Summary:
Kid and Nikov help free a woman being held in prison as an old friend wants to find his lost sister in China. To handle it, Kid and Nikov assign the woman to go with him. However, it turns out the man there is finding not just his lost sister, but also discovers the dark truth inside the Chinese government.
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Inside an unknown prison center, a woman, perhaps just 23 years old, but she looked like a man because of her strong body. In fact, she practiced in gymnasium and often carried heavy thing, causing her to be stronger than many girls at youth.
She was ridiculously strong and tough to a point, every men there got scared to face against her, unless those drug lords wanna challenge.
Yet, she suddenly got something.
"Miss Patricia Knightley, prisoner 60135?"
Her voice was also extremely drunk, unlike the voice of young women at her age.
"Yes?"
"You're guaranteed free. Two men paid ransom for you, in exchange you'll be recruited by them."
"Huh? Is that …" She looked quite hard to mention, but her blood ran high: "What do they want? Already taken me to prison, now … want me back for what?"
"For a moment, you will go to Washington State. Seattle. Don't make us bring you back."
She just mentioned that, and remembered back to Seattle was her birth city, where her mom gave birth to her. She had not met her dad and mom very long time since she cut off her tie to live in her own life. Patricia Knightley, face unknown in prison, stood up, and recounted about the year. She should have served the 20 years sentence, but she was released for just a year.
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20:45
Seattle, Washington, United States
An Asian man driving on the car, and he was just still thinking about it.
Something … haunted him back … on his own Fiat Punto, a white Fiat Punto, not the Grande type but just the Punto type. And that moment …
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"哥,山是美丽的。" (Brother, the mountain is beautiful.)
"你喜欢它吗? 这非常感人。" (Do you like it? It is very touching.)
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"你会去哪里学习? 你想在北京,上海,广州学习吗? 还是国外到美国和加拿大?" (Where will you go to study? Do you want to study in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou? Or abroad to the United States and Canada?)
"哥哥,我想进一步研究。 首先在上海,然后到纽约。" (Brother, I want to study further. First in Shanghai, and then to New York.)
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"Lina!" He stopped the car suddenly on the highway, as it faced off a police car, also parked there too. He was in a nightmare over the existence of his sister, for some reasons.
"Hey, you. Why are you stopping here?" A police officer asked by looking to him from the window: "Is there anything wrong?"
"No … I am fine, sir." The Asian man responded to the police officer, his right covered his face like he had never heard it.
"Are you sick?"
"No … I am fine, thanks."
"Well then, welcome to Seattle, gentleman." Another police officer addressed: "Enjoy your trip."
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The Asian man thanked police and he drove into the city. This man was no one … but …
… Zheng Wangji, former soldier of the People's Liberation Army, but was betrayed and butchered from within, his family harassed by unknown people due to his discovery of the government's corruption. He now had an American passport, and … a new name.
Adrian Tseng, is his new name.
It was just something floating beyond his mind, before he got into an apartment where he hired in Seattle to live permanently. With good English, he was able to integrate well, but he chose to live in an apartment which was managed by a fellow Chinese American.
"Hi Miss Lou."
"Ah, Mr. Adrian, do you need some dinner?"
"No, no need. I am not hungry. Thanks."
"Oh, it is so bad. Well, enjoy your night, Mr. Adrian."
"You're welcome."
Having escaped to the United States of America, he owned debt to Raymond Reddington for the man's effort to rescue his family from the harassment of Yunnanese and other Chinese officials. However, one thing he had never forgotten, was his sister. He had never seen her for five years, and he had no clue.
He could not forget it, even though he was cooking, or reading. That showed a great pain of his heart being felt beyond. He had to take his dad, mom and few remaining relatives to live in inner U.S., with location being covered.
On his sadness, he opened up his computer, and watched a video from Youku, Chinese equivalent to YouTube. There, he looked for a bit … but no videos worth to watch for him.
Just movies, some comedies, and foreign relations, to other personal dramas. It is just as cheap as that.
But then, he discovered a video, where it showed an official standing in front of local press. He was making a speech, and to discover the motivation, he opened the video to see if this were truly something behind.
In the video, after watching it, he quietly understood that, it was more than something. An evil thing … behind … was seen. He looked to the message of Raymond Reddington, and then, he registered his number, where he called to him.
"Hello, are you Raymond Reddington?"
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"Yes. I want to meet Dora-the-Kid and Dora-nikov, again."
