Courtyard House: Home Alone

Upon arriving at Wusongkou, he first targeted the largest battleship. With a teleportation, he appeared in the battleship's command room.

The Japanese officers on duty inside were dozing off and hadn't even realized what was happening before Lin Yifan had taken care of them all. He then proceeded to clean out each cabin, quickly eliminating all the Japanese soldiers from the entire battleship.

Looking at this battleship, which was quite large, Lin Yifan was overjoyed. He immediately put it into his spatial storage, thinking that it would be suitable as a training ship for the Red Party when he returned.

After dealing with the battleships, he used the same method to approach the two heavy cruisers and three destroyers, clearing out the Japanese soldiers on board and storing them all in his spatial storage. Naturally, the remaining two light cruisers did not escape either.

In less than an hour, all the Japanese warships moored at Wusongkou became spoils of war in his spatial storage.

Next, instead of going to the Shiliupu Wharf first, he went to the Bund, which was a concentration of foreign banks and a place where many Japanese conglomerates had opened trading houses. Their warehouses must have contained a lot of gold and scarce goods.

Lin Yifan crept along the street, silently dealing with the patrol teams and Japanese sentries along the way. As he went, he collected all the gold, silver dollars, banknotes, bills, and scarce goods from the Japanese trading companies and banks into his spatial storage, even emptying the advanced industrial machinery stored in the trading companies.

He moved extremely fast, using teleportation to move around, and the whole process did not alert anyone. By the time all the targets on the Bund were cleared, it was just past 3 a.m.

After collecting the items, Lin Yifan turned around and rushed to the Shiliupu Wharf. The cargo ships on the wharf and the supplies in the warehouses were naturally not spared either. He went up to any cargo ship flying the Japanese flag, cleaned up the crew, and took the goods away directly.

The grain, medicine, munitions, and industrial raw materials piled up in the dock warehouses were all packed up and taken away, leaving only empty warehouses and empty berths.

By the time everything was packed up, it was almost dawn. Lin Yifan found a secluded corner, launched the 022 boat, and smoothly sailed out of Wusongkou, heading north.

Leaning back in his command chair, Lin Yifan calculated his gains along the way and couldn't help but laugh out loud. From Hong Kong Island to Keelung and then to Shanghai, he had acquired more than a dozen warships and more than a dozen cargo ships.

There were also mountains of supplies and gold, enough to build up the Red Party's naval foundation and fill most of the supply gap in Beiping.

All that's left is to bring these things back, and this mission will be successfully completed.

At 1 a.m. the next day, the 022 speedboat approached the cargo terminal in Tanggu. When it was about five nautical miles from the terminal, Lin Yifan turned off the engine, and the speedboat came to a complete stop after gliding for less than a nautical mile.

Then, he teleported ashore, stowed the speedboat, and released the Ford. He drove straight to Beiping; after being away for more than half a month, it was time to go back, rest, and sort out the next steps.

After driving for almost three hours, they entered Beiping City just as dawn was breaking. Lin Yifan followed the familiar streets directly back to his residence. He parked the car at the entrance of the east courtyard, teleported back to his room, and then fell asleep immediately.

When Lin Yifan woke up, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. He had slept for a full fourteen hours. He glanced at the dark sky outside the window, got out of bed, and walked to the main room where the lights were still on.

Yu Wenxiu, Tian Xinyi, and Xia Yan were sitting in the main room, their eyes fixed on his room door, seemingly having been waiting for him for quite some time.

Lin Yifan rubbed his throbbing temples and greeted her with a smile, "I'm sorry to have worried you, Sister Wenxiu. I'm exhausted from the long journey and I fell asleep as soon as I hit the bed."

Upon hearing this, Yu Wenxiu immediately stood up and handed over a bowl of millet porridge that had been kept warm on the stove: "I knew you had worked hard and would be hungry when you woke up. We saved some millet porridge for you. Come and have some to tide you over."

Tian Xinyi also got up and pushed the dishes of pickled vegetables on the table toward Lin Yifan. Xia Yan sat in her original seat, looking at him with undisguised joy in her eyes, and said softly, "Young master, you're finally back."

I've heated the bathwater; you can take a good bath after you finish eating. We'll give you a good massage, and you'll feel refreshed the next day. You've been running around for so long; you must be sore all over."

Lin Yifan sat down with a smile, and while drinking porridge, he told the three girls about his experiences along the way, only mentioning the safe and smooth things, and lightly omitting the dangerous fights.

When the three women heard him say that Chen Gongshu and the others had gone to Hong Kong Island to help him build his empire, they were all happy. Yu Wenxiu kept adding porridge to his bowl, smiling and saying that now their family's wealth was even greater, and they would have more confidence in the days to come.

After Lin Yifan finished eating and drinking, he went to the bathroom in the backyard, where three girls stripped him naked. Seeing his wealthy and generous appearance made them blush.

After taking a hot bath, the three girls took turns massaging his shoulders, back, waist, and legs, instantly relieving all the fatigue from days of travel.

Lin Yifan leaned against the daybed, looking at the three people sitting around him. He felt a warm feeling in his heart and wondered when he would have some free time to take them to Central, Hong Kong Island, to have a good stroll around, eat some novel things they had never seen before, and see the skyscrapers.

However, he also knew that the war of resistance was now in its final year, a critical time, so he could only keep these thoughts to himself for now and focus on finishing the battle before driving the Japanese out of China.

While giving him a massage, Xia Yan picked up a few newspapers from the side and handed them to him, saying, "Young master, these are newspapers I specially bought these past few days. They say that Deputy Commander Kong and his men have liberated the entire Liaoning province and are now marching towards Jilin province. It won't be long before they besiege Xinjing. That dog emperor is doomed."

Lin Yifan took the newspaper and flipped through two pages. Sure enough, the headlines were all about the victory on the Northeast battlefield. The defeat of the Japanese was a foregone conclusion. Even many foreign journalists were predicting that the Japanese would have to withdraw completely from China in less than six months.

He put down his newspaper, smiled, and nodded: "The progress is faster than we expected. Now the Japanese have lost their stronghold in the Northeast, and the Japanese in the interior are like rootless duckweed, they won't last much longer."

While massaging Lin Yifan's arm, Yu Wenxiu said, "It's not just the Northeast; the fighting has started in Jin-Sui as well. I heard that many Japanese strongholds have been captured. Bald Head's side has also made moves in the south. Now the whole of China is fighting the Japanese, and victory is just around the corner."

Lin Yifan hummed in agreement, and Yu Wenxiu then said softly, "Commander Chen called you a few days ago, saying you had returned from the Northeast a while ago and asking where you had been. It seemed like something urgent had happened."

"Hmm? When did this happen?" Lin Yifan knew that Commander Chen wouldn't call home unless it was something important.

Xia Yan squeezed Lin Yifan's shoulder and said with a smile, "Just the night before last."