The Pretender's Taoyaoyi Building

Three days later, at noon.

Mingtai pushed open the door leading to the top floor, and he couldn't help being absent-minded. He fixed his eyes on a very familiar figure from the back. He also saw someone wearing that blue coat. "Brother Ah Cheng?" here! ?

Mingcheng also saw him coming, turned around, and faced him generously.

Mingtai walked down the steps quickly, and approached him with inexplicable confusion, "Brother Ah Cheng." At this moment, he had various thoughts in his mind, but he couldn't seem to find a reasonable explanation.

Mingcheng also said calmly, "Here we come."

The two were relatively speechless for a moment.

Mingcheng turned to the higher steps, "There are people waiting for you up there, go up." Even if you want to tell, it's not him who is talking about it.

Mingtai had various questions in his mind, but he didn't ask them out. He walked up the steps he wanted to find out, but stopped before he really wanted to go up, turned his head, and looked at Mingcheng.

Mingcheng nodded.

Mingtai stepped up to the top floor.

When he reached the top floor, he saw a figure with his back facing him from a distance, and he was too familiar with this figure; so he took a few steps quickly, walked through the winding passage, and went straight to that figure.

The person with his back turned around when he heard footsteps.

In this way, Mingtai saw his elder brother appearing in his eyes, "Elder brother."

Minglou raised his wrist to check the time, "Not bad, very punctual."

Mingtai really couldn't be sure why the eldest brother appeared here, "Brother, the few times I hit you, are you okay?"

Minglou moved his teeth with his tongue, "It's okay, your sister-in-law said she would avenge me."

Mingtai smiled wryly: she definitely would.

"You are about to leave Shanghai." Minglou returned to the subject, "I don't know how reluctant Eldest Sister is, but in fact, you are just like Mingrui in her heart. You are still a child and need someone to take care of you." Seeing that Mingtai kept silent However, Minglou couldn't bear it anymore, "Why, don't you have anything to say to me?"

Mingtai used his seemingly naive eyes to probe into the man in front of him, who he was familiar with and who was completely unfamiliar: at home, he was a big brother, but in the army, he was a poisonous snake, but why did he appear here?I couldn't make sense of all the chaos, so I could only say stiffly and politely, "Thank you, brother, for saving my life."

"Are there any other words besides this?" Ming Lou didn't want to hear these polite words.

Mingtai didn't dare to look him in the eyes, and just choked out a sentence, "Brother, take care of yourself." He is the chief of the military intelligence department, but he appeared at the place where he was going to meet the leaders of the Shanghai C/C/CCP underground organization. Why? !It's Taoyao... No, she won't betray her comrades, but he once believed that his elder brother and Ah Cheng would not betray him.

Minglou was a little disappointed by his guard, "It seems that we brothers are indeed unfamiliar with each other."

Mingtai was still three-point guarded, seven-point puzzled: a guess emerged in his mind, but he couldn't believe it.

"Actually, we are all groping in the dark." Ming Lou said speciously, "The darker the road ahead, the more we yearn for light in our hearts."

"The night gave me black eyes, and I just want to use them to find the light." Mingtai remembered this sentence that left a deep impression on him.

Minglou didn't answer the sentence "You have contributed a lot to the Dead Time Project. I have already sent a letter to Shangfeng to reward you, and now I want to announce the next action to you."

Although Mingtai was determined to break away from the military command, he still avoided standing upright when he said this to the superior.

"In the future, you will infiltrate the CCP as a defected agent, drive a nail for the military command in the CCP/underground party, lurk for a long time, and keep silent." Minglou solemnly told him the content of the plan. Announced "You will not be reactivated until you have a major task."

Ming Tai was speechless: Breaking into the Communist Party as a defected agent?

"In this plan, you are the only one who is online, and you only need to be responsible to me." Minglou ignored his confusion for the time being. "If this line is broken, the top military command will send someone to contact you."

Mingtai didn't really care about his mission, what he wanted to know when facing his eldest brother was not this: "I want to know, is Wang Tianfeng really..."

"You finally asked him." Minglou was actually waiting, waiting for Mingtai to mention it himself.

Mingtai's eyes are in a trance.

"Wang Tianfeng is also a dead chess piece in the death plan." Ming Lou told the truth, "He is still in the military command—a traitor." His voice was low.

Mingtai frowned, looking melancholy and puzzled.

"But his death was actually planned by him and completed by you." Ming Lou also frowned, "You don't have to blame yourself too much."

Mingtai turned his eyes, recalling everything from the beginning of the plan to the present, and said after a long time, "I want to know the whole process of the plan for the dead."

"Why?" The plan was over.

Mingtai raised his eyes, "I should know." His comrades-in-arms and teachers all sacrificed their lives for this plan, and even he himself almost died in it, shouldn't he know clearly?

"I know, wouldn't it be more painful." Minglou reminded him, because even if he knew everything, nothing could be redeemed.

