Shadow of Spies

Propelled headlong into the relentless currents of history, Ji Yu finds himself transplanted to the tumultuous prelude to WWII.

Once an ordinary civil servant in his modern existence, Ji Yu i...

Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Chief Summons the Minister

"Report, after I joined the Military Intelligence Department, I organized some people on the periphery as eyes and ears. Their job is to report any suspicious persons they discover immediately. It was they who noticed that Cui Hai's behavior was abnormal, so I organized people to monitor him!" Ning Zhiheng replied in a clear and calm voice.

"Outer personnel? You have spies under your command?" Bian Ze certainly knew what the so-called outer personnel meant. In fact, their intelligence department also had quite a few such people, mainly for gathering information. This was not surprising!

"Was it these same outsiders who first discovered Huang Xiansheng's whereabouts last time?" the section chief asked, sitting in the center. He suddenly remembered that the case report of Huang Xiansheng's case mentioned that the case was caused by Ning Zhiheng's undercover agents discovering that Huang Xiansheng only rented a house but did not live in it, and his whereabouts were mysterious, which eventually led to his identity being exposed!

"Reporting to the Chief, it was they who discovered it. Later, we continued our investigation and found that his rented house was very close to the residence of Fu Cheng, the Japanese spy codenamed Windmill, who was arrested two months ago. He never met with the neighbors and even took the initiative to go to the landlord to pay the rent, among other unusual circumstances. We locked onto the target!" Ning Zhiheng quickly replied.

"What? What's going on? Chief, wasn't it said that the intelligence section discovered the clues in Huang Xiansheng's case, and the action section assisted? How come it's now that our action section discovered the target? Shouldn't the action section be the primary credit for Huang Xiansheng's case? You need to be fair!" Zhao Ziliang couldn't stand it and asked.

The two section chiefs of the Action Section immediately sensed something was wrong. Although they were also the director's close associates, they were unaware that the director and Deputy Director Huang had made a private deal to take credit for the Action Section's work. Naturally, they were unwilling to hear that their section's credit had been stolen!

The director regretted his words immediately after asking them. He forgot that his two old subordinates knew nothing about the details of Huang Xiansheng's case. After all, Kong Liangce's identity and circumstances were special, so the fewer people who knew, the better.

Hearing his subordinates complaining, he couldn't very well explain in front of everyone, so he simply put on a long face, glared at them, and said in a low voice, "Alright, today we're talking about this case. We'll talk about Huang Xiansheng's case later!"

Seeing that the section chief's expression was not good, Zhao Ziliang and Xiang Yan did not dare to ask any more questions. They reluctantly sat back down, secretly resolving that they had to get to the bottom of this matter and get an explanation later!

Distracted by the two action section chiefs, Bian Ze's train of thought, which was originally intended to delve into the details, was also interrupted. He simply asked directly, "How long have you been following him?"

"Six days. We had already lost patience and were about to arrest him directly, but unexpectedly, we discovered yesterday at noon that he had secretly met with Xie Ziming. In the end, all our hard work these past few days was worth it!" Ning Zhiheng replied.

"Why did you have to make an emergency capture? If you hadn't taken the risk and had made more thorough arrangements, you might have been able to capture this snow wolf alive. Do you know who this snow wolf is? Do you know how important it is to capture this snow wolf? If we could capture him alive, his value would be immeasurable!" Bian Ze said resentfully, his tone somewhat urgent.

He secretly regretted that if he could be Ning Zhiheng instead, he would be able to capture or even kill the Snow Wolf to avenge his brothers. He would have no regrets in this life!

"Brother Bian, what you're saying doesn't make sense. The situation at the time was that Snow Wolf suddenly wanted to leave Nanjing and escape our surveillance. If we had mobilized more people then, it would have been too late."

Ning Zhiheng's impromptu decision to make the arrest was not wrong! To be honest, even if enough manpower were mobilized, as long as Xue Lang was determined to die, who could stop him from pulling the pin on the grenade? There might even be more casualties.

Ning Zhiheng risked his own safety to capture Snow Wolf. Even though he didn't achieve complete success, preventing Snow Wolf from escaping back to Shanghai is still a merit in itself!

Xiang Yan, who was already short-tempered, was immediately displeased to see his subordinate being questioned by Bian Ze.

What? Is it wrong to risk one's life to capture a Japanese spy? People who work hard are being criticized instead. Besides, the final result didn't let the snow wolf escape; it was just one less survivor!

Bian Ze knew that Xiang Yan's temper was always like this, so he didn't pay any attention to it and then asked, "How many of you participated in the arrest in total?"

“Two, me and my subordinate Sun Jiacheng,” Ning Zhiheng said.