Chapter 804: *Infernal Affairs*: The Rooftop

"There is a mole, abort the deal."

On Earth, this later became a famous meme, and it remains popular to this day.

The close-up of that text message was also turned into a reaction image by many people.

The influence of *Infernal Affairs* is evident.

After receiving the mass text message sent by Liu Jianming, Han Chen immediately ordered his men to throw the goods directly into the sea, so as not to be caught red-handed.

The atmosphere on both sides suddenly became tense; now, everyone was racing against time.

Finally, the people at Longgutan said: "We caught the people, but all the goods were thrown into the sea."

A group of police officers had already prepared to arrest Han Chen, but now without evidence, Huang Zhicheng could only shout: "Wait! Wait!"

He began to scan all the police officers present.

Everyone was also looking at him.

Huang Zhicheng had already begun to suspect that there was a mole here.

And on Han Chen's side, during this deal, he also sensed that something was wrong.

He also began to scan everyone in the room one by one.

Chen Yongren, standing by the window with a plaster cast on his arm, met his gaze.

This scene made the audience feel incredibly tense and stimulated.

"Will he suspect Luo Mo!"

"Damn! Something big is going to happen!"

"A Best Actor is a Best Actor; this Han Chen already makes me afraid."

Qian Qingyun watched the movie and felt that the pacing of the film so far was perfect.

At the same time, the shots of both sides scrutinizing each other were also incredibly gripping.

Huang Zhicheng threw down his walkie-talkie in a foul mood and said in a low voice: "Everyone follow me."

On the other side, Han Chen began to approach his men.

He first shoved a lackey against the wall and shouted in a foul mood: "What are you looking at? What are you looking at? What are you looking at!"

Then, he turned his head, his eyes incredibly sinister.

In this shot, there was a close-up of the plaster cast on Chen Yongren's arm.

This scene was, in fact, from Han Chen's Perspective.

He was suspecting his lackey A-Ren, because the plaster cast on his arm was very suspicious.

But Han Chen did not lash out immediately; instead, he walked over to meet his gaze.

Han Chen just looked at him like that, without saying a word.

After staring at each other for a full few seconds, Han Chen finally turned his head to look at the others.

The lackeys stood up one by one, then walked to the side and stood in a row.

The aura of a gang boss was revealed without doubt at this moment.

There is a detail here.

That is, Han Chen was the only person present who dared to walk over and speak at this time.

He raised his left arm, wrapped in a plaster cast, walked to Han Chen's side, and said: "Brother Chen, why don't we..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Han Chen suddenly grabbed his left hand and smashed it heavily onto the table.

Under the violent impact, the plaster cast on Chen Yongren's left arm shattered instantly; the intense pain made cold sweat pour down, his face twitched slightly, yet he endured it in his mouth, not letting out a loud scream.

In this scene, all of Luo Mo's handling can be called Best Actor-level.

He even slowly retreated a few steps, his whole body leaning against the wall.

It was as if only with support could he endure the pain coming from his arm.

At this moment, Han Chen first lowered his eyelids slightly.

His gaze glanced at the shattered plaster on the table, and after confirming there was nothing inside, he turned his eyes to stare at Chen Yongren.

Chen Yongren did not dare to utter a single word of complaint, only continuously enduring the pain, his expression carrying emotions of confusion, grievance, and fear.

At this moment, he did not dare to meet Han Chen's gaze.

At this time, there was no need to rely on eye contact to prove that he was not feeling guilty at all.

Because he had spoken out of turn, and had also endured Brother Chen's Anger.

His goal had actually already been achieved.

Chen Yongren needed to do this to continue gaining Han Chen's trust.

He glanced out the window, and the camera also gave a close-up of the window, where equipment and wires were tangled outside.

The wires here were what he had borrowed from the audio-visual store earlier.

Therefore, Chen Yongren leaning against the window in pain at this moment was not just because of the pain, but also instinctively shielding them.

Fortunately, at this moment, the police broke in.

The two sides were in a standoff.

The two Undercover agents were also looking at each other.

The scene shifted to inside the police station.

Han Chen was actually still sitting at the table eating, with a good appetite, eating several dishes by himself.

The lackeys were all standing behind, lined up in a row.

This sequence was a segment of Huang Zhicheng and Han Chen engaging in a fierce acting duel.

Here, Han Chen, this gang boss, even openly threw a tantrum, directly pushing all the dishes off the table and flinging them in front of Huang Zhicheng.

