Chapter 103 White Widow
So I wandered around Paris for a while.
Everyone says Paris is great, and many people dream of visiting here; but unfortunately after visiting here, Jiang Shan found that it was just so-so.
Except for a few major bustling areas, the rest of the area is quite messy. How should I put it, it's quite dark.
But there was also an extra bonus - I saw a character in the plot.
Elsa, in the Mission Impossible plot, is an agent of the British intelligence agency.
He is an old acquaintance of the protagonist Ethan Hunt.
In the original plot, Ethan and his "colleague" Walker, the real Lark, fought against the fake John Lark with an Asian face and were beaten to pieces. If this woman hadn't suddenly appeared and shot the Asian John Lark, Ethan would have died.
In this part, the real Rack, that is, Walker, was planning to take advantage of the situation and let the fake Rack with an Asian face kill Ethan; but because of Elsa's sudden appearance, he failed to do so.
Later, she changed her mind and went with the flow, making Ethan pretending to be Lark look like Ethan was the real Lark, and then used various means to induce his boss, the black woman, to make up her mind to identify Ethan as a traitor. So, Elsa, this woman, had already arrived in Paris in advance and was preparing for tomorrow night.
Elsa should be considered a rather difficult character in this plot - in the previous plot, she cooperated with Ethan to capture the leader of the Syndicate, Solomon Lane, who was also the leader of the predecessor of the "Apostle" organization in this plot.
But because she had worked undercover for Solomon Lane for two years, she was no longer trusted after the incident.
Especially since Solomon Lane came from the British intelligence agency, he knew many of the British secrets. Now, due to face issues, Solomon Lane was transferred to France.
They will face interrogation by intelligence agencies of France and other countries that have been targeted by the Syndicate. The British are afraid that Solomon Lane will expose the secrets of MI6, so they ask Elsa to kill Solomon.
This was used to prove that Elsa had not betrayed the team during her two years undercover, and thus regained their trust.
Ethan still thought that Elsa had quit MI6 and was no longer an agent - in fact, she couldn't quit at all. She could only find a way to prove her innocence and regain trust. There was no other way, or die.
Of course, MI6 must have given Elsa corresponding intelligence support - in the plot, Elsa always appears in time at the critical moment, which explains the problem.
Coincidentally, Elsa stayed in the same hotel as Jiang Shan.
But Jiang Shan did not seek any opportunity to flirt - Jiang Shan knew the priorities when doing things.
Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was April Fool's Day the next day.
In the evening, Jiang Shan put on the bracelet, dressed in a suit and tie, looking like a successful man. In one word, he was handsome. Elsa couldn't help but look back at him several times.
He followed Elsa in such a grand manner and walked into the Grand Palais in Paris.
This palace, once the home of the French emperor, has long been a commercial venue for hosting various cocktail parties. As soon as you enter the door, the hall is filled with dancing, feasting and revelry.
Passionate music, crimson wine, men and women, crowding and pushing each other, dancing and shouting, it was simply extremely hot.
Elsa had disappeared from the crowd.
The fierce fight in the toilet in the original plot flashed through Jiang Shan's mind. He looked up at the dome of the Grand Palace, smiled, pushed through the crowd, and headed towards the event hall where the White Widow was holding a charity reception.
He wasn't going to get into a toilet war.
First, it's boring. It's just like a child playing house.
Secondly, the core of the plot here is the White Widow. He met the White Widow first, so naturally Ethan had nothing to do with it.
When they defecated in the toilet, they found that the White Widow was gone and someone had taken her away. I wonder what kind of funny expressions they would have.
When he arrived at the door of the private club for the White Widow Charity Party, two men in black suits who looked like they were not easy to deal with stopped him and took out scanning devices.
Jiang Shan stretched out his hand and showed the bracelet on his wrist.
I passed the scan smoothly, walked through a relatively dim corridor, and then the view suddenly became clear.
The circular hall was crowded with about a hundred people; on a high platform in the middle, a woman with long platinum hair, wearing a platinum cheongsam, showing off her tall and graceful figure, and who seemed to be glowing, was giving a speech.
Her voice was not crisp, but rather neutral and a little low; her eyes were particularly bright, with light blue pupils that cast a little light wherever they passed.
Jiang Shan looked at her with interest, walked around the aisle next to the hall, and came to the bar on one side of the hall.
Then he leaned against the bar and just looked at the White Widow.
His gaze was like substance, sweeping over the White Widow's body again and again, causing the White Widow, who was currently giving a long speech expressing all kinds of emotions, to lower her voice and twist her body.
So she hastily finished her speech at the cocktail party, came down from the podium and walked to the bar; her pair of light blue eyes just looked at Jiang Shan, with a hint of anger in her eyes, but also revealed great curiosity.
"Well then." She waved to the bartender, asked for a glass of wine, and stared at Jiang Shan: "Who the hell are you? John Lark?"
It has always been considered ungraceful for a beautiful woman to swear; but when she swears, there is a different kind of charm in her style.
Jiang Shan smiled and used his hands as guns, pointing them at her: "Bang, bang, bang!"
The White Widow's expression moved, her eyes moved, she looked Jiang Shan up and down, raised her glass, gestured to Jiang Shan, and then drank it all in one gulp.
"I like this kind of directness." She put down her wine glass and looked at Jiang Shan's face: "But I'm in a dilemma."
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Jiang Shan leaned forward, almost face to face with the White Widow: "Is it because of your other buyer?"
The hot breath sprayed on her face. The White Widow blinked and took a half step back: "No, that will only cause trouble later."
Jiang Shan laughed: "I don't think these people can kill you."
In this hall, among the crowd, there were at least a dozen people whose gazes were filled with murderous intent when they looked over here.
In the original plot, a fight broke out when Ethan came here.
Some people want to kill the White Widow.
Ethan may have also sensed the murderous intentions of these people, and took the opportunity to threaten the White Widow, saying that the Americans and other intelligence agencies had sent people to kill her, in order to speed up the goal of approaching the plutonium core.
But in Jiang Shan's view, everything here is just a show.
The White Widow has been roaming among intelligence agencies and extremist organizations in various countries for many years. How could she be easily killed by a few people here? Moreover, the person who jumped out to kill the White Widow in the plot was very crude. It didn't look like a professional killer sent by an intelligence agency at all.
More like a gangster thug.
He actually used a dagger at the beginning, but was easily defeated by Ethan who was outnumbered. Even the White Widow killed two of them with the dagger on her white silk thigh.
Then those people thought of using guns.
Isn't this nonsense?
If he was really a professional killer, he would have shot the White Widow from a distance.
Combined with the later plot, when the black woman from the US intelligence agency had a video call with Ethan's boss, the white man, and said that the White Widow had long cooperated with the US intelligence agency, it was clear that this must be an act, and the character being acted was Ethan.
Most of the "killers" who were killed were hired gangster thugs.
"You are very perceptive." The White Widow curled her lips into a smile.
So, she knew about these 'killers'.
——As expected, he is playing Ethan.
(End of this chapter)