The boss of a foreign organization called the police, claiming that he was defrauded by me

He had discussed this with Baip before setting off, and considered what to do if there was no solution...

At that time, Baip's position was already quite clear. He would never easily choose to send reinforcements unless it was absolutely necessary.

The reason why the task was given to the Rangers was mainly because this elite team possessed extremely strong self-protection capabilities. As the best among the elites, there was naturally no need to worry too much about their safety.

Captain Jack's sincere words made those who had raised doubts before deny their previous speculations.

……

At this moment, the members of the Ranger Squad were trapped in a quagmire of anxiety, decadence and powerlessness, and the situation at the US headquarters was equally grim and in chaos.

……

Time goes back to the moment when the communication was suddenly interrupted. Minister Tim held the communicator in his hand, looking at a loss. He was ready to agree to the other party's request, but unexpectedly, the communicator suddenly stopped working and could no longer make any sound.

"This communicator must be broken, bring me another one quickly!" Minister Tim shouted anxiously.

At this critical moment, the interruption of communication is undoubtedly worse than before. Minister Tim muttered to himself, wondering what Kyushu would think. Would Xu Cheng mistakenly think that the United States did not want to cooperate?

He hurriedly told the assistant next to him that the communicator shouldn't have this kind of problem. It couldn't be that it was out of power, right? But the communicator in front of him was completely black, and no matter how he pressed it, there was no response. All the buttons were out of function.

Baip took the communicator from his hand and pressed a few buttons randomly, but he was not an expert in this area after all. After studying it for a while, he gave up completely and came to the same conclusion as Minister Tim: the communicator must be broken.

"Snapped--!!!"

Baipu threw the communicator to the ground in anger. With a bang, the small communicator instantly broke into pieces, with parts scattered all over the ground. It was obvious how much strength he had used. If he had used a little less force, it would not have caused such damage.

The assistant hurriedly brought four or five spare devices and tried to connect them one by one, but no matter what he did, there was no response.

"What on earth is going on? Are all these spare communicators broken? What on earth is going on with your logistics department? How could such a serious mistake occur? What should we do now?" Minister Tim's hands hung limply, extremely angry. He couldn't control his temper at all at this moment, and couldn't help yelling at his assistant.

Minister Tim was at a loss as he could not get in touch with the Kyushu army at this critical moment. He did not have their contact information, and he could not contact them in other ways. He could only stare at the communicators.

Bai Pu knew nothing about these communicators. He tried them one by one, but none of them responded. He was very annoyed and shouted, "Call all the experts in the technical department! What on earth are they doing? They are given so much research funding every year, and all they produce are these junk? It's ridiculous!"

"There's no time! Let them all come here! Anyone who understands the principles of this communicator, come here! Carry out on-site repairs immediately! If anything goes wrong, none of them can escape responsibility!" Baip roared angrily.

He couldn't keep his mind at all at this moment, and had long been dissatisfied with the huge amount of research funding. The technical department was like a bottomless pit, and no matter how much money was invested, there was no splash.

If they could come up with a decent product, Bep might not be so angry. But the result now is that the communicator that they spent so much money on researching is so unusable.

Could it be that he has raised a bunch of useless people who only know how to eat and take money?
No wonder Baipu and Minister Tim were so angry. The negotiations were almost done, and Kyushu might give in. They would accept even a slight reduction in their demands.

However, everything has now come to nothing. The situation of the Ranger Team is still unclear. Is the Kyushu Army still there? If it were them, they would have left in anger in the face of this situation. How could they waste time there?

Time passed by minute by minute, and the atmosphere in the office became terribly depressing.

All the experts from the technical department gathered in this room, holding various tools and attempting repairs.

It's not that there were no spare communicators. They took all the usable ones in the warehouse, but unfortunately, none of them could be used.

All the buttons seemed to be out of order, no matter how I operated them, there was no response. Not to mention connecting, even the screen could not be successfully called out.

"This is too weird! What happened to the communicators? Why are none of them responding? When we take them apart, there's nothing wrong with the inside."

"The battery is fine, the parts are fine, and the internal connections are fine. They are all new. How could they not work?"

"If they weren't from a research institute, I would have suspected that these were just models. All the replacement parts are useless. What should I do now?"

The technical team was also confused. They studied it for a long time but still couldn't figure out what was going on. No matter how they debugged the communicator, there was no response.

"That's strange. What exactly caused the communicator to malfunction? Let's try assembling one on site, using all new technology and parts. If this problem occurs again, it may not be a malfunction of the communicator, but some other reason." The director of the technical department ordered decisively.

He was also under tremendous pressure at the moment. Sweat kept flowing down his forehead and neck. He couldn't wipe it off in time. His back was also wet and he looked miserable.

As the minister, he must be held responsible for this matter. The communicator developed by his technicians had problems at a critical moment. Now is the time to remedy the problem, but he is helpless, which shows his anxiety. Baipu pulled all the people in the technical department to deal with this problem. This should have been an opportunity to remedy the problem, but no one has found a solution yet. For some reason, the communicator just didn't respond.

Baip and Minister Tim were constantly exerting pressure on the side, asking if it was done every once in a while, sometimes even every few minutes. This made the technicians very anxious, and their familiar movements became a little clumsy, and they had to start all over again if their hands shook.

