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Even if Shore dared to say it, no one would believe him!

Langley, Virginia, CIA headquarters.

trial room.

Salt recounted his rescue experience over and over again. Behind the one-way mirror, several technicians were examining Salt's physical condition and conducting a lie detector test.

Behind the technician stood several agents in suits and ties, including high-ranking officials, the head of the counterintelligence agency, and Salt's superior.

The counterintelligence agency is primarily responsible for investigating and arresting intelligence personnel who have betrayed their duties.

Although several lie detector tests proved that Salt was not lying, her claims were simply too absurd, and as a professional agent, she naturally had ways to pass a lie detector test.

"What do you think?" the senior executive asked the two men.

“I believe in Evelyn!” said Ted, Shaot’s boss and friend.

The head of the counterintelligence agency, a black man named Peabody, looked at Ted and said coldly, "Believe what? Such an insulting reason as being saved by the devil?"

Ted argued forcefully: "It may seem absurd, but what's the evidence? You have no evidence that the devil doesn't exist, but Evelyn does!"

What evidence does she have?

"The simplest evidence is that we haven't found any clues about Evelyn escaping from there. Our people have been keeping an eye on that area, and about an hour and a half ago, the prison there was sealed off for a search!"

"How could we possibly escape back to the US from there in an hour and a half? By plane? By train? By cruise ship? None of those are possible! And we haven't found any relevant entry records!"

Peabody countered, "If she really escaped on her own, that's impossible!"

Ted frowned: "What are you trying to say?"

Peabody sneered: "I know she's excellent, possessing a wide range of skills including: explosives, rapid attack, counter-surveillance, driving, coded rendezvous, free parachuting, blade fighting, hand-to-hand combat, threat neutralization, and lethal force."

"But do you really think she could escape from a heavily guarded North Korean prison and get back to the United States in just an hour and a half?"

"The only possibility is that she has been turned!"

Logically speaking, there's no way to explain how Shore escaped back.

Being turned and then returning under the other party's arrangement is indeed a logical and reasonable speculation.

It was so reasonable that Ted and the others couldn't refute it at all, and even Short himself couldn't find a reason to refute it!

"Well... there's another possibility, which is that she really was saved by the devil. Otherwise, there's no way to explain why the surveillance footage would capture her appearing on the streets of the United States during a closed-off screening of a North Korean prison..."

A technician spoke timidly, pointing incredulously at the computer monitor.

The monitor showed the footage he had just pulled up, showing Shott emerging from the alley, and the time displayed on the screen was only a few minutes after the time of the North Korean prison lockdown and investigation.

This means that when the prison discovered that Salt was missing, he had already returned to the United States.

A mere few minutes' difference between North Korea and the United States—this is absolutely beyond human capability!

Are you sure the time is correct?

"I'm sure! This is the most authentic footage and time; there's absolutely no possibility of it being altered!"

"This...this doesn't prove she was really saved by the devil. Devil, you don't actually believe there are devils in this world, do you? Fuck, this is too ridiculous."

Peabody cursed, then said, "Perhaps there's another possibility: Short might have been secretly sent back beforehand. The time she left the prison might not be the time the prison began its closed-off investigation. Maybe this is a deliberate illusion to mislead us."

"Unless Evelyn was a double agent they had planted long ago, even if she betrayed them immediately after being captured, it's impossible for them to believe her so quickly and secretly send her back to infiltrate."

“We all know that Evelyn couldn’t possibly be a spy they’ve planted beforehand, and they don’t have the ability to do such a thing!”

Peabody wanted to refute, but just as Ted had been unable to, he couldn't find a logical reason to do so.

From a logical point of view, it is most reasonable for Shore to be rescued by the devil!

But the existence of the devil is inherently unreasonable to them!

Peabody was getting a little exasperated: "I've never encountered anything like this before. This isn't right, that isn't right. What do we do now?"

"Send her to the hospital first, and arrange for more people. Whether it's North Korea or the devil... the devil or not, as long as there's a problem, it will definitely be discovered." The senior executive made the final decision.

Currently, monitoring Salt is the only feasible means.

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Chapter 512 The Devil's Mission and Entering the Dream

Late at night, in a hospital intensive care unit.

After undergoing a series of examinations and treatments, Shaote lay in his hospital bed and fell into a deep sleep.

The severe torture she endured after being captured and the series of events that followed her rescue left her physically and mentally exhausted. Even though she knew that many people were watching the ward and that this would continue for a long time, she didn't care anymore.

She has a clear conscience!

As for whether they believed in the existence of the devil, whether the devil would appear again, and what he would tell her to do if he did appear, Shaote didn't care anymore. After surviving the ordeal, all she wanted to do was get a good night's sleep!

