Xu Chengyan and Ji Yun walked out of the Gathering Library, and Ji Yun couldn't help but look at Xu Chengyan a little strangely.

"What do you see me doing?" Xu Chengyan glanced at him.

"I'm just a little weird, usually I come out and quarrel with Lao Ding, you don't say a word easily, what's going on today, the reaction is a little big!"

Although Ji Yun has a straightforward temperament, it does not mean that he has no brains, on the contrary, he is responsive, shrewd, and eclectic, and can often do amazing things.

Besides, he and Xu Chengyan know each other very well and know his temperament and habits, and the conflict between Xu Chengyan and Ding Mingrui today is too deliberate.

"You're smart!"

Xu Chengyan knew that he couldn't hide it from his companions, smiled slightly, nodded and said: "Today I did mean to stimulate Lao Ding, in fact, from Lao Ding's standpoint, what he did was not wrong, doing the work of an agent, especially lurking behind enemy lines, is like walking a tightrope on a cliff, trembling, like facing an abyss, you can't make a mistake, we also understand this truth."

Lao Ding is an old agent who has gone through wind and rain and smoothed the edges and corners, he doesn't care about promotion, he doesn't care about the future, he only cares about no illness and no disaster, peace and security, so he doesn't fight for merit, doesn't take risks, and doesn't want to take any risks, which is understandable.

But... He's in our way!

If we don't fight or grab, when will our brothers come out?

This time I just want to force him to have a showdown, let him sue us, let the teacher adjudicate, anyway, we have no merit, and there is no fault and handle in his hands, I am not afraid of him chewing his tongue, and I will show his attitude as soon as possible to leave him alone, so as to save him from dragging us down. ”

Hearing this, Ji Yun nodded heavily, although he left the army this time and was transferred to work behind enemy lines, they suffered a lot of frustration.

But the two of them have the ability and ambition, how can they be willing to be an intelligence officer at the bottom, and they are all passionate and enthusiastic at the age of passion, who doesn't want to kill the enemy to serve the country and strive for the top?

"That's how it should be," Ji Yun took a deep breath and said fiercely, "With our ability, we can make a situation anywhere, why bother with this old guy's anger!" ”

In the bedroom room of Kazuya Harada's house, a senior adviser to the Shinmin Association, several Japanese officers were surveying the scene.

The officer headed by him, in his early forties, although his appearance was ordinary, his eyes were sharp, his temperament was calm, and his eyebrows were full of shrewdness and strength.

"The cause of death of Consultant Harada was lying flat on the bed, being vigorously bruised from left to right, and there was no trace of struggle in his body, he should have been attacked in his sleep and killed on the spot, and the murderer did it neatly."

"None of the items in the room have been moved, including the gold watch on the bedside table or the cash in the drawer below."

"In addition to Consultant Harada, there are two servants, a driver and two bodyguards in this residence, we have asked separately, last night, they were all resting in their rooms and did not hear any sound, so it is impossible to determine the specific time of death of Consultant Harada, which needs to be examined later."

………

Several intelligence officers under his command reported on some of the situations they had investigated.

Yoshioka Masao didn't say a word, quietly listened to the report of his subordinates, and thought quickly about various situations in his mind.

At this time, a middle-aged man in a suit and casual clothes walked into the bedroom from the balcony, and this person was Ma Weide, the head of the Investigation Section of the Xinmin Association.

Because Harada is also a senior adviser to the Xinmin Association, after the incident, Ma Weide led the team to rush over as soon as possible.

The Investigation Division is the only department responsible for intelligence investigation in the Xinmin Society, and its members are all consultants served by agents of the Special High Division, and Chinese agents trained by the Japanese, because the Xinmin Association is a peripheral organization of the Special High Division, so they are also under the direct leadership of the intelligence team leader Masao Yoshioka.

He stepped forward, saluted respectfully to Masao Yoshioka, and reported: "Team leader, on the balcony railing, we found some special traces, which coincide with the traces found in Dai Wenshan's case that we investigated before......"

"Where?" Yoshioka Masao's eyes froze when he heard this.

