kingnovel Chapter 638 It’s Better to Kill the Wrong One Than Let Him Go
Chapter 638 It’s Better to Kill the Wrong One Than Let Him Go
Xiang Shoushi's heart sank when he heard this. This meant that everyone living in the house had left and would most likely never come back. Something must have happened.
Could it be that Yan Mingcheng had been exposed? Or was he fine, but had been transferred to a new location as ordered by his superiors, and he hadn't had a chance to contact them yet?
Of course, there is also a possibility that Yan Mingcheng regretted it and did not want to serve No. 76 anymore. After moving to a new location, he took the opportunity to decouple, but this possibility is not very high.
He felt that the only thing he could do now was to wait and see if Yan Mingcheng would contact him on his own initiative.
He asked Hu Deping to go eat quickly and hurried to Li Qunshi's office. He knew that they must be very anxious and waiting for his report.
He explained the situation. After listening to it, Li Qunshi and Nanyun Masako shared the same idea as Xiang Shoushi. They could only wait until the matter was clear. If the insider had not been in contact, then something must have happened.
Yuan Ye knew they still had illusions, but that was normal, after all, this insider was still quite important to them. It was just that they had no way of finding out the truth, and after a long time, they naturally gave up.
What they never expected was that the person who created this mystery was now in the same room with them.
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Nothing happened in the next few days. Xiang Shoushi never received any contact from Yan Mingcheng, and Li Qunshi and Nanyun Masako had basically given up hope.
Wu Shibao worked for several days but failed to find the so-called traitor. In fact, he didn't believe that there was a traitor among these people. These people were all brought by him from the Green Gang and were all his brothers. Without any evidence, he was unwilling to torture them. He had learned a lesson before. Yan Ping had tortured them twice to find the traitor, but they finally confessed under torture, and the real traitor was still not found.
When Wu Shibao reported to Li Qunshi afterwards, he assured his men that there was no traitor. Li Qunshi also reported to Nanyun Masako, but Nanyun Masako did not say anything, and the matter of investigating the traitor seemed to have come to nothing.
When Yuan Ye came to No. 76 again, he heard shocking news that all of Wu Shibao's more than ten men were dead.
This was something Yuan Ye had not expected. Needless to say, it was definitely done by Masako Nanyun. However, Masako Nanyun did not kill them openly. Li Qunshi said that the Special High Section had a major operation, and Masako Nanyun asked him to transfer Wu Shibao's dozen or so men to him to cooperate with him in this operation.
Li Qunshi felt something was amiss. Why only these dozen people? However, he felt that Nanyun Masako didn't intend to kill these people, because the special envoy had advised her, and she had retracted her words at the time. Perhaps she wanted to test these people through this operation.
So he didn't think much about it and immediately sent these people to Masako Nanyun. Who knew that the next day Masako Nanyun called and said that the operation had failed. It was a trap set by the Military Control Commission. Those more than ten people were all dead. They were killed by the top killer of the Military Control Commission.
Li Qunshi, of course, didn't believe it. How could it be such a coincidence? It had to be Masako Nanyun. He hung up the phone, furious. But there was nothing he could do. How could he dare offend the Japanese? He told Wu Shibao what Nanyun Masako had said. Wu Shibao also couldn't believe it was such a coincidence. He was inexplicably sad and angry, jumping up and down, saying it must have been the Japanese who did it and demanding an explanation.
Li Qunshi slapped him in the face and scolded him, asking how he could not trust Section Chief Nanyun and whether he wanted to die. Wu Shibao immediately became depressed and could only swallow his anger and bring the bodies back, announcing to the public that they had been killed by the Military Control Commission.
Yuan Ye had no sympathy for the death of these spies. He just felt that he had underestimated the insidiousness and cruelty of Masako Nanyun and thought that he would really not pursue the matter.
What Yuan Ye didn't know was that after Yuan Ye's persuasion, Nanyun Masako really didn't want to pursue the matter. But the disappearance of the insider stimulated her. She had originally held high hopes, and she was convinced that Li Zhongfa's death must be related to the insider. She couldn't swallow this breath, so she decided to take action against these dozen people, preferring to kill the wrong people rather than let them go. In order to cover up her tracks, she found this excuse.
She knew Li Qunshi wouldn't believe it, but what good would it do? Would he dare to bite his master again? If he really had blood, how could he become a traitor?
Yuan Ye knew that Li Qunshi was just complaining when he told him this. He pretended to be surprised and said:
"Director Li, why didn't you tell me about this in advance? Maybe I could have stopped her."
Li Qunshi sighed and said:
"How would I know she would still target these people? I thought she had given up the idea after you talked to her last time."
Yuan Ye sighed:
"It seems like what I said didn't have any effect. Since it's already happened, let's not dwell on it anymore. Let's just think about how to calm people down."
Li Qunshi frowned and said:
"This is the only way now. Some people down below are already discussing this. I've already issued an order: anyone who dares to make irresponsible comments will be arrested and shot if discovered. This has improved the situation a little. Otherwise, it would be difficult to carry out future work."
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In the morning, Yuan Ye had just arrived at the office when he heard Li Chengxian's voice. Su Xiwu hadn't arrived yet, and Li Chengxian was sitting in his office. Yuan Ye thought, this guy is finally back. He's been gone for about ten days, and I don't know where he went or what he did.
During this period, Yuan Ye had been very cautious, worried that he had some intentions, but he did not find anyone following him. Everything seemed normal, which made Yuan Ye wonder if he was overthinking.
He was just about to make tea when the phone on the table rang. He immediately answered it. It was Iwai Yuichi calling. He told Yuan Ye that he had returned to Shanghai last night and asked Yuan Ye to meet him at Iwai Mansion.
Yuan Ye said he would go right away, hung up the phone, and thought to himself, why did Iwai Yuichi ask him to see him as soon as he returned to Shanghai? What could be going on?
As he was thinking, he heard a knock on the door. He realized that the person knocking on the door was none other than Li Chengxian.
"Please come in!"
Yuan Ye said.
He thought, this guy has never come to see him so early, what does he want now?