Chapter 1414
Are the Dali Division full of spies? 38 moles are hiding right next to you!
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Li Daming leaned back in his chair, looking at Luo Fei with a faint smile in his eyes.
"Release them?"
He shook his head, his voice remaining calm.
"Luo Fei, it's not that you can't leave. But you have to prove one thing first."
"what's up?"
"Prove that you have no connection with Japan."
Li Daming spoke softly, but each word landed heavily in the interrogation room like a stone.
Luo Fei was silent for a moment, then smiled.
The smile was faint, carrying an inexplicable irony.
"Section Chief Li, your request is a bit unreasonable. The charge you've leveled against me is treason. According to the rules, you should be providing evidence to prove my guilt, not making me prove my innocence. Does your Dali Division not recognize the principle of presumption of innocence?"
Upon hearing this, Li Daming's expression remained unchanged. He simply looked at Luo Fei as if he were looking at an ignorant child, and then spoke in a tone that was both patient and authoritative.
"Luo Fei, what you're describing are the rules of ordinary law enforcement."
"Your Dali Si (Court of Justice) doesn't discuss this?"
Li Daming did not answer the question directly. Instead, he leaned forward slightly, looked into Luo Fei's eyes, and slowly spoke.
"Luo Fei, it seems you are not familiar with the rules of the Dali Division. Then I will explain them to you today."
His tone was steady, but every word carried a heavy weight.
"In the Dali Division, the rules are very simple. Every suspect who comes in must prove their innocence. That is to say, you have to produce evidence to prove that you are not guilty."
If you can't produce evidence of your innocence, then I'm sorry, we'll keep investigating, relentlessly, until you tell the truth. That's the rule of the Court of Judicial Review.
Luo Fei listened quietly without saying a word, but his gaze grew increasingly deep.
He must prove his innocence.
He certainly knew this rule. The reason the Dali Division was so feared was precisely because of this reversed logic. In ordinary cases, the prosecution bears the burden of proof; in the Dali Division, you bear the burden of proof yourself. If you can't prove your innocence, you'll remain imprisoned indefinitely.
Spending their whole lives here? To them, it's just another cell in jail.
Seeing that Luo Fei did not speak, Li Daming continued, speaking slowly and deliberately, as if he were telling a story.
"Luo Fei, I want to talk to you about a theory I have today. Listen to it and see if I'm right."
Luo Fei remained silent, simply looking at him with eyes that were calm to the point of being indifferent.
“More than a year ago, before you joined the auxiliary police force, you were down on your luck and couldn’t find a job or know how to survive. It was at that time that someone found you.”
Li Daming's tone was as if he were stating a fact that had already been established.
"The people who found you are spies from Japan. They have their eyes on you because you are young, physically fit, and intelligent, and you have no background or connections in China, making you a very suitable candidate to be turned."
"They controlled you, brainwashed you, and instilled in you a belief that you are loyal to Japan and serve Japan."
Then, they arranged for you to infiltrate the Xiahegou Police Station as an auxiliary police officer, planting you as a hidden pawn at the very bottom of the Chinese police system.
Li Daming opened the folder, looking through it as he spoke, his voice as steady as if he were reading an investigation report.
"From then on, you started to make contributions. Solving cases and catching criminals. You did a better job than others in every case, and you moved faster than others in every step. Soon, you were promoted. Wang Dali trusted you, Lei Wanting valued you, and pushed you all the way up."
From auxiliary police officer to a permanent staff member, to joining the National Security Bureau, to the Divine Bow Bureau, and finally, you became the leader of the Heavenly Secrets Group.
He raised his eyes and looked at Luo Fei.
"Do you know why you were able to rise so quickly? It's because those achievements weren't earned by your own efforts. It was the Japanese government pulling strings behind the scenes, giving you credit and making you achieve results."
The cases you solved and the people you arrested all had the shadow of Japan's intelligence system behind them. They used the lives and resources of their own people to pave the way for you.
The sole purpose is to help you climb higher, get into more core departments, and gain access to more confidential information.
Li Daming turned the page and continued.
