Li Ruomo threw the list in her hand into the shredder, then lit a cigarette. After taking a puff, she placed it on the ashtray and let it burn slowly. Looking at the swirling smoke, she fell into deep thought. During this military intelligence meeting, , almost no one is optimistic that Team B of the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau can complete this mission.
The General Intelligence Bureau had taken another set of preventive measures. At the meeting, Li Ruomo had nothing to say. Several intelligence agencies were never monolithic and rarely even cooperated effectively. All aspects of intelligence were not centralized. Even if they were directed to such For important tasks, the General Intelligence Bureau and the Central Intelligence Agency, and even the former Special Branch, only held symbolic military intelligence meetings. The final result of the consultation was always that they fought independently, and whoever succeeded first got the credit.
Li Ruomo doesn't care about any credit, but as her father said, whether you are engaged in politics or intelligence, you inevitably need something to prove your worth. A new department like the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau needs a battle. Victory, just behind this victory, involves various struggles. Even in this kind of internal fighting, even the existence of spies can be ignored.
This is also the biggest reason why Li Ruomo agreed to disband Teko and establish the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau. Just as she said to Canglong, the reason why she cooperated with him was because Canglong at least would not scheming with her, because Canglong had principles.
Perhaps as her father said, girls are really not suitable for this industry. Li Ruomo was a little exhausted physically and mentally, but the persistence in her heart told her that she must persevere. The old man once said that she was born for intelligence. This is what she can do. The place where all potential is realized, this is her battlefield.
If she left here, maybe she wouldn't be as exhausted physically and mentally as she is now, but she knew very well that she would die, at least her heart would die.
After the smoke was half burned, Li Ruomo suddenly came back to her senses and thought of Canglong and the others. Even she began to have doubts about whether the mission could be completed this time. It was not that she was full of doubts about Canglong and their abilities, but under such internal fighting, The obstacles created for Canglong and the others made her start to question.
But what cannot be doubted is that as long as that man appears in her mind, she will be full of confidence. Perhaps this is the reason why she chose Canglong to gamble. This is also Li Ruomo's politics. Only by successfully completing the mission, the 15th Military Intelligence Only then can the bureau develop better.
Once it fails, the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau will bear the responsibility and price of the failure. The superiors do not ask for the reason, only the result. At that time, she may really have to bow to her father, enter the administrative system honestly, and finally find a well-matched person. She entered into a political marriage with a man, which might be her future, a seriously happy future for many people, but for her, it was the beginning of a sad fate.
She picked up the phone, put her finger on her lip, bit it, and finally dialed a number, a secret line number. She decided to wake up the spy she had the most confidence in in the United States, and ordered her to help Canglong and the others return home at all costs. country.
After the arrangements were made, Li Ruomo felt a little more relieved. As expected, the phone in the office rang soon. This time it was not her father, nor one of her subordinates, but Long Yunshan, the director of the General Intelligence Bureau. The leak of the submarine's whereabouts had already reached the intelligence giant's No. 2 Middle School, but it was strange for Li Ruomo to call her so late to question her.
"What do you think about this matter?" Long Yunshan said and went straight to the topic.
In Li Ruomo's eyes, Uncle Long is a rare exception in the intelligence community, because he hardly recognizes any of his relatives. There is no one in the entire General Intelligence Bureau who is not afraid of him. Even the old man has praised him well before. There have been cases in the General Intelligence Bureau. A fatal intelligence agent defection.
The defector in that incident was a deputy director of the General Intelligence Agency, and the planner was the CIA. At that time, in the early days of reform and opening up, although Sino-US relations were normalized, there were no friends in the intelligence community.
The deputy director's defection leaked a lot of important intelligence about China, causing the second-generation leaders to change their policies in response to pressure from the United States.
At that time, it was not only a time of waste, but also a difficult period for China. The Americans not only planned an attack on the Chinese intelligence network, but also planned an attack on the Soviet Union. Because of this attack, the world The Soviet Union, one of the two superpowers, completely collapsed.
If it were not for the courage of the second generation of leaders, it is estimated that not only the Soviet Union would have collapsed, but even China would have been greatly impacted. Reform and opening up would have become a thing of history, and China's current economic take-off would not have been possible.
But even so, the defection of this deputy director also caused China to be controlled by the United States in the next ten years or so, because the Americans know very well China's development direction in the next ten years. When the enemy knows everything about them, And when he wants to achieve another goal, all he can do seems to be to be patient, be patient in diplomacy, and be patient in military affairs as well.
The General Intelligence Bureau did nothing for the next ten years or so. Until Long Yunshan took over the General Intelligence Bureau, he worked hard and restored the entire General Intelligence Bureau's intelligence network to its former state. And when he took charge of the General Intelligence Bureau, Over the years, more than ten deputy directors have been sent to military prisons.
Some of them were even close friends with whom he had close relationships, which is why Long Yunshan got a reputation that his relatives didn't recognize. He only recognized facts and not people.
But his achievements are also obvious. At least Li Ruomo learned a lot from him when he first entered the intelligence community. As for becoming the old man's student, that was something later.
