Chapter 217: Rose

Li Xuewu opened the car door and got out, walked to the gate, looked inside, and said to the guard cadre, "I'll borrow your guard room phone to make a call, that's fine, right?"

The guard cadre still wanted to push back, but was frightened by the look in Ji Wang Weidong's eyes that wanted to eat people. After looking at Li Xuewu's ID, he had to nod in agreement and led the two toward the guard room.

Lifting the curtain and walking in, the first thing was a reception-style room. The configuration was quite high. The chairs placed against the wall weren't the wooden chairs popular now, but sofas with white silk scarves.

The middle-aged man sitting behind the office desk was bald. Ji Wang Weidong recognized this person as the one who was peeking from behind the door just now.

Ji Wang Weidong glared angrily, but didn't dare to lose his temper in this place. The water here was too deep. Seeing Li Xuewu follow the guard cadre to make a call, he could only stand by the door and look straight at the courtyard, feeling anxious.

Li Xuewu took a piece of paper from his pocket, opened it, looked at the phone number on it, and asked the guard cadre to help dial the number.

The phone waited for a full minute before it was connected. Ji Wang Weidong, standing at the door, really thought Li Xuewu was playing mystery and preparing to play dirty tricks.

Seeing the phone was connected, Li Xuewu picked up the receiver and said to the phone, "Hello, is this Comrade Zhou? I am Li Xuewu, a security cadre from the Red Star Rolling Mill. Do you still remember me?"

The person Li Xuewu called wasn't anyone else, but the foreign affairs official, Comrade Zhou, whom he met when he went on a business trip to the Northeast some time ago to handle that incident. Being able to be sent from Beijing to the Northeast to handle special incidents with two foreign affairs officials from the Soviet Union who were not low in rank, his rank shouldn't be low.

"Yes, yes, the children are all fine. I'm really sorry to disturb your rest at this time. It's because my work encountered difficulties, so I want to ask you for a favor. It's really presumptuous."

"Yes, yes, it's like this..."

Li Xuewu reported the severity of the case and the name of the main organizer, Ji Wang Weidong, and reported his unit, and finally said the location where he was.

"Yes, okay, then thank you for your hard work. After this matter is finished, I will take the children to visit you."

"Okay, hmm, okay, I'll wait for your news."

The guard cadre didn't know where Li Xuewu's phone call went, but seeing this public security cadre who was with the arrogant investigation department cadre speaking so politely on the phone, it must be a person of no small status, and it was a person of his own department.

The middle-aged man sitting at the office desk laughed "hehehe" and hurriedly stood up, walked to Li Xuewu, stretched out his hand, and said, "Oh, Comrade Public Security, I'm really sorry. We also have work discipline, really..."

Li Xuewu didn't have Ji Wang Weidong's special status, nor did he have such a big responsibility, so of course he didn't have such a big temper. Li Xuewu's principle was still that more friends mean more roads, and more enemies mean more walls.

There was no need to hold a grudge against this kind of person for work matters. Besides, just working the night shift in the guard room, how much status and ability could he have?

Just a small character, not worth it.

"You are polite. It's all for work, and it's all to serve the people."

Li Xuewu satirized him, and in the middle-aged man's embarrassed concession, sat on the sofa and waited for the phone. Ji Wang Weidong didn't have Li Xuewu's patience and kept looking into the courtyard.

The guard cadre could see what Li Xuewu could see, and of course he could see it too. The phone call Li Xuewu made must have been to someone of a much higher rank than him, which was why he didn't tell him to listen to the phone directly.

So Li Xuewu wasn't waiting for his own phone call, but for this middle-aged man's phone call.

Sure enough, after less than five minutes, the phone in the room rang. Under Li Xuewu's signal, the middle-aged man walked to the office desk and picked up the phone.

"Yes, it's me, yes, yes, I'll do it right away, yes, yes."

Amidst the middle-aged man's continuous "yes, yes," Li Xuewu took Ji Wang Weidong out of the door, didn't even wait for the middle-aged man to finish the call, and "banged" the car door shut

Watching the middle-aged cadre lead the security cadre hurriedly out of the security office, the two of them got on a motorcycle with a security guard in front to lead the way, waving to the security guards who had already lifted the alert to let them pass, Ji Wang Weidong couldn't help but give Li Xuewu a thumbs up.

