The national security personnel directly arrested Lilith and others.
A moment later, Lin and others also discovered that the recovered black box was a fake. They also learned that well-trained national security personnel had flocked to the vicinity of the villa area, and immediately rushed to the scene.
Lin saw the small black box in the hands of the national security personnel and immediately stopped them: "That is our lost property, you can't just take it away!"
Shi Zhuoqu: "Thank you for helping us recover the stolen property, but you have Mondsen's collection in your hands."
The captain carrying the black box said calmly: "I'm sorry, you two may have misunderstood. We are not here to handle theft cases, but to arrest foreign spies who endanger national security."
"The contents of the box need to be investigated and it is not yet clear what they are."
If the incident was attributed to an ordinary theft, the Mondson Group would be able to recover the stolen money before Lilith and others arrived at the consulate, and everything would be under control.
However, the incident was characterized as espionage and strong official agencies must be involved. This is not a problem that can be solved by the public and ordinary police.
At this point, how could Lin not know that he was tricked? Even the police wouldn't come so quickly, let alone the national security personnel. Someone must have reported it first, and they were probably waiting for Lilith to take action.
"You are a joint scheme!" Lin looked at Chu Qianli and others, then at the national security personnel, and said angrily, "I will let the consulate intervene. I suspect that you abused your authority and seized other people's property in this improper way!"
Chu Qianli looked innocent and said, "What do you mean by set up? You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."
"You are in cahoots with them! You have a special background!"
Chu Qianli was surprised: "You think too highly of me. I wanted to join Guoan, but they didn't want me."
Tan Muxing: "The National Security Agency will take the test."
The captain encouraged: "Study hard, young students, and we will have the opportunity to work together."
Chu Qianli: "We are the people's spontaneous patriotic behavior. Everyone has the responsibility to safeguard national security!"
Lin: “…”
Everyone was talking at once, but no one acknowledged what Lin said.
The captain said that they received a tip from a concerned citizen and followed the formal procedures. Chu Qianli and others claimed that they were acting bravely and simply felt that they could not handle the spy issue. Anyway, the two parties definitely did not collude with each other to embezzle Mondsen's property.
The most outrageous thing is that Lilith and others also made confusing remarks, saying that what Lin and others lost was the fake box, and the real box now had nothing to do with Monderson. They believed that the Chinese national security personnel arrested the wrong person, and demanded to contact the consulate of country A and return the real box to country A.
The three parties are in a standoff, and the discussions are like "Rashomon"!
Captain: "It seems that this matter needs to be investigated. Then we will keep the box temporarily according to the procedures."
Lin and others were extremely angry. They strongly demanded that the Chinese side make a reasonable explanation for Chu Qianli's identity, otherwise they would never let it go.
If she is really a member of the national team, such fishing behavior would probably be elevated to a problem of national image and credibility.
Chu Qianli waved her hands casually: "You really think too much. I can't represent the country."
Tan Muxing said sincerely: "We are indeed ordinary people." It's just that she used to like to play around with expired work permits.
Country H is a remote and sparsely populated country, and it is difficult to find its name on the world map, so naturally it has no consulate in City G. However, the Monderson Group is powerful, and Lin immediately contacted consulates of many countries to jointly question China's behavior of taking the black box and demanded that it be returned to Monderson.
Country A, where Lilith and others served, was taking advantage of the situation, so they protested, but they believed that the country should be returned to Country A.
At this point, the situation has become a competition among countries, and Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing are definitely not in a position to intervene.
After the two reported the incident, they were freed and allowed to rest by national security personnel, which caused great dissatisfaction among Lin and others.
Meiru Z had already come over and said calmly, "They seem to be mad and want to beat someone up."
Chu Qianli glanced at the furious Lin from a distance and said, "They don't have that ability. If I follow them to Country H, it might be dangerous, but this is China's City G!"
Chu Qianli was not stupid. She knew that if she set foot on the territory of Country H, she would have to come to this point sooner or later. If she did not have the support of a powerful force behind her and she rashly ran to someone else's territory, she might end up with nothing left.
Tan Muxing: "I just saw people from Qianmen coming out."
"Because we've already fallen out tonight, what's left is a negotiation of interests." Chu Qianli said, "Originally, I didn't take the initiative to cause trouble, but now that someone else has done it first, there's no need to pretend."
The news of the unrest in the villa area of City G also spread far away.
Abner had just reported to Q that Lin had taken the key, but who would have thought that the group would lose the crystal ball that night.
The man's voice on the phone was full of vicissitudes of life, like the sound of an ancient bell from the past. He sighed, "Lin really can't change his stubborn and self-willed habits. It may be too hasty to let him take charge of the family."
Abner: "What do you think we should do now?"
"We originally discussed this method with the Chinese side because we didn't want to cause a large-scale disturbance and peacefully complete the exploration of the ruins and the development of the baby stone." Q said helplessly, "But now the situation is getting more and more chaotic."
The Mondsen Group needs the Qianmen's peach wood sword.
The two parties reached an agreement at the time and will conduct formal negotiations after the selection.
Q: "A lost crystal ball cannot be recovered. Now is not the time to discuss right and wrong. When encountering such a thing, you can only blame yourself. That's why I said that you can't take the key out of Country H."