Maved hurriedly turned sideways, made a gesture of please, and led Yoshioka Masao to the balcony, pointing to a mark on a railing.

The railing is made of solid wood, and there are three vertical marks clearly printed on it, Yoshioka Masao checked it, then took off his gloves, touched it lightly with his fingers, and commanded: "Take pictures!" ”

An intelligence officer on the side stepped forward and filmed it with his camera, "Click, click..."

"You're right, this is indeed the same trace as in the murder of Dai Wenshan, and the murderer is likely to be the same person."

Dai Wenshan, head of the Criminal Investigation Section of the Taiyuan Police Bureau, was strangled to death at home late one night 10 days ago.

"I've asked some people in the past few days, and some of them have recognized the origin of this claw mark. ”

"Oh! What is the origin? ”

"This is a kind of flying rope, there is a name, called" Flying Tiger Claw ", the top of the rope has three steel claws, sharp and sharp, flexible stretching, can easily hook and grasp various objects, after use, with a special technique can be easily separated, is the people in the rivers and lakes used to walk the empty door, the eaves walk the wall of a sharp weapon."

There are many Jianghu people under Ma Weide, who are very familiar with this kind of tool, and it didn't take a few days to find out something valuable.

"Flying Tiger Claw?"

Masao Yoshioka was curious about this, and then asked, "Are there many people who use this tool?" ”

"There shouldn't be much, the flying tiger claw first appeared in Jinmen, and then in Beiping there were also people who used this kind of flying cable, and then later introduced to Shanxi, a few years ago in Taiyuan also appeared, basically the thief all the way to use, committed theft, but there has never been a murder of the victim, but in the past few years disappeared, and according to my people, because of the structure of the steel claw is unique, the flying tiger claw is difficult to imitate, I didn't expect it, and now it appears here again."

Yoshioka Masao thought for a while and analyzed: "After the murderer entered the compound, he did not enter the residence through the gate, probably not wanting to alarm the servants and bodyguards who were resting on the first and second floors, so he directly used a zipline to catch the railing, climbed up to the balcony on the third floor, and then entered the bedroom through the balcony and killed Consultant Harada."

After the murder, he did not take any of the belongings that were close at hand, which shows that his purpose was very clear, that is, to assassinate Harada's advisor.

The gold watch on the bedside table was not taken away because it could not be sold, because such valuables were so conspicuous that if they appeared, we might find him through the sale channel.

Staying by his side increases the risk of exposure, and he refuses to put himself in danger for this small profit.

He didn't take the cash from the drawer because he didn't waste time looking for his belongings, and he didn't want to stay for a moment.

You must know that this is just a matter of hand-holding, and it doesn't take much time, but he refuses to take the slightest risk, which is not something that ordinary people can do, which shows that the murderer is extremely self-disciplined and calm and decisive. ”

When Ma Weide heard this, he nodded and replied: "That's true, I didn't find any loss of property in Dai Wenshan's house before, and the murderer's style is the same." ”

"It looks like we've got a tough opponent!" Masao Yoshioka let out a sigh of relief.

At this time, Yoshioka Masao's assistant, intelligence officer Yamada Otomo, also went upstairs to report: "Team leader, we found two relatively clear shoe prints near the courtyard wall, which should be left by the murderer when he climbed over the wall and landed. ”

"Two pairs? Are the murderers two people? Yoshioka Masao was stunned when he heard this, "Go and take a look!" ”

The group went downstairs and came to the vicinity of the courtyard wall, where an intelligence officer was taking pictures of the shoe prints left by the murderer, and when he saw Masao Yoshioka coming, he quickly stepped aside.

Yoshioka Masao leaned down to take a closer look, and measured the size of the shoe print with his hand, thought for a while, then got up, shook his head and said: "This is a cloth-soled shoe, it is everywhere on the market, the number of the shoe is too large, these two people should be taller than ordinary people, but it is difficult to confirm their identity through this, the only information that can be provided to us is that the murderer who infiltrated should be two people." ”

When everyone heard this, they were a little at a loss, and only based on the clue in front of them, the possibility of finding the murderer was very small.

