Qin Tairan quickly recovered from his shock. People like him have been tempered. If it weren't for the fact that this news was too amazing, casual things would not cause his inner fluctuations at all. He took a few deep breaths and quickly recovered his mood. He stopped talking, but began to move his mind with all his strength, analyzing and screening various possibilities from the information he knew.

Like Kong Xiangcheng, Qin Tairan's first suspicion started with the military's movements, screening out what kind of actions the military has done in recent times that has triggered such a violent reaction from the CIA of the United States.

Military exercises, WS-20a aircraft engines, new nuclear power devices, newly emerging nuclear submarines and missiles, newly launched nuclear power destroyers, until the Global Hawk incident, each of them seemed to be the opponent's target at first, but after careful consideration, Qin Tairan and Kong Xiangcheng ruled out the possibilities in these aspects one by one. There is no doubt that the above information is definitely very important for the US military, but according to Qin Tairan's analysis, this importance has not risen to the level where the CIA needs to launch a first-level mission.

You should know that, given Qin Tairan's understanding of the CIA in the United States, the CIA will not have several such almost the highest-level first-level tasks worldwide every year.

It is not that there are only a few major events worthy of the CIA's concern every year around the world, but that this kind of task requires a lot of resource investment. Even as the world's richest intelligence agency, the CIA cannot afford the resource consumption of several tasks of this level, so they will extremely strictly choose the target to start every year.

This kind of goal is either a terrifying giant targeting Laden after 9/11, or a huge killer that has a huge impact on the North Korean nuclear power and the Persian nuclear power.

Although the military has achieved various achievements recently, it is obviously not enough compared to a major event like the North Korean nuclear program.

"Old Kong, you should have confirmed that they were not targeting our military targets, right?" Thinking of this, Qin Tairan looked up at Kong Xiangcheng and asked.

"Heroes have similar views. Because of this, I have no clue. According to past information, the CIA's first-level mission is either aimed at major military goals or focused on important people. However, in terms of military goals, the new things here seem to be not enough or the time is wrong. As for important people, I can't think of a target person worthy of their attacks." Kong Xiangcheng sighed.

"Important person?" Qin Tairan's mind flashed, as if he had grabbed something from the fog. "I think, what kind of target person will they target? Could it be..."

A name suddenly flashed in Qin Tairan's mind, Duke! They must have known something and started to attack Duke!

After Qin Tairan linked Duke to this matter, his face changed drastically. He almost did not hesitate to confirm the goal of this level 1 mission, and most of them were targeted at Duke.

If the CIA smells something and links some of the above-mentioned military movements with Duke, then there is no doubt that Duke is the number one target the other party wants to deal with. Although Qin Tairan doesn't know how these highly confidential things can be leaked, the CIA reminds the CIA of Duke's huge role in the middle from some clues.

But from another perspective, if Qin Tairan himself was the director of the CIA, he would have no hesitation to list Duke as the current priority target to deal with and figure out the secrets of this person. After all, this person's military role is too important, far exceeding the development of some strategic weapons and equipment. Of course, Qin Tairan did not expect that the CIA's people were more imaginative and even established a certain connection between Duke and aliens, which greatly increased Duke's importance to the CIA's most urgent tasks at present.

But no matter what, once Qin Tairan contacts Duke with this first-level mission, he basically eliminates other possibilities. He is the military coordinator with the closest connection with Duke. He can be said to be the one who knows Duke's military value best in the world today. Qin Tairan even believes that if he can develop for more than ten years, the domestic military will have the opportunity to fully surpass the current level of the US military in terms of military equipment.

This is not Qin Tairan's fantasy, but a reality of the rapid development of military equipment. Although Duke is not omnipotent, it is like a fulcrum that can make a big move. It can use advanced software technology to maximize the combat effectiveness of existing military equipment.

In the internal military evaluation, Duke's theater joint tactical combat system alone is no less than the launch of a new strategic weapon, because it can greatly make up for the weaknesses in the performance of existing equipment and offset the opponent's technical advantages by better leveraging the advantages of cluster combat.

The significant improvements in the fire control system and detection system have also made our army's main combat equipment leaps to a new level, from main battle tanks on the ground to aircraft in the sky, ships on the sea, and crucial strategic second artillery teams, all of which are now in large-scale software updates, and the software developed by Duke is greatly improved.

At the same time, major breakthroughs in processing CNC machine tools and the mass production of a variety of special steels have also given a great improvement in equipment hardware. However, the R&D cycle in this aspect is relatively long. In addition to taking the lead in achieving results in aviation engines, tanks and armor, there is no result in the improvements in new aircraft, new ships, and new missiles. After all, these require a lot of time to test, and the development cycle is much longer than software.

And all of these things are related to Duke, a genius.

Qin Tairan sighed when he thought of this. The things he had worried about finally happened now. No matter how much the other party knew about these inside stories, he believed that as long as the other party understood even a small part of them, he would not underestimate the role and significance of Duke.

But Duke has done a lot in recent years and has involved too much. For a moment, Qin Tairan couldn't think of any problems. It is not easy to find out the leaked places. Therefore, he stared at Kong Xiangcheng and said with a complicated expression, "Old Kong, I basically know what target they are targeting. I'm afraid you are busy now."

After saying this sigh, before Kong Xiangcheng could ask, he continued: "They must have come to Dr. Duke. To say something inappropriate, in China, no character is more valuable than Dr. Duke. You and me, and even No. 1 sitting in Zhongnanhai, can find alternative characters, but Dr. Duke will never find alternatives. He is really important to our country."

"Not only are you busy with this matter, but I also have to report to the Military Commission when I go back and ask for comprehensive improvements in security for Dr. Duke, because we can't afford the possible losses."

When Qin Tairan proposed that his opponent's goal was to target Duke, Kong Xiangcheng suddenly realized that Qin Tairan didn't need to explain anything else, just knowing that this was the case. So he immediately stood up and said to Qin Tairan apologetically: "Old Qin, I'm really sorry. You helped me so much. I had to leave before I even finished drinking the cup of tea. After this, we brothers will take time to get together!"

Since he figured out his opponent's goal, he couldn't sit still. This matter was a big deal. New changes may occur every minute and second. He could no longer delay. In order to figure out his opponent's goal, they had wasted a lot of time. Now they had to go back to deploy and start taking action immediately. You must know that the opponent will not sit and wait for them.

"You go and go. Now, the main thing to solve this problem is to rely on your efforts. I must go back and report to the above immediately. Fortunately, you reminded me today, otherwise we would still be in the dark. If something really happened to Duke, you and I are all sinners of the nation!" Qin Tairan didn't care about drinking water. After saying that, he held his hands tightly with Kong Xiangcheng, and then rushed to his posts.

(Thanks to book friend "Oranges from the Western Regions" for giving good suggestions.)
Chapter completed!