Just because in the preceding verbal exchange, Huang Zhicheng said: "I'm sorry, I've implicated Brother Chen in losing several thousand dollars tonight."

The audience heard this and knew very well, this was no mere loss of a few thousand.

With the entire shipment thrown into the sea, I am afraid the loss was in the tens of millions!

Han Chen openly dumped all the food in front of the police officers ahead.

"You think you can finish me off by planting a mole by my side?" he shouted.

"We are all the same," Huang Zhicheng said, sitting in his chair in a deep voice, implying that you have also planted an Undercover in our ranks, haven't you?

With things said to this point, Han Chen sipped his drink through a straw while sweeping a glance over all the underlings behind him.

Huang Zhicheng also swept a glance over the police officers behind him.

The attitude of the two was very clear—rest assured, I will root him out.

The next day, Liu Jianming was moving house.

Han Chen opened his phone again and said to him: "My entire shipment is gone, investigate who the Undercover is."

"I cannot touch the Undercover files, I cannot investigate them," Liu Jianming said.

"I don't care how difficult it is," Han Chen said.

"I only know that he uses Morse Code," Liu Jianming said.

Han Chen was silent and did not reply.

His long silence left Liu Jianming not knowing what to say for a moment, and in the end, he could only say: "Alright then, give me the information on all those people by your side yesterday."

"Real names, ID card numbers... see you tonight, 13th floor."

"That is all," Han Chen hung up the phone directly.

Liu Jianming's live-in partner Mary was a novelist and also Liu Jianming's fiancée; seeing that Liu Jianming had finished his call, she spoke to him about the creative idea for her novel.

She wanted to write about a protagonist with 28 personalities who acts out scenes with himself every time he wakes up, acting so much that he even forgets his own true personality!

Qian Qingyun said to Qian Zhengyi: "The design of this female character is very interesting. I reckon Luo Mo is using her mouth to tell the audience about the points of conflict within the character of Liu Jianming."

On the other side, Chen Yongren went to see a Psychologist.

This was the scene where Luo Mo and Xu Chujing were "dating on the public dime" while filming.

Here, it was also about fleshing out the inner world of Chen Yongren.

Or rather, the appearance of these two female characters here, and their scenes with the two male leads, were all portraying the same thing...

—Human nature!

Qian Qingyun said to his son: "Learn well, this is an area you are very lacking in."

Qian Zhengyi wanted to speak but stopped, and in the end, he just nodded.

All the female audience members felt at this moment: "Luo Mo is so good at flirting!"

"Ah, I'm dead!"

"It's inexplicably sweet!"

The male audience members were thinking that both women were very beautiful.

Only Qian Zhengyi was taking a field exam.

His old man told him to watch carefully and tell him his thoughts after the movie.

I say, Dad, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The scene shifted, and Liu Jianming was accompanying his superior to play golf.

The superior told him: "Your promotion report is fine, I will transfer you to the Internal Affairs Department; you don't need to work in the Serious Crimes Unit anymore."

"Han Chen's case hasn't been solved, I suspect there is a mole, and I want you to investigate it."

Audience: "..."

You are an Ox, finding a mole to catch a mole.

Liu Jianming really was an Actor; at this moment, he still feigned ignorance and asked: "Why me?"

"Old Zhang, Old Chen, and I have chosen for a long time; you are the most suitable candidate, your file is the cleanest, you have solved many cases in the Intelligence Division, and doing internal investigations gives you a chance to contact the management level—this is a rare opportunity," he said.

Audience: "..."

I can't help but want to applaud you, Officer!

With an arrangement like this, not only will you fail to catch the mole, but he might even root out Chen Yongren!

In this segment, there was actually a detail.

That was him caring about how Liu Jianming's wedding preparations were going.

He felt that getting married was quite good, as people would become more stable and give everyone a good impression.

"You still have a chance to be promoted; by the way, keep your eyes on the long term," he said.

Eyes... need to be on the long term?

Qian Zhengyi, under the Requirement of his father, was watching the movie while thinking.

Seeing this, he was actually thinking: "If I were Liu Jianming, I would definitely be in pain too."

"I've done so well, everyone appreciates me, and there are people specifically grooming me."

"A great future, bright prospects!"

"But my life is in the hands of Han Chen."

"At work, nothing is under my own control, and it's the same in life; I'm already getting married and about to have a happy life."

"But all of this could be destroyed at any moment!"

