Walking into Speaker Long's office in the Senate building, Huo Shaoheng's gaze swept over the antique furnishings in the room. He saluted the two elders in the room. "Hello, Chief."
"Sit." Speaker Long pointed to the sofa across from him.
The office staff brought Huo Shaoheng a cup of tea and placed it on the coffee table in front of him.
Of course, Huo Shaoheng hadn't come here this late to drink tea.
He went straight to the point. "Excuse me, Chief, what's going on?"
Speaker Long waved his hand. The staff in the room understood and immediately left the office, closing the door behind them.
Only Speaker Long, General Ji, and Huo Shaoheng were left in the room.
Speaker Long's expression was solemn. "The Prime Minister election will be held in a month."
What did the Prime Minister election have to do with the Special Operations Forces?
They clearly couldn't interfere with internal affairs and could only manage things outside the country's borders.
Huo Shaoheng glanced at General Ji. Seeing that he didn't comment, he didn't ask further and patiently listened to Speaker Long finish.
"This time, Prime Minister Dou can no longer run. The other candidates have performed very well. Up until now, only two have performed exceptionally well."
Huo Shaoheng knew they were talking about the Minister of the Interior, Bai Jiancheng, and the Minister of Justice, Tan Dongbang.
No one was surprised by Bai Jiancheng. After Prime Minister Dou's incident, Bai Jiancheng was now leading the Cabinet and acting like a temporary Prime Minister.
Everyone thought his election was a done deal, but they didn't expect Tan Dongbang, the Minister of Justice, to suddenly announce his intention to run for the election. He continuously issued several election platforms, claiming to "rule the country according to law" and attacking the privileged classes. At the same time, he threw out the ancient wisdom that "if a prince breaks the law, he will be punished the same as the commoners." He unexpectedly won the hearts of the voters.
In addition, when he was the Minister of Justice, he was committed to redressing wrongful cases and pushing for the courts to review some controversial cases. Many people were already grateful to him, so when he announced his candidacy, he immediately overshadowed the Minister of the Interior, Bai Jiancheng.
"The person you mentioned on the phone is related to Minister Tan," Huo Shaoheng said calmly. "Who is it? Since he wants to run for Prime Minister, did you conduct a strict background check on him? If his immediate family members have emigrated overseas, he won't be eligible to participate, right? "
"Of course we've looked into it. The Tans are a large family, and many of their collateral relatives are overseas, just like your grandmother's Xie family. However, Tan Dongbang's immediate family members are all Huaxia citizens, but he has a daughter who is studying abroad on a student visa and is not an immigrant. She graduated this summer and originally planned to continue her postgraduate studies abroad, but because her father decided to run for the election last minute, she has to return home before the election, which is the day after her graduation exams. "Speaker Long tossed out a document and placed it in front of Huo Shaoheng.
Huo Shaoheng quietly picked up the documents and flipped through them. "… So this is what you meant by urgent matters? You want to send a major general from the Special Operations Forces to bring a female exchange student back to China? Hmm, he's a commoner with no special privileges. "
General Ji: "…"
Speaker Long chuckled. "Very sharp, Shaoheng, but I'm not done with this matter yet."
"I'm all ears."
"Tan Dongbang's daughter Tan Guiren …"
"Stop, why do you say his daughter is a benefactor?" Huo Shaoheng expressed his confusion again.
He didn't know much about the people in the cabinet, and even less about the relatives in his family.
"It's not that his daughter is a benefactor, it's that his daughter is called Guiren." Speaker Long almost cried and knelt down. He was also complaining about what kind of name Tan Dongbang had given his daughter!
Why wasn't Guiren called Lucky Star?
"Oh." Huo Shaoheng paused. "Continue."
"This Tan Guiren is studying violin at Juilliard in the United States. She's always behaved herself and is very obedient. But because her father ran for the Prime Minister election, she was implicated. "Speaker Long's voice lowered as he placed another document in front of Huo Shaoheng.
"I just received news that she went missing from her dormitory."
Huo Shaoheng: "…"
He glanced at General Ji.
General Ji nodded at him. "The embassy has already sent people there to investigate. She's indeed missing."
Huo Shaoheng took the documents and flipped through them. As he read, he asked, "… Even if she really went missing, how do you know it's related to her father's election? Maybe it's just a simple criminal case. "
"… Because someone sent a letter to Tan Dongbang, claiming that if he withdrew from the election, his daughter would be able to return safely. If he didn't, his daughter's life would be worse than death. "Speaker Long slammed the table and said angrily," I was furious when I saw this letter. This is outrageous! We're the Prime Minister candidate of a great nation, and yet we're being threatened like this! Is there any law or order?! "
"Then why are you looking for me?" Huo Shaoheng sat up straight. "You can use the Special Operations Forces personnel in the United States for this kind of thing, but there's no need for me to personally do it, right?"
He was the head of the Special Operations Forces, so he didn't need to do field investigations.
"Also, this was discovered by the first-class military officer of our embassy." General Ji suddenly spoke and placed another document in front of Huo Shaoheng. "Take a look. Doesn't it look familiar?"
Huo Shaoheng took it and flipped through it again. When he saw the data, his hands suddenly stopped moving. His eyes stared at the string of numbers in a daze.
