The train driver in the courtyard

"Drug name: Sodium thiopental"

"Common name: Truth Serum"

“Source: Stasi.”

In the dim detention room.

Li Aiguo unscrewed the ampoule, picked up the syringe and drew up the medicine. He turned his head and looked at Ji Huai: "Now you should be relieved. This batch of drugs was obtained by Stasi from Bayer Pharmaceuticals. The side effects should not be too serious."

Ji Huai just raised his head slightly to look at Li Aiguo, then closed his eyes again, muttering softly: "Lord, please forgive this lost lamb in front of you."

Seeing him like this, Li Aiguo smiled bitterly and shook his head.

If Ji Huai could cooperate and tell everything, the weather station could save some medicine.

But the old priest firmly believed that his faith could help him overcome all the hardships.

"In that case, I can only do as you wish."

People are always confident that they can control everything about themselves.

After Li Aiguo drew the medicine, he did not do it himself, but handed it to a comrade wearing a white coat and a mask.

"Team Leader Liao Xuesong, thank you for your help."

Injecting truth serum is very dangerous and it is easy to die suddenly after being injected.

For this purpose, Li Aiguo suggested that the meteorological station set up a special drug team to complete this task.

The members of the drug team are all doctors with rich medical knowledge and are loyal and reliable.

Liao Xuesong took the syringe and nodded to the white coats beside him: "Let's get started."

Those people in white coats took out the medical equipment and rescue drugs that had been prepared long ago and stood by on standby at all times.

Ji Huai was tied to a chair with ropes. As the truth serum was injected, his facial muscles began to twitch uncontrollably and the blue veins in his temples throbbed violently.

His pupils first expanded into a dark abyss, and then shrank to the size of a needle tip.

The incandescent light in the interrogation room reflected strange spots of light in his eyes.

"The experimental subject has entered an unconscious state!" After checking Ji Huai's pupils, Liao Xuesong nodded at Li Aiguo.

"Tell me, what's your name?"

"Ji Huai"

"Tell me, are you a man or a woman?"

"man."

Even when people are unconscious, they will try their best to keep the secrets in their hearts. It is necessary to start with some simple questions to guide the other person.

After Li Aiguo asked a few more basic questions, he asked, "How many members of the maintenance committee are in contact with you?"

“Five.”

"Tell me, why do they obey your orders?"

"handle."

Zhou Ke, who was standing next to him, stared at the scene in amazement.

During the interrogation in the previous two days, Ji Huai withstood almost all the means used by the weather station and remained very calm.

Why almost?

Because some methods can only be used once, and the target will die after enduring them.

It was the first time that Zhou Ke had seen such a stubborn person.

If we didn't have different opinions, I would definitely admire him.

but.

Such a strong person, his psychological defenses completely collapsed after being injected with the drug.

People are so fragile.

All this was within Li Aiguo's expectations.

Veritaserum is an anesthetic, but it is also a type of poison.

People always overestimate their own willpower, but in fact they are vulnerable to poison.

This is also the reason why Li Aiguo vowed to be irreconcilable with gambling and drugs in his life.

Some things should never be touched!
Some things should never be touched!
Some things should never be touched!
Say important things three times.

I will accept it even if I am called a fool.

Li Aiguo continued to ask: "Tell me, where are those materials?"

"In the cupboard of the cottage on the west hill."

"Tell me the truth about the Jinling Weather Station incident!"

Li Aiguo raised his tone and stared straight at Ji Huai.

"It's me." Ji Huai made a hoarse sound from his throat, and the bulging blood vessels on his neck were like twisted tree roots.

He suddenly began to recite the Bible in English, with a fluent London suburban accent that was far beyond the reach of Liao Xuesong, who had also studied abroad.

“Heart rate!”

The team member who had been holding a stethoscope as an artificial heart monitor shouted, "The heart rate is 250 and continues to rise. It's about to break 300."

"Neurogen inhibitors!"

Liao Xuesong took the syringe from the team member and stabbed it into Ji Huai's arm.

As the drug was pushed in, his tense shoulders suddenly relaxed, his head drooped weakly to his chest, and saliva dripped down his chin onto the metal frame of the interrogation chair.