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08:00
Seattle, Washington, United States
Also in the same city, in the city's dump ground, Kid and Nikov welcomed Patricia Knightley, who was released from prison. Patricia was not surprised, considering that they were the reason she had to go to jail. But releasing her?
Patricia Knightley, the girl who was tall, strong like a real muscle man, with a scar on one eye, the right one. It indicated her delinquent past.
"Mrs. Patricia Knightley, welcome." Kid represented, bold but calm.
"How surprising. You made me into jail, and now you release me. For what, Kid?" Patricia's response showed a level of arrogance, but Kid didn't care.
"When I first saw you, you are arrogant, and still. But you're very talented. You evaded captures many times, and you worked for many drug cartels smuggling drugs from Mexico and Honduras to the United States. You are very good. But you're even more. While not a typical engineer, you are well-trained for that, don't you?"
"What's my talents affected on you?"
"I think … your ability is helpful. You are not Anthony, of course. Nor even Ziaddinè. But you are special. I see that from you."
"And?"
Nikov, as usual, always kept calm while Kid was taking words.
"Well, luck has come, dear."
While she had yet to understand the real motivation of Kid and Nikov, suddenly, a Fiat car arrived to the empty dump ground of Seattle. In there, a tall, strong Asian man walked out.
Also full of muscle, it was the tall guy who has a scar on the left. Him – a person Kid and Nikov both knew and had awareness with – once again arrived. Much of surprise of the two indeed.
For Patricia Knightley, she felt it even funnier.
"Zheng?" Kid added.
"Finally I found you." Zheng spoke out in favor: "Glad to see you again, Kid and Nikov."
Kid and Nikov just stood a moment while Patricia Knightley didn't take stance, probably she knew he was just like her, except Patricia had a long blonde hair unlike Zheng.
But Zheng addressed differently: "Just call me now Adrian."
Kid and Nikov might have been frustrated a bit, as they remembered him in Burma. But soon, they took their calm, and asked: "Adrian, what led you there?"
"Do you … have the List?"
"Huh?" Kid wondered, but he saw how Adrian arrived to him, he could not deny it. Nikov saw from the soul of Adrian Tseng, it hindered something very painful and tragic from the past. The Russian guy immediately pressured Kid to speak out for Adrian.
"Okay … I have the List. Was it because of Raymond?" Kid guessed out who could do that.
"No wonder." Adrian was impressed, too: "Okay, I just need the list. I'll show you something."
As such, Kid and Nikov agreed, as Adrian looked on the blonde haired girl, who have a similar scar except in right eye. And he politely asked: "What's your name, young lady?"
"Patricia Knightley." She answered: "And don't ask me again."
"Alright, Patricia. Time to go." Kid and Nikov escorted the prisoner and drug dealer Patricia into the Fiat of Adrian Tseng, since they came here by metro station. The car of Adrian soon departed from the dump ground and headed to his apartment in the North Canal Street lies to Fremont Cut, a canal near Lake Union.
It was the building that where Mrs. Lou, another Chinese American, lived and also manager of the building. Mrs. Lou was modest, so everyone likes her.
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After going to the apartment, the first thing Adrian did was to open the computer, his Asus computer to check on the video he just took from the video of Youku.
Patricia, on the other hand, was escorted again, to see what's next.
"Adrian, what did you want to show us?" Kid asked.
"Here." Adrian presented: "This, I dunno if this is not fit or fit, but you can have a lot of times to understand the motivation behind."
A video from Youku downloaded there showing in Chinese, but Adrian took little pressure to translate it back to English successfully.
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The video, taken place in Beijing, was the speech from the spokesman of the Ministry of Economics of China.
When the reporters asked if China is truly clean of corruption that influenced its unhealthy investments abroad, the spokesman stated:
"对于大多数的一部分,中国政府已经做的非常出色,并且由于新经济部长的到来腐败已经降级到最小。" (For most part, the Chinese Government has been doing a great job, and corruption has been downgraded to its minimum since the arrival of the new Economic Minister.)
Kid and Nikov quietly watched it, and so was Patricia. But they wondered, what made Adrian so hurry to seek for them. Perhaps the video had something to answer.
"Do you think, the role of China will be more significant in the future? And how will it go?"
"新的经济项目正在进行中。 我们会在可能的情况下公布更新。" (The new economic projects are on stage. We will announce its update when it is possible.)
"Sir, what make you think that, China's corruption has been finally cleared?"
