My spy diary

Chapter 202: Taking Advantage of the Situation (asking for monthly ticket)

When Zhang Yi came out of the interrogation room, Secretary Liu greeted him enthusiastically.

"Chief, why haven't you eaten yet? I'll tell the chef to make you another portion. How about bringing it over now?"

"Have you delivered the report?"

"Yes, Section Chief He is not here, so I handed it over to his secretary." Secretary Liu nodded respectfully, then bowed and said:
"Chief, if there is nothing else"

"We're about to arrange an operation, so you can just take notes of the meeting."

"Yes." Secretary Liu showed a barely perceptible surprise and followed Zhang Yi closely.

When we arrived at the meeting room, all the operatives from the spy unit were there.

Zhang Yi stood in front of the main seat at the conference table, his sharp eyes swept over everyone:
"The earlier mission to capture the mole failed, there is no getting around it.
Whether it was a coincidence or an intelligence leak, now is not the time to investigate.
Wu Mei has just confessed that the safe house contains the radio and code book. We will take action immediately and get the items before the Party Affairs Investigation Office does."

"I hope that all those involved in the operation can keep their mouths shut. From the beginning to the end, everyone must obey orders and not act on their own."

Zhang Yi said this and looked at Zheng Huhe, handing him a note with the target address written on it.

"Old Zheng, you lead the team. Monkey and Qian Xiaosan, please come to my office. We have other tasks to do. Okay, that's it for today's meeting. Let's all disperse."

"Yes."

Everyone responded by standing up and saluting. Secretary Liu, who was sitting behind Zhang Yi, stood up quietly and handed over the minutes of the meeting. Zhang Yi signed on it. Secretary Liu picked up the documents and followed the crowd out of the door and returned to his office.

Close the door and lock it.

Secretary Liu leaned against the door and listened attentively for a few seconds, then quickly came to the desk, opened the drawer, gently put on the headphones, and started monitoring again.

At this time, the sound of Zhang Yi's office door opening came from the headset.

Zhang Yi said, "What do you think of the superior Wu Mei just confessed to?"

"Wumei has a superior?"

Secretary Liu's eyes lit up, and he quickly adjusted the knob on the headphones, listening attentively with bated breath.

"This is a big fish. Although Wu Mei doesn't know his true identity, he is lurking inside the Guo Party and his rank must be very high. We now have his portrait. As long as we investigate carefully, we will definitely be able to catch him."

"Yes, but there has been a leak in the core, so the operators must be carefully selected and investigated in secret."

"Yes, if you want to catch big fish, the fishing net must be woven big and dense."

"I suggest you find an outside portrait artist."

The conversation came through clearly and uninterruptedly. Secretary Liu's eyes were shining and his pen was writing quickly on the paper.

In a place where Secretary Liu could not see, Zhang Yi was standing in the middle of the office and talking to Monkey Qian Xiaosan. At this time, the door of his office opened gently.

Zheng Huhe and a few plainclothes men in cloth shoes walked in quietly and closed the door gently.

They began searching every corner of the office in a professional and orderly manner.

After a while, a plainclothes officer standing on the table lightly lifted a movable ceiling. He took out a pole with a mirror tied to one end and reached in. He shone a flashlight, and a small bug with a rope was reflected on the mirror in his other hand.

The plainclothes officer nodded to Zhang Yi, indicating that he had found it. Seeing this, the other plainclothes officers stopped what they were doing and turned their eyes to Zhang Yi.

"In addition to the portrait artist, the guards on Wu Mei must also be strengthened. No one can interrogate her without my order."

Zhang Yi spoke while looking at the ceiling, then slowly walked to the desk, took out a pen and paper, wrote a few words, and then showed them to everyone.

Everyone nodded, then calmly and silently retreated, as if they had never been there.

Here, Secretary Liu was still monitoring. He heard a crackling electromagnetic sound in his headphones. He frowned, adjusted the monitoring equipment, and then the clear sound came again.

Zhang Yi said, "What do you think about the traitor?"

Qian Xiaosan said: "I still doubt Secretary Liu. The problem only appeared after he came."

"But he represents Section Chief He, or perhaps Secretary Mao. If they want to investigate him, should we give them a heads up?" This was the sound of Monkey sighing.