"And that money, the five or six million you made from stock trading, wasn't some kind of 'talent.' It was a bribe that was transferred to you through the official stock trading system in Japan in a way that was difficult to trace."
Legal, clean, undetectable, but essentially it's the payment they give you.
Luo Fei leaned back in his chair, a half-smile playing on his lips, but he remained silent.
Li Daming didn't mind and continued speaking on his own.
"After you became the leader of the Heavenly Secrets Group, the Japanese felt that the time was ripe and they needed to use you as a pawn. So, what happened next came about."
"Last time you went to Dongguan to investigate the case of the old corpse in the deep mountains, you thought you were investigating a case, but actually you went to meet with Yamaya Masako. Yamaya Masako was the one who stayed there specifically to wait for you."
After you met, if I'm not mistaken about some details, she deliberately let you catch her. Bringing her into the Heavenly Secrets Group training center was like bringing a ticking time bomb inside.
"She had a tracking device on her, which you, as the head of the Sky Secrets Group, couldn't possibly not know. But you locked her up in the base, providing the Kamikaze Bureau with precise location information. Then, just before the attack, you conveniently left the base."
The rest is up to the Kamikaze Bureau to make their move.
Li Daming closed the folder, looked at Luo Fei, his gaze calm, but his tone carried a resolute strength.
"Tianyu Shencang massacred your training center, killing your brothers and subordinates. And you, Luo Fei, were involved in this charade from beginning to end. You are the mole within the Tianji Group, the deepest thorn in the side of Japan within China's national security system."
A brief silence fell over the interrogation room.
After hearing these words, Luo Fei's face showed none of the expression Li Daming had expected—no panic, no anger, no fear of being exposed.
He simply sat there, looking at Li Daming with an almost scrutinizing gaze, and then slowly spoke.
"Section Chief Li, you really know how to make up stories."
His voice was calm, but beneath that calmness lurked a chill that seemed to seep into his very bones.
Li Daming sat opposite Luo Fei, his expression remaining calm and composed, as if he had just spoken not about accusing someone of treason, but about something utterly ordinary. He looked at Luo Fei with the scrutiny characteristic of an interrogator, unhurried and patient, as if waiting for his prey to reveal a weakness.
Luo Fei didn't rush to speak.
He leaned back in the interrogation chair, his hands cuffed to the metal bar in front of him. He looked somewhat languid, but his eyes remained fixed on Li Daming's face, never looking away.
He was thinking about something.
From the moment he entered the interrogation room, he felt something was amiss. Although he handled Zhang Gangwei's interrogation with ease, that uneasy feeling lingered in his mind, like a thorn stuck in his flesh, impossible to pull out or ignore.
The questions Zhang Gangwei asked him sounded daunting, but they were all just pretexts. The issues concerning his auxiliary police officer status, the bathhouse, and his stock market profits were all procedural maneuvers, testing the limits of the law.
None of the evidence was truly conclusive proof enough to discredit him.
This is not normal.
What is the Dali Division? It's the most powerful and ruthless secret surveillance agency within the Great Xia Dynasty. If they wanted to investigate someone, they wouldn't just produce this little bit of information.
If they really had solid evidence, they would have already shown it to him; there would be no need for them to beat around the bush.
But they didn't.
What does this mean?
This shows that the Dali Si (the Court of Judicial Review) had no evidence to convict him.
If there's no evidence, why arrest him? Why interrogate him?
There's only one answer—they don't care whether there's evidence or not.
All they want is to keep him locked up here.
Luo Fei suddenly understood. The thing that had been bothering him was right here. Zhang Gangwei was ostensibly interrogating him, but in reality, he was just stalling for time.
They kept asking the same questions over and over, and when they couldn't get an answer, they would just switch to another one, as if they would never finish asking them.
This is not an interrogation, this is house arrest.
Having figured this out, Luo Fei was no longer in a hurry. What he needed to figure out now was something else—why was the Dali Division doing this? Who was behind it?
He stared at Li Daming without making a sound, secretly activating his genius eye.
In an instant, a series of information panels that only Luo Fei could see appeared above Li Daming's head.
