Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 425 Dying Ambition
In the secret room, Brother Ding closed his eyes tightly and paced back and forth. The small room was soon filled with the sound of messy footsteps, and his mind seemed to be made more restless and uneasy by his own footsteps.

As a senior intelligence officer, he has not encountered such a hesitant situation for a long time.

That orange...do you want to deal with it with thunder?
When this idea first emerged, Brother Ding was shocked by himself.

Isn't it too extreme and too inexplicable?

Although objectively speaking, there are too many doubts about this "good sister" who suddenly appeared next to Gu Shishi, but there is no need to resort to "thunder tactics". In fact, as a frontline soldier, he had no right to use thunderous tactics against those in the rear.

However, the intuition accumulated over the years told him that this was the most effective method at the moment. If the authority is insufficient, then try your best to supplement the authority and exceed the authority, instead of being constrained by the word authority and missing important things. Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. People without courage are not worthy of fighting on the front line. It is better to go to the rear to write documents!
Then, the education he received over the years also warned him: too many front-line personnel, driven by temporary illusions and blinded by the so-called righteousness, openly trampled on the "boundaries" poured with blood by countless people over countless years, leading to An irreparable tragedy.

It doesn't mean you can do whatever you want if you have noble motives.

What's more, he is not the first to investigate this orange. As early as when Gu Shishi brought this suddenly acquainted woman to her, treated her like a sister, entrusted her with important responsibilities, and acted like a close minister, there were countless pairs of eyes staring at the two of them.

Among them are the secret guards from Bolan Village. They are a group of business hunting dogs whose behavior can be called extreme, but their abilities are worthy of their madness. However, after being bitten by the secret guard, Cheng Zi remained unharmed and firmly established himself in the Gu family. Even Gu Cangsheng acquiesced to the fact that the master of Xin Feng Yuan had such a personal assistant.

Then, there was naturally an investigation from Rongcheng Qingpingsi. As one of the undoubted core members of today's pioneering strategy, Gu Shishi's words and deeds are naturally subject to the strictest scrutiny. After her strange acquaintance with Cheng Zi, a group of senior Tsing Yi and Hong Yi people spent a lot of energy to issue an investigation report. And this report has just been transferred by Brother Ding in the Taixu Dark River through a friend, and it is firmly engraved in his mind.

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...

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 very successful pioneering in Yueyang, the oath of keeping secrets was breached from the outside by something that transformed wasteland.

After a while, Brother Ding stopped and let out a long breath. This breath ignited a thick cloud of black smoke in mid-air, as if the anxiety in his heart just now turned into reality... Fortunately, the magic circle in the secret room was ready, and soon a breeze blew by, removing these almost inner demons. of matter was swept away.

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.

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!

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

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

And she herself didn't seem to care about family ties. She spent her teenage years freely and leisurely relying on the inheritance left by her parents. He casually admitted to an academy that was somewhere between first-rate and second-rate. Before graduation, he condensed a golden elixir that was somewhere between first-rate and second-rate. After that, he began his wandering career in hundreds of countries. During this period, I wrote some articles, made many friends, and even experienced some exciting adventures. Later, when she was exploring Lingshan Mountain, she met Gu Shishi, and the two hit it off, so she simply became Gu Shishi's little assistant, always by his side.

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 pioneer front lines... 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.

The secret guards of Bolan Village, the elites of Qingping Division...did they not 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.

But these channels generally do not include the oath to keep 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.

But Gu Shishi is now one of the core members of the pioneering strategy! He is the actual person in charge of Lingshan Construction Investment Association! Many of the tasks at hand are closely related to the source of power for Rongcheng's westward expansion!
Is it really normal for such a person to suddenly have a close minister next to him? What's more, if Bai Cheng is only responsible for assisting with some business matters in the North District, Gu Shishi openly brought her into contact with the frontline secrets in a side-stepping way! Is it allowed to talk about the desolate and poisonous things in such a blatant way? ?

