"Don't move!"
A thunderous shout, accompanied by the click-clack of over a dozen rifle bullets being chambered, came from all directions.
The shadowy figure suddenly opened his eyes and saw that the doorway and windows were now filled with fully armed special agent soldiers, their dark gun barrels pointed at him.
He froze, his hands and feet were ice cold.
Deputy Commander Liu walked slowly out from behind the soldiers with his hands behind his back. He could see clearly the terrified, sweat-drenched face under the lamplight.
The dark figure turned out to be Old Liu, the most inconspicuous and obsequious archivist who always bowed and scraped to everyone.
"Liu Zhiguo, it really is you." Deputy Commander Liu's voice was deep.
The archivist, Liu Zhiguo, was pinned to the ground by two soldiers. He appeared panicked, his eyes unfocused, and he muttered, "It's over...it's all over..." But before he could think any further...
"Take him away!" Deputy Commander Liu waved his hand, not wanting to look at him again.
Inside the interrogation room, faced with bricks and mountains of irrefutable evidence, Liu Zhiguo's psychological defenses completely collapsed.
He confessed that his code name was "Mole." Six years ago, he colluded with foreign forces to put a colorless and odorless nerve agent into the exploration team's water source, creating the illusion that the entire team had been poisoned and suffocated to death.
The only survivor, He Jing, was also injected with a small dose of poison, which caused him to go insane.
His confession not only revealed the whole truth of the Devil's Slope massacre, but also uncovered a deeper hidden clue.
“…I was just a ‘mole,’ responsible for passing on intelligence and clearing obstacles.” Liu Zhiguo wept uncontrollably. “Using He Jing to threaten Geng Xiangdong was an order from my ‘boss.’ He was in charge of transportation and getting things done…I didn’t know who he was, I really didn’t! I was just following orders…”
Deputy Commander Liu's face was so solemn it could drip water.
Although after many hardships, they finally caught a "mole".
However, this also exposed an invisible "protective umbrella" network among the military region's top brass.
It seems... things are far from over. A more difficult and dangerous internal purge will likely need to be carried out within the military region.
...
The next day, Geng Xiangdong was acquitted.
When he stepped out of the small room where he was being isolated and interrogated, and saw Director Qian and Su Tang waiting outside, this tough man, who had never shed a tear in his life, instantly had tears welling up in his eyes.
Six years of injustice, six years of fear and anxiety, six years of grief over the loss of a son—all of these transformed into scalding tears that streamed down her face at this moment.
He learned the whole truth: his son Wang Fei had been murdered, he had been made a fool of by the real killer, and he also learned that it was Su Tang, a young man, who, with extraordinary wisdom and courage, had cleared his and his son's names.
At the institute's general meeting, Deputy Commander Liu personally attended, publicly restored Geng Xiangdong's reputation, and announced the truth about the arrest of "Mole" Liu Zhiguo.
Below the stage, those team members who had previously kicked Geng Xiangdong when he was down and fawned over Fang Da all buried their heads in their crotches, feeling utterly ashamed.
Fang Da, in particular, felt like everyone's gaze was piercing him like needles as he stood in the crowd, his face burning with embarrassment, wishing he could disappear into a crack in the ground.
After the meeting, under everyone's watchful eyes, Geng Xiangdong walked step by step to Su Tang.
He didn't say a word, but straightened his back and bowed deeply to Su Tang. Ninety degrees, textbook perfect.
“Comrade Su Tang,” he raised his head, his aged face streaked with tears, his voice hoarse yet utterly solemn.
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