"拿云南吧。 云南是经济发展项目如何运作的一个很好的例子。 二十年前,云南是中国最不发达和最腐败的地区之一。 二十年后,云南正在成为中国经济奇迹的新典范。" (Just take Yunnan. Yunnan is a great example of how economic development projects work. Twenty years ago, Yunnan was one of the least developed and corrupt region in China. After twenty years, Yunnan is becoming a new model of China's economic miracle.)
After hearing "Yunnan", Kid and Nikov realized what did Adrian want to indicate about. But they kept a bit distance to see if this could be realistic or another side of it.
But the word "Yunnan", for Adrian, is very influential.
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After watching enough, Kid, Nikov and Patricia understood the meaning of Adrian Tseng, or Zheng Wangji.
"Yunnan …"
"This son of a bitch who is the spokesman of the Ministry of Economics is Peng Daqing, son of Peng Baode. Both are Yunnanese citizens." Adrian remembered the days when he was a soldier of the People's Liberation Army: "The duo was responsible for the influx of drug trades to Yunnan and later into China."
"That case … you meant …" Kid remembered to it.
"Yes. Peng Baode is now the new Minister of Economics of the People's Republic of China. The drug lord and warmonger became Economic Minister!"
"I guess … Peng Baode doesn't have only one, right?" In this moment, Patricia suddenly recognized: "Peng Baode does have more than one, right?"
"Oh … you nailed it?" Adrian told.
"But something … tell me, it is more than just the drug minister." Patricia examined the feeling of Adrian: "Perhaps, one of your relatives, right?"
From this point, Kid concluded his right feeling. He trusted about Patricia, and he knew Patricia did have talents. It was just, due to wrong way, the young 27 years old Patricia had lost in the wrong road.
For Adrian, he did not have anything to hide anymore.
"Yes. It relates … to my sister."
When it came to "my sister", Kid and Nikov got stunned. They did not remember if Adrian had ever said that or not. But now, it was firmly acclaimed.
"My sister is a very special person for me. Not just because of my soul, but my entire of life, I lived in the Yunnanese mountains, she and I were one."
"So, what happened?" Kid asked again: "I meant, I may not remember, but …"
"It's okay." Adrian went to his depth of his life, as he remembered from the memoir: "When I first joined the People's Liberation Army, my sister was still enrolling high school. I just … hoped that she would be fine."
"And what's gone wrong?"
"Five years ago, I was dispatched to Burma. While the distrust increased after I tried to discover the reality of several ghost PLA bases, I was sent to Burma to help Than Myint."
"Than Myint!" Kid recognized this story: "The rogue General of Burmese army, being killed previously."
"However, Than Myint, turned out, had extensive and more links than usual. And due to my discovery over the PLA corruption and later, the role of several officials, I was dismissed. Wang Yuili and Wang Yushan were behind, but the culprits might not just only them." Adrian got furious.
"But they're all dead now. Than had died. The Wang duo also got murdered. If you want, you will have to return to China." Kid was wary for Adrian.
"Do you know what? They abducted my sister. After being abandoned in Myanmar, before the generous help of Albayrak gave me back home, I lost contact with my sister. When I was sent to Burma, she still talked to me from WeChat. After that, there was no further sign anymore." Adrian revealed his tragedy: "From that moment, my father and my mother were all scared, they did not know, and they had to live in fear. Officials often came to harass my family, and I had to become a mercenary to survive. Even now when Raymond Reddington helped my family to relocate to the United States, the image of my dear sister … always hunts me. I want her back, alive."
"So that's why you want the List Dora-the-Kid is holding." Patricia understood the background: "Because you know the List has a lot of wanted people."
Kid and Nikov realized something, and they opened their iPhones to see about the List. Eventually, it did reveal several names which would be …
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"Peng Baode, Wang Yushan, Yi Huangshan, Ma Ziyou, Zhang Bingliang and Hu Guoyi."
"(They formed the core of six most notorious Chinese drug lords and political power of China. They were known as Group 6.)"
Nikov and Kid understood behind all, was a strong connection of rampant corruption within China that hadn't been revealed. But with one of them already died, the list was now only five.
"Wang Yushan had lost his life in Burma. But what is the reason remained unclear." Kid mentioned back to the case of the rogue General Than Myint.
"They're not that stupid. We need to understand their real motivation." Adrian Tseng added: "One of them had ordered the abduction of my sister. And I need her back! I had never seen her face for five years, a long, tragic struggle."
"But you cannot go alone, my friend. They both know you are still alive." Kid told out the warning: "If you want to be back to China, you could be killed."
