Zhan Tianya walked hurriedly in the corridor, the empty sleeve of his left arm flicked back and forth, Liu Zhenming behind him was about to be unable to keep up with his speed, he was worried that this kind of footsteps would attract the vigilance of the special service bodyguards above - today, the chief came to inspect the Ministry of Ancient Science, and he would stay here for three consecutive days to listen to the work report.

This is an opportunity to "get in close contact" with the chief, but if this opportunity is not grasped well, it will ruin his own future, and it may also ruin the Department of Ancient Science. When Zhan Tianya walked to the end of the corridor and turned around to run up the stairs, he was dragged down by Liu Zhenming and pushed him to the corner of the stairs.

"Boss, what are you going to do!?" Liu Zhenming held Zhan Tianya down and glanced at the top of the stairs again, where there were several chiefs' secret bodyguards, and if they thought that someone had the intention of attacking the chief, they would immediately draw their guns and shoot.

"Save people." Zhan Tianya replied simply.

"You just rush in and tell the chief that you need the Navy to risk sending a plane to rescue people in the American consulate in Astaya, not only Chinese, but also Americans, or people from the American CIA?" Liu Zhenming asked word for word.

"I am their last hope." Zhan Tianya said in a deep voice, "Except for me, no one can save them anymore, I am their hope and a life-saving straw!" ”

"Boss, the Department of Ancient Science is different from what it used to be, to put it bluntly, there is a Department of Ancient Science now just because you are still here. If you ask for this now, it will make some sensitive people think that you want to restore the power of the Ministry of Ancient Science in the past, which is very dangerous, you should understand! Liu Zhenming grabbed Zhan Tianya's arm. What the old bee did before has poked countless holes in the sky, and the top has been making up for it, but it hasn't been finished yet, and you are now poking holes again! ”

"Zhenming, the coffin opener incident of a century may be over, but the end is coming, this matter is still going on, we just self-righteous have lived three dream-like days, natural disasters have occurred frequently in various parts of the world, and monsters have come out again, not only Astaya. In other countries, there have also been witnesses of the appearance of various monsters. That's not a rumor! You and I both know what that means. Zhan Tianya gently took Liu Zhenming's hand away, "Many years ago, I would have ignored it, but now I won't." I know what I am. If I had known earlier. When the coffin opener incident happens, I will change a lot of things, and I can also prevent many people from dying in vain! ”

"You have to know the way. In this situation, if you don't say a word well, even if the chief doesn't embarrass you on the spot, your life will become more and more difficult in the future, and even ......" Liu Zhenming paused, "Even the Department of Ancient Science may cease to exist because of this." ”

"I hope ...... I hope that this crisis can still be successfully passed, but if this time I can, I hope that no one will die in vain in the future, and I also hope that the heroes who turned the tide will be remembered, instead of hiding in obscurity and waiting for death! Zhan Tianya repeated Wei Daxun's words before, tidied up his clothes, turned around and walked upstairs, passed by several special bodyguards, knocked lightly on the door of the conference room, stood there and saluted and apologized, and then turned around and closed the door gently after entering.

Liu Zhenming stood at the bottom of the stairs, and could only look up at the expressionless bodyguards above, raising their vigilance, but their hearts were full of doubts and curiosity. In the eyes of this group of bodyguards, everyone in the Department of Ancient Science is a superb magician, a monster who can take people's lives with just a wave of his finger.

Since the day this department was established, the door will not be open to ordinary people, and when the events of that year led to a large-scale downsizing and layoffs in this department, most of the people who used to belong to this department were diverted, but the strange thing is that no matter who it is, no matter where he goes, he will never mention the past, and even make up a false life experience about his past, and say it thousands of times to make himself believe.

In the eyes of the insiders of Zhilu Dao's department, the Department of Ancient Science is mysterious, but at the same time deadly, and some people even believe that they will have many methods that can kill people thousands of miles away, just set up an altar, get some chicken blood and dog blood and other things, chant a few messy spells to kill someone, and of course, can instantly plunge a country into turmoil.

