latelenovela Chapter 308 Era: XCMG's Simple-minded Wife 12
Chapter 308 Era: XCMG's Simple-minded Wife 12
Ji Xiaosong feigned surprise: "Oh dear, I'm also going to G City! Do you know how to get to platform 3, ma'am?"
A glint of shrewdness flashed in the old woman's eyes, and she warmly took her arm: "What a coincidence! I'm on the same train, let's go together!"
As the two walked through the crowded waiting hall, Ji Xiaosong felt at least four pairs of eyes glued to her back.
The old woman's hands gripped her wrists like iron clamps, her nails almost digging into her flesh.
That strength doesn't look like that of a 60-year-old.
"Auntie, I need to use the restroom," Ji Xiaosong suddenly said, clutching her stomach.
The old woman frowned: "The bus is about to depart..."
"I can't hold it in anymore!"
Ji Xiaosong stomped her foot, making a loud noise that drew the attention of everyone around her.
The old woman had no choice but to let go, pointing to the toilet not far away: "Go quickly and come back quickly!"
In the restroom, Ji Xiaosong quickly unpacked the bundle.
She put her cotton-padded jacket over her blue cloth coat, coiled her braids and tucked them into her liberation cap, then smeared some ash on her face, and in the blink of an eye, she became an inconspicuous young man.
This is the "three transformations" disguise technique that Xu Weidong taught her: changing clothes, changing appearance, and changing voice.
She herself can actually make human skin masks, but in this era, it's best to be cautious.
As she climbed out of the window, she saw the old woman pacing anxiously at the toilet door.
Ji Xiaosong lowered the brim of his hat and swaggered past her, even deliberately bumping into her.
"You have no eyes!"
The old woman cursed, completely failing to recognize that this "young man" was the same rural woman from before.
The freight warehouse area was filled with wooden crates covered with tarpaulins.
Ji Xiaosong crouched in the shadows, watching five men in railway uniforms drag the unconscious Zhao into Warehouse No. 3.
Two of them walked in a manner that clearly indicated they were soldiers, and another person was missing three fingers on his right hand; he was the kidnapper leader in the photo.
She took out the "Illustrated Atlas of Chinese Herbal Medicines," tore off a few pages, rolled them into thin tubes, inserted a pin, and a simple blowgun was ready.
The pages of the book are soaked in datura juice, which can numb the skin if you just scratch it.
The warehouse's iron gate was ajar.
Ji Xiaosong slipped in like a cat, using the mountain of cargo boxes as cover to get closer.
Officer Zhao was tied to a chair, blood was flowing from his forehead, but his chest was still rising and falling.
"Tell me! Where is the 714 document?"
Three fingers slapped Officer Zhao's face with a belt, saying, "Don't think we don't know about your relationship with Xu Weidong!"
Ji Xiaosong narrowed her eyes.
She took out a blowpipe and shot an arrow at the back of Sanzhi's neck.
"Whoosh!"
"who!"
Three Fingers suddenly turned around, and the blowgun grazed his ear and was pinned to the wall.
The five enemy agents scattered instantly, their movements frighteningly swift.
Ji Xiaosong knew she couldn't hide it anymore.
She pulled off her hat, and her braids tumbled down, while she swung out a rope from her waist, the iron hook at the end of the rope precisely catching the beam above her head.
"It's you!" The old woman emerged from behind the cargo box, holding a Type 54 pistol in her hand. "The Red Arrows have indeed come!"
Red Arrow?
Ji Xiaosong's heart skipped a beat, but she didn't have time to think about it further.
She used the rope to swing up, her legs wrapping around the gunman's wrists like scissors.
A cracking sound of bone breaking accompanied the gunshot as the bullet pierced the roof tiles.
The moment she landed, Ji Xiaosong grabbed a handful of lime powder from the ground and threw it at the enemy on her left, while simultaneously drawing a silver arc with her right-hand dagger.
Another enemy agent collapsed to the ground, clutching his bleeding wrist and howling in pain.
"Form ranks!" Three-finger shouted sharply.
The remaining three immediately formed a triangular formation and surrounded them, each carrying a triangular bayonet.
