Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's the annual chūn festival.

In the past year, the achievements of the military factory can be said to have exceeded Xu Ziling's expectations, he is very satisfied with all this, and he is even more looking forward to what changes will be made in the coming year.

The Chinese New Year's Eve was spent in their hometown with Yang Ruolan, and the new daughter-in-law came to celebrate the New Year in the first year, and was warmly welcomed by her grandfather nǎinǎi.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the family said goodbye to their grandfather nǎinǎi and left the countryside, went straight to the capital, went to Old Man Yang's house and Yang Haisheng, Zhao Xueqin and his wife gathered, and did not return to Star City until the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

After returning to Star City, Xu Ziling went to Huang Lao, Li Lao, Master Lin and other people to pay New Year's greetings, otherwise some people came to his house, and they were busy until the eve of the Lantern Festival.

Last year, the problem of weather and time, so that the "Flying Eagle" fighter left the most difficult weapon system test was not completed, this project is their most important project this year, everyone dare not slack off, the New Year's work began, everyone is busy preparing, just wait for the weather to be suitable, on the relevant tests.

Compared with the busy crowd, Xu Ziling seems to have nothing to do, the destroyer's plan was made out a few years ago, and it was handed over through relevant channels, and now he can only quietly wait for experts to verify and evaluate, the test of the "Flying Eagle" fighter, the staff below have long been familiar with it, and he can't get involved, and he doesn't like administrative affairs, so he is the only one who is the most idle in the entire military factory.

"There's an update on things." Wang Jian said to Xu Ziling who came in.

Just now, Wang Jian, who had been paying attention to the leak of the technical exchange of the past year, got an update, so he called Xu Ziling to tell him, and Xu Ziling, who was bored, immediately came over from the laboratory as soon as he received the call.

"What's the situation?"

This matter has always been in his heart, but there were too many things some time ago, and after explaining it to Wang Jian's attention, he didn't care too much, and in these rìzi, he didn't see Wang Jianyou say anything, and he was a little surprised that there was a sudden progress at this time.

threw a cigarette to Xu Ziling, stepped forward to light it for him, and Wang Jiancai, who sat back in the chair, told him:

"Someone saw that person in the United States, the place where the other party appeared is more sensitive, and the people here don't dare to act rashly, so they can only monitor."

"Forehead ......"

Xu Ziling immediately realized that this kind of information should not be accessible to Wang Jian, because the department in charge of investigating this matter has always only reported the progress of the matter to the military factory, and it will definitely not be so detailed, "Who did you ask for?" ”

Wang Jian smiled, "When Brother Kai Ming came back last year, he took me to meet the person in charge of the investigation, Mao Zhengqi, the director of the 13th National Security Division, and I got the news from him. ”

"Hehe......" turned out to be the relationship between Yang Kaiming, Xu Ziling was not surprised, with Yang Kaiming's identity, and the military factory was the person concerned, the other party told these Although there was a suspicion of violations, it was not too much, "Have more detailed information?" ”

"That's not true, it's good to tell me this, and besides, the investigators are not us, why do you want detailed information."

Wang Jian shook his head.

"Well, okay, I know the truth."

Xu Ziling had some ideas, but there was no need to talk to Wang Jian, the two chatted again, and he left Wang Jian's office.

I always felt that there was something incomprehensible in this matter, but now that I got such a piece of news, it made him have the idea of wanting to investigate it himself, and when he left the office building, he took out the phone and called Yang Kaiming.

"You are familiar with the director of the 13th National Security Division?"

The phone was connected, and he didn't be polite, so he asked directly.

"Mao Zhengqi? It turned out that someone in our team was injured during a mission, so he was transferred to the national security department. ”

"Oh, then you give me his contact information, I'll have something to do with him."

"Okay, wait for it to be sent to your phone, what are you looking for him?" Yang Kaiming was very surprised, and suddenly remembered that he went to Guoan with Wang Jian a few years ago, and tried to ask: "Or is it the case of stealing information and defecting?" ”

"yes."

Xu Ziling said seriously: "I always feel that this matter is a bit strange, so I want to see the information in person." Then he told Yang Kaiming what he couldn't figure out.

Yang Kaiming also has such thoughts, if he continues to lurk, he will definitely be able to get more skills, but he was exposed so early?

The two chattered together for a long time, but in the end they still didn't figure out the problem, so they had to give up.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Ziling thought about it and didn't go back to the laboratory, but turned around and went to the parking lot, thinking about going to Guoan to see if he could find something.

The 13th National Security Department is a direct department of the National Security Bureau, responsible for the confidentiality of some special departments and institutions.

