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Chapter 501 - 495. Yang En’s Doubts (Third Update)_1

Chapter 501: 495. Yang En’s Doubts (Third Update)_1

Yang En sat in the HSD office, silently watching as events unfolded. He had a feeling that many of the recent occurrences were a bit off, subtly exuding an eerie sense of wrongness...

Just a few days ago, out of nowhere, a drone flew in from a corner and landed on the lawn, equipped with a hard drive. Initially, everyone thought it might be a bomb and panicked. But upon reflection, who would dare to attack inside an embassy? That would be tantamount to seeking death, and let’s not mention China’s disapproval; even the U.S. wouldn’t stand for it.

While the U.S. could covertly arrest Yang En for espionage outside its borders, it could not tolerate an unprovoked attack on him within the realm of normal diplomatic activities.

When Yang En got his hands on this hard drive and looked through it, he was astounded—50 TB of data was something he had always coveted but never could obtain, no matter how much effort he put in abroad. This much and such useful material was out of his reach.

If this data fell into China’s hands, it would mean that the U.S. would have to expend hundreds of millions, or even tens or hundreds of billions or an incalculable amount of U.S. dollars to redraft its strategic deployments...

Where did this thing come from, and who intended to leave it here? Its arrival was so suspicious!

It came too easily, even giving Yang En a surreal feeling... Could it be someone digging a hole, intentionally causing a distraction!

But if it were just a trap, it would be too realistically constructed, and the means of setting it up seemed too amateurish.

He deemed it realistic because fabricating 50 TB of data with images would require how much money, manpower, and material resources? Was it really necessary?

He considered the method of setting up the trap crude because a small drone carrying a hard drive just flew in—could you be any more blatant?

Therefore, within his subconscious, Yang En judged that this information might very well be authentic, and it was necessary to send it back to China immediately for the General Staff Department to verify the truthfulness of these intelligence reports!

However, before the material could be covertly sent back to China, a top hacker had already released information about the Prism program, and it happened so suddenly...

And for all this, China was happy to see it happen. After all, it wasn’t their doing; they could just watch and be amused.

For years, the U.S. had accused China of employing numerous hackers, of attacking the U.S. using hackers, and of disrespecting humanitarianism, among other things.

Now, facts had proven that the U.S. itself was the biggest hacker hub. No longer could they blame others...

At this time, maintaining silence was the best response. Stirring the pot would not be favorable for future relations between the two countries, especially since trade continued and life went on.

When Yang En saw the heads of state from countries like Germany and Mexico issuing protests, he couldn’t help but feel amused—America was in for it!

Instantly, the stock prices of America’s nine major internet service providers plummeted, affecting many aspects of the stock market economy. Economic crises already loomed, and the exposure of the Prism program acted like a detonator...

The total economic size of the nine networking companies wasn’t significant for the overall stock market, but people were profoundly disappointed with the U.S. government overall...

As protest processions passed by the Chinese Embassy, Yang En was so happy he nearly wanted to offer them tea and pastries!

Now was the perfect time for China to fish in troubled waters and undertake tasks that were previously heavily guarded against. It was like a perfectly smooth mirror had finally cracked, and they couldn’t afford to miss the opening.

However, Yang En had a lingering question: Who was behind all this? Just a few days before, he had received a hard drive filled with a considerable amount of secrets, including most of the National Security Agency’s, except for the Prism Program.

And now the Prism Program had been leaked...

To say there was no connection, even Yang En wouldn’t believe it!

But why would someone give such valuable data to China for no cost? Was it a Chinese operative?

For some reason, Yang En subconsciously thought of his son-in-law. He couldn’t comprehend where this idea stemmed from; he just felt that only someone as unusual as his son-in-law could pull off such a miraculous feat...

However, he quickly dismissed the thought. Ren He was currently in China—he couldn’t possibly be controlling drones across the ocean, could he? That was simply impossible.

Yang En never considered that Ren He might have a collaborator in the U.S. And Yang En felt that if Ren He wanted to convey any information, he would have done so directly.

He was also unaware that Ren He was now determined to keep his work entirely separate from his father-in-law’s.

So, lost in thought, Yang En decided to dispatch the hard drive first and then see. As for the current situation in the U.S., it was enough to sit back and enjoy the drama.

Just the exposure of the Prism program alone was enough to leave the U.S. gasping for air for half a year.

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The headquarters of the United States Central Intelligence Agency were located in the Langley suburbs, at the junction of the HSD district and Virginia, clearly marked on the HSD map.

So the geographical location of the Central Intelligence Agency was not exactly a secret.

What exactly is the Central Intelligence Agency? The status and function of the United States Central Intelligence Agency are equivalent to that of the UK’s MI6, the former Soviet Union’s KGB, and Israel’s Mossad. Within the US intelligence system, it is the only independent department of intelligence.

The CIA is divided into four main parts: the Intelligence Directorate, the Support Directorate, the Operations Directorate, and the Science and Technology Directorate. The agency’s staff usually have high levels of education or are experts in certain fields. The organization, personnel, budget, and activities of the agency are strictly confidential, beyond even Congressional scrutiny.

This is not the science-fictionalized CIA from the action movies, but rather the one that exists in reality. It has its own budget, a vast human workforce, its own think tanks, its own technological departments, and its own independent operatives.

In fact, though the CIA has no domestic law enforcement authority, abroad, it remains the intelligence agency most worthy of fear.

The super agents and beautiful spies seen in movies do exist, and of course, the women are often tasked not with fighting, but with turning high officials and scientists...

The defection of Arkady Shevchenko, a high-ranking Soviet diplomat and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, in 1978 is one such instance.

The basic process includes, firstly, making contact through intermediaries; secondly, after building up a friendship, lobbying and persuading; and if necessary, infiltrating enemy nations directly. In November 2001, for instance, a special team made up of CIA experts and special forces, carrying millions of dollars in cash, secretly entered Tehran, the capital of Iran, to negotiate with some tribal leaders—several of whom were persuaded to cooperate with U.S. operatives.

Finally, defection is arranged.

These are real events that have occurred. The Central Intelligence Agency has always been active around the globe, doing more than just counterterrorism.

Today, an action team was quietly established with the sole purpose of tracing the originator of this incident!

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