In his sleep, Shott suddenly woke up, opened his eyes, and found that there was a person sitting in the dimly lit ward.

Startled awake from his deathbed, Shaote narrowed his eyes and exclaimed in surprise, "You...I...I reported your matter to my superiors, but they didn't believe me."

Su gave a noncommittal "hmm".

Shaote added, "My colleagues should be watching outside. How did you get in?"

"call out--"

With a flash, Sue teleported from a distance to Shaot's front. Caught off guard, Shaot was startled by Sue's sudden appearance and instinctively leaned back to dodge, but then reacted.

This is the devil! He doesn't want any human agents to find him.

Sue sat down on the edge of the hospital bed and slowly reached out to stroke Shaot's hair. Shaot remained motionless, feeling no romance or tenderness whatsoever, only a deep fear of the unknown.

For example, if a beautiful woman touches your hair, you'll definitely feel excited or tender, but what if it's a female ghost with a blue face and fangs?

Moved?

Don't dare to move!

Strictly speaking, Su's Otsutsuki form is not scary; on the contrary, it has a unique and sinister aura. However, given his unusual appearance and his identity as a 'devil,' ordinary people are bound to be afraid of him.

Not many people have seen the Su clan's Otsutsuki form. Most of them are people close to him, with whom he has a deep emotional connection, or who are themselves outcasts and therefore do not feel fear.

Unlike Shaote, she was a human agent who firmly believed that Sue was the devil, so how could she not feel fear?

“There is an organization with official backing that specializes in finding young death row inmates, helping them fake their deaths, training them, and then having them carry out missions,” Su said slowly.

Shaot instantly focused his attention and listened carefully. This must be what the devil wanted him to do, and it was also the price for saving him.

"One of the supervisors was named Michael, a former senior naval officer."

Sue stopped there, and Shaot reacted quickly, immediately realizing that this Michael must be the devil's target.

"Kill him?" Salt asked tentatively.

"I'll come back to see you in two weeks." Su leaned forward, slowly approaching under Shaote's somewhat nervous gaze, and gently kissed him.

He immediately stood up, looked at the nervous Shaote, and said, "I hope this won't be the last time we meet!"

“Wait… how should I address you…” Shaote hesitated for a moment, then hurriedly spoke.

But then I suddenly realized that I had only just sat up!

Looking at the dimly lit ward and the vanished demon, Shaote felt as if he were in a dream... no, he should say that what he had just experienced seemed like a dream!

"boom!"

The door to the ward was pushed open, and Peabody, a black counterintelligence agent, rushed in.

Seeing that there was no one else in the room, Peabody hurriedly ran to the window to look outside, and then checked the room for places where people could hide.

Unfortunately, in the end, nothing was gained.

"What just happened?" Peabody asked Salt.

Shaote thought for a moment: "It was here just now."

“I was guarding the door the whole time, and there were other people watching outside as well, but I didn’t find anything suspicious,” Peabody said.

"He did come," said Shaote, "but only in my dream."

In a dream?

Peabody thought it was a bit far-fetched, but still asked about the details of the dream.

The devil appeared in Short's dream, in the same hospital room. The devil mentioned a secret organization with official backing and demanded that Short kill a manager of the organization named Michael within half a month!

This mission... doesn't sound like something the devil would do; it sounds more like a mission for secret agents or some special organization.

Peabody used his access privileges to investigate and actually found the organization.

To be precise, they found this former senior naval officer named Michael, whose records say he lost his wife and daughter and then joined the organization.

The organization has been identified, and the person has been located, but what to do next is a bit of a problem!

We can't really let Salt kill that guy named Michael, can we?

Although they are not in the same department, they both serve the country. It is obviously impossible to kill the other party's supervisor for such a reason.

But if we don't kill him, what if, what if the devil really exists, and he reappears in half a month, then it might be Shore who dies.

Caught in a dilemma, they had no choice but to call over the CIA's top executive, Salt's superior, again, to discuss a solution together with Salt.

Needless to say, Short firmly believed in the existence of the devil, and her boss Ted, who also believed in Short, was also among those who believed in the devil.

Peabody seemed to be a staunch atheist who did not believe in the existence of the devil.

As for senior executives, their stance is simple: whether the devil exists or not is irrelevant; all they care about is the result.

Ultimately, the group decided that Salt would stay in the hospital to continue recovering while they investigated the organization and Michael's background to see if they could uncover Michael's connection to the "devil" and why the devil wanted to kill him.

As for what happens next... we'll decide based on the situation.

Cortez Hotel.

After using his dream-entering ability to meet Shaot, Sue shifted his focus and entered Nikita's dream.

It must be said that the supernatural powers awakened through Freddy's Chakra Dan, namely the ability to enter dreams, are indeed very useful.