Compared with the old red flag that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, Deputy Director Xia's big Mercedes-Benz looks wider. The interior is also luxurious, and it is the kind of feeling that is particularly tall at first glance. I sat in the car, the leather sofa was quite comfortable, Deputy Director Xia took out a bottle of foreign wine, which seemed to be twenty years of XO, poured two glasses, and handed it to me.

I didn't clink glasses with him after taking it, but asked with a smile, "Deputy Director Xia, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Hehe, you're a smart guy, and I like to deal with smart people." Seeing that I didn't mean to clink glasses, he put down his hand and continued, "Sha Lao is not a decent gentleman, I have worked under him for many years, and I know many of his tricks, I know his crimes, and I am still involved in many of them. There are some things that cannot be said, and saying them will surprise the world. ”

"You're on the shortlist this time, aren't you?" I asked.

Unexpectedly, he shook his head and said, "I'm not here." ”

This really surprised me, as the strongest candidate, Deputy Director Xia was actually excluded from the list of candidates. Seeing my surprise, he explained: "The deputy director cannot be a candidate, and if I want to run, I must resign from the position of deputy director, and I also need to be nominated by Sha Lao. But he will never nominate me......"

It turns out that there is such a rule, but this is the first time I have heard of it.

"That's a pity, if it's all right, I'll get out of the car......" I wasn't interested in this kind of conversation, and I was putting my hand on the door deadbolt when I heard him say, "He's not going to let you be the director." ”

I paused, looked back at him, smiled and said, "How so?" ”

"Not only is it not you, but no one can become a director in his lifetime." Deputy Director Xia's words are categorical, this is not an interrogative sentence or an exclamation sentence, but a declarative sentence.

"But the general meeting of candidates is about to be convened, and at the end of the general meeting of candidates, the heirs who will inherit their mantle must be elected, which is the rule of 507!" Unexpectedly, my words made Deputy Director Xia laugh, and he stopped laughing after taking a sip of wine.

"What's so funny?" I asked unpleasantly.

"It seems that you don't know anything about Sha Lao or even the entire 507 Institute, do you know how Sha Lao got to power? As an ordinary person with no special skills, no strong talents, and can be said to be an ordinary person among ordinary people, how did he become the director of the 507 Institute, do you know? "Obviously, Deputy Director Xia knows too many secrets about Sha Lao.

Sha Lao joined when he was in the Chinese Tiger Society, he was the older generation in terms of qualifications, but he was not brilliant at all in terms of ability, but in the end, after the establishment of New China, he became the director of the 507 Institute. Relying not on ability but on qualifications and his huge network, from the establishment of New China to the present, decades have passed, and his grandson is old enough to work, but he is still in this position, why? Is it because no one can inherit his mantle? It's ridiculous, there has never been a shortage of talents in the 507 Institute, smart, talented, and capable, I can name dozens of such characters in the past few decades, but none of them have inherited Sha Lao's position. Why? Because Sha Lao never wanted to abdicate and make way for Xian, he had already regarded the position of director of the 507 Institute as his personal belongings, and he would never hand it over unless he died. ”

"Then why did he bother to convene a meeting of candidates?" I asked again.

"Hehe......" Deputy Director Xia laughed for the second time, and only after a few words did he say, "I have worked by his side for so many years, and I know him better than anyone else." Sha Lao has no children, no family of his own, and has not even relaxed well. He works like a robot. What is behind what drives him to do all this? There must be a reason for him to give up all his life, and that is that he is more ambitious than anyone else. The huge power of the 507 Institute is like a powerful chess piece for him to join the battlefield game, and if he does not abdicate, he will still be a powerful figure in the rivers and lakes. And once he retired, he was just a bad old man sitting on the side of the road waiting to die. I remember saying this to me when he promoted me to be the deputy director. He said, let me never have any heart for superiority in his lifetime, because he will carry the name of the director into the coffin. He said it jokingly, but I know he wasn't joking with me. ”

"What the hell are you trying to do by saying this? Do you want me to help you take the position of director? ”

"Hehe, I know you can't give up the position of director to me, and you can't be the director on your own. However, if you had my help, the results might have been very different. At this moment, we finally got to the point! He's going to help me? I thought I had misheard.

"You're going to help me?" I asked curiously.

"Instead of a terrible black dragon, I chose to help the young tiger kill the black dragon, then devour the young tiger, and finally sit back and enjoy the whole forest." He said this simply and clearly explained the reason why he wanted to help me, Deputy Director Xia couldn't fight Sha Lao, and after fighting for so many years, he barely managed to protect himself, and it was impossible to get on the top. He wanted to change his perspective, if he could help me get to the top, his opponent would change from Sha Lao to me, so that the probability of success would be much higher. Sha Lao, who can't be dealt with by one person, may be able to bring down this supernatural tree if he unites others to deal with it.

I had a cold face and said, "Just by you, I want to get off the horse?" ”

"It's not just you and me." While speaking, he took out a few photos and handed them to me, I took them and looked at them, and I was shocked! The photos are photographed contracts, and the contents of these contracts are all promises to be willing to join forces with Deputy Director Xia to deal with Sha Lao, and the signatures below can be seen that many of them are candidates this time. Therefore, under Sha Lao's nose, Deputy Director Xia has united many young candidates to rebel.

And no matter who is in power, it is impossible to deal with it more difficult than Sha Lao.

"When did you do this?" I asked, surprised.

"You don't have to worry about it, this is the contract I prepared for you. Although you are not the most promising person in this group, you are one of the favorites. On one side is Sha Lao, who is absolutely impossible to give way, and on the other side is the rebel army that has formed an alliance, how do you choose? Ba Xiaoshan. "He put the contract in front of me, and at the same time put a choice in front of my eyes.

"Aren't you afraid that I will tell Sha Lao these things?" I asked.

Deputy Director Xia laughed for the third time, and this time he laughed more exaggerated than the previous two times, shook his head and said, "Do you really think that Sha Lao doesn't know what I did in private?" He's been making a lot of preparations, but you and I don't know. All of these candidates have formed alliances with me because they see the form clearly and know that it is impossible for Sha Lao to give way. And Sha Lao didn't care about their betrayal, because he didn't think about giving way at all. From the very beginning, this was a war between all those who wanted to become the director of the 507 Institute and Sha Lao, and those who were still swaying could be crushed by the two mighty currents, and you are now in the middle of the two mighty currents. ”

I fell silent and said nothing.

"Hehe, I won't force you to make a decision now, give you three days to think about it. I'll wait for your answer in three days, as for the bael...... If you're willing to sign this contract, I'll give you the bone. After he finished speaking, he raised the glass again, but seeing that I still had no intention of clinking it, he threw his head up and swallowed it himself.

Pulling the car door, I walked down, and Deputy Director Xia did not follow, but let the driver drive away directly. Soon the other bodyguards evacuated one after another, and the alley became deserted.

Squirrel looked at me in surprise, not expecting me to appear in front of him.

"You ...... Finished talking? He asked, surprised.

"Hmm......" I replied absentmindedly, and Yang Ran leaned in and asked, "What did you all say?" What happened to you? ”

"Can you get in touch with your leader? I'm going to talk to him. I turned back to Yang Ran and said, she nodded, and the phone was connected ten minutes later, and after hearing Li Xuan's voice, I asked directly: "Do you know about Deputy Director Xia joining forces with many candidates?" ”