Chapter 405 Unable to Reconcile (End of Volume Two)
Dai Jili was panicked.
If he was given another chance, he would definitely refuse when Gin asked Bourbon to pick him up!
After Bourbon finished speaking, he looked at him steadily. The bottom-up gaze showed his trembling look, and there was no dissatisfaction with his cowardice on his face.
...But this made Dai Jili, who was accustomed to being disliked by members with various code names, even more panicked.
However, he quickly thought of Gin's words and gradually calmed down.
On the phone, Gin reminded him that if he was really scared, he could set Angstra as his emergency contact, write a paid rescue email in advance, and send it to him immediately in case of any emergency.
Although Ginjiu's tone was sarcastic, Dai Jili realized that this was actually very feasible, so he really made preparations like this.
Thinking of the cell phone and mail in his pocket, Dai Jili let go of the handle and entered the box. The door closed automatically behind him with a click.
The private room was not large, with two sofas facing each other occupying most of the space. Dai Geely sat opposite Bourbon, then lowered his head and looked at the low table in the middle.
There were several bottles of wine on the table, and the decorative lamp embedded in the wall emitted a faint blue light, allowing him to clearly see the English words on several of the bottles.
——pernod (Pano).
Dai Jili was stunned and suddenly raised his head to look at the bourbon.
Bourbon didn't seem to notice the look Dai Geeli looked at him at all. He picked up one of the bottles and opened the cap, and a faint, slightly sweet herbal smell floated out.
He took two wine glasses and poured half of each into them.
"It is said that this is a very popular pastis in France, but it's a pity that I didn't taste it when I went to France in the past."
The ice cubes at the bottom of the glass slowly floated up from the bottom as the wine liquid increased, turning the light cyan Pernod wine into a milky white color.
"Mr. Daijili, as you have been in France for a long time, you should be familiar with this kind of bar... Are you interested in discussing it with me?"
"…………"
Dai Geli knew very well that bourbon was definitely not referring to the Pernod wine in front of him.
The blond mixed-race man had a gentle tone and a polite attitude. His only intact eye was bent with a smile, and he even took the initiative to push the wine glass in front of him.
Looking at the milky white wine, Dai Jili clenched his hands on his knees and dug his nails into his palms.
"That man..."
…
Dai Jili hates Panno.
He is a second-generation member of the organization. With this relationship, after entering the Paris training ground, he was able to dominate the organization even without a code name, and bully those who disliked him at will.
Panno was one of the people he bullied.
Frankly speaking, Panno had never provoked him. He always stood aside without saying a word, but he just didn't like him.
It was a kind of jealousy. Every time he saw women who ignored him and even made squinting gestures to mock him, Pannuo would take the initiative to talk to her because of his handsome face.
A fire of jealousy will arise.
He deliberately squeezed him and asked him to perform tasks together with the difficult-to-get-along boss, and pushed the thankless and dirty work to him, so that he could not show his face in the organization.
It's a pity that this kind of life did not last long before it was broken.
Rum, the second-in-command far away in Japan, suddenly issued an order. He asked Panno to directly conduct the code name assessment. After he passed, he asked him to go to the United States to pick up a minor member. From then on, the two became partners in France.
That underage member is Angstra.
Dai Jili's father had taken care of him. These members who were given code names under minors had a special status in the organization. They often had extremely high talents in a certain field and were precious talents that were watched by the boss.
People who stay around them, no matter what their status, are easily noticed by the boss. And the boss's attention is the fastest way to climb up in this organization.
Dai Geli was very dissatisfied as to why the silent Panno was chosen. After meeting Angstra, he knew the answer.
——Because Angstra is a handsome dog.
Second-in-command Rum tolerated the willful but not excessive demands of minor members. Being impatient, he patiently looked at photos of members from the French region, and also asked Curaçao, who had a stronger aesthetic ability, for his opinion. Finally,
Panno was chosen.
...As a result, an undercover agent was selected.
After Panno was killed, Angstra could ignore his madness. No matter how crazy he was, he would be supported by rum, gin who came in person, and the boss who stood behind the scenes, but other members did not have that qualification.
So Dai Jili lost several of Party A's fathers and started a month of hellish overtime.
Rum was very angry that he had chosen an undercover agent from thousands of people to give to Angstra. He thoroughly investigated Panno's identity. Undercover agents and traitors had no privacy at all, and Dai Geli, who had a low status, was also qualified to see the information.
