Chapter 306: Kill Akado

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In a dim room, a man in the uniform of a German SS officer sat in front of three men, his gaze somewhat cold as he stared at them. Judging f

In a dim room, a man in the uniform of a German SS officer sat in front of three men, his gaze somewhat cold as he stared at them. Judging from his epaulets, his rank was not low.

“Can you really take him out?” the officer asked, looking at the leader of the British intelligence agents, Ghost. “I must tell you, as the most important person in Germany, his security is the most rigorous.”

Ghost leaned back in his chair, playing with a sharp military knife in his hand. He narrowed his eyes and said, “That’s why we’re taking the risk to cooperate with you, Lieutenant Colonel! If it were such an easy thing to do, then you or we would have already done it, wouldn’t we? The reason we are sitting here discussing this cooperation is because we cannot complete this assassination mission alone.”

“I can provide convenience, but there is not much time to get close to Akado. Comparatively speaking, his car is the only opportunity for you to make a move,” the officer said, taking a drag from his cigarette. “I am in charge of managing the Führer’s Residence’s reserve underground garage, but my management scope is only limited to the outer perimeter. This is the closest we can get to him.”

He pointed to a map and introduced, “Here, it’s only separated from the Führer’s garage by a single wall. I will have you replace a batch of cleaners, go in disguise, and break through this wall, and then enter the Führer’s underground garage.”

“It’s not the Führer himself who comes to get the car, and we can’t attack him in the garage,” the Six of Hearts said, looking at the structural diagram and pointing to the garage’s location. “And there are three soldiers guarding this place. If we break through the wall, they will sound the alarm.”

The officer gave a cold laugh, pointed to a fixed position, and said, “There is a ventilation opening here, which was reserved at the time. If you only work on this place, the noise will be much smaller, and the speed will definitely be fast enough.”

He used his finger to draw a small circle in another place. “Moreover, there is a load-bearing pillar here, which can block the line of sight of the three duty soldiers. You can enter this underground garage without anyone knowing.”

“And then what? We don’t have any effective means to utilize this garage. Akado won’t appear here. If we start a gunfight here, then he will have plenty of time to escape,” the Six of Hearts asked with a frown.

“This is where the importance of the new secret weapon I have brought comes in,” Ghost said with a smile, placing a small box on the table. He pointed to the thing with a smile. “Our plan this time is very detailed. This sinner who started the war is doomed!”

“What is this?” Paul asked Ghost with a puzzled look.

Ghost opened the small box, revealing the yellow, pen-like long brass tubes inside. He then picked one up with a proud smile and said, “This is our newly developed No. 11 pencil timer, used to control the explosion of bombs at the time we want.”

He smiled and introduced, “This No. 11 pencil timer was improved by our intelligence department based on a similar Polish weapon. It is composed of three parts. One end of the sealed upper outer tube is a copper tube, in which there is a small glass vial containing a green copper chloride solution. The lower outer tube connected to this is a section of brass tube, which contains a firing pin, a spring, and a primer. The entire device is a precision timing detonation device.”

“It’s so small… is this thing really so good?” the Six of Hearts asked, picking up a pencil timer and looking at it from left to right.

“Of course, it’s very good! It has been tested many times,” Ghost said proudly. “It uses a chemical reaction, which is very convenient. When the iron wire inside is soaked in the copper chloride solution, a simple displacement reaction will occur. The copper ions in the solution will be displaced by the more active iron ions, and the resulting elemental copper will be deposited on the surface of the iron wire, while the iron and chloride ions will form ferrous chloride, which will dissolve in the water. As the reaction continues, the iron wire will gradually become thinner until it can no longer withstand the force of the spring and finally breaks. At that time, it will detonate the bomb with a ‘bang’!”

“Then how do you use this thing?” Paul also picked one up and asked, looking it up and down.

Ghost took out a small pair of pliers from under the box of No. 11 pencil timers, shook it, and said, “Very simple. To make the pencil timer enter the armed state, just use pliers or other tools to flatten or knock flat the upper outer tube, or use external force to bend the corresponding part.”

He pointed to the part of the upper outer tube and continued to introduce, “As long as you ensure that the small glass vial inside is broken and the iron wire is soaked in the flowing copper chloride solution, you have completed the time setting work. After you’ve done that, if you can pull out this safety pin without much resistance, then the pencil timer will start to work, and after a period of delay, it will cause an explosion. Of course, if after you’ve set it, you find that the safety device cannot be easily removed, it means that the iron wire has already broken, and the released firing pin is tightly pressing against the safety pin under the action of the spring, and the pencil timer has failed. To make it easier to check the state of the firing pin, the designer of this device also left an inspection hole on the outer casing near the position of the safety pin.”

