Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

In the secret room, Brother Ding closed his eyes tightly and paced back and forth. The small room was soon filled with messy footsteps, and his mood seemed to be made more restless by his footsteps.

As a senior intelligence officer, he hasn't encountered such a hesitant situation for a long time.

That orange... should I deal with it with thunder?

When this idea just emerged, Brother Ding was shocked by himself.

Too extreme, too inexplicable, right?

Although objectively speaking, this "good sister" who suddenly appeared beside Gu Shishi has too many suspicious points, but there is no need to use "thunder" means. In fact, as a front-line soldier, he has no right to use thunder means against the rear personnel.

However, the intuition accumulated over the years tells him that this is the most effective means at present. If the authority is insufficient, then try every means to make up for the authority and exceed the authority, instead of being restrained by the word authority and missing the big things. In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures should be taken. People without courage are not worthy of being on the front line. It is better to go to the rear to work on documents!

Then, the education he received over the years also warned him: there are too many front-line personnel who are driven by temporary illusions and blinded by the so-called righteousness, and openly trample on the "boundaries" built by countless people with blood for countless years, causing irreparable tragedies.

It is not that you can do whatever you want just because your motives are noble.

Besides, he is not the first to investigate this Orange. As early as when Gu Shishi brought this woman who suddenly met to her side, called her a sister, and entrusted her with important tasks, like a close minister, countless eyes were staring at the two of them.

Among them were the secret guards from Bolan Manor, a group of merchant hounds whose style of behavior can be called extreme, but their abilities are also worthy of their madness. However, after being bitten by the secret guards, Orange was safe and sound, and instead completely established his foothold in the Gu family. Even Gu Cangsheng acquiesced that the owner of Xinfeng Garden had such a close assistant.

Then, of course, there was also an investigation from the Qingping Division of Rongcheng. As one of the undoubted core members of the current pioneering strategy, Gu Shishi's every word and action must naturally be subject to the most stringent scrutiny. After she met Chengzi in a strange way, a group of senior blue-clothed and red-clothed people spent a lot of energy to issue an investigation report. And this report has just been obtained by Brother Ding in the Taixu Dark River through his friends, and it is firmly engraved in his mind.

The depth of Qingping Division's investigation of Chengzi is even greater than that of the Bolanzhuang Secret Guard, and her identity is clearly locked. Bai Cheng, 25 years old, was born in the Yueyang Bai family. Although they have the reputation of a wealthy family, as a collateral child who can't be more sidelined, they basically can't enjoy much family benefits. After her parents died early in an accident, the family ties were almost gone.

And she herself didn't seem to care about family ties. Relying on the inheritance left by her parents, she spent her teenage years freely and casually. She casually passed the entrance exam to a first-rate or second-rate academy, condensed a first-rate or second-rate golden elixir before graduation, and then began her life of wandering in hundreds of countries. During this period, she wrote some articles, made many friends, and even experienced some exciting adventures. Later, when she was exploring Lingshan, she met Gu Shishi, and the two hit it off at first sight, so she simply became Gu Shishi's assistant and always accompanied her.

All the trajectories are detailed and traceable. The blue-clothed and red-clothed people who issued the report had questioned many places, but in the end they all recognized and accepted the logic of the whole thing.

Because in this world, there are indeed many precedents of rural sages who met Bole by chance and then rose to fame overnight! Compared with those high-ranking officials who directly assigned key positions to their mistresses and ended up in a mess, the acquaintance and understanding of Gu Shishi and Bai Cheng is like a clear stream!

Even Han Yu, the senior Qingyi who secretly delivered the report to Brother Ding, who was also quite trusted by Brother Ding and once had a great reputation in the Dinghuang Army, also gave his own subjective opinion: Bai Cheng is innocent as her name suggests, even if there is really a problem, it is not the turn of ordinary people like them to investigate.

Therefore, based on the information in hand, what to do next is actually clear at a glance, but...

After a while, Brother Ding stopped and exhaled a long breath of turbid air. This breath ignited a thick black smoke in the air, as if turning his anxiety into a physical entity... Fortunately, the magic array in this secret room was complete, and soon a breeze blew over, sweeping away these substances that were almost demonic.

After that, Brother Ding calmed down and sat back on the lotus platform before, and gradually had an idea in his mind.

This Chengzi must be investigated, because there are really things about her that cannot be explained, even if there are more authoritative reports in front of her to guarantee her innocence, it still cannot be explained.

A backpacker who has been unknown for many years, became famous after a night of romance with Gu Shishi - this is nothing.

But Gu Shishi is now one of the core backbones of the pioneering strategy! She is the actual person in charge of Lingshan Construction Investment Committee! Many of the tasks she handles are actually related to the source of power for Rongcheng's westward expansion!

