Upon arriving at the villa, the rooms were assigned as before. After everyone went back to their rooms to rest for a while, they gathered again in the living room.
"Captain, what should we do now?" Everyone sat silently in the living room, no one speaking. Zhao Rui, who couldn't contain his temper, was the first to speak after a moment of silence.
On the way back, Chu Guodong had already given them a general explanation of why they were coming back, and everyone understood.
Chu Guodong ignored Zhao Rui and gave Lin Cheng a wink. Lin Cheng understood and led the two young men to search the entire villa. Seeing this, the others joined in the search.
Zhao Rui realized he had been too hasty, but thankfully he hadn't said anything he shouldn't have. With a desire to atone for his mistake, he joined the search team.
In his haste, he hadn't noticed that the villa's furnishings seemed to have been tampered with. He initially assumed it was because someone had cleaned it, but upon closer inspection, that didn't seem to be the case.
"Captain," Lin Cheng called out silently.
A short while later, the young men returned with something in their hands.
Everyone placed their belongings on the coffee table.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that there were more than twenty listening devices in this villa, which was neither too big nor too small.
Almost every room had one or two listening devices, and the living room had as many as five.
These listening devices weren't there yesterday, so it's likely that someone tipped them off when they returned today, and they were hastily installed. Perhaps because the installation was so rushed, some of the listening devices weren't even properly disguised; they were almost immediately detectable.
Looking at the row of small listening devices in front of him, Chu Guodong sneered: "A cowardly bunch, too ashamed to show their faces."
From the other end of the bugging device, still in that dark, inconspicuous little room: "Mayor, we've been discovered."
Minister Li spoke to the person opposite him with an unpleasant expression.
The other party rebuked him angrily: "I told you to be careful. The Eastern Chu Kingdom isn't so easy to deal with."
"Where do you think he got the title of the number one special forces soldier from?"
The mayor of Liancheng pondered for a moment and said to Minister Li, "Let's pretend we don't know anything about this. They can't find anyone anyway. Be more discreet in the future."
"I'm sorry, Mayor, I underestimated our enemy this time."
"Alright, go down and keep a close eye on them. If we ruin Young Master Yan's plans, none of us will survive." The mayor of Liancheng waved his hand, urging Minister Li to leave quickly. He needed to carefully consider this matter; today's events had alerted the enemy, and he would have to be even more cautious while Chu Guodong was in the city.
That person wasn't exactly known for his good temper. Fortunately, today's events only involved him, and no one else knew about them, otherwise he would have been punished as well.
Inside the villa
The group set the found bugging device on fire, burning it to ashes. Still not satisfied, they searched the entire villa thoroughly, leaving no corner unchecked.
After making sure there was nothing else around, I relaxed and sat back down on the sofa.
"Ah Zhao, sister-in-law, do you have any suggestions for our next move?" Chu Guodong asked Song Zhao and Gu Yanzhi directly.
"What happened today shows that the base is definitely on guard against us. Let's hold back for now and keep an eye on the base." Gu Yanzhi thought about it carefully on the way back. The priority now is to confirm whether the person who looked familiar this morning is the one she thinks he is.
Furthermore, the presence of so many listening devices in their accommodations, if not planted by base personnel, suggests there must have been someone among the base's official staff who tipped them off. Otherwise, in such a short time, very few people would have known about their arrival at the villa. It's safe to say that someone leaked the information shortly after they entered the base.
And this person must know Minister Li well, knowing that he would definitely arrange for them to stay in this villa.
Based on everything that had happened before, Gu Yanzhi deeply suspected that the person who planted the listening device was Minister Li, and that the entire base might even be involved in something.
For now, they can only pretend to be completely unaware, slowly familiarize themselves with everything at the base, and wait and see.
Gu Yanzhi's words coincided with what Chu Guodong was thinking.
Their current understanding of the base is only what Minister Li wants them to see; they know nothing about the interior. They need to familiarize themselves with the base first.
Without any further objections, Chu Guodong made the decision that starting tomorrow, everyone would go out and find work to infiltrate the base.
After the discussion, Gu Yanlin touched his stomach.
"Sis, brother-in-law, captain, I'm so hungry!"
They ate their lunch in a hurry, each person just gulping down a bowl of porridge before finishing their meal.
They didn't linger along the way and quickly returned to the Liancheng base.
Gu Yanlin had been snacking constantly in the car, and after half a day, he was starting to feel hungry. Not to mention the others; everyone felt their stomachs were empty as soon as Gu Yanlin spoke.
"Alright, let's get ready to eat," Chu Guodong ordered, and the young men from class 532 hurriedly went to the kitchen to prepare.
This time, they did not accept the dinner prepared by Minister Li and insisted on doing everything themselves.
Fortunately, the kitchen in the villa was fully equipped, and all of it looked new and unused.
A group of young men busied themselves in the kitchen. Gu Yan knew that they had brought a lot of dried vegetables with them on the way. The young men first used an alcohol stove to boil water and soaked a handful of dried vegetables.
I cooked a mixed dish of various green vegetables, like a meeting of different vegetables.
A large pot of noodles was cooked, and an egg sauce was added; a simple Zhajiangmian (noodles with soybean paste) dinner was thus completed.
"Come on, come on, let's eat!"
"Uh..." Gu Yanlin couldn't wait to mix himself a bowl of noodles. After taking a big bite, he revealed a pained expression.
"I bit my tongue," Gu Yanlin said with difficulty, swallowing the noodles in his mouth. Seeing everyone staring at him, he gave a nonchalant smile.
Seeing that Gu Yanlin was alright, Zhao Rui couldn't wait to stuff a mouthful of noodles into his mouth. "Ugh, these noodles..." Zhao Rui's expression also contorted. He chewed a few times, quickly swallowed the noodles, and then said, "...So awful."
"Ha ha"
Seeing Zhao Rui's expression, Gu Yanlin chuckled, abandoning his long-held attempt to control his expression, and his face contorted in the same way. He quickly picked up his water glass and took a big gulp.
"Is it really that bad?" Lin Cheng, the head chef of the egg sauce and deputy captain of Squad 532, asked, looking at the two of them. He then took a bite himself, incredulous.
"Damn, this stuff is poisonous."
Lin Cheng cleverly picked up only one mouthful of noodles, tried it, and after swallowing it with difficulty, he uttered his own reflection.
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