Huo Rou closed her eyes, not answering his question immediately.
"What's wrong?" Minister Zeng walked up to her, reaching out to touch her forehead, which felt hot.
"A cold?" He knew Huo Rou usually didn't take care of herself, so he made a guess.
Seeing that she still didn't speak, Minister Zeng's expression changed. "Xiao Ma, get to the hospital."
They weren't without people who could handle these tasks, but it might be slower without Huo Rou. However, her health was also very important.
Hearing Minister Zeng's words, Huo Rou slowly opened her eyes with difficulty. "It's nothing, Minister, I was just sleepy. Let's go, we're still chatting, aren't we in a hurry?" Kǎnshū lēi
She turned and walked away, her posture still straight. Minister Zeng couldn't help but doubt the truth of her words.
"Grandpa, please don't talk to Mom anymore. Mom is so sleepy, let's go, let's go. We can go home and sleep after we finish." An'an urged them.
"Don't worry, my cold isn't just like this!" Huo Rou had already opened the car door and got in. "Minister, being indecisive is not your style."
"You little girl! Talking like this even after having a child." Minister Zeng didn't argue with her further, getting into the car with the others and heading back.
In the car, Huo Rou closed her eyes again, appearing extremely tired.
An'an's phone vibrated. He had called Shen Wuyou when the plane landed, but the other party didn't answer, so he sent a voice message instead.
"Uncle Shen," An'an whispered softly, "Please help Mom quickly. Uncle Zhao said she's been poisoned and has been wanting to sleep."
Shen Wuyou on the other end of the line repeated the words with disbelief, "Has been wanting to sleep?"
"Yes, the plane just landed, and we tried to wake Mom up. It took us a long time to get her to respond. Mom has never slept so deeply before, even when she oversleeps."
Shen Wuyou grabbed his coat and walked out. His voice was no longer as calm and gentle as before, filled with urgency. "Where was she poisoned, and where are you flying to?"
He tried to ask for critical information that An'an could answer.
An'an told Shen Wuyou about the danger they had encountered and their arrival in Taichuan City. "Mom still has to go to work. Uncle Shen, what should we do?"
"An'an, don't worry. As long as Uncle is here, your mother will be fine. Try to persuade your mother to sleep more; she'll feel much better if she can sleep. I'll come to find you."
After arranging everything, Shen Wuyou hung up the phone and rushed out like a gust of wind.
His mind was in disarray, and in his thoughts, he didn't notice the person in front of him.
"Ah!"
A scream pulled him back. He returned to his senses, still the calm and gentle Shen Wuyou. He apologized politely, "I'm sorry, are you alright?"
The woman, supported by him, stood up. She was also a little embarrassed. "It's okay, it was my fault for walking too fast and not watching where I was going..."
She stopped mid-sentence. The familiar voice made her forget everything else.
"Dr. Shen?!"
Seeing the confusion in his eyes, she felt a pang of sadness. Then, she regained her composure and introduced herself. "I'm Huo Jie's colleague, Shen Sitong. We met at the concert last time. I've always wanted to find a chance to meet you, and I didn't expect you to work at this hospital!"
Shen Wuyou was only there to assist with a surgery that day and didn't actually work there, but there was no need to elaborate on that.
"I'm sorry, I have something to attend to, I'll be going now."
Based on An'an's description, Huo Rou was in a bad state. If the poison was potent and the defense mechanism was still active, she might fall into an eternal sleep until an antidote was found. If the defense mechanism couldn't resist, she would fall into extreme pain.
Shen Wuyou returned home, gathered all the medications he had developed over the years, and headed to the airport.
Huo Rou wasn't sleeping as deeply this time. She opened her eyes as soon as the car stopped.
Before entering the control room, she heard someone exclaim with good news, "Minister, we really got it!"
Huo Rou was standing next to Minister Zeng. She looked at the few pages of paper in the person's hand and reached out to take them.
"The ace is back!" the person greeted her excitedly, shoving the item into Huo Rou's hand.
Facing his teasing, Huo Rou smiled helplessly and took the items into the control room. "Look after my son."
An'an reluctantly watched Huo Rou walk in from the doorway.
Huo Rou had told him at the main entrance that this job was highly classified and he couldn't accompany her. She had asked him to play with some uncles outside for a while.
He didn't want to play...
Their all-male environment hadn't been lively for a long time. The arrival of a exquisitely carved child made everyone outside dote on him immensely.
The information in Huo Rou's hands had been sorted by the department's personnel, and even before they arrived, technicians had already tried it and marked its difficulty level. wa.kanshuwu.net
She rubbed her eyes and started working with renewed spirit.
Several shifts of people had come and gone in the control room. There were very few older people. The lazy-looking woman entered, and everyone silently started operating their computers.
"Is this the 'ace' the Minister was talking about?"
"She looks so young. The ace from a few years ago, was she underage when she retired?"
Some younger individuals whispered amongst themselves.
An older technician in the control room looked up and made a "shushing" gesture at them.
Everyone immediately fell silent. No one would break the discipline here.
Only the sound of Huo Rou's keyboard echoed in the control room. Although her face was tired, her eyes were unwavering.
The list of departments included in the Keys Project had already been notified for rectification by Minister Zeng through the internal network. Her main task was to collect evidence.
After the incident in Storsno erupted, Country M would undoubtedly try to clear any incriminating evidence first. Once they erased all traces, what Storsno said would become slander, and the countries that were violated in this project would not be able to impose sanctions on Country M and protect their rights.
Minister Zeng considered this point, which was why he had urgently summoned Huo Rou. They couldn't let Country M off the hook; they had to pay for what they had done.
It was easy to deal with an invading enemy, but it was difficult to find all the paths they had taken and leave evidence.
With the cooperation of the entire control room staff, Huo Rou finally filled a hard drive with data by evening.
"Minister, please don't let them get away with it this time," was the first thing Huo Rou said to Minister Zeng as she walked out of the control room.
"Their stronghold indeed doesn't even dare to connect to the network, but I found their transfer station and planted a Trojan. If they don't notice during data transfer via their USB drive, then..."
Before she could finish speaking, Minister Zeng pulled the doctor beside him over. "If I had known you were poisoned, I wouldn't have let you go in."
Minister Zeng's eyes were full of guilt. If Zhao Wen and An'an hadn't shown such obvious worry and he hadn't asked, he wouldn't have known how long Huo Rou would have kept it a secret.
"I know what I'm doing. Ordinary doctors can't handle it..." Huo Rou yawned and was about to say something more when she felt a dull ache in her internal organs.
Before she could react, the pain suddenly intensified. Sweat beaded on her forehead in an instant, and her face turned extremely pale.
"Doctor! Quickly!" she gritted her teeth, only hearing the panicked shouts around her.