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

Chapter 709 Public Sentiment Inflamed

Time waits for no one.

As the people of the mountain city eagerly awaited their arrival, noon soon arrived.

At this moment, the central square is already filled with people.

It was so crowded that there was hardly any room to stand.

Among this crowd, besides ordinary people from the mountain town, there were also many students who skipped school and soldiers who had taken leave.

Everyone was waiting for the arrival of the Secret Service.

"Drip drip!"

A car horn sounded in the distance, followed by a dozen open-top military vehicles led by two sedans.

The convoy moved slowly and soon arrived at the edge of the central square.

Without the soldiers in the vehicles needing to remind them, the onlookers spontaneously stepped back to the sides, making way for the convoy.

As the convoy drove by, the onlookers initially remained calm and watched quietly.

But when the convoy carrying Japanese prisoners arrived, the situation suddenly changed.

"It's a Japanese devil! Shoot him!"

“You beasts who deserve to be torn to pieces, give me back my son…”

"Kill him, kill him..."

"I want to avenge my father and brother..."

Almost instantly, a cacophony of shouts erupted from both sides of the convoy.

Amid the curses, some of the prepared mountain town residents took out stones and rubble from their pockets and bamboo baskets.

It slammed down hard on those Japanese prisoners.

The people's anger is understandable.

The Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing both saw the participation of men from Sichuan, and many people sacrificed their lives in these two battles.

Among the onlookers were family members of those who had died defending their homeland.

They wanted to vent their anger, and no one could find fault with that.

Even when some of the stones and rubble they threw veered off course and hit the soldiers in the convoy, the soldiers simply covered their faces with their hands and did not do anything drastic.

The reason for this is simply to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

Moreover, before the convoy left the Special Service Station in Shancheng, Ye Shaohong had specifically given orders not to harm civilians. This further fueled the agitation of the onlookers in Shancheng.

Fortunately, although the people could not hide their anger, they still maintained basic rationality. Apart from a few people who tried to climb onto the vehicles and attack the Japanese prisoners, but were stopped by the escorting soldiers, the rest of the people did not become too agitated.

The road ahead continued to open slowly, and soon the lead car arrived in the heart of Central Park.

Police had already cleared the area in advance.

The city's garrison troops were also on guard around the area, and an execution site was set up.

As the vehicle moved forward, the onlookers gradually noticed something unusual.

What did they see?

To their surprise, they discovered that the prisoners escorted by the Special Service Station in Yamashiro this time were not just a dozen or so Japanese soldiers, but also several traitors and collaborators. In addition to these twenty-odd people, there were also forty or fifty female students being escorted by the soldiers.

The female students were also frightened by the scene.

They had never seen so many people before.

I never imagined that the people of this mountain city would be so angry and hateful towards the Japanese devils and traitors.

Some of the more timid ones burst into tears when the onlookers yelled at them and pointed at them.

"What's going on? Why are so many female students being escorted here?"

"Are they also traitors and sellouts?"

"You don't know this, do you? I've already inquired about it. These female students are all from Yamashiro Girls' High School. Many of them are connected to Japanese spies and were just arrested by the Yamashiro Station of the Special Service yesterday."

"I just don't understand why they were brought to this execution ground!" "Hmph! Maybe it's for some reason, to teach them a lesson. I dare say that there are definitely traitors among these female students. The secret service brought them here to identify the traitors."

"Pah! A student, huh? Have you no shame?"

"How foolish! Why would a perfectly good Chinese citizen choose to be a dog for the Japanese devils!"

The onlookers were whispering amongst themselves, or rather, they had no intention of hiding anything. Their voices, full of disdain and anger, reached the ears of the arrested female students, making them even more frightened.

More and more female students cried, and those few who were secretly involved with Ouyang Hui were almost scared out of their wits.

He was trembling all over, his face was deathly pale, and he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into on the spot.

They regretted it. But what good was regret now? They had already been led to the execution ground, and faced with the impassioned crowd, they were afraid.

"They wouldn't want to execute us too, would they?"

"No... I don't want to die! I'm only a teenager! I have a bright future ahead of me, so many years of life ahead of me! I don't want to die!"

"Why, why are you doing this to us? What did we do wrong?"

"Who is it? Who among you has betrayed us and sided with the Japanese? Step forward now, or we'll all be implicated!"

"Ouyang Hui, you bitch, you've made us suffer so much! Even if I die, I'll become a vengeful ghost and come back to take revenge on you. I'll tear you apart, eat your flesh and blood, and drink your blood!"

"Mom... I was wrong, I shouldn't have..."

"Please, let me go. I'll tell you everything you want to know, okay?"

The female students were terrified; they cried out and screamed.

Among the crowd, some of the female students' parents also came over.

Seeing their daughter being led to the execution ground with a gun pointed at her lower back in front of the entire mountain town, they were both worried and ashamed.

"My son, how could you be so foolish...?"

"Sir, sir, that's my daughter! My daughter has been framed! Please let her go!"

"Kill her, she deserves to die! She dared to betray her country and become a traitor. I'll pretend I never had this beast. I'll kill her today, and I won't even collect her body. I'll just throw her into the mass grave outside the city and let the wild dogs eat her!"

……

Amidst shouts, the convoy moved slowly forward, finally managing to enter the central square.

As the convoy came to a complete stop, Ye Shaohong, Chi Tiecheng, and Yu Manli got out of the vehicles. However, none of them were wearing military uniforms today.

As secret agents, they cannot reveal their faces; doing so would be tantamount to completely ruining their careers.

So today, they were dressed in ordinary soldier's uniforms and mingled among the soldiers escorting them.

The person actually brought to the forefront to carry out this execution was someone Ye Shaohong randomly selected from the logistics section of the Special Service Department's Shancheng Station.

This person does have some talent for performing.

Facing the countless onlookers in the central square, he showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, he was eager to try and his face was full of excitement. After secretly glancing at Ye Shaohong and receiving Ye Shaohong's permission, the man immediately took out the tin megaphone that had been prepared in advance from the car and walked with an arrogant gait directly onto the high platform that had been set up.

"Quiet, everyone, please be quiet." "I am Liu Feihu, an employee of the Special Service's Shancheng Station, in charge of today's public execution!"

“I know that everyone has come here today to witness the execution.”

"I know you're all filled with anger!"

"But today's execution is different from the past; there have been some new changes. Please wait a moment while I explain in detail!"