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Chapter 1234 The first confrontation

In the dimly lit underground corridor, the sound of footsteps was heard, coming from far away and slowly approaching an interrogation room.

After a sharp sound of metallic friction, Zuo Zhong opened the door and walked into the room. He nodded to Gucci inside, then sat down in the presiding judge's seat and asked.

"How's it going? Are all our guests here?"

"Yes, Vice-President."

Gucci handed over the roster, which was filled with names, and each name was checked with red ink, just like the book of life and death in the hands of a judge.

This is indeed the case. Once those on the list arrived at the Military Control Commission’s territory, their life and death were no longer in their own hands.

Zuo Zhong nodded lightly, glanced at the one-way glass on the wall, ordered the suspect's hood to be removed, and personally greeted the "guest" in front of him.

"Hello, President Sima."

The sound echoed in the interrogation room. Sima Linglong, whose eyes suddenly regained their sight, put her hands in front of her face, adjusted to the light in the room for a while, and then slowly opened her eyes.

Her eyes swept across the room, passing Gucci and falling directly on Zuo Zhong who was in the middle, and she spoke slightly with her red lips.

"Deputy Director Zuo, I have heard of your great name for a long time. It is a great honor to meet you today."

Sima Linglong laughed sweetly; her voice was clear and crisp, without a trace of fear in it.

Zuo Zhong raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "Oh? Could it be that President Sima has met Zuo before, but I don't remember it."

"I've never seen him before, but you are the only young senior officer in the government who can be called a deputy commander, and you are the only one like you, Deputy Director Zuo."

Sima Linglong raised her handcuffed right hand and smoothed her slightly messy hair, and a scent of green tea wafted towards her.

After fixing her image, she patted her chest and said coquettishly, "If you want to see me, just give me a phone call. Why bother with such a big show?"

"Cough, cough."

Gu Qi's old face turned red. Sima Linglong was very beautiful, otherwise she would not have been so infatuated with General Wei Hui's senior advisor and even introduced Miss Kong Er to him.

Seeing such a graceful woman acting coquettishly in front of him, even the experienced Lao Gu could not stand it and could only cough twice to ease the embarrassment.

Zuo Zhong tilted his head and looked at his old partner with a half-smile on his face. He tapped the interrogation table with a pen in his hand and warned Sima Linglong softly.

"Okay, President Sima, this trick of yours won't work in front of Zuo. Tell me the truth. Who is behind you?"

"Behind me?"

Sima Linglong giggled again, leaned forward, blinked at Zuo Zhong, and then a silver bell-like laughter rang out.

"Who is behind me? You should know better than me. Let me count the names: the senior staff officer of the Military Wei Association, the second Miss Kong, the eldest daughter of the Zhong family, the sister of Commander Xiang, and the wife of Deputy Director Yang."

She called out a bunch of names, her white chin slightly raised, and even a fool could hear the provocation in her words.

"be honest!"

Gucci slammed the table in anger and scolded, "Don't show off here. This is not the place for you to be unruly. Someone, come and play the recording for her."

A few seconds later, the loudspeaker in the interrogation room began to play Xiang Fang's confession. In the confession, Xiang Fang admitted that she was instigated by Sima Linglong to collect intelligence many times and handed it over to Sima Linglong after the Jinlan Society meeting.

After the recording was played, Gu Qi asked coldly: "Did you hear that? Your subordinates have confessed. What else do you have to say?"

Sima Linglong leaned back in her chair, her tight lavender cheongsam outlining her charming curves. In this charming atmosphere, she spoke.

"Sir, regardless of whether Xiang Fang is a spy or not, even if it is true, there are more than 30 members of the Jinlan Society. I cannot guarantee that everyone is innocent. This is not my job.

Besides, all of this is just Xiang Fang's one-sided statement. If you want me to admit it, you have to produce solid evidence. Although I am not a big shot, I have some connections in the government."

Gu Qi was furious after hearing this and was about to torture the young spy. He didn't believe that the other party could still be so sharp-tongued after several severe punishments.

"Okay, let's stop here for today's conversation. Let's go first."

Zuo Zhong suddenly interrupted the interrogation, stood up and looked at Sima Linglong: "President Sima, please stay here for a few days, we will talk later."

After that, he called Gu Qi out of the interrogation room, went to the next room, and saw Miss Kong standing in front of the one-way glass.

In order not to anger this moody female devil, Zuo Chong tried his best to explain what had just happened to her in a calm tone.

"Ms. Kong, you have seen the situation, right? A normal person who joined the Military Control Commission would not be so calm. There must be something wrong with Sima Linglong."

Second Miss Kong pretended to think for a while and nodded in agreement, but in fact she didn't care at all. She would not fall out with the Military Control Commission just for Sima Linglong.

Sima Linglong said that they were her friends, but in fact they were just hangers-on. As long as the government did not fall, she would never lack such people.

But she also expressed the hope that the Military Control Commission would not use torture at will. As for the reason, it might be to deliberately embarrass Zuo Zhong, or simply out of "kindness."

Zuo Zhong readily agreed and politely invited her to sit aside. He asked about the relationship between Miss Kong Er and Sima Linglong in a chatty manner, with a respectful attitude while maintaining a certain distance.

As the questioning went on, Miss Kong Er became interested in the interrogation. She pointed at Sima Linglong on the other side of the one-way glass and asked Zuo Chong why he had to interrupt the interrogation.

"Old Gu, please talk to Miss Kong." Zuo Zhong gave this opportunity to show up to Gu Qi. As he became the deputy director, it was time for him to establish connections with the upper echelons.

Gu Qi knew that the deputy director was paving the way for him, so he suppressed his excitement and turned to face another one-way glass. Behind it was also an interrogation room where Wu Chunyang was interrogating Zhong Xiao.