They have given up on repairs and are reassembling the equipment directly using parts. The previous equipment may have been old or had been stored in the warehouse for a long time and could not be used, but in theory, there should be no problems with reassembly now.

There are enough parts in the warehouse, so everyone simply assembles them on site. The more they do, the greater the chance of connecting the equipment.

However, this should have been a job with no technical difficulty, at least it was something they could do easily. But under the huge pressure and complicated emotions, everyone made some mistakes.

The communicator that was originally planned to be made, in the end, only five were finished. But it was barely enough, as long as there were no problems, one would be enough to deal with the current situation.

"Try to connect! Communicators No. 1 to 5, start the links in turn!" the minister nervously gave the order.

All the technicians including Minister Tim and Baip were holding their breath. This was the last chance and they had already started to reassemble the communicator. If they failed again, there would be nothing else they could do.

They couldn't just create more communicators out of thin air, and with the existing parts and equipment, all they could make were similar things, so it was impossible to develop new communicators immediately.

The research and development process is definitely not that simple. The time and funds required are uncertain, and even the minister cannot guarantee when it can be successfully developed.

"boom--!!!"

Communicator No. 1 suddenly exploded, and the three communicators behind it did not respond. When it was the last person's turn, the screen lit up slightly, but before anyone else could breathe a sigh of relief, it went dark again.

This means that the five communicators are useless and the headquarters is now completely unable to contact the Kyushu army.

……

All the staff, including the technical director, lowered their heads, not daring to look at the expressions of Baip and Tim. They really didn't know what was going on. This was the first time they had encountered such a situation. Logically, there should be no problem with the communicator and it should work normally.

"Oh, is this what you call achievement? How ridiculous! A bunch of trash! The government spent so much money to train you, and in the end you produced these things?" President Baip was so angry that he was shaking all over. He slammed the table hard, making a loud bang.

While he was angry, he did not forget to push the responsibility to the people in the technical department: "What should we do now? If anything goes wrong with the Ranger Squad, it will be all your responsibility!"

That's right, if the Ranger Team encounters any misfortune, the guys in the technical department will definitely be to blame. Their procrastination has hindered the negotiation process and prevented the team members from receiving timely assistance. President Baip thought to himself that if they took so much money but couldn't do the work, or didn't do the work well, they would have to be responsible for the consequences.

Nine parts of his anger at this moment were real anger, and the other part was perhaps just relief, relief that he had finally found someone to take responsibility.

As long as this matter was handled a little, if the Ranger Team had any problems in the future, they could push the blame onto the technical department. After all, Baipu had long disliked them, and now there was a ready-made excuse.

Minister Tim did not say anything good for the Ministry of Technology. He and President Baip often played the good cop and the bad cop respectively.

But at this moment, he was in no mood at all. If possible, he even wanted to curse along.

Although it is not reasonable to blame all the problems on the technical department, and it is not entirely their fault, the problem is that all the communicators have problems, which cannot be explained in a few words.

This made people wonder, what are those so-called experts in the technical department doing on a daily basis? When they received the money, they boasted about how great the things their department had developed were, but now, even a small communicator has problems. Did the people in the technical department use the budget to do other things instead of using it for serious research? Minister Tim couldn't help but become suspicious.

Logically speaking, the communicator should not have such a degree of failure. How could it be that all of them failed, even the ones developed on site were useless? This made people wonder if all the parts were defective, cheap but useless... Minister Tim was like a falcon, his eyes locked on everyone in the technical department. He wanted to see what the problem was, what the true level of these so-called experts was, or whether they were all a group of backdoors or doing something behind the scenes.

No matter what the situation is, starting today, we must thoroughly investigate and rectify this department. If this happens again next time, it will be terrible! The impact of problems with this basic and widely used equipment is extremely serious. Take today's example, because all the equipment failed, they lost contact with the Kyushu army at a critical moment, resulting in the Ranger Squadron's whereabouts and life and death are unknown.

Although the bad weather had not yet appeared during the negotiation, no one could guarantee that if the Kyushu army left during that period and the Ranger team had no protection measures, what a terrible situation would happen! From this point of view alone, the people in the technical department are not worthy of forgiveness. All the procurement and wholesale of parts, including the subsequent equipment assembly process, are handled by them. If there is any problem in the process, they have to bear the primary responsibility.

"Leader Baip, Minister Tim, the Technical Department has definitely not done anything shameful. All the bills are clear and explicit. We have recorded what and where we bought things. It is impossible to falsify them." The Minister of the Technical Department said quickly.

"This is definitely not a problem with the communicator. Maybe we should consider other aspects, such as whether there is a problem with the connection?" The minister said while wiping his sweat. He led all the technicians to reassemble the communicator, but it was useless. Now it has even been labeled as a very serious problem.

However, the technical department has absolutely no corruption, and has not cheated on the parts issue. They are not politicians or businessmen, but just ordinary researchers, so how could they have any bad intentions!
Baipu remained silent, but from his expression, it was clear that he was still extremely angry and could explode at any time. No one could predict what he would do next. The people in the technical department were sweating profusely, feeling as if they were waiting to die.

Minister Tim seemed to be thinking about something. He took the minister's words to heart and felt that it was not impossible.

Logically speaking, the technical department should not be so bold as to do something that is so deceiving. All the equipment is used frequently, and if there is any problem, they will be the first to be held accountable. (End of this chapter)