Akita Akihito's mind raced, keenly sensing the unusual information conveyed by the tire tracks. He glanced around, then strode quickly toward the grassy bank. He needed to know the outcome to determine his next course of action.
He walked quickly, and when he arrived at the entrance of Nanbai Village, he saw several villagers pushing a cart slowly towards him from afar.
The two vehicles intersected, and there were several corpses lying on the vehicle; they were none other than the reconnaissance team members he had left at the village's liaison point.
Akita Akihito felt a chill run down his spine. He finally confirmed that the Tanigawa Brigade was in trouble, and those truck tire tracks must be related to the Tanigawa Brigade here.
He walked past the villagers as if nothing had happened, then turned and went through the path into the depths of the reeds. But after walking a short distance, he found himself in complete darkness.
What came into his view was a large, dark, empty space. The once lush reed beds had vanished, leaving only a desolate expanse as far as the eye could see.
Akita Akihito shrank back in fright and quickly retreated into the reeds, his eyes scanning the surroundings warily, but he found nothing amiss.
His face was as white as paper. When he returned yesterday to make contact, the base was heavily guarded, but now it was in this state. Considering the bodies of the reconnaissance team members he had just seen, he now fully understood what had happened.
We must leave immediately! It's too dangerous here. Akita Akihito didn't hesitate for a moment and quickly left.
He carefully observed the movements around him all the way back to Guanyang Town. He then drove around in circles several times, making several anti-tracking maneuvers, but found nothing unusual before finally returning to the courtyard where he was staying.
"Captain, you're back!" Iwai Nosuke, who had been waiting for him, quickly came to greet him.
"Iwai-kun, quickly inform everyone to prepare for the evacuation. We're retreating to headquarters immediately!" Akita Akihito didn't waste any words and immediately gave the order as soon as he entered the room.
"Yes, Captain!" Iwai nosuke was also startled by Akita Akihito's sudden order, but he immediately nodded and went to gather the team. Akita Akihito would naturally tell him what he should know, and he must not ask about what he shouldn't know.
All the reconnaissance agents were urgently assembled, and He Siming was among them. When he heard Akita Akihito order an emergency transfer, he knew that it must be Team Leader Ning who had made a move against the Tanikawa Brigade.
There's nothing I can do now but lie low and wait for Team Leader Ning's next instructions.
Ning Zhiheng led the special agent team back to their base, handed over some miscellaneous tasks to Huo Yueze, and immediately took the cipher clerk Yasuda Seiji to his office. After signaling the others to leave, he said to Yasuda Seiji in Japanese, "Yasuda, now you must tell me everything you know without reservation. Don't disappoint me."
"Understood! I will definitely give it my all and will not let you down!" Yasuda Seiji quickly bowed deeply and answered nervously.
So Seiji Yasuda began to tell everything he knew.
It turns out that Seiji Yasuda was a cipher clerk in the intelligence department of the military. This time, when the plainclothes team was formed to enter Pudong, he was transferred from the military to the Tanikawa Battalion.
Their main job was to master the encrypted codebook, liaise with the military's intelligence headquarters, translate the codes received by the telegraph operator into telegrams and hand them over to Kazuma Tanikawa, and at the same time translate the telegrams sent out by Kazuma Tanikawa into codes and hand them over to the telegraph operator for transmission.
In fact, during the entire telegraph transmission process, the telegraph operator is unaware of the true content of the messages he is receiving and sending. Only the translator is the person who actually has access to classified intelligence, and all intelligence transmissions must go through his translation.
Kazuma Tanikawa was the commander of these four plainclothes teams. As the telegraph operator for the Tanikawa Brigade, Seiji Yasuda learned a lot of classified information during the sending and receiving of telegrams. This information was the capital he used to save his own life.
Ning Zhiheng took a stack of papers, placed a pen in front of him, and looked at Yasuda Seiji, saying, "Yasuda-kun, I am very satisfied with your cooperative attitude. Don't worry, as long as you tell me everything you know, I will never harm you. Here, recall all the coded telegrams you received and sent after entering Pudong, one by one in chronological order, and write them down here. Remember, the received content and the sent content must be separated. I will check them one by one according to the situation."
Then his tone turned sharp and cold: "If you conceal anything, you know the consequences!"
Yasuda Seiji was terrified and quickly bowed, saying, "Please believe in my sincerity; there is absolutely nothing I am hiding!"
Ning Zhiheng gestured for him to sit down, while he slowly sipped his tea and watched him write. Under Ning Zhiheng's watchful gaze, Yasuda Seiji was extremely careful, not daring to be negligent in the slightest, and carefully recalled all the telegrams he could remember before transcribing them.
He didn't know how much the other person knew, so he dared not hide anything from them, because he dared not gamble; losing meant death, and most people couldn't resist the fear of death.
Time slowly passed, and Yasuda Seiji finally put down his pen and handed the telegram record to Ning Zhiheng.
"These are all the telegrams I can remember. There are some details I can't recall, and there may be some omissions in the details, but the general meaning is correct. Please check them."
Ning Zhiheng immediately took over the telegram record and carefully reviewed it. Yasuda Seiji's record was very detailed, recalling almost all the telegrams sent after Tanikawa Brigade entered Pudong.
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