"I heard it."
The beeping sound was sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and sometimes paused. Bai Shuixian heard it clearly and pointed in the direction of the sound: "It seems to be coming from behind the hillside."
Gong Linglong sensed it carefully, and a certain guess came to her mind. She frowned and said, "Mom, this seems to be the sound of a telegram."
"right."
Bai Shuixian also confirmed it, her face solemn: "This is indeed the sound of a telegraph machine sending a message."
The mother and daughter looked at each other tacitly, and exchanged a look that showed that they both understood each other. The army garrison was in front of them, and it was abnormal for these people to hide in the mountains and send telegrams.
"Mom, please go into the space, I'll go over and take a look."
As Gong Linglong spoke, she threw the backpack into the space and took her mother in with her.
"Linglong, the hillside opposite is very steep. You will be discovered if you climb up. It's better not to go. Let's go back and inform Jingchuan and ask him to bring people to investigate." Bai Shuixian hurriedly grabbed her.
"Mom, I'll go check first. If the person hiding in the mountains and sending the telegram is from the army, we won't bother anyone. If not, we can go back and notify them later."
Gong Linglong had a plan in mind and comforted her: "Mom, don't worry about me. I have contracted the ancient bracelet, and the ancient bracelet actually gave me special self-protection abilities, but it is not convenient for me to tell you."
"I see."
Speaking of the ancient bracelet's magical inheritance, Bai Shuixian was cautious and didn't ask too many questions. "Linglong, don't tell your mother about this special inheritance, and don't reveal it to anyone else in the future."
"Okay. You stay in the space, I'll go investigate. They won't find me."
Gong Linglong went out as she spoke, quickly activated the artifact's stealth function, and rushed over at her fastest speed.
Bai Shuixian couldn't see the outside world in the space, but she could communicate with her and continued to remind her: "Linglong, be careful. Leave quickly after you finish your investigation. If you are accidentally discovered, hide in the space immediately and leave when it is safe."
"OK."
Gong Linglong took some time to climb up the steep slope and hid behind a thick tree trunk to explore. She saw a small valley at the bottom of the slope with two small wooden houses in the valley. The "beeping" sound came from the wooden house closer to her.
Just as she was about to think of a way to go down and find out what was going on, she saw a rope ladder hanging in the corner not far away. It was obvious that the people in the wooden house often climbed up this hillside. She immediately walked over and went down the ladder.
There was a guard at the door of the wooden house. He had a dagger and a pistol hanging on his waist. He was wearing a very ordinary cotton coat, and his sharp eyes were scanning everywhere like a searchlight.
Gong Linglong walked over with a swagger, passed by him, and strode into the wooden house.
There were three people in the wooden house, all wearing gray cotton coats. One of them was sitting in front of a telegraph machine sending a message, another was giving instructions next to him, and another was reading documents on the other side of the table.
Gong Linglong confirmed at a glance that these people were not from the army, but their identities remained to be investigated.
There was a piece of paper in front of the person who sent the telegram. Gong Linglong took a closer look and saw the names of the leaders of the Seoul Military Region written on it. Among them, Lu Jingchuan's name was prominently listed, with a red circle around it.
Seeing the red circle, Gong Linglong's heart instinctively trembled, and a strong voice suddenly surged in her heart: The telegram must be stopped from being sent.
Just at this moment, the person who was giving instructions next to her brought up a cup of hot tea. She immediately pushed it lightly and spilled the full cup of hot tea on the telegraph machine.
"Squeak...Ding..."
The telegraph machine was flooded, and with a beep, the sound stopped.
The accident happened suddenly, and the person who sent the telegram was stunned. When he reacted, he immediately wiped the water off the surface, and after drying it and starting it again, he found that there was a malfunction.
The person holding the cup looked surprised, obviously not expecting that he had ruined the situation. "I, I just wanted to have a cup of tea..."
"What happened?"
The person reading the document jumped up. Seeing that the telegraph machine wouldn't start no matter how hard he tried, he scolded with a gloomy face: "It's really more of a hindrance than a help."
"Boss, I, I didn't mean to do that. I'll go find someone to fix the machine right now."
The man who splashed the water knew he had done something wrong and quickly cleaned up the mess. "I'm going to the city now and will make sure to send the message out in time."
"Okay, it's not too late to send the telegram tomorrow. You can take a look at these materials first." The leader distributed the materials he had just read to them.
While they were reading, Gong Linglong also stood on tiptoe to take a look. She read ten lines at a glance and saw that all the information recorded were the plans and deployments within the Seoul Military Region. She was shocked and was very sure that these people were enemy spies.
Such a detailed planning and deployment map is definitely not available to ordinary people. There must be spies of high level inside the military region.
Thinking of this, she did not waste any more time and immediately left the cabin and rushed back to the troops as fast as she could to report the news.
She ran all the way to the back mountain closest to the family compound in stealth mode, then turned off the stealth function, told her mother the news she had just gathered, and then brought her out. "Mom, I'm going to find Brother Jing, you go back first."
"Okay, go ahead."
The matter was of great importance, so Gong Linglong didn't waste a second and rushed to the office of the military leader.
As soon as I ran to the office door, I ran into Meng Xiaoying. Her face was as dark as yesterday, and after seeing Gong Linglong, the darkness became noticeably darker.
"This is a military stronghold. No outsiders are allowed to enter. These words are written on the gate. Don't you recognize them?"
There was a conflict yesterday, and Meng Xiaoying didn't even pretend in front of her now, with obvious disgust on her face.
"You meddled in other people's business yesterday, and you haven't learned your lesson yet. You're meddling again today. I think your ideological education period should be extended to at least a month."
Gong Linglong looked at her with the same eyes and said in a louder voice than hers, "We are from an art troupe, go sing your songs and dance your dances, don't come here to lecture and meddle in other people's affairs."
After saying that, he rolled his eyes at her and strode to the door of the office building.
Meng Xiaoying was so angry that her face turned red and her neck was thick. At this moment, she really wanted to curse like a shrew, but when she thought of what Captain Xue had just said to scold her, she suppressed her anger and rushed back to the art troupe with a lot of resentment.
Gong Linglong did not rush into the office building regardless of discipline. Instead, she spoke a few words to the sentry at the door, asking him to go to the office to report to the leader first. She stood at the door waiting for notification.
"Comrade Gong, the commander and the political commissar let you in."
After getting permission, Gong Linglong followed the sentry in and went straight to the leaders' offices.
Lu Jingchuan happened to be at the leader's place. Seeing her approaching with an anxious look on her face, he quickly stood up and asked, "Linglong, what happened?"
Seeing that only the two leaders and he were there, Gong Linglong cautiously closed the door and reported in a low voice, "Commander Zhu, Political Commissar Zhao, my mother and I just went to the back mountain to look for wild vegetables and discovered someone sending a telegram in a small valley to the southeast. The beeping sound was non-stop. I climbed up the hillside to investigate and confirmed that there were two cabins in the valley, four people, and at least one of them had a gun."
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