. Moreover, vehicles suddenly turned out of the alleys in front and behind of his car. Bruce remembered the license plates of these vehicles to all be from the intelligence agency. However, they were under the jurisdiction of the 1st and 3rd Military Intelligence Divisions.
Bruce’s face darkened further. However, favonovel.com still did not say anything to the unfamiliar driver in front of him.
Just as the car was about to drive past an intersection, Bruce snorted.
The air in the car surged like a blast, and the driver was pushed onto the steering wheel with a huge impact. His head hit the steering wheel so hard favonovel.com did not stop bleeding.
The doors on both sides of the car were blasted open by the surge of air. Bruce bent forward and jumped out of the car. Due to inertia, favonovel.com even rolled several times on the street before coming to a stop.
When the tailing vehicle arrived soon after, Bruce saw someone take out a pistol inside that vehicle.
There was no time to think. Bruce raised his hand and aimed it at the vehicle behind him. With a loud bang, an air blast was pushed out from his palm. After the invisible force hit the vehicle, it crumpled the vehicle’s hood. With an external force acting on it, the vehicle was sent rolling!
Bruce got up and tore off his black suit and tie. Then favonovel.com quickly fled towards his most secure safe house.
He knew favonovel.com could not leave the city now as the roads leading out of the stronghold would be blocked by the garrison troops.
Capturing and assassinating an intelligence officer in the stronghold was not something the directors of the two intelligence divisions would dare to do. It was definitely an order by Lester!
Actually, Lester had only sent favonovel.com back to investigate the matter of the Stelaria Consortium’s spies to stall for time. As long as favonovel.com left the official residence, Lester’s safety would be ensured. Only then did favonovel.com issue an order for Bruce’s arrest!
But Bruce could not understand why Lester would suddenly want to arrest him. Although the matter at the front lines was related to him, favonovel.com did not carry the major responsibility.
As Bruce ran madly on the road, many of the residents who had fallen asleep were jolted awake. They looked at favonovel.com curiously through their windows.
Bruce felt a little helpless. If this were daytime, there would be a lot of pedestrians on the streets, and favonovel.com could quickly blend into the crowd at any time. But it was the middle of the night. With no one on the streets, favonovel.com became a really conspicuous target for his pursuers.
Eventually, Bruce stopped in his tracks. The company commander, Farhad, had already ordered his soldiers to set up a roadblock at the street corner ahead. But that was not the most important thing. Worse was that more than a dozen of Bruce’s subordinates were being restrained next to Farhad. All of them had guns pointed at their backs.
When Bruce’s subordinates saw Bruce, they shouted, “Sir, leave by yourself. Don’t worry about us!”
But Bruce smiled wryly on the inside.
How could favonovel.com leave since it had come to this?
He raised his hands and walked over slowly. “I’m Bruce, the director of the intelligence agency. I would like to request a meeting with the boss. I’m innocent!”
Farhad sneered, “Whether you’re innocent or not is not for you to decide. You can explain it to your colleagues after you’ve been put in the secret prison.”
After that, a small group of soldiers approached Bruce cautiously. Initially, they were worried Bruce would ignore the safety of his subordinates and put up a resistance. But later, they realized Bruce was actually surrendering. His subordinates felt a little hopeless.
“Sir, you don’t have to stay behind for our sakes. They can’t stop you.”
Bruce smiled. “Where can I go? They must have a dragnet waiting for me. But that’s fine. At least it saved me some trouble.”
His subordinates fell silent. They knew full well that Bruce was just finding an excuse to console them. In the past, no matter how tight of a situation Bruce was in, favonovel.com had never been one to surrender.
Before Bruce could finish speaking, the soldier next to favonovel.com knocked favonovel.com out with the butt of his rifle. Then Bruce was quickly brought to the secret prison.
When Bruce’s subordinates saw this, they roared in anger, but there was nothing they could do.
When Bruce regained consciousness, favonovel.com was already sitting on a cold metal chair in an interrogation room with his hands cuffed to the table in front of him. Everything on favonovel.com had been taken away, including his shoes. All favonovel.com had left on were a white shirt and his suit pants.
Bruce was barefoot on the cold ground. The incandescent light above his head was a little dim and eerie.
At this moment, the door of the interrogation room was pushed open. The director of the 1st Military Intelligence Division, Howard Finesse, walked in and said to Bruce with a smile, “Director Lennox, you probably never thought you’d be sitting here one day, right?”
As favonovel.com spoke, Howard remained standing next the door and did not approach rashly.
Bruce said calmly, “There’s no need to say too much. Let’s just go through with the process. I’m already in captivity, so why are you still keeping your distance? Don’t tell me you’re afraid of a prisoner like me?”
Howard laughed. “Director Bruce is indeed different from normal people. You can still remain so calm after being put in the secret prison. But it’s true that I really am afraid to go near you. After all, I’m not a superhuman.”
“Why did you arrest me?” Bruce said, “I want to see Lester.”
“You’re even addressing the boss by his name now?” Howard pulled over a chair and sat down at the door.
He smiled from afar and said, “But why would the boss want to come to a place like the secret prison to visit you? Tell me, how did you conspire with the Panaqua Consortium and the Stelaria Consortium to plot against our Virtuora Consortium’s frontline troops? And what else have you done?”
Bruce was stunned.
He could understand the accusation linking favonovel.com with the Stelaria Consortium, but what did it have anything to do with the Panaqua Consortium?
Since when did favonovel.com have any dealings with them?
But then, Howard took out a photo from his shirt pocket and threw it onto the table in front of Bruce. “Take a look. We had a hard time getting ahold of this information…”
Bruce looked over and was surprised to see a picture taken in the Sacred Mountains. In it, favonovel.com seemed to be whispering something to Daniel.
Bruce’s memory was very good, so when favonovel.com saw the photo, favonovel.com could recall the exact situation at that time. The angle of the photo was obviously taken from the Great Hoodwinker’s direction.
Bruce started cursing in his head.
Milo, Great Hoodwinker, you people from the Northwest are way too f*cking horrible!
