Chapter 1840 - 1858: Emerging from the Mist (Part 10)
At first, Ji Changfeng indeed considered Jiang Nanfei an important chess piece, but as he interacted more, his mindset underwent a significant transformation. He saw the shadow of his mentor in Jiang Nanfei and believed that Jiang Nanfei could achieve the same accomplishments as his mentor once did.
Therefore, he was willing to let Jiang Nanfei be the leader.
"Alas!" The middle-aged woman let out a long sigh, "The Huo Family has sacrificed too much..." She actually understood the choices of the Huo Family very well.
The middle-aged woman’s words made Ji Changfeng’s expression become very unpleasant. His hand holding the glass didn’t move for a long time.
"In our line of work, we can never afford to be softhearted." After a long while, he finally summarized with this sentence.
No one in the Special Action Department is a goody-goody, let alone the current Special Action Department, where undercurrents are surging and everyone is on edge. If he can’t ferret out those lurking in the shadows, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"How is the person you’ve been watching doing?" Ji Changfeng came over specifically to hear the report.
"Today I was tailing Yin Nan, but unexpectedly discovered something." The middle-aged woman’s eyes were extremely bright, gleaming with excitement, "In a very inconspicuous spot in the Martyrs’ Cemetery, a tombstone of someone attracted many influential figures from both the military and political circles today."
"Very inconspicuous?" Ji Changfeng accurately grasped the key point. Because those famous and meritorious people buried in the Martyrs’ Cemetery are well known to them, and their burial spots are particular—they definitely would not be in an inconspicuous place.
Moreover, since their work in the Special Action Department is intelligence, if even they did not know about it, it truly was very inconspicuous.
"Do you know who came?" The middle-aged woman spoke with a tone of surprise. When she was following from a distance, she didn’t notice anything unusual. Mainly because there were people around Yin Nan, she didn’t dare to get too close.
When she arrived at the Martyrs’ Cemetery, there were even more people both in the open and hidden, so she had to follow from afar pretending to attend the funeral. That was when she saw the surprising scene.
Without waiting for Ji Changfeng to ask, the middle-aged woman volunteered the information, "Yin Nan met up with Su Hai, but besides the two of them, there were a few others, including Xie Yibin and Gong Liping."
"Xie Yibin also came? Met with Su Hai?" If he remembered correctly, back in the Northern Military District, Su Hai and Xie Yibin were sworn enemies, right?
To get two sworn enemies to show up at the same place, paying homage to the same person...who could this person be?
"What is the name on the tombstone?" Ji Changfeng asked eagerly, feeling like he had grasped onto something.
"Shen Zian." Although the middle-aged woman had been with the Special Action Department for quite some time, she had always worked in the field and wasn’t very familiar with many relationships in the Imperial City. The name Shen Zian sounded somewhat unfamiliar to her, as if she had heard it somewhere, but she couldn’t pinpoint it.
However, her instinct, honed from long-term fieldwork, told her that these three characters might be crucial, which is why she immediately came to report to her superiors.
Ji Changfeng was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized.
"It’s her, no wonder!" Only Shen Zian could make so many influential figures remember her after twenty years. "Shen Zian was indeed extraordinary, but she passed away twenty years ago."
Ji Changfeng briefly recounted Shen Zian’s past achievements, leaving the middle-aged woman in awe, contemplating what accomplishments this heroine might have achieved if she hadn’t died young.