NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 37



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His name is King-2

Here is Lucy Aldrich, daughter of United States Senator Nelson Walmis Aldrich.

Although her father had long since passed away, her third brother was a congressman from the United States House of Representatives, and her youngest brother was a retired naval officer and businessman.

Her second sister was the daughter-in-law of oil magnate John Davison Rockefeller, the richest man in human history.

“Grandma, close your eyes when I say nice things to you.”

“······.”

Of course, such a dazzling reputation did not immediately block the gun muzzle in front of his eyes.

The ignorant thieves in front of her now had no idea how great a person she was.

‘Ha… how did things turn out like this?’

Lucy sighed quietly.

Apparently, she was on her way to Nanjing to tour China and buy souvenirs to give to her younger siblings.

But then a group of thieves suddenly appeared along the way, stopped the train, and took over the train.

If they were ordinary train robbers, they would have just taken some money and left, but these were no ordinary train robbers. They went beyond taking money and threatened the passengers with fierce expressions.

“Ah! I know you’re all surprised by the sudden turn of events, but if you just follow our instructions, there won’t be any problems.”

A group of bandits, numbering at least several hundred, took the Chinese and foreigners on the train and took them to their den.

Meanwhile, some thieves were harassing pretty women and stealing their belongings.

“Wow… After all, words are like a white horse?”

“Arthur. Haven’t you heard that the captain said that anyone who touches the hostages will have their hand cut off?”

“I’m sorry… I’m saying this because I feel sorry. Because I feel sorry!”

Lucy and other foreigners had to spend days trembling in fear.

The situation continued to be such that they did not know whether someone was coming to save them or whether the government had abandoned them.

Lucy, who knew some Chinese, heard some of the situation outside from the conversations of the bandits who were watching the hostages.

“There were soldiers swarming outside. I thought they were a bunch of cockroaches.”

“I heard that they sent elite troops from Beijing?”

“Hey… Why are you guys from Beijing?”

“I don’t know, I think there’s an important hostage here.”

“Somehow the captain and the executives were cheerful all day long… Was there a reason for it all?”

There are two things she can know here.

The fact that the Chinese government had sent troops to rescue the hostages and that the outside world knew that he was trapped here.

‘Anyone is fine, hurry up and do it···.’

But knowing that didn’t make any difference.

Her life as a hostage, where basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter were not properly taken care of, was difficult, and her body, which was approaching sixty this year, was in pain here and there.

“Madam Aldrich, are you okay?”

“Vanya···.”

Lucy was able to endure this difficult hostage situation thanks entirely to Vanya’s help.

A few years ago, I met a Russian girl in a rural town in America who had lost her parents in the ravages of war.

Lucy felt sorry for the girl who had been swindled and had nowhere to go after her family was killed fighting communists and barely made it to the United States with what little money she had left. She brought her to the United States and took care of her like a daughter.

Of course, due to her family’s opposition, she could not be adopted and registered in the family register, but Lucy still thought of Vanya as her daughter, and Vanya also thought of Lucy as a parent.

“Baby… Are you okay?”

“I’m strong.”

“That’s fortunate.”

Lucy held Vanya, who was looking at her with concern, in her arms and stroked her head.

“Everything will be okay now that the military is here.”

“I wish that were true.”

“Once this is all over, let’s go back to America right away… I think it would be best to go back and live quietly for a while.”

“When I get back, I’ll make you some pumpkin pie, Madam’s favorite.”

“I’m really looking forward to that.”

Lucy and the hostages endured the difficult days with the belief that the military would rescue them.

But even after quite some time had passed, the army that had come to rescue the hostages was nowhere to be seen.

Rather than being terrified by the thought of being surrounded, the thieves were relaxed as usual.

“Madam… When is the army coming?”

“I don’t know much about that either···.”

“I guess you’re going to come···?”

“of course!”

Lucy spoke confidently, but she was also afraid.

As his indefinite hostage life continued, he was unable to sleep at night, worried about whether he would ever be rescued, whether the bandits would turn and kill him, or whether they would even touch Vanya.

Time passed by again without warning.

