Chapter 235 Mission Accomplished
The pie smelled very good, and Shen Hanwen was extremely excited.
Although the reward for catching a traitor is not as big as catching a Japanese spy, it can make the senior management of the department remember you. The harm caused by a traitor is greater than that of a Japanese spy.
If you make meritorious service in the future, you can get a greater reward. Chu Yuan was promoted to second lieutenant because he found out the traitor.
"Well done."
Chu Lingyun felt relieved when he saw the captured person. It was indeed Ren Cheng. Many people at Hangzhou Station knew him and had recognized him.
And his expression said it all, the mission was successfully completed.
"Team leader, are we going to conduct the trial now?" Shen Hanwen asked anxiously.
"No rush." Chu Lingyun smiled and shook his head.
He also wanted to review it now, but Station Master Cai was not at the station at the moment, so it would be better to wait for him to review it together.
After Shen Hanwen caught the man, Chu Lingyun called Cai Zhengru immediately, but it turned out that Stationmaster Cai was not at the station and had returned home.
After all, Ren Cheng is his man. Even if Chu Lingyun is in charge of the case, it would be better to wait for him to try the case together at this critical moment.
If you wait for him, the other party will remember this favor; if you don't wait, you will offend him.
Waiting a little longer is nothing.
Stationmaster Cai saw that there was nothing for him to do, so he went home to change his clothes and tidy himself up.
This made Chu Lingyun secretly shake his head. If he encountered such a thing, he would not leave his post even if he had to wear old clothes all the time. If he really wanted to change clothes, he could ask his subordinates to go to his home to get them.
However, Cai Zheng was the station chief. He was only temporarily helping the Hangzhou station solve the case and had no right to take care of his affairs.
Ren Cheng was taken to the torture room and quickly hung up.
Ren Cheng was very familiar with everything here. He had interrogated Japanese spies and traitors here and never thought that he would be tried here.
Shortly after he was hung up, Cai Zhengru and Fang Hai rushed into the interrogation room.
After receiving the news, Fang Hai called Cai Zhengru's home immediately. However, the webmaster had not yet arrived home. He could not wait any longer and asked others to continue calling while he ran out to find the webmaster. He wanted to tell the webmaster the good news as soon as possible.
Cai Zhengru had just arrived home and had no time to change his clothes. After finishing his phone call, he immediately ran back to the station.
Fang Hai met him on the road and they came here together.
When Cai Zhengru saw Ren Cheng, his anger instantly rose. Because of Ren Cheng, he had not been able to eat or sleep well during this period, and he was afraid that he would be arrested by people from headquarters at any time.
He had been living in fear every day and had lost two kilograms. Now, seeing Ren Cheng no longer able to control his emotions, he stepped forward, grabbed Ren Cheng's collar, and shouted angrily:
"Ren Cheng, have you lost your conscience? I've been so good to you. I've helped you rise all the way, and this is how you repay me?"
Ren Cheng's mouth was blocked, so he couldn't explain even if he wanted to.
"Stationmaster Cai, let's interrogate him first and then we'll talk."
Chu Lingyun stepped forward to persuade him, and Cai Zheng's anger subsided a little. He nodded heavily and said, "Thank you, Team Leader Chu, for helping me catch this traitor."
Fang Hai was very shocked. He never expected that Chu Lingyun would catch the person so quickly.
How long did it take from the time he arrived at Hangzhou Station to the time he caught the man? It would probably have to be calculated in hours, or only one tenth in days. In just one day, he helped them solve such a big problem.
Such ability is terrifying.
But no matter how they caught him, as long as they caught him, they would have passed this level. Moreover, it was more meaningful to capture Ren Cheng alive.
Cai Zhengru had the gag removed from Ren Cheng's mouth and asked directly, "Ren Cheng, you're an old member of our station and you know the rules very well. Tell me, who instigated your rebellion? What intelligence did you provide to the Japanese?"
Ren Cheng was able to speak. He first glanced at everyone in the interrogation room, and finally focused his attention on Chu Lingyun, Zhu Qing and Shen Hanwen.
Chu Lingyun was there, so Zhu Qing was naturally there too. He was captured by Shen Hanwen, so he participated in the interrogation and could not say anything.
Several strangers appeared. He didn't know the identities of Chu Lingyun and the others, but he could guess that his arrest must be related to these people. All the people who arrested him today were strangers.
He knew everyone at Hangzhou Station. Every time he went out, he was extremely careful. He would first carefully observe his surroundings, including everyone in the corner, and would not dare to show up unless there was a familiar face.
He hadn't expected the stationmaster to think so highly of him that he actually let an outsider help solve the case.
"Stationmaster, I'm sorry."
Ren Cheng spoke, and the first thing he said was an apology. He was originally just an ordinary second lieutenant. It was Cai Zhengru who discovered him, took him in, treated him as a confidant, and promoted him to deputy head of the intelligence team. Now he is a captain.
