Espionage: Using AI to Take Shanghai by Storm

Huo Ziliang was a low-ranking employee of an intelligence agency in Republican-era China. After his own superiors schemed against and betrayed him, he was forced to infiltrate Unit 76, a Wang Jingwei collaborationist spy headquarters. From then on, he navigated between various intelligence networks and Shanghai’s local gangs, struggling to survive in the gaps between rival powers. Armed with his own golden finger, he established himself and thrived in wartime Shanghai, a city rocked by upheaval. Facing threats, bribes, and relentless tests from Japanese and collaborationist agents, he relied on his position and exceptional wits to help resistance fighters in many regions carry out one dangerous mission after another behind enemy lines. Huo Ziliang is an ordinary man with plenty of petty vices. He loves money and is timid by nature, but when the fate of the nation is at stake, he always holds to his principles and stays true to his original purpose. The story begins when his superiors abandon him, forcing him to embark on a life undercover…