The other hostages, including Lucy, were all trapped in the cave, so they had no idea how much time had passed, but they could only guess at the amount of time it had been since the bandits watching them changed several times.

“What day is it today···?”

“I think about two weeks have passed.”

“Time has already passed so quickly···.”

I couldn’t tell how much time had passed, but it seemed like quite a while had passed.

During this time, Lucy’s health suffered greatly.

The food was not good, and the cave they were trapped in was full of moisture, making it not a good place for the elderly to stay.

Vanya, who could not stand to see Lucy suffering from illness, asked the bandits who were watching them.

“Look here. There’s a patient here. Shouldn’t you at least give them some medicine or something? If we die like this, you won’t get any money either.”

Vanya tried to speak to the bandits in the sophisticated English he had learned from Lucy, but unfortunately the bandits who had captured them were too illiterate to understand such sophisticated English.

“What is he saying now?”

“How would I understand?”

“Are you asking for rice?”

“Well, it’s almost mealtime.”

As they could not communicate with each other, the hostages’ situation became worse with each passing day.

Lucy, in particular, was struggling as if she would stop breathing at any moment.

“Call a doctor right now!”

“What did you say this time?”

“Um… I guess something went wrong?”

“What is it this time?”

“I see that the lady over there seems to be a little sick.”

“What? There’s trouble.”

The bandits were shocked by the sight of the hostage, who seemed ready to stop breathing at any moment, and brought a doctor the next day.

“There’s an American over there who’s sick. We’d better get him out of there quickly.”

“You have to know what the disease is to cure it.”

“I don’t know about that, but if that lady dies today, you’ll be left here as a corpse too.”

“······.”

The doctor’s face turned pale at the thieves’ brutal threats, and soon his hands began to tremble.

The thieves, seeing the very nervous doctor, laughed at him for being scared.

“Hahaha! The doctor’s face has turned really pale!”

“I wonder if we scared you too much~?”

“Hey hey! Stop it! If you keep doing this, you’re going to pee your pants! Hehehehe.”

“Alright. Let’s all leave now. I won’t bother you if I stay here.”

“What about surveillance?”

“What difference does it make whether you watch from here or from outside? What can a doctor do on his own?”

“That’s true too.”

“Let’s go out and have a drink or two with the doctor.”

“Cheers~”

The thieves headed out, laughing and smiling.

As the laughter of the chattering thieves grew distant, the doctor’s trembling body gradually regained stability.

And then when their voices became completely inaudible…

“Hello, hostages.”

“?”

The doctor spoke to the hostages with great skill in foreign languages.

******

It wasn’t difficult to find the thieves’ hideout.

All we had to do was follow the troops sent by the Beijing government.

Although it was good enough to find their hideout, there was no proper way to actually get there.

In public institutions such as police stations or military bases, it would have been easy to just find out some inside information and infiltrate them, but because of the mountain village’s unique closed nature, it was quite difficult to obtain information.

Moreover, since thieves tend to live in cramped spaces and are familiar with each other, it is not appropriate to simply steal clothes and sneak in.

‘Wow… This is the first time in my life that I’ve ever hidden among a group of thieves.’

I’ve been observing the currents for a few days and trying to think of a way to sneak in, but nothing came to mind.

The only silver lining was that the incompetent Beiyang government, under pressure from Western powers, was unable to even think of suppressing the rebels by force, and was wasting time negotiating with the bandits.

The reason they had no choice was because China had not yet recovered from the damage to its image caused by the Boxer Rebellion.

That is why the Western powers were putting enormous pressure on the Beiyang government, fearing that their own people might die due to its wrong judgment.

Thanks to that, I was able to take some time to think and look at the situation.

‘Wow… things are more complicated than I thought.’

If we just barged in, we were worried about the safety of the hostages, but if we tried to sneak in, there was a high chance of getting caught.

And even if they managed to infiltrate without any problems, the problem was getting the hostages out safely.

‘It’s not that hard to go in and come out quietly by myself if I give myself some time… The problem is getting a hundred hostages out safely.’

The number of bandits currently in the mountain fortress is said to be around one thousand five hundred, according to official reports.

