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Sparrow
Using the 'Return to Zero' plan, the plan to lure Sparrow and Rehmannia to make their moves have started.
Today, Li Xiaonan and Su Sanxing's sister will be going to attend a wedding.
I want you to abduct them.
Liu Meina has an accomplice inside the division. Whoever's whereabouts is unknown last night,
he then is a prime suspect.
Tang Shanhai.
If one day, I really double-crossed you, what will you do?
Real brothers are clear in calculating debts among themselves. I will surely serve you with the best torture methods.
Starting today, Bi Zhongliang is being suspended and to undergo investigation.
I feel that the person that is most suspicious
is...Su Sanxing.
Episode 35
The urgent matter that we have to do now is to find
the accomplice of Liu Meina and intercept the 'Return to Zero' plan.
Only then can we beg General Kagesa for a favor
to let Zhongliang live.
This is a very heavy burden.
You must carry it up.
Boss, are you really being made the acting division chief?
Before, I thought that getting promoted is a good thing. But now, I feel that it's very dangerous.
How many are able to come out of Service Office Mei alive?
Division Chief really is fraught with grim possibilities this time.
Not only him. Even I might go in to.
Why?
You think that being an acting division chief is easy?
If I am unable to catch Sparrow or Rehmannia, unable to get the 'Return to Zero' plan back,
I will then get dragged my Li Moqun to Service Office Mei to be fed to the dogs.
Boss, let's not be this acting division chief already, okay?
If you go, what about us? We still need to earn a living.
You are saying it as if it's easy. It would be great if I could refuse it.
If we are unable to catch Sparrow, we really are dead?
These past days, keep watch of Su Sanxing and Liu Erbao.
If they make any movements, report it to me immediately.
Okay. I know already.
Go now.
There must be some trap within this.
It's impossible for Bi Zhongliang to trust that Liu Meina that easily.
Because he clearly knows that Tang Shanhai and Liu Meina are getting quite intimate.
A person that's too smart will usually just focus on the strong opponents
and will instead get defeated by an unknown lowly person. That is also possible.
That's right. Just like a previous unknown person named Su Sanxing.
Team Leader Su, I didn't mean it like that.
I just feel that Liu Meina really disguised herself so well.
I instead feel that the person who really has disguised himself well is Bi Zhongliang.
Erbao, sit!
I won't sit anymore.
Division Chief has a secret mission for you.
Looks like Division Chief getting taken by Kagesa is a strategy to lure the enemies out.
Team Leader Su is indeed smart!
But this only us two know about this matter.
Even Supervisor Li Moqun doesn't know about it.
What a huge game of Go.
Division Chief received some new information.
The new messenger of the Shanghai branch of the Nationalist Government has arrived from Chongqing.
From the news we got, he would make contact at Marsell Coffee Shop
this afternoon to give out the new secret code notebook.
I hope that you
can intercept it.
Congratulations, acting division chief.
Are you here to laugh at me?
Why will I do that?
If you are in trouble, will be in a better state? Won't I understand that logic?
Sorry. I actually planned to convince Li Moqun to let Su Sanxing sit on that position
but he insists on you.
Thank you, Team Leader Tang.
If it's a blessing, then it's not a disaster. If it is a disaster, you won't be able to avoid it.
This must be something that Team Leader Tang left at Liu Meina's house.
Look at what I bought you.
- Do you like it? - It looks nice.
I haven't even bought you any gifts yet and instead you are giving me one.
I owe you another favor.
I really pressed on you this morning. Did I scare you?
Only by pushing me to the brink of death can Old Bi believe my innocence. I understand. You were helping me.
I owe you a lot already.
If you want to return my favors, I have one request.
Say it.
There are two 'Return to Zero' plans, one true one false.
It's hard to differentiate which is true and which is not.
Team Leader Tang is a very smart man. If the real plan is really in my hands,
it's impossible for you not to ask about it.
I don't know if the one in your hands is the real one or the fake one.
But I do want to take a look at it.
Of course, if you want to look at the one in my hands, I also can let you see it anytime.
Okay.
Thank you, Team Leader Tang.
If possible, let Bicheng take it and bring it to the orphange to give to me.
I also actually want to request something from you.
If you want to get even with me that fast, you will owe me more and more in the future.
Let me owe you then.
