"Of course it's good!" Ma Qiqi didn't even blink as she watched. She took a bite of the apple in her hand and put it behind her head. Her mouth was half open as she gasped and said, "Oh my god! Oh my god! This kidnapper is too powerful! "
On the TV screen, the tall figure standing up from the ruins only swayed for a moment before flipping backward and disappearing somewhere.
In the time it took for a spark to fly off a flint, the bullets were like meteors pouring down on the place where the figure had just been standing, as if they were free.
In the eyes of the TV audience, the appearance and disappearance of this "kidnapper" happened in the blink of an eye. However, in Tan Guiren's eyes, it felt like an eternity.
She couldn't forget his heroic posture standing in the ruins. Even though she was already out of danger and had returned to her villa in Long Island, Tan Guiren kept replaying that scene in her mind.
That person had never taken off his mask and helmet. She didn't know what he looked like, but she had an incomparably deep memory of his figure.
The FBI and CIA officers who came to interrogate her had asked her in a roundabout way who that person was.
She could only laugh coldly and ask in return, "Don't you know? Isn't he a kidnapper? Didn't you say I had Stockholm syndrome? "
The live TV news that shook the entire Blue Planet was just like watching an American Hollywood blockbuster to the average Hua Xia Imperial audience. It didn't matter if it was real or fake.
In the postgraduate dormitory at B University, Gu Nianzhi thought Ma Qiqi's expression was even more vivid and beautiful than on TV.
She found it funny to stare at Ma Qiqi's expression and was about to speak when she saw Ma Qiqi suddenly jump up and wave her fists as she shouted, "What the hell?! Why is it getting darker and darker?! "
Gu Nianzhi quickly turned around and saw a person on the TV screen wearing a thin blanket and running towards a collapsed ruin.
Under the gradually dimming searchlights, she could barely make out the person with fluttering long hair. It was probably a woman?
Then, there was no more then.
"That's it! That's it?! He took off his pants and you're telling me that there's nothing down there?! " Ma Qiqi was so angry that she waved her fists and picked up her phone to call the TV station's hotline. She said angrily, "What kind of reality show is this?! And the ending? The ending? What? There's no ending?! The other party interrupted the livestream?! Nothing else?! F * ck me! The American TV stations are also run by eunuchs! "
Gu Nianzhi shook her head with a smile and glanced at the TV screen, which had already been switched to commercials. She said nonchalantly, "Alright, it's just news. If you want to watch it again, go watch the webcast."
Ma Qiqi walked to the table and propped her hands on it. She looked at Gu Nianzhi and said, "You're actually not interested at all? Do you know how difficult it is to make a cop and robber reality show? It's a real gun! "
Gu Nianzhi thought back to when she was still studying in C City and had encountered a kidnapping during her graduation trip. That was a real police fight!
Her Huo Shao had killed the kidnapper with a single shot and blown up the kidnapper's head from such a far distance across the lake. Wasn't that much better than the flashy police reality show in the United States?
Gu Nianzhi smiled as she caressed Ma Qiqi's face. "You're shameless! What was there to see? Our country's special forces and regular army are much stronger than the United States. I'm telling you, I didn't just see it on TV. I saw it with my own eyes! It's much better than scratching an itch through your boots. "
"Really?" Ma Qiqi tilted her head. For some reason, the man named "Big Xiong" who Gu Nianzhi was very familiar with floated into her mind. She knew they were soldiers, and with their physiques, they shouldn't be any worse than the American military and police, right?
Ma Qiqi's eyes drifted as she sat back on the sofa and continued to nibble on her apple. After a while, she said, "Nianzhi, it seems like you haven't seen your boyfriend in a long time. Is your Brother Xiong not coming either?"
Gu Nianzhi frowned. She had just remembered them.
Yes, it seemed like it had been too long this time. It had been more than a month.
She hadn't heard from Huo Shaoheng, nor had she contacted Yin Shixiong.
Strangely, Yin Shixiong hadn't actively contacted her either.
In the past, even if Huo Shaoheng went on a mission, either Yin Shixiong or Zhao Liangze would stay behind to accompany her.
Now …
Perhaps it was because she was already an adult and didn't need a guardian by her side at all times.
Gu Nianzhi sighed softly and picked up her phone. After hesitating for a while, she finally swiped it open and dialed Yin Shixiong's number.
The phone rang three times. Yin Shixiong, who was sitting in on the emergency meeting of the Supreme Military Council, saw that it was Gu Nianzhi's call. He thought about it and picked it up. He said to the person in the meeting, "I'll take this." He turned to leave.
"Nianzhi, how come you have time to call Brother Xiong today?" Yin Shixiong's hearty laughter came from the other end of the line.
Gu Nianzhi breathed a sigh of relief and said in a relaxed tone, "Brother Xiong, have you been busy lately? I haven't seen you in a long time. I miss you. Can I go back to the base this weekend to see you? "
"Oh? Miss me? You're not missing me. You're missing someone else! " Yin Shixiong's tone was very normal and humorous as usual. Gu Nianzhi didn't notice anything strange at all.
