After having dinner, Old Bob rushed back to the bureau to work overtime. Just like planning secret operations in the past, Old Bob arranged everything with ease. The whole process only took an hour.
A few days later, at the Special Branch Headquarters Base of China's Lanzhou Military Region, Li Ruomo's intelligence agents in Europe intercepted a piece of information. Wang Xiaoyu worked overtime to decrypt it, and finally obtained the exact content.
"What do you think of this matter?" In the conference room, the old man was sitting in a wheelchair with a pale face, and it was difficult to move, while Li Ruomo was sitting opposite him.
The old man was not in a hurry to answer Li Ruomo's question, but frowned. If it weren't for the occasional glint in his cloudy eyes, he might have thought he was dead when he saw him.
After pondering for a long time, the old man tried to stand up with difficulty while holding a cane. Li Ruomo sat opposite and clearly saw that his hand holding the cane was shaking due to excessive exertion. There was only a layer of skin left on his hand.
But she didn't help him, she just watched silently, not knowing what she was thinking.
A few minutes later, the old man finally stood up from the wheelchair with difficulty and sat on a chair in the conference room. His breathing was a little short, but he didn't show it. The determination on his face made people awe, and Li Ruomo didn't help him.
The reason is that he doesn't need anyone's support, and everyone in the Special Operations Core understands this.
"They..." the old man gasped, and after a long time he calmed down and said, "You should first think about how to deal with the trouble they caused in the United States."
"But now this matter is right in front of us. If we put it off, we will miss the best opportunity." Li Ruomo looked at him. In her eyes, the old man was getting older, but he was not weak. In her eyes, the old man was old.
Here, the old man is still a mountain-like figure, "Just put aside those things that are out of reach for now, and deal with the things at hand that are the top priority. This is what you taught me."
"Haha." The old man nodded, opened and closed his mouth, and after being silent for a while he said, "I don't have long to live, you can handle this matter yourself."
Hearing this, Li Ruomo's eyes showed a bit of surprise, but soon disappeared. The old man's words were tantamount to telling her that now the two action groups ab of Special Branch are under the command of Li Ruomo, and from now on he will delegate power.
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For a moment, Li Ruomo suddenly felt an indescribable feeling of loss in her heart, as if the mountain in front of her had suddenly fallen, making her unable to cope.
But this feeling quickly disappeared. She looked at the old man, and her heart was replaced by excitement. But when she saw the old man walking tremblingly toward the wheelchair, as if he was about to sit on it, Li Ruomo couldn't help but feel a little lonely on his face. This old man had been in a wheelchair all his life.
He is always on the front line and can easily solve difficult problems as long as they come into his hands.
No matter how powerful the enemy is, it will not cause any mood swings on the old man's face. He is always so cold, giving people a kind of majesty that people dare not approach. But now, under the torture of the disease, this old man who is already over fifty years old
, it is so difficult to get back into the wheelchair.
Li Ruomo suddenly stood up, walked to the old man, and held the old man's hand. He found that the old man was glaring angrily and wanted to open it, but Li Ruomo did not let go. He just said calmly: "Even steel will rust one day."
The old man hesitated for a moment, and finally gave up the struggle, shook his head, and let Li Ruomo help him to walk to the wheelchair and sit down. With such simple movements, the old man was a little out of breath, but he insisted
He tried not to expose his own powerlessness, but the more he did this, the more painful he became. A thin stream of sweat broke out on his face, and his whole body was trembling involuntarily.
"Sometimes, you have to let go of what you should let go of." Li Ruomo said calmly.
"The Yangtze River lurches forward." The old man gave Li Ruomo a deep look, "How wonderful it would be if you weren't a girl."
"I can assure you that what I do will never be worse than yours." Li Ruomo's tone was filled with deep confidence, a method that only the old man seemed to understand.
So the old man was not angry, but smiled, as if he was really relieved in his heart. After a moment of silence, he did not leave. He just held Li Ruomo's hand and said, "Before I die, young man, I want to say something."
It is a good thing to have strong energy and blood, but you should not be too eager for success. You must be slow. Only by being slow can you feel the mystery of the details. There is a saying that the devil is hidden in the details. No matter what choice you make, you must remember,
Don’t act too hastily, otherwise big trouble may easily occur.”
The old man seemed to be delivering his last words. He kept chattering and seemed to be in good spirits again: "If you can do one thing well in this life, it will be a great success. Old man, I have not succeeded in my life. Maybe one day
You can see a successful day, but I can't."
Li Ruomo nodded. This sentence touched him deeply. Young people always have vigorous vitality. They want to be this, to be that, to do this, to do that. Little does anyone know that a person's life can only be done well.
If something is done, it is already a success. If you put all your efforts into something, it will be worth it for the rest of your life.
Many people do this thing and that thing for a while, but when they get old, they find that they have accomplished nothing. The painful thing is that they don’t have time to do the things they want to do most, or even the things they can do.
The old man muttered for a long time, and then stopped talking. Li Ruomo held his hand and felt his pulse. His face suddenly became gloomy. The old man's pulse was very good and he had fallen asleep.