Therefore, Li Ruomo respects Long Yunshan from the bottom of her heart, but she also hates him because when Special Branch existed, Long Yunshan said more than once that he would disband Special Branch because the existence of Special Branch was a waste of military expenditures. The organization is bloated and no longer adapts to the current situation.
Until the final compromise by Li Ruomo and the establishment of the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau, Long Yunshan was not optimistic about her. He even said several times that he would reclassify the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau to the General Intelligence Bureau and turn it into the original 15th Office.
Therefore, in Li Ruomo's eyes, Long Yunshan was a person who made her very conflicted. If the leaders in charge of intelligence had not suppressed him, and with the support of the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, there might have been no 15th Military Intelligence Bureau.
"What do I think?" Li Ruomo said in a tough tone, "I said that I believe that my people will have no problems. Uncle Long, you still don't believe it. Since you don't believe it, what else do I need to explain."
The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then said: "Li Ruomo, I am not here to discuss things with you. If you are smart, you can call your people back and take the initiative to ask the leader to end this mission. Otherwise, the consequences will be yours." It's unbearable, even your father will be implicated."
"I am not where I am today because of my father. If you are ordering me to end this mission as the director of the General Intelligence Bureau, then you have to ask the leader for instructions first. At least at the level, you do not have the authority to let me in the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau. The bureau has completed any tasks, and it has no authority to order me." Li Ruomo replied coldly.
She knew very well that when faced with a selfless person like Long Yunshan, the tougher the better, if you were weak he would only look down on you, and Li Ruomo's temper did not allow her to be weak, so Long Yunshan on the other end of the phone immediately fell silent. When I got off the phone, I finally heard an angry hang-up sound and only a busy tone.
The price Li Ruomo paid for being tough was a complete confrontation with Long Yunshan, which meant that she would not be able to rely on the General Intelligence Agency if she had any trouble in the future. It was probably useless for her to call her Uncle Long now.
But after being tough this time, Li Ruomo breathed a sigh of relief, as if a burden had been lifted off her shoulders. Suddenly she discovered that since the old man left, she had lost her previous temperament and was always playing both sides. With a sense of luck, Teko was helplessly disbanded in the end.
When the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau was established, she was also cautious, but the more this happened, the more constrained she became, unable to do anything at all. Thinking of her original work style in the 15th Office, and comparing it to today, Li Ruomo suddenly felt that she had returned to Before, this was the real her.
His thinking became much clearer, and Li Ruomo immediately called Snow Leopard to ask: "Is there any news from the United States?"
"No, our intelligence station is monitoring the movements there 24 hours a day. The Americans have responded, but there is no news from Canglong and the others. Our agents have not contacted them." Snow Leopard replied.
"Well." Li Ruomo was silent for a while, but suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. If it were someone else who suddenly disappeared in the United States without any trace, Li Ruomo might be frightened and suspicious, but if it were Cang Long, it would be different. She just She thinks that Canglong has changed her original route, which means that from now on all she can do is wait, which is what makes her most uncomfortable.
But she did not complain or blame, or even have any emotions. She just told Snow Leopard: "If our agents contact them, send a message back as soon as possible. Remember, the intelligence stations of the General Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency cannot be used now. The contact information of all agents has been changed. Any mistake may bring danger to their mission. As for the contact method, let Wang Xiaoyu think of a way. I need to quickly establish a temporary intelligence receiving station so that your A team can do a good job. Be prepared to rush to respond as soon as there is news about them."
On the other end of the phone, Xue Bao recorded nervously. After hanging up the phone, he realized that he was actually sweating on his face, and sighed to himself: "She is becoming more and more like an old man."
But he didn't have much time to express his emotions, so he left his office with the records and came to the information department.
Seeing that Wang Xiaoyu was messing with something with a young man, Xue Bao immediately walked over, and then conveyed everything Li Ruomo asked for, and finally looked at the young man with a strange look on his face: "Why are you still here?"
Wang Xiaoyu took the record and explained: "Cang Long asked him to come here."
"By the way, how did you get that 730 score in the college entrance examination?" Snow Leopard suddenly looked at the boy seriously.
Being stared at by this burly man, Han Shuo said, "I cheated, otherwise how could I get into the National University of Defense Technology?"
"Let me tell you, this guy Cang Long is very powerful, but he can't teach this dude like you to be so good. He's not bad, he has a lot of brains." After saying that, Xue Bao left with a smile.
But Wang Xiaoyu suddenly turned cold: "You kid used what I taught you to cheat in the exam room, so the results of your Class 9 will be the same."
"No, absolutely not. I am the only one who cheated. The other people's scores are all real." Han Shuo quickly explained, "You said that for a person like me who spends three days fishing and two days surfing the Internet, how can I really take the exam? It's probably very embarrassing, and our 15th Military Intelligence Bureau doesn't look good either."
"You kid." Wang Xiaoyu shook his head and said seriously, "Never again, and you are not a member of the 15th Military Intelligence Bureau, at least not until you graduate from the National University of Defense Technology."