Liao Xuesong picked up the stethoscope and examined Ji Huai, then nodded to Li Aiguo: "No problem, but the target needs to rest for three days before the next interrogation."

The old cat secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Ji Huai still had many secrets, and nothing could happen at this time.

He walked around Ji Huai and suddenly asked a question: "Ji Huai had already cooperated, why did something unexpected happen?"

Li Aiguo lit a cigarette and said in a deep voice: "Maybe it's a self-psychological suggestion."

"Psychological suggestion?" Xing Zhi also came over.

Li Aiguo looked at Liao Xuesong and said, "Team Leader Liao, please tell them about it."

Liao Xuesong understood that Li Aiguo wanted him to show off in front of the leaders of the meteorological station.

He nodded gratefully at Li Aiguo, then pointed at Ji Huai and said, “I have studied the methods of training Dieters in the middle tube, military tube, and Langley before. Generally, Dieters only receive professional skills training.

But for the important ones, they teach self-psychological suggestion.

I don't know the specific details, but what is certain is that these Dittes have a much stronger psychological defense than the average person through common self-psychological suggestion.

They even select certain words as alarms, so that if someone tries to ask them about the content while they are unconscious, they will go into defense mechanism.”

Everyone was stunned. In order to achieve their goal, the enemy would do anything.

Xing Zhi frowned: "So the Jinling Observatory case was hinted by Ji Huai himself, then how can we get the truth out of him?"

"There will always be a way. It's already late. Let's all go back and rest." Li Aiguo smiled.

No one knows how to avoid sensitive words better than him.

The crowd gradually dispersed, and the drug team packed up their equipment and prepared to leave.

Li Aiguo walked up and shook hands with Liao Xuesong again.

"Professor Liao, I'm sorry to bother you this time."

The drug group is a newly formed team, and the team leader deserves credit for enabling it to become combat-ready so quickly.

"This is what I should do. Anesthetics can save lives but also harm people. They can destroy a country but also make it rise."

Liao Xuesong said with a smile: "I grew up in Guangzhou where opium dens were everywhere, and I have seen too many tragedies.

As I had relatives who were severely affected by the disease, I decided to study medicine and became an anesthesiologist.

Just studying medicine can save hundreds or thousands of people, but it cannot save tens of thousands or millions of people.

Thank you for giving me this opportunity.”

Nowadays, there are many people who have real ideals.

Li Aiguo turned and walked outside, took two steps and stopped, looking at Liao Xuesong.

"Please write a report on the structure of the drug team, the precautions during the interrogation, and some details and give it to me."

"Yes!"

At this time, Liao Xuesong only regarded this task as a routine report.

Liao Xuesong never imagined that decades later, he would become an internationally renowned narcotics master, and the drug team he personally formed made countless ditches tremble in fear.

These are all things for later.

Although he failed to crack the Jinling Observatory case for the time being, Li Aiguo got something more important: the handle on those people in the maintenance association.

"Stationmaster Xing, please go to Xiaoxishan and bring back the evidence."

After saying that, Li Aiguo looked at Zhou Ke and said, "Let Zhou Ke go with you."

Xing Zhi didn't expect that even after going through so much, Li Aiguo still didn't completely trust him and let Zhou Ke watch him from the side.

But he still nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll do it right away."

After Xing Zhi and Zhou Ke left, Li Aiguo rubbed his face and yawned, then wandered into the office and found a long bench to lie down on.

A second, more brutal war might be about to begin, and he needed to conserve his energy.

He was extremely nervous these days and slept until noon. Li Aiguo stretched, stood up and prepared to go to the cafeteria for lunch.

At this time, a duty officer at the gate came over hurriedly, with a strange smile on his face, and handed a bouquet of beautiful flowers to Li Aiguo.

There were no flower shops on the streets back then.

The flowers in the bouquet are roses, hydrangeas, and geraniums, which are very common in Jinling. They seem to have been picked from the roadside.

There was also a lotus flower. This was a bit too much. Several flowers in the bouquet were broken, just like what I picked up from the trash can on May 520th in my previous life.

Li Aiguo looked at the bouquet and then at the officer on duty.

The officer on duty looked at the bouquet and then at Li Aiguo.

"Advisor Li, this flower is quite beautiful."

