But how could He Siming genuinely work for the Japanese and harm his own country's interests? So he always went through the motions without putting in any real effort, which made the other agents somewhat dissatisfied with him.
Akita Akio also saw this, but he was very protective of He Siming. After all, He Siming was a student he had watched grow up, and he was the one who gave him the name Takeshita Shinya. Their relationship was naturally special, and he always protected He Siming, which is why he had always been safe and sound.
Akita Akio listened to He Siming's complaints and waved his hand, saying, "Besides me, they don't know you're Taiwanese, so why would they target you for that reason? Didn't I tell you that if anyone asks you, you should say you're from Kyushu and not mention Taiwan?"
Akita Akio was aware of the attitude of the Japanese people towards Taiwanese, and he did not want his students to be discriminated against. Therefore, he deliberately concealed the matter from other personnel. In any case, there were many taboos among Special Higher Police agents, and they would not pry into the matter.
"Alright, stay alert from now on. This is Chinese-occupied territory, so be careful in everything you do. Don't make any mistakes. Go now!" Akita Akio instructed again.
He also knew that his student had not received any formal special agent training and was really useless except for speaking two languages. He needed to adapt and learn these things slowly.
He Siming nodded in agreement, then turned and left. The other investigators also set off, opening the courtyard gate. Each of them held some anti-Japanese slogans in their hands and walked out together.
These people walked past the food stall where Ning Zhiheng was. Ning Zhiheng watched them walk by, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
Because one of the young men looked very familiar to him, he carefully recalled in his mind. Ning Zhiheng's memory was extremely amazing, especially his memory of people's facial features. As long as he had a slight impression of someone, he would quickly remember them when they met again.
He quickly recalled that the familiar-looking young man was the Taiwanese youth who had been refused a book and humiliated by the bookstore staff when he went to Nanwu Bookstore to investigate the situation on his first day infiltrating the Japanese-occupied area of Shanghai. He remembered that the young man had even revealed his Japanese name at the time: Takeshita Shinya.
This makes it clear that the Shandong delegation was actually Japanese in disguise. The younger generation in Taiwan received Japanese education during the Japanese colonial period and attended Japanese language schools. They speak Chinese at home and Japanese at school, making them the best candidates for translation. Of course, they can also be used as spies.
Ning Zhiheng stood up and followed the young men at a distance. Now, without needing to make any further checks or contact, he was certain that this courtyard was a hiding place for the Japanese plainclothes team.
However, although this compound is large, it can only accommodate about thirty people at most, while a plainclothes team has at least a hundred people. So where are the other members hiding?
If we only target this compound, we will alert other hidden plainclothes team members, and then we cannot wipe them all out at once. We must find out the whole situation and act at the same time to completely eliminate this plainclothes team.
Ning Zhiheng originally planned to continue tracking and monitoring other plainclothes team members to find out who had been in contact with them. However, after discovering Takeshita Shinya, a thought flashed through his mind: things might be simpler.
Although Taiwan was occupied by the Japanese, Taiwanese people were regarded as inferior by the Japanese and were not recognized. This was a common phenomenon in Japanese society. Conversely, Taiwanese people still consider themselves Chinese at heart and do not identify with the Japanese, let alone have any loyalty to them.
The humiliation that Takeshita Shinya suffered at the Nanya Library illustrates this point. Ning Zhiheng decided to personally arrest Takeshita Shinya and extract the whereabouts of the other plainclothes team members from him.
Frankly speaking, even a real Japanese spy would find it difficult to survive the life-or-death situation, let alone someone like Shinya Takeshita.
Seeing Ning Zhiheng make a move, Sun Jiacheng quickly followed from a distance. Ning Zhiheng whispered, "You stay here and set up surveillance. I'll go take a look myself. Don't do anything rash. We'll talk when I get back."
Sun Jiacheng knew Ning Zhiheng's skills and that nothing unexpected would happen, so he nodded and turned to leave.
Once these reconnaissance personnel left Guanyang Town, they split up and went to their designated reconnaissance areas to conduct reconnaissance activities in order to determine the specific locations of the Chinese artillery positions.
Ning Zhiheng ignored the others and followed Takeshita Shinya from a distance, watching him gradually head east until he reached a grove of trees. He stopped there, threw down the banner he was holding, and leaned against a big tree to rest.
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