The spring of 1983 was not destined to be a quiet one.

The catkins in Beijing are flying, the lotus flowers in Houhai are blooming beautifully, and Beijing in spring looks so harmonious and peaceful.

Due to the loss of contact with Wangxi, the system of the Central Investigation Department was closed, and the new backup system was not found, and the next was the sacrifice of some comrades Mo Ming, followed by the arrest of the Chinese scientist Mr. Yang Zigeng by the CIA on charges of espionage, and then the loss of contact with the daughter of the European Bureau, who was in charge of the work of the European Bureau, and the loss of contact with Bai Qiulu, who held an important position, and she was the wife of the Wangxi, the consequence of this series of events was to force the Central Investigation Department system to close and force the work of the European Bureau to come to a complete halt, Forcing China's quantum science research to come to a halt, this series of events has no clue, and serious things happen again.

The Boeing C160 flight of China Global Airlines suddenly disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, and the 323 Chinese and foreign passengers on board also disappeared out of thin air with the disappearance of the plane, and the news did not reveal that the Chinese scientist Mr. Gu Mo was one of the 323 passengers, the plane took off from Beijing, the capital of China, and the end point of the plane was London, England, and Mr. Gu Mo went to London to attend an international academic exchange conference.

The loss of contact with Boeing flight C160 tore apart the calm of the spring of 1983, making China the focus of the world's attention and the Pacific Ocean the focus of the world's attention. Newspapers, radio, and television all over the world reported on the incident every moment of every day, as if it had been waiting for news for too long, while the countries and families associated with the 323 passengers on board fell into grief in an instant. Warships from all over the world gathered in the vast Pacific Ocean to carry out salvage missions, hoping to find a little hope in the endless sea. People have made all kinds of speculations about the loss of the plane, and even the fantasy of alien hijacking has been proposed. But where exactly did the Boeing C160 flight go? Nobody knows. Just like a grain of sand falling into the desert, like a drop of water falling into the ocean, and like a piece of snow falling into a snow country, it is inconceivable that the world's advanced radar has not left any trace of disappearance, as if this incident had not happened in the first place. This made matters worse, forcing Tang Weidong, the already passive head of the central investigation team, into despair. He lived in constant panic and anxiety, and fear made his premonition come true.

Tang Weidong and Zhao Hanbing met under the office building, and Zhao Hanbing said: They all said don't think about it, isn't it? If you think something bad, something will come.

Tang Weidong said: I don't want to, it will come, which proves my judgment even more, we have always been designed in the same game. Let's go, let's have a meeting first.

On the outskirts of Beijing, a mysterious Russian-style building, heavily guarded, one after another black red flag cars parked at the door, high-level meetings were held here, and the people who walked into the conference room had iron faces and solemn expressions. Present at the meeting were Tang Weidong, director of the Office of the National Security Leading Group and head of the Central Investigation Group, Zhao Hanbing, director of the Central Investigation Department, Ji Sen, director of the Second Bureau of the General Staff Department, and General Ji Guangrong, director of the Office of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. Attending the meeting as observers was Zhao Yishui, former director of the Central Investigation Department.

Tang Weidong presided over the meeting.

Tang Weidong said: Comrades, a lot of things have happened recently, and today's meeting is actually a coordination meeting, and the leaders of all important departments related to national security are present today, and I hope that through today's meeting, we can achieve the goal of coordinating operations and making concerted efforts among all departments. This year's spring is an eventful spring, and many instructions have been given above, and the organization is extremely dissatisfied with our work, so through today's meeting, we must achieve a unified idea of resource sharing, intelligence sharing, and coordinated operations among various departments. Let's look at which comrade will talk first.

The air in the venue was as cold as ice, as if a needle falling to the ground would be a thunderclap, just like a stalemate on the battlefield, the quieter it was, the more terrifying it was.

Zhao Hanbing said: Since the loss of contact with the West, things have been one after another, and as the leader of the ministry, I have an unshirkable responsibility.

Tang Weidong interrupted Zhao Hanbing and said: Now is not the time to talk about responsibility, what we want to talk about today is how to deal with the current series of events? We're going to talk about strategies, methods and measures. Minister Zhao, you continued.

Zhao Hanbing said: I am not reviewing, now is not the time to review, I want to say: The emergence of this series of things in the ministry is by no means accidental, it must be the result of the accumulation of long-term problems. In other words: this is by no means a question of coveting the loss of contact with the West, nor is it a problem of coveting the loss of contact with Qiusha, let alone the problem of Bai Qiulu's loss of contact. In other words, the occurrence of these events is not a separate issue, but an interrelated issue, which means that these events are only the appearance of the problem, and behind them are hidden the conspiracy set up by our opponents. Therefore, while we are stepping up our internal investigations, we will come up with a more comprehensive plan on how to deal with the current crisis.

