From the moment he raised his fist and swore an oath in front of the Party flag, he secretly resolved to dedicate everything he had to the Party, to the revolution.

Engaging in underground work—he would not report it to his parents above, nor to his wife and children below.

Without the organization’s permission, matters concerning underground intelligence work must be taken to the grave, never to be spoken of, even in death.

“It wasn’t much trouble.” Andrew Carter smiled. He had no idea of David Bolton’s true identity.

After all, he was trained at the police academy; if he couldn’t even handle this, he might as well go back and start over.

“You followed him and weren’t discovered?” William Thompson adjusted his glasses, glanced at Andrew Carter, and asked casually.

William Thompson didn’t think too deeply about it either. David Bolton used an alias to help Andrew Carter, didn’t really charge interest—maybe because he pitied Andrew Carter, or perhaps he didn’t want Andrew Carter to feel too burdened.

“No, but there was something odd. Since David Bolton is the owner of the Guangfa Hotel, why, when returning from Wang’s Clinic, didn’t he get off directly at the hotel, but instead got off early?” Andrew Carter said with a puzzled look.

When David Bolton left Wang’s Clinic, he didn’t hail a car right away, which could be explained by there being no cars nearby at the time.

But on the way back, it was already close to ten o’clock. Not riding all the way to the Guangfa Hotel was really strange.

You know, from the entrance of Ren’an Lane on Kangbo South Road to the Guangfa Hotel, it’s still about a hundred meters.

“Got off early? Tell me exactly what happened at the time.” William Thompson hadn’t paid much attention to David Bolton before, but upon hearing Andrew Carter’s account, he suddenly felt a jolt in his heart.

The more Andrew Carter described, the more suspicious William Thompson became of David Bolton.

At first, he thought David Bolton was just using an alias to interact with Andrew Carter so as not to reveal his identity.

But now, it seemed things were far from that simple!

“Teacher Li, is there something wrong with David Bolton?” Seeing William Thompson so serious, Andrew Carter felt extremely uneasy.

“Whether there’s something wrong with David Bolton, we can’t say for now. But you must stay alert—this person is getting close to you with ulterior motives.” William Thompson said slowly.

Before the truth was clear, he couldn’t jump to conclusions.

At this moment, William Thompson still hadn’t confirmed David Bolton’s identity.

He just felt that David Bolton lending money to Andrew Carter was probably not so simple.

Of course, David Bolton wouldn’t approach Andrew Carter for no reason. As a Military Statistics Bureau agent, David Bolton had been scheming to get close to Andrew Carter for one purpose: to recruit Andrew Carter for the Bureau.

Andrew Carter was an ideal candidate—his parents were gone, he wasn’t married, and had no family burdens.

He had just started working, and had participated in several resistance movements as a student, showing his patriotism.

Moreover, Andrew Carter had received police training and already mastered basic espionage skills.

Andrew Carter had excellent grades in all subjects at the Haigu Police Academy, including marksmanship and hand-to-hand combat.

Any intelligence agency looking to recruit from the police department would think of Andrew Carter first.

It was clear that David Bolton had his eye on Andrew Carter back when he was still at the Haigu Police Academy—he had planned this all along.

“I’ll be careful,” Andrew Carter said solemnly. When something is out of the ordinary, there must be a reason; when a person acts out of the ordinary, there’s danger.

“There’s one more thing—a leader from the Northern Bureau’s Liaison Office will be coming to the British Concession soon,” William Thompson said thoughtfully.

“What’s my task?” Andrew Carter asked excitedly.

He was like a warrior eager for battle, and upon hearing the call to charge, his blood began to boil.

Chapter Three: Sigh

Andrew Carter’s expression made William Thompson very gratified. As a Party member, he could well understand this longing when hearing there was a mission.

And Andrew Carter’s earlier observations about David Bolton—it was precisely because he was so meticulous that William Thompson became so wary of David Bolton.

Andrew Carter’s powers of observation made William Thompson very satisfied.

In the second half of last year, the Northern Party organization suffered unprecedented destruction.

The Secretary-General of the Central Committee’s Northern Representative, the Secretary of the Hebei Provincial Committee and all standing committee members, the Provincial Military Commission, the Provincial Mutual Aid Association, the Provincial Anti-Imperialist Alliance, the Beiping and Haigu Municipal Committees, the Baoding Special Committee, the Ding County Central County Committee, and dozens of cadres were arrested.

At the same time, the Haigu student anti-Japanese salvation movement was also suppressed by the Kuomintang authorities.

The entire city of Haigu was shrouded in white terror.

The number of Party members in the province dropped from three thousand to less than five hundred.

The Haigu Party branch also shrank from nineteen to ten, and currently, there are fewer than fifty members who can be contacted.

The revolution in Haigu was at a low ebb.

The situation was extremely grim, but the Party’s work never stopped.

Just a few days ago, the Central Committee sent a representative to preside over the work of the Northern Bureau and lead the Northern Party to continue the revolution.

The Northern Bureau oversaw work in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, the Northeast, Suiyuan, and other areas.

The Northern Bureau’s Liaison Office, which is currently the Party’s Special Branch, sent Comrade Samuel Parker to directly lead the Special Branch comrades.

“Your task is to find a suitable place to stay—it must be absolutely safe,” William Thompson instructed.