300: Chapter 98 Being an Agent is Not for Everyone 300: Chapter 98 Being an Agent is Not for Everyone Although the other party was aware of counter-surveillance, it was not much.
After all, this was within the country and, without having gone through rounds of trials by fire and blood, it was impossible to cultivate the kind of top-tier Gold Medal Special Agent of legend.
Wang Yunxiao had inquired with the surrounding neighbors, and quickly sketched out portraits of all the members in that household, a total of five men and two women, both old and young.
If they were all wearing the kind of human skin mask that could be freely altered, indeed it would be difficult to judge the true gender and age, but on the side of the Special Service Section squad, there was no lack of unconventional secret technological means.
Sister Veronica operated the telegraph with a series of taps, then handed Wang Yunxiao a slip of paper, “Here are all the addresses within a five-kilometer radius that are rather suspicious, along with some strangers who seem out of place.”
Wang Yunxiao was very surprised, not at her ability to obtain this intelligence, but at the brevity of the list.
Since they had caught a mole at the police station, and this group of people had received a message and evacuated urgently, it actually hadn’t been that long.
In the pitch dark, they couldn’t have gone too far, nor did they need to go very far.
So Veronica’s use of “within a five-kilometer radius” as the standard was entirely reasonable.
It might sound small, but in reality, this five-kilometer radius nearly encompassed the entirety of Nantong District.
In these times, the expansion of a city wasn’t as rapid as in later years; Mencius said, “A city of three li with an outer wall of seven li, besiege it and it cannot be taken” – referring to the size of ancient cities.
Although Tianmen City had rapidly developed in recent years, the growth was mainly towards the Binhai direction in the southeast, while the old city area here wasn’t large.
Speaking purely of the Nantong District, there must be a population of seventy or eighty thousand residents.
Now, you’re handing me a list not even a foot long, isn’t the efficiency of work a bit too high?
Facing Wang Yunxiao’s skepticism, Veronica also provided her explanation.
The Qianjin Church possessed its own internal intelligence network, which on the surface was composed of tens of thousands of textile factory workers under the name of the Church, but in actuality, it was the families behind these workers.
In other words, the passionately vigilant local residents.
In this era, neighbors were all familiar with each other; simply finding an old lady at the street corner, she could clearly list down three generations of every neighbor on the street.
Who had an empty room in their house, whose family suddenly had a distant relative over, from where a stranger appeared…
These trivial matters plainly couldn’t be hidden from the local inhabitants.
Previously, they had never received any training and lacked the awareness for this kind of vigilance.
More importantly, there was no need to report anything to the Governmental Office or government officers, no matter what they knew; not only would they gain no benefits, but they would also incur the resentment of their neighbors, a complete loss without any gain.
God knows what secret training the Qianjin Church had conducted with these people, but on the surface, the Church’s technical school only taught job skills, while incidentally spreading their doctrine.
Once needed, they could immediately produce a fully equipped squad of Battle Nuns, 6+5 stars.
Don’t ask; ask is a personal hobby.
So if you’re not on the list, who is?
Now it was the same; Wang Yunxiao originally thought there wouldn’t be much of a result today, but Veronica promptly handed him a list of suspects detailed down to specific street addresses and house numbers.
The closest was just one street away; reportedly, it was a house that was usually unoccupied, but today in the evening, the owner suddenly returned, then tightly closed the door, leaving no further trace.
It looked incredibly suspicious.
Wang Yunxiao led his team to the door and pulled out a notebook for a glance.
“Faceless Ones detected…”
What more was there to say?
Block the door, arrest them!
The trick isn’t about being new or old, it’s about being practical.
Eryang led people around the back, while Wang Yunxiao pulled out a knife and gently pried from the door gap, flipping the latch directly.
His brothers swarmed in.
The three people pretending to be the homeowners still tried to act calm and wanted to put on a show, only to be pinned to the ground and tightly tied up on the spot.
“Officer!
We are good citizens!
We are innocent!”
“You don’t even know what you’ve done, and you’re crying innocence?”
Wang Yunxiao turned his head to Veronica, “Shall we hurry it up?”
Veronica nodded, “Yes!”
She took out a steel gear cross and pressed it against the person’s forehead.
They screamed in agony as the skin on their face immediately melted away.
“Let’s cut to the chase, I won’t ask anything else.
Where are your people hiding?
Where is your team leader?”
“Henchmen!
Even if you beat me to death, I won’t talk!”
“Good!
How loyal!”
Wang Yunxiao gave a thumbs up in praise, then turned to summon Matuan and Youbing, “Beat him to death if you must, it doesn’t matter, we still have two other live ones.”
Three minutes later, the bruised and swollen suspect confessed the whereabouts of another group of people, confirming, as expected, that they weren’t off Veronica’s list.
It’s not that they lacked experience, they just didn’t maintain enough vigilance, seemingly believing that they could always disguise themselves and be invincible.
Their superiors obviously only considered them as handy tools and pawns, not wishing for them to know too much.
After an urgent interrogation on the scene, Wang Yunxiao got a somewhat vague intelligence—these Faceless Ones did not know who they were working for.
Their superior had only vaguely implied that they were affiliated with the national security department, asking them to replace identities and infiltrate police stations and other key governmental offices to gather internal intelligence.
As to which specific department, they could not say.
The only person who might know the truth, the team leader named “Yang Yuqi,” had vanished without a trace.
Even they did not know where their leader had gone, merely following his orders to change identities and go into hiding, waiting for the leader or some other superior to come and activate them.
“Should we search the Yang Family’s shops?”
Sister Veronica once again offered a suggestion.
Wang Yunxiao, hearing something unusual in her tone, couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Which Yang Family’s shop are you talking about?
Is there more to this story?”
“You’ve never heard of the Yang Family?”
Veronica looked at him with surprise, “Then forget it, we’ve already got enough gains for now, there’s plenty to report back to Director Qin.
We don’t need to expand the scope and attract more trouble.”
“No, no, no, first tell me what’s with this Yang Family, and then I’ll consider what to do.”
Wang Yunxiao truly didn’t want to attract trouble, but he at least needed to know what the trouble entailed so he could make an informed decision.
It was like being set up on a blind date by someone.
They didn’t really want to set you up, they just thought since both parties were single, why not meet?
Maybe it would be a perfect match.
So whatever came from someone else’s mouth about being handsome, beautiful…
it held no real value.
Only by trying on the shoes yourself could you know if they fit.
Veronica looked around and lowered her voice, “If you come across someone by the surname Yang who impresses you with their excellence, or their demonic charm, or just by being utterly despicable…
there’s a ninety percent chance they are a member of the Yang Family.”