Chapter 45: Suspicion
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In the room with the sign of the director's office, Zhong Ming stood straight in front of the table, and the director sitting opposite her, holding a document, was looking through it with a serious face, and it seemed that he had reached the end, and his brows were furrowed tightly.
"Tell me your conclusions."
"Yes, my conclusion is that within us, there is indeed a mole, and the rank should be above the ordinary intelligence officer, below the department head."
"Why?" The director nodded his finger noncommittally on the table.
"Two reasons, the first is that Comrade Lin Jianguo was attacked in the course of carrying out his mission, and the secrecy level of this mission is very high, and ordinary intelligence personnel cannot reach it, at least it should be personnel from relevant departments above the rank of lieutenant colonel."
Hearing this, the director's eyebrows shrugged and glanced at her, this inference actually excluded herself, and he was within this range, but his finger continued to click: "Does it include the security department?" ”
"Including." Zhong Ming didn't hesitate.
This is very natural, such a secret operation carried out abroad, not only a military department, after all, that transportation line, in the end, still requires the participation of large state-owned enterprises, then the coordination of the security department is indispensable, they do not have personnel in that squad, but are only responsible for logistics and response.
"Tell me your second reason."
"In order to confirm this judgment, I deliberately applied to use the North American line, but there was no sign of their actions in New York, which has a narrower range of insiders and a higher level, and in fact even I don't know the specific composition of the personnel."
"Okay, you little bell, you're suspicious of me." The director said the words in a joking tone, but there was no trace of a smile in his eyes, and his face became more and more serious, like the weather outside the window.
"You're messing around!" His hand slapped on the table, and the man stood up: "Do you know how difficult it is to establish this line? Do you know what's behind this line? It is far more important than your life or mine. ”
"I know." Zhong Ming replied uncompromisingly: "It was opened up to ensure the operation of the 'deep sea', and in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of twenty years ago, they don't even have the right to contact the 'deep sea', and from the very beginning of its establishment, they are committed to sacrifice." ”
"Why would you do this when you know that?" The director's anger burst out at once.
"Because ...... 'Mending the Sky Plan' has the highest priority, in front of it, the 'Deep Sea' is also an object that can be sacrificed!"
Zhong Ming's voice was as smooth as ever, but it seemed to contain a huge amount of energy, suppressing the director's anger, and he looked at this stubborn subordinate in a daze, and there was a sense of old fatigue in his heart.
"You're right, the 'Mending Heaven Project' does have the highest priority, and it is also a prerequisite for the establishment of our department, but I want to remind you that it is a plan, not an individual, how can you conclude that the target person is irreplaceable, you know, before this, we used a selection system, didn't we also find the ordained."
"Because we have not been able to find a suitable person for more than five years, the target person is now the only one, and he is more feasible than the previous candidate."
Zhong Ming's reason made the director speechless, he didn't understand this truth, but he couldn't compare a civilian with the intelligence network that the country had worked so hard to build, it can be said that at this point, Zhong Ming's stubbornness is the reason why she can lead the entire plan, and she can do whatever it takes to do so, which has almost become some kind of obsession.
"Xiao Zhong, have you thought about it, if the plan doesn't go well, if you do this, there will be no way back."
"Chief, since I came into contact with this plan, there has been no way back."
Looking at her expression, the director finally shook his head and sat back, if he didn't treat her like a niece, why did he say so much, since the other party had made up his mind, he had to bear all the consequences, and he couldn't forcibly interfere, because as Zhong Ming said, the priority of the "Mending Heaven Plan" was the highest, and the entire second department knew very little, and even the nine bureaus they implemented specifically only knew the inside story of the two people in this house, and those subordinates all thought that it was just the monitoring and protection of specific targets.
"Well, since there's a general range, do you have any key suspicions in mind?" The Director pulled the topic back.
"In our department, the focus should be on the three bureaus, and as for the security department, the focus should be on the department heads, including the directors of several departments, deputy directors, and director-level intelligence officers." Zhong Ming whispered his judgment, although this range was much narrower than before, it was more difficult, because almost all of the people involved were senior personnel, and if you want to move any of them, you must be cautious and repeated.
"Within this range, it is possible to further screen people who have been abroad in the last seven years and whose assignments require them to be in the field."
Why is it seven years, the director knows that this is the time point when his department was established, and it is also the beginning of the official implementation of the "Mending Heaven Plan", that year, Zhong Ming was not yet twenty years old.
In this way, the number of personnel who need to be screened is not much, and the director silently calculated in his mind, and was about to give further instructions when the red telephone on the table suddenly rang.
“...... Is it? Great, okay I got it. Putting down the phone, his face finally showed joy, and he told Zhong Ming the news: "Your master woke up, and the hospital said that there was no big problem in life." ”
Zhong Ming is also happy, she will go to the hospital every day these days, her wife is strong on the surface, but secretly washes her face with tears, she doesn't know how many times she has seen it, and now she finally has good news, she is sincerely happy.