"Perhaps this is what makes Secretary Liu feel so fearless. He thinks that since he was sent by Section Chief He and Secretary Mao, we dare not investigate him?
A country has its own laws, and a family has its own rules. Any group hates people who betray their own people the most. "Zhang Yi paused for a few seconds, then looked at the ceiling and said loudly:

"Secretary Liu, what do you think?"

Zhang Yi's voice was transmitted word for word to Secretary Liu's headphones. He was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and was immediately horrified. He quickly pulled off the headphones and frantically looked for a gun in the drawer.

At this moment, the door of his office was slammed open from the outside, and several plainclothes officers with guns pounced on him like wolves and tigers and controlled him.

"Bang", the headphones fell to the ground, and Secretary Liu's pale face was pressed against the cold floor, looking deathly pale.

Half an hour later, Zhang Yi saw Secretary Liu in the interrogation room, who was tortured, bloodied, and dying, handcuffed to the interrogation chair.

"Go ahead, I want to hear something different."

Secretary Liu raised his head, smoothed the hair that was hanging on his forehead, and said weakly:

"Chief, I am telling the truth. I am a secretary, but I also belong to the Inspection Department and have the right to monitor the actions of everyone in the department."

"This reason seems good." Zhang Yi smiled faintly, "What about the others?"

Secretary Liu shook his head.

"If you don't say it, I'll say it for you." Zhang Yi looked at him, "If you did it, it would leave traces. Before we arrested Wu Mei, you had left the spy unit. How could the guard at the gate confirm it?"

"There is a public telephone booth one kilometer away from us. Someone made two calls there that night. One was to Secretary Mao and the other was to the Party Affairs Investigation Office. This can also be confirmed at the telephone office." Zhang Yi laughed sarcastically:
"You are quite clever. You use the opportunity of doing good things to cover up your dishonest deeds."

"I did go to the phone booth, but I only called Secretary Mao once, just once."

There is no surveillance or call recording these days, so what Secretary Liu said is flawless. Who can prove that he was also the one who made the second call?
Can't Zhang Yi go to the Party Affairs Investigation Office to verify it?
"So you don't want to confess?" Zhang Yi looked at him "helplessly" and suddenly smiled:
"Secretary Liu, we are an intelligence agency, not a police station. Suspicion is enough. Since you won't tell us, we have no choice but to bring your parents here." Secretary Liu's face changed, his eyes filled with worry and anger. He was silent for a long time, staring at Zhang Yi, and said indignantly:

"Deputy Section Chief Zhang, although I am just your secretary, I have heard of your name since I entered the Secret Service Department. I still admire you very much. Now you are attacking my parents. Isn't that too despicable? This is not your character, right?"

"Haha, Secretary Liu, I remember you said that you joined the secret service so that your parents would not be bullied. Now it's time to protect them. Everyone has their own responsibility. If you tell the truth, I will respect you as a man. If you don't tell the truth."

"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. I can only report your case to the inspection department. Those people won't be as gentle as I am.
In addition, if the Party Affairs Investigation Department knew that you had exposed the news, do you think they would kill people to silence them, including your parents? So don't blame me, it was you who insisted on involving them."

Zhang Yi stood up and sighed:

"Catch him and bring his parents here."

Secretary Liu was trembling all over, his face turned pale in an instant, and a look of panic flashed across his face. When Zhang Yi was about to step out of the interrogation room, he screamed like a madman:
"I said. I said"

Zhang Yi stopped, but did not look back. He stood there waiting for him.

Secretary Liu said in a hoarse voice anxiously:

"I joined the Secret Service, and our family's life became better. My parents no longer had to set up stalls. They opened a small restaurant, but business was bleak at the beginning."

"Later, my parents' restaurant business suddenly became better. One day when I went to help, a regular customer told me that as long as I could pass on the intelligence from the Secret Service to them, the restaurant would not have to worry about future business."

"At first I didn't agree, especially because I knew they were from the first department. I knew that if the first and second departments had private contact, they would be punished. I knew this family rule.
But later they threatened me that if I didn't provide information, they would kill my parents... Chief Zhang, I was forced into this, I really didn't mean it."

Secretary Liu's face was full of tears. He gasped and said:

"Chief Zhang, please let me go this time. I will resign and take my family to the mainland, and live in anonymity from now on."

Zhang Yi turned around slowly and laughed sarcastically:
"Secretary Liu, although you are an insider, since you have joined the Secret Service, you must have taken an oath. You should understand that joining this group is always a standing entry and lying exit. No one can quit halfway."

