Republican-Era Spycraft: I Can Hear Animals' Thoughts

In 2023, programmer Lin Mo was struck by lightning and transmigrated to Shanghai in 1937, just before the Battle of Shanghai. He became a second lieutenant in the Military Statistics Bureau, sharing a name with the original owner of the body. Forced to inherit the man’s secret identity as an underground Communist Party member, he was ordered to infiltrate the bureau. Stranger still, he gained the ability to understand and absolutely control animals: rats became mobile listening devices, sparrows could survey the whole city, and cockroaches could sneak into any safe. Caught in a deadly spy war among the Japanese and their puppet regime, the Military Statistics Bureau, and the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, Lin Mo used his silent “animal army” to steal intelligence, eliminate traitors, and save his comrades. Yet the most dangerous enemies were often right beside him. He could control every animal, but not the human heart.