Chapter 296: The Weasel That Crawled Into the Sewer

"The Japanese are starting to suspect my identity." Chen Yongren also didn't waste words.

"Exposed?" Hua Lei's heart tightened.

She had never seen such a scene near her home before.

"If exposed, we should be getting whipped in the interrogation room." Chen Yongren joked: "Precisely because they can't figure out my identity, that's why they're surveilling us."

"What should I do?" Hua Lei asked.

"Live normally, as if they don't exist." Chen Yongren took 100 yen from the system and handed it to Hua Lei, saying: "I'll handle the rest; you don't need to interfere."

"Okay!" Hua Lei took the money, nodded, and turned back to the house.

His lack of combat experience means that simply obeying orders honestly and not holding back is the greatest help to Chen Yongren.

After Hua Lei left, Chen Yongren also began to think, organizing his thoughts.

Thinking that Zhang Haifeng might also be in danger, Chen Yongren originally wanted to call him, but now calls are being monitored by the Japanese.

He also rarely talks to Zhang Haifeng about other matters in normal times.

Moreover, it's a sensitive period now; if he made a suggestive call at this time, it would only cause more trouble.

Chen Yongren decisively abandoned that idea.

How can we break this deadlock?

There are two things that must be done now.

First, find a way to sneak out of the villa, send a telegram, and report tonight's battle results.

Even if the code has already been cracked by the Japanese, one must still act as if everything is normal.

Only then can the series of failed operations lead Huang Shu Lang to suspect that the codebook has been cracked, thereby laying the groundwork for him to replace the codebook.

The people sent by Gao Tianyi show no attempt to hide their surveillance; they're just playing an open ploy.

If one's identity were normal, there would be no fear of this so-called surveillance.

But this premise requires that, while under surveillance, Huang Shu Lang's radio appears elsewhere.

If the radio signal fails to appear for a long time, to Huang Shu Lang it is a deadly poison.

The reason is simple.

Huang Shu Lang must be in a dangerous environment, which makes him dare not, and unable to, transmit or receive radio signals; otherwise he would directly expose his identity.

Besides Chen Yongren, who is under strict surveillance, there is no second person matching that identity.

Moreover, Gao Tianyi still has another trick up his sleeve.

The second thing to do is to notify the team members to all remain silent and temporarily halt all actions.

Otherwise, some team members might fall for a trick, and the losses would only become more severe.

The commotion in Songhu District makes temporary silence for safety seem reasonable.

When the Heavenly Eye Skill is activated, Chen Yongren sees a radar map before him, with all nearby hidden Japanese agents appearing on it.

Dense dots surround the villa, at least twenty or thirty, making it impossible to swagger out the front gate.

So he can only find another way; when he first moved into the villa, Chen Yongren had used a holographic map to examine the surrounding terrain and roughly understood the villa's structure.

Although there is no tunnel, the villa's original owner had built independent drainage wells for the villa, connecting to Songhu City's sewer system.

To facilitate drainage, the original owner also imported a batch of materials from abroad; the pipes are neither too thick nor too thin, just right to accommodate a four- or five-year-old child.

An adult definitely couldn't squeeze in, but for Chen Yongren, who is skilled in Bone Shrinking Skill, there is no better 'passage'.

Chen Yongren strolled to a corner of the villa's backyard.

The Japanese agents only surveil; whether Chen Yongren has sneaked out of the villa, they cannot monitor the interior situation.

Following his memory, Chen Yongren quickly found the drainage well at the corner and used Bone Shrinking Skill to shrink his body as much as possible.

Soon, the once upright Chen Yongren became about the size of a four- or five-year-old child.

He hesitated not, immediately jumped into the drainage well, and crawled outward along the pipe.

Although Chen Yongren is injured, the sewage pipe is filthy.

But for him, whose body has undergone two enhancements, although it cannot be said to be immune to all poisons, ordinary infections hardly provoke a reaction in his body.

At the same time Chen Yongren sneaked out of the villa.

Zhang Haifeng also noticed the abnormality outside his home, with many strangers appearing out of nowhere.

He immediately caught a whiff of danger.

Exposed?

Zhang Haifeng couldn't help but reach for his sidearm, preparing to fight to the death with outsiders.

Damn it!

A Ren is also in danger!

He's my closest friend; since the little Japanese have started surveilling me, how could they possibly leave him out?

Zhang Haifeng was about to call Chen Yongren to inform him.

Suddenly he realized another problem.

A Ren is so sharp; he must have already sensed the danger, which is why he hasn't called me.

This can only mean one thing.

The Japanese are very likely tapping the phone!

By then, if we called, what could we say? We can't outright say outsiders are monitoring us; for safety, let's hurry and sneak away.

Zhang Haifeng sat calmly in his chair, analyzing that going out now would surely alert the little devils, so he must not act rashly.

Putting it another way, if A Ren were in danger, the Japanese would have already attacked him given their nature; there would be no need to surveil.

For now, there's no problem.

Calmly wait until tomorrow, then speak when seeing A Ren.

Using stillness to counter movement, let the devils fret and rush about!

……

On Chen Yongren's side, after getting far from the area where his home was, he only then crawled out of the sewer, taking advantage of the darkness, and ran all the way toward the direction two li away from his home.

At this moment, the Japanese agents tasked with surveilling Chen Yongren never imagined that the people they had seen had already slipped out from the villa.

After confirming safety, Chen Yongren had no time to clean off the filth; he immediately took out the radio and sent an urgent telegram to Boss Dai, reporting their recent victory.

The procedure is complete.

Boss Dai quickly responded, sparing no words of praise.

He had heard everything that had happened in Songhu; although separated by a telegram slip, Chen Yongren could still feel Boss Dai's excitement.

Under Chen Yongren's command, the assassination mission succeeded.

Even the Japanese puppet agents and traitorous lackeys who had not encountered the assassination trembled with fear, dreading the day the executioner's blade would fall on their own heads.

The Military Statistics Bureau was in the limelight, and Boss Dai also received plenty of praise and awards; his status within the Chongqing government kept rising, completely suppressing the Central Unified Party's leader.

After that came the usual empty promises and praise, encouraging Chen Yongren to keep up the good work and continue to earn merit for the nation.

Subsequently, Chen Yongren responded humbly, promising to surely not disgrace his mission and to serve the nation loyally.

After going around, Boss Dai once again asked Chen Yongren how the handling of that batch of goods was going.

Chen Yongren instead excused himself, saying recent tasks were busy and he would handle it as soon as possible.

Perhaps, since the matter of the codebook leak cannot be spoken of openly, nor can it be hinted at.

Why not use this matter to let Boss Dai notice that there is a problem with the codebook?

However you calculate it, this deal is definitely worthwhile.

Furthermore, we can pin the blame for the damaged goods on the heads of those little Japanese.