"You kid have some wild connections, you even know a high-ranking leader in the foreign affairs department?"

Li Xuewu waved his hand at the people outside the car window, replying to Ji Wang Weidong's words: "It was just a coincidence. It's only because it's you; I wouldn't beg anyone else even if I died. Who told you that we are brothers?"

Ji Wang Weidong didn't pay attention to Li Xuewu's words—when had he ever said he and Li Xuewu were brothers? This guy worked in a factory and had a very strong "jianghu" aura. Just looking at his attitude toward that middle-aged cadre, he knew this kid wasn't a simple character. He looked again at the wool coat Li Xuewu was wearing, and his back molars felt itchy.

Had he been tricked by this kid? Would someone with such connections be short of clothes to wear? Could it be that seeing him wearing a wool coat, he deliberately put on a show of "Liu Bei borrowing Jingzhou" for him?

Before Ji Wang Weidong could figure it out, the motorcade had already stopped at Villa B06. The security cadre who had been at the door earlier jumped off the motorcycle first and ran over, wanting to go knock on the door first.

Li Xuewu and Ji Wang Weidong here didn't give him that face; they waved their hands and led their men to charge inside, but as soon as they entered the main gate, they were pushed back by the people inside.

Just as Ji Wang Weidong was about to lose his temper, he saw Ji Wang Weidong being pushed back by the barrel of a silver gun.

"If you dare to take another step forward, I will shoot."

Li Xuewu grabbed Ji Wang Weidong, who was about to draw his gun for a standoff, waved his hand to tell the guards behind him to be quiet, and then turned back to say to the blonde man inside the door: "We are Chinese police. We now suspect that a criminal has entered your residence, and we are now going to conduct a search."

The blonde man shook the gun in his hand and said to Li Xuewu: "There are no criminals here. This is a residential area for foreign personnel. We have diplomatic immunity and have the right not to accept your inspection."

Li Xuewu frowned and pushed away the gun barrel pointed at him, saying: "Whether there are or not is not for you to decide. Furthermore, this is Chinese territory. I have the right to conduct a search here. You only have the obligation to cooperate. Of course, you also have the right to file a complaint against me."

Li Xuewu took out his credentials and said to the blonde man: "I am now issuing you your first warning. Please put down the weapon in your hand, cooperate with our investigation, and explain the source of the weapon you are holding."

Hearing Li Xuewu's words, Ji Wang Weidong pulled out the large Type 54 pistol from his waist and pointed it inside. The guards and investigation department personnel behind him also pointed their long and short guns inside.

The blonde man standing inside looked at Ji Wang Weidong and the others drawing their guns with unperturbed confidence and raised his eyebrows at Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu took out his service pistol and said to the blonde man inside: "I am now issuing you your second warning. Please put down the weapon in your hand and cooperate with our investigation. If you do not cooperate before I issue the third warning, then you will be responsible for all consequences."

The blonde man looked at the pistol in Li Xuewu's hand, his eyes narrowed, and then looked at the gatekeeper who was squeezed in the back, unable to come up, and was still persuading them to put down their weapons and talk things over.

"I bet your gun has no bullets in it."

Li Xuewu stared at the blonde man, flicked the safety off with his thumb, and said to him: "I am now issuing you your third warning. Please put down the weapon in your hand and cooperate with our investigation. I am now going to take coercive measures against you. If you dare to resist, my comrades and I will shoot you until you are killed."

After Li Xuewu finished this sentence, he held the gun with both hands aimed at the blonde man, kicked the ground with his left foot, stepped out with his right foot, kicked the blonde man in the stomach, and "Bang!" fired a shot at the crotch of the blonde man's pants.

The blonde man was so scared that he jerked backward, breaking into a cold sweat looking at the gunpowder smoke at his crotch. Ji Wang Weidong, behind Li Xuewu, kicked the door open and followed Li Xuewu to step on the blonde man.

"I am foreign personnel. You have no right to take coercive measures against me. I am going to your foreign affairs department to report you."

Li Xuewu stepped on the blonde man's hand, picked up the vertical double-barreled shotgun that had fallen to the ground, and looked at the inscription on the handle, but didn't recognize it.

