Chapter 239: Feeling Depressed, Taking It Out On Him!
The Military Statistics Bureau’s intelligence network in each occupied territory cannot consist of just a single line, but rather several lines.
This maximizes the guarantee that even if one line has an accident, the safety of the special agents on the other lines can still be ensured.
Xu Jin’ge is the person in charge of one of the stations, and the people at the other intelligence stations do not report to him at all.
He naturally understood his words; the Military Statistics Bureau had always been actively opening up transportation lines in various occupied territories, including Beiping.
Unfortunately, however, a previous covert transportation line was destroyed by the little devils due to a spy’s leak, and all the special agents on the entire transportation line were captured.
Because of this, Shancheng had been trying every means to reopen a transportation line, but had never succeeded.
Especially during this period, due to Cao Weida’s relationship, the martial law in Beiping had never been lifted, which further increased the difficulty of building the transportation line.
And Cao Weida’s connections in Beiping were something that the Shancheng side could not possibly be unaware of.
“I understand what you mean. I was wondering earlier why my file’s confidentiality level was so high. Turns out it’s because of this.”
Cao Weida smiled and said with self-mockery, “I wonder if this counts as a blessing in disguise for me?”
“To be honest, with your internal intelligence network infiltrated by the little devils like a sieve, I’m really afraid that I might get exposed out of nowhere someday.”
“Now it seems I should still be grateful that I have even a little bit of use.”
Xu Jin’ge didn’t know what to say; he felt helpless in his heart as well.
He could be considered a free man; as long as he hid during normal times, he could at least remain concealed.
But Cao Weida was different; he had an official job on the surface and a family address.
If Cao Weida didn’t have these connections in Beiping, giving Boss Dai hope of forming a new transportation line, and because of the previous lesson, making Boss Dai realize the importance of the transportation line’s person in charge, thereby raising his confidentiality level infinitely, he might really have had his information obtained by little devil spies at some point.
Seeing Xu Jin’ge not speaking, Cao Weida wasn’t angry and said, “How about this: pass a message to the higher-ups for me. I can help form the transportation line, but I hope the higher-ups won’t make things difficult for Liu Rusi. Just let her be a communications officer by my side.”
Since the higher-ups knew about him, they absolutely would not give up on having him form the transportation line.
If he dared to back out, that old ghost Dai Li would absolutely not let it go easily.
Who knows what means would be used then.
That guy Dai old ghost is a ruthless and black-hearted one!
He wasn’t afraid; with his current abilities, if he really got provoked, he wouldn’t mind going to Shancheng to settle accounts with Dai old ghost!
But he didn’t plan to do that, or rather, unless it was absolutely necessary, he didn’t want to.
After all, after the victory in resisting Japan, most of China would be under the Kuomintang’s rule.
If he still wanted to earn Xianyu points and continue his current errands, he couldn’t be so impulsive.
Besides, not to mention the difficulty of killing Dai Li, even if he really succeeded, how much impact would it have?
If Dai old ghost died, another one would immediately take his place; he couldn’t just kill one after another, that wasn’t realistic.
Since he had to agree either way, it was better to be proactive, so both sides could save face and leave some dignity for each other.
Xu Jin’ge was silent for a moment, then nodded readily: “It’s good that you think this way. Besides, establishing the transportation line is also to support the War of Resistance.”
Before he finished speaking, Cao Weida interrupted with a slightly sarcastic tone: “Do you believe that yourself?”
“This…” Xu Jin’ge choked and didn’t know how to respond.
Whether he believed it or not, didn’t he know in his own heart?
Cao Weida didn’t make things difficult for him; on this matter, a mere lieutenant colonel like Xu Jin’ge had no say: “Forget it, let’s not talk about this. Remember to report what I just said to the higher-ups.”
“Alright,” seeing that Cao Weida didn’t dwell on the issue, Xu Jin’ge breathed a sigh of relief and nodded in agreement: “With your promise, I think the higher-ups will definitely consider it carefully.”
Compared to one special agent, establishing the transportation line was obviously more important; he had some confidence in that.
After leaving the teahouse, Cao Weida didn’t go to the police station or home; instead, he took out a piece of paper with several addresses on it.
However, most of the addresses had already been crossed out by him, leaving only two places.
This piece of paper was the addresses of his hidden assets provided by Liu Huai.
He hadn’t gone to check after causing such a big mess earlier; now that he had free time, it was perfect to go investigate.
The reason he was searching now was because he knew that a rotten scum like Liu Huai, who was scared of death to that extent, absolutely wouldn’t trust anyone.
The locations where his assets were hidden were most likely known only to him himself; the second person to know would definitely be silenced by him!
Following the address on the paper, he took a rickshaw and ran for nearly half an hour before arriving near the location.