Tang Weidong answered and said: Well, it is very good, and it has a high level of understanding.

General Ji Guangrong had an iron face, his eyes were sharp, his eyes were like a knife, it seemed to walk over the faces of every participant, as if he was looking at everyone in the audience, he suddenly said: Comrades, my words will be very difficult to hear, I don't know how to say it is appropriate, our scientist Dr. Yang Zigeng was arrested in the United States on charges of espionage, even in our country, few people know that Dr. Yang Zigeng is a scientist who studies quantum communications, but the Americans do. Our scientist Mr. Gu Mo is the chief scientist of China's nuclear-powered submarine research, and we Chinese only know that Mr. Gu is a scientist, and no one knows his research field and direction, but the flight that the scientist Mr. Gu Mo took disappeared. Mr. Gu's life was also saved by our comrades at the cost of their own lives, but he is gone. Whether it was Mr. Yang Zigeng or Mr. Gu Mo, was it just an accidental incident? I don't think so. What I want to ask is, from the loss of contact with Wangxi, to the loss of contact with his daughter Qiu Qiusha, and then to the loss of contact with his wife Bai Qiulu, what measures have you taken against this series of events? Why is it lost? And not apostasy? Why not a mole? Why don't you qualify such a serious matter, and how serious it must be to be qualitated? Why is it said that it is lost? How do we define lost contact? What is the scale of loss of contact and apostasy? How to grasp the balance between apostasy and mole? I also know that Lookout is the man who has made great contributions to our work, but where is he? If we take immediate measures after the incident in the west of the country, then, I think, there will be no loss of contact with Qiusha, and there will be no loss of contact with Bai Qiulu? I also hope that they will still be our comrades, but what about reality? So my idea is to characterize the problem as soon as possible, and take the necessary measures as soon as possible to stop the problem from spreading. So, here today, I want to ask, what does the Central Investigation Department do? What does the Second General Staff Bureau do? Soldiers, treacherous ways. If we can't even keep our secrets, how can we deal with the crisis? I am the one who rolls out of the death of war, and the secret determines the life and death of war. In the face of a series of events, I was really scared, although as a soldier was fearless of death, but in the face of what kept happening and what kept spreading, what did we do? What can we do? My speech today is hard to hear, really hard to hear.

After General Ji Guangrong's speech was finished.

Zhao Hanbing said: We are facing a huge conspiracy. Personally, I agree with General Glorious's view, and I also agree with General Glorious's questioning, there are indeed problems in the work of our Investigation Department, and I have to take leadership responsibility, and the reason why we have not characterized the problem of coveting the West is because we have not yet confirmed that he has gone abroad, but there is no news in China, so although we have set up a special task force, we have not been able to characterize the problem. Therefore, if it is not qualified, I still ask Comrade Wei Dong, who is investigating by the Central Committee, to make a decision.

Ji Sen said: It is imperative that we get Mr. Yang Zigeng and Mr. Gu Mo back, and we must see people in life and corpses in death. As for the qualitative issue, I think it is necessary to confirm the whereabouts of Wangxi before there is a qualitative basis. But the negativity does not affect the development of our work, in short, solving the problem is our top priority.

Tang Weidong said to Zhao Yishui: Old minister, you can talk about it.

Zhao Yishui said: What? What do you say? I didn't see anything.

Tang Weidong summed up the meeting and said: Today's meeting was very timely, General Guangrong's remarks were very comprehensive, and he highly pointed out the problems existing in our work, and the speeches of other comrades were also very constructive. We have seen the problems and problems existing in our national defense work. The meeting carefully analysed what kind of crisis we are facing now and reached a consensus on resolving it.

When Tang Weidong sent Ji Guangrong to the car, Ji Guangrong said to Tang Weidong: Weidong, did I say too much today?

Tang Weidong said to Ji Guangrong: General Guangrong, in the current situation, to be honest, the responsibility lies with me, because I do not have enough understanding of the seriousness of the crisis.

Ji Guangrong said to Tang Weidong: Weidong, in this situation, I think you still don't take the problem on yourself, you can't bear it, don't say what will happen in the future, just say that these things are happening now, can you bear it?