Li Aiguo: "."

Li Aiguo was silent for a moment and asked, "Did you give me this flower?"

It was rare for gay men to give flowers to lesbians in this era, and this was the first time he heard of a lesbian giving flowers to a gay man.

The officer on duty was only amazed and quickly explained, "That's not the case. These flowers were sent by a girl named Hu Xiao. They went through five inspections before they were sent in, and they ended up like this."

"Hu Xiao. That female hostage." Li Aiguo held the flowers and shook his head.

If you have that kind of thought, you might as well eat two more pounds of meat.

It’s just someone’s kindness, and I can’t refuse it.

Li Aiguo turned and went into the house, put the flowers on the table, carried the lunch box, and went to the cafeteria.

Just after finishing the meal, Xing Zhi and Zhou Ke came back with an iron box.

“It wasn’t opened on the way?”

"Absolutely not." Zhou Ke nodded seriously.

"You guys go out first."

After everyone left, Li Aiguo opened the box, which contained several neatly stacked notebooks.

I opened the first book and saw the handwriting was strangely neat:
"Chen Xingmao came to the church today and asked me what to do after the army enters the city.

His hands were stained with blood. If he stayed, he was worried about being asked to pay the debt. If he fled, he was afraid that the master of micro-manipulation would swallow up his property.

I taught him three steps: silencing the witnesses, pretending to cooperate, and waiting for an opportunity to act, which would ensure the Chen family's prosperity for eternity.

He killed more than 30 people that night. He was so cruel, but he didn't know that I had hidden one of them in a lumber factory on the outskirts of the city.

This man is the shackles that hold him in place."

"Mr. Liu was too shrewd. He was reluctant to give up the seven factories, so he asked his youngest son to lead all the small yellow croakers to retreat with the micro-control system, and he stayed in Jinling as a secret agent.

He secretly provided weapons and supplies to the enemy. This is too dangerous. I should stay away from him."

In addition to the members of the maintenance association, the notebook also lists more than a dozen names - all of them are people who are so famous in Old Nanjing that the ground shakes when they stomp their feet.

The notebook seemed to weigh a thousand pounds at this time. Li Aiguo did not flip through it anymore, but put the notebook into the box.

After putting the seal on the door, Li Aiguo opened it.

"Xing Zhi, Zhou Ke, come with me to the chief."

Zhou Ke asked: "What's in the box?"

"Don't ask if you're not supposed to know." Li Aiguo turned around and closed the door.

The jeep roared to the mysterious manor.

The box was carried into the study. Zhou Ke and Xing Zhi sat outside under the shade of a tree, watching the guards train.

"It seems to be a senior leader of the office." Xing Zhi saw several people coming over and couldn't help but take a breath: "Everyone is here"

Thinking of the mysterious box, Xing Zhi suddenly became excited.

"The second war is about to begin!"

"Hasn't Dieter been captured? Do we still need to fight?" Zhou Ke was still confused at this time.

The answer was revealed at dusk.

When the red arrest warrants from the office covered the table.

Zhou Ke's face suddenly changed when he looked at the string of names: Members Chen, Zhou, and Qin of the Maintenance Committee, Manager Liu of the Flour Mill, Director Wang of the Textile Mill... Each one was stamped with a blood-red official seal.

"These people..." He pointed at the list, "Are they all from Ji Huai's notebook?"

Li Aiguo said nothing and stuffed the last document into the brown paper bag.

Outside the window, the GAZ vehicles of the Jinling Weather Station had lined up, and the roar of their engines made the window frames tremble slightly.

"Get in." He said these two words and strode towards the jeep.

The setting sun stretched Li Aiguo's shadow very long, like a straight gun.

Zhou Ke looked at the sunset sky and suddenly understood what Xing Zhi meant by the "second war".

Compared to the bloody storm on the river last night, this cleanup campaign without the smoke of gunpowder is the real tough battle.

At night, the door of a luxurious villa was opened from the inside. The old man looked at the gray Zhongshan suit outside the door. Instead of being afraid, he shouted angrily: "This is how you treat guests. I'm going to sue you!"

The man in the gray Zhongshan suit did not answer him, but instead brought a young man in blue and black work clothes from behind.

