Chapter 77: Spend Money To Exterminate Traitors
“Comrade Subarashi, you.”
“I should have thought of it earlier, I should have thought of it earlier.” Subarashi’s face was pale, her voice trembling, her tone filled with pain.
“Why, why exactly is this.”
Yeah, why.
Old Luo was also in great pain. Old Sun and Subarashi were the first batch of infiltration personnel to arrive in Beiping with him, having gone through all sorts of hardships, yet he never expected him to betray the revolution at this time!
If not for the timely intelligence, a small half of their group would have been rooted out!
Those were all revolutionary comrades who had fought side by side!
How could he bear it!
Old Luo looked at the despair-filled Comrade Subarashi; he could understand that kind of pain.
Revolutionary comrades, her former husband, the father of her children—suddenly turned into a murderer who plotted against comrades and slaughtered compatriots. Even her standing here unharmed to this day might not be due to the traitor’s mercy.
It was very likely that all her information had long been placed on the desk of the puppet government’s special agents, but the puppet government’s special agents wanted to expand their gains, playing a long game to catch a big fish, which was why they let her live a little longer.
Thinking that the husband she had lived with day and night was actually a traitor who sold out the revolution, leading to the capture of revolutionary comrades—and that much of the intelligence might have been extracted from her own mouth—Subarashi felt a fierce fire burning in her heart, scorching her with pain, wishing she could kill him with her own hands right now!
No!
The comrades’ fresh blood absolutely cannot flow in vain!
Her face resolute, eyes bloodshot, she said coldly: “Comrade Old Luo, I request to join this Exterminate Traitors action!”
Old Luo pondered for a moment, but still rejected her request.
“Comrade Subarashi, I understand your current pain, and your determination to personally execute the traitor. I also believe in your loyalty to the organization and faith, but it’s best for you to stay out of this. I’ll arrange for someone else to handle it.”
Subarashi looked disappointed, but she understood.
She and Old Sun were husband and wife after all. Even if Old Luo trusted her, she had to avoid suspicion.
Moreover, after this was over, she might be forced to withdraw from Beiping, both to ensure her safety and to protect the safety of other comrades.
Facing the special agents’ cruel torture, it’s not like thinking you can withstand the torture means you can.
Although many revolutionary comrades had indeed faced the enemy’s torture and threats of coercion and inducement, steadfastly holding to their faith, unyielding even in death, and proving their loyalty to the organization with their lives, not everyone can endure it.
If she didn’t withdraw, she would face the fate of possible arrest and interrogation at any moment.
Old Luo couldn’t gamble, and neither would the organization!
Though still somewhat unwilling, Subarashi gritted her teeth and nodded: “Alright, I support the organization’s decision!”
“The traitor is a very cautious person—either don’t move, or strike fatally. If the action fails, it’ll be hard to find him again.”
“Also, he often goes to a roast duck shop, usually around five in the afternoon on Saturdays. His daily habit is—”
She no longer called him Old Sun, directly referring to him as the traitor, and laid out all his background thoroughly, clearly having decided to completely cut ties with him.
“Good, I’ll make the arrangements.” Old Luo nodded solemnly. With this detailed activity trajectory, the chances of successfully exterminating the traitor were infinitely increased.
On the other side, after leaving the contact point, Zheng Chaoyang rushed to the side of the Yangzi Dance Hall. Only after seeing the comrades safely withdraw one by one did he finally relax.
However, he didn’t withdraw immediately, but kept a close eye on the main gate.
Among the comrades who came today, at least several would catch the eye of the puppet government’s special agents. He was tied up now and could only track the traitor first. For the others, Old Luo would send people to contact them and relocate them all—no more comrades could be captured!
“Hey.”
Just as he was fully focused, someone suddenly patted his shoulder, startling him so much he almost instinctively drew his gun and shot.
Seeing who had patted his shoulder, Zheng Chaoyang irritably whispered: “Old Cao, are you crazy? Scaring people to death—you know that?”
“Also, why are you here? It’s dangerous—get out of here quick!”
Cao Weida ignored the question: “Chaoyang, are you planning to exterminate a traitor?”
“Yes, so what?” Zheng Chaoyang didn’t hide it—or rather, there was no need.
He was just puzzled why Cao Weida was asking.
Cao Weida: “I want to join your Exterminate Traitors Squad for the extermination.”
“?????” Zheng Chaoyang was speechless. “Old Cao, Cao Ye, can you not make trouble? Exterminating traitors isn’t a game—it’s life or death!”
“You’re not one of our organization members. I won’t agree, and the organization absolutely won’t agree!”
Leaving aside that non-organization members joining extermination actions had no precedent, even if there was, Zheng Chaoyang would never agree to Cao Weida going.
As before, Cao Weida was too important to the organization. If it came down to Cao Weida or him having to die, he would unhesitatingly die to let Cao Weida live!