That guy is a tainted agent.
He did not enter DGSE after graduating from a regular university. He was a juvenile delinquent who was recruited and rehabilitated by DGSE.
The crime he committed was parricide.
——He killed his biological parents.
Panno lives in the mixed 10th arrondissement of Paris. He has been in the shadow of gangs for as long as he can remember. The local police turned a blind eye to the harassment of local residents by gangs and never paid attention to their pain and grievances.
His father is an idle gambler who only has a good face, his mother is a Japanese woman, and he has a brother who is ten years younger than him.
Dai Jili had seen the photo of their family of four. The little boy who inherited the black hair from his Asian mother was standing next to his older brother. His slightly curly black hair was stuck to his chubby face. The young boy stretched out his hand to hold on to his older brother's clothes.
Hem.
There were obvious bruises and pinch marks on the arms and legs of the two boys, one large and one small.
This is their only family photo.
Soon after, his father pawned his young son to a gang that engaged in human trafficking due to gambling debts, but his mother did not stop him.
The only one who was heartbroken was the elder brother who rushed home and found that his younger brother was not there. The long-term depression and pain completely broke out on that day.
Panno had just turned fourteen at that time.
The same age as Angstra when she killed him.
After killing his parents, he went into exile and was not caught until he was eighteen years old.
Parricide is a serious crime wherever it is committed, and since he was not caught until he was an adult, Panno was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
However, while in prison, Panno was picked by Harlem Madan, the commander of the DGSE, who took a fancy to his outstanding investigation and counter-reconnaissance capabilities during his four years on the run.
He was secretly released and trained to become a tainted agent.
Because of his experience in prison, he was looked down upon in the DGSE.
…
Listening to Dai Jili's words, the smile on Bourbon's face disappeared completely.
"Then he came to the organization to work as an undercover agent?" he asked expressionlessly.
"No, before that he..."
In order to track down his brother's whereabouts, Panno once wanted to sneak into the undercover gang in District 10 to check the trafficking records. If he could get that file, he might be able to rescue more children who were abducted like his brother.
But Harlem Madan disagreed.
"... In his eyes, the boss who helped him is the biggest protective umbrella for the gang that has been running rampant in France for many years and has not been eradicated."
After Dai Jili drank a few glasses of wine, he was no longer so scared. The more he talked, the more he talked.
"Because he was worried that Pan Nuo's insistence on going his own way would expose him, he threw him into an organization that had conflicts with gangs to work as an undercover agent... His boss didn't want to eradicate the organization at all, he just wanted to eradicate the threat and collect funds from it...
That guy thought he was dedicating himself to justice, but in the end he was just an abandoned child!"
This is the information that the organization captured and asked after Harlem Madan's mistress died last year.
"Isn't this ironic? The grateful boss actually wanted to kill him. Angstra, whom he wanted to sell, cleared out the gang that had been entrenched for many years overnight six months after his death!"
He laughed as he spoke.
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It was a sunny day, and the sun was just right outside the car.
Jing Baiye, who was about to graduate from college, sat in the back row and quietly looked at the blond mixed-race man next to him, codenamed Panno. He and Gin picked him up from the airport an hour ago.
Under the sun, the blond hair exuded a charming brilliance like gold. This beautiful color made Jing Baiye feel relaxed and happy. Even though she knew it was impolite to stare at someone for a long time, she still couldn't help but look at him.
Pannuo finally got tired of him looking at him. He turned his face sideways and asked, "Is there something stuck on my face?"
"No." Jing Baiye shook his head repeatedly, "I didn't expect you to be so good-looking."
Panno's character is not yet fully understood, but at least he is becoming more and more satisfied with his face. In order to repay the impatient Rum's kindness in selecting people for him, he will definitely carry out the tasks he gives him in the future.
Panno looked at him, his expression completely lacking the joy that Belmode and Shirley would have when their appearance was complimented.
He was silent for a few seconds, then abruptly changed the subject.
"...What is my mission?"
"Go to this kid's house at night to deal with the woman and make her look like she committed suicide - be careful, the FBI has recently targeted his house." Gin, who was driving, glanced at Panno through the rearview mirror.
For undercover agents who died during missions, it was difficult for the agencies behind them to collect their bodies. This was the case for the adoptive mother's boyfriend who was accidentally killed by Jing Baiye.
