Chapter 5 Spies Don't Believe in Coincidences


There are seven or eight teachers who teach spy classes.
The one who has the most frequent contact with students is the third uncle. His surname is Mei, but his real name is unknown. related to the injuries suffered while espionage.

"Spies don't believe in coincidences." He teaches basics, one of many things he repeatedly reminds students in class that they must be aware of going forward.

The third uncle will also give some examples to prove that these stories are true and false, and he will never confirm them.

In the 70s of Xingyuan, when Zhai Wangxing was not called Zhai Wangxing, the population of the planet experienced the first big explosion, and the forces of all parties that had been at peace with each other began to compete for power.

An investigator from Force A—the third uncle refused to point to a specific party—a police officer by profession, whose jurisdiction happened to be the location of a sensitive department. One day, he and his colleagues caught a thief and found some thieves. Booty, one of which is a microcomputer.

The microcomputer was not encrypted, the contents were browsed casually, and a large amount of information was displayed in front of the investigator. He couldn't believe his eyes, so he immediately copied a copy and gave it to his boss.

Several pieces of intelligence confirm that the hostile faction B is preparing for war.

No one believed such an important piece of information, because it was too coincidental, and the director of the intelligence agency didn't even report it and directly listed it as invalid information.

The intelligence proved accurate, a string of intelligence officers were punished, and the entire agency was overhauled.

But the new director still warns spies: Don't believe in coincidences.

This is what the third uncle emphasized to the students: there is a certain probability that a coincidence is true, but the probability is very low, so low that it is not worthy of trust, and so low that every spy should completely eliminate it.

Mei Qianzhong didn't believe that Miss Yuan was a coincidence. Lu Linbei and Lu Yezhou stood at the window and looked at the barber shop opposite, and they didn't believe it was a coincidence either.

"What do you mean by this arrangement?" Lu Yezhou's good mood plummeted.

"Don't ask, you can't even ask."

"Maybe... Maybe his task is to monitor the barber shop." Lu Yezhou tried his best to think on the bright side, "The location of our room is really good."

"Yeah." Lu Linbei went back to the sofa and sat down. He was a little tired this day.

"This is the reason why the organization urgently needs new recruits." The more Lu Yezhou thought about it, the more reasonable it became. "The heir to the planet was killed, and the murderer has never been found, so... so the organization needs to intervene?"

He was a little unsure. It stands to reason that spies are not responsible for solving the case. The entire organization is attached to the General Weather Bureau of the Zhai Wangxing Joint Committee.

"Anyway, I guess our first task is to monitor the barber shop. In fact, Lao Qian could have said earlier, we can start now, right?" Lu Yezhou eagerly wanted to show it.

"Well." Lu Linbei just felt tired.

"My first half of the night, your second half of the night, how is it?"

"Ok?"

"You choose, I can do it." Lu Yezhou still stared out the window.

"Okay, just as you said." Lu Linbei had no intention of arguing and got up to find the bathroom.

The bathroom is very small. All the rooms here are very small. Only single beds can be placed in the bedroom. Lu Linbei is not picky, at least he now has a separate room.

He opened the old suitcase, picked out a few commonly used clothes, closed the box, and placed it beside the bed, although there was a cabinet in the corner, which he did not plan to use for the time being.

The bedroom has a smaller window, and the outside is the corridor inside the building. The light is too weak to illuminate the ground. Lu Linbei closed the curtains and pushed the single bed under the window, just in the blind spot of sight outside the window.

He took off his shoes and lay down with his clothes on. He was obviously very tired, but he couldn't sleep.

"Lao Bei?" Lu Yezhou whispered outside.

Lu Linbei didn't want to chat, so he endured it for a while and replied, "What's wrong?"

"You didn't fall asleep?"

"not yet."

"Can you talk? It's boring."

"Ok."

The door was pushed open through a gap, the figure flickered, and Lu Yezhou returned to the living room window, "You can sleep if you can, don't worry about me."

"it is good."

That's how they spent many nights on the farm, babbling on the top bunk and falling asleep on the bottom bunk as a lullaby.

"The old man didn't mention his salary. Do you have money? I can't even afford to rent a toilet with my money. Do you think our income is high?"

"I don't know."

"I guess it won't be lower, at least it's much higher than the farm maintainers. They drive good cars every time they go back to the farm. Look at the old man, they don't take cars seriously."

Lu Linbei didn't say a word, Lu Yezhou's hypnotic effect was still strong, he was already sleepy, and his upper and lower eyelids were fighting.

"Lao Bei, have you thought about pursuing another career?"

"Ok."

"do what?"

"Let's teach." Lu Linbei said vaguely.

"Then you have to go back to school first and get a diploma. Earth history, is there really a school that teaches this kind of thing? If I don't do this, I want to be in sales, I can sell anything..."

Lu Yezhou suddenly fell silent. After a while, he quietly walked over, pushed the door open a little, and stood still.

"Why don't you monitor?" Lu Linbei asked.

"If Lao Qian really wants to monitor the barber shop, he will definitely use monitoring equipment, and he doesn't need to keep staring at it all the time."

"It makes sense, then go to sleep."

"I can not sleep."

"Take a shower, lie on the bed for a while and then fall asleep."

Lu Linbei didn't know whether Lu Yezhou was obedient or not. He only remembered the sound of rushing water, and then he went to sleep and had countless strange dreams. Some of them were very important to him, and he reminded himself to write them down. When I opened my eyes, I still forgot.