It's fine if I will owe you a lot, even if I have to pay for interests, but I still have to say it.
Say it.
I want to personally bury Liu Meina.
Meina,
I never disappointed anyone in my life.
Only you.
Listen.
I indeed like Tang Shanhai.
I just don't want to think of those thousands of men.
I only fell for you.
I deserve it. I indeed was thinking of somebody else's husband. I indeed like him.
If she doesn't treasure you, I won't be courteous with her then.
If she doesn't want you, I want you.
Don't worry. I won't put you in a difficult spot.
If you are someone who will change his heart towards Xu Bicheng just like that,
you will also not be the man that I would want.
I also so want to have a guy like you by my side
who will accommodate my little bad habits and will say that's its fine once you get used to it.
These past years, I've saved some money.
Take me to leave Shanghai. Let's go to Hong Kong together, okay?
Do you like it? A Western tie like this
will only suit an elegant lad like you.
Actually,
I knew that you were lying to me
but I rather die in your arms than be abandoned by you.
You must think I'm a bastard, right?
Don't say that.
That woman who put her whole heart into me,
that woman who just wanted to be with me forever, was personally killed by me.
You don't have any other choice, am I right?
I can kill the only woman in the world that loves me.
This is her favorite flower. Roses.
If you were given another chance to choose,
what would you do?
You still haven't chosen, right?
Do you remember that time when I wanted to rescue Zhou Li, you told me
that people who does our line of work is really just like this.
It is clearly the most important person to you, but you can't save them.
It is clearly the person most dear to you,
you can only watch
them die.
Chen Shen told me before.
Everything that has already become a reality,
we shouldn't keep turning back to look at it anymore.
Put away the grief.
Let's continue fighting. Let's fight together.
Thank you.
Even though I can't feel better,
thank you for consoling me.
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Good thing, you are fine.
I just returned. How could I just die so easily?
Were you the one who took care of the corpses of those two special agents that I killed below Liu Meina's apartment?
When I got up from the river, I was afraid that you wouldn't have time to clean up the scene
so I hurriedly went to Liu Meina's house.
After I just cleaned up the corpses, Chen Shen and Bi Zhongliang arrived.
Bi Zhongliang currently has been suspended for investigation.
Let us then let them bite among themselves.
Oh, right, the new messenger has already arrived.
This is the new code book.
Observations on the Current State of Officialdom
You saw Liu Erbao came out of Su Sanxing's office?
Yes. He was acting so suspiciously like he was afraid of someone seeing him.
The 'Return to Zero' plan got stolen. You must give us an explanation.
Yes. I surely will find the suspect. I surely will get the plan back.
Don't worry. One you enter Service Office Mei, you'll have the time to think about this matter.
Bi Zhongliang is now beign suspended for investigation. All matters of the Special Operations Division will temporarily be handled by Supervisor Li of the Special Agents Central Headquarters.
Could they be sneakily doing some scheme?
Continue monitoring them.
I know already.
Should we sent out the 'Return to Zero' plan now?
Let's try to sent it out tomorrow night. Right now, we must do another matter.
What matter?
Photocopy the plan that was in our hands but change the important names, place, and time.
Why must we do that?
There were two plans inside the safety box.
Based on Meina's cues, the one with me is the real one.
I gave Chen Shen the other one. But based on his personality,
he surely will suspect that the copy that's with me is the real one.
Didn't you say that you've put the other one in a safe place?
How come it is with Chen Shen?
We all have been fooled by Chen Shen.
You surely couldn't have guessed that he has a copy of Liu Meina's keys all long.
While he was helping us, he actually was using us.
He is really a member of the Underground Communist Organization?
Even if he isn't Sparrow, he would also be Sparrow's subordinate.
Who is in that other car?!
Enemies. We must get them off our tail..
How were you able to ascertain that those are enemies?
Sit tight.
Mister, may I ask what is the direction towards Nanjing?
Chen Shen!
If Chen Shen submits a false plan,
will he suffer any punishment or doubts?
Is this what you are most worried about?
Just casually asking.
Bicheng, don't forget.
The mission given to us by the organization is that we must find the whereabouts of the 'Return to Zero' plan before the communist organization does.
This means that the organization doesn't want the underground communist organization to know about this secret.
The partnership between the nationalist government and communist government is just temporary. Maybe one day, we might become enemies in the battlefield.
