Snow’s heart tightened when he saw Lydia and Stefan’s faces. Then, sweat began to pour from his forehead. Even with his usual fearless character, he was starting to get nervous now.
He discovered Smart as the spy because he wanted to gain the initiative by striking first, but now he accidentally saw something that he should not have.
Was he going to lose his life because of that?
Lydia nodded solemnly, relaying to them what Geena had just said on the phone.
Stefan’s face turned pale instantly.
Then, he said trembling, “Milos, is Geena saying that the reinforcements won’t be coming and we’ll have to escape on our own?”
After all, he had just got to Qari not long ago, so no matter how much he had experienced recently, he was still that sheltered hedonist in essence. Back then, he could hold on until now with a single burst of energy, but now that he knew reinforcements were not coming, he was immediately deflated.
Cold sweat dripped from Snow’s forehead like a wet towel that had been wrung out.
He thought for a while and asked tentatively, “How about I surrender myself? I don’t have any evil intentions and I haven’t done any substantial damage so far…”
“Looking at it, we definitely can’t escape. So if I turn myself in, maybe the agency will spare my life because I am one of them.”
Snow only embarked on the confrontation with the intelligence agency by accident.
He was still hopeful about the agency, but a few years later, he would be ultimately disappointed in the whole system. However, Lydia interrupted his thoughts with just one sentence.
“Did you forget the silencer they used when you escaped?”
A look of terror immediately appeared in Snow’s eyes. He realized what Lydia was saying.
“And, do you think that they will believe you if you say you didn’t trigger the alarm intentionally?” Lydia was afraid that Snow would still be hopeful, so he added.
Lydia smiled and said, “Oh, is Smart a bald and fat middle-aged black man?”
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