RPAGF Chapter 472 Perhaps you've heard of a spy within a spy?
Chapter 472 Perhaps you've heard of a spy within a spy?
Chu Xin nodded obediently and entered the interrogation room, but did not rush to speak. Gao Cuizhi was very agitated.
She didn't look up, but when she sensed someone beside her, she shrank her body even further and buried her head deeper, a physical expression of not wanting to be disturbed.
Sigh, she seems to be a pitiful person with no choice in her life. If she wants to cry, she should cry. As long as she can confess honestly after she finishes crying, that's fine. Chu Xin looked at her with her chin on her hand, her mind starting to wander.
Less than half an hour later, Gao Cuizhi finally showed signs of a break in the passion.
Chu Xin couldn't help but sigh, "She really can cry."
Don't your eyes feel dry or swollen?
"Would you like some water to replenish your energy?"
Gao Cuizhi suspected that Chu Xin was being sarcastic towards her, but seeing that Chu Xin really looked sincere, she could only wave her hand dismissively and forcefully suppress her uncomfortable feelings to face them.
Why be so polite? You'll hate her terribly in a minute.
"I don't need to say anything more. You've all guessed that there's something wrong with my identity, right? So let's be frank and not beat around the bush. I've had enough of pretending."
Chu Xin nodded indifferently, only asking without actually pouring her water, and even filled the container herself.
"Then tell me."
She thought Gao Cuizhi would start by talking about her initial infiltration process and the purpose of the mission, and she even wanted to suggest that she keep it short. Unexpectedly, the first sentence she uttered shocked one of the two people who were preparing to listen attentively, and left the other dumbfounded.
"Are those bullets that Hong Yan'an had already been taken into your possession?"
Oh my, Chu Xin clenched her fingers.
Sure enough, she had been so overwhelmed by so many things that her brain had completely shut down, and she had even forgotten about the bullets.
However, on the other hand, she thought that she would definitely take the things quietly and no one would know. Gao Cuizhi was just guessing.
Besides, it was originally hers, so why should she feel guilty about taking it back?
"What bullets? Never heard of them. Don't try to change the subject. What you need to tell us now is where Hong Yan'an and his son are, who you are working for, what you have done, and who your accomplices are!"
She pretended very convincingly, while Zhou Yichen genuinely didn't know. Gao Cuizhi couldn't tell anything and stopped worrying about it. She had only asked to verify her suspicions; if there was nothing, then so be it.
She gave a bitter smile and said, "You don't need to investigate my parents. My affairs have nothing to do with them."
The person who tried to recruit me had already been in contact with me before I graduated from university. At that time, I was almost starving to death, and they lured me in with food.
It's said in a very simple and unadorned way, even a bit cheap, but it's the truth.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, people starving to death was not uncommon. She felt guilty towards the country, but she was forced into it by circumstances.
She raised her head, looking at Chu Xin with a fearless expression, prepared to be ridiculed. She herself found the beginning both laughable and pathetic.
Chu Xin did not show the expression she expected.
Although she did not experience hunger in this era, she often went hungry at the beginning of the apocalypse in her previous life. Moreover, at that time, she had to endure not only hunger but also guard against the ugliness of human nature.
So when she heard that a college student had betrayed his country for a few bites of food, she said she could understand.
Gao Cuizhi waited a while and, seeing that neither she nor Zhou Yichen spoke, nor did their expressions show any feigned sympathy, she continued without them having to ask:
"I was recruited during my university years, but I wasn't put to use until I started working and was assigned to an arms factory, where I began to provide them with all the intelligence and blueprints they wanted."
They also asked me to get close to Li Lifeng, so that he could provide assistance in my future missions.
As she said this, Chu Xin already felt like she was watching a melodramatic soap opera.
"You're really dedicated; you can accept anything..."
"There was no other way. Although those people mainly used bribery, they also held my parents' lives in their hands. If I didn't listen, my whole family would die. Besides, at that time, I wasn't just using Li Lifeng."
Yeah, it's really melodramatic.
Thinking about her marriage to Hong Yan'an later on, Chu Xin didn't know what to say.
With this, the mystery surrounding the Hong family has been solved.
To put it simply, Gao Cuizhi, a female college student, was recruited into becoming a spy in order to have enough to eat. As a spy, she deliberately approached Li Lifeng to help her with her work, and in the process, she developed feelings for him.
After the two consummated their relationship, Gao Cuizhi became pregnant. At this time, Li Lifeng proposed to go abroad, and the two separated.
However, Hong Yan'an soon reappeared in Gao Cuizhi's life. He not only didn't mind that Gao Cuizhi was pregnant, but also quickly got married to her and had a child.
Gao Cuizhi was forced to retire from the front lines due to her injuries, so she no longer needed to frequently transmit intelligence. She remained hidden for several years until the appearance of those five bullet casings, at which point she was reactivated.
She was quite gullible. "They said they wouldn't kill Yan'an, they just wanted to know what that weapon was like."
That statement was completely unbelievable, and Chu Xin directly pointed it out, "That's not necessarily true. Hong Yan'an is useful to them, otherwise he would have died just like the other engineer.
Zhou Yichen added, "Perhaps it's because those five bullet casings are missing that Hong Yan'an hasn't been silenced. You must have been looking for them before you came in, right?"
Gao Cuizhi slumped into the chair, the overhead light casting a shadow. "Yes, Yan'an hid the bullet casings after that engineer died. I was caught in the middle and powerless to do anything about it. I couldn't fight them, and I couldn't persuade Yan'an to surrender."
She was actually prepared to divorce Hong Yan'an, but she was too naive. In this matter, her own wishes were never important.
After some thought, Zhou Yichen asked the crucial question, "Where do you get the bullet casings? Do you know exactly what they look like?"
Chu Xin's heart tightened, and then she saw Gao Cuizhi shake her head and say:
"All I know is that the bullet casings were handed over to Yan'an from the original engineer. You can probably guess where he got them from."
Chu Xin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, not giving Zhou Yichen another chance to speak, and asked her, "Perhaps, have you heard of a spy within a spy?"
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After get off work in the afternoon, they held another meeting before finally going home.
As a result, Chu Xin's resentment almost filled the entire conference room.
This meeting not only took up off-get off work hours, but it was also specifically convened by Elder Ge to criticize Zhou Yichen for violating regulations by bringing Hong's mother into the interrogation room and causing a disturbance.
In her opinion, it would be better to criticize Zhou Yichen harshly, especially, or relentlessly, instead of bringing in those who weren't involved.
If Elder Ge feels it lacks grandeur, adding Zhou Wen is also acceptable.
Zhou Yichen was unaware that his fatherly behavior of writing more reports to keep the young girl from feeling stifled had not earned him any sympathy or understanding from her.
Even after the meeting ended, he still drove people home before heading to his own house.
When the car was still a block away from home, he saw a tall man carrying a human-shaped object into an alleyway.
Zhou Yichen frowned, stepped on the gas, and sped to the alley entrance. He looked through the car window, but it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.
Looking up, I found that none of the few streetlights were working. I looked around the car and saw no one.
This area is close to his neighborhood, which is home to many high-ranking officials and military personnel. As a result, ordinary people don't usually wander around here. It's well past closing time, and there are very few cars passing by.
In other words, he was the only one who witnessed what just happened.
Zhou Yichen's intuition told him something was wrong, but he couldn't ignore the safety of the people. After a moment's thought, he decisively got out of the car and chased after them.