She made a phone call, then called the people from the medical department over, pushed the old man back, and after sighing, Li Ruomo gave the order to convene an emergency meeting.
Li Ruomo already knew about Snow Leopard and Canglong's actions in Cuba. The old man was very angry at the time, but Li Ruomo disagreed with him. In Li Ruomo's eyes, she agreed with any action against the Americans, and although Canglong and the others did it
It's big, but it's not an uncontrollable situation.
The old man strives for stability step by step, while Li Ruomo strives for victory step by step. The old man says that Li Ruomo is just like when he was young, but Li Ruomo retorts that she is just adapting to the current situation.
So later, Canglong and Xuebao actually went to the United States. After receiving the news, the old man was ready to take action to get them back even if they were exposed as spies in the United States.
But Li Ruomo withstood the old man's pressure, firstly because Canglong and his gang's revenge action was very to Li Ruomo's liking. Although it was a bit unexpected, it was still within the controllable range. In addition, Snow Leopard was by Canglong's side.
Something big will happen.
Secondly, even if one of his own people is exposed, Canglong may not be able to be captured, even if Snow Leopard is added, it is better to let Canglong take his revenge.
In this matter, Li Ruomo almost came to extreme opposition with the old man. The old man's determination made Li Ruomo not hesitate to send his own people in the United States to stop the old man's actions. Although Li Ruomo could not dispatch the two action teams ab, she herself was
The United States also has an intelligence network and its own people. Although the number is pitifully small, they are definitely not vegetarians.
In the end, the old man finally regressed, but since that day, the old man never said a word to Li Ruomo until Li Ruomo intercepted this information.
"Director Li, is our mission to protect this woman?" In the war room, Team A member Xiami read the briefing and felt a little strange.
Several other people also had the same doubts on their faces. According to the information Li Ruomo gave them, this woman was too ordinary and had a pure background.
"Intelligence says that people from the CIA are planning to assassinate this woman in China. I don't care what their purpose is. I just need you to ensure her safety. It's not China's turn for people from the CIA to run wild. Do you understand?" Li Ruomo said in a cold tone.
Including Eagle, who was injured in the Cuban operation, the members of Teko Team A were all present, except for the captain Snow Leopard, Gu Jianchou, Owl, and Hummingbird.
"Understood." Several people stood up and replied.
"Without further delay, set off immediately. If anything happens to the target person, I will ask for your help." Li Ruomo issued a death order.
Team A, headed by the deputy captain Xiami, then got ready to go. People who didn't know better thought they were performing some special mission.
After they all left, Li Ruomo picked up the document on the table alone, which marked a special operation codenamed "Catalyst". This was also the intelligence intercepted by Li Ruomo's people in Europe.
"Doctor Ruomo, the old man is critically ill, please go over and have a look." At this moment, Wang Xiaoyu suddenly walked in and said anxiously.
Li Ruomo felt a thump in his heart and rushed to the infirmary. He saw the staff in the infirmary were busy performing operations. Half an hour later, the attending doctor walked out with a frown on his face and said before Li Ruomo asked him: "
I’m afraid I won’t last more than a week.”
"Yeah!" Li Ruomo nodded and walked into the ward with a bad expression. He saw the old man with a needle inserted into his body, a haggard look on his face, and his heartbeat was beating extremely slowly, like a lamp that was running out of oil.
In the last moment of dazzling sparks, the old man's life came to an end.
"At least, you have to wait for the snow leopard to come back..." Li Ruomo leaned close to his ear, feeling uncomfortable but not showing it.
When she finished saying this, the old man's hand moved slightly, and Li Ruomo breathed a sigh of relief. If he was the old man's most proud disciple, then Snow Leopard was the most outstanding among the group of Special Forces soldiers trained by the old man.
Although the old man always felt that they were unqualified, the old man placed deep hopes on them. They were the old man's future.
When Li Ruomo walked out of the ward, he saw a group of dirty soldiers waiting outside. They all had anxious looks on their faces. Seeing her coming out, the leader asked: "Director Li, how is he? How is he?"
Li Ruomo glanced at the leading soldier and said coldly: "Are you just going to meet him like this?"
"But......."
"It's nothing." Li Ruomo looked at the leading soldier coldly, "Su Yufeng, how did you become the captain of Team B? The training was not over yet, and you returned home without permission. You are unorganized and undisciplined!"
Waiting at the door were members of the Special Branch B team, six in total. After they learned that the old man was critically ill, they had no intention of training and rushed back despite military orders.
Li Ruomo's scolding made their hearts feel heavy. In the end, Su Yufeng took a look at the window and left reluctantly.
Seeing their appearance, Li Ruomo shook his head helplessly. Although the old man had strict requirements on them, they had never resented this stern old man. He disobeyed orders and ended the training privately. This had never happened in Teco.
But Li Ruomo had to do this. Once the old man fell, she had to hold up the entire Teko. No matter how uncomfortable she felt in her heart, no matter how uncomfortable they felt in their hearts, she had to become the benchmark that Teko had re-established...