Mingtai's eyes turned red, but his expression was firm: "At least, I should know why I am suffering." The pain is not terrible, the most important thing is to understand how much I have grown after experiencing these pains. "Why did my comrade-in-arms die!"

Ming Lou who asked this question also had to think back a little bit, "Let me think about it, where should I start?"

"From the beginning." Of course from the beginning "I want to know everything."

Seeing Mingtai's insistence on this, Minglou also understood that he had already prepared himself, since it was his request, he would naturally satisfy it, "Okay, let's start from the first time you met Wang Tianfeng."

meeting for the first time?Mingtai felt that it seemed a long time ago.

"Have you always thought that your encounter with Wang Tianfeng was a coincidence?" Ming Lou asked.

Mingtai tried his best to recall everything on the plane: the red wine, the assassination, the rescue, Taoyao's words, "Is it really like what Taoyao said, no assassination, no poison, everything is just a drama?" I remember asking why at that time However, Tao Yao stopped talking.

"Yes, no one wanted to assassinate Wang Tianfeng. Everything that happened on the plane was a scene that had been arranged long ago; it's just that Wang Tianfeng himself didn't expect it. Fu Taoyao saw the scene that he thought would be enough to deceive you. It became a farce." That's why he wanted to get rid of Taoyao, because she was not available to him but was very good "The purpose of this play is to test your analytical and observation skills as an agent , You did a good job." But Tao Yao did better "I don't agree with Wang Tianfeng's plan, we even sent someone to try to rob you from the military academy, but it failed because you were already unwilling to leave .”

Mingtai listened to the elder brother's narration.

"You grow up very fast, no matter from which point of view you can be said to be Wang Tianfeng's best student, but I know this is not something to be happy about, because the better you are, the deeper you are stuck, you are just dead A pawn in the plan, its fate has already been doomed." Minglou tried to maintain a normal speech speed and attitude, "Everything you did after you returned to Shanghai was actually waiting for the start of the dead time plan." Assassinated Hasegawa, Assassination of key officials of the new government, removal of military deployments from the consulate, and Operation Sakura "until Wang Tianfeng appeared in front of me with those two codebooks."

Mingtai still listened, although he knew very well that the cruelest part had already begun.

"I knew that Wang Tianfeng's plan would be terrible, so I made a second plan behind his back. My plan is that I will take the initiative to expose you before the death knell operation starts, and then I will take the fake codebook to No. 76 to arrest you. Save me." Ming Lou finally said his plan, "According to my plan, no one will die, except myself."

Mingtai looked at him.

"It's a pity that I lost the bet. You are worthy of being Wang Tianfeng's favorite student. The wine bags and rice bags on No. 76 didn't catch you." Minglou said the following things with a clear heart, "Wang Tianfeng's death plan officially kicked off. , and in his plan, except for me, everyone will die, including himself, and even Taoyao... If she is not pregnant, she will become the person who makes the Japanese believe in this code book more. A cryptography expert with Japanese identity is more suitable. Wang Tianfeng went to meet Taoyao before meeting you and me. I don't know what they talked about, but I can guess what method he will use to coerce her into this plan. He The wrong calculation is that she has another child." The lunatic finally chose his own second plan, and no matter how crazy he was, he knew very well that he would not agree to sacrifice his wife and children.

Mingtai couldn't hold back anymore when he heard this.

"This is the whole content of the dead time plan, and everything is carried out according to Wang Tianfeng's plan." Ming Lou said this is still very heavy, "The ending is also perfect as he expected."

Mingtai cried bitterly: his teacher and comrade-in-arms died just because of this plan.

"There is only one thing he didn't count." Minglou lowered his eyes: Taoyao will frame Wang Manchun in the end, use poison to successfully 'steal' Mingtai out of No. 76, and use this to divert the attention of the Japanese from the Communist Cobra .

Mingtai knelt in front of Minglou, crying uncontrollably.

……

The crying sound reached Mingcheng, so he couldn't help but look upstairs.

"This is the most painful and fastest growth for him."

Mingcheng turned his head, "Why are you here?"

"As his sister-in-law, I have to come and see." I don't know when I will see you again today." Besides, he already knew my identity and some things he shouldn't know. If I don't come, he will leave Shanghai with peace of mind. ?”

"It's hard for our young master." Seeing his comrade-in-arms sacrifice with his own eyes and killing his mentor with his own hands, this kind of pain cannot be relieved with just a few words.

"How can you see the light without going through the wind and rain." Tao Yao raised her legs and walked up the wooden steps. Back then, she watched her partner die tragically outside a building in a foreign country. She couldn't even collect the corpse. Didn't she complete the task in the same way? It’s all because of you that he spoils him like this.” No matter in what era, any Chinese agent who didn’t experience it like this went up to the top floor with Mingtai’s heart-piercing cries as the background.

Mingcheng looked at her back, but didn't step forward.