"No matter what, I will have to return to China, even if this is dangerous. I have lost my connection to her many years ago. And I want nothing, but her return! With, or without you." Adrian confirmed his clear stance over the family: "I love my family, and I need my sister. I … I cannot live without it. I will never know if they have sold her for someone else. But we have no choice, and … it is … a must, with, or without you."
Adrian confirmed his view as the spirit of Adrian went higher and higher, he wanted nothing but the final chase. At this point, Kid and Nikov knew they could not stop, so they tried to go elsewhere. However, Patricia suddenly took her voice.
"Adrian … I'll go with you."
Kid and Nikov watched on, as Adrian turned the back, and talked: "What can help you go with me?"
"Because … I used to suffer the same story." Patricia retold one of his memoir which was similar to how Adrian used to be: "I almost lost my sister, because of the same abduction."
Adrian could not see anything else but sympathy. He tried to tell what's next to understand, but Kid and Nikov allowed Patricia to go.
In there, Patricia Knightley confessed one old story, standing in the door with her honesty. The former drug girl had a soft side.
"My sister, Leona, had been abducted before, and I chose to join drug trades because I had no option. But then, I was arrested by the police after years and years hiding." Patricia told.
"So … also similar story?" Adrian didn't look on her, just to the window full of sky.
"Adrian … but when I lost my control for being imprisoned, suddenly, my sister was found alive. And later, … she was freed. But that time, I had been imprisoned in Alaska, I had been cut off. It was found that, Mr. Raymond … Raymond Reddington, had helped her free and killed those smugglers who kidnapped her for drug business."
"Raymond Reddington?" Adrian got amazed.
Raymond Reddington was the notorious criminal wanted by FBI for years, but his surrender to the authorities had a big hand on it. In turn, he became a possible helper, and so far, he did well.
"Well, what'd be the next? Just that?"
"Adrian, I know your feeling to the sister is prevailing. But you have to be calm and more cautious. It is not good to jump ahead without perpetration. Do you understand?"
When Kid, Nikov and Patricia faced up Adrian, they were stunned to the past of the former PLA soldier. But when Patricia caught up with Adrian, the sense of the Chinese guy returned.
He quietly knew about it. But he didn't have much to offer either. When he grabbed back his sniping gun, he was like … he had prepared something. But this time, he didn't have any weapons, liked … he had something in the depth of his life.
For Adrian, family is big. Big enough to overwhelm anything against enemies of his. Just that alone, it devastated him to suffer five years without hearing his sister.
Kid and Nikov got the fact, and they didn't speak again. They turned to Patricia.
"Patricia, if you want to, tomorrow, go with him."
"What about you duo?" Patricia questioned.
"We've our plan."
Kid and Nikov did not talk about that, and they hated to retell it before going through, because of the pressure from the past. They also remembered what to be examined.
With Patricia and Adrian stood alone, Kid and Nikov texted message to a person from elsewhere. They addressed the person, to be ready.
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Adrian Tseng and Patricia Knightley sat together, with Patricia expecting him to always be optimistic, because she believed, his sister would return to his family. She trusted Adrian would be in sense together.
"Patricia … thank you. Please go for me."
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Patricia."
Adrian ordered Patricia to leave, and he did not care about the others. He just … walked without any conclusion. And Patricia quite recognized … the real role of Adrian and his past trauma did contribute to his escape to the United States.
Patricia Knightley left the home, and also departed away from that moment. Having been released from prison after a year, she just got into the mind that, if she could contribute for him. She soon tried to return back to her grandmother's house.
With Kid and Nikov no longer appeared, Patricia got back to the home of her late grandmother. The house was built in traditional Chinese style, since Patricia was of Chinese descent, with the family being participants of the American Civil War two centuries earlier.
"My grandma …"
She left to the house lied outside the city of Seattle. The house was a reward of their land being given by President Andrew Johnson and it was settled in Renton, which bordered the center city of Seattle. Patricia still remembered something, and with very few minutes, she entered into the house's cellar, where she knew it lied.
Patricia Knightley opened the door of the cellar, which included a lot of different weapons. From German Luger, MP-40; Italian Spectre; and even Russian Kalashnikov and American bazooka, Bolt, MP-16, etc. Patricia truly cared about the maintenance of firearms, and her grandma, also a Chinese American by descendant, stood on her soul.
She looked on the image of her, an old, happy lady. She could not hold her tear to see how she missed her funeral. She didn't come attending funeral when her grandmother passed away.
"Grandma … I am back … You had used to be in China, right?"
