674: Shine bright

"But... during the parliamentary session, they clearly..." Deng Liduō hadn't expected them to have already taken sides.

"Clearly leaning towards you, right? But they had already colluded in secret. It's best if you can now convince the public that you have no connection to them, otherwise, I can't help you either."

"I'll listen to you, what should I do?" After Su Yue's long-term guidance, Deng Liduō had complete faith in him.

"Next, you need to participate in more interviews. When the parliament discusses the North Chao Embassy incident, you must hold the opposite opinion. In short, you need to draw a clear line with them now."

The instructions were in place; saying more would be redundant.

Su Yue recalled the call from last night and thought that he couldn't contact Deng Liduō again in the near future. Once they infiltrated the Central Intelligence Agency, their control over members would be extremely strict.

He wondered what kind of challenges they would face today.

Under Su Yue's careful disguise, Wang Linlin became Zheng Qi, and Su Yue transformed into Cui Minhe. The two of them arrived at the main entrance of the Central Intelligence Agency together.

"Hello, we are new members of the Central Intelligence Agency, where do we report?" Zheng Qi was mainly responsible for diplomatic matters, while Cui Minhe was constantly alert to his surroundings. Although they had been here many times before, it was the first time they were working here so openly.

"Okay, please follow me."

As soon as they sat down at their desks, the Captain came over.

"You're the two selected by the detectives?" The Captain squinted at Su Yue and Wang Linlin, his tone carrying a hint of disdain.

"That's right, that's how we got in. Is there a problem?" Wang Linlin replied without showing any weakness.

"Since you're so capable, why don't I hand this case over to you?" The Captain said, heavily slamming the case file onto the table. Su Yue watched the so-called Captain with cold eyes.

"You look down on us so much, how about we make a bet?" Su Yue looked provocatively at the Captain.

"What? You want to compete with me?" The Captain curled his lip disdainfully, not taking Su Yue's words seriously at all.

"What? Are you scared? Unless you can solve this case without leaving the Central Intelligence Agency's main entrance, otherwise, with just you? I'm not afraid of you!" The Captain seemed to see the dawn of his promotion.

Ethan had specifically instructed the Captain of this team to treat the newcomers well. This kind of coded language, having worked at the Central Intelligence Agency for many years, she naturally understood. At that time, she had indicated her understanding.

So, as soon as Su Yue and the others arrived, she quickly came over.

"If I really solve the case without leaving the Central Intelligence Agency's main entrance, what will you do?" Su Yue looked at the Captain in front of him, and an idea suddenly came to him.

"What do you want me to do?" the Captain asked in return.

"You resign, and the position of Captain goes to me."

The people around them cast strange glances, whispering, "Is this person new?" "He's too arrogant, let's see how he'll end this?" Their colleagues made no secret of their curiosity and doubt.

"Do you dare?" Su Yue looked at the Captain's hesitant expression and asked again.

The Captain was not a brainless person; he had carefully studied the files of these two before. Although the solving of this case was not unrelated to them, Ethan was backing them. No matter how capable they were, there was a limit.

Thinking of this, the Captain's mood calmed down slightly.

"What if you lose?" the Captain asked.

"I'll leave here."

"It's not that simple, you have to clean the bathrooms here for a month before you leave!" The Captain smiled sinisterly.

"No problem."

After sitting down, he and Wang Linlin began to carefully study the case.

"This is a simple theft case, but unfortunately, it resulted in the victim's death."

"You heard? Two newcomers have arrived in Officer Si's Team 4!" The two people in the bathroom were discussing this matter.

"Of course, I heard, this matter is causing a stir, who wouldn't know! It's not that I'm saying anything, but the Team Leader of Team 4 is usually a fence-sitter, I really hope these two newcomers can teach him a lesson!"

Su Yue pretended to have just finished using the restroom and interjected while washing his hands nearby, "That's really a bit difficult."

The Central Intelligence Agency has nearly 20,000 employees, and Su Yue and the others' office is on the 5th floor. He deliberately came to the restroom on the 2nd floor now to take advantage of the fact that everyone was unfamiliar with each other.