This is standard special forces tactic; Ji Xiaosong had seen it in Xu Weidong's textbook.
She suddenly laughed, a laugh like that of an innocent village girl: "Brothers, playing with knives is so boring."
He then pulled a tin can from his pocket, saying, "Here's some candy for you!"
As the canned food traced an arc in the air, Three Fingers' expression changed drastically: "Get out of the way! It's..."
"boom!"
The explosion sent dust flying from the warehouse ceiling.
Ji Xiaosong had calculated the angle perfectly, and the lime powder and nails in the can only affect the enemy area.
She seized the opportunity to rush towards Officer Zhao and cut the rope with a dagger.
"Let's go!" She grabbed the dazed Zhao and ran towards the side door.
Three Fingers, his face covered in blood, scrambled to his feet: "Stop them! That's part of the 'Iron Curtain' plan..."
Before the words were finished, the warehouse door was suddenly kicked open. In the blinding sunlight, a tall figure stood holding a gun.
It's Xu Weidong!
He was followed by seven or eight men in green military uniforms, their guns all pointed at the warehouse.
Ji Xiaosong's pupils contracted:
wrong!
Xu Weidong's right-hand gun-holding posture is incorrect!
The real Xu Weidong always held his gun in his left hand because of an old injury on his right shoulder!
"Get down!"
She suddenly tackled Officer Zhao to the ground.
Almost simultaneously, the gun in "Xu Weidong's" hand spat fire, and the bullet whistled past her hair.
Ji Xiaosong rolled over, pulled a pistol from the waist of the dead enemy agent, and fired three shots without even looking.
Blood blossomed simultaneously from the fake Xu Weidong's forehead, throat, and heart.
The real gunfire only came from outside the warehouse at that moment.
With a series of synchronized footsteps, a dozen fully armed soldiers rushed in, led by...
"Officer Li?"
Officer Zhao weakly raised his head and looked incredulously at the police chief in military uniform.
Rongrong's voice suddenly came from Ji Xiaosong's ear, "Ah Song, you were exposed twice, so I temporarily went to Si Ming Xing Jun to add to your past record and make you an undercover agent. So, in the memories of the relevant people, you are a member of the Red Arrow Squad who has undergone long-term training and has strong combat skills."
Ji Xiaosong breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness.
Every time she faced a life-or-death situation, she had no choice but to expose herself, even if she didn't want to.
She couldn't bear to watch others die in front of her.
Moreover, even when enemy agents threatened Zhao with his wife and daughters, he refused to do what the enemy agents demanded, all for the sake of national interests.
Based on this alone, Ji Xiaosong had no choice but to take action.
"What else is there? Tell me clearly, so I don't give myself away when Officer Li speaks later."
Ji Xiaosong quickly asked Rongrong, and Rongrong continued:
"The Red Arrow Squad is a team that specializes in all sorts of special missions. You were assigned to Xu Weidong's side to take advantage of your position to protect him on this mission. However, because Xu Weidong keeps changing locations, you haven't handed over this responsibility yet."
What exactly is Xu Weidong's mission?
"At a meeting last month, the people from the country you traveled through mocked the M country, saying that their special steel is oxidation-resistant, corrosion-resistant, high-temperature resistant, and incredibly hard, which is a world apart from the current technology of China. Even if China's steel mills flew, they couldn't catch up."
"So, Xu Weidong went to steal special steel from Country M?"
"Yes and no. There were rumors that a batch of special steel had been taken to China. He was sent by the organization to investigate the truth. If they could find this special steel, they would bring it over for everyone to study. This news just happened to be known by enemy agents, so they went to kidnap Xu Weidong, which was more direct."
"So this is Project Iron Curtain?"
"Correct."
Ji Xiaosong carefully recalled the information she had learned when she traveled to the modern world.
"According to what I learned in the modern era, the United States does not have this level of special steel. They were just fabricating data. Of all the countries, only the Russian and Chinese took it seriously. The Russian was even brought down because of this, while the Chinese only discovered that its special steel had reached the world's leading level almost forty years later."