Chapter 291: Utterly Foolish!
Cao Weida felt secretly pleased inside. One family with two people counted as one day’s KPI target. This paper had a full twelve bosses with ‘underground establishments.’ That meant he could sleep well for twelve days.
Although going out every night to kill those traitors and little devils made him feel very refreshed inside, with a thrill of eliminating harm for the people.
But going out every night to kill, he also had to exercise with his women every day. Even an iron body couldn’t withstand it.
Even with his current top-level physical fitness, he felt somewhat fatigued.
He felt that he was even busier than modern 996, not only physically fatigued but also mentally somewhat fatigued.
With these bosses turning in their ‘targets,’ when he felt fatigued, he could slack off a bit and give himself a ‘vacation.’
“Once this batch all turns them in, I can’t kill them all at once like before. Before new targets come in, I have to use them sparingly,” he thought to himself.
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“Cao Ye, are you heading out?”
“Yeah, for the remaining bosses, just use the script I told you before. I have something to do and need to go out.”
Today was the day Liu Rusi was meeting her contact. Cao Weida wasn’t at ease and had to follow her.
“Alright, how about I arrange two brothers to protect you?” Zheng Chaoyang smiled wryly. What could he say? This master had done this more than once.
Ever since becoming his assistant, most of the things Cao Weida was originally supposed to handle had fallen on his head.
“No need, I can handle it alone.”
After leaving the police station, Cao Weida wandered around, looped a few times, disguised himself, and arrived at the place diagonally across from the Xingya Textile Company in Beiping.
This was the place where Liu Rusi needed to meet her contact.
Normally, agents of the Military Statistics Bureau absolutely could not tell anyone about their meeting places.
But Liu Rusi was Cao Weida’s woman. She was a love brain, and they were on the same side. If Cao Weida wanted to ask, how could Liu Rusi hide it?
After arriving at the place, he just took a quick look around, and his brows furrowed.
What was the Military Statistics Bureau doing? They actually chose this place for the meeting!
Xingya Textile Company in Beiping—just the name showed it was a company run by Japanese people.
Not only that, the surrounding area was a place where Japanese people and special agents were very active.
Across from it was a street lined with numerous pleasure houses specifically ‘serving’ the coolie workers, also known as underground establishments.
“A place like this is full of various social strata, where anyone from humans to ghosts gathers. What were the Military Statistics Bureau people thinking, choosing this spot for the meeting?”
It wasn’t that a mixed crowd was bad. Generally, a mixed crowd was indeed an advantage for meetings, but it depended on the situation!
Nowadays, the little devils were made jittery by Cao Weida. Though it wasn’t obvious on the surface, the special agents were actually very active in the shadows.
After all, Cao Weida, this mysterious man, was like a sword hanging over the heads of Japanese people and traitors. Who knew who would be stabbed next?
Because of this, though traitors usually had constant friction with little devils, on this matter, they were united for once.
Such a mixed place would normally be a good spot for a meeting, but now because of him, these places had instead become key focus points for little devils and puppet government special agents.
Choosing to meet here under these circumstances was clearly inappropriate.
His gaze casually scanned the surroundings, and his heart sank immediately.
Not far away, a man in a Zhongshan suit adjusted his cuffs, revealing the half-worn Plum Blossom watch on his wrist—one of the meeting signals.
The reason his heart sank was that he saw, behind that man at a window seat, two men in short outfits with their fingertips always pressed under the table, their boot shafts bulging.
With his sharp eyes, that was the outline of a Japanese Nambu Type 14 pistol!
Even worse, at the alley entrance behind the tea garden, the stall owner selling sugar piles—who had an empty spot there two days ago—was glancing frequently into the tea garden with his peripheral vision.
“Finished! Damn it, the contact person has already been targeted. These special agents are playing the long game to catch the big fish!!”
Cao Weida cursed inwardly. These Military Statistics Bureau people were truly useless; their intelligence system was practically a sieve!
