Before Dawn

July 1950, somewhere in Northeast China. On a sultry afternoon, Wu, the owner of the grocery store, was hit by a fugitive and found a letter inexplicably in his pocket. Wu Changfu knocked his cigarette pouch on the sole of his shoe and turned around to go to the Public Security Bureau. He didn't know that the letter was deliberately thrust into him. The person who bumped into him was pretending to be dead, the person chasing him was pretending to be chasing him, and the whole street was a chess game. What he didn't know was that from that day on, his shop selling needlework and groceries became the only living eye on the three-way intersection that could keep an eye on the station, school and research institute. He is not a hero, but the eyes of an ordinary citizen of New China cannot be avoided by enemy agents. There is an undercurrent surging throughout the city, and everyone is a soldier. He, a common man, suddenly turned a dead game into a dragnet. From then on, an ordinary person was involved in a carefully designed... The espionage puzzle. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.