"Go ahead." Of course, the director could see at a glance that he waved his hand and let him go, and when Zhong Ming picked up the military hat and put it on, he added: "Don't forget to work." ”
Excited, she didn't slowly taste the meaning of the director's words until she drove out of the yard, the scope she just said actually includes her master, and she is a key person, you must first eliminate doubts about herself, even if Zhong Ming has 10,000 reasons to believe, this is also an organizational principle that cannot be changed.
At the door of the special care ward of the General Hospital of the Military Region, there were not so many visitors this time, when Zhong Ming walked in, his wife was holding a bowl to feed the master, she watched quietly at the door for a while, until Lin Jianguo on the hospital bed caught a glimpse of her figure, signaled to his wife, and walked in.
"The little bell is here." Mrs. Lin was generous, and after feeding the porridge she had just brought, she was going to go back and get another bucket, so she asked Zhong Ming to take care of it first.
When the master went out to close the door, Zhong Ming sat in her seat and looked at the man lying on the hospital bed, his whole body was tightly wrapped, it was only more than ten days, and the extremely stern iron man in his heart had become skinny, and his whole face had changed from a national character to a triangle, his cheekbones were protruding high, and his cheeks were deeply sunken, making her so sad that tears kept rolling in her eyes.
"What are you crying about?" Lin Jianguo spoke with some difficulty: "So many comrades have sacrificed, and they can still pick up a life, it is already God's eyes." ”
"You are an old party member and a materialist, and you don't usually believe this." Zhong Ming endured and endured, but didn't let the tears flow.
"It's not a contradiction, it's really a little bell." He said with some emotion: "In the cave, when my consciousness gradually blurred, I thought in my heart, if I can see your master and wife again, and your senior sister, even death is worth it." ”
Seeing that he was struggling to speak, Zhong Ming put an extra pillow under his head for him, so that his head could be raised a little, Lin Jianguo took a deep breath after saying this, as if he wanted to concentrate on something.
"The reason why we were attacked must have been leaked, this line was developed by us and the local intelligence officers, even the Pakistani military is not clear, among all the team members, only I have a satellite phone, they have no channels to communicate with the outside world."
Listening to the master's narration, Zhong Ming gradually became serious, she took out a voice recorder from her pocket and placed it next to Lin Jianguo's pillow, so that the latter could record it clearly without too much effort, so that the nature of the conversation became formal.
"You should find the phone, the chip inside is encrypted, no one, including me, can erase the content of the conversation, I request that the organization quarantine review me, and before the truth is clarified, all duties and jobs will be relieved."
Zhong Ming just listened quietly, she didn't have the right to express any opinions, because these words were all said to the organization, and the call was actually only made once, and it was for herself, and they had already been attacked at the time, so she was not suspicious.
Next, Lin Jianguo recalled in detail the entire process of their action, which is also the best way to clear up the suspicions, the content of the conversation, naturally there will be someone to implement it one by one, if there are any discrepancies, it will be a little more aggravated, he said very slowly, stopped many times in the middle, those comrades sacrificed in front of him, such memories are full of pain, but they cannot be avoided.
“...... The route of the attack was roughly on the edge of Balochistan, where several separatist armed forces were active, but their fighting qualities were much higher than those of the local armed forces, and their way of action carried a clear Western imprint, so I judged that these people, if not subordinate to the intelligence organization of a certain country, were mercenaries. ”
Lin Jianguo said very carefully, and there was a lot of his own judgment mixed in the middle, and by the time he finished speaking, his forehead was already full of sweat, Zhong Ming took a towel and soaked it and wiped it gently for him, she could still feel that the master was enduring great pain, but she knew the other party's personality and didn't dare to interrupt.
"That's all for the time being, wait for me to do something, and then call you over, alas, I'm getting older, and I almost can't hold on to a small injury, and I can't accept old age." The master's words made her nose sour.
"Where are you old, with your skills, I am not one of ten." She smiled and took out her wallet: "Senior sister's children haven't seen it yet, I brought the latest." ”
She took out a few photos from it, which was for the convenience of the patient, and she went to the photo studio to print them out, each of which was a chubby child, and her cute appearance made Lin Jianguo's eyes widen at first sight.
"So big? You don't look like me, you say. ”
A child who is only a few months old, how can she see that it doesn't look like it, but of course her mouth is repeated, grandson Xiaozu, this is also natural, Zhong Ming put the photo in front of his eyes, and quietly put away the recorder at the same time.
Lin Jianguo couldn't see enough, his thin face was full of smiles, but he thought that he was so far away that he couldn't even hug him, and he was a little regretful: "My business, don't tell your senior sister first, her mind is heavy, and it may affect her work." ”
Zhong Ming was stunned when she heard this, her expression was seen by Lin Jianguo, and she didn't understand it, most of her daughter already knew, so she couldn't help but sigh.