The coffee cups on the conference table clanked.
Vladimir quickly reached out to hold the coffee cup. His back was drenched in cold sweat, but he still maintained a smile on the surface. He took out a cigar and handed it to Huo Shaoheng.
"Major General Huo, calm down, calm down! I will definitely give you an explanation for this matter! I won't tolerate anyone's fault, okay? You just said it yourself. Fortunately, Comrade Lina acted quickly and saved two people by herself. Otherwise … "
"Otherwise, I would have shot all of you KGB agents one by one. Don't think I can't do it. When I was out on a mission, you were still making notes for people in the political department of the KGB headquarters. "Huo Shaoheng calmed down a little, but his words became more and more sarcastic.
This was the job Vladimir had done before he was promoted.
There were many capable people in the KGB. To be able to climb to his position, it wasn't entirely due to his true ability.
Vladimir didn't feel embarrassed at all, but he also thought that their people had indeed gone overboard this time.
They were all soldiers on the special front lines. Not harming their families was the bottom line, and it was also a principle that everyone silently followed.
Everyone had their own family, relatives, and friends. No one was born out of a rock.
When they were on a mission, they were doing their job, not to vent their personal anger.
"Major General Huo, I understand how you feel. If this had happened to me, I would have shot him right away! " Vladimir was filled with righteous indignation, and he didn't forget to flatter Huo Shaoheng. He gave him a thumbs up and praised, "Only Major General Huo can remain calm and composed. You have the demeanor of a general!"
"That's enough." Huo Shaoheng waved his hand. "I'll give you half a day. If you don't explain yourself clearly, we won't let this matter rest."
Huo Shaoheng left the temporary conference room of the resort.
Vladimir sat alone in the conference room. The smile on his face quickly faded. He picked up his phone and called Wassily from the political department of the KGB headquarters.
The phone rang a few times before it was picked up.
It was the voice of Vassily, the eunuch who was neither yin nor yang.
"Sigh, Lieutenant General Vladimir, this really isn't optimistic …" Before Vladimir could say anything, Wassily had already "accused" him.
Vladimir was furious. He had vented all the anger he had suffered at Huo Shaoheng's hands on Wassily.
He stood up abruptly and kicked the conference table in front of him to the ground.
The coffee cups, coffee pots, and all kinds of desserts on the conference table were flipped over and smashed into pieces.
The noise of porcelain was transmitted to the KGB headquarters in Moscow through the electromagnetic waves of the mobile phone.
Vassily's expression turned ugly. "Lieutenant General Vladimir, please calm down."
"Calm down? You f * cking made a huge mess, and now you want me to calm down?! Why didn't you calm down before coming up with this stupid idea!? If you want to die, no one will stop you! But don't drag others down with you! I haven't lived enough yet! "Vladimir rolled up his sleeves and cursed at his phone.
"I'm not married yet! She didn't have a child! If I die because of you, do you know that I won't be able to die in peace? — — Wassily! Don't think that no one dares to punish you! The girl you f * cking had outside, is it comfortable to hug her? Does your wife know that you bought her a house?! "
Vladimir wasn't someone who was easy to deal with. At this moment, he had revealed all of Wassily's shameful things. Wassily was also anxious. "Don't talk nonsense! When did I have a girl? You have to take responsibility for what you say! "
Vladimir sneered. "I'll take responsibility! I'll take responsibility for everything …! "
Before he could finish speaking, the other side hung up the phone with a beep.
After a while, Wassily called Vladimir from another phone line that wasn't monitored.
After Vladimir picked up, Wassily's attitude was much better.
He was forced to confess to Vladimir, "Lieutenant General Vladimir, I understand your anger, but you have to know that this assessment was unanimously agreed upon by our headquarters' political department. Everyone thinks … "
"What do you think?!" Vladimir kicked again. This time, he kicked a high-back soft chair into the corner of the room. The heavy chair almost fell apart from his kick. He turned around and sat down on the windowsill. "You guys sit in the office every day and only know how to think nonsense!"
Wassily was choked by Vladimir's words and rolled his eyes.
However, Vladimir had something on him. If he didn't come up with something, Vladimir wouldn't let it go.
