 He spent the next few months travelling through Japanese-occupied areas and across the war front, finally reaching Chongqing in the spring of 1942.In Chongqing he worked as an editor for two major newspapers, "Sao Dang Bao" () and "Guomin Gongbao" (), and was the first person in the capital to report the death of Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.Liu returned to Shanghai after the surrender of Japan in 1945.