This made him realize that the complexity of human nature might be one of the biggest highlights of this movie.

On the other side, Han Chen instructed his subordinates to fill out their information.

While Sha Qiang was writing, Chen Yongren took a look and couldn't help but say: "Wow, you're such a big guy, and you even wrote the 'biao' in bodyguard wrong?"

"It's not this one?" Sha Qiang asked.

"Of course it's not this one," Chen Yongren said.

He had originally intended to write the correct character for "dart" on the file bag for him.

But after writing one radical, he pondered for a moment, crossed out the radical, and wrote the character for "mark."

"It has the 'wood' radical," he said to Sha Qiang.

Note, this detail is very important.

After a while, Han Chen and Liu Jianming met inside the cinema, and he gave the file bag to Liu Jianming.

Liu Jianming told him: "Regarding the Undercover matter, I'm afraid I can't help you."

Han Chen looked at the cinema's big screen, not looking at him, and said directly: "So you weren't worried about me, you were worried about yourself, Officer Liu."

Liu Jianming couldn't help but glance at him; Han Chen still didn't look at him, but was instead commenting that the woman in the movie was too ugly.

"I'll help you get rid of it as soon as possible," Liu Jianming said.

Upon hearing this, Han Chen immediately stood up and left.

Chen Yongren sat in the back row of the cinema, observing the two of them the whole time.

Seeing that Liu Jianming also stood up to leave, he immediately followed.

This was effectively the first probe and confrontation between the Undercover agents from both sides.

One walking, one chasing.

With the background music, many audience members felt their nerves tighten again, becoming incredibly tense.

What was fatal was that Chen Yongren's cell phone suddenly rang.

The sudden ringtone gave the terrified audience in the cinema a start.

Chen Yongren immediately turned around, with his back to Liu Jianming, to answer the phone.

Liu Jianming also walked to the side of a pillar, hiding his figure.

It was obvious that he also felt someone was following him.

The first showdown between the two great Undercover agents came to an end here.

After being called back by Han Chen's phone call, Han Chen asked him: "Ah Ren, how long have you been with me?"

"Three or four years, I guess," he said.

"Oh my, has it been that long? Doesn't feel like it," he said with a smile.

Han Chen continued: "I want to bring in a new batch of goods next week, but this time, I want to find some fresh faces who are also reliable brothers; you guys should take a break?"

"You don't want Ah Qiang and the others either?" Han Chen asked.

"Sha Qiang? Sha Qiang is just stupid," Han Chen said with a chuckle.

He walked to the side, took out the tape from the video camera and set it aside, then said to Chen Yongren: "There's a mole in the company."

Chen Yongren nodded slightly while pouring wine.

"What do you think should be done?" Han Chen asked.

"I'll take care of it," he said, covering the bottle.

"How will you take care of it?" Han Chen pressed, then stood up.

Chen Yongren handed the poured wine to Brother Chen, then took a sip himself.

Han Chen examined the wine glass and said: "I'll ferret him out in these two days, you get ready."

"Okay," Chen Yongren said, his expression unchanged, and smiled at him.

The audience only felt that being an Undercover agent really requires a strong psychological constitution.

Many people felt that if it were them, they would have been exposed long ago, and would have broken down long ago!

Luo Mo handled this very well here; he had to make the audience feel internally tense, yet appear relaxed and calm on the surface.

"Ah Ren," Han Chen looked at him and said: "Out of so many brothers, I trust you the most."

Chen Yongren smiled again and clinked glasses with his boss.

As Han Chen left, he looked at his Back Shadow with a solemn gaze, not knowing what he was thinking.

On the other side, Liu Jianming had already begun to take charge of the work of investigating the mole in the police station.

Heh heh, I'm catching myself!

He held a cup of Coffee, glanced at his police ID, rubbed his thumb over the document a few times, his gaze heavy.

After several seconds, he finally placed the police ID face down on the table.

He was going to start helping Han Chen catch the Triad's snitch!

"This kind of detail is filmed very well," Qian Zhengyi thought to himself.

Liu Jianming took out the file bag and used the police station's system to input the names of these gang members.

If the police station had this officer's file, he would be able to find it immediately.

Very quickly, he entered Chen Yongren.

But he didn't find any information.

—No such person found!

After returning home, Liu Jianming was still pondering.

It wasn't until he saw the sticky note left by Mary that he called his fiancée to tell her the bed for their new home had arrived.