It wasn't an English spelling method. According to the pronunciation of the letters, was it called "Pilet"? "Pride"? This gun was double-barreled, what a piece of junk.

He shook his head, looking at the wood and metal of the gun, which were both top-quality materials, and then looked at the villa. This blonde man's identity was unusual; the value of this junk gun couldn't be low.

He opened the rear safety of the gun. Damn, there really were bullets inside. He used his foot to twist the blonde man's wrist hard, drawing a wail from him.

"With this kind of stuff, you dare to talk to me about rights? Sir, in our country, gambling is illegal. How can you gamble?" Li Xuewu said to the blonde man, who had been stripped of his trivial items by the guards and handcuffed.

Ji Wang Weidong didn't waste words with this blonde man; he led his men to charge into the villa, and upon seeing someone appear, he shouted: "Get down!"

Li Xuewu didn't want to go in and argue with Ji Wang Weidong, who had already turned red-eyed, so he waved his hand to tell the police dog team to follow inside.

"Go search. Pay attention to the compartments and the basement. Search carefully."

Watching the police dog team enter the villa, Li Xuewu said to the blonde man who was being pulled to stand at the door: "I won't ask if you are David, and I won't ask if the 'Professor' is here. Even if you wanted to tell me now, I wouldn't want to listen. As long as I find the person, even if your God came in person, He couldn't protect you. You know what department dared to come in and arrest you, right?"

Li Xuewu's words pushed back the middle-aged man who had just squeezed in to speak. He looked anxiously at the people who had rushed into the villa, and then at the blonde man pushed into the corner by Li Xuewu.

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said to Li Xuewu: "Comrade, there's no need to make such a big scene, is there? This is..."

Before the middle-aged man could finish his sentence, Ji Wang Weidong stood upstairs and waved at Li Xuewu, shouting: "Xuewu, come up, I've made a discovery."

Li Xuewu waved his hand to indicate he understood, turned to the middle-aged cadre, and said: "Sorry, you have to step back. This place might be temporarily taken over by the investigation department. If you have any questions, the one shouting upstairs will be responsible."

After speaking, regardless of the middle-aged man being pushed out the door by the investigation department personnel, he put his pistol back into his bosom and carried the vertical double-barreled shotgun into the villa.

Wearing a yellow wool coat, large-headed fur-lined leather shoes, and a military cap, carrying a double-barreled shotgun, Li Xuewu walking into the villa was like a mountain king entering the city to rob.

And don't say, the decoration here was quite "luxurious." Of course, this kind of luxury was relative. With the country's current capabilities and economic level, on this piece of land, having this kind of decoration could already be considered a luxury standard.

Looking at the guards still searching with police dogs, and then at the few blonde men being pressed to the ground and searched by the investigation department, Li Xuewu didn't care whether the mud on his shoes would dirty the carpet in the house. He carried the gun upstairs, walked to the second-floor corridor, and saw Ji Wang Weidong beckoning to him.

"Come and see what I've found."

Li Xuewu said while walking: "What did you find?"

"Whoa~ You've really hit the jackpot this time."

Li Xuewu used the muzzle of the shotgun to poke the small leather suitcase placed at the foot of the bed. It wasn't that the suitcase being LV surprised Li Xuewu, but the things inside the suitcase.

A black box, a telescopic antenna, a headset, a transmitter, and power cords and spare batteries.

Good heavens, this was a radio station, and a small, precise one at that.

"I knew this guy wasn't honest. Damn it, he dares to play with intelligence here."

The capital had long since regulated radio stations. The commercial and public radio stations of these foreign affairs agencies had to be reported before they could be used. Now, looking at this secret radio station in the suitcase, it was clearly privately hidden and not intended to be reported.

"Any other discoveries?" Li Xuewu poked the mattress with the gun barrel, then poked the large wardrobe in the room and asked.

Ji Wang Weidong carefully closed the suitcase containing the radio, watched Li Xuewu poking around blindly with the gun, and said: "Don't poke around with that piece of junk. What if it goes off?"

After speaking, he waved his hand to tell the comrades from the investigation department to take the suitcase down, walked to Li Xuewu, opened the large wardrobe, and said: "See? Women's clothes, but there isn't a single female in this house. Do you think there's a discovery?"

