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 rushed in like this and told 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 American CIA people?" 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 now, to put it bluntly, there is a Department of Ancient Science now just because you are still there. Your request now will make some sensitive people think that you want to restore the power of the Ministry of Ancient Science, 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, and it hasn't been finished yet, you are now poking holes again!" ”

"Zhenming, the coffin opener incident for a century may be over, but the end is coming, this matter is still going on, we just self-righteous for three years like a dream, natural disasters all over the world are frequent, monsters have come out again, not only Astaya, there are also people in other countries who have witnessed the news of the appearance of various monsters, that is 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 happened, I would have changed a lot of things, and I could have prevented many people from sacrificing in vain!" ”

"You must know that in this situation, if you don't say a word well, even if the chief doesn't embarrass you on the spot, you will become more and more sad 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 a person's surname with 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 insiders who know this department, the Department of Ancient Science is mysterious, but at the same time deadly, and some people even believe that they will be able to kill people many thousands of miles away, just set up an altar, get some chicken blood and dog blood and something like that, 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 attendees left quickly and in an orderly manner, and even though many people guessed that something was happening, they still pretended to know nothing on the surface - politics is like that, you have to pretend you knew in advance when you should know, and you have to pretend you don't know anything when you shouldn't.

In times of truth you have to become a hungry wolf who obeys orders, while in normal times you have to paint your fur white, mingle with other docile sheep, suppress your bloodthirsty surname, eat grass, and let out 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, he just remained silent, waiting for the leader to ask, but the alarm clock in his heart kept reminding him that every time the second hand went a square, part of the lives of Tang Shuxing and the others would pass out.

"Let's smoke." The chief spoke, "I know you're 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, this is also one of his "privileges", under the premise of only two people, they can almost "say nothing".

"Yes, smoking is not allowed here, and according to the regulations, such a meeting is not allowed to take a break in the middle of the meeting, I will make an exception first, and I will allow you to make an exception." The chief smiled, leaned back in his chair and looked at Zhan Tianya, without any strange expressions, and no other habitual small movements in his limbs - as a person who can sit in this position, if your inner changes can be judged by your expressions and body language, you have 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 when he went out 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 why I chose these days to hear the debriefing?" The chief asked unhurriedly.

yes, why? 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, why is he coming now? 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, regardless of 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.

This is just like the commander of the following major military districts, even if there is an order from above, after a period of time, he 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. Therefore, when one side of the force begins to dominate, the other side will appear to contain it, just as there is a bureau of cutting-edge technology that was opposed to the Ministry of Paleoscience many years ago.

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

"Outside the waters of Astaya, there are fleets of ours, Russians, Americans, and in the surrounding seas, there are also British and French. The Americans have set up a no-fly zone, why? They don't want anyone to meddle in Astaya's affairs, which is 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 in 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 American political axe?" ”

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 allowed some people in the US political axe to take advantage of the problem and sue the Chinese political axe 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 presence, the composition of the political axe in the United States is quite complicated, and the things that the president can control only account for eighty percent of the political axe organization, 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: "You know what? The Americans are always saving the world, and this time it is our turn to save again, they use movies, we use live broadcasts, they use the most risky way to gag their mouths, so that they can't say a word, by the way, do you know how to win the final 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 to take off.

Inside the V-22 Osprey, the commander is giving a mission briefing to two platoons of Chinese Marines 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!" ”