As a result, the Department of Paleography has become a threat in the eyes of other departments. Before and during the Coffin Breaker incident, the head of this department was powerful enough to mobilize troops at any time, and to order a city to be put on alert and combat readiness at any time. Therefore, after the death of the old man whose real name was Hu Wanqin, the former head codename Queen Bee, the Department of Paleoscience began to fall apart, and countless cruel truths were also unearthed and presented to the chief one by one.

I have to say that when those truths were revealed, the chief was shocked and angry, but at the same time, he sighed in his heart that the strength of this department was beyond his imagination and control. Fortunately, he immediately chose a suitable successor, Zhan Tianya, who was also designated by the former head queen bee.

Zhan Tianya has a special identity, not to mention, but also has an absolutely loyal heart to the country.

Therefore, when Zhan Tianya re-entered the conference room and sat down, the chief only quietly listened to the report for another five minutes, and then immediately announced that the meeting was temporarily rested, and all the participants except Zhan Tianya left—he had already sensed the uneasiness and anxiety in the heart of the young head of the secret department.

The participants left quickly and orderly, and even though many people guessed that something was happening, they still pretended to know nothing on the surface - politics is like this, when you should know the way, you have to pretend that you know the way in advance, and when you shouldn't know the way, even if you know the way, you have to pretend that you don't know anything.

When it matters you need to be a hungry wolf who obeys orders, in normal times you have to paint your fur white, mingle with other docile sheep, suppress your bloodthirsty nature, eat grass, and make a gentle cry.

The circular conference room was silent, only the chief sitting at the top and Zhan Tianya in the first row below.

Zhan Tianya didn't know how to speak, but remained silent. Waiting for the leader to ask questions, but the alarm clock in his heart kept reminding him that every time the second hand walked, the lives of Tang Shuxing and the others passed away.

"Let's smoke." The chief spoke, "I know that you are a heavy smoker. ”

"Chief, smoking is not allowed here." Zhan Tianya looked up at the chief, he was not like some people who could make sycophants, he immediately stood up when he heard the chief speak, which was also one of his "privileges", under the premise that there were only two of them. They can say almost "nothing".

"That's right. Smoking is not allowed here, and according to the rules, such a meeting is not allowed to take a break, so I made an exception first. You are also allowed to make exceptions. The chief smiled. Leaned on the back of the chair and looked at Zhan Tianya. There are no strange expressions, no other habitual small movements in the limbs – as someone who can sit in this position, the changes in your heart can be judged by expressions and body language. You've already failed.

"No, I'm the one who makes the exception first, it's me who leaves the ......table first," Zhan Tianya said in a low voice.

On the surface, the chief first blamed himself for making an exception to stop the meeting, but in fact, he was also reminding Zhan Tianya that according to the confidentiality regulations, this meeting was not allowed to stop halfway and leave the meeting halfway, and it was Zhan Tianya who took the lead in making an exception, and he did not pursue it, so Zhan Tianya should no longer hide what he was doing at this time.

The two options of being straightforward and tactful appeared in front of Zhan Tianya's eyes.

Although the power to be transferred is in the chief, if Zhan Tianya says it, won't it be tantamount to pushing the problem to the chief? So, in fact, the best option right now is to lie about something that is very serious, but actually easy to solve, and not to push the difficult problem to the chief.

"Say it." The chief clenched the handle of the teacup and stopped looking at Zhan Tianya, "You just treat me as if I'm not here, you talk to yourself, so that we can all do it." ”

Zhan Tianya got up this time, glanced at the door, and said, "I have several important informants trapped in the U.S. Consulate in the capital of Astaya, a small country in East Africa, and now they are not only facing the fierce attack of the Astaya coalition army, but also the attack of the monsters in the city. ”

Speaking of this, Zhan Tianya paused, raised his voice slightly, and said, "However, I believe that they have the ability to break through." ”

"You believe? Do they themselves believe it? The chief raised his eyes slightly and looked at Zhan Tianya, "Zhan Tianya, don't play with me to get away with it, the children who read this hand will do it, they have important information in their hands, right?" Do you want to save them? ”

Zhan Tianya was silent, it didn't make sense to say or not at this time, all the thoughts in his heart were speculated by the chief, and the other party was able to sit in that position, not by the inheritance of the bloodline.

