Chapter 67: Yan Fei's Flying Storage Net

  That day Liu Feng was discussing something with Chen Zheng, the two of them were walking in the village when they suddenly heard a woman's wailing cry coming from the entrance of the village: "Save me! Save me!"

  He had only called out twice when his voice was cut off.

  Liu Feng and Chen Zhengde exchanged a glance, what's going on? Could it be that after the special warfare battalion expanded, some rascals sneaked in and bullied women? Is this acceptable? The two quickly ran towards the village entrance.

  From a distance, I saw several special forces soldiers pinning down a woman and walking her out of the village.

  Liu Feng shouted loudly: "Stop!"

  Several special forces members were stunned, and then waited at the village entrance. Liu Feng and Chen Zheng quickly ran up to them. They saw a young woman wearing a school uniform, with a slender figure, being held down on her knees by two special forces members who had her hands cuffed behind her back. Luo Changbing stood expressionless on one side.

  "What's going on?" asked Chen Zhengwei.

  Upon hearing the sound, the woman immediately lifted her head. She had a melon-seed shaped face, willow eyebrows and big eyes, with fair skin and a student-style fringe. At this moment, her mouth was gagged with a rag, her face covered in tears, and her big eyes looked at Liu Feng with a pleading expression.

  "Uuuu..." she let out a cry from her mouth.

  Liu Feng had seen many beautiful women in his lifetime, but in this world where battles were fought every day and he was always with the old masters, he hadn't really met any decent women. Moreover, such a beauty would be a lovely and innocent schoolgirl even if she were put into the 21st century. Liu Feng suddenly felt a surge of affection for her.

  Luo Changbing coldly said: "Seize a spy, prepare to drag him out and shoot him!"

  "What? She's an undercover agent?" Liu Feng asked in surprise.

  "She said she was a student at the Shanghai Nursing School, named Yan Yan, and was going to Guangping County to visit relatives. But when she arrived in Guangping County, she heard that her relatives had moved to Hanzixiang Village, so she went there alone. I judged that this person was either a Japanese puppet spy or a GMD spy, so for safety's sake, I shot her directly." Luo Changbing said expressionlessly.

  "But why can you judge that she is a spy just because of this?" Commissar Chen asked.

  "Firstly, a female student from Shanghai actually traveled alone all the way to Guangping County, passing through areas occupied by the enemy, areas under Nationalist control, and mountainous regions infested with bandits, without any problems. Do you believe that? Secondly, Han Xicun doesn't have any relatives she's looking for." Luo Changbing replied.

  Liu Feng also felt that there was a problem. A weak woman, such a beautiful female student, could run alone to Guangping County without any problems, which was indeed too suspicious. However, looking at the girl's pleading big eyes, Liu Feng said: "Even if she is a spy, we can't just shoot her casually. We have to interrogate her, what if we can get the enemy's intelligence?"

  Lu Changbing said calmly: "My task is to ensure the absolute safety of everyone, I cannot allow any danger factors to appear in Hanyang Village. So I think it's better to shoot directly."

  "Hmm," Commissar Chen said, somewhat unable to listen anymore, "The policy of our Eighth Route Army doesn't seem to be so careless with human life. At least for this kind of thing, you should report and decide afterwards. Can a young girl like her harm us? Harm the Chief of Staff? Honestly!"

  Liu Feng said: "Open her mouth, I'll ask, is she a spy or not."

  Two special forces members released Yan's hands and removed the rag from her mouth. Yan let out a "wa" and burst into tears, sobbing: "Woo... I really am not a spy or anything... I just came to visit relatives... Woo..."

  Yan Yan spoke in Shanghainese, and Liu Feng could barely understand her.

  Liu Feng asked: "Just now, Luo Ke's words, how do you interpret?"

  Yan Yan wiped away tears from her face with a handkerchief while saying: "I was sent by my big brother in Shanghai, he accompanied me all the way to Handan. Then he went to Shijiazhuang. I was alone on my way from Handan to Guangping. I didn't expect you to treat me like this, waaahhh..."

  Liu Feng asked again: "What relatives are you looking for?"

  Yan said: "It's my third uncle, Yang Sanmin. He originally lived in Guangping County. But when I went to Guangping County, I found out that he had sold his house. The neighbors told me that he had moved to Hanzixiang Village. So I came looking for him. Who would have thought... *sob*..."

  Liu Feng asked again: "Why did you come to find Third Uncle?"

  Yan said: "My parents are both dead... I can no longer stay in Shanghai..."

  Liu Feng interrupted her and said: "How did your parents die?"

  Yan Yi heard this and immediately burst into tears, sobbing as she spoke: "My father's name was Yan Wenhai. He used to work at the Shanghai Heji Foreign Firm, but one day a Japanese lieutenant colonel took a liking to me and wanted my father to arrange our marriage. How could my father agree to marry me off to a Japanese devil? So he refused. As a result, my father was framed as an anti-Japanese activist and thrown into the Kempeitai headquarters, where he was tortured to death in just two days... Waaahhh... That lieutenant colonel still wanted to take me by force, so my mother entrusted me to Big Brother and begged him to send me to Guangping County to seek refuge with my Third Uncle. And after entrusting me to Big Brother, my mother hanged herself... Waaahhh..."

  "Damn Japanese devils!" Several special warfare team members around them said indignantly.

  Only Luo Changbing remained standing there with a completely expressionless face, as if these things couldn't move him at all.

  "What's your eldest uncle's name? Why didn't he send you to Guangping? And why did he go to Shijiazhuang instead? Why didn't you turn to your eldest uncle for help, but instead turned to Third Uncle?"

  Yan Yan said: "My eldest uncle is called Wen Bo Nian, he's almost 40 years old now, and he's still unmarried, no family, making a living by delivering goods. This time it was from Shanghai to Shijiazhuang. Only then could I come here with him. If he didn't go to Shijiazhuang, the goods would be late. So he had to rush to Shijiazhuang. My mother thought that as a girl, I couldn't follow my eldest uncle to deliver goods, so she let me flee to Third Uncle."

  Liu Feng asked: "Don't you have any other relatives?"

  "There's no one left, except for my third uncle who is not in Shanghai. I don't dare to go to any of my relatives in Shanghai either, or else I'll definitely implicate them. Now I really have nowhere to go... Waaahhh..." Yan said, bursting into tears.

  The two soldiers who were holding down Yan originally started to wipe away tears, this was truly a helpless and isolated girl, they had just been preparing to execute her as a spy. This was really too much.

  Liu Feng ordered the special warfare team members to first bring Yan back to the village, get her something to eat and comfort her before doing anything else.

  As soon as Yan walked away, Liu Feng asked Chen Zhengde and Luo Changbing: "What do you think?"

  Chen Zhengwei said: "I don't think she's a spy, and we can also verify her words through the underground organization."

  Lu Changbing said: "The story is well-written, but I'm still certain she's either a Japanese puppet spy or a GMD spy. Do we have the energy to verify her words? Just shoot her, simplest."

  Liu Feng frowned and said, "We are the Eighth Route Army, not bandits! We can't just shoot someone because we suspect them, that's taking people's lives lightly. I suggest letting Yan stay in Hanzixiang for now, but don't let her know about the tunnel. Wait until we've verified what she says before making a decision."