"The Federal Intelligence Agency should have two branches. The public branch receives federal salaries and budgets, while the dark branch obtains its funding by selling contraband drugs through Lin Sen Te Pharmaceutical. But the two branches share certain resources,
"Such as contract manufacturing services for high-precision communication devices, and this Lin Sen Te Pharmaceutical Factory."
He Ao's expression gradually calmed. "A little pharmaceutical factory no one had ever heard of, producing nothing particularly advanced, yet no conglomerate ever reached out and swallowed it whole. Instead, they even gave it plenty of business. Do you think that's reasonable? Unless there's a behemoth from the federal government behind it."
Upon hearing He Ao's words, Diman's expression gradually darkened.
He Ao looked at him and continued, "I know you must have severed Lin Sen Te Pharmaceutical's ties to the intelligence agency very thoroughly, but there are no secrets that stay hidden forever. Since those conglomerates were willing to share benefits with you, they must have known something, right?
"Not to mention, you specifically sent people to keep Lin Sen Te Pharmaceutical under surveillance.
"Of course, what you did may not have been completely airtight either."
He Ao looked calmly at Diman. "Do you remember the subordinate you sent to protect the President? He actually found some key information, yet he was unwilling to report it to the intelligence agency. That showed he had realized there was a problem with the intelligence agency itself.
"Of course, Colin discovered that he really was investigating the assassination, so he executed him."
This had actually been where He Ao's suspicions of the intelligence agency began.
His entire process had actually been the reverse: he started from the unusual behavior of the De Nuo City intelligence director, investigated from there, combined it with the abnormalities surrounding Lin Sen