Chapter 295 Gu Beichen is out again...

The next day, Zizhuyuan Park.

The park was somewhat desolate in early winter, with few visitors.

Following instructions, Wang Ergou shakily placed the miniature storage device disguised as a lunchbox under the agreed-upon bench, then immediately turned around and quickly left without looking back.

In every corner of the park, dozens of plainclothes soldiers, disguised as tourists, cleaners, and elderly people playing chess, quietly sealed off the area.

Time passed by, second by second.

It's exactly twelve o'clock.

A man wearing a gray trench coat, a hat, and a mask appeared at the end of the park path.

He walked slowly, his steps seemingly leisurely, but every step he took was in a blind spot of the surveillance, and he was observing his surroundings with every step.

He walked to the bench, but instead of immediately grabbing something, he sat down, took out a newspaper from his pocket, and began to read it slowly.

Ten minutes later, he casually bent down, picked up the lunchbox, stuffed it into his trench coat pocket, and got up to leave.

"action!"

The arrest teams that had been lying in ambush suddenly sprang into action, closing in from all directions.

However, at the very moment they set off, the man seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, and suddenly flung the newspaper in his hand, sending pieces of paper flying and obscuring their view.

He moved like a cheetah, turning and sprinting toward the other exit of the park.

Extremely fast!

The route is tricky!

He always manages to find the most complex obstacles and use the terrain to escape capture. His movements are completely unlike those of an ordinary person, clearly indicating that he has undergone the most rigorous professional training.

"Stop him!" the officer in charge shouted urgently.

Just as the man was about to break through the encirclement and disappear into the traffic outside the park.

At this critical moment.

From the side, a black Volga sedan glided silently like a ghost, executing a beautiful drift and landing squarely in the man's escape route.

The car door was suddenly pushed open, and several agile men dressed in black Zhongshan suits rushed out like lightning. Without giving the other party any chance to react, they swiftly and decisively pinned the struggling man to the ground.

The person leading the group was Qin Zheng.

He didn't even glance at the subdued man on the ground. He simply straightened the collar of his trench coat and, across the crowd, nodded slightly in Su Yue's direction.

He proved with his actions that his "eyes" could see everything that Su Yue couldn't.

The atmosphere in the interrogation room was so oppressive it was almost palpable.

The contact was tightly bound to a chair, remaining silent and as stubborn as a rock.

No matter how he was interrogated, he only stared at the interrogators with a venomous, cold gaze, clearly determined to resist to the bitter end.

Su Yue pushed open the door and walked in.

Instead of walking to the interrogation table, she circled the man and finally stopped beside him.

Her gaze fell on the man's hands.

Those were the hands of a researcher, with long, slender fingers, but under the fingernails, there were traces of extremely fine chemicals that were difficult to see with the naked eye.

“You are Zhou Ping, a researcher in the photoresist R&D team of the ‘Loongson’ project.”

Su Yue spoke calmly, and her first words made the man, who had always been expressionless, shudder.

He disguised himself very well. Even the military that arrested him only thought he was a courier responsible for passing on intelligence, and had no idea that he was the mole himself.

Ignoring his shock, Su Yue continued, "The residue under your fingernails is a component of the developer in SU-8 photoresist, mainly used for deep ultraviolet lithography. Your group is the only one in the entire base using this formula."

The color drained from the man's face instantly.

As if that wasn't enough, Su Yue delivered the final blow.

"You think you're safe just because you deleted the data? Unfortunately, you don't know that the data you deleted has already been copied from memory by a girl named Chen Xinyue. Your theft is meaningless."

"You betrayed your country, and all you got in return was nothing."

This sentence became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The man's strong psychological defenses completely collapsed in the face of Su Yue's terrifyingly accurate reasoning.

He raised his head, looking at Su Yue with the eyes of someone looking at a monster, making strange hoarse noises in his throat, and finally slumped into the chair, confessing everything.

How he was bribed by overseas capital, how he used his position to steal core data step by step, and his superiors and accomplices...

A spy network entrenched in Beijing, using commercial investment as a cover, has been stealing core state secrets for a long time, and has thus come to light.

The data theft case involving the "Loongson" project has been successfully solved.

A few days later, a document jointly signed by the Loongson project team, Academician Qian, and General Li Yuanchao was submitted to the highest level.

The document details how Chen Xinyue single-handedly turned the tide in this crisis and saved the country from immeasurable losses.

Ultimately, the highest level of government issued an order: to award Comrade Chen Xinyue the "National First-Class Merit" and to exceptionally appoint her as a lifetime special consultant for the "Loongson" project, granting her special government allowances.

When Chen Xinyue received the heavy, golden First-Class Merit Medal from General Li Yuanchao, this girl, who had always lived in Su Yue's shadow, found for the first time a unique honor that belonged entirely to her.

Su Yue returned to Hainan Island with Chen Xinyue, who had returned in triumph.

The moment the plane landed, the sunshine and sea breeze from Hainan Island dispelled all the gloom and cold of Beijing.

The Gu family courtyard was decorated with lanterns and colorful streamers, making it even more lively than during the Spring Festival.

Grandpa and Grandma held Chen Xinyue's hands, looking at the gleaming gold medal on her chest, their eyes filled with tears of emotion, repeatedly saying, "Good child, good child, you are the pride of our Chen family!"

The entire Gu family felt genuinely proud and happy for this once timid and shy girl.

That evening, the Gu family held a grand celebration banquet for Chen Xinyue.

At the banquet, Chen Xinyue, who never drinks alcohol, picked up a glass for the first time.

She walked up to Su Yue, solemnly raised her glass, and her eyes were slightly red.

“Sister,” she said, mustering all her courage, “before, I always felt that I couldn’t do anything right and could only follow behind you. You told me that I’m not a useless person.”

"Thank you for making me a better version of myself."

She tilted her head back and drank the fruit wine in her glass in one gulp.

Su Yue looked at her, raised her glass, and gently clinked it against hers, a genuine smile of satisfaction on her face.

The celebratory banquet was filled with a warm and joyful atmosphere, and everyone was immersed in happiness.

However, just as the banquet was halfway through...

A bodyguard of the military region commander hurried through the crowd, quickly walked to Gu Beichen's side, and handed him a red emergency document sealed in a brown paper bag.

"Commander Gu, it's an urgent transfer order from the Commander."

Gu Beichen took the document and opened it.

With just one glance, his smiling face instantly darkened.

The hustle and bustle of the entire courtyard seemed to have shut him out.

Su Yue noticed his change, put down her chopsticks, and walked over to him.

Gu Beichen raised his head and looked at his wife. His usually deep eyes were now filled with a complex mix of emotions: reluctance, worry, and a hint of the resolute determination of a soldier facing an order.

He told Su Yue, "I have to go to the South China Sea to carry out an urgent mission, which may... take a month."

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