Chapter 792: I am a Spy

Ning Ge smiled, and Qi Taiguo’s face darkened. His aura grew colder as he gradually tightened his grip on Ning Ge’s collar.

"Cough cough, don’t get excited, I didn’t say anything." Ning Ge patted his hand and said, "Let go first, I’m running out of breath here."

With a grunt, Qi Taiguo loosened his grip, and Ning Ge gained his freedom.

"That last mission, with the highway bandit, was it you who tipped me off?" Qi Taiguo looked at him and asked.

"Yes!"

Qi Taiguo’s breathing tightened slightly.

"Were you the one who killed Master Wei?"

"No!"

Qi Taiguo’s breathing relaxed again. He looked at Ning Ge and asked, "Do you know about Master Wei? Do you know what I have? How could you... "

"I’m a spy!"

Ning Ge’s light remark pierced into Qi Taiguo’s ears, and he stared at him, dumbfounded.

Ning Ge walked over to the balcony railing, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and offered one to Qi Taiguo first.

Qi Taiguo accepted it woodenly, not bothering to light it, just holding it. Ning Ge didn’t mind, he took one out for himself, put it into his mouth, struck a match to light it, then shook off the match flame and watched it extinguish before flicking the matchstick into the garden.

Like Qi Taiguo did earlier, he placed both hands on the railing, gazing at the flickering distant lights while taking drags from his cigarette.

"As far back as three or four years ago, when I was still studying abroad in the United Kingdom, I joined the Special Service Organization. I studied abroad, and whenever I received a mission, I carried it out," Ning Ge said casually. "Usually, when there’s no mission, we’re just ordinary people, like me, an unworthy scion of a prestigious family. We have many such people: some are chefs, some are students, some are timid and scared little girls. But once on a mission, we become completely different people, ready to put life and death aside, determined to make sacrifices for the country as spies."

Qi Taiguo was silent.

"That mission involving Master Wei, it was our intelligence organization that discovered his collusion with the military. To get that list, I got involved with a girl from his village. Ah, not really involved—I didn’t defile her—I just dated her, as a cover, to successfully get into Master Wei’s home," Ning Ge explained. "Unexpectedly, the man had some brains. He hid the list and ledger with one of his mistresses, and he hid another list in his boots, which you found. He was very suspicious!"

Qi Taiguo rolled his eyes and said, "Then why did you tip me off? Shouldn’t this have been kept secret?"

"Anyway, the man was bound to be caught. It doesn’t matter who catches him. I gave you a chance to earn military merits; it’s my way of not letting our acquaintance go to waste," Ning Ge shrugged.

"So what, I should be grateful to you?" Qi Taiguo sneered. "What I got was Master Wei’s corpse."

"I really didn’t kill him, what would I kill him for?" Ning Ge scoffed sharply, his gaze growing keen as he said, "I think, once the affair blew up, he became a disposable piece, just like that Zhang guy, all disposable pieces."

Qi Taiguo was startled. "Are you saying there’s someone else behind them?"

"Nine times out of ten. But such incidents that damage the military’s image are only covered up. You better not get involved, just honestly be your soldier," Ning Ge’s tone carried a hint of warning towards the end.

Qi Taiguo understood his meaning; the dirtier the conspiracy, the more he knew, the more he’d be restrained. Everyone has their duties, and his was to follow orders from above—wherever he’s needed, he goes!