Chapter 558: I'm going into seclusion

Damn, flustered—what's going on! Chi Mu Chengping said sternly: "Speak slowly, what happened?"

The special train was ambushed by Military Statistics Bureau agents en route… they seized all the weapons being transported! A lieutenant burst into the room, panicking.

What? What are you saying! Chi Mu Chengping's face showed shock.

This Japanese lieutenant immediately stood up and recounted the whole story.

No denying it, this old Japanese devil's acting is really good.

In just a few seconds, his emotions shifted from shock to bewilderment to anger, changing extremely fast.

He then shouted into the phone: "General His Excellency, no… not good, the special train seems to have been attacked!" Chi Mu Chengping shouted into the phone.

"What? An attack!" a flustered voice came from the other end: "Why are you still there? Go investigate this properly!"

"Yes!" Chi Mu Chengping stood, bowed, and hung up.

Once the special train is blown up, how to report it just depends on how you write it.

Although the attack case had doubts, once Tanaka Wanichi died, the smart people in the agency would all guess what happened; for the sake of keeping their own seats secure, who would dare ask more?

Not long after.

The door knocked.

"Come in." Chi Mu Chengping said muffled.

The door opened.

Two Japanese soldiers carried in a blood‑stained stretcher, while a major beside them, face full of sorrow, spoke to Chi Mu Chengping.

"Major His Excellency, the special train was suddenly ambushed by Military Statistics Bureau agents en route; they seized the equipment on the train, and Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka committed suicide out of responsibility!"

"What?" Chi Mu Chengping put on a look of surprise.

This major knew what had happened last night and was also clear why Tanaka Wanichi died.

But there were still two soldiers present; when it was time to act, he still had to perform well, and immediately recounted the whole story of cause and effect.

"Tanaka is foolish." Chi Mu Chengping sighed wistfully: "Tanaka is a brave soldier of the Locust Army; cremate him, then after spring when the port reopens, send him to the hospital ship and bring him back to Japan!"

"Yes!" The Japanese major's expression was grave.

After waving them to take the corpse away, Chi Mu Chengping then sat down to write the investigation report.

After a few hours, Chi Mu Chengping cleared his throat and picked up the phone: "Connect me to the North China Command."

The phone connected.

"General His Excellency, the facts have been clarified." Chi Mu Chengping said with a sorrowful face: "The Military Statistics Bureau agents somehow learned that we were transporting weapons via a civilian special train."

"A civilian special train?" The other end sounded surprised: "Damn, we already have a dedicated transport train—why use a civilian one?"

"Yes, I said the same, but Tanaka thought that using a transport train would surely attract the attention of Chinese agents." Chi Mu Chengping shouted.

"So he insisted on using a civilian special train as cover, lowering the vigilance of Chinese agents, hoping to…"

"But…"

Having said that, Chi Mu Chengping didn't continue.

"Damn, this smart‑aleck idiot." The other end shouted angrily: "Where is that idiot Tanaka? Get him on the phone right away—no, send him to Northern Peace immediately!"

"I'll pry open his skull to see if this idiot has any brains."

"This fool—doesn't he realize how important this shipment is to us?"

Chi Mu Chengping said: "General His Excellency, just before I called, Tanaka had already disemboweled himself in apology before my eyes."

"What?" the other end exclaimed in surprise: "Suicide?"

"Yes!" Chi Mu Chengping said muffled: "Because his plan suffered a major mistake, causing huge losses to the Locust Army and delaying the front‑line opportunity."

"Tanaka fully knew he couldn't escape blame, realized his mistake, couldn't be punished by dismissal and investigation, so he decided to commit suicide to apologize, hoping this would quell the anger of the command headquarters and the front‑line fighting soldiers."

"Damn, this fool—at least he died quickly." The other end sounded irritated.

Chi Mu Chengping's tone turned grave: "Please punish me, General His Excellency!"

We can't keep passing the buck; as the chief officer, I must also show my superiors I'm willing to take responsibility.

"But before that, please give me a chance to make amends by re‑transporting the equipment once more!"

"This time I will personally supervise; I, your humble subordinate, guarantee that this problem will never happen again!"

"You think this equipment is just available on demand?" the other end snorted coldly.

"Yes!" Chi Mu Chengping bowed.

The other end then said: "I will quickly contact Fengtian's Chemical Unit to rush‑produce another batch of equipment; if this happens again, I hope the next one to commit suicide is you!"

"Yes!" Chi Mu Chengping bowed, and after the other end fell silent he hung up, then felt drained and collapsed into his chair.

The Northern Peace side was brushed over for now.

Right now the most urgent thing is to investigate what exactly happened.

Chi Mu Chengping suddenly recalled what Yuan Chief had said: there might be an enemy mole inside.

The equipment's mysterious loss only confirmed it for him.

Someone inside had colluded with outsiders to steal the equipment; otherwise there's no way to explain its mysterious disappearance.

After pondering, Chi Mu Chengping picked up the phone: "Send someone to the Special Higher Police to secretly investigate the movements of everyone in the agency on the night the equipment was lost."

"Remember, I mean every department in the agency—whoever it is, you must get to the bottom of it!"

Having said that, Chi Mu Chengping hung up, his eyes glinting.

A mole—but who could it be?

As he pondered, a knocking sounded outside the door.

"Uncle, it's me."

Hearing Chen Yongren's voice, Chi Mu Chengping rubbed his face and said muffled: "Come in."

The door was pushed open.

Seeing Chi Mu Chengping's disheveled look with his beard stubble, although he had already known what happened to him via the scan, Chen Yongren still feigned surprise and said: "Uncle, how did you end up like this?"

Chi Mu Chengping wore a helpless expression and briefly recounted the matter.

The old devil didn't forget to get rid of the biochemical weapons, and the matter of making Tanaka a scapegoat; he only said that the Military Statistics Bureau intercepted a batch of their important equipment outside.

"What?" Chen Yongren also feigned surprise: "Equipment? Military Statistics Bureau? But how could they know we were transporting supplies by civilian train?"

"Just as you said, there is a mole inside us continuously leaking information." Chi Mu Chengping's expression turned grave: "Otherwise, they couldn't have obtained our detailed plan."