A piece of scrap metal fell to the ground with a clang, splashing dust all over the ground. Mr. Russell, the US Assistant Secretary of State, kicked the gravel and twisted metal on the ground with a sullen face, and asked several intelligence officers around him:
"Is that it? Nothing was found?"
The location of the Assistant Secretary of State was Pedra Branca where Zhou Qingfeng bombarded the Lassen. After the bombardment, the Lassen asked for help from Changi Base. An F-16C fighter jet of the Singapore Air Force scrambled to take off and took the photoelectric sighting
Under the guidance of the pod, a guided bomb was dropped to the helicopter landing platform of Pedra Branca.
The heavy bomb completely destroyed the entire landing platform. When American investigators arrived, apart from the large crater at the scene, the only thing they found was the M-46 cannon that had been blown into scrap metal.
For this time, the confidential communication machine was forcibly taken away. Not only was the CIA furious, but the U.S. Naval Intelligence Agency was frightened out of its wits. If this thing falls into the hands of the Chinese, U.S. military operations and deployments in the Asia-Pacific and even around the world will be disrupted.
It became an open secret. The losses involved were too huge.
Next to the Assistant Secretary of State was a major from the Naval Intelligence Service, who whispered: "Our enemy has deployed an old M-46 cannon here. This artillery was developed and produced by the Soviet Union in the 1950s...
….”
"That's enough." The Assistant Secretary of State shouted loudly: "The Secretary of Defense doesn't want to know what kind of artillery hit our warship. The Secretary of State doesn't want to know, and the President doesn't want to know. I took a whole day's flight from Washington.
, let alone to know this.
I want to know now who is planning all this, and if there is any way to make up for the losses. As long as there is a chance, I will kill this guy completely."
Seeing the Assistant Secretary of State getting angry and cursing, no one dared to speak casually. After a long time, Mr. Jones from CIA said in a deep voice: "Just two hours ago, I just received a report that the Chinese Embassy in Singapore suddenly sent more than a dozen
Diplomatic parcels. They also arranged for five or six groups to return home via different routes. We managed to intercept a few of them, but nothing was found.
However, this intensive escort operation is obviously a cover for something, and we have reason to believe that the Chinese must be involved in this incident. To this end, we have activated insiders planted in the embassy and China, hoping to get some information."
Jones still had something to say. The insider information he activated was deployed by the CIA, which took a lot of manpower, material resources, and time. With the current vigilance of China's intelligence agencies, these valuable insider information are basically one-time use once they are activated. If
If you can't escape, you will definitely die.
But the Assistant Secretary of State was still extremely dissatisfied with this answer. If an ordinary country had done this kind of thing, the United States would have bombed it with missiles and bombs. But China is not an ordinary country. Although its overall strength is not as strong as the United States, it cannot be underestimated.
of powerful force.
In order to intercept confidential communications machines, the Singapore government, which is the backbone of the United States, has forcibly closed its domestic airspace, ports and border checkpoints. But even so, they still found nothing.
The situation was at a stalemate, and a piece of news reached the ears of the Assistant Secretary of State. According to the identification of traces in the situation room of the USS Lassen, a fingerprint was found on a fire ax. This fingerprint was related to the one stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The fingerprints left behind are exactly the same.
"That's great, that's great!" the Assistant Secretary of State shouted self-deprecatingly, "We all thought this was an art theft case, but now we found out that it was a major intelligence theft case. This incident will even affect the entire Asia-Pacific
The balance of power in the region, this guy who stole the museum is really powerful."
The assistant secretary of state's words made everyone in the room lower their heads. Praising the enemy is humiliating them. This is undoubtedly not a happy thing.
In order to thoroughly investigate the matter, the Americans used great diplomatic force to gather more than half of the rescued tourists in Singapore. The CIA used several intelligence agencies in Singapore as slaves and mandated that everyone must be investigated.
During this period, Zhou Qingfeng was relieved to get rid of the "Secret Communication Machine". He took away Feng Wan, who knew his identity, and Xu Yun, who knew some information about him, and after some instructions, he took the two girls to Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur, first put Xu Yun and her two or three assistants on the plane.
Because Zhou Qingfeng refused to reveal his true identity, the Queen of Heaven was even a little bit a little angry. However, a woman's intuition told her that the Victor Hugo in front of her was probably not as simple as she imagined.
"What should I do if someone asks me for your information?" Xu Yun asked softly when we parted.
"Just ask them to ask me." Zhou Qingfeng sighed, feeling that sooner or later his identity would not be kept secret. All he could do now was delay the complete exposure of his identity as much as possible.
"Oh..." Xu Yun rarely showed the tenderness of a little daughter, and asked: "Then when will you come to see me again?"
"Make an album of the twelve songs I gave you. As for when we will meet, I heard from Sister Wan that your chest has shrunk by two cups since you got anorexia. This is not in line with my aesthetic sense. Wait.
Let’s talk about it when you recover.” Zhou Qingfeng looked serious.
"You..., bad guy, big bad guy, can't you think of something romantic in your mind?" Miss Tianhou was angry and annoyed, and turned around to board the plane with hatred. But when she returned to the country, she seriously started to think about it again.
I started my own career and life, until one day two policemen came to my door.
"Ms. Xu, we were entrusted by someone to send you a batch of oil paintings. We also have some questions to ask you." The police who came were very polite and sent Xu Yun dozens of sealed picture frames at once.
.
There are obvious traces of seawater immersion on the frame, but the waterproof structure of the frame ensures that the oil painting inside is intact. The first oil painting Xu Yun saw was "The Virgin, Son and Saints", which she once
Tested it myself.
"Oh my God!" Xu Yun checked at random and found that these were the ones stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the ones that were missing on the Ocean Princess. The market price of these oil paintings exceeds one billion US dollars.
, "These oil paintings are given to me?"
"Yes, we were entrusted by someone to give these oil paintings to you. However, you can only keep them and are not allowed to sell them or give them away." The policeman who sent the oil paintings said seriously.
"Hahaha..." Xu Yun was already crying with joy, covering her mouth and laughing. She had already learned about the recent attacks on the Ocean Princess and the Lassen through various media reports, and her heart was filled with excitement.
He murmured: "I knew the man I liked was definitely extraordinary."
But after she was happy, Xu Yun proudly puffed up her chest and said to the police who came to see her: "You must be here to investigate, right? I'm sorry, my man said that if you have any questions, please ask him himself. I have no idea."
But let me tell you, it’s useless for you to push me, I just simply like that person, and I really don’t know anything else.”
The two policemen seemed to have expected this, and they could only sigh after looking at each other. One of them said to Xu Yun: "Ms. Xu, from today on, you will be our police's special protection personnel. Regarding Victor Hugo's information,
You don’t have to tell us, but don’t tell anyone else either.”