Is it normal for such a person to suddenly have a close minister around him? Moreover, if Bai Cheng was only responsible for assisting in handling some business affairs in the northern district on weekdays, it would be fine, but Gu Shishi openly used a side ball method to let her get in touch with the secrets of the front line! Now that the wasteland is full of poison, can it be said so openly! ?

Moreover, it is not even an occasional leak, nor is it a helpless revelation that cannot be restrained by the other party's constant pressure. It was purely a natural sharing, as if it were an ordinary day-to-day occurrence that had happened countless times. And this means that countless frontline secrets have reached Bai Cheng's ears through Gu Shishi...

This is really, really abnormal.

Everyone who has access to frontline secrets will be tightly bound by the oath of keeping secrets. The source of this binding force comes from the Great Law. The specific binding method has been repeatedly considered and refined by countless talented people over thousands of years, and it has basically become It is unbreakable.

People who are bound by the oath of keeping secrets are often unaware of its existence, let alone intentionally trying to exploit loopholes. This Immortal Alliance-level fairy spell will directly affect and lock a person's behavior and even thinking from the subconscious level, and its binding force is absolute.

Of course, this does not mean that with the oath of keeping secrets, one will be able to perfectly keep secrets, such as the poison of separation and desolation that is currently permeating the frontier... Although all generals and marshals are bound by the oath of keeping secrets, they cannot disclose the situation at will. But those front-line officers and soldiers who were actually affected by the desolate poison were not bound by the oath to keep secrets, and whether they would spread the news or not was entirely up to them.

As for blessing everyone with the oath of keeping secrets... it's completely unfeasible. Because the effectiveness of the oath of keeping secrets decreases rapidly as the number of secret keepers increases. Once the scope of this oath is expanded, the binding force will soon be almost non-existent.

Therefore, even under the protection of the oath of keeping secrets, there are still many secrets that are spread and spread through various channels.

But these channels generally do not include the oath of keeping secrets. At least as far as Brother Ding knows, in the past two to three hundred years, there has never been any precedent of actively breaking the oath of keeping secrets from within.

However, this is unprecedented and is limited to internal disintegration. If the breakthrough is caused by an external force, that's a different matter. A hundred years ago, during the not-so-successful pioneering in Yueyang, the oath of keeping secrets was breached from the outside by something that transformed wasteland.

And now, the conversation between Gu Shishi and Bai Cheng, no matter how you look at it, is a blatant violation of the oath to keep secrets. The supposedly strong barrier has been directly drilled from the outside... and this is just a whim of Brother Ding. Something that an invisible machine bug can easily see!

The secret guards of Bolan Village, the elites of Qingping Division...didn't they notice any signs? Did they sincerely conclude that Bai Cheng was innocent in the report? ?

All kinds of strange phenomena seemed to have made Brother Ding see signs of a recurrence of the White Key City tragedy in the past, and this was also the main reason for his previous irritability. But after calming down, he also realized that he should not be impatient about this matter.

Even the secret guard of Bolan Village and Han Yu of Rongcheng Qingping Division could not detect anything unusual, which shows that the depth of the matter is beyond imagination. And the reason why he can detect the abnormality now may just be because he is in the secret room under the fortress. There is a thick enough barrier, plus a little accident...but if you act blindly afterwards, you are likely to follow in the footsteps of your predecessors and lose your own rational judgment. Early the next morning, Guan Dingnan was given a report stating that Gu Shishi and Bai Cheng were absolutely innocent.

So... what to do?

In the long silence, time passed by minute by second, and when the air in the secret room gradually became thicker, he finally thought of a way.

——

Pushing open the door to the secret room and staggering out, he felt that everything seemed like a lifetime ago. However, before he could sigh, he bumped into a colleague. He was also wearing a sweatshirt and cropped pants, but he had a gold chain hanging around his neck in a more fashionable style than himself. When he arrived, he made a gesture of unknown meaning.

"Hey, good morning, Brother Ding!"

"...Xiao Jia, morning."

Xiao Jia was stunned when he heard this. He didn't even bother to continue to put on that strange face. He leaned over and asked curiously: "Brother Ding, what's the matter with you? You look tired and tired, but you didn't scold me for dressing up strangely when you saw me!"

Brother Ding reached out and pushed away the face that looked like it had been smoked, and said with some disgust and weakness: "I don't care about you... I'm going to catch up on my sleep."

"Hey, what are you doing, Brother Ding, that you can't even bother to rest all night?"

"You boy, in our industry, when did it become popular to ask each other about work details..." Brother Ding shook his head, but still said naturally, "It's nothing. I focused on the wrong target and wasted a whole night."

