Spy Wars: Return of the Red Luan

Chapter 136 His identity is truly a mystery

The following afternoon, Number Five arrived at the small building. In the secret room, Section Chief Wang Yong reported the recorded contents to Number Five one by one.

"It was Comrade Zhao Shiyu who first reported on Comrade Chen Jiehua's identity, right? He himself said that he joined the party in Shanghai in 11, and was later pursued by the military and police, and fled to Japan with a passenger ship."

“Last time, he recklessly followed Mio here, didn’t say a word, just bowed, dropped off a suitcase of US dollars and left.”

“Based on my intuition, I believed he was one of our comrades. However, due to organizational discipline, we still tried our best to search all the archives left in Shanghai, but there was no record of him. We also asked people who were still alive after the military and police incident in 11, and none of them remembered that such a person had ever joined the party.”

"So you told me not to contact them first in the subsequent times?"

"He played a great role in eliminating the traitor Bai, ensuring the operation was foolproof; when Huang Dihong betrayed the country, he promptly warned you and gave you concrete evidence."

"We thought our covert investigation would come to nothing, but at the beginning of this year, we accidentally found someone through the Southern Bureau who turned out to be one of our comrades—Chen Jiehua's childhood friend!"

According to his description, he and Chen Jiehua were both from Yixing. In 11, through a connection with someone from the same hometown, they went to Shanghai to study at the preparatory class of the Japanese Army Academy. After passing the preparatory exam in 13, Chen Jiehua disappeared in a conflict with a Japanese man named Aoki Seigen.

"Disappeared? What happened next?"

"..." Number Five recounted the information he had gathered from Zhao Yiyue to Wang Yong.

After listening to his superior's description, Section Chief Wang Yong fell into deep thought.

"According to our comrade, the current Chen Jiehua looks almost exactly like the original Chen Jiehua, but he doesn't feel like the original Chen Jiehua at all? His most obvious criterion is that the current Chen Jiehua can no longer speak the Yixing dialect?"

“Look, according to his description of Chen Jiehua’s learning trajectory, he has never studied medicine, right? But the current Chen Jiehua told me personally last night that he has very high Western medical skills and can save lives when needed! That is to say, he is very confident and has very high medical skills.”

"Also, look at this keepsake he gave me. It has a strange shape; it looks like a scalpel, very similar to the one Dr. Ke used last time, but it's clearly more advanced than Dr. Ke's!"

"Let's reconstruct his trajectory as we know it so far: First, he's from Yixing, and with that comrade, that leader, what's that comrade's surname?"

"You can call me Comrade Zhao."

"Okay, according to Comrade Zhao, in 11, they went to Japan via Shanghai through their hometown connections. According to Comrade Zhao Shiyu's account, Chen Jiehua joined the Party in Shanghai in 11. After joining the Party, he fled to Japan due to pursuit by the military and police and lost contact with the organization."

"This period of time is basically consistent, but there are some conflicts in the details. Comrade Zhao said that he and Chen Jiehua definitely had never joined the Party, but in fact there is no conflict here. Chen Jiehua could have secretly joined the Party without telling Comrade Zhao."

"At that time, Chen Jiehua may have just joined the party when the incident occurred. They went to Japan, while his party introducer in Shanghai may have unfortunately died, and even the documents were lost."

"Theoretically, this makes sense." "Okay, next is Japan. According to Comrade Zhao, Chen Jiehua was fine until he officially enrolled. It was during a conversation with a Japanese man named Aoki Seigen that Chen Jiehua disappeared, while Aoki Seigen was unharmed. And Aoki Seigen looks almost exactly like Chen Jiehua!"

"However, the current Chen Jiehua is known to the Japanese as Aoki Seigen!"

"That means, most likely, the person who went missing during that communication incident between the two was not Chen Jiehua, but Aoki Qingxuan!"

"However, there are a few points that don't make sense. First, the original Chen Jiehua could speak his hometown dialect but his Japanese was very poor. But now the opposite is true. He can't speak the Yixing dialect but speaks Japanese very well."

"But think about it, leader. This is just Comrade Zhao's account. Chen Jiehua has never admitted to it. Whether he speaks the Yixing dialect or not, only he himself knows. Perhaps he is deliberately hiding it from his fellow townsman for the sake of safety while infiltrating?"

"Think about it, if this person were a Japanese man named Aoki Seigen, according to Comrade Zhao's description, he probably wouldn't have risked saving that group of Chinese students!"

"If he were Japanese, given his current position, he would already be a major general at such a young age. I don't know if there are any like that in Japanese history, but they are certainly rare. Moreover, he is the commander-in-chief of the naval fleet. He has absolutely no need to continue to be hypocritical with us. He knows about this small building. There are thousands of Japanese marines in Shanghai. I don't understand why he would do this. He could have simply used force directly."

"Moreover, I could feel the sincerity in his excitement when he saw me! So, I choose to believe him; he is our comrade!"

“Your reasoning makes a lot of sense, and I choose to believe him. As for the other mysteries, such as his medical skills, we’ll let him solve them himself when the time is right.”

"As for language, according to Mr. Sorge of the Comintern, he not only spoke Japanese, but also English, German and Russian."

"What happened to him was legendary. Last time, he took Mio to America. Later, they met Mr. Sorge in the Weimar Republic. They went through thick and thin together and formed a fighting friendship. It wasn't until Warsaw, Poland, that the two revealed their identities to each other. He told Mr. Sorge that he was Chen Jiehua from the CCP Special Branch."

"Such a legendary thing!"

"Do you remember that report by Mio? When they returned to Japan from Moscow, Chen Jiehua used a series of tricks, a feint, a diversionary tactic, and a scheme to kill someone with a borrowed knife. According to a secret report from comrades in Moscow later, this incident severely damaged the Kwantung Army's intelligence agency, with at least 60% of the Kwantung Army's intelligence personnel losing their jobs."

"I really can't see through him. Sometimes he can turn the world upside down with a flick of his wrist. He can easily set up a scheme and achieve amazing results. While using the Soviet Red Army as a tool to kill the enemy, he also solved a lot of problems for the organization and easily rescued many arrested comrades."

"But sometimes he acts like a child when he's being temperamental. That time he came over so impulsively, it seemed like he just wanted to see me, without even saying a word! He just dropped off a box of money and ran away!"

"And then there was the plain text telegram from a while back, which was both laughable and absurd."

"Hey, boss, you know what? According to him, the clear-text telegram was also something he did on purpose, part of his plan, and it was very effective. Before that, he was just a colonel in the army, but because of this plan, after going back to Tokyo and returning, he was a major general in the army and a rear admiral in the navy, and he also got the position of commander-in-chief of the First Overseas Fleet."

"Oh? Is there anything else?"

(End of this chapter)