The basic information section listed the name, age, and job title. Luo Fei quickly scanned it, and just as he was about to look at the more detailed branch information, his gaze suddenly stopped.
At the very top of Li Daming's basic information section, several large characters were prominently displayed—
"A spy from the Land of Cherry Blossoms."
Luo Fei's pupils contracted slightly.
He showed no signs of anything amiss, maintaining his relaxed posture as he leaned back in his chair, though the fingers gripping the armrests of the interrogation chair tightened slightly.
He continued reading.
The branching information from the Eye of the Genius unfolded like a scroll, presenting Li Daming's life trajectory one by one before his eyes.
Li Daming, whose real name is Watanabe Shota, was born 56 years ago in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Watanabe Ichiro, was a senior agent of the Intelligence and Research Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and his mother, Watanabe Keiko, was also an intelligence officer.
When Shota Watanabe was born, his parents were under orders to infiltrate the Great Xia territory as merchants, carrying out long-term intelligence gathering work.
Shota Watanabe was born on the land of Daxia. In order for him to better integrate into Daxia society and complete his future undercover mission, his parents made a cruel and cold decision shortly after his birth—to abandon him.
One late night, Ichiro Watanabe placed the infant Shota Watanabe at the gate of an orphanage in a city in northern China. The orphanage was called "Red Star Welfare Home," which specifically took in abandoned infants and toddlers.
The autumn night was cold, and the child's cries quickly attracted the staff of the orphanage. They took the child inside, registered him, and gave him a modern name—Li Daming.
That was more than forty years ago.
Li Daming grew up in an orphanage, completely unaware of his origins. He was intelligent, diligent, and consistently ranked among the top students in the orphanage.
Later, through his own efforts, he was admitted to university and, after graduation, entered the system through the civil service examination.
Initially, his career path was not smooth. Without connections or powerful backers, he remained at the grassroots level for several years with no hope of promotion. Just when he felt lost about his future, a woman named Lin Wei entered his life.
Lin Wei was two years older than him and worked for a state-owned enterprise. She was gentle, considerate, and caring towards him. The two quickly established a romantic relationship and later got married. After marriage, Lin Wei began to slowly and subtly instill certain ideas in him.
She told him that his talents should not be overlooked, and that he deserved a higher position and greater power. She also told him that she knew some people who could help him.
He met those people later. Some were businessmen, some were scholars, and some were government officials.
These people appear to have no connection, but they all share a common identity—orphans of the Japanese nation or spies recruited by the Japanese nation.
Under the influence of Lin Wei and these people, Li Daming eventually embarked on that path. He accepted resources and assistance from the intelligence department of Japan, and the spies lurking throughout the officialdom of Great Xia began to work secretly to pave the way for him.
His career took off from there, rising rapidly from the grassroots level to eventually enter the Dali Division and become the head of the interrogation section of the counter-espionage department.
In the files of the Japanese intelligence system, his name is Watanabe Shota.
Luo Fei's gaze continued to sweep downwards, and more information popped up on the Genius Eye's information panel. It was a statistic listing the number of spies within the Great Xia system who had been recruited or planted by the Sakura Kingdom.
The numbers kept jumping, from hundreds to a thousand, from a thousand to two thousand, and finally settled on a shocking number—three thousand eight hundred and twenty-one people.
Three thousand eight hundred and twenty-one Japanese spies are infiltrating the officialdom, state-owned enterprises, military, public security system, and even the national security system of Great Xia. Some of these people hold high positions, some possess core secrets, and some control key posts.
Like termites, they are slowly eroding the foundation of the Great Xia from within.
Luo Fei stared at the number, his face ashen.
He finally understood something.
Why did the Dali Division arrest him? Why detain him here? It wasn't because they had evidence of his treason, but because the Dali Division itself had been infiltrated by spies from Japan. Li Daming was a Japanese citizen; as the head of the interrogation department, he could interrogate or detain whomever he wanted with a mere word.
They want to lock him up not because he is guilty, but because he is in their way.
"Luo Fei."
Li Daming's voice interrupted Luo Fei's thoughts. (End of Chapter)