The Spy

Chapter 36 Familiar Taste
There was a grenade and several paper packages in the box. When he opened the packages, he saw white powder inside. Xu Qingyun didn't dare to touch these things as no one knew what they were. He took them back for testing first.

"Continue the search."

Xu Qingyun put away these things and asked Yan Ming to continue searching the bedroom while he went to another room.

They were indeed developing photos, but because the lights were on, the film was exposed and the content could no longer be seen.

Even if there is no exposure, the developed photo will be a blank one.

The room was simple and there were not many things in it. Xu Qingyun checked carefully and found a secret compartment in a cabinet.

There were many photos they had taken in the secret compartment, but they were all ordinary scenes and nothing unusual could be seen for the time being.

Xu Qingyun put away the photos, and after confirming with Yan Ming that the house had been thoroughly searched, he left the action team to continue guarding the place, and the two returned to Tianjin Station.

Li Liangwen and his wife had been arrested, along with their children. They were being interrogated in the torture room. Wu Shaoshu and Xu Zhanjie were both there.

"Qingyun is back."

Xu Zhanjie stretched out his hand and invited Xu Qingyun to sit next to him.

The first person to be interrogated was Li Liangwen. He was a traitor and his resistance was not as strong as that of the Japanese spies. Prying his mouth open would be helpful for subsequent interrogations.

When Xu Qingyun came in, Li Liangwen had already started talking and was describing the process of how he was instigated to defect.

Just as Xu Qingyun guessed, Li Liangwen's wife Peng Sujiao fell into the trap and was deceived by a conspiracy of people, and owed more than 50,000 oceans in gambling debts.

The other party had the IOU with her signature and fingerprint, so they couldn't deny the payment even if they wanted to.

After Li Liangwen came back, they immediately came to his house to collect the gambling debts. There was no way they could afford to pay back so much money, and even if they sold all the land at home, they still couldn't pay much back.

The other party invited local thugs from Tianjin to come forward. These thugs have considerable power and are backed by some powerful people.

Dashu is equivalent to the top gangster. In troubled times, this kind of people have considerable power, and some even have close ties with the top leaders of the Guo Party.

There are such people in Shanghai and Tianjin as well.

Li Liangwen knew that he could not afford to offend them, so he asked them for a few days' grace period. The next day, someone came to his door. It was the woman that Peng Sujiao contacted. She asked him to follow their instructions and do the job. Not only could all the gambling debts be written off, but she would also give him money if he did the job well.

Otherwise, he would sell his wife and children.

His children are still young, especially his daughter. He knows very well how miserable her future will be if she is sold. He has no choice but to agree to the other party first.

The first thing the other party asked him to do was to report the detailed situation of the Military Intelligence Department's Tianjin Station.

Only then did he realize that the other party was a Japanese spy and that they had set up this trap just for him. Unfortunately, he could no longer get off the ship and had to do as they asked.

For submitting the information, he received a reward of fifty dollars.

After that, he was asked to do several things, including the internal code of Tianjin Station, what information was available, the details of the people who came when Wu Shaoshu took office, etc.

Li Liangwen had no choice but to do everything the other party told him to do.

However, Xu Qingyun did not report the case closing report on his own initiative, but it was a task assigned to him by the other party. He would unlock the door, sneak into Xu Zhanjie's office at noon, take photos of all the case closing reports, and hide the films in an old telephone in the warehouse.

He disassembled the camera and stored the parts separately, so Yan Ming couldn't find it.

I have to say that Li Liangwen’s technical level is indeed very high and he is a talented person.

After he finished taking the photos yesterday, he went home from get off work and told his wife. His wife had an agreement with the people over there to call them at a fixed time and meet up after notifying them to pick up the things.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual at the station, Li Liangwen did not think much about it and thought that this mission could be completed smoothly like the previous ones.

As for the other party's true identity, he guessed that he was Japanese, but he had no idea what his name was or what department he worked in.

After listening to his story, Xu Qingyun shook his head slightly. Li Liangwen felt a little sad because he did not gain the trust of the other party at all. Perhaps it was because he was forced to do all these things and did not really agree with them.

But no matter what he thought in his heart, he was truly a traitor and a true traitor.

After the trial of Li Liangwen, Peng Sujiao was immediately brought in for trial.

Peng Sujiao's performance was not as good as her man's. After being caught, she clamored to confess, hoping that she could be spared.

She also didn't know the other party's identity. Every time, the other party would take the initiative to contact her, or notify her by slipping a note through the door. She would then tell her man, and then call him at an agreed time to inform him of the progress of the mission, and finally hand over the information.

In the past six months, they provided intelligence five times and received a reward of more than 600 dollars.

This time the bounty was the highest, three hundred dollars, but unfortunately he was caught before he could get it.

"Bring that woman here."

After interrogating Peng Sujiao, the next step was to interrogate the woman who had contact with her. According to Peng Sujiao's account, she had met this woman three times, and each time she met with her to pass on information.

The woman had an ordinary appearance and her height was similar to the woman who answered the phone when Yan Ming investigated before. She should be the one that Peng Sujiao notified before.

"Qingyun, you come to judge."

Wu Shaoshu suddenly said that Xu Qingyun was in charge of the case and the suspect was arrested by Jie Yongshan, and they had already got the credit.

The final interrogation can be completely left to Xu Qingyun.

For Wu Shaoshu, all he wanted was the final result, which was to get a confession.

"Yes, stationmaster."

Xu Qingyun lowered his head, looked at the woman, and then ordered: "Fight for half an hour first."

Everyone looked up at the same time, looking at her in surprise. Isn't it the procedure of interrogation to ask questions first and then beat if she doesn't confess? Why did the order change when it came to Xu Qingyun?

Wu Shaoshu wanted to ask, but he had just said that the interrogation would be left to Xu Qingyun, so he could only be patient and see how Xu Qingyun interrogated.

Soon, miserable howls were heard in the interrogation room.

The whip hit her body, tearing off bloody pieces of cloth each time. In less than half an hour, the woman was covered with scars, with not a single healthy spot on her body.

Until Xu Qingyun called out to stop, the people who were taking action did not dare to stop.

After half an hour of beating, the woman fainted.

"Wake her up with salt water."

Xu Qingyun said softly, and the person who did it shuddered. With so many external injuries on his body, one could imagine how it would feel if salt water was poured on it.

The intense stinging sensation woke the woman up. She raised her head, a little dazed, and immediately understood her situation.

"Tell me, your name, position, and code name."

Xu Qingyun asked slowly. The woman looked up at him with anger in her eyes. She knew that it was this young man who ordered the torture of her and beat her for half an hour without asking any questions.

"Pooh."

The woman spat out thick bloody phlegm, but her performance made Xu Qingyun smile. It seemed that she was a real Japanese spy, and Xu Qingyun found a familiar smell in her.

Several Japanese spies who were captured before were exactly the same as her at the beginning. They were stubborn to the end, but eventually they could not endure the torture and confessed.

(End of this chapter)