As if deliberately showing off, Gu Qi pressed the button on the console hard, and the conversation between Wu Chunyang and Zhong Xiao reached the ears of the three people. Miss Kong Er quickly pricked up her ears.

"Ms. Zhong, you heard Xiang Fang's recording carefully, right? Sima Linglong is lying to you. She is not an underground party member at all. Tell me how she turned you into a mole."

"I am not an underground party member, nor a mole. I want to see my father."

"Meet your father? To tell you the truth, if you don't explain things clearly, your whole family will be reunited here soon."

"You are being selfish and this is persecution. I am going to sue you!"

"Listen carefully. I'll ask you again. When and by what means did you obtain the encirclement and suppression intelligence from Bian Jichao? Do you want me to bring him here to confront you?"

In conjunction with the conversation between Wu Chunyang and Zhong Xiao, Gu Qi explained to Miss Kong Er the reason for stopping the interrogation of Sima Linglong.

"Ms. Kong, the enemies we are facing have undergone professional anti-interrogation training. They have a complete set of strategies to deal with interrogation. When torture is not possible, they can only resort to psychological warfare.

Sima Linglong is now using her offline line as a cover to wrap herself up layer by layer, so we will tear off her cover layer by layer and finally deliver a fatal blow!"

It was the first time for Miss Kong Er to come into contact with intelligence work. She asked Gu Qi many questions out of curiosity. While the two were asking and answering each other, Wu Chunyang had already pried open Zhong Xiao's mouth.

Like Xiang Fang, Zhong Xiao was a student who knew nothing about the world. Faced with the experienced Wu Chunyang, he resisted for a few times before beginning to confess.

"Sima Linglong said that she was a staff member of the underground party Shancheng City Wei and wanted me to collect intelligence for the organization."

"She taught me some tracking and counter-tracking techniques, helped me choose targets and develop defection plans."

"The day before the meeting, Bian Jichao came to see me with a briefcase. While he was in the bathroom, I took a picture of the document with the pocket camera Sima Linglong gave me."

"The document contains the entire battle plan for the encirclement and suppression. I heard that it was given to him by the head of the aide-de-camp. The guards in the mansion will not search them."

Zhong Xiao said a lot while sobbing, and Wu Chunyang kept taking notes with the pen in his hand. In this way, there was one more witness to testify against Sima Linglong.

Zuo Chong, who was eavesdropping secretly, was stunned when he heard Bian Jichao taking the top-secret documents out of the official residence. Wow, the Guo Party’s level of confidentiality once again refreshed his cognition.

After being stunned for a while, he reached out and pressed the intercom: "Control Bian Jichao immediately!"

With Zhong Xiao's confession, Bian Jichao's identity changed from a suspect to a criminal. He was no longer qualified to stay in the guesthouse. The prison cell and the execution ground were his final destination.

After dealing with this love-minded guard, Miss Kong, who had lost her patience, left directly. Zuo Zhong and Gu Qi sent her to the door and then went to the cafeteria.

When the canteen chef saw the two deputy directors taking the time to come and experience the people's life, he excitedly picked up the pot and fried a few dishes. If it weren't for the quota of supplies, he would have wanted to put a whole pig in.

Zuo Zhong and the other man had just taken a few bites when Gui Youguang, who was in charge of searching the Jinlan Society, Song Minghao, who was questioning the members of the Jinlan Society, and He Yijun, who was interrogating the staff of the Jinlan Society, appeared in the cafeteria together. They immediately gathered at a table and ate and chatted.

"How is it? Have you found any radio or suspicious items?"

After picking up a piece of stir-fried meat and putting it into his mouth, Zuo Zhong asked Gui Youguang who was eating with his head down.

Gui Youguang's mouth was full of oil. He swallowed a piece of fat with force, took a mouthful of rice and replied vaguely.

“We didn’t find the radio station, but we discovered a secret passage under Sima Linglong’s bed, which led directly to an abandoned house 300 meters away.

The technical staff of the bureau have entered the scene to search for physical evidence, but nothing has been found so far. I have discussed this matter with Lao Song and Miss He."

"Yes, Vice-President."

Song Minghao took a bite of the vegetables and looked at Zuo Zhong with his chopsticks raised. "I have talked to the members of Jinlan Society. There are 3 to 4 young members whose identities are questionable. The rest are fine, but they don't know about the existence of the secret passage."

After the two men finished speaking, He Yijun first used a spoon to serve Zuo Chong a bowl of soup, and then reported the results of the interrogation of the Jinlan Society staff.

“The staff of the Jinlan Society also don’t know about the secret passage. These people were hired by Sima Linglong and usually perform some simple intelligence tasks, such as passing messages, surveillance, etc.

They had very little information, and knew nothing about Sima Linglong's true identity. They only knew that the target often stayed in her room and did not come out, and they were strictly prohibited from approaching the room. "

Upon hearing this, Zuo Chong glanced at He Yijun. He was wearing a pair of neat military pants and a white shirt that was uniformly issued by the bureau. His long hair was tied into a bun at the back of his head, and he looked quite stunning.

However, the bloodstains on her shirt proved that the interrogation she was in charge of was not easy. Zuo Chong drank the soup in one gulp and asked curiously.

"How many died?"

"Two of them didn't make it."

"Well, be more careful next time."

"Yes, deputy seat."

The conversation ended here. They were just a bunch of criminals who assisted the evil for money. If they died, they died. Zuo Zhong put down his bowl and chopsticks and thought about Sima Linglong and the Jinlan Society.

  Many years later, Xiao Xiao Zuo shouted to everyone: My grandfather is fair and honest! My grandmother is kind and amiable!

Everyone: Ah, yes, yes.