The intelligence group is the largest group in the station, and his status as deputy group leader is no less than that of the leaders of other groups.
"It seems you still have some conscience left. Do you know that you have wronged me? If you know, then tell me the truth."
Cai Zhengru sneered and said that Ren Cheng's apology was useless. Ren Cheng had hurt him so badly this time that he would never forgive him.
"Okay, I'll tell you."
Ren Cheng nodded and slowly told the whole story of how the Japanese treated him and how he got on the pirate ship.
Chu Lingyun guessed correctly, Ren Cheng did have an extraordinary love for Go.
Everyone knew that he liked playing chess, but no one expected that he would be so obsessed with it.
It is an open secret that the Japanese consulate is engaged in intelligence work.
There was a person in the consulate who liked to play chess. They had seen Ren Cheng several times at the Oriental Chess Club and knew Ren Cheng's identity.
A year ago, Kitahara Hiroshi took over as consul of the Hangzhou Consulate, and began to find ways to plant traitors in the Military Intelligence Department. If he couldn't plant his own people, he would at least persuade a few people in the Military Intelligence Department to provide him with information.
Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle. The Japanese are also well aware of China's experience.
He quickly set his sights on Ren Cheng.
He learned that Ren Cheng loved playing chess, had good chess skills, and was very confident.
Kitahara Hiroshi and Goto Taniya are good friends, and Goto Taniya is very good at Go.
After learning that Goto Taniyo had come to China, he strongly invited Goto Taniyo to come to Hangzhou to help him incite Ren Cheng to defect.
Ren Cheng is the deputy head of the intelligence team of Hangzhou Station and holds a very high position. It is of great significance to persuade him to defect.
After being invited to Hangzhou, Goto Tanyang went to the Oriental Chess Club, set up a fighting arena, and fought against twelve masters of the chess club, achieving a perfect victory.
After playing chess with Ren Cheng again, Goto Taniya invited Ren Cheng to play chess and discuss it alone.
Ren Cheng admired Goto Tanyang's chess skills very much. Even though he knew that Goto Tanyang was Japanese, Ren Cheng still kept the appointment and played chess with Goto Tanyang alone.
Kitahara Hiroshi did not arrange the place for them to play chess in the Japanese Concession, as that would arouse the other party's vigilance and Ren Cheng might not come.
The chess game was played in a quiet room outside the teahouse.
The two played chess, and as expected, Ren Cheng lost again. Goto Taniya told him that his chess style was very similar to his own, and he was willing to give him some pointers to improve his chess skills.
This made Ren Cheng overjoyed, and he hurriedly pretended to be eager to learn and ask for advice.
Little did he know that this was all arranged by Kitahara Hiroshi, with the aim of gradually lowering Ren Cheng's defensive psychology and thus achieving his goal of turning him against the government.
Goto Taniya's chess skills are indeed very high, and Ren Cheng has benefited a lot from him. Seeing that Goto Taniya was so sincere in teaching him how to play chess, Ren Cheng let down his guard a lot.
When he was learning chess, people kept visiting Goto Tanyang. At first, Ren Cheng was a little reserved, but he understood that it was normal for a master like Goto Tanyang to know more people.
Later, Kitahara Hiroshi came in person and wanted to invite Goto to dinner, so Goto Tanyang invited Ren Cheng to go with him.
Goto Tanyo was so nice to him, he couldn't refuse.
The place to eat was a Japanese restaurant, and there were several other Japanese people there. When Ren Cheng found out, it was too late, so he could only follow. Fortunately, no one said anything to him, but the next day, Kitahara Hiroshi found him after he learned chess and put a photo in front of him.
This photo was taken when they were having dinner, and there was a strange Japanese man sitting next to Ren Cheng.
In the photo, the Japanese man is holding an open box of gold bars and handing it to Ren Cheng.
This box of gold bars was actually given to Goto Tanyo, but Goto Tanyo was sitting far away, so he asked Ren Cheng to help him get it. Unexpectedly, someone took a picture of it.
He knew Kitahara Hiroshi's identity, and this strange Japanese man was Ito Sosuke, the head of Japanese intelligence in Hangzhou.
Ito Sosuke had just arrived in Hangzhou and the Military Intelligence Department did not have any information about him.
Once Ito Sosuke's identity is exposed and this photo appears at Hangzhou Station, he will be unable to defend himself and will definitely be arrested.
If he showed up at the headquarters, given Chu Zuo's personality, he would probably be dead.
It was at this time that Kitahara Hiroshi made it clear to him that Ren Cheng would serve them and would be paid a high salary.
Ren Cheng was very angry at the time, but he was not stupid. He understood that the reason why Goto Taniya approached him was to incite him to rebel.
He respected seniors like Goto Tanyo very much, and one can imagine how he felt when he was deceived by someone he respected.
