Chapter 384 - Into the inner circle (3)

10 May, Special Forces headquarters, Military Base, City K

"No. It was my turn to de-code the intelligence," said Head Honcho, "And when I read it I was as shocked as you, for Legend de-coded it as well, with the same result. Officer N is adamant that City F is the target at some event, and that there is still a connection between the Devil and ISX."

"Those two…"

"I thought when your three musketeers spearheaded the rescue mission for you and your wife, that you had dealt a fatal blow to ISX, but as we know these groups will always have something as a backup…"

Matthew, shook his head and said "No, not a connection, my suspicion is that the Devil is using people loosely tied to them for his purposes…"

Legend and the Head Honcho looked at each other, before turning to Matthew. Head Honcho said "You might be right. ISX only became what they did with the Devil involved with them, and it would make sense if he is making a move to use people tied to that world, rather than the core people he has with him. Nothing in everything we have recovered from the site you were rescued from in all these months points to the death of anyone we suspect is one of the Devil's Minions, let alone the Devil himself."

"And…?" asked Matthew.

Legend, interrupted "About notifying the Local authorities? That is our challenge. Have a look at the other pages in the first folder."

Matthew flipped a page and skimmed the remaining pages. "I see the dilemma. Officer N knows she has been detected and that the Devil is setting her up to be the fall person when he strikes. And you want to leave her there? That does not sit well with me."

"Nor any of us in the inner circle. The problem is getting her out will be impossible and will trigger his attack earlier than anticipated. Plus, we have not worked up everything to protect her when we do get her out. She deserves every shred of protection we can provide, and it takes time to implement that." Said Legend, before a slight pause.

After observing Matthew's face for a few seconds Head Honcho said "And the most galling thing is we can do nothing other than issue an alert for increased terrorist chatter, and move a few soldiers to City F to deal with the consequences. It is contrary to everything we believe in not stopping this attack but doing so risks a more serious and unpreventable attack, jeopardises assets and a greater loss of life."

Silence descended in the room for a couple of minutes, the only noise being the flicking of pages from Matthew reading carefully all the doc.u.ments in both folders.

After looking both his superior and Legend directly in the eye, Matthew said "Maybe there is another way. We have someone who we know has been in contact with David Hwang and maybe…"

Head Honcho shook his head, "No, I do not trust Major Hung to this extent. We have a prediction on how he will react when we tell him what went down with the treason case, but when it still comes down to it David Hwang is his only living relative and we cannot trust him not to play both sides."

"Boss, he likely is, but that was not who I was thinking…"

"You are cynical?"

"With what happened to Lexi and I, I have to be, but no. Two days ago, Lexi got a call from out mutual childhood friend, Joan who has gotten engaged to David Hwang and they have planned a formal wedding ceremony on 28 June. She wants Lexi to design the wedding dress. That given reason for both Lexi and I to be around her, and by extension David Hwang. Plus, I can use that to be seen to work with him to ensure Major Hung has the time off he needs for the wedding…"

"And with Officer N being who she is…"

"If, and it is a big If, any contact occurs at his residence, she can use other old school techniques to get me information, like a brush past."

"Speed up information flow at times. Promising, and truly something that I can appreciate. But you better be careful about being at David Hwang's residence," said Legend. "One thing, and it is not there, Officer N has, what would be by a lot of people described as unusual s*xual preferences. A lot of which was illegal until the recent law changes…"

"While I will always professionally defend the law of the land as it stands, personally the changes were needed. What a.d.u.l.ts do in private, provided it does not cross a few lines about forcing people s.e.x.u.a.lly, prostitution, bigamy, minors, animals, and coercion, along with a few other things should not be regulated by the state."

"Do not let the politicians hear you say that Matthew Rong, or your career will be over. There is still massive debate about what should be legal and not."

"Hey, I never said that" replied Matthew looking directly at Head Honcho. "The law is the law, and I will defend it and the state to by dying breath. That is what I agreed to do when I joined."

Legend shook his head and said "You two are getting side-tracked. If you are going to do this Matthew. As I was saying, Officer N's is what people call bi-s.e.x.u.a.l, but she also enjoys group s*x but observing. She also enjoys some out there activities, which apparently has made her a favourite partner until recently of David Hwang. Also, she has previously indicated one of his favourite things to do is feed guests' aphrodisiacs to get them to join in activities and use the material for blackmail. I know your training involves dealing with that but…"

"I need to be on the lookout. Legend I am not stupid. But we need options." Matthew paused and said "And I guess the reason you have decided to bring me into the inner circle of people who know about Officer N, is that you are as certain as you can be that David Hwang is the Devil, and you want your Devil expert in play to ensure I can connect them."

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