LRAB Chapter 80 Principal Chang's Magnanimity
Chapter 80 Principal Chang's Magnanimity
Chapter 77 Trapped Like a Turtle in a Jar! The Demise of Principal Chang's Elite Force
Li Guodong's mind went blank.
A dozen or so dark gun barrels.
MP18 submachine gun.
Nine-millimeter Parabellum round.
A meat grinder that can fire 400 bullets per second.
At that distance, he didn't even have time to jump out of the window and escape.
The "Glasses" who had climbed in from behind and his companion also froze. The three of them stood back to back in the middle of the corridor, like three wooden stakes nailed to the spot.
Moranzhi stood up from the mahogany chair.
Her high heels clicked crisply on the wooden floor. Each sound seemed to strike Li Guodong's heart.
"Don't move." Moranzhi walked up to him and looked down at the bulge at his waist. "Take the thing out of your left pocket."
Li Guodong gritted his teeth.
His left hand slowly reached into his pocket.
It wasn't about drawing a gun.
It is a small glass bottle.
Potassium cyanide.
This was Principal Chang's final insurance policy for each member of the Loyalty Group: to commit suicide by poison upon arrest and never reveal the secret.
Li Guodong's fingers touched the bottle.
Then his wrist was gripped tightly by a hand like an iron clamp.
A figure appeared beside him at some unknown time.
Black military uniform, expressionless.
A master of internal defense.
"Click."
His wrist was twisted behind his back. The glass bottle slipped from between his fingers and rolled twice on the floor.
At the same time, the other two inside guards also subdued "Glasses" and the third person at the same speed.
The three people were pinned to the ground.
His chin was removed.
They were in so much pain that they were covered in cold sweat, but they couldn't even scream.
Mo Lanzhi bent down to pick up the glass bottle from the ground and examined it under the light.
"Potassium cyanide." She twirled the bottle between her fingers. "Principal Chang is quite generous, providing you with such good stuff."
She casually tossed the bottle into the nearby trash can.
"Unfortunately, in my presence, you don't even have the right to die."
……
The Military Intelligence Bureau's basement.
trial room.
The lights were a stark white.
Li Guodong was tied to an iron chair. His chin had been reattached, but his entire face was swollen like a steamed bun.
Su Guiying stood in front of him.
Su Guiying had no instruments of torture in her hands.
She only had one file.
It's thick, about thirty pages long.
"Li Guodong, first class of Whampoa Military Academy, captain of the third squad of the Loyalty Group." Su Guiying turned to the first page and read slowly.
Li Guodong's eyes twitched slightly, but he didn't say anything.
"Your hometown is Panyu, Guangdong. Your father, Li Dechang, was a private tutor his whole life. Your mother, Wang, just celebrated her sixtieth birthday last winter."
Li Guodong's body tensed up.
Su Guiying turned to the second page.
"Your wife's surname is Zhao, Zhao Yuting. You have a son, who is three years old this year, named Li Xiaohu. He currently lives at No. 17 Yongqingfang, Xiguan, Guangzhou, in a two-courtyard house that you bought with your military pay."
Li Guodong's lips began to tremble.
Su Guiying continued flipping through the pages.
"Oh, by the way," she said casually. "You have a mistress back in your hometown of Panyu, named Chen Xiulan. She gave birth to a daughter for you, but your wife doesn't know. Your daughter is two years old and lives with your second uncle in Shawan Town, Panyu."
Li Guodong's face turned completely pale.
"You...how could you..."
Su Guiying closed the file.
"How did I know?" She tossed the file onto the table. "Captain Li, do you think I started watching you the moment you set foot in Shanghai?"
"We didn't start targeting you after you arrived in Shanghai."
"It was the day after you received the assignment in Guangzhou."
Li Guodong's pupils suddenly contracted.
"I have connections in Guangzhou," Su Guiying said calmly. "I know everything: the roster of the Loyalty Group, Principal Chang's approval document, your departure date, and which waterway you took."
