Chapter 315: Changing the Codebook

After intercepting Huang Shulang's telegram, they immediately reacted, laying a net of heaven and earth, waiting for Huang Shulang to burrow into the trap.

At the last moment, Huang Shulang cancelled the operation again.

Again, that mole!

Old Devil Tengyuan Jintai's teeth are about to grind to pieces.

Huang Shulang's previous telegram had mentioned that they had turned an agent; surely he is again secretly providing information to Huang Shulang.

Although this telegram did not mention the mole.

But besides him leaking the news, who else could it be?

Two consecutive capture operations were sabotaged; Tengyuan Jintai even wanted to eat the mole's heart.

Clearly we had already cracked Huang Shulang's radio code, thinking we could thus grasp their movements and net them all at once.

Result.

Huang Shulang turned another mole, and instead grasped their movements.

"We must find a way to ferret out that mole!" Tengyuan Jintai said through gritted teeth.

Gaotian Longyi said in a muffled voice: "There are too many places where these two operations could leak; in a short time we cannot possibly tell who the mole is; anyone could have leaked."

Speaking of this, Gaotian Longyi added: "Besides us, there's also the Number 76 gang; they participated in both operations, and they could also have leaked."

Hearing this, Tengyuan Jintai frowned, his keen senses detecting something off.

Number 76?

How does that sound a bit grating?

Although said to be Number 76, in fact both operations were led by Chen Yongren.

This bastard, wanting to suspect Chen Yongren again?

Since Gaotian Longyi said whatever about Chen Yongren's assassination attempt, after it was found to be a misunderstanding, Tengyuan Jintai no longer believes anything he says about Chen Yongren.

"Why?" Tengyuan Jintai asked, suppressing his anger: "Huang Shulang's telegram didn't mention a word about Number 76."

"You're saying Chen Yongren is Huang Shulang again?"

"This guy definitely has a problem!" Gaotian Longyi said firmly.

"What evidence?" Tengyuan Jintai asked.

Gaotian Longyi didn't know how to answer for a moment.

If there were evidence, I'd have already arrested the person; why bother guessing here?

Evidence is currently being gathered; but this method definitely cannot be told to Tengyuan Jintai, or he will surely veto it.

"If Chen Yongren really is Huang Shulang, why would he go assassinate you, letting you suspect him voluntarily?" Tengyuan Jintai continued to ask.

"This is his plot: putting himself in a deadly situation to survive afterward." Gaotian Longyi said: "Once doubts about him are lifted, any future incident will not be suspected of him."

After a pause, Gaotian Longyi added: "It's also possible that Chen Yongren deliberately sent someone to assassinate me, making me suspect him, which would also explain why Chen Yongren wasn't injured."

"Precisely because Chen Yongren is Huang Shulang, he deliberately mentioned in the telegram that the turned agent was in the Tengyuan Jintai Agency, the purpose being to disturb our investigative direction."

"Back then you solemnly guaranteed that Chen Yongren was injured by you, so I brought you along to catch him; have you forgotten this?" Tengyuan Jintai said with a dark face, continuing.

"You suspect Chen Yongren of being a resistance member; that's fine."

"But I have only one demand."

"Evidence!"

"Without evidence, don't tell me this; I have no interest in your baseless analysis!"

"In the Special Agency, we believe only in evidence, and we need only evidence."

Huang Shulang wasn't caught, and instead we heard this nonsense again.

Tengyuan Jintai's mood was terribly bad.

Gaotian Longyi's face was deathly pale.

"Immediately find a way to investigate the mole's identity!" Tengyuan Jintai said with a black face.

We can't catch Huang Shulang; this mole beside us must be eradicated.

Gaotian Longyi could only resign himself to obeying.

Yet in his heart he swore he must uncover Chen Yongren's problem.

If this matter isn't resolved, he will find no peace in his quarters.

During this period.

Zhang Haifeng will also find time to report Chen Yongren's recent situation to Gaotian Longyi.

The mission to capture Huang Shulang repeatedly failed, and Chen Yongren often went to be summoned by Tengyuan Jintai to the agency to discuss how to capture Huang Shulang.

Chen Yongren and Gaotian Longyi also occasionally quarreled; whenever it became heated, Tengyuan Jintai would intervene to stop them.

Every night, Chen Yongren also repeatedly carried out assassination operations against Songhu's new government officials; although they were only low-level clerks, he managed to successfully complete several operations.

Failed and successful tasks were roughly even.

But the Japanese were all so anxious they were about to defecate, urgently wanting to catch this mole.

Number 76 Consultant Office.

Chen Yongren has already assigned Zhang Haifeng to his side.

Zhang Haifeng is currently performing the duties of a secretary, helping Chen Yongren organize documents.

The two talk about work on the surface, occasionally tapping Morse code with their fingers to communicate.

Chen Yongren now also opened the Ghost Radio, contacting the Chongqing side to analyze the reasons for recent repeated failures of operations.

Operations in the Songhu district repeatedly failed; even the Chongqing side couldn't help but notice.

In the past, for Huang Shulang, there was basically no task he couldn't complete.

It is simply unheard of.

The little devils' sense of smell couldn't possibly be that keen, always able to sniff things out; this definitely indicates a problem.

The warehouse being inspected can be grudgingly attributed to the little Japanese's good luck.

After all, they already control most of the ports, so a blind cat finding a dead rat is normal.

But in recent operations, any mission applied for by Huang Shulang ends in failure, while tasks not applied for all succeed.

Huang Shulang maintains single-line contact with the Yu City side, and is currently a person in high favor for them, having lain low and achieved much merit, with no reason to betray.

Moreover, if Huang Shulang wanted to defect, the Songhu Area would already have suffered catastrophe; he wouldn't need to go through all this trouble.

After such analysis.

The Yu City side immediately realized that the Songhu Area's codebook might have been broken by the Japanese.

Chen Yongren also immediately agreed with this speculation.

They immediately decided to activate the Emergency Contact Point and send a new codebook to the Songhu Area.

The codebook arrived seven days later.

The Emergency Contact Point is not normally activated.

Its sole function.

It is a location for conveniently replacing the codebook if it is compromised.

At the same time, the Emergency Contact Point also changes along with the codebook's replacement.

Before the new codebook arrives in Songhu, for the safety of the Songhu Area, all operations and communications are temporarily halted.

Fujiwara Special Agency also intercepted this message.

Fujiwara Jinta looked very grim.

Military Statistics Bureau personnel A Ren't fools; with successive mission failures, they will surely notice.

What he is truly angry about is that after he broke Huang Shulang's codebook.

The current situation has basically not changed at all.

And now Huang Shulang wants to replace the codebook again, suspending all contact—where are we supposed to catch people?

The Emergency Contact Point is absolutely secret; aside from Huang Shulang and the person delivering the codebook, nobody knows about it, so how could it be intercepted?