Chapter 47
Eliminating Malignancy
Scoring two goals in three consecutive matches, raising his personal goal tally for the new season to 6, leading the Premier League top scorer chart.
Such an exaggerated and miraculous performance naturally once again made Chu Xiao Ran a hot topic nationwide in Long Guo.
Television stations, the internet, personal social media, independent media, newspapers, and magazines...
More and more ordinary Long Guo citizens joined Chu Xiao Ran's fan army.
Even many people who rarely watched football before were influenced and drawn in by their surroundings, beginning their careers as football fans.
The domestic football atmosphere in Long Guo, compared to before, had begun to undergo earth-shattering changes.
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After the match ended, the students of Class 11-9, still not fully satisfied, returned to school under Teacher Xu's guidance and arrangements, while day students went home.
Today was Saturday; they still had school tomorrow morning.
In Grade 12, students only got half a day off each week.
Even during that half-day off, the vast majority of students spent their time doing practice tests and extra studies.
The next day, Sunday.
The students of Class 11-9 arrived at class early, all in high spirits, showing no signs of sluggishness from staying up late to watch football last night.
For Grade 12 students, not sleeping until eleven or twelve at night was perfectly normal.
After arriving at school, Liu Qing Yun immediately went to find Teacher Xu.
Xu Jie saw Liu Qing Yun proactively seek him out and asked with a smile:
"Have you finished the small after-school assignment I gave you?"
Liu Qing Yun nodded and smiled, saying:
"Yes, I have."
"Teacher Xu, all the materials are in this USB drive; please take a look first."
"These people are indeed as you predicted; for many years, they have only been foreigners masquerading as Long Guo citizens."
"This incident of insulting military personnel was merely a probing attempt organized by them, primarily aimed at dividing and undermining the relationship between the Long Guo people and the military."
"Unfortunately, they completely fail to understand the image and status of Long Guo military personnel in the hearts of the people."
"They still think our Long Guo military personnel are like the U.S. military personnel they worship, only knowing how to be aggressive and bully the weak."
On the very first day of school, Teacher Xu had given Liu Qing Yun a small after-school task.
That was to investigate the forces behind the stand-up comedy company that had publicly insulted military personnel, as well as the dirty deeds they had committed.
After three days of infiltration, investigation, and compilation, Liu Qing Yun finally held all these materials in his hands after watching last night's match and returning.
This morning, upon arriving at school, he immediately handed them over to Xu Jie.
Xu Jie patted Liu Qing Yun's shoulder with satisfaction.
"Very good."
"The rest, leave it to me."
Seeing Liu Qing Yun still hadn't left, he smiled and asked: "What's wrong? Is there something else?"
Liu Qing Yun hesitated for a moment, then asked with uncertainty:
"Teacher Xu."
"I can uncover the secrets behind these people; I believe the higher-ups can certainly do so too."
"Then why haven't they taken action against these people?"
"These organizations infiltrated by hostile foreign forces haven't existed for just a day or two, a year or two."
This was what Liu Qing Yun had been pondering for the past two days.
Taking the opportunity to hand over the materials to Teacher Xu today, he hesitated and asked.
Xu Jie was slightly startled at first, then smiled and told Liu Qing Yun to sit down.
"The specific real reasons, I'm not clear either."
"But in my opinion, at least three very significant factors determine why these individuals and organizations can long remain at large within our country."
"Firstly, our Long Guo has a vast territory and a large population."
"These people usually wear the guise of ordinary citizens, mingling in the crowd; the higher-ups have no reason to investigate them, right?"
Liu Qing Yun listened to Teacher Xu's words, pondering them himself.
To manage a vast country with over a billion people, the difficulties are immense.
Yet many people often overlook this point.
In fact, one only needs to look at the situation in neighboring India and then compare it with the situation in Long Guo to easily draw this conclusion.
Such a large country, such a large population, no matter how sophisticated the system, there will be times of oversight.
It's not surprising that there are unexposed traitors and spies hidden within the country.
"Secondly, we face many enemies; there must always be a prioritization, right?"
"Like the Qian Long organization where Lin Yong works, how many attacks, infiltrations, and probes from hostile foreign forces do they have to deal with every day?"
"Compared to those foreign forces eyeing our Long Guo, the importance of these minority traitors and spies clearly has to come second, right?"
Hearing the second reason Teacher Xu gave, Liu Qing Yun nodded in agreement.
Liu Qing Yun had visited the Qian Long organization's base during the summer vacation.
In areas that ordinary people could hardly touch, countless probes, infiltrations, and attacks targeted Long Guo from all over the world every day; the numbers were no longer in the "hundreds of millions."
Those who truly had capability and were silently contributing to Long Guo would never abandon the roots for the branches, paying attention to a bunch of small fries at that stand-up comedy company.
Only reclusive masters like Liu Qing Yun, with excellent techniques and an unwavering fervent patriotism, would have the time and energy to bother with that trash.
Liu Qing Yun suddenly remembered that what he was doing now wasn't it similar to what Long Guo red-hat hackers like Lin Yong had done before?
National-level masters, every day they had to directly confront hostile foreign forces.
Only civilian masters who hadn't officially joined the ranks had time to deal with these trivial matters.
It turned out that he, too, had unconsciously taken up the red banner of the previous generation of Long Guo red-hat hackers, contributing his strength to the peace of the country.
Thinking of this, Liu Qing Yun felt very happy.
At this moment, he heard Teacher Xu say again:
"Thirdly, hostile foreign forces continuously infiltrate our country, covertly controlling those traitors and spies."
"Would our Long Guo not have people embedded within the enemy's ranks?"
"Perhaps, the reason the higher-ups aren't rushing to deal with that trash is precisely because they are secretly accumulating strength."
"The best strategy is to attack the heart, the middle strategy is to attack plans, the lowest strategy is to attack with soldiers."
"Engaging in a battle of wits with our Long Guo's thousands of years of civilization, how could those hostile foreign forces contend with Long Guo's wise individuals?"
"Of course, these are just my personal speculations."
"What the truth is, we don't need to pursue it to the end."
"This time, as long as we can round up the relevant personnel of that stand-up comedy company, we can consider it having eliminated a harm for the people."
After Liu Qing Yun returned to class, Xu Jie examined the materials he had investigated in the office.
As he read, Xu Jie was also secretly surprised.
"Excellent, just as I guessed."
"Behind this stand-up comedy company, there is the backing of both Japanese and U.S. investment."
"Their main purpose is to conspire to distort history and influence the worldview and values of Long Guo's younger generation."
"Covertly, they are also conducting intelligence activities, leaking quite a few Long Guo secrets abroad."
"These people, they truly deserve to die!"
Filled with indignation, Xu Jie organized a portion of the materials, packaged them, and then, through anonymous hacker methods, sent these materials to the national security bureaus of Di Du and Mo Du cities.
The headquarters of that stand-up comedy company were located in these two places.
Having done all that, Xu Jie dusted off his hands.
Now, he would wait to see how the national security bureau handled it.