He had no doubt that once Liu Rusi successfully met the contact, she would be surrounded on the spot—either arrested or shot dead right there!
As the saying goes, speak of the devil. Just as he was cursing inwardly, Liu Rusi, disguised, appeared in his line of sight.
Although Liu Rusi was disguised, after spending so much time with her and knowing even the width and depth intimately, how could she fool his eyes?
“No, absolutely cannot let Liu Rusi make contact.”
Knowing full well it was a trap, Cao Weida naturally couldn’t watch Liu Rusi fall into it.
But he couldn’t shout a warning, because if he did, it would immediately alert the disguised special agents around.
Throwing something would be too deliberate and not workable. His gaze scanned around as his mind raced frantically.
On the other side, Liu Rusi, disguised in light gray clothes with her Browning pistol hidden in her sleeve pocket, headed to the teahouse at the appointed time.
She didn’t know her master had arrived at the destination first to scout. As she turned the alley corner and saw the marked tea house, after taking just a few steps forward, she saw someone suddenly bump into a roadside stall of a roasted chestnut vendor, apologizing while helping pick up the chestnuts.
The moment she looked over, she froze for an instant.
Cao Weida was very familiar with her, but how could she not be familiar with Cao Weida?
Just this morning, she had used her rosy lips to measure her master’s size!
The next moment, she saw her master signaling ‘withdraw’ to her, and she immediately understood the danger.
This signal made her heart sink. She knew her master wasn’t at ease with her, so he had come ahead to scout, discovered something wrong, and was now telling her to withdraw quickly.
This also meant the person she was supposed to meet had been exposed!
But at the same time, her heart was filled with sweetness.
As a love brain, seeing the man she liked care so much for her made her heart soar with joy.
“When we get back, I must properly reward master!”
Liu Rusi wasn’t stupid. After getting her master’s hint, she naturally wouldn’t foolishly go ahead with the meeting. She casually walked to a small stall, bought something, and nonchalantly turned into another alley and disappeared.
Seeing Liu Rusi leave, Cao Weida relaxed inwardly. After picking up the last chestnut, he apologized repeatedly to the vendor.
After the matter, he didn’t leave immediately but decided to observe the scene a bit more.
Because he suspected the Military Statistics Bureau choosing this meeting spot was probably not as simple as it seemed.
Everyone knew the places where Communist Party underground parties survived and grew strongest were areas crowded with coolie workers.
Around the Xingya Textile Company in Beiping, tobacco companies and various company wharfs clustered, with a huge number of grassroots workers.
In such places, Communist Party underground parties were bound to take root.
And at this time, stirring up something here to draw the attention of Japanese invaders and traitors—diverting trouble to the east and attracting little devils and puppet special agents—the Military Statistics Bureau was absolutely capable of that.
“Although the war of resistance has temporarily merged Communist Party and Kuomintang resistance forces into one due to the circumstances, the overt and covert struggles in the shadows never stopped, especially the Military Statistics Bureau. Whenever there’s a chance to screw over the underground parties, these Military Statistics Bureau people definitely won’t pass it up!”
Actually, most people in the Military Statistics Bureau were quite patriotic, even more so than most officials.
After all, doing this kind of work behind enemy lines, without firm faith and patriotic sentiment, defection would be the norm.
But patriotic didn’t mean loving the Communist Party; they generally held hostility toward them.
This had nothing to do with right or wrong, just different positions.
With his suspicion, Cao Weida went to the second floor diagonally across from the tea garden.
The view here was open. If something happened, he could quickly jump to the connected rooftops and escape.
Seemingly casually sipping tea with no other actions, he just kept waiting, his peripheral vision never leaving the man with the half-worn watch on his wrist.
Time passed bit by bit. As the sun was about to set, the meeting time quietly passed.
As time went by, the middle-aged man seemed anxious, frequently checking his watch.
Seeing it was already two minutes past the meeting time with no one coming, he knew the meeting had completely failed.