"Hey, Brother Ding also made mistakes sometimes? The instructor has been bragging to us before that among the students he has taught, there is one whose intuition is sharper than a dog. When everyone is misled, he can cling to the truth... "

"snort."

"The instructor later said that we should try not to imitate him, because that kind of person will make great achievements quickly and die quickly..."

"Get out!" Brother Ding kicked the rude and obstructive junior aside, but his heavy heart was indeed relieved.

A whole night's work was in vain... but it wasn't in vain. It was always a good thing to be able to prove a person's innocence. Although many forces have endorsed it before, it is not a bad thing to have an extra guarantee of oneself.

The more critical the situation, the more careful it is to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. Sometimes the value of intelligence work is not just to find the bad guys, but also to protect the good guys. It is better to prove the innocence of a talented person than to have him wronged for all kinds of bullshit reasons.

Thinking of this, Brother Ding planned to meet his boss and summarize what he had seen and heard that night. After that, he would find a place to rest seriously for half a day... But just as he was about to take a step, he heard Xiao Jia ask curiously.

"Brother Ding, what are you painting?"

"Hmm?" Brother Ding was stunned when he heard this, "What is the painting?"

Xiao Jia pointed at his arm: "It should be you who painted it, right?"

Brother Ding lowered his head and saw a rather delicate painting on his right forearm, and the painting was...

"Fuck!?" At this time, Xiao Jia also came closer to take a closer look, and cursed at the first sight, "Brother Ding, I didn't expect you to be so good?!"

"...Get lost."

Brother Ding's face was also gloomy, because he could see clearly at this time that there was a half-naked man with an unclear face painted on his forearm! Although the vital parts were covered by thin clothes, the overall scale was also explosive when placed in the female Xiang Taixu scroll!

When did I draw this thing on my hand? ! And... Tsk, the figure in this painting is really too good! No, it's not just too good, it's simply a kind of art!

In an instant, Brother Ding's mind was attracted by the muscle lines of the man in the painting. He originally had a talent for physical cultivation, but he started intelligence work by chance. But the solid foundation laid in the military academy allowed him to quickly appreciate the exquisite beauty of the lines in the painting.

It was simply a physical training manual that could be comprehended for a lifetime.

And at this moment, a spiritual light buried in dust suddenly flashed in his mind.

The momentary dim light illuminated his confused mind.

"By the way, Wang Luo... I'm going to find Master Wang!"

On the other side, Xiao Jia was frightened by the senior's surprise: "Brother Ding, are you okay? Why don't you take a rest first?"

Brother Ding seemed to be excited and shook his head vigorously: "No, I'm going to find Master Wang first."

"But Master Wang has already gone to Yueyang." Xiao Jia was a little surprised, "You should know that he was invited by the Bai family of Yueyang not long ago to go there to inspect the work of settling wasteland."

"Bai family...hiss." The next moment, Brother Ding felt a sharp pain in his head, as if there was a thick smoke rolling in, but he had grasped the key point and made a decision immediately.

"Well, I know... You go do your thing first, I'll go take a rest."

Xiao Jia was a little worried, but still nodded and said: "Okay, Brother Ding, call me if you have anything."

"Well, thank you, I'll treat you to a drink next time I have a chance."

Xiao Jia's eyes lit up: "Really? That's great! Brother Ding, I'll remember it, you must not default on your debt!"

"Hehe, you stinky boy, get out!"

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After sending off his junior colleagues, Brother Ding's face had turned pale, as if he had fought fiercely with some invisible enemy, so that walking was like stepping on cotton... But then, his steps gradually became steady.

He left the underground secret room, went up the winding stairs, and came to a secret mezzanine between the first and second floors of the fortress, which was a temporary storage place for front-line intelligence personnel. Nowadays, it is mostly used for lunch breaks in the name of searching for information.

Brother Ding was indeed extremely tired, and it was reasonable for him to go to the mezzanine to take a nap. However, when he walked into the mezzanine and saw the rows of information preserved in the form of resin, jade slips, scrolls, etc., he subconsciously walked to a display stand and took down a simple paper book.

Lingshan Records... is an encyclopedia of Lingshan in the old world compiled by historians of this world. It is not an important information. It is placed here more like a reference book of dictionary nature.

Brother Ding picked up the reference book and began to turn it from back to front.

Remember, among the Lingshan people of the same generation as Master Wang, there was also a woman named Bai, and she...

However, just as Brother Ding was about to turn the page, he suddenly heard a chuckle from behind.

A chuckle from a woman that should never appear here.

Now he is the only one in this mezzanine, and he is not a woman, and he never laughed just now!