Lu Yezhou stood at the door, as if he hadn't left all night, but he changed his clothes and was eating with a plate, "Lao Bei, you are so smart, analyze and analyze, what do you mean by organization and Lao Qian?"

Lu Linbei sat up slowly, still feeling tired, "There is too little information to analyze."

"Hey, I didn't really ask you to do a formal analysis, or just think about it."

Lu Linbei raised his hands and rubbed his face hard, "What's there to eat?"

Lu Yezhou stretched out the plate, and there was a lump of mushy stuff on it, "Convenience meal, the brand says it tastes like chicken, and it tastes like a bit of spicy soil."

Lu Linbei put on his shoes and went to the kitchen to have a look.

The kitchen was even smaller and could only accommodate one person walking back and forth. Lu Yezhou followed, still standing at the door, indicating the location of the food.

The convenience meal is mainly made of yeast, with various flavors and textures added. It can be eaten quickly in the chef's box. The chef's box is rich in functions, and the most commonly used is quick heat.

Lu Linbei chose the seafood flavor. Seeing his choice, Lu Yezhou laughed while eating.

After the rice was cooked, Lu Linbei could understand why Lu Yezhou laughed after just one bite. This thing was really not tasty. It had a little taste at the beginning, but after two or three chews, there was only an indescribable taste.

"Eat it quickly, it will be better." Lu Yezhou demonstrated his eating method, eating a little less at a time, chewing at most three times before swallowing.

After eating, Lu Linbei said, "At least the nutrition is sufficient."

"It's enough that I want to eat another one." Lu Yezhou threw the plate into the sink.

Lu Linbei washed the tableware for both of them. This is the mother's rule. Dirty dishes are never allowed in the house.

Lu Yezhou ran to the living room window to look again, and suddenly said bitterly, "I really don't want to be a bait."

Lu Linbei sat on the sofa, "Do you think we are the bait?"

"Isn't it?" Lu Yezhou turned around, "Lao Bei, you must have thought of something, tell me, the two of us must help each other now."

"I think this is just a test, it's not a big deal." Lu Linbei looked calm, "The organization cares about politics and business, and should not be interested in criminals."

"What's the test? I've... passed it. If it's a test for you, why do you include me?"

"Probably it's concentration." Lu Linbei smiled.

As long as he didn't kill for no reason, Lu Linbei was always calmer than Lu Yezhou.

"I'm determined." Lu Yezhou took a deep breath and didn't mention the barber shop again, but he kept walking, and he also found the car downstairs, "Old Qian's car is still parked outside, do you think he will come today? ?"

Lu Linbei shook his head and said he didn't know.

As it approached noon, Lu Yezhou was about to cook. He went into the kitchen and picked up a package of convenience meals. With a long sigh, he asked the living room, "What flavor do you want?"

"I want... why don't we go out to eat, I still have some money."

Lu Yezhou came out, his face was a little excited and a little nervous, "Of course it's good, but if Lao Qianruo is here, I won't see us..."

"He didn't say let us stand by all the time, just let him wait for a while."

"You said it." Lu Yezhou threw the quick meal back into the kitchen.

The two did not dare to go far, so they found a small shop nearby. The food here is also machine-cooked, but the ingredients are real, not yeast that adds flavor.

The two of them each asked for a set meal. While waiting for the meal, Lu Yezhou whispered: "The things in the city are really expensive. If the old man comes back, it's better to talk about the salary, otherwise, we will starve to death."

"talk less."

"Why? Don't let me speak."

"Speak less in 'home'."

Lu Yezhou was stunned for a moment, "That was arranged by Lao Qian... You mean we were also under surveillance?"

"The third uncle said, don't believe in coincidences, so we have to be careful all the time."

"What about here? Can you talk?"

The small shop was full of customers, all eating and chatting, ignoring others.

After the food came up, Lu Linbei said, "It can be said."

"I just want to know, what do you think?" Lu Yezhou asked immediately.

"Too little information to analyze."

Lu Yezhou patted the table angrily, "Isn't that the same thing."

Lu Linbei smiled, took a bite of the dish, and nodded, "It's not as good as home, it's better than a convenient meal, eat it quickly."

After eating, the two of them went back to their residence, stopped downstairs at the same time, and looked at the barber shop opposite. There was no one in the shop, and the seats and other facilities could be seen through the window. .

Lu Linbei said: "On May 11, exactly three months ago, the hairdresser Shao Yunyuan was killed. At that time, the news that he was the heir of the planet had not been announced, and it would not be spread on the Internet until the next day, together with the news of his death. ."

"Yes, that's the case, everyone knows it." Lu Yezhou nodded and pricked up his ears to listen.

"According to the gossip, it was about a month ago, around July 11, that Miss Yuan and Lao Qian met for the first time."

"July 5th, I heard them talk about that date."

"Yesterday, on August 13, we came to the old town of Zhaijing and lived opposite the barber shop."

"Yes." Lu Yezhou looked expectant, and was very surprised to find that the other party stopped talking, "That's all?"

"I said that there is too little information, but these three items are very important and worth keeping in mind. When more information is available, we may be able to see the clues."

Disappointed, Lu Yezhou shook his head with a wry smile, walked into the building door, stepped up a few steps, and jumped to the third floor.

Opening the door, Lu Yezhou was about to announce his victory loudly, when he saw Mei Qianzhong sitting on the sofa, he swallowed the words hurriedly, "I didn't know you were here, Lao Bei proposed to go out to dinner."

Mei Qianzhong didn't care, and when Lu Linbei appeared, he said, "The task for the two of you is here."

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