"When you set off from Guangzhou, my men were on the boat right next to you."
Li Guodong's body slumped into the iron chair as if his bones had been removed.
He was proud of his counter-surveillance training, his intelligence skills honed in the first graduating class of the Whampoa Military Academy, and the honor of the Loyalty Group—
In front of this woman, everyone is a joke.
He doesn't even need to be hit.
His worldview was completely shattered by these thirty pages of paper.
"I'll tell you... I'll tell you everything..."
Li Guodong's voice was as hoarse as dried tree bark.
"Principal Chang not only wants the sulfonamide formula, but also the destroyer blueprints from Jiangnan Shipyard. If he can't get the blueprints, he at least needs to find out the shipyard's production capacity and progress..."
"Furthermore, Principal Chang also said... if there's an opportunity, it would be best to take Cao Qingdi away directly. If that's not possible..."
He couldn't continue.
Su Guiying squinted her eyes.
"What?"
"I'll stay in Shanghai forever."
The interrogation room was silent for three seconds.
Su Guiying's gaze turned icy.
"understood."
……
An hour later.
The headquarters study.
Chen Zijun sat behind his desk and listened to Mo Lanzhi's report.
He didn't get angry.
He didn't even frown.
He simply held the teacup and gently blew away the foam on the surface of the tea.
"Chiang Kai-shek wanted to steal my things." He took a sip of tea. "When he couldn't steal them, he tried to kill my people."
Mo Lanzhi stood to the side without saying a word.
"Interesting." Chen Zijun put down his teacup.
"Kill them?" Moranzhi asked.
"No."
Chen Zijun stood up and walked to the window.
The Shanghai Bund outside the window was brightly lit, and steamships on the Huangpu River moved slowly in the night.
"Killing them would only make Chiang Kai-shek think I'm guilty."
He turned around.
"Put the three people into a sack."
Mo Lanzhi was taken aback.
"Prepare another box." Chen Zijun's lips curled into a cold smile. "Go to the archives and find a few discarded, outdated early shipbuilding sketches, roll them up, and put them in a waterproof tin box. Seal the box with a 'Top Secret' label."
Moranzhi understood.
"You want to send the people and the fake blueprints back to Guangzhou?"
"Not send it back." Chen Zijun's eyes were as cold as blades. "It's thrown back. Thrown directly at the gate of Chiang Kai-shek's official residence."
"Let him know that he has no secrets from me."
"Let him know that he has no say in his own life, not even in death, in Shanghai."
"Let him know—"
Chen Zijun's voice suddenly lowered.
"His petty tricks are so low-class that they're not even worthy of being considered snacks with drinks in my eyes."
Moranzhi gave a military salute.
"Yes."
She turned and walked out of the study.
……
three days later.
Guangzhou. Chiang Kai-shek's official residence.
early morning.
The gatekeeper found three burlap sacks and a metal box at the gate.
The sack contained three people who were tightly bound and gagged with cloth.
It is Li Guodong, "Glasses", and the third agent.
Live.
But their eyes were dead.
The metal box was sealed with a "Top Secret" label. After Chiang Kai-shek opened it himself, he found a roll of yellowed shipbuilding blueprints inside.
In the blank space of the drawing, a line of vigorous small regular script was written with a brush:
"President Chang is very generous. This mere scrap of paper is nothing but a token of my respect. If you wish to come to Shanghai again to learn from our experience, please let me know in advance, and I, Chen, will personally receive you."
Chiang Kai-shek's face turned ashen after reading the line.
He crumpled the blueprints into a ball and slammed them to the ground.
Then he sat alone in the study for a full half hour.
Not a word.
……
the same day.
Shanghai. Headquarters study.
It was late at night.
Chen Zijun sat alone at his desk, finishing the last military report.
He put down his pen.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
The corners of his mouth slowly turned up.
"They're here..."