Chapter 4: Choices

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Li Fan smiled awkwardly and said, "Well, you probably don't know that you passed both the written test and the interview with full marks, do you?"

May I ask what the intelligence is

What a coincidence? Isn't it a bit too coincidental? I just entered the station and you arrived right after me

Li Fan coughed lightly twice and said: "It was I who had you eliminated; your identity is not suitable for joining our country's intelligence agency, as your overseas connections are too complex and sensitive. Therefore, although I consider you the best candidate I have ever seen, I cannot allow you to enter. This is an ironclad rule that cannot be broken. I apologize; although there are people paying attention to you, it does not mean that someone is watching you all the time, otherwise you would not have been admitted."

This is it

Li Fan sighed, then he said softly: "Well, today's events can be seen as an opportunity. I have been uncertain about whether I should tell you this matter, but upon learning about it today, I suddenly made up my mind. You are not young anymore, and it is time for you to know all of this, so here I am."

Li Fan said in a deep voice: "I owe your father a great favor, a favor of immense significance, so I have the obligation and responsibility to protect you, at least to ensure that you grow up to be an adult. I truly wish for you to live a simple, happy, and fulfilling life as an ordinary person. However, I am neither your father nor your guardian, so I do not have the right to plan the path of your future life. I originally intended to tell you this when you turned eighteen, but I felt you were still too young, so I postponed it to your twentieth birthday, and then again to your twenty-second birthday. Now, today, I finally feel it is time to share this with you and to pass on to you the most important legacy left by your father"

Yang Yi frowned and said: "Why? Can't I take a look before making a decision? Perhaps after seeing it, I might choose to do nothing at all."

Li Fan sat back down, and Yang Yi whispered, "No way? Do you think something is going on? Is it directed at me?"

Li Fan was taken aback and said: "Xiao Ran? Is she the woman who committed the crime with you? Whatever I arrange for her, it is very simple for me to meet you; there is no need for any means."

Li Fan sighed deeply and said softly, "Have you made up your mind?"

007 is a movie, but the life of a real spy is arduous, exhausting, dangerous, ordinary, monotonous, and quite dull. Sometimes, one even has to forgo many of the pleasures enjoyed by normal people. Your qualifications and abilities make you an excellent candidate for being a spy, but your personality is not suitable for it

Who is the Gray Man

Yang Yi was very confused, and he questioned: "With communication being so advanced now, you have mobile phones, you have emails, what information cannot be conveyed over the phone that necessitates a face-to-face meeting?"

After frowning and pondering for a moment, Li Fan suddenly stood up. He opened the door to the interrogation room and quietly said to the unseen person outside, "Go investigate the other individuals, and do so meticulously."

Li Fan suddenly became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Performing in front of you?"

Yang Yi expressed his indignation, saying: "Speaking of this makes me angry. I know my father is a spy, and I always thought he was sent by the state, so I genuinely wanted to serve my country. As graduation approached, the Ministry of State Security came to our school to recruit, and I applied. I passed the written exam and the interview, but I was puzzled. I had officially been accepted, and a week later, someone informed me that I had been rejected, and the reason given was that I was too handsome! What kind of reason is that? If you want to play me, at least find a suitable excuse!"

Yang Yi expressed in surprise: "Ah, that Xiao Ran was not arranged by you."

Yang Yi reached out to smooth his long hair, then he said in a deep voice: "Do you think I would seek revenge for my mother, whom I have longed for over the past eleven years?"

Yang Yi smiled wryly and said, "Alright, I just feel that Xiao Ran is acting. At the beginning, her performance seemed quite genuine, but later when she cried, I always felt it was very fake. So I was just thinking that it was a play you arranged."

Looking at that small notebook, Yang Yi's heart suddenly trembled, and then he said in a deep voice: "Is this address book for me?"

Li Fan shook his head and said in a deep voice: "I can tell you that what is recorded here are names and phone numbers. They are all your father's former friends or business partners. Each one of them is a spy. This little notebook is a spy network. By looking at the contents within, it means you can establish contact with a spy network. Given your father's status and connections during his lifetime, it is sufficient for you to use this directory to accomplish many significant matters"

After speaking, Li Fan said with a gloomy expression: "It is unfortunate that your father misjudged the situation"

Li Fan also shrugged his shoulders and said with a helpless expression: "As for saying that you are too handsome, this reason is also serious. You are indeed too handsome, too handsome to be a spy. If you were placed in an office to engage in clerical work until old age, you wouldn't be happy, would you?"

Li Fan reached out and pressed down on the notebook, speaking in a low voice: "You need to think carefully; this address book may seem simple, but once you have seen it, it signifies your farewell to a peaceful life"

Li Fan calmly said, "It is not certain yet; it depends on how you ultimately choose. Before you make a decision, it is best for us to have a conversation first"

Li Fan was silent for a moment, then he nodded and said: "This is not something I cannot say, but I truly do not know. Before we met, your father could not possibly tell me what the information was. However, this information is related to the Gray Cloaked Man, and it is precisely because of this information that he has brought about his own demise."

Li Fan took out a very small notebook from his clothing pocket and placed it on the table

Yang Yi pointed to the small notebook placed on the table and said, "Is that the one?"

