As soon as Xu Chengyan and his entourage returned to the Xinmin Newspaper office, they were called to the editor-in-chief's office, where Naohito Eguchi and Tetsuo Takahashi were already waiting.

As soon as he entered the door, Tetsuo Takahashi saw that the two of them were all embarrassed, their hair and clothes were messy, especially Xu Chengyan's left arm was still wrapped in gauze and hung with bandages, and he suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?" Is it serious? ”

After Xu Chengyan was injured, because it was only a minor injury, he simply dealt with it at the scene, bandaged it, and when he heard Tetsuo Takahashi's inquiry, he quickly explained: "It doesn't matter, it's just that when I exploded, I was scratched by a piece of glass, and my skin was traumatized, and it didn't get in the way." ”

"Can't be careless!" Naohito Eguchi also stepped forward to check it, seeing that a lot of blood was oozing out of the gauze, and his brows furrowed, "I'll go to the clinic to re-deal with it later, to use the best anti-inflammatory medicine, I'll call Dr. Kimura." ”

There is a private clinic opened by a Japanese doctor near the newspaper office, mainly for Japanese expatriates to see a doctor and take medicine, the attending doctor Kimura has superb medical skills, and has some connections, so there are some precious Western medicines controlled by the Japanese military, but these are for some close relations, or important customers use, ordinary people do not need it.

Of course, Naohito Eguchi is not an ordinary person, not only that, but he is also one of the backers behind the Kimura clinic, so he can arrange it for Xu Chengyan.

Tetsuo Takahashi also deeply believes that in this era, the level of medicine is generally not high, and there are many examples of losing his life because of a small wound that is careless, causing infection, so naturally he cannot be careless.

Besides, Xu Chengyan is not an ordinary subordinate to them, they are still counting on Xu Chengyan to climb the big tree of Yoshinoemon, which is about to go to Beiping to recognize teachers and students, but because of an accident injury, this must be taken seriously, and must not be negligent.

Seeing the two editors-in-chief and editor-in-chief surrounding Xu Chengyan and asking for warmth, caring and earnest, Kyosuke Watanabe on the side couldn't help but have some toothache, and looked at himself in embarrassment, and his heart was quite uncomfortable.

"Watanabe-kun, tell me what happened!"

After a long while, Naohito Eguchi remembered Kyosuke Watanabe and turned the conversation to what happened today.

"Here's how it happened...... "Kyosuke Watanabe recounted the incident in 1510.

After listening to this, Tetsuo Takahashi's eyelids also jumped, and he couldn't help but say, "There are so many casualties!" Watanabe-kun, who do you think did this? Or was it the Chongqing molecule? ”

"It has to be them! The underground party will not do things so unscrupulously, as for the political and health department, they do not dare to make such a big move, only the Chongqing elements, because of the revenge before the destruction of the intelligence station, during this period of activities are very rampant, they must be to sabotage the grain donation movement, only to attack the Nikko Society, but I did not expect that this time even President Ito was poisoned. ”

In fact, it is not difficult to guess that the underground party's style of acting is very hidden, they pay more attention to intelligence, even if there are armed actions, they are very targeted, and they never kill innocents indiscriminately.

As for the political and health office of the Jin army, it has always had no sense of existence, especially since the war has stalemate until now, the high-level internal leadership of the Jin army has begun to waver, and the army on the front line basically does not clash with the Japanese army, and there are even rumors that the chief Yan has been in secret contact with the Japanese high-level, at this time, the political and health department will never do, and dare not do such a thing.

The rest are naturally Chongqing elements, what they are best at is assassination and explosives, the means are ruthless, they do everything, and they don't care about sacrifice at all, so the Japanese also have the most headache for them.

Naohito Eguchi also spoke: "These Chongqing elements are really arrogant, they just assassinated Yoshioka Masao, how long has it been, it's just rampant, and the extra high class is ......"

He stopped halfway through his words, obviously remembering Kyosuke Watanabe's identity, so he didn't continue.