Li Xuewu walked to the wardrobe, took down a piece of clothing from the wardrobe, and compared it with Ji Wang Weidong. It was indeed similar in style and size to what was searched out at the school, but he always felt something was not quite right, yet he couldn't figure it out.

Ji Wang Weidong slapped Li Xuewu's hand away, grabbed the clothes, and threw them into the wardrobe, saying: "Stop talking nonsense. Hurry up and search. I believe the person is in this house. Even if I have to dig three feet into the ground today, I will drag the person out."

Li Xuewu looked at the red light reflected outside the window and said: "The sun is coming out."

Ji Wang Weidong nodded indifferently and said: "A jeep was found in the garage in the backyard, and the engine is hot."

Li Xuewu took two steps back, looked outside the door, then walked back and opened the wardrobe to look, asking: "You said this room is on the east side, and it's a bedroom. Why not open a window facing the east? With only that one window over there, the room is really dark."

Ji Wang Weidong walked to the second-floor staircase and looked at the police dog team below. The target hadn't been found yet. Clearly, the basement downstairs was hidden very well, or there was no basement at all.

"What time is it, and I still have the mood to discuss architectural layout with you?"

Li Xuewu frowned, turned the muzzle, held the handle of the double-barreled shotgun, and knocked on the side of the wardrobe with the butt of the gun, making a dull "thump-thump" sound.

Ji Wang Weidong also saw what Li Xuewu meant. He stared at Li Xuewu holding the shotgun and constantly knocking on the wall with the butt of the gun, until Li Xuewu opened the wardrobe door and threw all the clothes out.

"Are you suspecting there's a mezzanine behind this wardrobe?"

Li Xuewu beckoned to the few young men searching on the second floor and said: "You guys try to see if you can move this large wardrobe."

Logically speaking, no matter how heavy the wood was, even if a few young men couldn't carry it, they should be able to pull it. But no matter how hard they gritted their teeth and pulled, the large wardrobe didn't budge at all.

"Alright, don't waste your energy." Li Xuewu stopped the few young men.

"Should we let the police dogs come up and take a look?" Ji Wang Weidong asked when he saw Li Xuewu frowning at the wardrobe.

Li Xuewu shook his head and said: "That woman's clothes are all inside. Even if the police dogs smelled it, they would be affected."

"Use a sledgehammer. It seems I really have to discuss architectural structure with you today. I'm going to do the work of a renovation worker for once."

Li Xuewu waved his hand to reject Ji Wang Weidong's proposal, stood by the wardrobe, and said: "No need for that much trouble. Didn't we bring explosives? Let's install the explosives inside the wardrobe, then hide in the next room, and come in after it blows open."

Ji Wang Weidong was stunned after hearing Li Xuewu's words, thinking, stop talking nonsense, where did we bring explosives? When did that happen?

But seeing Li Xuewu winking at him, he answered with a flash of inspiration: "Why else would they say that steelworkers are the most direct? But what if the person inside is blown to death?"

Li Xuewu smiled at Ji Wang Weidong, who was playing along, and continued: "Actually, dead or alive is the same. The radio has been found, and the one at the door must be their leader. The one inside is nothing more than a lackey holding documents. As long as the documents are found or confirmed to be destroyed, it's fine."

Ji Wang Weidong waved his hand at the team members who were watching the show and said: "Then what are we waiting for? Install it quickly. The sooner we finish, the sooner we collect the corpse."

Li Xuewu waited for about ten seconds at the wardrobe door, and seeing no movement inside, he waved his hand at the few people beside him and said: "Alright, alright, everyone step back, retreat to the next room."

Ji Wang Weidong didn't know what tricks Li Xuewu was playing, but seeing Li Xuewu wave his hand, he led the people out and really went to the next room.

Li Xuewu stood in front of the wardrobe door, took out the grenade that Zhao Yajun had saved earlier from his pocket. It was round-egg shaped, the shrapnel had cut textures, and the bomb wall was sprayed with foreign characters, which Li Xuewu didn't recognize.