Of course, I don’t know if that’s true, but judging by the number of cooking smoke that comes up every time we eat, it seems like there must be three-digit numbers of people there.

‘Infiltrate the hideout and rescue the hostages trapped there without a single injury.’

The mission difficulty was really fucking hard.

It goes without saying that the bandits will not sit idly by and watch the hostages being released.

No one likes to see the money that would fill their pockets disappear.

‘Then, it would be easier to kill them all or at least render them immobile before moving on…’

It is impossible for me to kill them all by myself in a short period of time.

So it seemed like it would be a good idea to at least make them immobile.

‘To make it so that the thieves can’t move… I guess something like alcohol, medicine, or food would be good.’

Alcohol was readily available in this area, and a fair amount of opium, a favorite of thieves, was brought in from Shanghai.

‘We’ll just distract the guys who are watching the hostages… and then set fire to the warehouse inside the mountain fortress… No, should we set a bomb there? A bomb would be more noticeable than a fire.’

Oh, and I brought some bombs too.

I’m just trying to use it in case something goes wrong.

But after preparing like this, the most important problem remained.

“How do I get inside?”

No matter how pretty a bell you make for a cat’s neck and how nice it makes a sound, it’s all for naught if it doesn’t reach the cat’s neck.

At that moment, when my plan was about to go awry.

The Beiyang government army, which knew nothing but to stay put, extended a helping hand to me.

[Doctor urgently needed.]

-Seeking a royal physician to treat foreigners captured by bandits.

“oh.”

Most of the doctors seen in China at this time were doctors who specialized in Oriental medicine.

Since those who had studied Western medicine were located in ports or big cities like Beijing, it was harder to find them in rural areas like this than to pick stars from the night sky.

But among them, there were fewer doctors who could confidently walk into a thief’s hideout.

So, if you could just fool the Beiyang government troops, infiltrating the mountains was not a problem.

“I’m an internist.”

“yes.”

“Where did you learn to be a doctor?”

“I studied at Tokyo Imperial University.”

“Imperial University! It’s a great place. It’s very good.”

“······?”

That was the end of the investigation.

The officers didn’t ask me for any documents or certificates.

They didn’t even ask for a member’s license.

“It’s going to be dangerous from here on out. But if you just listen to what they say, you’ll be fine.”

Then he made me walk up the mountain alone without any escort.

“······Really.”

I was speechless at their unique way of doing things.

And now.

I was checking my watch.

Before Kim Gu left, he gave me his watch, so I quickly took it.

Did you say the price of the cod leg?

There were some scratches and dents here and there, but the watch itself was still in good condition.

“Stop, what are you?”

As I climbed up the mountain a little, I was greeted by fierce-looking bandits who were clearly thieves, pointing their guns at me.

“Uh… Are you a doctor?”

“Doctor? A doctor who cures people?”

“Yes, because there is a patient here···.”

“Did the captain call you?”

“Why are you looking at me?”

“I’ll ask inside and come back, so wait a moment.”

“yes···.”

As I was looking around, pretending to be slightly frightened, the bandit who had been smoking opium while standing still spoke to me with his eyes half-open.

“Where did you come from, sir?”

“Is that you?”

“Is there another doctor here? I don’t see him because I didn’t take enough medicine.”

“······I came from Shanghai.”

“Oh… Shanghai! I’ve been thinking about going there to play sometime. I heard it’s such a nice place to live.”

“Oh, yeah… I guess it’s okay.”

I nodded in agreement as the thief continued to babble incomprehensibly, then looked around for a place to plant a bomb.

‘Is that a weapons warehouse or something? Judging from the amount of people coming and going over there, it seems like a dormitory… Is that a restaurant?’

As I was looking around the mountain village for a while, the guy who had gone in earlier came back with a huge bruise on his eye.

“When you go inside, turn right at the restaurant and go straight. You will find the cave where the hostages are.”

“yes?”

“Get out of here quickly.”

“Hahaha, did I get it right?”

“Don’t worry about it.”

Now I was wandering around the mountains without any guards.

‘Don’t these kids know the concept of security?’

The Chinese were a people who knew but did not know.