Chapter 169: Good News
“Zhang Sang, being stubborn is useless,” Ando Shinichi said slowly: “There are too many coincidences in your matters, but our Special Higher Police Affairs never believe in coincidences, we only believe in logic and evidence.”
“Actually, I could have not given you so much time and just shot you directly.”
“However, I believe life is worth respecting. Even an ant clings to life, and it would be too pity for you to die in your prime like this.”
“So, I am still willing to give you a chance to survive.”
“Ando Taijun,” Zhang Zixian said almost pleadingly: “I really don’t know what happened.”
“I’m not lying, you must believe me.”
“Still being stubborn, it seems Zhang Sang has chosen the least decent path!” The smile on Ando’s face receded like the tide.
He straightened up, his movements still elegant, but the expression on his face was chilling.
“Ding ling ling,” he casually picked up a small brass bell from the table and shook it lightly.
The interrogation room door was opened again, and several military doctors wearing white coats entered one after another, each holding surgical equipment.
“Have you heard of ‘road big’?” Ando Shinichi’s voice was as soft as a lover’s whisper, “Those ‘materials’ that were specially transferred over?”
“Our military doctors… are very professional. They will use the most precise instruments to open your body bit by bit while you are completely awake, slowly remove your organs, and observe how they beat outside the body.”
“Throughout the process, you can clearly feel every cut, every separation, and even hear your own heartbeat slowing down gradually in the tray.”
“Uh…” Zhang Zixian’s body instantly stiffened, his pupils involuntarily dilating, a huge fear that could not be concealed.
“No anesthesia. Completely awake.” Every word from Ando Shinichi was like an ice pick chiseling into Zhang Zixian’s heart.
“Usually, this state can last… um, a few hours? Enough for us to complete many valuable observations.”
“I have to say, staying alive is sometimes ten thousand times more painful than dying.”
“Zhang Sang, you have one last chance to choose. Name, time, address, Military Statistics Bureau Shanghai Station, who exactly contacted you?”
Ando Shinichi stepped back, waiting leisurely.
The pale light stretched his shadow, casting it distortedly on the bloodstained wall, like a demon ready to devour someone.
The interrogation room was left only with Zhang Zixian’s heavy panting.
“No no no,” Zhang Zixian wailed in despair: “Ando Taijun, I really didn’t do it, please believe what I say.”
“Sorry,” Ando Shinichi frowned, “I’m not satisfied with your answer.”
“Takegaki-kun, please start your work.”
“I want to see what his heart is different from others’…”
Late September, Year 27 of the Republic.
News of victory in the war kept coming from the Wuhan front lines.
The Eleventh Army, under Commander Okamura’s command, launched a pincer attack on Wuhan from three directions.
One route fiercely attacked from the Xinyang direction, one route intended to bypass to Zaoyang, Suizhou direction.
The third route also went along the Nanxun Line through Dean straight to Wuhan Three Towns.
The warfare could be said to be extremely unfavorable to the Blue Army.
Shanghai, Southern Transportation Department.
Chen Yang came out of Minister Oshima Kenjiro’s office, his face beaming with a joyful smile, but his heart was unusually tormented.
Due to the transportation mission being completed very timely, even somewhat exceeding expectations, the Southern Transportation Department received strong praise from the Military Department.
And half of this honor belonged to the Third Section. As the section chief, Chen Yang naturally received praise from superiors.
Oshima Kenjiro even revealed a message that after half a year of transportation missions, the superiors were very satisfied with the performance achieved by the Southern Transportation Department.
They believed the Third Section’s efficiency far surpassed the other two departments, plus the First Section repeatedly making mistakes, and the Second Section being ineffective.
The superiors were likely to carry out restructuring, and Oshima Kenjiro’s implication was that the Second Section would likely be replaced by the Navy Transportation Section, changing Nagashima No-hiro’s Second Section to Navy Transportation Section.
The previous First Section, Second Section, etc., would all be canceled, retaining only the Army Transportation Section and Navy Transportation Section as two departments. Although the number of departments decreased, the personnel increased. The Army Transportation Section would integrate the three departments together, setting up one senior section chief and two deputy section chiefs.
The Navy Transportation Section had its own team, and the Southern Transportation Department would add a deputy minister position responsible for Navy Department affairs.
And Oshima Kenjiro intentionally or unintentionally revealed that the position of Army Transportation Section section chief would be promoted to Chen Yang.
Chen Yang immediately appeared very excited, thanking Oshima Kenjiro profusely.
Even if at this moment his heart was ever so unwilling, his expression and body language were flawless—a mature undercover agent must possess perfect acting skills…
Expression management was nothing; even if his father died right now, he would still have to show an excited look at this moment.
Without this bit of acting skill, what undercover work could he do…
“Officer, congratulations, congratulations.” As soon as Chen Yang entered the office and before he sat down, Li Ningyu smiled and followed in.
“Secretary Li, your news is really well-informed. I just walked out of the minister’s office, and you already know what happened?”
Li Ningyu smiled smugly but did not respond, instead saying gently: “Officer, while you were in the meeting earlier, there was a telephone call for you.”
“It was the general manager of Huafu Fund. She asked you to go see her when you’re free, saying she has some good news to tell you in person.”
Chen Yang was startled inside. Aisha suddenly calling here must mean something big. Good news—could it be that the medicine had been sourced?
“Secretary Li, I’m going to the Mai Gen Road Material Warehouse to check the material supplies situation. Cancel all my afternoon meetings for me.”
After saying that, Chen Yang grabbed his clothes and turned to leave the office.
In the afternoon, the air on Huangpu Beach Road was unusually stagnant, with autumn’s high temperature mixed with the Huangpu River’s dampness enveloping the entire Huangpu Beach Road.
Huafu Fund was diagonally opposite HSBC Bank on Huangpu Beach Road.
Third Floor, general manager’s office. Heavy velvet curtains were half-drawn, filtering the dense shade of the French sycamores outside the window into a hazy light and shadow.
Chen Yang sat opposite Aisha, holding a document in his hands.
Seeing the signature at the bottom of the document, Chen Yang let out a long sigh of relief: “Aisha van Oranje-Wiliam”.
“How is it? It only cost ten thousand pound sterling to get all the authorizations. The pity is, we still can’t confirm if mass production is possible…” There was some regret in Aisha’s tone.
Today’s Aisha wore a sharply tailored pearl gray velvet suit skirt, her blonde hair neatly pinned up behind her head, like an ice sculpture from the hands of a Nordic craftsman.
Aisha stood up, revealing her proud perfect figure, a flash of worry in her deep blue eyes: “Chen Yang, besides this good news, Taylor also brought some bad news…”