Although Wassily wasn't afraid of Vladimir, if they fought to the point where both sides were injured, his deputy would be eyeing his position covetously.
Wassily knew very well that he couldn't make enemies everywhere.
He had already offended enough people within the KGB. He couldn't offend Vladimir, the second-in-command …
Thinking of this, Wassily revealed some of his secrets to Vladimir to dispel his monstrous anger.
"Comrade Lieutenant General Vladimir, every one of our assessments is targeted and not created out of thin air. Since we chose to test Major Lina in front of the two citizens of the Huaxia Empire, of course, we are suspicious of her background … "Wassily said softly as he looked around vigilantly.
At this time, he was sitting on a bench on the edge of the Red Square in Moscow. There was no one around. Some tourists from the Huaxia Empire were square dancing on the Red Square and were being watched by people, so his side wasn't conspicuous.
Vladimir's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. It couldn't be as he thought, right?!
"You suspect her background?" Vladimir repeated Wassily's words with a solemn expression. "What background does she have that makes you suspect her?"
"We suspect that she has something to do with the Huaxia Empire." Wassily told Vladimir everything. "So our assessment this morning is killing two birds with one stone."
"Impossible!" Vladimir suddenly stood up and said angrily, "One f * cking stone, two f * cking birds! I think you guys are too free! Everyone looks like a spy from the Huaxia Empire! I'll be honest with you, we've already investigated this a long time ago! She has a clean background … "
"It's because she has a clean background, and she never violates the rules. She carries out missions as quickly and accurately as a robot! This kind of quality is very much like a spy from the Huaxia Empire! "Wassily said resolutely.
"F * ck you!" Vladimir was so angry that he laughed. "Why can't she be our country's outstanding spy?! You think she's a spy from the Huaxia Empire when you see a good one. How much do you look down on our country's loyal warriors! "
Wassily scratched his ear with a wry smile and said, "Don't you have any idea what our country's loyal warriors are like? For example, people like Ivan don't make big mistakes, but they keep making small mistakes. That's why they're the essence of our country's intelligence personnel … "
Vladimir found himself speechless.
He was almost the same kind of person, but he was more cunning and restrained than Ivan.
Now that he thought about it, Lina was really different from them …
But Lina was a woman, and women were born different from men. Couldn't it be that the women in their country were better than the men?!
Vladimir thought about it over and over again, but he still refused to believe that Lina wasn't on the same side as them.
They had worked together for so many years and gone through life and death together. They were people who could trust each other with their backs.
If Lina was really a spy, they would have died at her hands long ago …
Moreover, the Huaxia Empire didn't seem to have any internal intelligence on them.
For example, when Huo Shaoheng brought his fiancée to Russia this time, they had encountered danger several times.
Even when they were traveling, they were still chased after. His mother was a scientist, but she was almost caught in the crossfire.
However, Lina's performance today did make Vladimir a little disappointed.
After sitting quietly in the conference room for a while, Vladimir waved to the middle-aged driver who was poking his head out of the door and said, "Call Lina and ask her to come over. I have something to ask her."
The middle-aged driver didn't dare to continue joking with Vladimir. He quickly took out his phone and called Lina over.
..
Lina changed her clothes and came to the door of the conference room that the middle-aged driver had mentioned.
She nodded to the middle-aged driver at the door and said expressionlessly, "Lieutenant General Vladimir, Major Lina reporting for duty!"
"Come in." Vladimir's calm voice came from the conference room.
Lina composed herself and walked in.
"Close the door." Vladimir glared at the middle-aged driver at the door.
The middle-aged driver's eyes darted around, and even his ears perked up.
Lina closed the door and stood in front of Vladimir. She raised her hand and saluted. "Lieutenant General Vladimir, what can I do for you?"
Vladimir looked up at Lina, who was standing in front of him. For the first time, he realized that she was indeed a little different from them.
Her military posture was too standard …
In the past, he had only been proud of this outstanding graduate from the Intelligence Academy, but now that he thought about it from a different perspective, he suddenly shuddered.