Tang Weidong said to Ji Guangrong: General Guangrong, I understand what you mean, my current position is to carry it, and if I can't bear it, I have to carry it. Didn't the ancients say, "Dying before leaving the school often makes heroes cry." "I am mentally prepared, I have been able to stand in front of you the general all these years, compared to those comrades in the cemetery, I am already very lucky, why not the general? The old minister is no longer in the mailroom, and it just so happens that I will take his place when the time comes, and one day I will go to the mailroom to distribute newspapers, and it is only a matter of time.

Ji Guangrong sighed: Say, take care.

Tang Weidong said to Ji Guangrong: General, you also take care.

Tang Weidong sent Ji Guangrong away, returned to his office, picked up the brush and wanted to write, the pen stopped in the air, after all, there was no emotion, he felt that the world he was facing had become Zhang Xu's cursive writing, he was a little confused, was he really old? Why did General Ji rush to bring it up to characterize these events? Why? General Ji is a general who grew up in the war, and it is not an exaggeration to say something too hasty with his temperament, but why did his son appear in Russell Castle? What kind of loyalty is 100% loyalty? What if 99.99 percent loyalty has been achieved, and 0.01 percent disloyalty?

In fact, since the Wangxi incident, Tang Weidong ordered Zhao Hanbing to implement 24-hour all-weather monitoring of Bai Qiulu. Tang Weidong knows Bai Qiulu too well, and he also knows that the relationship between Bai Qiulu and Wangxi is an emotion that can use each other's bodies to block bullets for each other, to put it mildly, they can do it for each other, it is this emotion, no matter what happens, whether it is as an organization or an individual, Tang Weidong trusts Bai Qiulu. It is this trust that Tang Weidong feels that Bai Qiulu is the best candidate to solve the problem of coveting the West father and daughter, but from the perspective of the organization's principle of family avoidance system and personal feelings, Tang Weidong is not suitable for Bai Qiulu to carry out the removal order of the West father and daughter. It is cruel to ask a wife to settle her man and a mother to settle her daughter, no matter which point of view. But in the face of national interests, personal sacrifice is nothing, and personal cruelty is nothing? Therefore, in fact, Tang Weidong knew what choice Bai Qiulu would make, and in fact, he was also waiting for Bai Qiulu's choice, so when Bai Qiulu proposed that he was willing to carry out the task, Tang Weidong's attitude was noncommittal. Therefore, Bai Qiulu's departure is actually exactly what Tang Weidong wants to see. He thought that Bai Qiulu had the ability to handle this matter well, but he couldn't make this decision. If it weren't for Tang Weidong's acquiescence, how could Bai Qiulu, who was under all-weather surveillance, leave easily? When he knew that Bai Qiulu was leaving, Tang Weidong couldn't tell what it was like, was he happy or sad? Tang Weidong knew that Bai Qiulu's departure was to express her loyalty to the organization with actions, but this trip must be a trip to death, happy that Bai Qiulu must be the one who can solve the problem, and sad because she doesn't know that she may go forever.

But their lives are destined to be like this, destined to be goodbye every time they are separated, there is no way, they have chosen such a life, there is no second choice except to endure. Because of this, they cherish each other very much, cherish every get-together, cherish every drink, cherish every handshake, cherish every greeting. Because, perhaps, tomorrow there will be nothing.

Tang Weidong trusts and covets the West, Bai Qiulu, and Qiusha, but what about the reality? The gap between reality and emotion is that they have all lost touch with the organization. The reason why he is uncertain is that there is still a little expectation in his heart, expecting that a miracle will happen, after all, they must be comrades who have shared life and death, and he emotionally does not agree that they will go to the opposite side. This is a renunciation, no different from cutting one's own heart. Tang Weidong is not the kind of person who is good at emotion, but remembering the note left by Bai Qiulu "If you live, you will definitely come back", Tang Weidong has a feeling that his body is torn apart by sadness. Tang Weidong had an intuition that if Bai Qiulu couldn't find the father and daughter who coveted the west, then death would not come back, but she would definitely not be the one who went to the opposite side. In fact, Bai Qiulu's departure was acquiesced by, and in fact, he gave Bai Qiulu the task of finding it. If measures are taken against Bai Qiulu, at least Bai Qiulu can be preserved. Tang Weidong saw the cruelty in his heart, judging from reality, maybe this family of three really can't come back. Tang Weidong asked the secretary to inform Zhao Hanbing that in addition to coveting the West father and daughter, he had increased the removal order for Bai Qiulu. Bai Qiulu's departure was cruel enough, but what was even more cruel was that Tang Weidong had to issue a removal order to Bai Qiulu. Tang Weidong also understood his cruelty, but he had to give it up like this.

Tang Weidong also wanted to further test and see what kind of waves would emerge on the quiet water.