Volume 3: Pre-War Comfort Chapter 12: Catching a Rogue

  "Officer He, go and carry out your task." Monkey Director pushed open the car door and gave the order to get off. The train also let out a whistle at this moment, reminding the passengers who had gotten off to watch the commotion that it was time to get back on.

  After getting off the car, Monkey King was stopped again and said: "The porridge is not full, there is water inside, it's too late to eat."

  At first glance, this sounds like a resentful wife complaining about her family members eating whatever they want. However, Chuan Ji still understood that Hou Kechang was not farting, but rather reminding himself what to do next. But he really didn't understand what this crazy person's muttering was trying to express.

  Special agents have to be like this, neither human nor ghost, speaking in a way that's both human and ghostly. If you speak as humans do, then you're not far from being a ghost. Therefore, living in a state of being neither human nor ghost but speaking in a way that's both, is much safer than being truly human and telling the truth.

  "Remember? Kawaki-kun." Kōsa-chō was afraid he wouldn't remember and repeated it again.

  Actually, the worry of Hóu Kè Cháng is completely unnecessary, and what he repeated that one time was just nonsense. In fact, Chuán Jì's memory is extraordinary, it can be said that he never forgets anything he hears. If he didn't have this special ability, how could he recite so many Chinese phrases fluently?

  After all, they are the same rope of hemp, sharing honor and loss together. Therefore, Monkey King was still worried that Kui Gui would not remember, so he asked him to recite it again.

  The river horse copied the effect as required, which made the monkey king very satisfied, and then let him go.

  He was allowed to pass, but the monkey king was still very worried that he couldn't decipher the meaning of this sentence, especially "beauty mole", "ass" and "cocoon".

  However, if he can't even solve such a simple riddle, what's the point of telling him directly? A fool is doomed to die, even if you give him a southern-style assault rifle to fight against an enemy armed with a handheld blowtorch.

  "Let's just follow our fate." The monkey watched as Chuanqi rode away, then ordered the shopkeeper to get the carriage moving.

  At this time, the murder case on the train had been settled, and the station staff indicated to the driver to prepare for departure. The train whistled again for the second time.

  He heard the sound of the car's engine leaving, turned his head to glance at the "black turtle" that carried the Datong Special High School students, then boarded the train.

  The river and the horse dare not eat the old capital of "anti-Japanese hero" again, try to avoid those big same passengers, in the crowded car, find a barely standing place to stay, try to cover up one's broken face.

  Due to the occurrence of a murder, every passenger was highly vigilant towards others, and the entire car was as quiet as death. In this life-threatening environment, Kawahito had to be extremely careful with his words and actions, lest he attract unnecessary trouble.

  With a "pffft" sound, Kawahara let out a fart. This fart was not released at the right time or place. The surrounding travelers were so disgusted that they dodged and searched for the source of the smell, and Kawahara's scarred face drew everyone's attention.

  "Beat the little devils! Beat the little devils!"

  Chuan Qi heard this heart-stopping shout again and instinctively raised his hand to cover his head. As soon as he covered it, he hastily stretched out his hand to touch the waist, but there was nothing in the empty space. The Southern-style pistol was still loaded in the police gun holster, of course, he couldn't touch it.

  Without the Southern Style, Chuan Qi felt much safer and raised the hand that was holding the gun to his head, helplessly awaiting the painful beating from the crowd.

  Nothing had happened. The rickshaw boy put down his hands, and the passenger who had just dodged out of the way was now crowded around him again, everything returned to normal, as if nothing had ever happened.

  In fact, this fart only allowed the crowd to glimpse the miserable appearance of the defeated cavalry while dodging, and no one recognized that he was the "anti-Japanese hero" saved by the father-daughter duo. The shout of "fighting little devils" was a hallucination caused by his extreme tension and guilty conscience.

  A fart broke the silence and caused a stir. The train continued to move forward with constant shaking, and the sky gradually darkened.

  The exhausted traveler either closed his eyes to rest or stared at the few urine-yellow car lamps on the ceiling, which were covered with fly specks. Only the woman sitting next to the Kuomintang soldier occasionally cast a timid and hostile glance at him.

  Because of Kawara's fart, the travelers who were still conscious paid extra attention to their physiological reactions. However, someone quietly let out a stinky fart, causing the air in the carriage to become murky. The woman who was on guard against Kawara thought it was another one of his "masterpieces" and kept casting contemptuous glances at him.

  An upright person is not afraid of a crooked shadow. The man responded to the woman's gaze with a challenging attitude, until she was defeated and turned her head away.

  The sky had completely darkened, and the light on top of the car was slightly brighter. Chuan Qi stared at the car lights, starting to think about what Houxue Chang had said.

  As a special agent, Kawara's first step must be to figure out where he is going and then know what kind of mission he will carry out.

  He combined the 12 words "川骑将猴课长" in various ways and came up with a satisfactory answer, "Manzhouli". He suddenly realized that his previous mistake when he accepted the mission to go down the mountain, "take the train to Manzhouli and then fly directly to Tokyo", coincidentally matched the phrase of the monkey instructor.

  "Wow, this is indeed what the Chinese people describe as 'treading on iron shoes without finding a place, and getting it all without any effort'! The river knights are excited about this."

  After getting the answer to the big location in the first two sentences with a total of 8 words, Chuan Qi began to ponder the small location implied by the last 4 words. He focused on the words "eat" and "evening".

  Kawaji was an imperial scholar of some renown in Chinese studies, and he knew that Chinese characters often have multiple readings and meanings. He thought that the character for "to eat" had the same sound as the character for "late", and that the meaning of "evening" was the same as "late". From this, he connected these two characters with "Manzhouli", and came to the conclusion that it meant "arrived late in Manzhouli".

  He thought to himself, could it be that the monkey was reminding him that he had gone to Manzhouli too late and should have taken a plane directly from Shenyang to Tokyo? If this sentence meant something so simple, did the monkey need to repeat it again and again?

  Then, Chuan Qi repeatedly pondered these two words in depth, thinking to himself, "Eat" requires a "mouth", and "evening" is often replaced with "darkness" in the spoken language of ordinary Chinese people, which has the same pronunciation as "shore".

  "Manzhouli Port? My goodness!" Chuan Qi completely solved the mystery of this sentence, and was so excited that he almost ran and jumped wildly.

  However, a special agent needs to be cautious. It's like walking on a single-plank bridge over a deep and treacherous valley - one misstep could lead to falling into the abyss and being smashed to pieces. Therefore, Chuanji began to ponder the task assigned by Shopkeeper Xiaode again.

  "Beauty mark, buttocks, cocoon"

  He silently recited this sentence in his heart, and as he did, drowsiness crept up on him, causing him to unconsciously lean against someone else.

  When he leaned towards that woman, the words that kept echoing in Kawahori's mind suddenly slipped out: "Beauty mark, buttocks, cocoon..."

  "Hooligans! Catch hooligans!" The woman shouted loudly.