I hope that this day will come a bit more later.
Okay. I'll change them.
Tang Shanhai asked me to give this to you.
Fresh ink scent.
Tang Shanhai asked you to made this at the last minute to fool me, right?
I feel that I am like a donkey.
Getting pulled to turn by you smart people
all day. I already am not able to find the right direction soon.
How can there be such a beautiful top?
About your secret, I finally understand now
why when we were escorting Prime Minister,
you were acting strange along the way.
And also, why you fainted when Prime Minister died.
Tang Shanhai said that you have been using us.
to be able to find the 'Return to Zero' plan.
But I understand
that you two are the same kind of person.
Who among you can really use the other person?
Right now, I only want to know, if you were the first one to get the 'Return to Zero' plan,
will you share it with us?
I will.
What if we went against our words?
Personally, I think that people who are sincerely resisting the Japanese,
they all have honorable souls, their lives are similarly precious.
If destroying this plan can save a lot more people,
then why not take it out and share it?
Moreover, our citizens have currently reached the point where they are in most danger.
I know that you must have orders from your organization superiors that you have no choice but to follow.
But at this time, all Chinese should unite to resist the Japanese.
Resisting the Japanese isn't just a slogan but a determination to meet death.
No matter if I'm still alive by tomorrow,
it is our duty to drive the Japanese out
and save our comrades.
Tang Shanhai doesn't know about this.
I also don't know if what I'm doing is right or wrong.
But I know that if this will lead to less people bleeding,
what I'm doing is worth it.
Annex: Personnel sent by each army group
Details of how to carry out the Return to Zero Operations
Second Army Group
'Observations on the Current State of Officialdom'.
In the officialdom (government),
no matter what monster you are, you surely will show your true self sooner or later.
Observations on the Current State of Officialdom
The code books that Commander Dai chooses still are full of connotative meanings.
When Team Leader Su does things, it is always a sure success.
Team Leader Su, Chen Shen seems to have noticed something.
On my way here, Pian Tou kept following me.
It wasn't easy to finally get him off my back.
It's good to continue being careful.
Observations on the Current State of Officialdom
Very good. So good.
Mr. Zhongliang, I am getting more and more confident with you.
Thank you, General Kagesa.
You can now send out the telegraph detector vans.
From my assessment, now that we have the new code book of the Nationalist Government,
if this fake 'Return to Zero' plan
is really in Rehmannia's hands,
then what he should be doing now
is to try his best to communicate this plan out.
That's why, right now, we can start raising the net.
- Mr. Zhongliang. - Yes.
Chinese people are really making me curious.
Sometimes, the way you think is very weird.
Are you sure that you don't want to move into
a larger and cleaner room?
General Kagesa, for this matter,
there's really no need for to worry about it anymore.
What I need now is silence.
This place is a place that can let me think in silence.
I already followed for three blocks but carelessly, I lost him.
Zeng Shu used to be a powerful district governor of the Nationalist Government Shanghai Branch
Liu Erbao also has followed Old Bi for so many years.
These people are experienced and skilled. It's just normal to lose them.
Acting so suspiciously the whole day...
Don't know what secret dealings these people are doing.
Old Bi got arrested yet they are not panicking.
What have they been doing the whole day?
Boss...
What they have is called the quality of a secret agent.
Your secret agent qualities aren't that bad too.
How come you look problematic too everyday?
With my relationship with Old Bi,
can others be the same?
Anyway, I feel that something isn't right.
Look at Secretary Qian. He immediately went to Supervisor Li to fawn.
That's what normal is.
Others are worrying...about their job.
It's only Su Sanxing and his team
that just kept sitting steadily on the fishing platform. Don't know what they are being busy about.
Don't you find that strange?
How about this? Don't monitor Su Sanxing anymore.
Keep watch of that Ah Qiang. He is not as smart as you. He surely will be easier to follow.
Boss, what you mean is...I am a soft persimmon so let's look for someone softer to pinch?
There are persimmons all over the ground.
If it's not soft, then it's hard. Why then must you insist on going against the harder ones?
You're right. I'll get going now.
Come in.
I came to drink some tea with you.
Okay.
When you came here last time to drink some tea, you said that you are going to visit Bodhisattva and burn some incense
to pray for Bi Zhongliang to live a long life.