Li Fan simply gazed calmly at Yang Yi

Li Fan slowly removed his hand from the small notebook, then said expressionlessly: "I will give you one month to leave Huaxia. Wherever you want to go, I will arrange the paperwork for you. Additionally, I will personally sponsor you 100,000 yuan. I do not have much savings, so I can only give you this much. Now, you can take this contact list with you."

What can Yang Yi say? He can only helplessly wave his hand.

Yang Yi said calmly: "From the moment I saw you, I knew the opportunity I had been waiting for had arrived. I have waited for this opportunity for eleven years, and I had thought there would be no chance. Therefore, there is no need to ask these questions anymore"

Yang Yi nodded slightly. He stared at the small notebook placed on the table in silence for a long time, and finally said in a low voice: "If this is a contact book, then how did you obtain it"

Yang Yi smiled faintly and said softly, "My memory is too good; having a photographic memory sounds beautiful, but for me, it is a kind of suffering. I cannot forget my mother, I cannot forget the bits and pieces of my childhood, I cannot forget that my mother loved me, and I cannot forget that I loved my mother. My father rarely comes home, so my feelings for him are not particularly strong, but he is still my father and treats me well. The feelings of longing are not particularly intense, but they are not absent either. As for my mother..."

Yang Yi let out a sigh, and then he said softly: "My father will die because he wants to give you a piece of information"

Yang Yi scratched his head and said with a distressed expression: "A mysterious multinational organization is the culprit behind my father's death, and this organization is beyond your capability to deal with. This truly feels quite horrifying."

Li Fan smiled and shook his head, saying: "You do not understand these matters. Telephones and computers cannot keep any secrets at all, nor are they infallible communication tools. If your father knew that he was being watched, he would immediately face a life-threatening crisis. He would take the risk of speaking to me over the phone, but apart from that, he would definitely choose to meet in person and convey information through word of mouth, the most primitive yet the most reliable method."

Li Fan said: "You will know once you check. The likelihood regarding you is quite low, but it is still something to be cautious about. Now, please continue with your matter. Do you wish to join the intelligence department?"

Please tell me in detail about this organization of the Gray Cloak.

Putting down his hand, Yang Yi looked at Li Fan with a puzzled expression and said, "Why are you suddenly telling me this? I mean, after all these years, why have you suddenly appeared today? And it just so happens to be when I was being taken away by the police. You should be quite busy, right? Have you been secretly watching me all along? Did you send someone to monitor me? This feels even more chilling. Is there some huge secret hidden within me?"

After speaking, Li Fan waved his hand to emphasize his tone and said very seriously: "It must be emphasized that the term 'Gray Men' is a colloquialism used in the international intelligence community to refer to them. This is because the members of this organization often wear gray suits, making it a conventional term rather than their actual name"

Yang Yi said with some distress: "It seems you don't want me to be a spy or an agent. So, what exactly is the purpose of you saying these things to me today?"

Yang Yi stroked his chin and said indignantly, "Being too handsome is also a fault. Well, my father can't tell me apart from the crowd, and you are the same. It seems that being a spy really can't involve being too handsome."

Yes, this is the only reason

Yang Yi sighed, wiped his eyes, and then slowly said: "As for revenge, I feel it holds no significance, but I have always doubted how my mother died, which is why I have been contemplating the idea of revenge. Although I have never spoken of it to anyone or expressed it in all these years."

Li Fan shook his head and said in a deep voice, "Having obtained this contact list means you pose a threat to any country, or at the very least, you are an unstable factor. I only have two choices: either have someone monitor you for the rest of your life, or let you leave this country. What do you think I will choose?"

Li Fan expressed with great emotion: "Your mother is truly beautiful, you resemble her. If you had taken after your father, you wouldn't be as handsome as you are now"

Li Fan pondered for a moment, then he said softly: "The Gray Cloaks are our old adversaries, not just the adversaries of Huaxia, but the adversaries of every nation. It can be said that the Gray Cloaks are the enemies of every sovereign state. This organization is very mysterious, extremely mysterious; otherwise, they would not have existed until now. Therefore, apart from knowing that there is a mysterious organization called the Gray Cloaks, we know nothing else."

Yang Yi waved his hand and said dismissively, "I don't know, but it's not surprising."

Li Fan calmly said: "Your father is worried about what might happen to him, so he wants to leave you a few options. On the day he arranged to meet me, which was also the day he had his accident, he uttered a few meaningless words to me. However, having interacted with him a few times before, I was able to understand the meaning of those words. After receiving you, I discovered a hidden message he left in the textbooks in your backpack, which led me to piece together this contact list"

Yang Yi smiled and said, "I may not necessarily contact them."

Li Fan shook his head and said softly, "There is no great secret hidden within you. I have indeed been paying attention to you, but what happened today was merely a coincidence"

The Gray Man is not an individual, but rather an organization, a highly mysterious multinational intelligence organization with a long history and formidable strength. I suspect that your father is a member of the Gray Man, or at the very least has some connections to it, but this is merely a conjecture

Yang Yi took a deep breath and smiled, saying, "Then give it to me."