In this regard, Kyosuke Watanabe had no choice but to pretend not to hear, and he continued: "Fortunately, President Ito is still alive, which is the most fortunate of the misfortunes, but the injuries are also very serious, and he has been sent to the military hospital for rescue.

Mr. Akashi said that we, the Shinmin Newspaper, would assist in the work and would not make any remarks or articles on this matter, and he would personally inform Advisor Nakamura and you afterwards. ”

"That's the best!" Naohito Eguchi nodded, more is better than less, he is too lazy to get involved in this kind of trouble.

At the same time, the investigation of the Aka Quartz tree at Nikko Kaisha also made initial progress.

An intelligence officer in charge of the on-site inspection reported the results of the inspection to Aka Quartz.

"According to the analysis of the remnants of the explosion, the other party used italic-type explosives, and also mixed some iron pieces into the explosives, the explosion was very powerful, and the killing radius covered the entire lounge, and everyone in the room was killed at that time.

We also collected some metal fragments, which should be the gears and springs of the clock, as well as the wires, and the preliminary judgment is that this is a mechanical time bomb controlled by the spring of the clock, this kind of bomb is not very stable, and the timing time should not be too long, at most within two hours. ”

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As the intelligence officer recounted further, Aka Quartz Tree also roughly figured out the situation at that time.

His face was gloomy, he looked at Yamada Otomo, and asked in a cold voice, "Didn't you say that the security work was very tightly arranged?" So much explosives, how did they bring in? ”

Yamada Otomo has been guarding the side of Aka Quartz Tree, feeling a lot of pressure in his heart, and quickly explained: "Today's security work is indeed very strict, no matter who enters the club, they must go through a very careful inspection, I personally guard the door, I can guarantee my life, no one can bring in any weapons and explosives, please believe me." ”

At this time, another intelligence officer also reassured: "Yamada Shaozo is right, we have been guarding the door, except for Major General Lai Chuan and the two ministers of the Provincial Office, we have carefully inspected the other personnel, and it is absolutely impossible for the other party to bring in such a large volume of explosives." ”

Yamada Otomo glanced at his colleague next to him gratefully, and reassured: "My judgment, it is very likely that the explosives were not brought in today, but before today, which also confirms my previous judgment, there must be something wrong within Nikko Kaisha, so I would like to conduct an investigation on the internal staff of the club." ”

Aka Quartz nodded slightly, this guess was more in line with his heart, and his purpose was exactly that.

So he ordered: "Invite the person in charge of the Nikko Club at the scene!" ”

Yamada Otomo hurriedly retreated, and soon turned back, followed by a person, it was Ishida Katsuhei, the head of the finance department of Nikko Kaisha.

Approaching, Yamada Otomo bowed down and let Ishida Katsuhei in front.

Ishida Katsuhei was able to be in charge of the finance department in such a strong organization as Nikko Kaisha, and he was naturally the absolute confidant of the president Takujin Ito, and it can be said that among many high-level officials, Ishida Katsuhei had a high status, except for the head of the management department, Matsuki Motora, he was Ito's most trusted subordinate.

Now Takuma Ito and Motora Matsuki are injured and killed, and he is the one who can come forward in the club.

At this time, Katsuhei Ishida's face was pale, and it was obvious that he had not recovered from the shock.

Seeing that it was Ishida Katsuhei, Aka Quartz's face immediately softened, he took a few steps forward, let Ishida Katsuhei sit aside, and said softly: "Ishida-kun, the incident happened too suddenly, I can only take over the investigation for the time being, please forgive me for the offense!" ”

After all, this is Nikko Club, and unlike other departments, Aka Quartz doesn't dare to hold it up, and no matter what he does, he has to ask for the consent of Ishida Katsuhei.

And Aka Quartz and Ishida Katsuhei are also acquainted, and in terms of the status of the Japanese inside, Ishida Katsuhei is only humble Aka Quartz Tree.

And not only that, in fact, the two of them are still very close in private.

