The two continued riding their bicycles back. When they arrived at the courtyard, Su Miaoyan picked up the straw basket and was about to walk into the room, but as soon as she took a step forward, a hand blocked her way.
Lu Ting's voice then rang in my ears, "Wait."
Su Miaoyan stopped in her tracks.
"What's wrong?"
Lu Ting didn't say anything, but made a "shh" gesture to her, walked straight to Su Miaoyan, took her hand, and gestured for her to put down the grass basket.
This is……
Su Miaoyan put down the grass basket, and almost the instant she did, her palm was enveloped by a large hand. Lu Ting led her to lean against the wall outside the door.
Su Miaoyan realized something at this moment. She looked around and recalled everything that had happened during the day.
The two pushed open the door, which creaked open. Lu Ting then said, "The person should be gone, and they should have just left recently."
Su Miaoyan's heart skipped a beat, realizing something was wrong. The two exchanged a glance and headed towards the bedroom.
Sure enough, almost as soon as I pushed open the bedroom door, I was greeted by a scene of utter chaos.
"Someone has been in our room!"
Su Miaoyan immediately stepped forward. She remembered that she had written down the various uses, advantages and disadvantages of different metals on the desk and on the draft paper. She quickly walked to the desk, picked up the vase in the upper left corner, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the draft paper underneath.
Fortunately, I was worried that my manuscript paper would get mixed up with other manuscript papers, so I specifically placed it in this spot, and the person who came in didn't notice it!
Lu Ting walked over at this moment, and when he saw the dense text on the manuscript paper in Su Miaoyan's hand, he said in a deep voice, "Wife, do you think it's possible that the person came for this manuscript paper?"
Su Miaoyan shook her head in denial, "It shouldn't be."
Lu Ting was surprised, "That's..."
Su Miaoyan said, "He probably doesn't know about the existence of this manuscript."
She clearly remembered that she had not told anyone about the existence of this manuscript.
Previously, she was not at the research institute at all. In the eyes of outsiders, she was just an ordinary military wife. Although there were enemy agents who could be placed in the military region, their numbers were certainly not large. So why would they spare one person to distract her?
Logically speaking, they should all be located in the research institute. As for the military region's office building... well, that's not a place that just anyone can walk into.
Lu Ting said, "Judging from the room's condition, there weren't many places searched; most of the items were under the pillow, on the desk, and on the cabinets..."
Under the pillow...
As if remembering something, Su Miaoyan put down the manuscript and quickly walked towards the bedside.
Sure enough, the pillow was thrown aside. The person who barged in seemed to have no intention of putting it back since they weren't there, as if... they already knew where they were.
What Su Miaoyan could see, Lu Ting could naturally see as well.
His expression darkened slightly. "It seems they've also planted their influence in the family compound."
Su Miaoyan said, "That's right. It seems that we just left and they came in to search right after, but they left again because they didn't find what they were looking for."
She reached out and put the pillow aside, when suddenly she noticed a neat tear on the soft pink sheet.
She pointed here, "Lu Ting, look, this place seems different from what we saw before we left at noon."
Lu Ting looked in the direction she was pointing and, sure enough, saw the crack.
He stroked the crack, and as he applied more pressure, white cotton fibers peeked out, and even a fine fold appeared beneath the fibers.
Lu Ting withdrew his hand, looked straight ahead, and said calmly, "Perhaps we've gone in the wrong direction."
Su Miaoyan asked in a puzzled tone, "Hmm?"
Lu Ting continued, "The other party... is trying to mislead us."
Su Miaoyan then realized from her earlier deduction that since the other party had barged in so rashly, why did they search so obviously and lay bare their purpose to them?
That means that these appearances are just what the other party wants to show them.
And... these appearances are created to conceal the true purpose.
Sure enough, enemy agents are enemy agents, they're not simple!
The two sat on the edge of the bed. Su Miaoyan went out first to bring in the jade. After a quick wash and tidying up the room, the two lay down on the bed.
I've been busy all day and I'm really tired, but I just can't fall asleep.
Or rather, after learning that she was being targeted by enemy agents, Su Miaoyan's drowsiness was dispelled by a tremendous sense of crisis.
She actually suspected that Shen Mingzhi was behind it, but no one could guarantee that there were no other enemy agents in the entire military region besides those two.
Su Miaoyan turned over.
Seemingly sensing her anxiety, Lu Ting gently pulled her into his arms. "Wife, go to sleep. We have other things to do tomorrow."
"Um."
Su Miaoyan responded softly.
In the darkness, after a few minutes, Su Miaoyan said sullenly, "Lu Ting, what do you think their real purpose is?"
Lu Ting had actually guessed it. He sighed inwardly and said in a deep voice, "Wife, you really didn't guess it?"
silence.
A few minutes of silence.
Lu Ting wasn't in a hurry; he simply waited for the person in his arms to answer.
Su Miaoyan felt that things were developing in a direction she had not anticipated.
She spoke up, "Guards, are you trying to silence me? The torn bedsheet is evidence. He might have deliberately chosen to come in at midnight, but they probably didn't expect that we, who had been busy all day, happened to go out around midnight."
To mislead us, they made the room a mess, creating the illusion that they were rummaging through things, thus lowering our guard. The reason the manuscript under the vase wasn't taken was because they didn't actually search the room; their purpose wasn't that.
After this deduction, everything makes sense.
If they hadn't noticed the difference on the sheets, they might have genuinely believed the other was just stealing information.
Lu Ting gave a low "hmm," and said, "That's right, just like that."
“So what we need to do now is to make him slip up,” Su Miaoyan continued her analysis. “Lu Ting, do you think Professor Shen might have done this?”
After all, judging from her behavior during the day, Professor Shen should not have noticed anything amiss.
Lu Ting's eyes darkened slightly, his voice cold and deep, "Not necessarily."
Su Miaoyan looked up at him and felt that the man beside her seemed to be a completely different person in that instant.
Su Miaoyan hesitated, but ultimately did not ask the rest of her question.
Despite what happened tonight, the two of them acted as if nothing had happened the next day, each busy with their own things.
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