This was a string of magnetic field data. To be precise, it was a set of abnormal magnetic field data. It was the same magnetic field data that Huo Shaoheng's maternal grandfather, Song Haichuan, and mother, Song Jinning, had produced when their experiment failed 17 years ago. It was the same abnormal magnetic field data that Gu Nianzhi had appeared seven years ago. It was also the same abnormal magnetic field data that they had discovered in the Somali waters last year.
But this time, the location was in the student dormitory at Juilliard in New York.
Huo Shaoheng's heart skipped a beat, but he maintained an unmoved expression on his face. Putting away the document, he looked up and said, "The Special Operations Forces has been following up on this magnetic field for a long time. We also have people in charge, so it's more appropriate to send them."
"But in the past, whenever you heard of something like this, you were always the first to ask to investigate." Speaker Long was a bit confused. "Why don't you want to go now?"
"Times have changed." Huo Shaoheng played Tai Chi.
He wouldn't tell Speaker Long and General Ji what the real reason was.
Since Gu Nianzhi's family background was already known, the magnetic field data was just a set of data.
General Ji and Speaker Long looked at each other, then at Huo Shaoheng. "You're really not interested? You don't want to go? "
"The mission that I'm assigned to is to investigate something that has a major impact on national interests. What impact does the disappearance of a prime minister candidate's daughter have on our national interests? " Huo Shaoheng was unmoved. "I can't even finish my own things, so I can't be a police dog to investigate missing people."
General Ji and Speaker Long spent a long time talking to Huo Shaoheng, but they couldn't convince him. In the end, seeing that it was almost dawn, the two of them were old and couldn't hold on much longer. They told him to go back and think about it, and then adjourned the meeting.
Huo Shaoheng walked out of the Senate and looked at the golden clouds that had just appeared on the horizon. The red sun was about to erupt.
Just as he was thinking about whether or not to go see Gu Nianzhi again, he heard his phone ring again. This time, it was his personal phone. Less than five people knew the number.
He picked it up and saw that it was actually Chen Lie.
"Huo Shao, where are you? Not at the base? Can you come to my office for a bit? "Chen Lie's voice was a bit urgent.
"I'll be right back." Huo Shaoheng replied simply and hung up. He got into the car and said to Fan Jian, "Let's go back to the base."
Huo Shaoheng got into the car and rubbed his forehead. He closed his eyes and slept for a while.
He woke up after returning to the base, but didn't return to his official residence. Instead, he went to see Chen Lie.
Chen Lie was on the top floor of the medical building in the base.
Huo Shaoheng took the elevator to where Chen Lie worked alone. Chen Lie had called him several times yesterday to ask him to go over. He also wanted to see how Gu Xiangwen was doing.
In the few days since his return, Chen Lie had finally stabilized Gu Xiangwen's condition. His body was slowly recovering.
Pushing open the snow-white door of the ward, Huo Shaoheng poked his head out to look at Gu Xiangwen lying on the hospital bed.
There were all kinds of tubes in his body, and the equipment beside the bed was like a workshop.
Chen Lie was in the office next door and saw Huo Shaoheng come up through the surveillance screen. He waited for a while before seeing Huo Shaoheng walk into his office.
"You've seen him?" Chen Lie rolled his eyes. "He's under my care. What are you worried about?"
"I'm not worried. I just wanted to see when he'll wake up." Huo Shaoheng leaned forward and picked up an apple from the corner of Chen Lie's desk. He took a bite. "Sour." He put it down and asked Chen Lie, "Why were you looking for me?"
Chen Lie's brows furrowed. He glanced at Huo Shaoheng, then looked away guiltily. His eyes darted around the office, but he refused to answer the question.
Huo Shaoheng had been friends with Chen Lie for many years. He could tell from his expression that he was in trouble.
Fiddling with the bitten apple on the table, Huo Shaoheng said calmly, "What do you want now? You can't save him, so you're trying to get Nianzhi? How many times have I warned you that Nianzhi isn't your lab rat? Don't even think about using her to save Gu Xiangwen. I'll despise you for the rest of my life if you do. "
Chen Lie seemed to have something stuck in his chest. He wanted to say it, but he couldn't. His face turned purple. After a while, he jumped up from the back of the office and rushed to the door to shut it tightly. He also turned off all the surveillance cameras in his office.
Finally, he asked Huo Shaoheng, "Do you have a way to check the hidden surveillance cameras here?"
He had something to say, and he didn't want anyone to hear or record it.
Huo Shaoheng became serious.
This was the headquarters building of the Special Operations Forces. Even he didn't know how many hidden surveillance cameras there were.
So if he had something to say that he didn't want others to know, he couldn't do it here.
He stood up. "I have something to do. I'll be leaving now."
Chen Lie understood. He quickly jumped up to grab his coat and put it on. He walked out of his office with Huo Shaoheng.
The two of them took the elevator downstairs and arrived at the spacious square in front of the medical building.
As long as they kept their voices down, there was absolutely no way any equipment would be able to eavesdrop.
Huo Shaoheng saw how cautious Chen Lie was. Although he didn't show it on his face, he was already mentally prepared.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Chen Lie sweated when he was nervous. He took off his glasses and wiped them before putting them back on. He mustered up his courage and said, "Huo Shao, I'll tell you first. Don't be anxious."
"Okay, tell me."
"This time, I can't even use Nianzhi's bone marrow."
"Huh?"
"Her DNA doesn't match Gu Xiangwen's."
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