"How is it, is it comfortable?" Mary asked.

"Do you want to try it out together?" Liu Jianming said with a smile.

"Crazy, I'm rushing to finish a manuscript!" Mary said with a laugh while typing.

"Not considering it?"

"Not considering it, not considering it; next Saturday, I'll try it with you when I'm free."

Good heavens, is this what adult Romance is like!?

On Saturday, after the two finished rolling in the sheets, Mary started rushing her draft again.

"Hey, actually the male lead in this book is very miserable," she said.

"How about we make him better? Write him... as a good person again," she suggested with a smile.

"Sure," Liu Jianming said.

"He is a good person, but he also did wrong things, so what should the ending be?" she asked.

Such a conversation made Qian Qingyun feel deeply satisfied.

This, in fact, was also an interrogation of Liu Jianming's inner heart.

This was a... trial of the heart!

But he didn't show anything, only saying that it was up to intellectuals like them to write it; when Mary asked him for his opinion, he didn't give one, instead saying he was too tired and wanted to sleep.

Hmm, a reason as reasonable as can be for a man who had just given his all.

The scene shifted, and the next day, Liu Jianming was seen sitting there alone, his face conflicted and lost in thought.

Soon, he made a phone call and instructed his subordinate Da B, saying: "Starting today, follow Inspector Huang 24 hours a day."

Da B followed Huang Zhicheng all the way, and seeing him go up to the 24th floor, he reported to Liu Jianming.

Liu Jianming immediately called Han Chen.

He hadn't found out who the person was, but he knew where the Undercover would appear!

—He would go to meet Huang Zhicheng on the 24th floor.

The rooftop scene was thus recreated.

Chen Yongren met with Huang Zhicheng and told him there would be another shipment next week.

Han Chen hadn't found the Undercover yet, but he seemed very confident about rooting me out.

"Rooting out?" Huang Zhicheng pondered for a moment, then said: "If that's the case, don't play anymore; we're bound to lose."

"No way, right?" Chen Yongren asked.

"What do you mean no way? People will die," Huang Zhicheng said to Chen Yongren.

It was very clear that he was worried about Chen Yongren's safety.

There was also an Undercover in the police force, and Chen Yongren's situation in the Triad was very dangerous.

Chen Yongren's phone rang at this moment.

"Hello."

"Brother Chen called to say he found the mole and told us to go solve him."

"I'll be there immediately," Chen Yongren said.

Through the phone call, he already knew that his meeting with Huang Zhicheng on the rooftop had been discovered!

While saying "I'll be there immediately," in reality... Laozi was already here!

Meanwhile, Da B, who was monitoring from downstairs, discovered that people from the Triad had actually arrived there, and he immediately called to inform Liu Jianming of this matter.

Liu Jianming felt that something was wrong and immediately led men to the building.

The atmosphere instantly became incomparably tense.

Chen Yongren and Huang Zhicheng were originally going to take the stairs, but upon hearing footsteps, they immediately retreated.

Some of the Triad members came up the stairs, while others were in the elevator.

"You go from above," Huang Zhicheng said to Chen Yongren.

"What about you?" he asked.

"I'll take the elevator," he said with a soft laugh.

"Be careful," Chen Yongren said.

The classic scene was about to happen.

Chen Yongren turned to walk toward the stairs, and Huang Zhicheng suddenly called out to him: "Hey."

"Yeah?" Chen Yongren turned his head.

"Nothing," Huang Zhicheng said again.

Just like that, the two parted, one taking the elevator and the other going back to leave from above.

This scene, on Earth, was an ad-lib by the Actors, an improvised performance.

But because of the ending for both, this seemingly inexplicable performance was called a textbook-level improvisation by many, a stroke of genius.

It gave people a feeling of something destined.

The elevator kept rising, and Huang Zhicheng began to pretend to be on a phone call.

"Hey honey, that building at Mission Hills is great, 180-degree glass, facing the golf course, and it doesn't even cost a million including the membership."

The Triad members walked out of the elevator, and he entered the elevator while talking on the phone like that; everyone just brushed past each other.

After he walked into the elevator, he immediately pressed the close button.

The elevator doors began to close slowly.

The tense audience let out a long sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, thank goodness, it was handled just like that.

However, the next moment.

Just as the elevator doors were left with only a crack, a large hand suddenly reached in from the outside and held the elevator door!

The elevator doors slowly opened.

"Inspector Huang," the leader greeted.

(End of this chapter)