She was even happier. Holding the phone for a long time, she finally asked, "Brother Xiong, I know I shouldn't ask, but do you have … any news about him?"
"Don't ask if you know you shouldn't ask." Yin Shixiong said earnestly, "Nianzhi, you also know that you can't say a word about things you shouldn't know."
Gu Nianzhi knew this very well. No matter what, she had lived with Huo Shaoheng in the Special Operations Forces base for six years. She knew their rules very well.
"Yeah, I said too much. Please don't take offense, Brother Xiong." Gu Nianzhi nodded sheepishly. "Then I'll come back to see you this weekend?"
"I'm going on a business trip this weekend. I'm afraid I won't be at the base for a while." Yin Shixiong said calmly, "How about I come to see you at your school tomorrow? We haven't seen each other in a long time. Have a meal with Brother Xiong and tell him what you've been up to recently. I'll be able to report to you when I have the chance … Haha, don't you think so? "
From Gu Nianzhi's understanding, Yin Shixiong's "report" was definitely to Huo Shaoheng. She couldn't help feeling sweet inside and smiled widely. "Then I'll wait for you."
Putting down the phone, Gu Nianzhi realized that her face was burning. She touched her cheeks and said to Ma Qiqi, "Brother Xiong will come to see me tomorrow. I'm going to bed early."
"Go, go." Ma Qiqi smiled and waved at her. She also went back to her room to rest.
…
In the office building of the Supreme Military Council in the Imperial Capital, Yin Shixiong put his phone back in his pocket. His face was expressionless. He looked like a completely different person from the calm and collected person he had just been talking to.
He was a member of the Special Operations Forces. Making up lies to trick people was the most basic thing he had learned. He had long since mastered it. Even Gu Nianzhi couldn't tell what he was really feeling.
The news of Huo Shaoheng's accident was top secret information in the Special Operations Forces. Other than him and Huo Shaoheng's two personal secretaries who rarely appeared, only the higher-ups of the Standing Committee of the Supreme Military Council knew.
He walked back to the conference room where the meeting had just been held and quietly sat down on a chair by the wall.
The conference room was completely silent.
The few people with the highest positions in the military all had ugly expressions on their faces.
General Ji's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
After a while, he pounded the table and said, "This must be kept a secret! Whoever leaks the secret will be punished with treason! They will be punished by military law and will not be tolerated! "
The Chief of the Special Operations Forces, the rising star of the Supreme Military Council, Huo Shaoheng, had quietly died on the territory of the United States of America. The higher-ups of the Huaxia Imperial Military felt like they had been slapped hard in the face.
The Special Operations Forces was a department directly under the military. Its functions overlapped with the Secret Service of the government cabinet. However, because the Special Operations Forces was directly under the military, their operational capabilities were more powerful. Every time they made a move, it was a heavy blow, and the enemy had never been able to gain an advantage against them.
However, it was this illustrious department that had never made a mistake that had suffered the biggest defeat since its establishment.
This wasn't a normal defeat. It was as humiliating as when two armies faced off against each other and the Commander-in-Chief was captured by the enemy.
Yin Shixiong was originally just sitting in and listening, but now that he heard the heartbreaking words of the higher-ups, he couldn't help but stand up and say loudly, "Reporting to all the chiefs! Our Chief was not captured! He didn't sacrifice anything! He just went missing! "
"Just missing?! Hmph! You make it sound so easy! Who doesn't know what it means for someone of his level to go missing? " The higher-ups of the General Staff always liked to plan for the worst. In his heart, Huo Shaoheng's "disappearance" was no different from being captured.
"Don't forget, Yin Youqin is in our hands, but the CIA has always said that he's' missing. 'They never said that he was captured!" Huo Shaoheng's father, Huo Guanchen, was more qualified than anyone else to be heartbroken. "Shaoheng is my son! But he is also a soldier! He would never do anything that would harm the interests of the country! "
"Guanchen, calm down. No one said that Shaoheng would do anything that would harm the interests of the country." General Ji calmly knocked on the table, but he still felt sorry for him.
If Huo Shaoheng had really been captured, even if he was exchanged in the future, it would be difficult for him to take on any important responsibilities.
This was the attitude of the organization toward people who had been captured.
Even if you didn't betray the organization, the country, or the people, being captured was a stain that couldn't be washed away. Because no one could guarantee what happened after you were captured, or whether you compromised and surrendered …
It had been proven that many of their internal spies had betrayed the organization after being captured by the enemy …
Yin Shixiong took a deep breath and said word by word, "Dear chiefs, there is currently no evidence to prove that Huo Shaoheng was captured. Please don't overthink it. With Huo Shaoheng's ability and capabilities, I think he should be hiding for the time being. "
"Why would he hide?" One of the higher-ups wore glasses and rolled his eyes at Yin Shixiong. "Could it be that he has done something shameful?"
Yin Shixiong felt that he couldn't talk to this group of higher-ups in the military. They were in different professions.
These higher-ups were good at war, but they knew too little about intelligence work. Even General Ji, who had promoted Huo Shaoheng, didn't have a background in intelligence work.
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