Chess Player

1944, Nanjing. Zhou Puzhi has three identities. The person exposed is the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Wang Puppet, a traitor reviled by everyone in Nanjing. The second one is a military special agent, codenamed "Wutong", who sent 47 pieces of intelligence in three years. The third identity is only known to him. He is a communist. He died three years ago and became an unclaimed lone chess piece. That autumn, he was ordered to approach Japanese intelligence officer Masao Fujita and obtain a top-secret document called "Pufferfish Project" - a post-war lurking list. Whoever gets it will hold the future cards. He did it. Fujita died suddenly the next day, adding to the army's record of military exploits. But what he was waiting for was not an evacuation order, but a photo. In the photo, the upline player who died three years ago is sitting and playing chess with Fujita. A line of Japanese date on the back: 1941. Fujita knew him three years ago. Every drinking game and every game of chess in the past three years has been a test between the two hunters. Fujita lives to see who he will give the information to in the end. Zhou Puzhi burned the photos and watched the ashes float into the Nanjing night. Late that night, he took out the real "Pufferfish Plan" - what he sent out was a fake. The real one, hiding in loneliness and silence for three years, waiting for someone who may never come. Outside the door, his secretary stood there. The young man who had followed him for two years looked at him for the first time with a look that he couldn't understand. Zhou Puzhi didn't ask. He just handed over the papers. The two people disappeared into the night.