However, just because Lina was better than others, he suspected that she was a spy from the Huaxia Empire. Was this kind of suspicion really normal?
Vladimir realized that he had been led astray by Wassily's twisted logic.
He looked at Lina with a complicated expression and said slowly, "Major Lina, I've submitted the application for you to be promoted to lieutenant colonel."
"Thank you, Lieutenant General Vladimir!" A hint of joy flashed across Lina's eyes.
This hint of joy didn't escape Vladimir's eyes, and he suddenly hesitated.
Did the words of Vassily, a paranoid patient, really make sense?
Couldn't the KGB have soldiers as good as the Huaxia Empire's spies?!
Vladimir coughed heavily and made up his mind. "… However, the headquarters' political department still needs to conduct a further assessment of you."
Lina immediately became serious. "I accept all the assessments given to me by the headquarters. May I know what work I need to do?"
Vladimir closed his eyes and said calmly, "The first stage of the assessment has already passed."
"Huh?" For the first time, Lina's expression changed. She was smart and immediately understood. "Could it be that the explosion of the equipment in the morning was an assessment?"
"What is this assessment about?" Lina's confused look made Vladimir feel even more guilty and guilty.
He dug into his pocket and took out something the size of a lighter. He placed it on the conference table.
Lina recognized at a glance that this was the famous "electric spark" switch!
"… So the explosion in the morning wasn't a real explosion, but an 'electric spark'." Lina frowned. "Who's so bored? Scaring people with such a prank? "
She looked at Vladimir's calm eyes in confusion and said, "If this is the assessment, then I've already passed, right? I saved my target immediately and left them unscathed. "
Vladimir still looked at her fixedly. He shook his head slightly and said in a low voice, "When the 'electric spark' was activated, as long as you chose to save me, I would have immediately pressed this switch. No one would have been harmed at all."
Lina's face, which seemed to have been glued together by 502 glue, finally revealed a trace of astonishment.
"… What?! Lieutenant General Vladimir, how could you and the people from the headquarters' political department be so bored?! "She angrily accused Vladimir, her chest heaving up and down in anger.
"It's not boredom. It's a test of your immediate reaction. The moment you saw the electric spark activate, your first reaction was to push Cereus away and save Scientist Song. I was standing closest to you, and you had expressed a good impression of me, but when the accident happened, you acted as if you didn't see me. "
This kind of approach was a huge blow to Vladimir at the time.
Now it was a double blow.
Lina was so angry that she clenched her fists, and her lips trembled. After a while, she suppressed her emotions and said, "… I was on a mission! To me, the mission that Lieutenant General Vladimir gave me was more important than my life! And although I saved those two women from the Huaxia Empire, I don't have any special personal feelings for them. "
"You saw me kick Cereus down with your own eyes, and you also saw me pounce on Scientist Song. With my abilities, I could have made them avoid danger more subtly, but I didn't do that. Because I wouldn't waste the slightest bit of effort to do anything that was beyond my authority! "
"On the contrary, you, Lieutenant General Vladimir, I treat you as a comrade! At a time like this, shouldn't you be fighting side by side with me against the enemy?! Why did you think that I would save you at the first moment?! Why didn't you save me at the first moment?! "
Lina's eyes finally turned red. She wiped away her tears and gritted her teeth. "… Which idiot designed this kind of test?! I'll f * cking fight him! "
Eh, she looked like a real KGB intelligence agent again!
Vladimir's eyes lit up. At this moment, the driver also pushed open the door of the conference room and gave Lina a thumbs up. He said seriously, "Well said! Comrade Major Lina, I'm on your side! Boss, Lina makes a lot of sense. The people in the political department of the headquarters are all idiots, and the people who believe them are also idiots … "
"Get lost!" Vladimir flew into a rage out of humiliation. He grabbed the chair cushion and threw it at the driver.
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This was the first chapter of the day. Four thousand words: Chapter 1275, "It's Wrong to Have Too Good Manners."
The second chapter was around one o 'clock in the afternoon, and the third chapter was around eight o' clock in the evening.
It was the end of the month, so he continued to mutter for monthly votes!
I've been at least three chapters a day for three months in a row ~ ~ ~
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