A few Mercedes-Benz G-class military-use off-road vehicles cleared the way for a long convoy of the CIA’s Chevrolet Suburban off-road cars. They went along the road by the coast, in the direction of the airport. 

The Valhalla Box Town shrank gradually in the distance. Oil-green forest lined both sides of the road, and Lucerne flowers bloomed on the nearby meadows. The multi-colored Lucerne flowers seemed to weave themselves into a carpet of flowers, so beautiful that it would be a waste to blink. 

Would he ever see such beautiful scenery again?

Xia Lei was heavy-hearted. He’d thought that Sean would stab an anaesthetic into him with a needle, and wouldn’t bind his hands and legs, but Sean didn’t do that. Instead, he had had his hands and legs bound together with iron chains which were usually used on the worst of criminals. Xia Lei’s plan to pretend to be knocked out by the anaesthetic, then ambush them and escape became useless. 

This Sean was one of the most difficult opponents from the CIA which Xia Lei had met. 

“Tell me, Mr Xia, you went to Afghanistan, then to Jerusalem, and then Japan. We...