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In the thirties of the last century, Wanping County.

Just two days ago, the garrison outside the city asked to enter the county town to search for a missing soldier on the pretext of looking for a missing soldier, but the Chinese garrison defending the city sternly refused, and the Fuso army immediately launched a long-planned attack on Wanping County, completely shattering the false peace on the surface.

The sound of gunfire around the county town of Wanping rang out for several days, and even the people living in the depths of the alleys of the Forbidden City could hear it clearly; from time to time, bombers of the Fuso army swooped down and flew over the Forbidden City, and the sound of the high-speed rotation of the propellers on the planes pressed the eardrums of everyone in the city, as if to indicate that the invading army might drop a bomb at any time.

For a time, the people in the Forbidden City were panicked, and those big families in the city who had heads and faces spent a lot of money to buy train tickets and boat tickets at all costs, and fled south one after another. A suffocating panic is spreading to every corner of the city.

In late July, the sky of the Forbidden City was densely covered with layers of dark clouds, and there was a great atmosphere of "black clouds crushing the city and wanting to destroy it", and the black pressure was like the dark clouds of the outbreak of war, covering the entire city thickly and densely. Shi Guoyi and another old teacher, Chen Chen, sat in a pavilion in Tsinghua Garden, both of them holding a burning cigarette between their fingertips, and looked at the dark and dreary sky silently.

"This Fuso thief is outside the city, and he has been fighting for a few days. Chen Chen took a hard puff with the cigarette roll in his mouth, and then exhaled a long breath vigorously, watching the cigarette spew out of his mouth and nasal cavity, curling up in the dull air for a long time. "I have an old classmate who works in Jinling, and he sent me a letter a few days ago, saying that the Japanese thieves are carrying out encirclement and suppression operations while dispatching a large war force to our country, and at the same time, they still have the spare strength to send planes to attack and harass the areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At the moment, it's just a little fight, just against the virtue of these thieves, I'm afraid that this war will burn all over the country, and it will be the common people of China who will suffer!"

Shi Guoyi usually doesn't smoke much, and at this moment he lit a cigarette just to relieve the suppressed emotions in his heart, he lit a cigarette but didn't smoke, just watched the cigarette roll burning on his fingertips, and the wisps of smoke on the cigarette butt floated up, stirring up in the stuffy air, like a mess in his heart.

There was a sudden muffled sound in the cloudy sky, and at first I thought it was just thunder, but the sound gradually intensified, and this density could not be the sound of thunder at all, presumably the Fuso people were bombarding somewhere in the distance.

The current situation is so chaotic that people can't have any luck ideas, but after all, Shi Guoyi has received a few years of education in the West, and there is still some idealism in his bones: "The current situation is very tense, but the foundation accumulated in China for thousands of years is not something that the small country in Dongying can eat in just a few years." Hasn't the Jinling Presidential Office already issued a statement -- 'We will not give in, we will not expand, we will not seek war, and we will fight the war.' The shame of the fall of the Northeast is enough!"

Chen Chen sneered: "If you don't give in, you will fight the war, the politicians in the presidential palace are just what they say! I heard that the commander of Jinling City can't even take care of suppressing the Communist Party now, and the little devils haven't even hit their Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and he is already ready to lead his troops to move west." The so-called slogan is just shouting, if Jinling really has the determination to fight to the death, the three northeastern provinces and Shanhaiguan will not fall!"

Shi Guoyi threw the cigarette roll to the ground, crushed it with his toes, and sighed. Chen Chen's words were straightforward and cruel, mercilessly shattering the last luck in his heart, but he had to admit that his colleague's words were correct.

The Fusang army outside the city has been besieging the city for so many days, and the city guards in the Forbidden City have suffered a large number of casualties, and the defense line is gradually collapsing; according to the basic situation of the garrison now, even from the best point of view, the day of the destruction of the city is probably only within half a month. The mortar and aircraft bombs of the Japanese devils, like the sword of Damocles hanging from the Greek throne with thin horsehair, could fall at any moment, dealing a fatal blow to the already scarred Forbidden City.

