I had a feeling of disbelief, but I didn't expect the liaison officer to turn his head and look at me carefully, and I shrugged my shoulders and spread out my hands, indicating that I really didn't have any weapons with me. The liaison officer breathed a sigh of relief and continued walking. But when I got to the end of the hallway, there was still a sense of caution.

I felt inexplicable that I had walked through the last stretch of the narrow corridor without anything terrible and unthinkable. That's reassuring. I asked the liaison officer, "Liaison officer, why is that?" ”

The liaison officer laughed and said, "This passage is unguarded, and it is all controlled by artificial intelligence computers. It can be said that it is even more impersonal than those people outside. Once, the chief came to work, with a key in his pocket, and forgot to store it at the front desk, and after passing through this passage, the intelligent computer had already detected the metal in his pocket, and the computer was a computer, and the execution of instructions was more mechanical. So he opened the flap on the passage we had just walked, and the chief planted it. I almost didn't break my neck.

I couldn't help but laugh, our department was so tight, it was indeed beyond my expectations.

Further inside, there were already office areas in various bureaus and offices, and everyone was buried in their work, ignoring the whereabouts of the two of us. I followed the liaison officer inside, and finally came to the door of the director's office of the 18th Bureau.

At first, I thought that there would be a lot of people in the office area of the 18th Bureau, but in fact, there were not many staff. In the words of the liaison officer, in the entire MSS building, the 18th and 7th bureaus have the least number of people, while those departments that are engaged in personnel and analysis are strong.

It's because the people of the 7th and 18th bureaus are always working outside, so very few people will appear here, so I guess it's the same feeling. The liaison officer pushed open the door to the director's office and motioned for me to enter, and I followed his instructions into the office.

Obviously, the director has not arrived yet, and I don't know what he is busy with. I sat on the sofa against the wall across from my desk, and there was a Chinese painting hanging behind the sofa, which depicted Pengcheng Wanli. A majestic golden eagle is hovering in the sky, with sharp eyes, as if it is carefully overlooking the whole world, not letting go of the slightest bit.

The desk is relatively large, and the furnishings on it are quite simple. There are only two telephones and a computer. The computer seems to have been around for some years, and the monitor is still the color display with a big head, but the most eye-catching thing on the desktop is the shell of a 105-caliber howitzer. Standing there majestically, he was used as a pen holder by this director.

The bookshelf behind the desk was full of all kinds of books, and there were actually some ancient books bound in threads, and there was a photo on one of the compartments, which was obviously a photo of the director of the bureau when he was young, joining the army. The grass-green training uniform in the photo. It shows that the age of this photo is relatively old. The person in the photo is holding a gun in his hand, his eyes are blazing, and he is looking into the distance. With the spirit of that era, my face is unique!

Just when I was guessing where the director of the meeting came from, I heard a majestic voice coming from the corridor outside the door.

"Oh, Xiao Liu, is it done? Hahahaha, that's good, go to my house for a drink at night! ”

This is the first person to hear before you see it. Judging from the voice, the person who came should be not young, but the voice is full of energy, and the voice is like a bell. Before they met, they could clearly feel that this director should be the kind of person with a straight temper. It should be the kind of person who is very easy to socialize with.

As a courtesy, I got up from the couch. Looking in the direction of the doorway, he crossed his hands in front of his body. Waiting for the arrival of this director.

Sure enough, with a bang, the door was pushed open, and a figure walked in in a hurry, slamming the document in his hand on the table, as if he didn't see me standing up to greet me, but sat down in the chair with a heavy butt, picked up the teacup, drank the cold tea in one go, and then put the teacup heavily on the table.

I watched all this quietly, and said in my heart what kind of person should this old guy look like, Li Kui? Lu Zhishen? Shi Jingjiao?

I didn't speak either, and I don't know what kind of opening line would be appropriate for the current scene. This old director, his hair has completely fallen out, his shiny scalp seems to reflect the light, there are some dazzling sensations, he still didn't see me, just rubbed his sore temples with his fingers, and seemed to be very tired.

I took a deep breath, took a few steps forward, and said, "Zhang Chengnan came to report!" “

Only then did the old director raise his head and discover my existence, then frowned, and looked at me, as if he was remembering something, and after thinking for a while, he didn't remember. He reached out and opened the desk calendar on the table, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully. Looking at it, it dawned on him.

"Oh, you're Zhang Chengnan, I know, I was originally going to see you today." With that, he stood up, walked to the water dispenser, and while filling his old-fashioned white porcelain teacup with water, he used a disposable water cup to catch me a cup. I quickly stood up and greeted him.

He smiled and waved his hand and motioned for me to sit down, and he walked over to the couch and sat down.

"You see, there have been a lot of things lately, and I have forgotten my own orders. It seems that he is old, so he is useless. "After listening to the director's words, I didn't know what to say, just a kind smile.

The director blew the tea leaves in the teacup, took a sip slowly, and then said in an elderly friendly tone: "I canceled your vacation plan and asked you to come here in a hurry, I have some things I want to ask you." ”

I put down the paper cup in my hand, not knowing what the director was going to ask, as if I had been subjected to a sudden home visit from a teacher. But don't panic. This old man did not give people any oppressive momentum, on the contrary, he looked like an uncle playing chess at the mouth of the alley. Holding a fan, he will greet you with a smile.

I sat upright, looked at the old man in front of me, and said, "If there is anything, just ask, I will know everything." ”

The director smiled, looking at me with deep meaning in his eyes, and just looking at me with such a smile made my heart feel weak for a while.

Seeing that I didn't speak, the old director stood up, went to the desk and picked up Sheng Xiaonan's report to the headquarters on the plane, pinched it in his hand, and shook it gently in front of me, while playfully saying to me: "Do you know everything? Would you be so honest? ”