Too many strange weapons had entered during the Republican era, which could be called a hodgepodge of weapons from all nations. Anyway, as long as it made a sound, it was considered a weapon, and it could be found on this magical land.

He pulled the ring, reached his hand holding the grenade into the wardrobe, gently placed the grenade at the bottom of the wardrobe, released the safety, quickly closed the cabinet door, ran two steps, and threw himself behind the large bed.

"Boom!"

This explosion was particularly loud and particularly violent. Li Xuewu closed the cabinet door just to hear this kind of dull sound.

In his previous life, when he was in charge of dangerous goods, he knew that the more restricted the space, the more violent the explosion of dangerous goods, so he wanted to create this atmosphere of explosives blowing up a wall for the people inside to hear.

Li Xuewu lifted the quilt that had been blown onto his head by the air wave, shook his ears that were ringing from the shock, lay on the ground and looked, and the entire large wardrobe had been blown to pieces. Wood fragments were blown everywhere, and the vases in the room were all shattered on the ground.

Li Xuewu shouted loudly at Ji Wang Weidong, who had rushed in: "It's not enough, the explosives were not enough, add more!"

Ji Wang Weidong looked at Li Xuewu gesturing to him and also shouted loudly at Li Xuewu: "-------"

Li Xuewu only saw Ji Wang Weidong opening his mouth to speak, but didn't hear what he said. He dug his ears again, opening and closing his mouth, wanting to restore his hearing quickly.

"Increase it, increase the amount."

At this moment, Ji Wang Weidong suddenly looked at the wardrobe with surprise and waved for people to clear the debris of the wardrobe.

Li Xuewu didn't know what Ji Wang Weidong was doing, so he walked closer and shouted: "It's still not enough, add more, try to blow this wall down."

Ji Wang Weidong looked at Li Xuewu speechlessly, gestured at the wall behind the wardrobe, and shouted something with his mouth open.

Li Xuewu's hearing had recovered a bit by now, but what he could hear was still a buzzing sound.

"I know, I know, I saw it, the house won't collapse. Alright, you guys retreat, I'll light the fire."

Li Xuewu had just walked to the wardrobe door when he saw the boards inside kicked open, and a middle-aged woman crawled out in a sorry state, crying and shouting: "I already said I surrender, why are you still blowing it up!"

This sentence made the team members cleaning up the debris laugh, and Ji Wang Weidong also didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this scene.

Li Xuewu's hearing had slowly recovered by now, and he could hear everyone's laughter. He also knew he had made a fool of himself, so he waved his hand at the guards and said: "It really is 'a thousand calls and a hundred shouts before it comes out.' Seeing you is really not easy. You must be the Professor, right?"

This woman was helped out of the partition wall by the team members. Li Xuewu took a look; it was a secret door half a person high dug out of the wall. The material of the door should be refined steel, the exterior was the same as the wall, and the workmanship was quite good.

"I am not..."

This woman was grabbed by the team members and handcuffed, and taken to the study by Ji Wang Weidong. Now only the study on the second floor was suitable for discussing things.

Li Xuewu let a team member with a smaller build enter the wall mezzanine to search, and took out a leather box, which was actually quite heavy.

He signaled for the guards to hide outside, placed the box on the bed himself, used the quilt to stack the broken wood of the wardrobe in front as a shield, and carefully pried open the two switches of the box with the shotgun in his hand.

"Click."

Li Xuewu aimed the gun barrel at the top cover and gently pried it open. The guards looking in from the door all watched nervously, very afraid that the section chief would be harmed by something inside, and were even more moved by the section chief's way of disregarding danger and letting them leave first before testing.

Li Xuewu looked inside from the gap in the leather box pried open by the gun barrel, his eyes suddenly narrowed, but he "didn't dare to move" at all.

If it were really an explosive, Li Xuewu wouldn't be afraid. As long as it was handled properly, there was a possibility of eliminating the danger. But what was in the box were demons, demons specifically used to tempt and corrode people's hearts.

Li Xuewu stood up, closed the box, re-engaged the switches, and carried it to the study.

"Li Kezhang, what's in the box?" A guard standing at the door couldn't help but ask, and the other team members standing together also looked at Li Xuewu with eager eyes.

"Underwear, all women's underwear and panties. She was preparing to escape. What do you think it could be?"

