roccoschili Chapter 229 The Truth
Chapter 229 The Truth
Chapter 229 The Truth
Ye Shaohong had many questions in his mind, and he was eager to find out.
Yu Manli was able to give him the answer.
If it were a girl from an ordinary family, having just experienced a life-or-death struggle and seeing a room full of blood, it would be difficult for her to remain calm.
But Yu Manli is different.
Ye Shaohong believed that she could control her emotions.
"Here's what happened..."
Yu Manli was indeed very calm, and with Ye Shaohong by her side, she only hesitated for a brief moment before slowly recounting what had happened. It turned out that everything was roughly as Ye Shaohong had guessed.
This battle of wits actually consisted of several stages.
The earliest conflict likely began when the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics was first established. The two Chen brothers, one of the four major families of the Nationalist government, and the CC Clique they represented, gained the most benefits from the reorganization and restructuring of the Party Affairs Investigation Department.
After the establishment of the Bureau of Survey and Statistics, it was divided into three departments.
The first department was the former Party Affairs Investigation Department, the second department was the former Special Service Department, and the third department was the Post and Telecommunications Investigation Bureau, which was separated from the Party Affairs Investigation Department.
Their representatives are Xu Enzeng, Dai Yunong, and Ding Mocun.
These three can be considered the three top secret service leaders during the Republic of China era.
They had conflicts and entanglements a long time ago.
After the establishment of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, relying on the support of the Chen brothers and the CC Clique, Xu Enzeng and Ding Mocun assisted each other, putting great pressure on Dai Yunong.
Therefore, Dai Yunong began to plan a counterattack.
He instructed Xu Baichuan and Zheng Yaoxian to secretly investigate Dingmo Village.
Subsequently, Ye Shaohong led his men to storm the Ministry of Police, arresting dozens of corrupt officials and wealthy businessmen involved in the case, which gave Dai Yunong the opportunity to exert his influence.
He reported the matter to the Chairman.
The Chairman was furious upon hearing this and ordered Dai Yunong to thoroughly investigate the case. Subsequently, Dai Yunong seized the opportunity to report Ding Mocun's corruption and bribery.
Taking advantage of the Chairman's fury, they wiped out the postal and telecommunications investigation bureau under Chen and Chen's command in one fell swoop.
Ding Mocun was imprisoned.
Dai Yunong's move did indeed severely damage the power of the Chen brothers and the CC Clique in the Party Affairs Investigation Department, but it also angered the Chen brothers and the CC Clique.
Inside, they sabotaged Dai Yunong by finding excuses to temporarily cut off the financial allocation to the Second Division of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, which was formerly the Special Service Department.
Outside, Xu En had arranged for assassinations of high-ranking officials from the former Special Service Department.
The mysterious woman who died in the room was the commander chosen by Xu Enzeng.
Ye Shaohong still doesn't know her name.
At first, upon realizing the danger, Ye Shaohong used the excuse that he needed to recuperate to temporarily hide.
But this woman had no choice but to set her sights on him.
They actually sent an assassination squad to assassinate him in the middle of the city, which angered Ye Shaohong, so he returned to the Special Service Department to take on the mission of counterattack.
Ye Shaohong's initial plan was to use the assassination of former members of the Party Affairs Investigation Department to force this mysterious woman out through the power of the department's upper echelons.
That's why the assassination of Gao Zhanlong and the deliberate plot to break out of Nancheng Prison were carried out, indirectly eliminating two high-ranking officials from the Party Affairs Investigation Department.
Ye Shaohong's arrangements were meticulous, and he left no clues or traces.
So even though Shuang Chen and Xu Enzeng knew that the deaths of these people were related to the Special Service Department, they couldn't find an excuse to vent their anger for the time being.
But Ye Shaohong underestimated the mysterious woman's patience.
Although the deaths of Gao Zhanlong and the others put some pressure on the mysterious woman, she still did not come forward.
However, this was a targeted assassination attempt on Murong Han, the deputy section chief of the Third Division.
This is equivalent to them exchanging a move for the first time.
It was a draw. Then Ye Shaohong arranged for Chi Tiecheng to assassinate Ge Haoyu, the deputy head of the communications group of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, in a busy downtown area.
Ge Haoyu's status and position are different from Gao Zhanlong and the others.
His death immediately put pressure on the mysterious woman, who was not one to be trifled with and immediately retaliated.
They also attempted to assassinate Li Peilin, the head of the Third Division.
It just allowed Li Peilin to evade it.