Seeing this, he didn’t hesitate, stood up, grabbed his round hat from nearby, pulled down the brim, and quickly headed to an alley entrance.
After weaving through twisting alleys for over half an hour and seeing no one following, he emerged from another exit in the lanes to the back row of street shops not far from where he left.
There were quite a few underground establishments here. At this time, many plump and slender underground establishment women stood in the alley, leaning against walls and showing off their charms to attract the attention of men walking in the alley.
The middle-aged man approached an underground establishment woman, who leaned against him flirtatiously, seemingly trying to hook up.
The middle-aged man cursed lowly: “Damn it, the person didn’t show!”
Then, as if impatient, he pushed the woman away and slipped into another small path.
Just as he entered the path not far, an iron clamp-like hand suddenly reached out from the side, grabbed his neck, and dragged him into the alley.
As the middle-aged man was startled and about to resist, a low shout came by his ear:
“Idiot! Utterly foolish!”
“Who chose the meeting spot? Is this how you do the meeting?!”
“You’re here for the meeting?” The middle-aged man seemed to react, stopped resisting, but shouted lowly and fiercely: “What courage! It’s past the time and you don’t meet me, instead following me here. What do you want!!”
Idiot!
Cao Weida was furious inside. If he hadn’t been uneasy and kept an eye out, Liu Rusi would probably have been arrested on the spot this time!
And as Liu Rusi’s man, he absolutely wouldn’t escape involvement!
If Liu Rusi couldn’t withstand interrogation and ratted him out, it would really be all over!
And the culprit for all this was this idiot in front of him!
He directly disarmed the middle-aged man’s weapon, pressed it to his forehead, and threatened: “Take me to see your leader, now!”
What shocked him was that upon hearing the bullet chambering sound, the middle-aged man raised his hands with a fawning smile: “Brother, my fault, don’t get rash. Let’s talk it out. I’ll take you to Old Yao.”
Cao Weida was dumbfounded. Just a simple threat, and a Military Statistics Bureau special agent, the contact person no less, caved just like that?
He even agreed to take him to his leader without even exchanging code phrases?!
He pressed the man’s head against the wall so he wouldn’t see his face. Even disguised, it wasn’t safe—his disguise skills weren’t that advanced. From a distance maybe unnoticeable, but up close, who knows.
If the other recognized him, given this cowardly idiot, once caught, he’d likely defect.
While holding him down, he carefully observed the contact person’s attire, growing even more disappointed with the Military Statistics Bureau.
While waiting earlier, the man’s right hand kept unconsciously touching his waist—that was the habitual gun-protecting motion of agents long in field work. But he was playing a poor errand boy for the rich and powerful!
That action was practically self-exposure!
Also, an errand boy having a watch…
Damn, back then he was so angry he wanted to kill this idiot!
No idea which brain-dead designed this contact profile!
Looking closely now, clearly an errand boy, with mud on the shoe upper but soles spotless—obviously just changed shoes. Which errand boy’s soles would be this clean?
When grabbing his hand, the thick callus on the second joint of his index finger marked a hand that gripped guns year-round!
What infuriated him more was this idiot’s Shancheng accent.
So many flaws—was this a contact or delivering a target to Japanese people and puppet special agents?!
“This isn’t a meeting; it’s practically delivering merit to them.”
Because the Military Statistics Bureau often did assassinations, and whenever orders came from above, no matter how difficult or dangerous, the people below had to complete them desperately.
Thus, assassination actions usually resulted in significant losses.
Especially recently in Beiping, betrayed by an insider, the entire intelligence station suffered heavy losses, so they had to use a lot of unprofessional people to fill special agent roles.
But sending such a brainless person for a meeting—how little did they value the lives of the entire line?!
What disappointed him even more happened: unexpectedly cooperative, the middle-aged man didn’t make a sound or try to escape, just obediently led him into the backyard of a courtyard.
Entering the backyard, he stayed vigilant, fearing it was leading him into a trap.
But when both reached the room with no danger found, Cao Weida couldn’t help but laugh in anger.
