Chapter 641: The Female Spy Defects

He Yuzhu's brain buzzed—how did catching a spy escalate to this point?

He steadied his mind: "But my superiors don't want to completely tear off the mask with your country yet."

"The Hong Kong Intelligence Station is entirely Alexander's people. If they want to make a move against you, are you just going to sit and wait for death?" Nina stared at him. "I don't know the others, but Alexander knows them all. Interrogate him and get the details on those people. With your skills, you could wipe them all out..."

Nina's words, on the contrary, left He Yuzhu momentarily unsure of how to respond.

He sighed inwardly; when a woman gets ruthless, she really is more formidable than a man.

But if he really did this, would it cause a major incident?

He Yuzhu asked: "Then if they are all dead, what will you do?"

Nina looked at him: "I am willing to work with you."

He Yuzhu nodded, not mentioning that he wasn't an intelligence officer at all, and merely placated her: "I'm not the Station Chief here; I have to ask my superiors for instructions."

Nina nodded lightly.

He Yuzhu walked out of the room and saw Liu Rusi had been listening outside the window. Just as he was about to report,

he was grabbed by the ear by Liu Rusi and pulled into a side room.

"What exactly is your relationship with this woman? Why did she let you look at her thighs?" Liu Rusi's willow-leaf eyebrows stood upright.

"Sister, can you be professional?" He Yuzhu said. "Didn't you hear what she meant? She's willing to defect to avenge her partner, even eliminating her own people; she's a ruthless character. Don't drag me into that kind of mess!"

Liu Rusi paced the room several times: "I can't make a decision on this. The fastest way is to send a telegram to Secretary Liu."

"Sister, a general in the field is not bound by the orders of his sovereign. By the time you finish sending the telegram to Secretary Liu, those people at the Intelligence Station will have long since run away."

Liu Rusi glanced at He Yuzhu and gritted her teeth: "You go interrogate Alexander immediately; that guy probably won't be easy to deal with."

He Yuzhu nodded: "Anyway, I'm not one of your people, so I won't follow your rules either."

He Yuzhu spent over half an hour tossing the guy around, but the fellow stubbornly refused to open his mouth.

After several methods, the opponent's face turned livid, yet he remained silent.

Finally, He Yuzhu changed tactics.

After applying a few methods, Alexander finally couldn't hold out and confessed everything.

He Yuzhu reported the results to Liu Rusi.

Liu Rusi hesitated again: "Eliminating twenty-some people—this is a major matter!"

"Anyway, Hong Kong is a major intelligence hub, and there are intelligence personnel from every country. If you ask me, even if they were all wiped out, they wouldn't dare to make a sound about it," He Yuzhu said.

Liu Rusi finally made up her mind: "Since they have murderous intent toward us, we truly cannot let them stay..."

He Yuzhu smiled: "Sister, let me handle this!"

Liu Rusi knew He Yuzhu's capabilities, and her own subordinates did not participate in this operation at all.

Over the next two days, Nina led the way, and He Yuzhu did the work.

One after another, they vanished without a trace, leaving not even a mark behind.

From top to bottom, in two days, the entire Intelligence Station was completely wiped out by He Yuzhu.

On the day the mission ended, He Yuzhu returned to Liu Rusi's residence.

"Is it all handled?" Liu Rusi asked.

"It's all cleaned up; no one will be able to find them," He Yuzhu said confidently.

"Great!" Liu Rusi patted He Yuzhu on the shoulder and praised him.

"How should we handle Nina?"

Liu Rusi smiled: "This is the aftereffect of you not requesting permission. For this matter, you still have to talk to Secretary Liu."

He Yuzhu sighed: "I'll take Nina to offer a humble apology."

When Nina heard that He Yuzhu was going to take her into the Mainland, her eyes lit up, and she said: "I like Chinese food."

After He Yuzhu finished handling the affairs in Hong Kong, he took Nina back to Guangzhou.

He first settled Nina in a civilian house, then went alone to see Secretary Liu.

As soon as he entered the door, He Yuzhu said: "Leader, this time I've poked a huge hornet's nest for you; you might as well dismiss me."

Secretary Liu was stunned, his teacup paused in his hand, and he stared at him for a moment: "What? Did the equipment procurement not go smoothly?"

