Chapter 530: I am wronged

What? The assassin was caught?

Chi Mu Chengping, who was reviewing documents, heard the news that Yuan Chief had captured the assassin, and his face showed a hint of surprise.

This was much faster than I imagined.

Chi Mu Chengping immediately went to the interrogation room under the lieutenant colonel's leadership.

The assassin Yang Xiang on the wooden frame had been beaten until his body was covered in wounds, with not a single patch of intact skin, and several of his fingernails had been torn off.

He kept wailing, "I don't know, I really don't know."

Seeing Yang Xiang in that miserable state, Pu Duan Diao felt his scalp go numb.

Looking at Yang Xiang yelling loudly, Chen Yongren grew impatient and glanced at the translator beside him.

"Lord, he says he doesn't know." Pu Duan Diao translated.

"Bullshit, it's not you, why do the bullet shell test results from the assassination attempt a few days ago match your pistol, and why is the chamber of commerce committee's watch also on you?" Chen Yongren threw the test report at his face.

"Talk, where are your accomplices, who is your superior, what's up with the US dollars hidden in the wall, and where is the gun used to kill the envoy? Talk!"

"Lord, I don't know, I really don't know." Yang Xiang, on the verge of tears.

He didn't understand why, just slacking off and being slick, he had suffered this undeserved disaster.

"Idiot, still daring to talk back, keep beating!" Chen Yongren said with a cold face.

Just as his words fell,

Chen Yongren then heard a voice from behind.

"Chief."

"Uncle, you've come!" Chen Yongren turned toward the voice excitedly.

Chi Mu Chengping walked up to Chen Yongren and smiled, saying, "I heard you captured the assassin who shot the envoy."

"Yes!" Chen Yongren pointed at Yang Xiang, who was about to be beaten into a pulp, and said.

"We found 200 US dollars in his house, plus a Browning pistol, and the lost diamond watch."

"After testing, this pistol is indeed the one used in the previous assassination attempts."

"Strangely, we did not find the pistol used to kill the envoy in his house."

"However, rest assured, uncle, even if his mouth is tough, I will give you a result today."

"Yoisho, Chief Yuan, you've done well in such a short time." Chi Mu Chengping praised, then added, "Go ahead and give your performance your all, don't worry about me."

Then I won't hold back.

Since Chi Mu Chengping had arrived, Chen Yongren also directly activated his Spirit Control Technique on Yang Xiang.

"Yes!" Chen Yongren responded, shifted his gaze to Yang Xiang, and said coldly, "Tell me everything you know..."

As he spoke, Chen Yongren grabbed one of his fingers and bent it backward with force.

"Crack!" a crisp sound.

Yang Xiang let out a miserable scream.

"If you still don't cooperate, I will break all your fingers, then smash them with a hammer—don't test my patience!"

"I don't know, I really don't know." Yang Xiang shook his head desperately.

"Idiot!"

Chen Yongren reached out sideways, and immediately a Japanese soldier handed him a hammer.

"If you won't talk, I want to see how hard your bones are!" Chen Yongren grabbed the hammer and slammed it hard onto Yang Xiang's hand.

A series of cracking sounds rang out.

With the fingers connected to the heart, the shattered-fingered Yang Xiang emitted a piercing scream, but Chen Yongren would not let him go just like that.

Jinmen Hammer King Chen Yongren additionally gave Yang Xiang a few more hammer blows for free.

After tormenting Yang Xiang for a while, Chen Yongren then made him say, "Stop, stop, I'll talk, I'll talk, I'll tell everything."

"Idiot, what nonsense is this idiot babbling again?" Chen Yongren impatiently glanced at Pu Duan Diao beside him.

Pu Duan Diao immediately said, "Lord, Lord, he says he's willing to talk."

"Willing, yoisho." Chen Yongren nodded in satisfaction at Pu Duan Diao and said, "You may leave."

What Yang Xiang will say next is confidential; since there is a Chinese-speaking Chi Mu Chengping present, there is naturally no need for Pu Duan Diao to translate.

"Yes, yes!" Pu Duan Diao dared not linger, scrambling out of the interrogation room.

"Uncle, it's enough, this guy is willing to confess." Chen Yongren said to Chi Mu Chengping.

"Yoisho." Chi Mu Chengping gave a slight nod; "Chief Yuan, don't waste time, continue the interrogation—this time I will act as your translator."

"Yes, uncle, you've worked hard." Chen Yongren looked at Yang Xiang and said, "Name, codename!"

Yang Xiang, his face full of dejection, immediately said, "I am a newly developed member of the Military Statistics Bureau Jinmen Station Action Group, codename Caterpillar."

Chi Mu Chengping gave a slight nod.

This actually matches the eyewitness testimony: after killing, the assassin was panicked, completely unlike the modus operandi of a veteran agent.

"How did you join the Military Statistics Bureau?" Chen Yongren asked again.

"Last year, oh right, that was when the Imperial Army was sweeping the world arresting Military Statistics Bureau agents." Yang Xiang hurriedly said.

"I led a team to capture several people of unknown identity; at first I thought they were refugees, and I thought I could sell them to the mine for some spending money."

"But at night someone came to my door offering money to bribe me to let them go."

"Seeing they offered a lot, I let them go; only later did I learn they were Military Statistics Bureau agents."

"They used this to blackmail me, demanding I work for them, otherwise they would inform on you."

"I was terrified then; to survive, I could only follow their orders!"

"Afterward they disappeared for a while, until one day they reappeared, prompting me to try to stay home as much as possible."

"I then tried to take leave, and after a few days they gave me a pistol and told me to kill three people."

Speaking of this, Yang Xiang lowered his head, feeling a bit guilty.

Chi Mu Chengping immediately thought of the three agents who had been shot dead in the restaurant back then.

"Surely it's him!" Chen Yongren stared coldly at Yang Xiang.

"Continue speaking." Chi Mu Chengping said.

Yang Xiang hurriedly nodded: "Later I followed their orders again, killing several people in succession."

"Each time I finished a mission, they gave me some dollars and said the station chief had already taken notice of me, urging me to keep working hard."

"When I killed that chamber of commerce committee member, I saw his watch was nice and valuable, so I took it, planning to sell it later when things cooled down."

"Because there was a big commotion those days, the team leader worried my identity would be exposed, so he had me get rid of the handgun."

"But I thought this handgun was fine; it'd be a shame to throw it away..."

"Even if I sold it on the black market, it could bring in a good sum, so I..."

"So you didn't dispose of the handgun and kept it for yourself?" Chi Mu Chengping asked coldly.

Yang Xiang nodded.

"Surely only a newcomer would make such a foolish mistake." Chi Mu Chengping repeated his words, looked at Chen Yongren and said: "Chief Commander, do you see? Greed never ends well."

"Hai!" Chen Yongren nodded and said: "The Chief Commander will surely remember this lesson and will never let this happen to himself."

After saying that, he again looked at Yang Xiang and asked: "What about the envoy?"