Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 611 Chi Tiecheng's New Discovery

In the past, it would have been difficult for Ye Shaohong to handle tracking several cases at once.

But things are different now.

His position has changed, and he has more personnel at his disposal. It has gradually become the norm for him to handle several cases at the same time.

Just like now.

Ye Shaohong, in charge of the coordination, sat firmly in Jiangcheng Station.

While investigating the assassination of Mayor Wang, Li Yunlong's men were also monitoring and investigating the brothel.

Chi Tiecheng was also busy.

In the torture chamber, he interrogated the traitors and collaborators arrested a few days earlier.

Now we've finally made some progress.

"New discovery?"

"What do you think!"

Ye Shaohong picked up the interrogation record that Chi Tiecheng had just put down from the table, and while casually flipping through it, he asked questions with great interest.

"Hey!"

"Station chief, I've discovered a Japanese spy lying in wait!"

Upon hearing this, Chi Tiecheng immediately became excited, grinning as he rubbed his hands together.

You can tell he was really happy.

"A Japanese spy has been discovered?"

Is this true?

Ye Shaohong paused slightly as he flipped through the interrogation transcript, then looked up at Chi Tiecheng. To be honest, Ye Shaohong was somewhat surprised.

They had only been in their new posts in Jiangcheng for a few days, and he himself hadn't even found any clues about the Japanese spies yet, but unexpectedly, Chi Tiecheng had taken the lead.

However, he was not jealous.

There were no messy emotional changes either.

Because his status and position are different now, as the station chief of the Jiangcheng Station of the Special Service Department, he will have a share of the credit for all the merits made by the station's personnel.

Therefore, he was happy to see that Chi Tiecheng had made some progress.

"Here's what happened..."

Through Chi Tiecheng's narration, Ye Shaohong gradually learned the whole story.

It turns out it was all a coincidence.

These past few days, hasn't Chi Tiecheng been interrogating those traitors and collaborators in the prison?

His methods were too brutal. During today's interrogation, because the torture used by Chi Tiecheng was too severe, one traitor couldn't hold on any longer and confessed.

But he confessed to very little.

The amount was so small that Chi Tiecheng neither believed it nor could it satisfy him.

Chi Tiecheng suspected that the traitor was dishonest and wanted to hide his true intentions.

He then subjected that traitor to another set of tortures.

The traitors and sellouts were beaten so badly that they cried and begged for mercy, and even knelt down before Chi Tiecheng on the spot.

He wept and wailed, stating that he was indeed a worthless person, unworthy of being human, and that he had forgotten national righteousness after being tempted by the Japanese devils' monetary interests.

On the one hand, she cried to Chi Tiecheng, saying that he had really confessed everything.

There's nothing left to hide.

In this situation, logically speaking, the interrogation of that traitor should have ended. But Chi Tiecheng was different.

He was too ambitious and eager to make new contributions, so he thought of pushing that traitor and sellout even harder.

Anyway, there's no need to show any mercy to these beasts.

He then ordered his interrogators to take action against the traitor and sellout again.

Perhaps Chi Tiecheng's methods were too brutal, or perhaps Chi Tiecheng had truly driven that traitor to a dead end, leaving the traitor with no choice but to start making baseless accusations.

The traitor first accused one of his colleagues of being suspected of defecting to the enemy and betraying the country, and also listed his colleague's sneaky behavior.

Chi Tiecheng knew he was making baseless accusations, but he didn't stop him.

They listened with great interest.

After the traitors and sellouts finished their accusations, Chi Tiecheng silently shook his head.

Tell that traitor and collaborator that the person he's talking about and what he's done are not enough to arouse suspicion.

Chi Tiecheng told him to think about it again.

If that traitor and sellout still can't come up with any valuable clues or intelligence, then he'll have to endure another round of severe torture.

The traitor was forced into a corner and could only try his best to recall his past experiences.

Then, he opened his mouth and bit several more people.

All of them were rejected by Chi Tiecheng.

At the last moment, the traitor actually thought of a suspicious person. According to his account, the person was a middle school teacher.

They lived in the next alleyway from their house.

He said he had seen that the middle school teacher once made only one very special dish during the Chinese New Year.

He even folded a very special wind chime out of paper. He happened to be visiting at the time, and seeing it, he was curious and asked a few questions.

These things don't seem like things from our Chinese culture. I asked the middle school teacher where he learned them.

Upon hearing his question, the middle school teacher appeared alarmed.

In front of the traitor and collaborator, the middle school teacher directly attacked and tore up the wind chimes he had just folded.

Then they argued that it wasn't anything new.

He just tried folding it haphazardly.

This was originally a very ordinary little thing, it happened, it was seen, and in the blink of an eye, the traitor and sellout forgot about it.

However, a few months later, when that traitor was drinking and chatting with a friend, his friend told him about the New Year customs of the Japanese.

There are still some differences between it and our Chinese civilization.

For example, the Japanese, just like us Chinese, celebrated the Lunar New Year.

It was only after the Meiji Restoration that they began to fully embrace Western culture, and then the Japanese changed the traditional Lunar New Year to the Gregorian New Year.

Also, when the Japanese celebrate the New Year, they eat ehōmaki (a type of Japanese pastry) and display kadomatsu (a type of Japanese pine decoration) and shimenaka (another type of Japanese shrine decoration) at their doorsteps.

They can make Jingbing (a type of flatbread).

On the first day of the new year, the Japanese soldiers would dress in exquisite costumes and ring the temple bell 108 times.

It symbolizes the removal of a year's worth of troubles.

This knowledge was quite novel, so the traitor inquired about it in detail.

Upon inquiring, he was surprised to discover that the kadomatsu and shimenatsu that his friend had described were very similar to the things his neighbor, a middle school teacher, had folded.

The novel food made by the middle school teacher looked exactly like the Huifang rolls that the traitor's friend had mentioned.

They are all made from black beans.

When he thought about these things, he couldn't help but wonder how his neighbor, a middle school teacher, knew about these Japanese devils' special New Year customs.

Did he study in Japan?

That's right.

Even though he had some doubts at the time, he never considered that his neighbor, the middle school teacher, might be a Japanese soldier hiding in the shadows.

I thought it was during the Republic of China era, when there were hundreds of thousands, nearly a million, of people who had studied in Japan.

He didn't pay much attention to the matter.

Today, the traitor was cornered by Chi Tiecheng and made baseless accusations against several people, but still got nowhere. Then he suddenly realized what had happened and recalled this experience. He then recounted the story to Chi Tiecheng.

This immediately piqued Chi Tiecheng's interest.

Chi Tiecheng asked him to recall the events in detail. Then, Chi Tiecheng took the interrogation records and went to find Park Ji-yong, the Korean collaborator who they had just captured from the police station a few days earlier.

Chi Tiecheng confirmed the credibility of the traitor's confession through Park Ji-yong's words.

Chi Tiecheng then confirmed that the traitor's neighbor, a middle school teacher, was indeed quite likely a Japanese spy who had gone undercover.

He rushed over to Ye Shaohong.

He wanted Ye Shaohong to approve his actions in arresting and interrogating the middle school teacher...