He Yuzhu shook his head: "Four production lines, all brought back. This time it didn't cost any money; I'm giving them to the factory for free."

Secretary Liu frowned: "Then what hornet's nest did you poke?"

He Yuzhu paused and told him everything about wiping out the Su Guo Intelligence Station, point by point.

After listening, Secretary Liu didn't speak for a long while.

The room was so quiet that one could hear the second hand of the wall clock ticking—one, two, three. He Yuzhu didn't urge him, just stood there.

A full five minutes later, Secretary Liu sighed.

He set his teacup on the table and rubbed his brow: "The matter is already done, so don't dwell on it." He looked up at He Yuzhu, "But this time, you kid really did poke a hole in the sky."

"Actually, I didn't want to tell you."

Secretary Liu said: "I really do wish you hadn't told me. However, what you did isn't necessarily a bad thing. Within our ranks, there are indeed still some people who hold illusions about the North."

He Yuzhu nodded and said cautiously: "Leader, let me say something I shouldn't—I'm afraid we will fall out with the North sooner or later."

Secretary Liu didn't respond, just looked at him.

He Yuzhu asked again: "We haven't completely torn off the mask with them yet, is it because we are waiting for that Big Mushroom?"

Secretary Liu smiled and pointed at He Yuzhu: "You kid, nothing can be hidden from you!"

He Yuzhu probed: "Within a year?"

Secretary Liu nodded again and lowered his voice: "About that. At the latest... around '63."

He Yuzhu didn't ask any further, chuckled, and rubbed his hands: "There is one more thing I need to ask of you—that female spy we turned, I brought her over. You'll have to help arrange things for her later."

Secretary Liu looked at him and instead smiled: "Don't be afraid, this is a good thing. She can provide us with a lot of information we don't know about."

For the next period of time, He Yuzhu knew the trouble he had caused was not small, so he threw all his energy into the factory.

The infrastructure construction for the Tape Recorder factory was rolled out in full swing.

He Yuzhu spent his days immersed at the construction site, directing workers on infrastructure on one side, and working himself to modify the four radio production lines he had acquired on the other.

He was so busy he barely touched the ground, and sometimes when he was tired, he would just take a nap in the construction shed.

Three months later, the factory buildings were basically completed, and the four production lines were also mostly calibrated.

After the factory went into full production, the first batch of Tape Recorders had just been shipped to Hong Kong when they were immediately snapped up.

That it could cause such a sensation was also thanks to Zhang Shuying.

When He Yuzhu left, he not only had her release a new album, but also had her re-record her previous songs with new arrangements.

In other words, the Tape Recorder was released together with the cassette tapes.

Young people could listen to new songs as soon as they bought the Tape Recorder, no longer needing to wait for the radio station to play them; they could listen as many times as they wanted.

With this, the sales of the Tape Recorder skyrocketed, and conversely, no one bought the foreign-brand radios anymore.

For no other reason than that this Tape Recorder itself also featured a radio function.

For a time, the streets and alleys of Hong Kong were filled with singing everywhere.

This item was not too expensive for the people of Hong Kong; a few months' wages could buy one, and families with slightly better conditions could all afford it.

The sight of people holding the bicycle handlebars with one hand and carrying a Tape Recorder with the other, playing the trendiest tunes while swaggering through the streets, was everywhere.

As the Tape Recorder became popular in Hong Kong, He Yuzhu also had Secretary Liu reach out to the cultural department to record a large number of cassette tapes.

The produced Tape Recorders could not all be exported, so a portion was still kept domestically.

The Tape Recorder also gradually became popular here in Guangdong Province.

When He Yuzhu returned to Beijing, it was February 1963.

He could not stay away any longer; Chen Xueru's belly was already very large, round and bulging, and she was about to give birth.

He Yushui was keeping Chen Xueru company, and seeing him enter, she immediately pouted: "Brother, you are really excessive! This time when sister-in-law was pregnant, you didn't accompany her again!"

He Yuzhu laughed, walked over to touch Chen Xueru's belly, and said: "It is indeed my fault, I should be punished."

He Yushui rolled her eyes, leaned in with a grin: "Brother, I heard you went to set up a Tape Recorder factory; did you bring a few back?"

He Yuzhu nodded; this time he really had bought a few back, and they were all in the car.