"Don't worry about Country A. They don't have the key and can't influence the outcome. You should focus on the negotiations with China. Now there are complications, which is very disadvantageous for the negotiations."
The Qianmen peach wood sword is controlled by China, and considering the nationality of the owner of the Sanqing bell, I am afraid that China already has two keys.
Mondsen originally had three keys, and he controlled Country H, where the mine was located. He should have had an advantage in negotiations. However, he lost one key at a critical moment. No wonder Lin suspected that China was setting up a trap.
The next day, Chu Qianli and others slept well after reporting the incident, and waited for someone to come and verify their identities.
Pan Yicheng arrived in City G in a dusty state. During the summer vacation, he was inexplicably notified that the students he had taught were involved in a national security incident. At the same time, many consulates of various countries questioned his identity and asked him to file a report as the original project manager.
Simply put, the national security department had to give an explanation to other consulates. In response to Lin and others' doubts about Chu Qianli's national team identity, they naturally traced the matter back to Pan Yicheng, who recruited her at the time.
Chu Qianli's eyes lit up when she saw Pan Yicheng. She didn't expect to see an old acquaintance in G City. She said happily, "Professor Pan!"
Tan Muxing greeted Pan Yicheng politely. Mei Ru Z also met Professor Pan once, having gone through the same engineering project interview.
Pan Yicheng was a little confused when he was called over. He just learned about the situation on the way and asked in confusion: "What's going on between you two? Why would someone come to me for files?"
Although Professor Pan is indeed a member of the national team, he actually has little contact with the National Security Department. He doesn't understand when the two young volunteers became regular staff members, and why the National Security Department had to mobilize a large number of people to collect information.
Lin angrily accused Chu Qianli and others of having a special background, but the National Security Bureau insisted that she was not in their organization, so they led the way to Pan Yicheng.
Pan Yicheng was initially afraid that the two would cause trouble, but he didn't expect that Guoan was quite enthusiastic when they came.
"Old Pan, the child you raised is amazing. I think he will accomplish great things this time!"
Pan Yicheng: “?” Who did I train? They didn’t even go to college, so they haven’t been trained yet.
When Chu Qianli heard what happened, she quickly said vaguely: "Alas, we said yesterday that it was a spontaneous action of the people, but people didn't believe it at all. This is why Professor Pan made a wasted trip."
"But why did I hear you pull out your official ID? Where did you get it?" Pan Yicheng said at a loss, "I couldn't figure it out the whole time. How can fortune-telling require any ID?"
Although everyone has done engineering projects, Pan Yicheng does not have a feng shui certificate.
"It's just our assistant card..." Chu Qianli touched his face guiltily and muttered, "Occasionally, I can use it to swipe my card to eat in the building."
After the project was completed, Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing no longer ate in the building, but they still kept the ID card.
Pan Yicheng: "You actually used meal cards to deceive people!?"
Chu Qianli said hurriedly: "What do you mean by deception? What do you mean by deception? I didn't say what I was doing. I just showed the volunteer meal card. They made up their own stories!"
Tan Muxing confessed: "It's mainly a matter of context."
Pan Yicheng rubbed his forehead with a headache: "Alright, alright, I get it. Let me think about it. How to explain your behavior of using project meal cards to deceive foreigners..."
"No lie..."
"Okay, okay, I'm not lying, they are just stupid!"
As an old con man, Pan Yicheng quickly organized his words to deal with the next report.
Lin and others wanted to insist that Chu Qianli was a member of the national team. This would make it seem like China was the first to provoke and resort to underworld tactics to cause the crystal ball to be lost.
Even if she is not a member of the national team, the relevant departments should deal with it if she is cheating outside under the name of the national team.
At the report meeting, Pan Yicheng said sincerely: "It is like this, the two students did participate in our project, but they were only volunteers, not regular staff. I think this can better explain why they called to report it. They have always had a pure heart and are enthusiastic teenagers who value national security. It is indeed the spontaneous behavior of the people. We cannot stop the children's patriotic enthusiasm..."
Shi Zhuoqu: "But she did say that she had worked in the relevant unit."
Pan Yicheng pretended to be surprised: "Oh? Did she tell us the name of her unit and what position she held? You can tell us now and we will continue to investigate."
Shi Zhuoqu was speechless. Thinking about it carefully, Chu Qianli really just showed his ID and didn't say anything about taking legal responsibility. He achieved the exquisiteness of leaving everything unsaid and didn't leave any evidence at all.
Lin sneered: "You mean she can just leave like this?"
Lin had already understood the meaning of the Chinese side's Tai Chi, which meant that they had no intention of arguing with Chu Qianli about anything.
Don't worry about her using false evidence to deceive people, I want to write big-character posters to praise her. Anyway, the crystal ball is in the hands of the Chinese side, so how to get it back now is up to us.
Pan Yicheng hurriedly comforted her: "You definitely can't just leave like this..."
"So what are you going to do with her?"
"Handle? What to handle? She is not on the editorial board, there is no way to handle it. I think we should pay the reporting fee as soon as possible. Since we promised a reward, we can't let down the enthusiastic citizens!"
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