Li Xuewu carried the box, squeezed past the guards, and walked to the study, answering the questions of these curious little cats as he walked.

"The Li Kezhang is lying. There is underwear on the ground, why don't I see you treating it like this?" The team member who asked earlier muttered.

"The Li Kezhang just likes the flowery stuff inside~"

"Li Kezhang, let us see~"

Hearing this, the other team members also laughed "Ooh-ooh" as if they were booing. This night, not only were Li Xuewu and Ji Wang Weidong's nerves stretched tight, but these team members had also experienced the excitement of the chase, and their nerves also needed to relax.

"Go, go, go, go ask the people from the investigation department downstairs if they need any help. If not, find a place to catch up on sleep."

"Yes!"

Seeing the section chief speak, everyone responded with a smile and ran downstairs.

Catching the person not only made the team members happy, but Li Xuewu was also happy, especially after seizing this box.

Li Xuewu knocked on the closed door of the study. Xiao Liu opened it from inside to look, and seeing it was Li Xuewu, he smiled and nodded at Li Xuewu, opened the door, and let Li Xuewu in.

People with ability will be valued wherever they go. Clearly, Xiao Liu, who had been following the car, had witnessed Li Xuewu's bravery and soft power, and couldn't help but start to admire Li Xuewu's bravery and wit.

Li Xuewu carried the box into the room and saw the woman handcuffed to a high-backed chair, with Ji Wang Weidong sitting behind the desk interrogating her.

"Clang."

Ji Wang Weidong didn't notice when Li Xuewu walked into the room carrying the box, but this dull sound of it being placed on the table attracted Ji Wang Weidong's attention.

"What is it?"

Li Xuewu looked at the woman sitting there whose face had already changed color, and said: "Open it and see."

Ji Wang Weidong frowned, pulled the box over, unbuckled the switches, opened the top cover, and his eyes widened just like Li Xuewu's had at the time.

The lighting effect in the study was much better than in the bedroom. There were windows on three sides, so the morning sunlight shone on the metal blocks in the box, emitting a dazzling golden light.

"Hiss~"

Xiao Liu, who was curious about what Li Xuewu was carrying, also came over to look and couldn't help but let out a hiss.

The box wasn't big, about the size of a normal suitcase. If it were filled with clothes, it would weigh about ten or twenty jin, but now it weighed several dozen jin.

Half of the box was gold bars, half was US dollars and pounds, and there were also "Big Unity" banknotes, all stacked in bundles. If one really calculated it, it wasn't actually that much, at least not hundreds of millions, but the visual impact on people of this era was unparalleled.

"Bang."

Ji Wang Weidong slammed the box shut, looked up at Li Xuewu, but saw Li Xuewu had already walked to the collection cabinet and was examining the blonde man's collection downstairs.

It wasn't that Li Xuewu was indifferent to fame and wealth, and it wasn't that Li Xuewu wasn't tempted looking at the gold bars. Wanting to keep some, although risky, with so many people in the room to testify for him, it could be explained. But Li Xuewu knew that taking it once was easy, but getting used to taking it and then trying to stop would not be easy.

These were gold bars and foreign currency, not the same thing as that bicycle ticket. Li Xuewu hadn't intended to take any money from this case.

Ji Wang Weidong stared at Li Xuewu for a while, truly unable to see through this person. On the car, he cried his heart out because his clothes were torn; at the door, a single phone call could open the gate; now, carrying a box of money that couldn't be spent in a lifetime, he remained unmoved.

"This money was entrusted to me by the organization for safekeeping. I'll give it all to you. You let me go. Once I go abroad, I will never come back. No one will know this money is in your hands."

Ji Wang Weidong and Xiao Liu were awakened from their trance by the woman's words. Ji Wang Weidong frowned and looked at the woman handcuffed to the chair.

Li Xuewu picked up the gun box in the collection cabinet and looked at it, seeing that the accessories and design style inside were very similar to the shotgun in his hand.

"Is the one downstairs called David?"

Although the woman didn't know why Li Xuewu asked this, seeing Li Xuewu take out the gun box, she replied: "I don't know. I just came here according to instructions."