"Do you know what Lu Dao is for, do I have to choose these few days to listen to the report?" The chief asked unhurriedly.

yes, for what? Isn't that obvious? Since the streamlining of the Ministry of Ancient Sciences, the head of the department has not come, and he usually does not ask, even when he signs the funding documents allocated to them, he does not ask about the situation of this department. This is evident from all quarters of information received from other intelligence services, and it has been pointed out that something big is about to happen.

"Zhan Tianya, when I took office, the problem of whether to stay or dissolve the Department of Ancient Science was placed in front of me, more than half of the staff proposed to disband, and some of them said that in order to make you, a person whose ambitions may swell in the future, settle down, it is better to put you by my side and become a staff member, but I refused, the reason is that you are not the kind of person who is peaceful, nor is you an ambitious person, if you have experienced something like that, there is only one kind of person who still has ambition - idiot!" The chief clenched his glass, "There's no way I'm going to let an idiot master such an important department, and this idiot is still so young, so my just asking doesn't mean not caring, and my just asking doesn't mean ignoring it." ”

Zhan Tianya's back was full of cold sweat at this time, he knew that what he had done in the past few years was completely correct, he would spend two days every month listing all the big and small things he had done this month into a document, and then present it to the chief from the first-level channel, whether the chief looked at it or not.

In the past three years, he has not missed a single month. With this kind of department that many people see as a threat, you have to be transparent with the department, transparent in front of the chief. If you do it behind closed doors after you have been promoted to the rank of official, the greater the suspicion of outsiders, and this suspicion will gradually swell, and when it accumulates in front of the chief, even if you only have a few hundred people under your command, and most of them are internal staff, there will be a suspicion of rebellion.

It's like the commander of the next few military districts, even if there are orders from above. After a certain period of time, they will be transferred or resigned. But smart people will ask to leave the military region after a certain period of time, because if you stay in one place for a long time, there will be rumors that "one side is divided, and the land is king".

Since ancient times, all powerful dynasties in China have known that in this fertile and vast land, if administrative partition is implemented, the final result will only be division. So, when the power of which side begins to dominate. There will be a force on the other side to contain it. It's like the one that was opposed to the Department of Ancient Science many years ago, and there is also a cutting-edge technology bureau.

To sum up, Zhan Tianya's Department of Ancient Science is mysterious in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of the chief. is absolutely transparent.

"Outside the waters of Astaya. There are fleets of ours, Russians, Americans. In the surrounding seas, there were also the British and French. The Americans have set up a no-fly zone, for what? They didn't want anyone to meddle in Astaya's affairs. That's weird in itself, and I'm sure it's not just your informant in the U.S. consulate, but there are other people, right? The chief asked.

Zhan Tianya nodded: "There are also Americans, they are from the CIA, although I haven't completely figured out their identities, but in addition to the CIA, there must be important people from other secret departments of the US military." ”

"That's right." The chief got up and walked to Zhan Tianya, "If the people besieged inside are Chinese, and they are people with Chinese nationality, we will save them, but if there are still Americans, under the premise that Americans choose to give up on them, we will save them, isn't this a resounding slap in the face to the US government?" ”

It's not just a slap in the face, it's just a punch and kick. Even if the Navy sent planes and marines to save only the Chinese, but not the Americans, this just made some people in the US government take advantage of the problem and sue the Chinese government at the United Nations for not saving them. But what if it was saved? What to do with that group of people? Return to the Americans? This is tantamount to giving the Americans a new dig out of the problems that have been buried and throw them in their faces.