"Why? Are you upstairs?" The person who had just spoken, hearing this, felt as if Su Yue knew some inside information and asked curiously.

"I'm not upstairs, but my friend is. He said the case given to those two newcomers is particularly difficult!" Su Yue said, feigning mystery.

Gossip is one of human nature's traits.

"Do you know which case it is?" They were very eager to know the details.

"I don't know that, but there seems to be a number on it, it seems to be N3 something, they didn't see it clearly."

"n-shaped file! Isn't that a cold case?" The two people who had just spoken looked at Su Yue in surprise.

"Isn't it? What do you think?" Su Yue threw the topic back to them, "cold case," they had heard of this for the first time.

"They are clearly trying to kick those two people out directly!" The person who had just been discussing exclaimed.

"Didn't they say those N-shaped cold cases..." Su Yue frowned, feigning confusion.

"What are you saying, N-shaped cold cases are those where not even a shadow of a person can be found. It's one thing not to find the parties involved, but the key is that there are no clues at all, they are all missing persons, and they don't even know where to look."

Su Yue's eyes flickered, recalling the case he had taken on. It was indeed only described as theft leading to death, with only file materials and no other evidence.

Su Yue silently told himself to stay calm.

Then he asked, "He's making things so difficult for the newcomers, if it really blows up, it won't look good, right?"

"We're thinking, this must be related to the only case that was solved!" The person looked at Su Yue confidently, as if he could foresee Su Yue's surprise.

"Oh! You make sense!" Su Yue immediately saw a glimmer of hope for breaking the situation.

After saying goodbye to the two, Su Yue began to ponder: the only case!

Straightening his clothes, Su Yue disguised himself as a member of the team and blended in. As soon as he entered the team, he noticed someone giving the Captain a look.

That person should be the mole.

"Why are you here? Where are those two? Aren't you keeping an eye on them?" Su Yue glanced at his watch; he had been out for almost 15 minutes and needed to get back quickly, especially if someone was watching.

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His skill in extracting information was becoming increasingly proficient.

"They're still flipping through the files, trying to find some clues!"

The Captain glanced at him and then asked, "Did they find anything?"

"Found anything? How could they? Captain, you gave them an n-shaped file!" Su Yue used the information he had previously extracted as a lead to slowly bait the Captain.

"It's all thanks to you! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have thought of this trick. When Agent Ethan promotes me, this position will be yours, don't worry!" The Captain said, putting down the work at hand and starting to play a game.

"Not at all, it's still the Captain's excellent leadership. Then we have to prepare well!" Su Yue's eyes never left the file on the Captain's desk. The top one was the complete information of the case he had given to Su Yue.

As expected, he hadn't guessed wrong; they had indeed thrown the only solved case at him. Su Yue secretly smiled. "Captain, I see it's getting late, so I'll head back first."

Su Yue returned to the office smiling.

"Why are you so happy? We don't have any leads yet!" Wang Linlin looked at Su Yue anxiously.

"Did you bring your phone?" Su Yue asked Wang Linlin.

"Yes, but why are you asking about that now?" Wang Linlin looked at Su Yue with a bewildered expression.

"Give it to me, I'll show you something good."

How could the Central Intelligence Agency miss the opportunity to promote such a big event? Su Yue searched online and indeed found the answer, estimating that no one would have thought of searching online to solve a case.

"Captain, we found the murderer!" Su Yue said when the Captain came to find them.

"If you dare to lie to me, you won't get off easy!" The Captain looked suspicious; how was that possible? This was an n-shaped file, they must be fooling him!

"Alright, tell me!"

Su Yue spread out the documents and handed them to the Captain, then spoke to the others.

This file is about a cold case from a few years ago. The victim died at home, but anyone who carefully examined the scene could see that the victim did not die at home. And in the file you gave me, there isn't even a picture of the victim.

Captain, are you overestimating my abilities? Or are you deliberately trying to make things difficult for me?

Su Yue stared at the Captain and said.

"What are you up to?" Ethan hadn't expected to see their team in such disarray as soon as he arrived.

"Good day, Agent Ethan."