Li Xuewu nodded noncommittally, placed the gun box on the desk, dismantled the shotgun in his hand, put it into the gun box, and asked Ji Wang Weidong: "If David is engaged in activities other than foreign affairs, the charges are established. Will everything in this house be confiscated?"

Ji Wang Weidong didn't know what Li Xuewu meant. He didn't look at this box of money but took a fancy to a gun?

"It should be. The personal belongings of relevant personnel will all be confiscated."

Li Xuewu closed the gun box and knocked on it with his hand, saying to the woman: "This box of gold bars and money is actually of little use to us. You haven't lived here for just a day or two, and we aren't like you, who can fly far away. We still have to live here, so the temptation of this box is limited."

Li Xuewu turned and leaned against the desk, saying to the woman: "I am instead interested in this gun. My leader happens to like hunting, and I plan to give this gun to my leader. See if you have any way to help me establish David's charges."

This woman also knew the current market situation. Money was indeed of little use. Thinking that Li Xuewu and the others were all people within the system, they were instead interested in promotion, because with a higher rank, the benefits enjoyed would also be higher.

"Are you telling the truth? Are you really willing to let me go?"

Seeing the woman's incredulous look, Li Xuewu smiled and said: "Of course, it won't be that simple."

The woman's eyes narrowed slightly, and she said urgently: "Didn't you just..."

Li Xuewu waved his hand to interrupt the woman's question and pointed at Ji Wang Weidong: "I don't need to introduce what department he is from, right?"

The woman didn't know what medicine Li Xuewu was selling in his gourd, and nodded skeptically.

"I don't need to introduce his work nature to you either, right? You should know even better what he needs for his promotion. He needs a big fish, like David, or even a bigger fish than David. Do you understand what I mean?"

The woman seemed to understand a little, but looked at Li Xuewu uncomprehendingly.

"To put it bluntly, if the documents weren't in your hands, we wouldn't have come to chase you. We could have just sent anyone. We want a big fish. We really can't use someone like you."

The woman asked: "You mean let me confess a bigger figure, and you use this person to trade for me?"

Ji Wang Weidong also understood Li Xuewu's routine, leaned back in the office chair, and said disdainfully: "Heh, how much credit can catching a lackey be?"

Li Xuewu took out a cigarette case from his pocket and signaled to the woman. The woman nodded, took the cigarette Li Xuewu handed over, and held it between her red lips.

"Swoosh." Li Xuewu struck a match to light it for the woman, used the same match to light his own, and then sat down beside the woman.

"I know, you are also a miserable person, coerced into doing many wrong things. But as long as you correct them in time and have significant meritorious service, we have the right to make special arrangements. A few years ago, there was that school, and that couple wasn't pardoned too? Now they have started a new life in the United States."

"I know, I know." The woman's mouth holding the cigarette was trembling, and Li Xuewu helped her take the cigarette down so she could take a deep breath.

It was also Li Xuewu's first time serving a cigarette to a woman. He narrowed his eyes and smiled: "I don't know if you know me, but I just started working and have no ties here, so you can still believe what I say."

After speaking, Li Xuewu served the woman another cigarette, then placed the cigarette on the armrest of the chair.

Seeing the woman start to ponder, Ji Wang Weidong stopped talking and just sat there quietly watching Li Xuewu.

"Can I take that money with me?"

The woman thought for a full five minutes, and the cigarette on the armrest had gone out, before she asked this question.

Ji Wang Weidong looked at Li Xuewu, the two exchanged glances, shook their heads, and denied: "No, this is stolen goods, we have to hand it over."

Li Xuewu thought for a moment and said: "Hey, although there is discipline, we have to give people a way out. I think like this, the gold bars and 'Big Unity' can be deducted, but give her the foreign currency. A woman, she has to live, after all."

Ji Wang Weidong frowned and said: "Do you know this is violating discipline? You like this..."

Li Xuewu waved his hand, turned to the woman and said: "I don't know if this foreign currency is enough for you to settle down abroad. This is all I can do."

Ji Wang Weidong sighed helplessly and said: "You, you. I asked you to come and help, not to come and make things worse."

Ji Wang Weidong's acting was also brought online by Li Xuewu. The two of them spoke one after another, making this matter sound as if it were true.

