Traveling through the Republic of China to become a special agent, the system is very easy for me

Chapter 683 Yuan Ye in the Mountain City (26)

He stopped in his tracks. Chu Xiaoya looked at him strangely and asked:

"Brother Xiao, what's wrong?"

At this moment, Yuan Ye had already discovered where the danger was coming from. Dozens of small black dots appeared in the sky, accompanied by a roaring sound. The small black dots grew larger and larger, and the air raid alarm immediately sounded. The sound was both piercing and heart-wrenching. Pedestrians on the street were in chaos, running in all directions.

The plane quickly flew overhead and dropped a dense barrage of bombs. Yuan Ye knew it was too late to run away. His sense of danger was growing stronger. He saw a ditch a few meters away by the street and, without thinking, grabbed the bewildered Chu Xiaoya beside him, tackled her to the ground, and then rolled quickly toward the ditch with her in his arms.

Just as they fell into the ditch, a bomb came hurtling down and struck the spot where they had just been standing. With a deafening roar, shrapnel and dirt flew everywhere.

Explosions continued to erupt. Yuan Ye buried Chu Xiaoya beneath him, as rubble and dirt rained down on him. He could feel the warm body beneath him trembling with fear. He saw flames erupting on both sides of the street, houses collapsing in the explosions and turning into ruins. The streets were littered with wounded and dead, filled with cries of pain and groans—it was a scene of utter carnage!

The bombing continued, and Japanese planes continued to circle in the sky. Groups of monks rushed out of the gate of Luohan Temple and ran into the streets to rescue the wounded and search for survivors in the collapsed buildings.

Yuan Ye looked up at the sky and saw anti-aircraft shells fired from the ground exploding below the Japanese bombers, forming bursts of shells. Because the altitude was insufficient, they could not cause any damage to the Japanese planes. The Japanese planes continued their indiscriminate bombing without restraint. After dropping all their bombs, they turned and flew away, quickly disappearing into the horizon.

Yuan Ye brushed the mud and pebbles off his body, helped Chu Xiaoya to her feet, and, still shaken, comforted her.

"It's alright, the bombing is over, and it's safe now."

Su Xiaoya's face was pale. Recalling the scene just now, she was still in shock. If Yuan Ye hadn't grabbed her and rolled into the ditch at the critical moment, she would have been blown to pieces by now.

"Brother Xiao, thank you for saving me."

She felt that Yuan Ye was a benefactor in her life, someone she could entrust her life to. It was a pity that he was leaving tomorrow, and she didn't know if she would ever see him again.

Yuan Ye said:

"There's no need to thank me. If I hadn't wanted to go out for a stroll and asked you to be my guide, you wouldn't have encountered any danger."

Yuan Ye appeared apologetic, not wanting Chu Xiaoya to have any undue thoughts. Because Chu Xiaoya's gaze was already somewhat strange; it was an adoring look, one he had seen in Tokugawa Mitsuko's eyes before—he was all too familiar with it.

He avoided Chu Xiaoya's gaze and looked at the busy people on the street, including the monks. Some were treating the wounded, some were cleaning up the bodies, and others were searching for people buried in the ruins.

He said to Chu Xiaoya:

"We can't just stand by and do nothing; let's go and help."

"Okay, that's what I think too."

Chu Xiaoya also witnessed this horrific scene, which shocked her. She had already had this idea and was about to speak up when Yuan Ye brought it up first. It was as if they were telepathically in sync.

The two immediately joined the rescue team. Yuan Ye, with his exceptional hearing, led the rescuers to the locations he had determined. They accurately found many people buried in the rubble, which made everyone present very curious—how could this person be so capable?

Chu Xiaoya proudly explained to them that he was a detective who had returned from the United States, capable of seeing things that others couldn't, then conducting professional analysis, and finally arriving at accurate conclusions.

Because that's what Chu Xiaoya thought, she admired Yuan Ye even more. She had no idea that this was entirely because Yuan Ye had extraordinary hearing, able to determine whether a person buried under rubble was alive and their exact location by listening to their breathing and heartbeat.

Yuan Ye smiled without saying anything in response to her explanation, and it was clear that people had no doubt about her explanation at all, and even praised him as a true professional.

Yuan Ye also saw the receptionist among the monks. The receptionist, who was covered in dust, was looking at him with admiration, seemingly lost in thought. Perhaps he was thinking that this man was a brilliant detective, not only outstanding in his profession but also kind-hearted and compassionate.

They worked until evening, and only after everyone buried in the rubble was rescued did Yuan Ye leave with Chu Xiaoya. The car the bureau had given him had been destroyed, so the two had to walk. Yuan Ye escorted the exhausted Chu Xiaoya to her doorstep and was about to turn away when Chu Xiaoya felt a pang of reluctance. Thinking that he would be leaving tomorrow and she didn't know when they would see each other again, she felt a little sad, and tears welled up in her eyes and streamed down her soft face.

She stared at Yuan Ye intently and said:

"Brother Xiao, you must come back to see me after you've finished your business."

"I'm not leaving tomorrow; I'll leave in a few days."

Yuan Ye looked at Chu Xiaoya, whose eyes were filled with tears, and said.

"why?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Xiaoya immediately stopped crying and started laughing, thinking to herself, "Could it be that Brother Xiao stayed because of me?"

"I feel that I haven't finished my work yet, and I still need to do it. I won't leave until I've finished it."

He didn't stay for Chu Xiaoya's sake. The bombing that happened this afternoon led him to the conclusion that there were still Japanese spies in the mountain city.

The weather had been bad during his stay in the mountain city, and the Japanese planes hadn't come to bomb it. But they chose today to bomb the mountain city, which means they knew that today's clear weather was a good time to bomb. This means that there must have been Japanese spies in the mountain city who provided them with weather intelligence.

He also discovered that the Japanese planes hovered at altitudes just outside the range of the anti-aircraft guns. In areas with anti-aircraft guns, the Japanese planes maintained their altitude, while in areas without anti-aircraft guns, the Japanese planes significantly lowered their altitude, making their bombing more accurate and causing more casualties.

This means that Japanese spies had this intelligence, and someone must have leaked it to them.

Today I witnessed the devastation after the bombing, and if I didn't have the ability to sense danger, I would have died in the bombing today as well.

Whether for public or private reasons, he had to find the traitors and Japanese spies and avenge the victims; he had no choice but to do so!

He also sensed that what happened today might lead Dai Yunong and Chu Yuntian to ask him to stay.