"Agent!" The Captain lowered his head, not daring to look at Ethan.

After understanding what had happened, Ethan was furious. He couldn't even handle such a small matter and was making a fool of himself here. He glared fiercely at the Captain and then spoke to Wang Linlin and Su Yue.

"You don't need to pay attention to him. From now on, you are not under his command. You are part of our Special Task Force!" Ethan smiled and extended his hand to Wang Linlin and Su Yue.

"Then how will the previous bet be settled? It can't be voided, can it?" Su Yue smiled and looked at Ethan. He couldn't let this "good" Captain off the hook just because of Ethan's small favor.

"What do you want to do?" Ethan wasn't surprised, after all, Su Yue was able to provide decisive clues in such a short time.

"What do I want to do?" Su Yue pretended to look troubled and looked at the Captain, "What do you think I should do?"

The Captain looked at Su Yue, immediately bowed ninety degrees, and respectfully said, "I'm sorry, I was ignorant before. Please be magnanimous, Agent Cui Minhe."

Su Yue smiled and said, "That's not necessary, let's stick to the bet!" Su Yue's meaning was clear: he wanted him to leave the Central Intelligence Agency and let others see that not everyone could be bullied here.

"Okay, no problem, we'll do as you say! Then I welcome you to join the Special Task Force."

"What kind of Special Task Force is this?" Su Yue thought there were many Special Task Forces in the Central Intelligence Agency.

"It's a Special Task Force established to target a highly skilled international con artist."

Su Yue was stunned for a moment, could it be targeting him? So, he was now going to catch himself? This was too ridiculous! Who would have thought that Su Yue would join the Special Task Force targeting Su Yue?

"Can I ask who this Special Task Force is targeting?" Wang Linlin, playing Zheng Qi, had a slightly neutral style.

Ethan led them towards the Special Task Force area and replied, "You should know Su Yue, right? This Special Task Force is targeting him. However, there have been too many things recently, and we can't keep an eye on Su Yue all the time, we can only wait for him to show up."

Wang Linlin secretly looked at Su Yue several times. "I didn't expect you to be so famous," Wang Linlin mouthed.

"Just average!" Su Yue also mouthed back to her.

"Are you all quite annoyed with Su Yue?" Wang Linlin pretended to look disgusted and winked at Su Yue.

"That's not entirely true, he is indeed a master, and it's quite interesting to spar with a master!" Ethan seemed to recall various past events and couldn't help but sigh, so many people had pursued and intercepted him, but they still couldn't catch him.

"Oh, I see!" Wang Linlin secretly gave Su Yue a thumbs up.

"So, what's our mission now?" Su Yue asked, looking at Ethan's slightly disappointed expression.

"Alas, it's just handling cases. But the higher-ups said that as long as we solve the n-shaped file, we can be promoted to the upper level. What exactly we'll do will be assigned then."

A chess game he had set up appeared in Su Yue's mind.

The first simulated election was about to begin, and the news from there hadn't been revealed yet. Being promoted here would save him the effort. It seemed that he had to carefully consider this n-shaped file.

"Ethan, who are these two?" The Special Task Force was to the right of James's room, and one had to pass James's room to get to the Special Task Force.

"Good day, Director. These two are the detectives who provided important clues in the last case and have been exceptionally promoted to the Special Task Force."

James glanced at Wang Linlin and Su Yue, without suspicion, and then asked, "Is there still no news from Lyon and Gao Xiang?" James and the North Koreans had almost finished their negotiations, and now they planned to make Nep the scapegoat.

After all, James had evidence that Nep's brother was a key member of the strike organization.

Su Yue accidentally heard this news. Although he had expected it, he hadn't expected to see James looking so dejected with his own eyes.

It was truly satisfying. This Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who had calculated countless people, finally reaped what he sowed. Of course, the final punishment hadn't arrived yet!

"Ethan, what are we planning to do next?" Su Yue watched as Ethan led them to the Special Task Force office, but there was only Ethan there.

"You two handle the n-shaped file first, the files are on the table to the right. I still want to try and keep an eye on Su Yue! Even though I'm the only one left now!"

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