After hearing Sophia's words, Li Ye held her gaze for a long while before walking toward Liang Furu, intending to report everything Sophia had revealed truthfully.
During the time he and Sophia stared at each other, he had actually been thinking about why Sophia had chosen to tell him that the White Elephant people had come for military-industrial products.
If, as Sophia had previously said, her mission was to stop Britain's Korshi Company from acquiring Kamaz shares, then she ought to have goaded the representatives from China and the White Elephant people into a "highest bidder wins" bloodbath over Kamaz's technology.
Yet Sophia was now telling Li Ye that the White Elephant people had not come for civilian products. Wasn't that like pulling the firewood from beneath her own cauldron?
Moreover, Li Ye had already made it clear that he had come "for civilian products," yet Sophia still told him to seek instructions from his superiors. Was she afraid his side would not realize that the White Elephant people were merely putting up a false front?
The White Elephant people were not dead set on buying Kamaz's technology, so why should they be in such a hurry?
Thus, Li Ye thought of two other possibilities.
First, Sophia was probing whether Li Ye and the others had also come for Soviet Russia's vast military-industrial legacy. Li Ye had suspected from the very beginning that Sophia had a hidden identity as an "intelligence operative," so it was entirely possible that she was highly wary of him and the others.
Second, Sophia wanted to establish contact with Deputy Director Liang and make some military-industrial deals, and she was in a great hurry.
After all, before Soviet Russia had announced its dissolution last year, official personnel from China had already come to inspect the