Chapter 372 Uncle Liu, a reliable figure in critical moments

At the end of the office building's corridor.

Assistant Xiao Zhang stood where he was.

Watching Xiao Wang's frantic back as he hurried toward Director Liu's office until he disappeared around the corner.

Xiao Zhang was speechless and couldn't help but shake his head.

"So strange."

Anyway, the people in the building today were all quite strange.

...

On the other side.

Xiao Wang, who was sprinting down the corridor, felt his lungs wheezing like a bellows.

His leather shoes slammed heavily onto the floor, making a chaotic sound of footsteps.

His mind was filled with images of his brothers on the front line being surrounded; he couldn't care less about the decorum and rules of a government office.

In a few steps, he rushed to the familiar solid wood door.

Xiao Wang didn't even bother to knock and pushed forward violently with both hands.

With a dull "thud,"

he pushed the door open and entered the director's office; the door hit a potted plant by the wall, shaking off a few leaves.

At this moment.

Liu Jianguo, sitting behind his large desk, was slowly lifting a teacup filled with Da Hong Pao tea fragments, preparing to take another sip of the fragrant tea.

Startled by the sudden loud noise, the tea almost sloshed out of the cup.

He looked up with some dissatisfaction.

When Liu Jianguo saw the person rushing in, he froze for a moment.

In his sight was Xiao Wang, covered in sweat and pale-faced.

The other man's chest was heaving violently, his uniform collar soaked with sweat; he looked as if he had just escaped from a disaster scene.

Seeing this wretched state, Liu Jianguo was extremely surprised.

He slammed the teacup onto the desk mat, frowning, completely unsure why this kid was in such a frantic rush.

"What are you doing? So reckless, is there a wolf chasing you?" Liu Jianguo scolded in a low voice.

...

However.

Xiao Wang didn't care about his superior's blame at all.

With his hands on his knees, he gasped the cool air in the office, trying to calm his racing heart.

Then, without catching his breath, Xiao Wang looked up and said with eyes full of anxiety:

"Director Liu, this is a serious matter, I'll keep it short!"

Hearing the words "serious matter," Liu Jianguo dropped his scolding expression and leaned forward slightly, adopting a listening posture.

Then, in the most concise language, Xiao Wang spilled everything like beans about the pistol in the special storage area.

From his brain glitching and forgetting to take it out, to accidentally mixing that plastic toy into the combination box, and then the box being sent directly to the Safe House and handed over to the action team.

Every word was spoken rapidly.

After finishing the report.

The air in the office seemed to thicken instantly.

He then added that he suspected Old Wolf and the others had taken the weapon to carry out a mission.

At this point.

Then, Xiao Wang swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing.

Wiping away the sweat about to flow into his eyes, he said with a trembling voice:

"Director Liu... I suspect Old Wolf and the others took that weapon, thinking it was some secret equipment, and went abroad for a mission."

...

As soon as those words landed.

Hearing this scalp-numbing report.

The trace of relaxation and slight displeasure at being disturbed that was on Liu Jianguo's face vanished instantly without a trace.

His face, which usually carried a bit of old-fashioned humor, became more solemn than ever before.

'That gun got mixed in?'

'The piece of junk pistol that brat Li Jiajun made, which can barely even blow out a lighter's flame, went to the front line?!' This thought surfaced in his mind.

He knew all too well what this meant.

It was a piece of broken plastic that, aside from looking a bit intimidating and having an alarmingly thick manual, had absolutely no practical combat use!

Once the people on the front line relied on it.

In a critical moment of life and death...

That's not freaking killing the enemy; that's just handing your head to them!

Thinking of this, Liu Jianguo stood up abruptly.

Pressing his hands firmly on the large mahogany desk, he leaned forward with a powerful sense of pressure.

He immediately asked in a low voice, "What mission are they on?"

Xiao Wang was startled by Liu Jianguo's predatory aura and stuttered, about to explain.

But there was no need for him to speak.

Jianguo, who had spent half his life clawing his way up to this position, quickly sorted through the timeline and recent high-level movements in his mind.

The Old General's sudden rage, the frequent distress signals from the border, the unusually frequent deployment requests from the Special Front lately...

Countless fragments of detail pieced together in his head.

Then his heart stirred, relying on the information network he had cultivated over years by the old leader's side and his sharp political intuition.

Liu Jianguo thought of it instantly.

It should be that Assassination Mission targeting the fraud parks in the overseas Sanbianpo.

That was a truly lawless place, filled with warlord militias and tight security; carrying out a deterrent assassination in such a place had a terrifyingly high danger factor.

"Is it an Assassination Mission?" He stared into Xiao Wang's eyes and asked word by word.

Cold sweat dropped down his chin again.

Then Xiao Wang felt his legs go weak and nodded vigorously.

Seeing his subordinate's confirmation.

Then, Liu Jianguo sucked in a cold breath.

He completely understood the gravity of the situation!

If, deep within such a heavily guarded park, the breakout failed because of a toy gun with pathetic firepower...

He didn't dare to imagine further.

...

However.

Although Liu Jianguo usually seemed nonchalant and would even use unreliable methods to complete missions sometimes.

But at a critical moment like this, this veteran who had climbed up from the grassroots was indeed very reliable.

Faced with such a massive blunder, he didn't waste time flying into a rage or frantically scolding Xiao Wang for being so brainless.

Scolding someone now wouldn't save the lives of the brothers on the front line.

Instead, he took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the panic in his heart.

He quickly calmed down, his brain rapidly weighing remedy plans.

Since the items had already been sent, it was definitely too late to chase them now.

The only way to break the deadlock was to confirm whether that gun had actually been taken!

He walked around the desk, strode up to Xiao Wang, his gaze as cold as a knife.

Giving the most direct and decisive instruction.

He immediately told the subordinate to check the system.

"Check it now!"

Liu Jianguo pointed toward the door. "Inventory the weapon list provided to the assassination team at that time and verify the final extraction records!"

...

Hearing his old leader's steady and powerful command.

Xiao Wang, who was originally on the verge of collapse, seemed to have found a backbone.

His frantic emotions miraculously settled quite a bit.

Xiao Wang acknowledged the order loudly.

He immediately took out the Secure Terminal he carried with him.

That was a high-level tablet device specifically used for interfacing with Special Front supplies.

Though his fingers were still trembling, he still quickly entered the complex unlock code on the screen and began accessing the internal network to check that life-and-death list.