All tracks are detailed and can be checked. The people in green and red who issued the report raised questions in 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 ascended to heaven overnight! Compared with those high-ranking officials who directly assign key positions to their mistresses and end up with nothing, the acquaintance between Gu Shishi and Bai Cheng is like a breath of fresh air!
Even the senior Qingyi who secretly delivered the report to Brother Ding - Han Yu, the holder of the Luming Gold Medal who was trusted by Brother Ding and had been a famous member of the army to determine the famine - also gave his own Subjective opinion: This white orange is as innocent as its name suggests. Even if there is a problem, it is not the turn of ordinary people like them to investigate.

Qingpingsi's investigation of Chengzi was deeper than that of Bolanzhuang's secret guard, and he clearly locked her identity. Bai Cheng, twenty-five years old, was born in the Yueyang Bai family. Although he has a reputation as a wealthy family, as a descendant of a sideline that cannot be ignored anymore, he basically does not enjoy much family shadow. And after her parents died early in an accident, the family bond was almost non-existent.

This Chengzi must be investigated, because there is something about her that cannot be explained. No matter how many authoritative reports are put in front of her to guarantee her innocence, it still cannot be explained.

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

This is really, really abnormal.

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

People who are bound by the oath of keeping secrets are often not even aware of its existence, let alone intentionally cracking and exploiting loopholes. This kind of Immortal Alliance-level fairy magic will directly affect and lock a person's behavior and even thinking from the subconscious level, and its binding force is absolute.

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.

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.

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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 reached me, 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 wrong with you? You look tired and tired, but you didn't scold me for dressing up in strange clothes 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?" "Boy, when did it become popular in our industry to ask each other about work content..." Brother Ding shook his head, but he still spoke naturally. He said, "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... "

"Humph."

"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?"

"Huh?" Brother Ding was stunned when he heard this, "What are you painting?"

Xiao Jia pointed to his arm: "You should have painted it, right?"

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

"What the fuck!?" At this time, Xiao Jia also came closer to take a closer look. As soon as he looked at it, he said a curse, "Brother Ding, I didn't expect you to be so good?!"

"……roll."

Brother Ding also looked 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 clothing, the overall size was astonishing even in the female Xiang Taixu picture scroll!
When did you draw this thing on your hand? ! And...tsk, the figure in this painting is really too good! No, it’s not excessive, it’s simply an art!
In an instant, Brother Ding's mind was attracted by the muscular lines of the man in the painting. He was originally quite talented in physical training, but he only started doing intelligence work by chance. However, the solid foundation he laid in the Military Academy allowed him to quickly appreciate the ingenious beauty of the lines in the paintings.

It is simply a book of physical cultivation that can be read for a lifetime.

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

A flash of light illuminated his confused mind.

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

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

However, Brother Ding seemed to be overwhelmed with excitement and shook his head vigorously: "No, I have to... go find Master Wang first."

"But Master Wang Shan has already gone to Yueyang." Xiao Jia was a little surprised, "You should know. Not long ago, he was invited by the Bai family in Yueyang to go there to inspect the work of determining the famine."

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

"Well, I know...you go and do your work first, and I'll go and rest for a while."

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

"Well, thanks. Next time I have a chance, I'll treat you to a drink."

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

"Hey, you brat, get out of here!"

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

He left the underground secret room, went around the winding stairs, and came to a secret mezzanine between the first and second floors of the fortress, which was where frontline intelligence personnel temporarily stored information. Nowadays, it is mostly used for lunch breaks in the name of searching for information.

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

Lingshan Record... is a complete encyclopedia of Lingshan in the past compiled by contemporary historians. It is not considered important information. It is placed here more like a dictionary-like reference book.

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

I remember that among the Lingshan people of the same generation as Master Wangshan, 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 coming from behind him.

A woman chuckled that should never have appeared here.

He is the only one in this mezzanine now, and he is not a woman, and he was definitely not smiling just now!
(End of this chapter)