“Come on, let’s talk it over. How about this—I’ll give you money, one hundred silver dollars?” Cao Weida wasn’t giving up. Exterminating traitors—how stimulating!
He had killed traitors, little devils, Chinese collaborators, but never a rebel traitor.
Perfect, he could use this traitor to pad his KPI.
Because lately he’d been frequently taking out that bunch, now they were all like monkeys—sharp as could be, not sleeping at home at night, who knew where they were hiding.
He’d come up empty several times.
Those with a bit of money and power even arranged shifts of several groups to guard at night, afraid of being killed in their sleep, leaving him unable to strike several times and returning empty-handed.
Now, with such a good KPI opportunity, of course he wasn’t willing to let it go.
Zheng Chaoyang: “.”
He was utterly speechless, yet somewhat amused. “Foolishness! You really think this is play? Paying 100 silver dollars to join an extermination—only you could think of it.”
“What, 100 silver dollars too little? Then I’ll give a thousand—that should do it.” For the current Cao Weida, silver dollars were the most useless thing.
The silver dollars in his space were piled into little mountains.
The first transaction earned over seventy thousand, the second twelve wan, gave Little Ear and them ten percent, leaving one hundred eight thousand, totaling around one hundred eighty thousand.
Plus occasionally helping Tada Naoyoshi sell some goods, and creating misunderstandings between ‘friends’ and the little devils’ military police and special agent agency—altogether, he’d made a fortune.
Even after spending a lot later to buy six more siheyuans, totaling eight, it was less than nine thousand silver dollars.
As for daily expenses and such, those were really small change.
He glanced into his space: over one hundred ten thousand eight hundred twenty silver dollars, fifty-six small gold bars, and thirty-four large gold bars just tossed in a corner gathering dust.
“.You’re really rich.” Zheng Chaoyang’s breathing quickened. A thousand silver dollars!
Even for the middle class, that’s no small asset!
Speaking of which, didn’t their Communist Party contribute a big part of that money?
“Hey hey, don’t be greedy. A thousand silver dollars is plenty—maximum two thousand, no more!”
“Two thousand?!” Zheng Chaoyang’s breathing grew even quicker. He never imagined a single traitor could be worth so much.
If not for valuing Cao Weida’s importance, he’d agree on the spot.
In the end, he forcibly resisted the temptation and decisively refused: “No, absolutely not. And I’m not in charge of the extermination action anyway—telling me is pointless. Give it up.”
“Hey~~ Even if you’re not in charge, what time are you wasting with me?” Cao Weida rolled his eyes, glared at him irritably, then said nothing more, just staring fixedly toward the Yangzi Dance Hall.
Zheng Chaoyang couldn’t help urging him: “Hey, what are you doing? Get going!”
A bunch of traitor dogs were about to come out soon—if spotted, it’d be dangerous!
“Anyway, you’re going to kill the traitor. Since you won’t let me join, I’ll kill him myself.” Cao Weida wouldn’t listen—this traitor was as good as dead, no one could stop him!
“.You’re just being a total rogue!” Zheng Chaoyang was furious. He’d never seen such a shameless person!
Fine, he was worried about his safety and didn’t want him in danger, but not only was he ungrateful, he was playing rogue too.
“That’s none of your business. You’re killing him anyway—as long as the end result is him dead, who kills him doesn’t matter, right?” Cao Weida was set on getting involved.
“You—”
Seeing Cao Weida dead set on joining the extermination, Zheng Chaoyang helplessly planned to placate him first and trick him back, but before he could finish, Cao Weida interrupted:
“Shh~~ Quiet, the traitor is coming out.”
Zheng Chaoyang glanced over—sure enough, the traitor had left the Yangzi Dance Hall and was stealthily following someone.
That person was none other than an Underground Party comrade.
Zheng Chaoyang’s heart tightened—damn, the traitor was planning to follow the vine to the melon!
“Yo, just one person? Then I’m not holding back.”
Cao Weida grinned mischievously. Before Zheng Chaoyang could react, he vaulted onto the rooftop in two steps and silently dashed toward the traitor under cover of night.
Zheng Chaoyang’s eyes widened in shock at the sight. Cao Weida moved across the rooftops like flat ground, lightly leaping across the alley gap with such ease—clearly no stranger to this.
He never imagined that Cao Weida, famed as one of the Three Cowards of the Rat’s Gallbladder, had such impressive skill!
Seeing the distance growing, worried for Cao Weida’s safety, he hurriedly followed, but kept his distance, afraid of alerting the traitor.
The gun in his hand had the safety off—at any sign of danger to Cao Weida, he’d fire support without hesitation.
Whether he hit the traitor or alerted the little devils didn’t matter—Ca Weida’s safety came first!
And this pursuit let him glimpse just the tip of Cao Weida’s abilities.
