bayedsolid Chapter 515 Discovering the Mole
Chapter 515 Discovering the Mole
Men Buhui knew Hua Yan was capable, but only in individual combat. He really didn't know anything about investigating internal leaks. However, the fact that the commander sent Hua Yan meant that Hua Yan definitely had the ability.
"Jiu'er, let's eat first, and then we'll work."
Men Buhui still felt a little sorry for Hua Yan. Such a young child, she was sent here as soon as there was a problem.
"Great! I'm hungry too. I'll eat and drink my fill, then I'll get back to work."
Hua Yan didn't refuse; she was indeed hungry.
She also has two loyal followers on the border. One is Sang Tian, a top assassin from Country Y, who was possessed by her last time and now obeys her orders completely. The other is Ling Xiao, whom she subdued.
We need to contact those two people; they might be useful for this investigation.
Last time, Xiao Qiang, Men Buhui's adjutant, obtained a lot of enemy information from Sang Tian. Later, Hua Yan gave their opinion on how to deal with Sang Tian. She suggested using poison to control Sang Tian and then periodically providing him with the antidote to turn this top assassin against his own side.
Of course, both the poison and the antidote were provided by Hua Yan. Others might not believe it, but Men Buhui was the beneficiary and wholeheartedly agreed with the idea.
And so, at Hua Yan's behest, Sang Tian defected to our side. However, in Sang Tian's subconscious, only Hua Yan was his master, so he would report any information he received to Hua Yan first.
Normally, she wouldn't send any contact signals to the two of them unless something happened, but if anything did happen, the two of them would have to report to her.
After dinner, Hua Yan and Men Bu Hui learned about the situation in detail.
"Uncle Men, from what you've said, you always strictly monitor the movements of the attendees and haven't found anything unusual. Is there any listening device in the conference room?"
Hua Yan uses her past life's way of thinking to analyze the current problem.
"We've taken that into account, and we check it before every meeting, but we haven't found anything."
"Is it the kind of detailed one, leaving no suspicious detail unchecked?"
Hua Yan felt that if there wasn't a mole, they might have been wiretapped.
"Yes! I was right there every time they checked, and they really didn't find anything."
Are the inspectors always the same people?
"It's a fixed team, a dedicated search team."
"Could you please ask them to come and check again?"
Hua Yan wanted to observe it in person.
Upon hearing this, Men Buhui was stunned for a moment.
"it is good!"
Men Buhui was not upset by the questioning; he knew that Hua Yan was trying to solve the problem.
Ten minutes later, four search agents appeared in the conference room. After Men Buhui stated his requirements, the four agents readily began the search.
Hua Yan noticed that they seemed to have a fixed mission, directly searching their own area without any work conflicts.
On the surface, everyone seemed very serious, searching every place one by one, leaving no place unchecked.
"Reporting to the commander, nothing has been found."
After the four people finished their checks, they found nothing.
Just as Men Buhui was about to tell them to leave, Hua Yan pointed at the group and said:
"You check this spot, you check that spot, you..."
Hua Yan reassigned the tasks and then stared at them intently.
Men Buhui didn't know what Hua Yan was thinking, but he was certain that Hua Yan had her own ideas.
The search hadn't been going on for long when one of them hesitated noticeably, but said nothing, and then casually searched other areas.
Hua Yan saw it, but didn't say anything. The other person, seeing that this person hadn't noticed anything, visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Reporting to the commander, nothing has been found."
After the four men finished their search, they reported back to Men Buhui.
Men Buhui nodded, gesturing for them to leave.
After everyone left, just as Men Buhui was about to speak, Hua Yan gestured for him to be quiet.
Once the last person's footsteps could no longer be heard, Hua Yan walked to the spot where the problem had occurred and carefully touched it.
Haha! If you weren't a professional investigator, you probably wouldn't have discovered the problem.
Hua Yan discovered a tiny listening device on the base of the thermos.
Men Buhui's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He wanted to speak, but Hua Yan's gesture to silence him interrupted him.
Hua Yan didn't remove the bugging device; instead, she put the thermos back in its place and then said:
"Commander Men, since there's no problem, let's look for problems in other areas!"
Hua Yan gave Men Bu Hui a look.
"Yes! I knew the meeting room was fine; the problem must be somewhere else."
Men Buhui is also a shrewd person, and she cooperates with Hua Yan in her acting.
After leaving the conference room, Men Buhui wanted to take Hua Yan to his office, but Hua Yan refused and they went to an open space.
Hua Yan gestured for Men Bu Hui to be quiet, then began searching his body, pockets, shoes, and other places where he could put a listening device. After checking everything and finding nothing amiss, Hua Yan finally spoke.
"Uncle Men, do these four people always search the same places? Did they search this place yesterday and will they search the same place today?"
"Hmm? I didn't notice that, but they always search very thoroughly, so I can tell."
Men Buhui felt deceived. To be able to blatantly tamper with things right under his nose, it seemed that either the enemy was offering him a high price, or they didn't take him seriously, or perhaps this person was a spy.
"Uncle Men, there are two suspicious people here. The first person who searched the thermos was very nervous when the second person searched it, but he was clearly relieved when he saw that the other person didn't say anything."
The second person who searched the thermos flask visibly hesitated and paused when he found the listening device, but he quickly regained his composure and didn't say anything. There are two possibilities for this: one, he was worried that revealing it might lead to criticism of his comrades; two, he might have had his own ulterior motives, intending to use it as leverage against the first person.
Hua Yan gave Men Bu Hui an analysis.
"Jiu'er, how did you come up with the idea of having them check everything again, and not even the places you originally checked?"
"Uncle Men, I noticed that as soon as they entered the house, they went straight to their own targets to search, as if the places they searched were all pre-arranged, with no overlap or conflict."
I thought, since that's the case, if one of them has a problem, the others won't be able to find out. So I had them cross-check.
Men Buhui nodded, feeling that he had lived in vain, and that he was not even as cautious as a child.
"How did you discover that there was something wrong with those four people when they were being searched at the same time?"
Men Buhui wanted to know where he had overlooked something.
"Hehe! I'm good at observing. I put them in a whole, rather than observing them individually. Every tiny movement of each person is within my observation range."
Hua Yan was too embarrassed to say it, but I kept my eyes and ears open.
Men Buhui lowered his head in thought, then spoke:
"Was this the first person to plant the bug?"
"It's hard to say. It could be him, or it could be his accomplice."
"Is it possible that he overlooked the area under the thermos during the search?"
"Impossible, because when the second person searched the thermos, he was very nervous. When the second person didn't say anything, he visibly relaxed. That means he knew there was something under the thermos, because when he was searching, his eyes kept glancing over here, especially focusing on the thermos, and he wasn't as focused as he was during the first search."
Hua Yan offered her own conclusion.
"Is it possible that the first person and the second person were accomplices?"
Men Bu Hui keeps making assumptions to make the problem clearer.
"It shouldn't be, because if they were accomplices, the first person wouldn't be nervous, and the second person wouldn't have rushed in so suddenly when searching the thermos."
This time, Huayan's conclusion is affirmative.
"So, are we going to investigate them next?"
Men Buhui is a soldier who prefers to be straightforward and doesn't like to beat around the bush.
Hua Yan sighed, thinking, if she wanted to investigate them, why didn't she just expose them on the spot? Why did she have to pull this stunt?
She didn't take out the bugging device because she wanted to turn the tables and make the enemy think she had done something foolproof.