"If I call the special line of the US side now and inform me of this situation, I believe that even the president of the United States may not know that the US consulate still has their people, the composition of the US government is quite complicated, and the president can only control eighty percent of the government agencies, even if he nods his head in agreement, he will immediately be opposed by other aides, and even they will hint that we should not save them, or after saving our people, abandon their people or kill their people!" When the chief said the word "kill", he accentuated his pronunciation, which made Zhan Tianya shocked.

"So, what do you think we should do?" The chief asked Zhan Tianya, staring into his eyes, "I remind you that it is impossible to contain the group of Americans in the consulate and provide them with political asylum, because they may not want to, and I can't let this matter become the fuse of some incident." ”

Zhan Tianya was thinking quickly in his head, looking for a solution, and his brain was calculating rapidly, but the results were very bad - first of all, if you want to fly into the territory of Astaya, you have to notify the United States, because it is a no-fly zone set up by them.

"What about the Russian and French sides?" Zhan Tianya asked tentatively, "In a sense, they will not be our enemies. ”

Yes, it just says that it is not an enemy of us, but it will not be a clear alliance, after all, China has always declared non-alignment with the outside world.

"The French will definitely stay on the sidelines, and the Russians will be happy to help us, but they will have a great appetite and will need not only intelligence from the informants, but also the rescued Americans. It doesn't matter if we share intelligence, after all, there is a common enemy, and this is the trend of the times, but if we want to hand over those Americans to Russia, certain events of the Cold War era will be repeated, which no one wants to see, and it will be us who will become the target of public criticism at that time. "The chief analyzes the pros and cons, and this is only what can be seen on the surface.

Zhan Tianya was uneasy in his heart: "That...... Don't save? ”

"Who said it wouldn't be saved!?" The chief said in a deep voice, "Not only do we have to save, but we also have to save it wonderfully and beautifully." ”

"Then ......" Zhan Tianya looked at the chief, "then how to do it?" ”

A smile reappeared on the chief's face: "Do you know the way?" The Americans are always saving the world, and this time it is our turn to save them once, they use movies, we use live broadcasts, and use the most risky methods to gag their mouths, so that they can't say a word, by the way, how can they win the most victorious victory in the war? ”

Zhan Tianya was a little confused.

The chief leaned close to Zhan Tianya's ear and whispered: "Find out what the people think and what the people need, those besieged Americans also have families, and their families also have friends......"

A few minutes later, in the waters of Astaya, on a Chinese aircraft carrier, two American V-22 Osprey tiltrotors, three Apaches, and three Z-10 helicopter gunships were preparing for takeoff.

Inside the V-22 Osprey, the commander is giving a mission briefing to two platoons of Chinese Marine Corps soldiers preparing to carry out the mission, both of which are the elite soldiers of the Seawolf Special Operations Team in the Marine Corps.

"Your target is the people trapped in the American Consulate in Astanya, the capital of Astaya, there are a total of 15 people, some of whom are Americans, and this time the mission is to do all our best to rescue them, so that no one is left behind, and the three people in the photo are the main objects we need to deal with." The commander pointed to the photos of Tang Shuxing, Gu Huaiyi and Ji Kefeng in the tablet in his hand, "The photos may be different from real people, but remember their main characteristics." ”

The Special Operations Soldier nodded, and the computer sent the photo to the soldiers' head-mounted monitors, which incorporated equipment such as night vision and thermal sensors.

"In addition, our V-22 Osprey aircraft are provided by the U.S. Navy." After speaking, the commander couldn't help laughing, and the soldiers below also laughed secretly, at this time the Osprey plane had already taken off, the commander immediately grabbed the safety belt next to him, and pointed to the Apache helicopter gunship that was flying at a relatively close distance outside the window, "There are also three Apache helicopters of the US military, which are also supported by American compatriots." ”

After saying that, the soldiers below couldn't help laughing this time, and the people on the mission knew that the US Navy was still in the dark.

At this moment, the captain of the Osprey plane, the so-called pilot of this mission, said simply to the US no-fly zone command in standard American language: "We are a Sino-US joint rescue team, and we are entering the Astaya no-fly zone, over!" (To be continued......)