Chapter 291: Chapter 291 Biting the Hook_1
Qingyun State, War Department, inside the Intelligence Room.
More than twenty intelligence personnel, standing on the left.
More than ten warriors, standing on the right.
Wang Jianglong stood in the center, his posture erect, his face stern as he spoke.
"Everyone! I’ve called you here tonight because we have an emergency mission!"
"Mr. Ye destroyed a branch lair of the Diku Venerable from the Pangu Sect tonight and obtained important information on the whereabouts of the Diku Venerable!"
"To avoid making too much noise and alerting the enemy, only we here will carry out the arrest mission tonight!"
"Vice-captain Li, you lead the brothers from the intelligence department, stay at the command center, and take charge of overall command. Mr. Ye and I, with the brothers from the combat team, will strike straight into the nest. Let’s move out!"
Yes!
A loud response rang out, and the intelligence personnel returned to their workstations.
The fighters of the combat team geared up and rushed onto the armored vehicles.
Wang Jianglong’s vehicle led the way at the front, hurtling through the vast night.
"Brother, why do I always feel that your move is pretty risky? Could the traitor be that easily fooled?"
Ye Fei, full of confidence, said, "If it was any other night, he wouldn’t be. But tonight, the fox is bound to show its tail."
"Why are you so sure?" Wang Jianglong was somewhat baffled.
Ye Fei explained with a smile, "Think about it. The fox knows I went to Wang Xingde. But all subsequent information has been blocked by us."
"If you were that fox, wouldn’t you be anxious and panicked?"
Wang Jianglong nodded, "Hmm, panicked."
"When people panic, they lose their composure, and once they’re flustered, they make mistakes."
"Judging by the timing of when the fox fed information to Wang Jianglong, he’s not very shrewd."
"And tonight, we’ve put on quite a show. Do you think he won’t be lured in?"
Mimicking Ye Fei’s manner, Wang Jianglong stroked his chin, "Makes sense!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a message came through on Wang Jianglong’s phone.
After reading it, Wang Jianglong slapped his thigh excitedly, "Director Ye, you truly are brilliant, just as you predicted! The fish has bitten the hook! Pass on my orders, the rear guard becomes the vanguard, close ranks!"
Several armored vehicles executed a 180-degree drift on the highway and headed back the way they came.
Returning to the Intelligence Room once again, the atmosphere inside became eerily strange.
"Captain, what on earth is going on? Weren’t we supposed to go capture the Diku Venerable? Why did we call off the mission just after setting out?"
Li Hai, Qianlong Squad’s deputy captain, asked in confusion.
Everyone else also wore expressions of utter bafflement.
Such sudden and erratic changes were not characteristic of Captain Wang’s style.
Wang Jianglong didn’t rush to answer, instead, he began to tell the history of the Qianlong Squad with a smile, his hands clasped behind his back.
As he spoke about the pioneers of the Qianlong Squad, who nearly sacrificed the entire team to protect an important document, every fighter was moved, and tears of emotion were shed.
Yet Wang Jianglong wore a self-mocking smile.
"Yes, the Qianlong Squad, such a glorious title. Yet the glory and honor that our predecessors gave their blood and lives for almost got ruined by one rotten apple!"
"What rotten apple, what are you even talking about? Captain Wang, why are you talking in riddles today? Go ahead, I’m bursting for the loo, let me nip to the bathroom first."
Li Hai, managing only a strained smile, started to walk out.
But Wang Jianglong grabbed his wrist in a tight grip.
"Alright, then I won’t speak in riddles. I’ll tell you the truth. There was actually no mission tonight. It was a ploy by Mr. Ye to draw out a certain harmful element from our ranks."
"As expected, the ploy worked. Just now, the interceptor I’d previously set up in the Intelligence Room captured a message—a message that was leaking information about our ’mission’."
Ah!
Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked.
Immediately, they began whispering to each other, stirring up a discussion.
"Son of a gun! Who sent that message, come out if you dare!"
"You betrayed your own comrades, are you even human?"
Wang Jianglong waved his hand, holding up the interceptor.
"Finding that person is easy, just like this, redialing the last call..."
Beep beep beep!
The deputy captain’s fancy phone rang.
He took it out with a sardonic smile and put it to his ear.
"Captain, so you’ve discovered it."
Everyone was stunned.
They all wore disbelieving expressions; among them, Wang Jianglong felt the deepest regret.
"A brother in arms for over a decade, why on earth?"
Li Hai looked up with a pained smile and tears in his eyes, "Why? What’s the point of asking now? The victor is king, and the loser is the captive; I lost."
He then turned to Ye Fei with profound meaning in his gaze, "Mr. Ye, I’m impressed!"
After saying that, he quickly drew a pistol and pressed it against his temple.
Bang!
Blood was spilled on the spot.
Gone in an instant.
Wang Jianglong’s eyes were wide open, his face filled with regret.
The warriors were equally heavy-hearted.
But Ye Fei had no intention of giving them time to mourn and immediately issued a life-or-death order to Wang Jianglong.
"Within three days, we must find out the location of the Diku Venerable."
For the sake of those innocent children, Ye Fei was ready to embark on a killing spree.