“Then we can now have a good chat about the distribution of power after Akado Rudolph’s death,” the SS officer said, his eyes narrowed fiercely. “The Junker aristocrats have been oppressed by him for long enough, and this time, our cooperation with you has also been the most extensive in all aspects, so we must take back the power that belongs to us!”

“According to the prior agreement, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, whom you support, will re-ascend the throne. The price you have to pay is that you must cede the Rhineland region to France and Belgium, and declare that you will forever give up parts of the Czechoslovakian region and Austria,” Ghost said, handing a document to the SS officer with a malicious smile. “But we will allow you to continue to occupy Poland as compensation.”

The SS officer picked up the treaty, carefully read the contents, then nodded and extended a hand. “Thank you! I believe that a long-lasting world peace is coming soon, and the whole of Europe will develop at a high speed under a new order.”

After the officer had finished speaking, he placed the document in a leather bag and hurriedly left the secret room. As the main door closed, a proud smile appeared on Ghost’s face. Only these Junker aristocrats, who had been blinded by their interests, would believe in the arrival of some bullshit new order. As soon as Akado was dead, Germany would fall apart. At that time, even if that foolish Wilhelm II could become emperor again, it would only be a repeat of the outcome of the First World War.

The Germans want to be on an equal footing with Britain? How is that possible? At that time, giving these Junker aristocrats some economic benefits would leave them speechless. After all, even if they were to have a falling out, they would not find a second chance to rally again, and Germany would never find a second Akado Rudolph to be its Führer.

But it was still too early to say anything now. Ghost had no choice but to continue to study the design drawing and, over and over again, to meticulously go over the entire operational plan to assassinate Akado with Paul and the Six of Hearts.

This plan was a plan within a plan. First, they would assassinate Akado. This was an assassination plan. And at the same time, Britain would carry out a plan to steal secret German military documents, which would be carried out by the female spy, Aina. The two plans would be carried out almost simultaneously, serving as cover for each other. No matter which plan was targeted by the German army, it would divert the attention of the German intelligence department and support the smooth progress of the other plan.

“First, we will pose as cleaners and, under the cover of the Junker aristocrat officer, enter this underground parking lot for soldiers,” Ghost said, pointing to the drawing. “We will bring tools in here and then immediately begin to dig.”

He glanced at the Six of Hearts and said, “You are responsible for accurately calculating the time. We need to confirm how many minutes there are from the time Akado Rudolph sets out to the time he gets into the car at the main entrance!”

“And then you, Paul! I need you to be familiar with and in control of this explosive timing device, and to be able to set it in the shortest possible time,” Ghost said, pointing to Paul. “Among us, you are the smallest in stature, and also the most agile. You have also done things like stealing before, so I have brought you this time.”

“And then?” Paul, who had become much calmer after his last failure, asked, staring at the drawing with a frown.

“And then we will install a bomb under Akado’s car and blow him to the sky after he gets in,” Ghost said, pointing to the main entrance of the Führer’s Residence and drawing a large circle around it. “If he walks into this range on that day, then I guarantee to you all that he will undoubtedly die.”

In a beautiful room in the city of Cologne, Aina sat up, naked. Beside her was the young Junker aristocrat officer, who was already sound asleep. Aina glanced at the cup that she had earlier put sleeping pills in, and a proud smile appeared on her lips.

She lifted the quilt and tiptoed to the side of the fireplace. By the faint light of the fire, she opened the officer’s document briefcase and took out the documents inside, flipping through them page by page. On them were some transport lists for dried fruit and meat and a ration list for cigarettes. It seemed to be the supplies for a division. She shrugged, stuffed the documents back into the briefcase. This kind of highly time-sensitive but not large-scale deployment document was not worth her taking a risk.

After putting the briefcase back in its original position, Aina looked at the bright moonlight outside the window. She didn’t know how the man with the codename Ghost was doing now, whether he was also thinking of her as she was thinking of him.

War was really a frustrating state. She couldn’t talk about love with the man she liked, couldn’t go shopping with her friends. She could only sleep next to an enemy, worried and afraid, thinking of that person in the distance, but unable to know if that person was still alive.