Chapter 327: Life's gotten tough

"Chen Sang, get in the car now, it's not the time to talk about these things!" Tengyuan Jintai opened the car door.

Chen Yongren quickly sat beside Tengyuan Jintai and immediately asked: "Chief Tengyuan, is that sedan attacking our warehouse?"

Tengyuan Jintai nodded with a dark face, unwilling to say more on this topic.

Chen Yongren didn't ask further; what should be looted has been looted, and now is a good time to take stock of the gains.

Killing Japanese agents yielded not only a large amount of cash and skill materials, but also some automobile upgrade materials.

Compared to the rewards for killing Japanese agents, the seized supplies are the main event.

Besides the scarce supplies originally seized by the little devils, Chen Yongren also gained a large amount of arms, explosives, cotton, food, soap, cloth and similar materials.

Under the pretext of arresting resistance fighters, No. 76 has confiscated an unknown amount of supplies, which have now all been turned over to Chen Yongren.

Chen Yongren was calculating, planning to sell off this batch of supplies once the heat dies down.

Half an hour later, they arrived at the warehouse in the suburbs.

At this moment, the military police were already cleaning up the scene, dragging the corpses to one side and laying them out neatly.

The site was a ruin, but the original shape of the warehouse could still be faintly discerned.

According to the report of the soldiers cleaning up the scene, all the supplies had completely disappeared.

Upon hearing this, Tengyuan Jintai's face darkened, and he almost couldn't catch his breath.

An entire warehouse full of supplies, all gone?

"Chief Tengyuan!" Chen Yongren feigned concern.

"It's fine, I'm fine." Tengyuan Jintai clutched his chest.

"Chief Tengyuan, from the end of the battle to moving the supplies, it's absolutely impossible for one person to do this." Chen Yongren thought for a moment and said: "Perhaps this guy has some accomplices."

"Moreover, with so much supplies, it's hard to leave Songhu in a short time; this batch of supplies must still be in Songhu."

That's the normal deduction; Chen Yongren also cannot pretend not to know.

"Exactly, you're absolutely right!" Tengyuan Jintai suddenly perked up: "Chen Sang, you're absolutely right!"

Afterwards he pointed to the nearby soldiers and said: "You, quickly check the vicinity for any unfamiliar tire tracks, and see where the tracks last disappeared."

"Chen Sang, you'll have to work harder lately; quickly find out where these supplies are."

"Don't let any port or warehouse slip by; these supplies are not a small amount, they must be hidden somewhere in Songhu."

"Yes!" Chen Yongren replied.

The goods are all on his person; even if the little devils turn Songhu upside down, they won't think to find these supplies.

The black sedan appeared again.

Even Tengyuan Jintai, who had originally been somewhat doubtful about this, completely dispelled his doubts.

One can't even suspect one's own people of lying.

Tengyuan Jintai casually picked up a brick, which bore a few bullet marks.

It looked like the marks of machine-gun fire.

"Chief Tengyuan?" Chen Yongren feigned ignorance.

Tengyuan Jintai had a headache, casually threw the brick to the ground, and helplessly said: "I just can't figure out how a sedan could have such tremendous power."

"No matter how you look at it, this is too strange; we haven't even managed to take a photo of that sedan."

Tengyuan Jintai scratched his head hard.

This car appeared as if out of nowhere, with no warning whatsoever.

After leaving personnel to continue investigating the scene, Tengyuan Jintai sent Chen Yongren home, planning to resume the investigation tomorrow.

Chen Yongren also temporarily halted his operations, recently only gathering intelligence from within Songhu, then reporting it to the Yu City side.

While daily pretending to lead a team in vetting vehicles to search for the lost supplies, Chen Yongren also wondered how to ferret out the fellow who had cracked his radio code.

The code cracked by that bunch had nearly caused him a major loss; now with his hands free, Chen Yongren also wanted to quickly deal with that pack of dogs.

To prevent them from striking it lucky again, he also successfully cracked a new codebook.

But Chen Yongren had practically traversed Songhu inside out and still heard nothing, not a whisper related to code-breaking.

Not in the concession, not in the occupied area.

Chen Yongren grew increasingly puzzled.

That old devil Tengyuan Jintai, just where did he hide the code-breaking team?

Chen Yongren recently also increased the frequency of his contact with the Yu City side.

Since he can freely change the location of his radio transmissions, he no longer needs to worry about exposure.

Using the pretext of reporting frequently to the Yu City side about the Weasel radio, Chen Yongren once again sought out Tengyuan Jintai.

"Uncle Tengyuan, the Weasel has been frequently contacting the Yu City side lately; perhaps there's some new development." Chen Yongren said deliberately.

Tengyuan Jintai nodded: "This is indeed a headache; the Weasel promptly replaced its codebook, rendering our previous decryption useless."

"The Weasel has again temporarily ceased operations, making it hard for us to infer their intentions."

"But we can't remain passive like this." Chen Yongren's expression turned grave, and he suddenly said: "Uncle Tengyuan, you just said we successfully cracked the Weasel's original codebook?"

Tengyuan Jintai nodded: "You were there at the time; how could you have forgotten?"

"No, I just suddenly thought of a possibility." Chen Yongren said: "You said the Weasel has recently disappeared; could it be looking for the whereabouts of our code-breaking team?"

"Precisely because of their decryption, his code was leaked; given the Weasel's vengeful nature…"

"Chief Tengyuan, our code-breaking team is likely in mortal danger!"

"Chen Sang, you're overthinking it." Tengyuan Jintai waved his hand: "You don't need to worry about their safety."

"Oh?" Chen Yongren instantly perked up, earnestly listening to the old devil's thoughts.

As long as that bastard thinks of the location of our code-breaking team in his mind, I will immediately strike at them.

"They are in a very safe place; besides themselves, no one knows where they are." Tengyuan Jintai gave a mysterious smile.

"Huh?" Chen Yongren was taken aback.

Fujiwara Chikuta's thoughts told Chen Yongren that this old devil wasn't lying.

"The leader of the decryption team had already considered this issue, so he didn't reveal his whereabouts to outsiders," Fujiwara Chikuta said.

"Since that's the case, I can relax," Chen Yongren said with a smile: "That team leader is really impressive; just by knowing their own location, they can guarantee the team's absolute safety."

While smiling on the surface, Chen Yongren wanted to curse inside.

To avoid arousing Fujiwara Chikuta's suspicion, Chen Yongren didn't ask further about this matter.

It seems we can only think of another way, to find out where the little devils' decryption team is located.

"Chen Sang, how's your investigation going? Any leads?" Fujiwara Chikuta asked again: "Recently, our Special Agency has been under great pressure."

"Songhu has had one incident after another, and the operation to capture the yellow weasels has made no progress; the Army Ministry is already very dissatisfied with us."

"We must give them a satisfactory answer; otherwise, we won't have any good days ahead."