If Li Xuewu had agreed immediately that the whole box could be taken, then anyone would have to wonder if it were true. But the obvious disagreement between Li Xuewu and the other person raised the authenticity of this statement by more than one level.

The woman nodded and said: "Enough, enough. As long as I get out, I will never come back. I'm already this old, I won't come back to toss and turn anymore."

Li Xuewu smiled and said: "Abroad is good, more open than here, more comfortable, and the economic situation is also better."

The woman nodded and said: "The documents are no longer on me."

Ji Wang Weidong sat up straight and asked: "Where are they?"

Li Xuewu waved his hand to signal Ji Wang Weidong to be calm, stood up, half-opened the woman's hands that were handcuffed behind her back, handcuffed them to the armrest, and stood up to pour the woman a cup of tea. While handing the tea, he said: "Speak slowly, drink some tea and speak slowly. We've waited for so long, we're not in a rush for this little while."

The woman took the hot tea and placed it beside her hand, saying: "My code name is Rose."

Hearing this, Li Xuewu and Ji Wang Weidong were slightly stunned, and their brows furrowed instantly, but neither interrupted the woman's words.

"Under instructions from my superiors, I received the documents thrown down from the car on the street outside the safe house, brought the documents back to the safe house to give to the person downstairs to photograph, then packaged the documents, stuck stamps on them, and stuffed them into a mailbox outside the street to mail within the city, then cooperated with that person to process the film after cutting it, put it in an envelope, and mailed it to Magic City. After doing all this, I was brought here by that person downstairs to hide."

Li Xuewu nodded and said: "Be more precise, who is your superior?"

The woman looked up at Li Xuewu and said: "I don't know. After I got older, I was marginalized by the organization. The organization also underwent a change. I don't know the specific reason. My original superior's code name was Gunman, and later I was handed over. I really don't know the current superior. Every instruction is learned from the letters received."

Hearing this, Ji Wang Weidong raised his eyebrows at Li Xuewu. Li Xuewu nodded and said: "We will investigate this. Where is the safe house you just mentioned?"

The woman looked at the box beside Ji Weidong's hand and said: "This box was brought back from the safe house by the person downstairs. I saw that the archived materials were all there, including the funds. The location is at Courtyard No. 1, B-character, Haiyun Road, Beiyuncang, Chaoyangmen. There are still many funds over there. I hope you keep your promise, give me the money, and let me go."

Li Xuewu knocked on the armrest beside his hand and said: "That's for sure. I am a retired soldier, and I keep my promises the most. As long as what you said is true, we will issue you a certificate. Maybe tomorrow you will be on the sea."

Ji Wang Weidong also nodded and said: "Who were the documents in the city mailed to? The address mailed to Magic City."

The woman looked at Li Xuewu and said: "According to the instructions I received, the documents in the city were mailed to the Steel Rolling Mill, to Feng Xiang. The address in Magic City is the Fourth Normal School, to Lin Xuefeng."

"Hmm, you also know our attitude. If you really are Rose and what you said is true, we will definitely fulfill our promise. If we find out you are lying to us, then you know what your end will be." Li Xuewu said persuasively.

The woman was also very aggrieved and said: "I only know this much. I really don't know anything else. I am just a telecommunications operator and have never been in contact with the organization's internal personnel. Now that I am older, I am even more marginalized. This was the first mission since this superior took over."

Ji Wang Weidong raised his head at Li Xuewu, and the two walked out, leaving Xiao Liu and calling another person to guard this woman.

Ji Wang Weidong and the other person found a bedroom and called someone to bring David up. David no longer spoke any other nonsense. Now that the upstairs and downstairs had been searched thoroughly, and there were explosion sounds, that woman must have been discovered.

Seeing David brought in, Ji Wang Weidong waved for people to press David into the seat and asked David: "Where are you from?"

David was confused by this characteristic small talk. He tilted his head to look at Ji Wang Weidong's face that was smiling but not really smiling, then turned his head away and didn't speak.

Ji Wang Weidong frowned and said: "Looking at you, didn't you say a few words of Chinese at the door? What's wrong? Looking at you, you're not a Dutchman, don't you speak English? French? German? From a small place? Li Xuewu, do you know foreign languages? Translate for me."

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