You must know that in order to be able to act conveniently, the Nikko Club even interfered in military affairs, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy a large number of military personnel with important positions and key positions.

And the person in charge of this work is Ishida Katsuhei, who is in charge of the finance department, so there is some unknown relationship between Ishida Katsuhei and Akira Quartz Tree.

Of course, Aka Quartz Tree also provided a lot of convenience for Nikko Kaisha, did a lot of assistance work, and cooperated with each other very well, so Aka Quartz Tree was very polite to Ishida Katsuhei.

At this time, Ishida Katsuhei was also already masterless, he was just a good hand at economic and financial affairs, and he was a complete layman for intelligence investigations, and he was also at a loss when something like this happened suddenly, and he didn't know how to deal with it at all.

"Akashi-kun, you're too polite, I'm in a mess right now, alas, I don't know how to report to the headquarters, it's all up to you, please find out the murderer as soon as possible, I have an explanation for the headquarters."

"Good! Please rest assured, Ishida-kun will take care of everything! Aka Quartz nodded and said, "Now I need to investigate some of the situation of your club staff, please cooperate." ”

Ishida Katsuhei immediately agreed: "I fully cooperate, you just have to order!" ”

Next, Aka Quartz questioned and investigated the staff of Nikko Company one by one, and soon found a situation.

Yamada Otomo reported to Akami Quartz: "Yuji Murakami, this person is a cleaning worker at the club, and he is also the only employee who did not come to work today, and he asked the supervisor for leave yesterday because he was unwell, this person is usually very diligent and never asks for leave, but this time it is said that he is very sick, so the supervisor agreed to his request." ”

Aka Quartz immediately ordered, "You go and bring this man." ”

"Hey!" Yamada Otomo took the order and left.

But it didn't take long for Otomo Yamada to call.

"Section chief, Yuji Murakami's house is empty, he and his grandson are missing, there are traces of tidying up the clothes in the closet, and no belongings have been found in the house, they are missing!"

This shows that Yuji Murakami left prepared, and the problem really lies within the Nikko Club, and Aka Quartz is happy in his heart, so that the responsibility of the special high school is much less.

Akira Quartz immediately ordered: "Immediately order the whole city to search and find Yuji Murakami!" ”

Akami Quartz knew that if he found Yuji Murakami, he could already determine that this person was the inner ghost who brought the explosives into the venue, but there must have been a person who performed the blasting at the scene.

Because the timing time of the time bomb will not exceed two hours, Yuji Murakami did not come to work today, in this case, there must be an executor on the scene who sets the blasting time.

This person may be a representative of the meeting, and it is more likely that he is an internal person of Nikko Kaisha, and the incident of Yuji Murakami proves that there is no one who cannot be bought.

But in any case, in the two hours before the explosion, anyone who had entered the break room was likely to be a Chongqing agent.

However, the next inquiry made him very disappointed, because there were too many people entering the lounge during this time period, especially after ten o'clock, when the conference entered the break period, and many delegates had entered the lounge to stay, so it was impossible to count them.

This does not include some of them who did not admit to entering the lounge at all in order to escape suspicion, the situation at that time was chaotic, and no one paid special attention to these things, so it is impossible to be sure.

The two waiters in charge of reception in the lounge were also killed on the spot in the explosion, and no one could tell all the circumstances, and the investigation reached an impasse for a while.

In this way, the investigation dragged on until the afternoon, and no clues were found, and looking at the deputies who were already getting more and more agitated, Ming Quartz was really a headache.

These people are not ordinary people, he can't keep them here, and the time dragged on until the afternoon, he also received multiple phone calls from the military and the provincial office, and the Ming Quartz tree, who was under pressure, finally had to order the release of the people.

The delegates of all sides rushed to flee the hall as if they had been granted amnesty, and after a while, the messy hall was empty.

At this point, this huge grain donation campaign encountered a major change, and it came to an abrupt end, and a funny farce also ended in failure!