"As far as the current situation is concerned, the loss of Pingjin is only a matter of time, according to the style of the Republic of China government, they will not send people to support a precarious city, for them, it is just a waste of time and troops. Chen Chen took a short cigarette in his mouth, took a hard puff, then snuffed out the cigarette butt, and said: "Once the Pingjin area falls, Fusang's next step will definitely be to enter Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai." If the Jinling Front really planned to give up resistance and move directly west to the Sichuanqing area, then most of China would really fall into the hands of the Dongying devils. ”

Shi Guoyi sighed and didn't answer, in fact, he couldn't answer anything. Chen Chen is an old teacher of history, and his analysis of current affairs has always been accurate, in fact, as early as the fall of Shanhaiguan, he had already expected today's results, but the little idealism in his heart always made him indulge himself with a little luck, hoping that the Japanese would stop there, or that the government's army would fight back and defeat the invaders.

It's a pity that thoughts are just thoughts after all, and everything he worries about still happened, and it seems to be much earlier than he expected!

At the corners of the pavilion, a little drop of water began to fall, and it became more and more dense. Shi Guoyi and Chen Chen looked up at the same time, and saw that the rain that had been brewing in the sky for a long time finally fell down tricklingly, and the raindrops fell on the top of the pavilion, and the sound became louder and louder...... The irregular sound of rain sounded chaotically, like the chaotic minds of the two people.

2.

The development of events is even more serious than everyone imagined!

At the end of July, under the siege of artillery fire by the Fuso invading army for nearly a month, the Forbidden City finally fell.

Fortunately, the Fusang army did not stay in the Forbidden City for long, avoiding the slaughter of this thousand-year-old imperial city. However, as Chen Chen said earlier, the Dongying people quickly reorganized their troops, crossed the Yellow River through the North China Plain, and then went all the way south, and the artillery fire went straight to the banks of the Yangtze River, pointing to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

According to the news that Chen Chen's classmates had returned from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, the Fusang people had landed in the Yangtze River Delta region in mid-August, and Jinghai City was now a dangerous city; not long after the news of the Fusang army's pressure on the border reached Jinling, the presidential palace was already empty.

Shi Guoyi looked away from the microscope and rubbed his aching eyebrows, but he felt more and more tired. Jinling's actions disappointed him again and again -- first the "pursuit of advantages and avoiding disadvantages" when the Northeast fell, and then the indifference to the Pingjin area; now that the Dongying people have already fought at their doorstep, it stands to reason that they should fight against the water, and the government actually directly issued an order to move westward, handing over the Yangtze River Delta region to the enemy...... This back and forth has completely wiped out the idealism in his heart!

What kind of cowardly government has been raised in the middle of China, which will condone other countries to invade their own doors, but still does not choose to fight back, but chooses to blindly escape!

Shi Guoyi didn't want to think about it anymore, and his restlessness made him unable to continue the experiment quietly. He stood up and stretched his waist slightly, which was numb from sitting for too long, took off the white coat on his body, took off his glasses, and reached out to rub his face vigorously, trying to clear his chaotic brain a little.

The door of the laboratory was suddenly knocked at this time, Shi Guoyi felt a little strange, the situation has been a little chaotic recently, the Fusang people have just occupied the Pingjin area, and they don't know when they will be "interested", so they will come and sweep twice. For the safety of the students, Tsinghua Park temporarily closed the school for this time, the students did not come to class, and the teachers basically stayed at home, except for a few guards at the door and a boring person like him, who had nothing else to do but do experiments, there was no one else in the school.

In that case, who will knock on the door now?