"Zhou, Zhou Yuan, aren't you dead?" When the old man saw the young man, his face suddenly changed and he couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Zhou Yuan raised his head and stared at the old man angrily: "I am dead, I died with those thirty or so workers. Now I have crawled out of hell and want to drag you into hell."

"I know him." The old man instinctively wanted to establish a relationship, but he suddenly fell silent when he met the cold gazes of the men in gray Zhongshan suits.

He felt the world spinning around him, his eyes went dark and he fell to the ground.

When the lens slid off, the reflection of the lights of old Jinling shattered into spots of light on the glass.

The same scene happened everywhere in the old Jinling city.

Ji Huai's notebook was like a sharp scalpel, dissecting the city of Jinling. Every piece of evidence he collected was fatal.

Relying on this hard evidence, all the people on the list were arrested before dawn.

In the interrogation room, some people wanted to deny it, but they collapsed instantly when they saw Lao Xu appear in the office compound.

Soon the office held a meeting and announced the names of the people involved and what they had done.

When the details of those cases were made public, there was a deafening roar of outrage from the audience.

Shouts of "**hidden rat" rang out one after another.

The street signs were blocked by the crowd.

In the midday sun, the sounds of firecrackers and gongs and drums rang out one after another, and people rushed to the venue holding various homemade banners and brightly colored flags.

This is the real Jinling, no more secret agents and conspiracies, no more oppression and exploitation.

Li Aiguo stood on the top floor of the government office, looking at the boiling crowd, and knew that the new Jinling City had been completed.

Like the old Jinling, the new Jinling has no entity and exists only in people's minds.

As long as the ideology remains intact, New Nanjing will not collapse.

****
In the afternoon.

Li Aiguo reported the whole incident to the farmer.

The teacher was not as excited as expected, but instead said, "Get out."

Li Aiguo seemed to have predicted the teacher's thoughts and said, "Teacher, this afternoon I have asked Stationmaster Xing to hand over all the files to the local authorities."

"It seems that you have grown up again." On the phone, the farmer asked excitedly: "Let me test you, why do we have to withdraw?"

"Independence." Li Aiguo said, "The independence of our weather station is based on investigating cases and not intervening in specific affairs."

"Good, good, good!" The farmer said "good" three times in a row and praised: "I have accepted a good student."

"What are you going to do next?"

"Ji Huai will be able to conduct the second round of drug interrogation soon. I hope to find out the truth about the Jinling Weather Station."

"Just go ahead and do it! If you encounter an emergency in the future, you can make your own decision. I will ask the weather station to issue a notice."

hang up the phone.

Li Aiguo was a little dazed.

Make your own decisions?
Does that mean we have the power to act first and report later?
After receiving the report from the weather station, Lao Mao looked at Li Aiguo with a hint of strangeness in his eyes.

The only people who truly have independent decision-making power in the weather station are the farmers and a few deputy station chiefs.

The young man who went to the Northwest with me to participate in the rescue work is now able to take up the banner.

"The headquarters notification has been issued."

The old cat's gaze lingered on Li Aiguo's face for a moment. "Congratulations! When we were in the Gobi Desert, I felt that you had a fierce look in your eyes. It seems that I was right about you."

Li Aiguo took out a cigarette and handed it over: "This is all thanks to the comrades. Without everyone's concerted efforts, we would not have been able to withstand the pressure and investigate this case thoroughly."

Lao Mao took the cigarette and lit it: "Xing Zhi has handed Ji Huai over to Liao Xuesong."

Li Aiguo stood up and said, "It's time to meet old friends."

late at night.

Lights lit up in the weather station in the capital.

late at night.

Lights lit up in Jinling's weather station.

Compared with the last interrogation, this drug interrogation team appeared to be much more professional.

The stethoscope for monitoring heart rate has been replaced with one with five stethoscope heads, which can calculate the target's heart rate more accurately.

The ropes used to tie up the target were also replaced with cowhide straps, which are stronger and less likely to hurt the target.

After Liao Xuesong injected the drug into Ji Huai, he pressed the alarm clock to calculate the time.

Ten minutes later, he nodded to Li Aiguo.

"Tell me, what is your name?"

(End of this chapter)