Chapter 587 Hope
Ever since he received the mysterious text message in the middle of the night, Nolan has been guessing the identity of the other party.
The content of the text message is:
[Dear Mr. Sparrow:
We are honored to inform you that you have been selected as the lucky customer of our Beaverbrook restaurant on Rodeo Drive and we will serve you an exquisite meal.
Please come to us at X hour, X day, X month, 2023, at the Beaverbrook Restaurant, No. 52 Rodeo Drive. Table No. 1 has been reserved for you - the window seat on the southernmost side of the restaurant.
Contact person: H_man
Please confirm and reply "Y (yes) or N (no)" so that we can arrange the reception.
Sincerely yours sincerely]
Nolan, who was sleeping at the time, squinted his eyes to see the text message clearly in the dark, and sat up suddenly.
This is the emergency contact information for the H Rangers!
When a team member is in an extremely dangerous situation and is at risk of exposure, such a response message can be sent to the leader of the H Rangers.
The captain or the team member designated by the captain will go to the location specified in the message to respond.
Nolan responded to the message: "Or."
This is the Einsatzgruppe response: "Yes" and "No" are both wrong answers.
Replying with "or or" is the correct answer.
But among all the members of the H Rangers, only three members are currently in Los Angeles, and they are not performing urgent special tasks. The other members are performing tasks more than a few hundred kilometers away from here... Which member will use this method to communicate with him? What about contact?
Nolan eliminated all the team members one by one, but failed to find any possible targets.
He decided to visit the restaurant himself. And the message asked him to go by name.
Nolan sat by the window and saw the woman walking towards the restaurant from a distance - Cheng Ling, a Chinese actress with the same name as her dead captain.
Is it an accident or a coincidence?
Unexpectedly, she actually sat behind him and called him by his code name "Sparrow"!
Why is she here?
Could it be...she is really...
No no no!
Absolutely not.
Nolan gritted his molars and recalled how he refuted Ji Chengyue at that time.
By the way, this is what he said: "The two of them are not even remotely similar. They can even be said to be completely opposite."
Thalassophobia, climbing trees, how to tie ropes, height and shape, handwriting...
Especially "sea phobia" and "height and body shape", which cannot be faked.
Nolan felt the wall squeezing around him slowly move away.
——Yes, the two of them have nothing to do with each other except for their names.
She is not the captain.
Or maybe... this is a trap.
Amos and his bear nephew John had a big fight last night after returning from the White Club.
The reason for the quarrel was because John mentioned the dead captain.
This made Amos very angry.
And John coveted everything in Amos, women, houses, cars, and the H Rangers...
But as the captain of the H Rangers, I have always been at odds with John.
John wished he had revealed some flaws and let Amos replace him——
So, could this be John's conspiracy?
Unfortunately, I won't be fooled.
Nolan felt relaxed again when he thought of this.
——Although he couldn't think of how John found this actress at the moment, nor how John obtained the emergency contact information within the H Rangers, Nolan at least got rid of the crazy idea that "this woman is the captain".
Nolan calmed down.
So, he also replied in ventriloquism: "Long time no see? No, madam, I think you are mistaken. Is this the first time we meet?"
Cheng Ling didn't answer.
Because the restaurant waiter came towards them with lemonade.
After the waiter put down the lemonade and left, Cheng Ling took out a handkerchief from her bag, pretended to wipe the corners of her mouth, covered her lips, imitated her own voice, and said in a sarcastic tone:
"Aren't you yelling three hundred times a day to defeat me? With this little ability? You can't even touch my heels——"
Nolan's newly restored mood was defeated again.
This sentence refers to the time when he and the captain performed a secret mission - the mission location was the Brazilian Pantanal.
Because of his carelessness, he got into a swamp.
If it were an ordinary swamp, he could easily escape from danger.
But not the Pantanal.
It is the largest swamp in the world. The swamp is home to tens of thousands of piranhas and crocodiles, venomous reptiles, and fearless predators.
The swamp was vast and soft. He struggled for several hours but still could not free himself from the swamp.
The captain, sitting cross-legged on a nearby tree, chewed the fragrant dried meat and mocked himself.
Nolan really had no choice. When he wanted to lower his head and ask for help from the captain, Cheng Ling said this: "Don't you yell three hundred times a day to defeat me? With this little ability? You can't even touch my heels. ——”
After saying this, Nolan gave up asking the captain for help.
He lay dormant quietly in the swamp, keeping his balance and preventing his body from sinking. At the same time, he was looking for opportunities.
When a crocodile saw Nolan and crawled towards him as an appetizer, Nolan seized the opportunity and used his belt to tie the crocodile's huge mouth. With the help of the crocodile's huge dragging force, he successfully escaped from the swamp...
But what can this sentence prove?
Maybe the captain had mentioned this to someone before.
Yes, it must be like this!
Nolan himself did not realize that although he was trying his best to refute, a little hopeful flame ignited in his heart.
What was he hoping for?
He did not dare to think about it.