If his life is indeed shortened, it's not because Bodhisattva hasn't blessed him,
it is because he brought it upon himself.
Now that he is not around anymore, didn't the sky also not fall down?
Sooner or later, I also will walk his path.
Unless, I rat you out.
We are all ants on the same rope.
What good will it bring you to rattle me out?
Then tell me an idea where we all will benefit.
If you are the acting division chief, how do you plan to give Kagesa an acceptable explanation?
Of course, look for a scapegoat.
Don't tell me you didn't think of that.
I did. But I don't know if we are thinking of the same person.
When Zhou Li and Lu Ming died, Bicheng was so in pain.
I promised her...
Also, one more thing, the person who was unusually frantic
in torturing Zhou Li and Lu Ming this time was Secretary Qian.
One day, I surely must take revenge for them.
Okay. I promise you.
I will ask them to pay for this debt sooner or later.
Sooner or later, we will seek vengeance for them.
I understand.
Looks like Team Leader Chen has the same thoughts as mine.
For this scheme to be implemented perfectly, I will still need Team Leader Tang
to cooperate in the best way you can and to provide me with some information.
You are being courteous. Isn't helping you, helping me?
While cooking, wearing this kind of clothes, is really quite uncomfortable.
Do you remember everything that Chen Shen told you earlier?
I remember them already. That...when I see Secretary Qian, I will tell him
that I am Zhang Guilin, the younger brother of his friend from the province Zhang Guishan.
During the 20th year of the republic,
Zhang Guishan and Secretary Qian transferred to the
Third Spear Brigade of the National Army from the troops of the warlord Feng Yu Xiang.
Later on, this Zhang Guishan died while saving Secretary Qian.
Are you sure that the person that Old K is going to portray
is someone that Secretary Qian has never seen before?
I'm sure of it. Zhang Gui lin and Tang Shanhai are from the same batch.
After Zhang Guishan died,
Secretary Qian gave the items he left to Zhang Guilin.
Afterwards, Secretary Qian transferred to serve the Reorganized National Government of China. Zhang Guilin also died after that.
It was Tang Shanhai who received the items that Zhang Guilin left.
He was sure that the two never saw each other.
And also, Secretary Qian doesn't know yet that Zhang Guilin has died.
That's great then.
- Old K, be more quick-witted. - Yes.
Don't get exposed.
Sure. Brother Chen, I guarantee that I will complete my mission.
You surely can do it. Do it well.
Qingfeng Tea House
Brother Qian!
I have finally met you.
You are Zhang Guilin?
Yes. Look.
This is your picture with my older brother.
You mailed this to me during the 20th year of the republic.
You still kept this picture?
Of course. This is the only picture of my older brother.
I have always brought it with me.
Brother Qian, come and sit.
Drink some tea.
These past years, you must have been in Chongqing training camp, right?
Just earning for a living. I don't want to be promoted nor be some hero.
I just want to live longer.
Who else is left in your family?
Just me. Initially, other than me and my older brother,
we still have one little sister.
But she contracted small pox and has already died.
It was around the 19th year of the Republic.
It happened around when you and my older brother just went to the Third Spear Brigade of the National Army.
That's right. That time, your older brother wasn't able to rush back home to see your little sister one last time.
He was even depressed for several days.
I remember that your little sister seems to be called...Guihua?
Brother Qian, you really have a good memory.
With my relationship with your older brother, how could I forget such things?
Oh, right, you came to Shanghai this time to...
Brother Qian, to tell you the truth, I am about to get married. But I am a little short of money.
I thought of coming to Shanghai and see if I can get an opportunity
to earn money from you.
From what you've said, you seem to be...
There is one whose code name is Rehmannia
that has infiltrated your division. Do you know about that?
Of course, I know.
The whole division has almost been turned upside down but we still were unable to find him.
I have information about him.
Is that real?
The Nationalist Government wants to rebuild their branch here in Shanghai. The newly appointed district governor
will be secretly meeting with this Rehmannia.
Is your news reliable?
Reliable. I am guaranteeing with my head.
If not because I need money fast, I also don't want to do such things.
How much money do you need then?
Two little gold bars?
No. Big gold bars.
Wishful thinking. So expensive.
Brother Qian, you won't be able to catch the wolf if you cannot bear to put your children in danger.
Think about it. How many skilled individuals are within the Special Agents Department?
