War of Faith (追风者)

Hello.

Hello.

I'd like to check out on the stuff I placed here.

Sure.

Okay. Just a moment.

Please show me your key.

I'll be right back.

This is your safe deposit box.

Hello.

Morning.

Put this announcement

on the fourth page of The Crystal.

Thank you.

Secretary Huang, there you are.

Water.

I'll get you some hot water.

Wei Ruolai.

How come you're so clumsy?

Something happened at home? You seem distraught.

No. I just haven't got a good rest lately.

Make yourself a strong cup of coffee.

You'd better not inconvenience Mr. Shen.

I won't. I won't.

Come here!

These official letters have been signed by Mr. Shen.

Mail them out now.

Okay.

Come back here!

Hold on.

Send this too.

But this...

It's also real business.

Just go.

The postman is leaving soon.

Okay.

Mr. Wei.

The Department of National Treasury seems quite good.

I'm not going there.

I'll be working in the Department of Government Ethics.

The Department of Government Ethics?

So I can supervise you!

Mr. Wang, I beg for your mercy!

Wang Shanbin!

What's up, Secretary Huang?

Instead of staying downstairs,

what are you doing here?

W-We are...

We're lost!

What kind of gibberish is that?

There's a telegraph lesson in the afternoon.

Go back to where you should be!

Yes, Secretary Huang.

"What kind of gibberish is that?"

Hoity-toity!

He's just a secretary,

but he sure acts like he's the boss, right?

What's to feel smug about?

"There's a telegraph class in the afternoon."

Mr. Mailman! Mr. Mailman!

Sir! Mr. Mailman!

Here you are.

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr. Xu.

Miss Shen.

Is the customized outfit I ordered last time done yet?

It's quite windy in Shanghai lately.

I need it soon.

Okay.

Inside the chamber, please.

Please.

Shen Jinzhen!

Do you still take yourself as a party member or not?

Does discipline mean nothing to you?

Mr. Xu...

We aren't supposed to meet today.

You shouldn't have come here.

Mr. Xu,

please don't be mad. Just chill out.

Anger is bad for health.

There's a risk of blowing our covers and losing our lives.

Worse still, the communication center might be exposed.

Can you bear the consequences of that?

You have no idea what you're doing!

Take a look at this, will you?

It's my brother's work schedule in the Central Bank.

I don't know much about it.

Please hand it over to the superiors,

and have it analyzed by professionals.

I'll have it delivered to Jiangxi right away.

By the way,

I'd like to ask you for one more favor.

Please pawn the gold bars and jewelry.

They'll bring in several thousand silver dollars.

I know

it's far from enough,

but now I don't have much cash on me,

and I can't sell the stocks and real estate I'm holding

in case my brother gets suspicious about me.

I know you're eager to save lives,

but you shouldn't make an unwise choice.

Those crazy garrison command officers

have been scouting around in these days.

Just now, when you were reading The Crystal downstairs,

did you find anything about the Lonely Star?

No.

The organization is looking for him through all kinds of approaches.

It's like he has vanished into thin air.

I'm afraid his life is in danger.

Give me two more days.

I'll try to find where the Lonely Star is.

You're not at liberty to do so.

The organization not only worries about the Lonely Star's safety,

but also concerns if the gold bars he has

will fall into the clutches of the enemy.

Besides

saving the captured comrades,

we need to make an effort to introduce new funding to the nearly paralyzed

transportation lines linking the central office to the soviet regions.

Otherwise, the transfer of personnel, material resources

and intelligence from the former to the latter

will be interrupted.

How about this?

I'll talk to Lin Qiaosong again.

No.

We can't just sit back and do nothing, can we?

Don't worry.

I have experience in dealing with people like him.

C-Captain Lin,

t-t-there's some water for you.

Did you catch him?

Go away!

Sir.

Still no news about him?

We're canvassing the shantytowns nearby.

It's a large area.

To be honest,

I'm not having high hopes for it.

Well,

he came all the way from Jiangxi.

He must be very good,

or he would've failed on the halfway.

It's fine if you can't find him.

It's a common practice among the communists

for the agents who can't get in touch with their handlers

to initiate emergency action to contact each other

by putting announcements on newspapers.

Split our people into two teams,

and have them check every newspaper publishing house in Shanghai.

I need them to make a copy of each announcement

that has been paid to be published.

Okay.

Where do you think he is hiding?

I think he's still in Shanghai.

He hasn't left yet.

And then?

Then...

Then...

By the way, Captain Lin,

well...

There's something I didn't tell you last time.

When he dropped by last time

and drove me out of the room,

I felt like

there's something he wanted in my place.

After I returned, I checked around.

I found some books missing,

including the Classical Chinese Prose Anthology,

and the Collection of Zhuangzi's Works with Annotations.

Would you say

this is a helpful lead?

The first communist I caught on my own

was a classmate of mine in the Huangpu Military Academy.

I shared a dorm room with him.

Before I tortured him,

I treated him to a meal.

At that time, I felt a bit guilty,

and my heart ached.

Do you know what he said to me?

He said the deaths of some people

were as awe-inspiring as a majestic mountain,

but some

were as meaningless as a light feather.

He said he'd sacrifice his life for the great cause

of saving the country without regrets.

I was shocked.

I meant to shoot him dead.

But hearing what he said,

I had a change of mind.

I had him flayed

when he was alive.

He screamed in agony.

He howled for a long time before he died.

Such a long time.

As he went into his death throes,

I said one last sentence to him.

That is, the real savior of the country

should be the Three Principles of the People,

instead of those