After hanging up the phone, Yang Kaiming sent the contact number of Mao Zhengqi, the director of the 13th Division, and the address of their office to Xu Zilingzi.

drove the car out of the military factory, and Xu Ziling drove according to the address.

More than half an hour later, in an office building in the city, he found thirteen office locations, and looked at a nameplate of a trading company at the door, he shook his head and smiled.

"I'm looking for Director Mao."

Walking to the front desk, he directly took out his military ID card and handed it to the young girl in charge of reception at the front desk.

"Wait a minute."

It seems that there are many people who come to Mao Zhengqi like him, and the young girl didn't have any surprised expression, took Xu Ziling's certificate and put it on a scanner, which should be verifying his identity.

As he thought, Xu Ziling's information quickly appeared on the computer in front of the girl, she looked at it, and then returned the document to Xu Ziling: "Go in from here, the first office on the left." ”

Xu Ziling looked in the direction the girl was pointing, took the document and said thank you, and walked inside.

The door of the first office on the left reads the manager's room, knocking on the door and entering, Xu Ziling saw Mao Zhengqi, the director of the thirteenth office.

If it weren't for Yang Kaiming saying that he was a former operative of the sword, and when he saw Mao Zhengqi in a suit and leather shoes, he looked exactly like a successful businessman, Xu Ziling really couldn't see that he was once an iron-blooded soldier with a gun.

"Isn't it surprising? Everyone who knew me before or knew me in detail thought that I was really in business. ”

Mao Zhengqi saw Xu Ziling's fleeting surprise, but he saw it in his eyes, thinking about this kind of expression, he had seen a lot, and said it without care.

"Hello, Director Mao."

When he said this, Xu Ziling was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly walked up.

"What's Director Mao's name? Just call me Lao Mao, if you want to save face, just call Brother Mao, Xu Ziling, but our pride. ”

Mao Zhengqi has long known Xu Ziling's name, but he has never had the chance to see it, he came out of the sword, it does not mean that he has completely cut off contact with the sword, plus his current identity, some things about Xu Ziling, he knows much more than ordinary people.

He was born in the sword, even if he came out, he has an inseparable feeling for this team, knowing everything Xu Ziling did in the sword, he is the same as the others in the sword, he completely regards Xu Ziling as the pride of the sword, and now that he has seen it with his own eyes, he is naturally very enthusiastic.

There is a love from the same place, Mao Zhengqi is very enthusiastic, the two sat down in the office, and talked happily, and the last thing was that he took the initiative to ask Xu Ziling if there was anything to do, and Xu Ziling said what he meant.

"It's a remiss on my part." Mentioning this matter, Mao Zhengqi's face was a little ugly, "Such important information was taken out of the country, and we haven't caught the defectors until now." ”

"I can't blame you for this, people are deliberate, it's normal to miss occasionally, and those materials are not particularly important, we can come up with better ones at any time."

No matter what you say about this matter, the thirteen places are all responsible, seeing Mao Zhengqi's self-blame, Xu Ziling didn't know how to comfort him.

Fortunately, he didn't say much, and quickly copied a complete copy of the information to him, and didn't say anything about having orders from his superiors.

"Then I'll take my leave, and we'll have time to get together."

got the things, Xu Ziling was not ready to stay longer, there was a comradeship in the same team, after a short time of talking, he also had a good impression of Mao Zhengqi, so before leaving, he said that he would contact him more at any time.

"What a shame!"

Xu Ziling is already a legend in the sword, Mao Zhengqi, who is familiar with all this, is naturally willing and readily agreed, insisting on sending him downstairs to watch him drive away.

Leaving from the thirteenth place, seeing that it was still early, Xu Ziling returned to the military factory.

After returning to the military factory, he immediately returned to his office and looked at the materials. The information Mao Zhengqi gave him was very neat, from the beginning of the matter, to the latest progress now, and everything they investigated was not revealed at all.

It took him a full two hours to read the entire information, and everything recorded in the information was probably the same as what he knew, and it turned out that the part that he didn't know about the Tao was also something insignificant, and he didn't find anything useful in it to solve his doubts.

"Do you really have to catch this person to figure it out?"

After reading the information, he couldn't think of anything else wrong with it, and he touched his head and found that he felt like he was going crazy.

After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't get the point, and he set his sights on the place where the target had recently appeared—a small town in the western desert of Nevada, Mi.

The information shows that this desert town should be an ordinary desert town, but it is very abnormal, and everyone in the town seems to be ordinary, but if you look closely, both men and women have a temperament similar to that of not ordinary people, which makes the investigators dare not act rashly.

"What's the secret here? Or is it a secret military base? ”

Looking at some of the anomalies found by the investigators in the data, Xu Ziling had a kind of ** to find out.