According to Chang's understanding of spy work, spy work is essentially a vicious job. The people who do this job must not only be extremely loyal, docile, and easy to control, but also have various qualities and methods such as cruelty, meanness, coldness, adventure, fraud, and vulgarity...

One must have an extraordinary understanding and comprehension of espionage activities, be good at understanding and empathizing with the psychology of leaders, and be proactive and aggressive in performing espionage tasks.

Because Chang has a problem. In order to appear mysterious, he never says directly what he wants to do. Instead, he gives hints. If you don't understand, he will scold you over and over again until you understand.

On this point, Boss Dai, who had been in the business world since he was fired from the provincial high school and had seen countless people, had the most outstanding ability, which was the ability to read people's expressions and guess their thoughts.

In order to make his agents strong in both technology and thinking, he combined the tacky and old-fashioned methods of the underworld, formulated rules, and then asked everyone to swear an oath in front of an artistic photo of Chang (it was indeed an artistic photo).

The two most important rules in the oath are: first, to make lifelong contributions to the group and to be willing to accept the most severe sanctions if there are any leaks of secrets or violations of discipline.

Therefore, the Secret Service is a lifelong system. Once you join the Secret Service, you are a member of the Secret Service during your lifetime and a ghost of the Secret Service after your death.

There is no way to quit halfway.

"No, no, no, that's not the case. I joined the Secret Service to fight the war and save the country and the people. I want to see Secretary Mao."

"You are wrong. A vow is a vow. Even if it is false, it becomes true after the vow is taken. It is not a show.
Secretary Mao won't see you. If you want your parents to live, you have to do what I say." Zhang Yi looked at him coldly and took out a prepared note from his arms.

"Watch carefully, don't get carried away. If something goes wrong later, you know the consequences."

As Zhang Yi said this, he waved his hand, and two plainclothes officers came forward, put a hood on Secretary Liu, and escorted him out.

A few minutes later, a black car stopped next to a public telephone booth not far from the spy stock office. Secretary Liu was escorted out and dialed the familiar phone number with trembling hands.

Behind him, the plainclothes officer held a wire recorder and recorded all his phone calls.

On the other end of the phone, Wang Naikang, chief of the Intelligence Section of the Party Affairs Investigation Office, who had obtained the confession of the "mole", had already had the radio and code book searched from the safe house. He had just reported this to Xu Zengen, who had already gone to report to the chairman.

Wang Naikang, who was waiting for a reward, was overjoyed when he heard the information about "Wumei's" superiors passed on by Secretary Liu. He immediately gathered his men and headed for the destination.

In the dark night, Wang Naikang and his men quietly walked through the corridor and surrounded the apartment where the "target" was.

He waved his hand, and a plainclothes officer tiptoed over. He put his ear to the door and heard the faint sound of a radio beeping from inside the room. He immediately smiled and slowly retreated to report to Wang Naikang:

"Chief, there is a radio, and the target is sending a message."

"Great." Wang Naikang clenched his fists excitedly. They had just seized the radio and the code book. The music score was okay, it was just a code book. If they could seize the real code book now, the director would be very happy and his problem of being promoted to deputy director would be solved.

Suppressing his inner excitement, Wang Naikang made a gesture to keep quiet and then pointed out a plainclothes officer.

The man took out a piece of wire from his pocket, poked the door lock a few times, and easily pried open the door of the apartment. Then he listened for a few seconds, held the door handle and slowly opened the door.

He crept in quietly and found the house was dark except for a faint light coming from under the door of a bedroom. At this moment, the ticking sound of the radio could be clearly heard.

The plainclothes police officer waved behind him, and Wang Naikang waved excitedly, taking the lead and rushing forward with the plainclothes police officers.

"boom"

The door was kicked open roughly.

"Don't move."

Seven or eight guns were pointed at the house. There was an orange light on and a tape recorder was playing a ticking sound. There was no one in the house.

"Where are the people?" Wang Naikang realized something was wrong, but before he could react, the lights in the living room suddenly came on.

A large number of plainclothes officers rushed in from the next room and the door, pointed their guns at them, and confiscated their guns. Anyone who dared to resist was immediately beaten and kicked.

Zhang Yi walked out slowly from the crowd. He lit a cigarette and looked at Wang Naikang meaningfully.

"Chief Wang, what a coincidence?"

Wang Naikang felt that his brain was no longer working - his eyes were dull and his ears were buzzing. What was going on?

(End of this chapter)