The image remained the only memoir last after she was released from prison.
"Now, I will have a fellow Chinese whose life has been stolen in China. I dunno if you truly have anything … but I miss you."
The house was left to allow Patricia to takeover, because her grandma loved Patricia the most. And the bearing of her cost, especially her Chinese origin, her Chinese grandparents came from Tianjin, demonstrated the dream to return to China, to figure her ancestral root.
That.
She could not speak Chinese, of course. But she had her dream. And she'd fulfill it.
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Beijing, China
The imperial capital of China.
The street is always being filled with a lot of traffic and the movements of people are many. Some of the great ancient stuffs are being found as well. Since the Ming dynasty, the city has been China's symbol of political power, and long history of China, with varieties of capitals, dedicated the power of the state.
And inside the Forbidden City, which was the symbol of China's political power during the Ming and Qing dynasties, an official walked in. There was a discussion between several men, most were being anxious of something.
"我们意识到,有人试图打破我们的共同业务。" (We are aware that, someone is trying to break over our common business.)
"我们的钱仍然安全。 但杀死一只猴子比留下它更好。" (Our money is still safe. But kill a monkey is better than leave it alive.)
"如果这个人知道这一点,我们正在利用巴基斯坦,缅甸和老挝的资金渠道为非法活动提供资金,它将点燃炸弹。" (If this man knows that, we are using the money channels from Pakistan, Myanmar and Laos to finance for illegal activities, it will ignite the bomb.)
"美国人知道我们正试图扩大他们的利益。 他们利用越南,韩国,日本,印度,阿富汗,泰国,菲律宾,印度尼西亚和哈萨克斯坦等国来切断我们的项目和政治领域。 特别是那些来自美国缉毒局的人,他们是从香港干预的。" (The Americans know that we are trying to expand against their interests. They have used countries like Vietnam, Korea, Japan, India, Afghanistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Kazakhstan to cut off our projects and political sphere. Especially those from Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States, they're meddling from Hong Kong.)
"你忘了台湾。" (You forget Taiwan.)
"啊,这个小省但却看不到中国人。 去年,我们在台湾暗杀了一些反政府的持不同政见者,因此他们感到愤怒和愤怒。" (Ah, the tiny province but doesn't see itself Chinese. Last year, we have assassinated several anti-government's dissidents in Taiwan, hence they are angered and furious.)
"但是,我们在政府中拥有广泛的权力。 他们可以尝试,如果他们想要。" (However, we have extensive power in Government. They can try if they want.)
"但我对来自大陆内地和中国侨民的人更加警惕。 有些人知道我们的非法业务。 如果中国发生冲突,就可以利用它,这将损害我们的工作,尤其是毒品卡特尔。" (But I am more wary over those from inner mainland, and Chinese diaspora. There are some people who know our illegal business. If China goes to conflict, this can be exploited and it will damage our work, especially, drug cartels.)
"我们必须处理任何被视为威胁的人。 王氏家族拆除后,我们不会让任何人毁了我们的生意。 记住这个教训,谁想要攫取更多的权力像王氏宗亲。" (We have to handle anyone who is perceived as threat. After the Wang family dismantled, we'll not let anyone ruining our business. Remember this lesson to those who want to grab more power like the Wang clan.)
"没有更多的讨论。 我们会摧毁一切反对我们的东西。 没有怜悯。" (No more discussion. We'll destroy everything against us. No mercy.)
"没有怜悯。" (No mercy.)
Those Chinese officials were having mysterious talk, but they didn't forget their real intention about. It was a must.
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Bormio, Italy
Far away in the northern, cold Alps city of Bormio in Italy, several Italian locals were serving food and cuisine as a black man walked in.
He returned to meet the hosts of the house, and also, his adopted parents.
"Mamma, stai bene?" (Mom, are you okay?)
"Grazie Emiliano, ma sto bene. Sto solo cucinando delle buone torte per domani." (Thanks Emiliano, but I am okay. I am just cooking some good cakes for tomorrow.)
"Posso aiutarla, mamma?" (Can I help you, mom?)
"No. Riposati in salotto, figliolo. Hai lavorato molto." (No. Just rest in the living room, son. You have worked hard.)
This black man was an Italian citizen, but his skin had nothing Italian anyway. Then, he received a message, where he was aware with the important as it was texted "urgency".
Emiliano, the Italian man with black skin, appeared to be serious. He soon carried a Swiss made-pistol, ready to depart from the house. This was not forced, it was a chosen decision.
What to wait?
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