They were all unable to catch this Rehmannia.
If you are able to catch this Rehmannia guy,
then won't you rapidly go up the ranks?
How much big golden bars will that be worth, isn't it?
I actually planned to look for Su Sanxing.
You even know Su Sanxing?
I know him.
His best friend used to work in the logistics section of our Training Camp.
Isn't it because I considered the fact that you and my older brother were really good friends
that's why I went to you first.
If you don't want it,
I can only let Su Sanxing benefit from it then.
But I will ask him three big gold bars for it.
Don't. Just two big gold bars.
Thank you, brother.
Thank you, Brother Qian. We are just one family to begin with. I'll toast you with tea in place of wine.
Okay.
From now on, if you have any information, give it to me first.
No problem.
Rehmannia will be
meeting with the newly appointed Nationalist Government Shanghia district governor tonight?
Yes. They are meeting at 9pm tonight in JIading.
Is that information reliable?
It probably can't be fake.
That person is my past subordinate.
He just came from Chongqing and needed some money so he sold this information to me.
More importantly, his older brother and I
were really very close friends.
Supervisor, you don't know that to buy this information,
I spent two big gold bars.
A very close friendship...
and he even let you spend two big gold bars...
Secretary Qian, it seems that this friendship of yours didn't mean much.
This...isn't it one must hoard good that are in short supply? He...also had to bear a lot of danger...
Looks like Secretary Qian, you also were able to earn a lot these past two years.
Supervisor, you misunderstood.
How can I have so much money? You are just joking...
These money, I...borrowed it.
They were all lent to me by my friends, Supervisor.
Supervisor, you don't know. Initially,
I wanted to let you personally chat with him.
Won't that save me a lot of trouble, right?
But he said that he doesn't know you.
He insisted to ask from me. I really have no other choice.
And so I went to gather money and buy this information.
I am no interested in these.
Make sure that the information is true.
Once you've fulfilled this mission, I can request the superiors to reward you.
Thank you, Supervisor Li. This news is surely real.
Hello, Sister Lanzhi, I'm Xiaonan.
I wrapped some gelatinous dumplings for you and plan to bring them there. You won't be going out today, right?
Xiaonan...
Sister Lanzhi, what's wrong? If there's anything, just say it slowly. Don't cry.
Zhongliang was taken away by the Japanese.
What?! Division Chief Bi got take away by the Japanese?
Chen Shen didn't tell me about it.
What should I do?
Okay. Okay. Don't cry first. Just wait for me there and we'll talk.
These signals are from business telegraphs. They have registrations.
The code discovered earlier is at number 389, Tianwentai Road.
It is still a business telegraph machine.
It is really quite powerful.
Happiness and Longevity Shop
Take care.
This van is moving so slow. Is anything wrong with it?
Supervisor, is the source of this information reliable?
You have to ask Secretary Qian about that.
Team Leader Chen, what do you mean by that?
Are you suspecting me of giving Supervisor false leads?
Please call me Division Chief Chen.
Although it is just acting, it was still conferred by Supervisor.
I'm already used to it. I can't change it anymore.
Hey, Secretary Qian, you must hurry and change how you address him.
Yes.
Division Chief, the person who gave me the news personally assured me that it is true.
But with the times right now, it's really hard to understand what people are thinking.
I also can't guarantee that this information is true.
But since we've known of this information,
we should give it some attention, right?
Supervisor, what do you want me to do? Just give the instructions.
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♫ Fly, fly towards the bright light. ♫
♫ Fly past the endless confusion. ♫
♫ At worst, you’ll hurt your wings. ♫
♫ At least you’ll still have some remaining hope. ♫
♫ Fly, fly towards the sun, ♫
♫ even if your ultimate destination is death. ♫
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♫ At least you’ll still have your original faith. ♫
♫ I shake off the bitter cold in my body. ♫
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♫ You should know that this is the biggest longing in my life. ♫
♫ But my home is in devastation. ♫
♫ I can’t cower to safety. ♫
♫ Forgive me. Allow my last rallying cry. ♫
♫ I will become brave, ♫
♫ bravely breaking through the prison bars. ♫
♫ The distant road is long. ♫
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♫ I have already become brave, ♫
♫ bravely charging into the darkness. ♫
♫ The dimming fire and lights of home ♫
♫ in the distance are my ultimate faith. ♫