At this time, Yoshioka Masao suddenly turned his head to look at his assistant Yamada Daitomo and asked, "With Dai Wenshan's case, this should be the fourth assassination case that has occurred in this month, right?" ”

When Yamada Otomo heard this, he recalled slightly, nodded and replied: "You are right, excluding the general homicide cases, the cases against government personnel and Japanese expatriates, this should be the fourth, but the people who were assassinated before were all Chinese, but I didn't expect that this time, Harada consultant was also killed." ”

This made Yoshioka Masao's brow furrow even tighter.

The first case was a month ago, when Lu Dayong, the commander of the security corps, was covered in the mouth and nose and stabbed twice in the back while watching a play in the theater, hitting the vital point, Lu Dayong was killed on the spot, because the theater was dark and the audience was not discovered until the movie ended.

In the second case, on the third day after Lu Dayong was killed, Cai Wu, the deputy captain of the plainclothes security team, was stabbed to death in the alley near his home when he returned home, and he was only discovered after dawn.

In these two cases, because the dead were all Chinese, and the identity of the deceased was not enough to alarm the Japanese special high school, they were both sent to the criminal investigation department of the police station for investigation.

But a few days later, Dai Wenshan, the head of the Criminal Investigation Section in charge of these two cases, was also strangled to death at home, and the police station felt that something was wrong, and immediately reported to the special high school, and the case was transferred to the hands of the special high school, but because Yoshioka Masao was dealing with an important matter in his hands at the time, he just hurriedly checked the file and handed it over to his assistant Yamada Otomo to deal with.

"Is there any connection between these three cases?" Yoshioka then asked.

"Yes!"

Yamada Otomo replied: "I found out that all three of them have something to do with the Suiyuan Intelligence Station and the Taiyuan Intelligence Station that we cracked more than two months ago.

At that time, the personnel of the Suiyuan Intelligence Station of the Military Command were escorted from Suiyuan to Taiyuan, and the security army was responsible, and the commanding officer was Lu Dayong.

Later, when the Taiyuan Station personnel were searched for throughout Taiyuan City, the police station and the plainclothes team were involved in the operation, and Dai Wenshan and Cai Wu also arrested a number of escaped agents of the Taiyuan Station on the street.

Based on these circumstances, I believe that this was a retaliatory act by the agents of the Military Command, and that the targets of the assassinations were all those who had participated in the capture of the military commanders. ”

As soon as these words came out, Yoshioka Masao nodded slightly, and this was indeed the case, in fact, when Yoshioka Masao received the news that Harada was also assassinated, he felt that it was related to several previous murders.

After coming to the scene, according to the clues collected, Kazuya Harada was linked to Dai Wenshan, and immediately understood that this was someone who was assassinating the designated target with a purpose and a plan.

He is also optimistic that it will take at least three or four months or even half a year for the military command to recover.

But I didn't expect that the other party's style was so strong, and the blood on his body had not been wiped dry, so he pounced again, and it seemed that a new battle had quietly begun.

"It seems that the military commanders have begun a plan to retaliate, but we have been slow to react and have ignored this before." Yoshioka Masao said with some annoyance.

At this time, Ma Weide asked with some confusion: "As far as I know, it seems that Harada Advisor did not participate in the previous operation against the agents of the military command, so why was he also killed this time?" ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Yoshioka Masao.

Yoshioka Masao snorted coldly: "It's very simple, this shows that the military commander's revenge target is no longer limited to those who have targeted them before, as long as it is our military and political officials, intelligence personnel, and even Japanese nationals, they may become the target of their assassination, this time they have a big plan, and they will never give up!" ”

Yoshioka Masao's words made everyone's hearts freak, if this is the case, the other party can take the initiative to attack, choose the target to assassinate at will, and his own side will be passive defense, and he will be tired of coping, and a bloody storm will soon be set off in Taiyuan City.

But Yoshioka Masao is not afraid at all, in this Taiyuan City, he has been operating for a long time, has sufficient resources in his hands, and occupies the home advantage, no matter what opponent, he is confident to knock him down.

"Very well, then let's see who can have the last laugh!" A fierce light flashed in his eyes, and Yoshioka Masao said coldly.