Shi Guoyi turned around by the windowsill and said, "Please come in." As he walked to the table, he touched his glasses and put them on again, and when he looked up, he saw that the door was open, and a young woman was standing at the door, with a smile on her face, and her facial features were exquisite. She was wearing a beige windbreaker, which wrapped her graceful figure, and there was a capable temperament in her charm, which made people can't help but look at her twice.

Shi Guoyi thought that a colleague who couldn't be idle like him came to talk to him, but when the door opened, it was such a woman who came to the door, and he was suddenly surprised. He studied in Cambridge, England, and he still knew about gentlemanly demeanor, so he didn't directly ask the woman what the purpose of coming here was, but bowed first and said, "Hello, this lady, may I ask who you are ......?"

Before Shi Guoyi could finish speaking, the woman bowed to him and interrupted him: "Excuse me, are you Mr. Shi Guoyi?"

Shi Guoyi was about to answer her "yes", but suddenly realized that when the woman in front of him spoke, the Chinese pronunciation was slightly blunt, and suddenly a bad premonition arose in his heart, so he left an extra eye and asked her: "Are you looking for Shi Guoyi?"

"Oh, by the way, introduce yourself. The woman smiled slightly, not seeming to notice the subtle change in Shi Guoyi's tone. She reached into the inner pocket of her windbreaker and took out a document with a red cover, handed it to Shi Guoyi, and said, "My name is Reiko Morisaki, and I am now the head of the intelligence team of the Fuso Society of the Great Fuso Empire. When I was in the Northeast, I admired the name of Shisang for a long time, and it is really a blessing to see it today. He bowed again.

Shi Guoyi's face became very ugly when he heard Reiko Morisaki say his name, and when he heard the words "Fuso Society" next, his whole person froze in place.

The Fuso Society is a well-known espionage organization in Toei, established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and affiliated with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Fuso. Initially, the Fuso Society was an organization to deal with domestic incidents, but with the Fuso invasion of China and the needs of other countries in the Far East, the functions of the Fuso Society gradually changed. A more significant change is that while the officials of the embassies and consulates stationed in foreign countries are engaged in intelligence work, they also cooperate with other espionage and intelligence agencies to carry out espionage activities.

Before the Fuso Society was established in China, the Dongying people had already begun to carry out large-scale intelligence gathering activities in China, the most representative of which was the "Oolong Society", which was once widely active in the interior of China. Later, at the beginning of the 19th century, Fusang set up the "Yijin Society" in Goryeo to spy on secrets, and this organization made great contributions to Fusang's annexation of Goryeo. From then on, Fuso's intelligence agencies in the Far East began to expand aggressively.

It can be seen from this that the Fuso Society played an important role in the war of aggression, and it was called the nail in the heart of China together with the three major spy organs of "Songzhumei" later. After the Toying people invaded Tohoku, there was a Fuso Society team in each area occupied by Fuso in the police station, which was responsible for carrying out spy activities and espionage activities.

As for the later "Songzhumei" three major organs, they were in charge of the spy work in three major areas: the "Songzhu organ" was the code name of the highest spy organization in Central China's Fuso spies, and the behind-the-scenes manipulators of this organ were the puppet military governments that were later established in the Xiangjiang area; the "bamboo organs" were the highest organs of the Fusang spies in South China, and their main task was to plot against the generals in the southern Xinjiang region; and the "Mei organs" were mainly responsible for the North China region to plot against those bigwigs-level figures who used to be in military and political circles, such as the leaders of the Beiyang warlords.

The earliest Fusang Society was established in the Northeast, that is, after the fall of the three northeastern provinces, the Fusang Army established the first Fuso Association in the Liaoyang area. Now that the Forbidden City has also fallen into the hands of the Wakos, it would not surprise Shi Guoyi that there are members of the Fuso Society here. But now that their people have actually taken the initiative to find themselves, then some things may become very complicated.

