Chapter 286 A Sweet Celebration Night?
Three days later, in the dead of night, under a dark and windy sky.
Two dark figures, like ghosts, silently scaled the high wall of the laboratory, skillfully avoiding the patrolling guards and all the surveillance cameras.
It was Huo Qidong and Xiao Zhang.
Using specialized tools, they pried open the heavy alloy door of the strain storage facility and headed straight for the innermost Class A cold storage room.
After a flurry of activity, they carried a heavy military lead box out of the cold storage.
Success!
A look of ecstasy flashed in their eyes. Clutching the box that could change their fate, they turned to leave.
However, in the instant they turned around...
"Smack!"
All the searchlights in the entire laboratory suddenly blazed on!
The blinding light turned the night as bright as day, illuminating the horrified faces of Huo Qidong and Xiao Zhang.
Dozens of heavily armed guards appeared out of nowhere, their dark gun barrels locking onto them from all sides.
Gu Beichen, dressed in a black combat suit, walked in step by step from outside the encirclement, like a king of the night.
Without even glancing at the two idiots who were already paralyzed with fear on the ground, he walked straight to the lead box, raised his military boot, and kicked it hard.
A muffled "bang" was heard.
The lead box was kicked open and rolled on the ground.
There were no priceless bacterial strains or sophisticated culture dishes inside.
There was only one rough red brick, which I don't know which construction site it was picked up from.
On the red brick, four large characters were written crookedly in white paint: "Welcome."
Huo Qidong and Xiao Zhang were caught red-handed, with the stolen goods seized.
However, in the heavily guarded interrogation room of the military region, the two refused to utter a word when questioned by the investigation team.
Just when everyone was at a loss, Xiao Zhang, who had been silent all along, suddenly convulsed, foamed at the mouth, and convulsed violently before collapsing to the ground.
"Doctor! Call a doctor quickly!"
Chaos erupted in the interrogation room.
A guard rushed forward to check his breathing, and a few seconds later, looked up in horror.
"Reporting, sir! The person...the person is no longer breathing!"
Another experienced veteran squatted down, pried open Xiao Zhang's mouth, and a faint bitter almond flavor wafted out.
He picked a crushed wax pellet from Xiao Zhang's back molars.
Cyanide.
The trail went cold.
The air in the interrogation room froze.
Xiao Zhang's body was still warm, lying on the cold cement floor. His refined face was twisted and deformed by the intense pain from the cyanide, making it look particularly ferocious.
The trail was cut off in the most tragic and decisive way.
On the other side, Huo Qidong was already so frightened that he wet himself and collapsed in his chair, trembling like a leaf.
He stammered and couldn't answer any of the questions the investigation team asked, only repeating that they were all contacting him through single-line communication from overseas, and he had no idea who the higher-ups were behind it all.
One is dead and cannot testify.
A good-for-nothing who knows nothing.
The entire investigation seemed to have reached a dead end.
Just as the head of the investigation team slammed his fist on the table in frustration, the door to the interrogation room was pushed open, and Su Yue walked in.
She glanced at the corpse on the ground, then at Huo Qidong, who was completely terrified, her face devoid of any emotion.
She walked to Xiao Zhang's body, squatted down, and calmly began to speak.
"He didn't commit suicide; he was silenced."
This statement stunned everyone present.
Su Yue didn't explain, but simply stood up and looked around at everyone.
"The person behind this is ruthless and far more powerful than we imagined, capable of planting a pawn next to Commander Zheng and immediately silencing him upon mission failure."
The path forward for investigation has been blocked.
But Su Yue never takes a dead end.
Since the enemy wants to muddy the waters, she'll make the water boil over completely.
That evening, Su Yue returned to the study in the Gu family's courtyard, spread out some stationery, and wrote a letter by hand.
The letter made no mention of any personal grudges. Instead, it described, in the most rigorous and detailed manner, the disruptive value that her research on "phage technology" would have in the field of military medicine should it succeed, from the perspective of a scientific researcher.
She elaborated on how this technology could combat "superbugs" that may emerge on future battlefields, resistant to all known antibiotics.
At the end of the letter, she abruptly shifted her tone, using a shocking description of the devastating impact this crucial national asset would have on the country's defense security should it fall into enemy hands.
Instead of handing the letter over to the Hainan Island Military Region, she put it in a confidential envelope and sent it directly to Beijing through the military region's encrypted channels.
The recipient was Academician Qian.
That academic giant, renowned throughout the country for his integrity and uncompromising nature.
Su Yue wanted to use this old academician to take this matter from a local espionage case to the highest levels of the country.
She wants to make those who want to cover it up and try to quell the matter no longer be able to cover it up or quell it!
At Academician Qian's home in Beijing.
After reading Su Yue's letter and the attached briefing on the "Huo Qidong Incident," the old academician was so angry that he trembled and smashed his beloved purple clay teacup on the ground.
"This is outrageous! This is outrageous!"
The following day, a top-level meeting concerning the nation's scientific research strategy for the next five years was underway.
Academician Qian, who had been stopped by the guards, pushed open the conference room door.
Holding Su Yue's letter, the old academician stood before all the military and political leaders, his hair standing on end, and denounced the extent to which the infiltration of the national defense research field had reached. He demanded that a top-level joint investigation team be established immediately to investigate thoroughly and show no leniency.
A storm that swept through the capital was about to begin.
Amidst the storm, some people couldn't sit still any longer.
A deputy minister surnamed Li from a ministry in Beijing, who was one of the main political enemies of the Qin family when they fell from power, began to use his authority to secretly steer the investigation away from the truth. He even tried to pin the blame on the Qin family, who had just begun to recover, claiming that Qin Zheng had let the wolf into the house, which led to this serious theft of secrets.
However, he was unaware that Qin Zheng, under Su Yue's instructions, had already made thorough preparations.
Just as Vice Minister Li was jumping around in a frenzy, Qin Zheng submitted a report that was dozens of pages long to the newly established joint investigation team.
The report details all his conversations and correspondence from his first contact with Huo Qidong, including how he feigned cooperation, lured Su Yue out of her trap step by step.
This report directly proves that Qin Zheng's actions were not only without fault, but were a key part of the successful capture of the enemy agents, and he made a great contribution!
This report became the final straw that broke Vice Minister Li's back.
The joint investigation team immediately turned its attention to the clues provided by Qin Zheng and quickly uncovered all the irrefutable evidence that Vice Minister Li had secretly colluded with that overseas capital group in an attempt to steal core state secrets.
One of the masterminds behind the scenes has finally come to light.
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