This was Ye Shaohong's second encounter with the mysterious woman. Li Peilin's strong protection of him gave Ye Shaohong a slight advantage in this confrontation.
However, he still failed to find the mysterious woman.
Li Peilin's assassination also angered Dai Yunong, who began to put pressure on Ye Shaohong.
Left with no other option, Ye Shaohong devised another plan. He found Xiao Zhengguo, the ace of lies, and deliberately arranged for him to carry out an assassination attempt that was destined to fail. He intentionally made sure Xiao Zhengguo left traces.
This was Ye Shaohong's deliberate feigned weakness, and sure enough, the mysterious woman fell for it.
She arranged for her trusted subordinates to surround and assassinate Li Yunlong and Xiao Zhengguo overnight, but they fell into a trap that Ye Shaohong had already set up, causing her to lose a lot of manpower.
Of course, that's not the most important thing.
Most importantly, at this very moment, Special Agent Group No. 5 arrived in Jinling again and contacted Ye Shaohong.
Ye Shaohong then approached Gao Han and asked Special Agent Group No. 5 to complete the plan and track down the mysterious woman's hiding place. Special Agent Group No. 5 did not disappoint Ye Shaohong and finally located the mysterious woman's hiding place in Gulou Street.
Just then, Zheng Yaoxian made another request, delaying the start of the operation by a day.
Left with no other option, Ye Shaohong arranged for Li Yunlong, Zhuang Yifan, Xiao Zhengguo, and Chi Tiecheng to carry out the assassination that very night. This served two purposes: firstly, to patch a loophole in the plan, and secondly, to send a false message to the mysterious woman—that although their operation had failed, Ye Shaohong still hadn't found her hiding place.
He led the team into action late the next night, which is tonight.
Unexpectedly, after taking action, they failed to find the mysterious woman.
Through Yu Manli's account, Ye Shaohong learned some of the details.
Firstly, regarding the third scheme he devised, the mysterious woman originally didn't intend to intervene, but she realized that this might be Ye Shaohong's scheme.
It was only because the maid named Jin'er, the woman who was arrested in the streets of Gulou, insisted on leading the operation herself that she fell into Ye Shaohong's trap.
Their hiding place was exposed. The second thing Ye Shaohong didn't know was that this mysterious woman had also planted a spy within the Second Division of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics.
This spy somehow learned the identity of Ye Shaohong's project commander this afternoon.
He sold this intelligence to the Party Affairs Investigation Department.
That's why the mysterious woman disguised herself and left her hiding place, leading people to the courtyard where Ye Shaohong was renting a house.
Her plan was the same as Ye Shaohong's: to strike at the heart of the enemy's territory.
But unfortunately, Ye Shaohong wasn't home.
So she only managed to capture Yu Manli, and even tried to get information about Ye Shaohong's whereabouts from Yu Manli. She even planned to set traps around the area and wait for Ye Shaohong to return.
It was such a coincidence.
That very night, Ye Shaohong also went to Gulou Street, intending to kill him as well. The two thus missed each other.
Only after Ye Shaohong learned from Jin'er, a maid in the Gulou Street, about the whereabouts of the mysterious woman and that she had led a team to kill him and his woman, did Ye Shaohong return to his rented courtyard with his men.
This is the story of Ye Shaohong's three duels with that mysterious woman: a draw, a narrow victory, and a decisive victory.
As for how the mysterious woman died, that was also somewhat related to Ye Shaohong.
Ye Shaohong returned with his men, and a battle broke out between the two sides. The mysterious woman immediately realized the danger and sent out all her men to snipe Ye Shaohong.
She herself stayed in the room, preparing to kill Yu Manli.
But she never expected that Yu Manli was not the gentle and weak woman she appeared to be, but a fierce warrior. Taking advantage of the woman's brief moment of panic, Yu Manli broke free of her restraints, and the two began to fight. Then, Yu Manli used the torn curtain to bind the mysterious woman's neck, restricting her ability to fight back, and then killed her with a dagger.
In these three confrontations, Ye Shaohong gradually gained the upper hand and, with the help of Agent Group No. 5, achieved the final victory.
But he didn't make it to the final showdown.
Instead, it led to a life-or-death struggle between the two women, allowing Yu Manli to gain the greatest credit.
It's truly quite a convoluted and bizarre story.
After listening to Yu Manli's account and combining it with Ye Shaohong's own plans and the information he had obtained, Ye Shaohong finally learned the whole story.
Then he laughed.
He laughed heartily.
"So that's how it is, Manli, you were actually the key to my victory!"