Kitahara Hiroshi did not force him, but just asked him to consider it. Goto Taniya came forward again and apologized to Ren Cheng. He told him sincerely that his chess skills did have great potential and Goto Taniya was willing to teach him well, but their antagonistic relationship was not good. If they became close people, Goto Taniya could make him the most powerful master in China.
Ren Cheng really loves chess and actually forgave Goto Tanyang.
In the next few days, Goto Taniya continued to secretly teach him how to play chess until he left.
His chess skills had indeed improved greatly during this period, but what was unknown was that he and Goto Tanyo were secretly photographed whenever they were together.
After Goto Tanyo left, Ito Sosuke came forward and gave him an ultimatum.
Either agree or be destroyed.
Once those photos were exposed, Ren Cheng's fate could be imagined, and Ito Sosuke directly threatened him that the photo would be given to their Military Intelligence Headquarters, not the Hangzhou Station.
This is equivalent to completely cutting off his retreat.
In desperation, Ren Cheng could only agree temporarily and provided a small piece of unimportant information.
But he forgot that once on the boat, it would be difficult to get off.
Ito Sosuke didn't care about the value of the information he provided and directly gave him a gold bar as a reward, but then kept urging him to provide more important information.
The intelligence Ren Cheng provided to the Japanese gradually became more and more important until he was completely trapped.
"These Japanese agents are truly omnipresent."
After listening to Ren Cheng's confession, Shen Hanwen sighed and said that the Japanese were too terrible and would do anything to achieve their goals.
Few people who are targeted by them will be able to escape their trap.
Cai Zhengru felt even more regretful. The place that seemed the most unlikely to him turned out to be the target of the Japanese attack. If he had investigated the chess club earlier, the result would probably not be like this.
Although Ren Cheng provided intelligence to the Japanese, he was not willing to actually work for the Japanese in his heart and was tormented every day.
Finally, the webmaster's temptation came.
He submitted false information without checking it out. When the Japanese found out that the information was wrong, they immediately reminded and warned him.
At that time he realized that he might have been exposed.
He did not have any lucky mentality, but he did not trust the Japanese and did not want to completely surrender to them. After careful consideration, he decided to escape with his family.
If he defected to Japan, his family would definitely be under the control of the Japanese and there would be no possibility of turning back.
So we had to hide from the Military Intelligence Department and the Japanese.
During that period, he contacted many places to find a suitable place to stay. His phone calls increased significantly, and Chu Lingyun discovered the abnormality.
He asked the Mi Gang to help him pick up his mother, and he personally rented a few houses, but he understood that the houses he rented at this time could only be temporary accommodation at best. After escaping, he immediately went to secretly find another house to accommodate him and his family.
After defecting, he knew very well that they had no place to stand in the country. If he wanted to survive, but didn't want to be a running dog of the Japanese and live under their control, he could only flee abroad.
He had thought of the route to go abroad. He would go to Guangzhou first. There he had a comrade-in-arms who had shared his life with him and could help him find a boat to smuggle to Hong Kong. Once in Hong Kong, he would find a way to escape to Singapore.
Hong Kong was too close, and he was well aware of the Military Intelligence Department's sanctions against traitors. Once he was exposed, he would likely be hunted down, so the farther he ran, the safer he would be.
But escaping requires money, and a lot of money. The Japanese gave him some money, but it was not enough, so he sold some of the things he had acquired over the years, even some of his wife's jewelry, and only kept the gold.
He was not familiar with Guangzhou. If he went there to deal with these things, he might be cheated in an unfamiliar place, so he stayed in Hangzhou for the time being and exchanged all these things for money.
He handled a lot of things and collected some money.
He thought he would be able to clean up the mess and escape from Hangzhou in a few days, but he was caught today.
"Stationmaster, I know my death is not worth it. I don't ask for life. Considering that I have followed you for so many years, I only ask that you give my family a chance to live."
After Ren Cheng finished speaking, he looked at Cai Zhengru. He knew the outcome after being caught. If he was found by the Japanese, he could still survive, but if he was caught by the Military Intelligence Department, there was no way he would survive.
"I'm not that cruel. Don't worry, I won't kill them."
Cai Zhengru looked at Ren Cheng with a mixture of grief and anger in his heart. After all, he was the person he once trusted and the trusted subordinate he brought up with his own hands.
Although she betrayed him, he really didn't intend to kill her entire family.
Fang Hai frowned. He knew that the stationmaster was being soft-hearted, but if he didn't remove the root of the problem, it would leave hidden dangers. Ren Cheng had children. What if his children wanted to avenge their father when they grew up?
The second update. There will be no additional updates today. I have updated more than 10,000 words for ten consecutive days. I will take a break and adjust the update time. Many friends have reported that the update time is too late. The first chapter will be updated after 12 noon tomorrow.