This wasn’t a bustling area; the location was quite desolate. His target was a courtyard made of an adobe house, and the roof of the adobe house was already tattered, clearly having been uninhabited for a long time.
No one had cleaned outside the courtyard walls; it was all fallen leaves that crunched when stepped on.
If not for the address, no one would think that someone would hide treasure in this place.
Reaching the door through the courtyard, the already decayed wooden door that had collapsed halfway still had a lock on it; this long-rusted lock probably had more symbolic meaning than practical.
Pushing the door open, with a ‘creak’, the wooden door broke into a cross shape.
As the wooden door opened, the scene inside the room was fully revealed; it was extremely simple, with only a table and wardrobe already covered in dust, and no other furnishings.
Even a thief coming in would have to leave in tears upon seeing this scene.
He didn’t glance at these things, walked into the room on the right, passed through the empty room, and went to the innermost part, brushing away the fallen leaves on the ground.
Under the fallen leaves, at the corner of the wall, there was a protruding stone block.
His eyes turned, but he didn’t act immediately; instead, he found a long wooden stick, hid behind the wall himself, and used the wooden stick to poke the stone block.
‘Creak~’
‘Whoosh whoosh~’
With a piercing sound, the originally flat ground split open to both sides, and at the same time, two sharp arrows shot out from the cracked wall corner, entering the earthen wall with a slight whistling sound.
“This old man knew that bastard wouldn’t leave no backup; good thing I was prepared.”
Cao Weida secretly rejoiced in his caution; if he had been carried away by the joy of getting the money and unprepared, he might really have fallen for it!
At such a close distance, he might not have reacted in time!
He lit a torch and threw it inside.
The dim basement was cleared of darkness by the firelight, vaguely revealing the scene inside.
Seeing that the torch didn’t go out, he carefully walked down with relief.
By the firelight, the basement was fully revealed.
This basement was about fifty square meters, filled with many boxes stacked together, including leather boxes, iron boxes, and wooden boxes of various sizes, totaling more than a dozen.
He didn’t open them one by one to check, but directly stored the things away first.
Anyway, once the things entered his space, he could take time to look through them slowly; he still had to go to another place.
The other place was much easier to find than this one; it was a two-entrance siheyuan, similarly in a remote location, and uninhabited inside.
He looked around and saw no one nearby, then directly scaled the wall and went in.
After collecting everything from the basement into his space and coming out, he looked at this siheyuan, stroking his chin in thought:
“By the way, could I get this siheyuan?”
Although the location here was remote and sparsely populated around, it was still a two-entrance house.
If placed in later generations, it would be worth some money no matter what.
But thinking about it, he gave up; although Liu Huai most likely hadn’t told anyone else about this place, what if he had?
What if Liu Huai was afraid of forgetting and left a backup, and others found this place based on it?
Then wouldn’t it be known that he killed Liu Huai and got the assets?
For a siheyuan that could only be cashed in many years later, it really wasn’t worth it; better to forget it.
On the way back, he suddenly thought of a problem.
“By the way, both of Liu Huai’s houses have basements; do my several houses have basements?”
“If they do, might there be things left by the previous owners?”
“Find time to check; maybe the blind cat will stumble on a dead mouse.”
“.”
At night, Cao Weida held Du Shiniang’s silky smooth body, staring blankly at the ceiling.
He had a stifled anger in his heart; although today was his ‘voluntary’ decision to establish the transportation line, it was essentially half-forced.
So, he was actually quite unhappy inside; tonight was not just to meet KPI, but also to vent properly.
After some unknown time, he took out his pocket watch and saw that the time was about right.
He tilted his head to look at the person who was drenched in fragrant sweat from the intense movement and now sleeping soundly, gently withdrew his arm from under her neck, pressed her sleep acupoint to ensure she slept more soundly, then quietly got out of bed.
After putting on night-walking clothes, he quietly opened the door, looked left and right, ran silently to the wall, leaped up to the wall top with one jump, and disappeared into the night.
He had done this countless times; it was extremely familiar, without any sloppiness, proficient to the point of heartbreaking.
Traveling in the night, his target was very clear, running straight toward the Bamboo Agency.
He had never forgotten how Kawamoto Yoshitaro of the Bamboo Agency had nearly made him suffer before.
Moreover, Kawamoto Yoshitaro’s arrogant demeanor had made him very unhappy.
Perfect, he was in a bad mood today, so he’d use him as the target!
Arriving near the Bamboo Agency, on the necessary path for special agents coming and going, Cao Weida set up a Type 92 heavy machine gun at a commanding height.
These heavy machine guns were all scraped from the navy warehouse before; his space held a total of fifty of them.