"Fusang Society?" Shi Guoyi repeated in a sullen voice, his tone no longer carrying that kind of gentlemanly respect, and he did not hide his disgust for the Dongying people at all, "Shi Someone is just a small university teacher, and he has not made any great contributions, how can he afford a 'long admiration' from the leader of the Morizaki group! I don't know if the head of the Fuso Association personally visited, is there something wrong?"

Reiko Morisaki was still smiling, but the smile on her face now made Shi Guoyi feel palpitations and uneasiness, and only heard her say: "Shi Sang is modest, I originally worked in the Northeast, and I was only transferred to the Pingjin area recently. When I was in Liaoyang, some people often mentioned to me the name of Shi Sang and the experience of studying in Britain, which made me feel very admired, and it was really not an exaggeration to say that it was 'long-awaited'. ”

Shi Guoyi sneered: "What Team Leader Morisaki said made me feel even more confused. Despicable people grew up in Shanhaiguan since childhood, Guangxu Restoration came to Kyoto to study, and then went to Britain, after returning to work in Tsinghua Garden, for the convenience of work, the family moved to the Forbidden City to settle. If you want to talk about Liaoyang, someone has lived for most of his life, and he has never stepped into the three northeastern provinces for half a step, where can anyone mention me?"

Reiko Morisaki said with a smile: "Shi San may not have been to the Northeast, but there, there are classmates who studied with you at Kangqiao College back then. ”

Shi Guoyi was stunned: "Who is it?"

Reiko Morisaki clapped her hands, and the door to the laboratory opened, revealing a middle-aged man with a big back, a black coat, and a mustache. As soon as this person walked into the laboratory, he met Shi Guoyi's glaring eyes, the expression on his face suddenly became cramped and uneasy, and he opened his mouth for a long time, and said, "Senior." ”

Shi Guoyi snorted and sneered: "I thought it was a great person, it turned out to be you!"

The middle-aged man in front of him is called Pei Lin, who is Shi Guoyi's junior in Kangqiao Academy, two levels younger than him. Shi Guoyi didn't know that he was from the Northeast, he only knew that he was a child of a big family, even if he was abroad, he didn't worry about spending money, and studying abroad was not for any studies, but to have an identity of "returnee", so that his father could help him find a job in the government and go through the back door easier.

This man spends his days in bars and dance halls, spending all his days drinking and not wanting to make progress, and relying on the money in his family, he dictates and bullies and insults those students from those families, but he flatters and flatters those foreigners, and most people are not used to him. Pei Lin didn't take these people who looked down on him seriously, the only thing he was afraid of was Shi Guoyi alone.

Shi Guoyi is usually amiable to people, but if he is really serious and not angry and arrogant, no one dares to confront him. Moreover, this Pei Lin has been allergic to pollen since he was a child, Shi Guoyi stood in front of him coldly, and he was already half of his strong and dry goods;

"If Pei Sang hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that there were still people like Shi Sang in this Forbidden City. Morizaki Reiko said, "I believe that Shi-san is also a cheerful person, so I won't say much nonsense." We came to visit this time to ask Shi Sang to do us a small favor. ”

Shi Guoyi smiled dryly: "Thanks to the two of you who can afford Shi Mou, but I'm sorry, I just said that I'm just a stinky teacher, and I've just been fooling around abroad for a few years, so I haven't made much progress." If the two of them really need someone to help, Shi is really embarrassed, and I hope to ask another master. ”

Morizaki Reiko said: "Shi-san, don't refuse so quickly, you can listen to what I say first." ”

Shi Guoyi had already made up his mind in his heart, no matter what the other party said, he would refuse, no matter what, he couldn't be a traitor like Pei Lin, so he immediately said: "Then please talk about it first." ”

"It's not a big deal. There was a playful look on Morizaki's face, "It's just that San gave us something when we needed it." ”

Shi Guoyi asked, "What is it?"

Reiko Morizaki looked at him directly, and said gloomily: "I need what Shi-san gave me, it's called - Seven Heart Begonia!"

【To be continued】