846: What right do you have to speak to us?

It was a little past nine in the morning. Not long after finishing two training subjects, Xiao Niannian, Lu Jing, and the others heard the broadcast again.

"comrades Lu Jing, Qin Feng, Xiao Niannian, Zhang Hui... Qi Ming, and others, please report to the Production Brigade office..."

Xiao Niannian thought of what happened a couple of days ago and already knew what it was about.

Upon arriving at the office, Captain Chen looked at them and began to speak.

"We just received a request for assistance from the Public Security Bureau of Guangxi Province. Six technicians from a local state-owned machinery factory, who were on a business trip to Guangdong Province, have lost contact... The Public Security Bureau of Guangdong Province found that the last place they disappeared from was this town in Yangcheng..."

Captain Chen pointed at the map, explaining the situation.

Missing again? Six technicians from a machinery factory?

"comrades from the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau are already searching."

Captain Chen looked at them and said.

"comrades from State Security discovered that this matter is related to those spies, and they have also asked us to provide some manpower to help..."

Captain Chen frowned.

"There have been quite a few incidents in Yangcheng recently, and the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau has been extremely busy these days... State Security is also very busy..."

Captain Chen's gaze fell on Lu Jing, Xiao Niannian, and the others.

"You will send a team of forty people..."

"Yes."

After a half-hour meeting, Xiao Niannian, Lu Jing, and the others prepared to leave.

"Lu Jing, Xiao Niannian, stay behind."

Hearing this, Lu Jing and Xiao Niannian remained.

"Captain."

"Little Lu, take Niannian to the Military Factory."

Lu Jing drove Xiao Niannian to the Military Factory.

"Wife, call me when you're resting..."

"Okay."

Xiao Niannian nodded.

This visit was for three days.

Xiao Niannian entered the Research Institute.

"Niannian is back."

"Niannian, haven't seen you in days."

Xiao Niannian greeted the elders.

"Niannian, why are you so thin again?"

"Look, your face has gotten smaller..."

These Grandparents-generation Researchers immediately felt heartache upon seeing Xiao Niannian.

"You must be training too hard, right?"

"You really have lost a lot of weight..."

Xiao Niannian said with a smile.

"I haven't lost weight. I weighed myself yesterday, and it's the same as before..."

After talking with everyone for a while, Xiao Niannian immediately got busy with her seniors.

"Niannian, these are the blueprints for the Mao Xiong helicopter, take a look..."

Seeing the blueprints, Xiao Niannian smiled.

These were the blueprints for the helicopter she had seized from the Heilongjiang Province outpost. She had thought that this research would be conducted in Heilongjiang Province. She didn't expect it to be brought to Yangcheng.

"This is a treasure; there's only one copy of these blueprints, so we mustn't damage or lose them..."

"These past few days, everyone here has been analyzing them... thinking about how to build the same helicopter..."

Hearing the Old Comrades, Xiao Niannian nodded in agreement.

"Now that we have these blueprints, if we study them diligently, we will definitely be able to develop it quickly..."

Xiao Niannian added.

"I've flown some helicopters before, also Mao Xiong's, but they were older models. I can also draw out the blueprints for those helicopters..."

The Old Comrades who were talking looked at her in surprise when they heard Xiao Niannian's words.

"Niannian, you can fly helicopters too?"

"I've learned, but my skills are just average."

Everyone laughed at Xiao Niannian's humble words.

"Niannian, you're being modest again."

"You're so outstanding, how can your skills be just average?"

For the rest of the day, Xiao Niannian not only discussed the Mao Xiong helicopter with the senior Researchers in her Research Institute, but Researchers from two neighboring Research Institutes also came together for a meeting.

"Each of our groups is responsible for different things. I think it would be best for you, Research Institute One, to be responsible for the helicopter's exterior..."

Researcher Tao from Research Institute Two said with a chuckle.

"Everything else is time-consuming and laborious. Seniors, you are all getting on in years, so doing something easier like this won't be as strenuous."

"Researcher Tao is right, seniors, you've worked hard, and now that you're older, we'll take care of these newer things, and we also have the blueprints now..."

Xiao Niannian looked over and saw that the person echoing Researcher Tao was another person named Researcher Jin.

Hearing this, the Researchers from Research Institute One became displeased.

"What are you talking about? We're old? Forty or fifty is the age to strive and work hard..."

"That's right, what if we're fifty or sixty? We're older than you, but our abilities are stronger than yours. We also work more overtime than you."

The few of them immediately started arguing.

"Does working more overtime mean your abilities are stronger?"

"We're being kind, why aren't you grateful?"

Xiao Niannian looked at Researcher Tao and Researcher Jin, her brows furrowed.

"Researcher Jin, Researcher Tao, please say less."

"Discussion is discussion, why bring up age?"

The others began to mediate.

Researcher Tao heard someone mediating and spoke even louder.

"I'm speaking the truth. Are people not allowed to speak the truth now?"

"What nonsense truth are you talking about? No matter what work the institute assigns us, we are willing to do it, but are you speaking like a human? What do you mean by 'getting on in years, doing something easier'..."

Xiao Niannian stared at Researcher Tao and Researcher Jin. What did these two mean by deliberately saying such things?

Xiao Niannian saw Grandpa Zhou and Grandpa Qi step forward. She quickly blocked them. If a pushing match started, these two old gentlemen would be knocked over instantly.

"Grandpa Zhou, Grandpa Qi, step back. I'll speak."

Hearing Xiao Niannian, Grandpa Zhou and Grandpa Qi took a step back.

Researcher Tao and Researcher Jin saw Xiao Niannian.

"Who are you?"

"Who I am is none of your business?" Xiao Niannian retorted.

"You're not a Researcher from the Research Institute?" Researcher Jin stared at Xiao Niannian, guessing her identity.

Researcher Tao remembered hearing that there was a young Researcher in Research Institute One. Could it be this excessively young Female Comrade in front of him?

How much effort did they put in to get into the Research Institute and reach where they are today?

Who pulled strings for someone so young to enter the Research Institute?

The thought that they had worked hard for over ten or twenty years to get in, while this Female Comrade in front of them was directly arranged to come in, made Researcher Tao and Researcher Jin even angrier.

"What right do you have to speak?"

Researcher Jin angrily rebuked.

"I have no right to speak? Then what right do you two have to speak here?"

Researcher Jin sneered.

"I graduated at twenty-two and worked hard for over ten years to get into the Research Institute. You, looking less than twenty-two, what right do you have to enter the Research Institute? You're just someone who got in through connections, what right do you have to speak to us?"

Hearing this, the Old Comrades from Research Institute One became angry again.

"You're talking nonsense."