His apparent identity was just that of an ordinary company employee, so the FBI could not directly intervene in the case to avoid alerting the public. They handed it over to the local police, while staying in the dark and quietly monitoring it.
"When the case is over, use the relative identity arranged by the organization to take over his legal custody and take him to Paris."
"From now on, you two will be partners in action together."
Pannuo nodded slightly, his expression unchanged.
But Jing Baiye felt that he glanced at him quickly.
The Porsche stopped at a certain street intersection, and Jing Baiye got out of the car early. The black classic car didn't stay for long and drove away, quickly disappearing from his sight.
Jing Baiye faced the direction of the Porsche, feeling a little disappointed.
Although they exchanged code names at the airport, they only exchanged code names - Panno didn't even say his name.
...It would be nice if I could know his real name.
Even though he was in an organization and couldn't call the person by his original name during the mission, he still wanted to know.
…
At night, Jing Baiye, who had no choice but to go to bed hungry because her adoptive mother was in a bad mood and didn't make dinner, heard a gentle knock on the window.
He opened his eyes and sat up from the bed. When he turned around, he saw Panno standing outside the window.
The sky is blue and clear during the day, and the moonlight is gentle at night. Panno, who was wearing regular clothes during the day, is now dressed in black, with an extremely serious expression. The dazzling blond hair is coated with a layer of silver, which is different from the beauty under the sun.
Jing Baiye jumped out of bed and ran over to open the window for him.
His bedroom was on the second floor. Pannuo climbed in from the eaves lightly and made no sound when he landed on the ground.
As soon as he came in, he closed the window with his backhand, moved to a position where he could never be seen from outside the house, and looked around the house with a vigilant expression.
Jing Baiye went back to the bed to put on his slippers and put the animal pillow that had accidentally fallen down back on the pillow. When he turned around and saw Pan Nuo's appearance, he thought he was observing the environment.
"There are no cameras or bugs here, you can take action immediately." He reminded.
"…………"
Panno's movements stopped.
He stood in a corner without light, slowly turned his head, and looked at Jing Baiye, who was standing in the darkness on the other side, through the moonlight coming in from the window.
"She's in the bedroom downstairs."
Jing Baiye walked towards him, stood in front of him, and continued to add: "She has only received a little gun training and has no fighting skills. It is not difficult to kill her."
"...are you talking about your mother?"
Pan Nuo asked softly, looking at Jing Baiye with his blue eyes.
Jing Baiye didn't avoid his gaze. While looking at each other, he stretched out his hand, grabbed the hem of Panno's coat and shook it - every time he did this, Belmode would have nothing to do with him. Panno and Belmode
It's also blond, maybe it will be useful too.
"I have no parents, she is just my adoptive mother." He said in a brisk tone, "Pan Nuo, I will be your partner from now on. Can I know your name?"
"…………"
Panno lowered his head and stared at the hand grabbing the hem of his clothes.
Jing Baiye couldn't understand his tone just now, and now Jing Baiye couldn't understand his eyes.
After a long time, Pan Nuo withdrew his gaze. He raised his hand and gently rubbed Jing Baiye's black hair with a very gentle tone.
"...Next time." He said.
"Next time, I'll tell you my name."
…
Jing Baiye woke up from his dream.
[Host...?] The voice of the system sounded in my mind.
[It’s okay, I just... dreamed about something from the past. 】
Jing Baiye turned on his phone to check the time and found that it was already very late. However, he turned on the map to check the distribution of people around him and found that Bourbon had not returned yet.
The moonlight fell from the window not far away, and he suddenly stood up from the bed facing the silvery glow on the ground.
He walked to the bookshelf, took off the old Little Prince photo frame, carefully opened the back, and took out the reversed photo.
This is a photo he took not long after he went to France and checked in at the tourist attractions.
In the photo, he and Panno were standing in front of the Eiffel Tower together, with his hand holding the hem of Panno's shirt. He was smiling happily, and Panno also had a faint smile on his face.
The photo frame and photos were sent from France in Curaçao. She said they were found during the cleanup of Panno's Dupin Detective Agency... They were supposed to be cleaned out together, but she didn't know why they were left behind.
——"Next time, I will tell you my name."
Jing Baiye touched the photo, carefully stuffed it back as it was, and put it back on the bookshelf.
"...Liar." He muttered quietly.
Until his death, he did not know what his real name was.
