Fujita Yoshimasa saw that Wang Yue was interested in the shipyard, and he grew curious too. But then he remembered that Wang Yue's shipyard was in Shanghai. Even if it built ships in the future, they would still be unable to escape Japanese surveillance, so he decided not to dwell on it for the time being.
When Wang Manchun realized that she had really been given a water-transport assignment by Fujita Yoshimasa, she felt pleased that she was useful. At the same time, however, she found herself stretched thin.
Wang Manchun had to personally oversee the cargo-delivery job she had just received. Transporting goods involved both risks and opportunities, after all. If anything went wrong, she might be made the scapegoat and taken down.
But she also had to keep an eye on Number 76. Otherwise, if she failed to obtain useful intelligence, she would still be blamed for doing a poor job. It would also affect her ability to use Number 76's people to escort her cargo.
So Wang Manchun was caught in a dilemma, unsure what to do.
Sometimes, the more you worried about something going wrong, the more likely it was to happen. And in this case, it was all part of Wang Yue's plan!
On the very day Wang Manchun led her people to Nanjing to deliver the goods, something utterly shocking happened at Number 76.
Overnight, every prisoner held at Number 76 escaped, and all of Number 76's staff had fallen unconscious—including Liang Zhongchun, head of the Operations Division.
In truth, Wang Yue had done it on purpose. He meant to drive Wang Manchun, who had lost her usefulness, into a corner until she had no choice but to defect, and then stop doing evil.
That was why getting Wang Manchun out of Number 76