Shanghai in December, at two o'clock in the morning, a train burst out of the dark night sky, with a cold whistling into the station, not many people got off the train, a station attendant on the platform lazily guided the passengers, a man wearing a gray scarf, carrying a black suitcase in the crowd hurriedly walked to the station attendant, the suitcase looked very heavy, he said something anxiously, when the station attendant heard the three words of the gendarmerie, his expression immediately became nervous, and immediately came to the station office with the "gray scarf".

With a bang, the door was not pushed open, it was almost slammed open, and the attendant in the office was looking at the daytime newspaper in front of the dim electric light, and the attendant was obviously startled by the sudden sound of pushing the door, and said to the station attendant dissatisfied: In the middle of the night, what the hell are you panicking. Before the fire in the back could start, he saw the "gray scarf" that came in, so he whispered: "I said Zhang Yu, this is the office, who asked you to bring people in casually, let him go out and find a hotel by himself." ”

Without waiting for the station attendant to reply, the "gray scarf" walked by and introduced himself, "I am Hideki Sato, a military doctor of the Kamo unit of the Kwantung Army, and I have asked the correspondent of Wuxi Station to contact your Shanghai Station at noon yesterday, and the train departed 4 hours earlier for some reason, so I asked you to inform the gendarmerie, why no one has come to pick me up now?" ”

The two looked at each other, a little dazed, Zhang Yu's personality was a little timid, and as soon as he was forced to ask, he asked Nuo Nuo's return: Sir, I just came to the station the day before yesterday, and it was not me who answered the phone.

The experience of the duty officer is obviously much higher than that of this newcomer, and his emotions are almost the same as Sato's: Mr. Sato, don't worry, I'll call the gendarmerie right away. ”

The phone was dialed twice, and Sato said with a calm face: How did you make the call, you can't get out at all, hurry up and think of another way.

"Otherwise, I'll take you directly, and we won't be able to speak Japanese, and we'll need to trouble you.

After saying that, the attendant picked up the black suitcase on the ground, and he found that the box was much heavier than he imagined, and he estimated that it was about thirty pounds.

"You put it down immediately, who let you take it" Hideki Sato saw that the attendant picked up the box without authorization, and immediately drank it sternly. The attendant was startled, immediately put it down, and hurriedly explained: I thought I was going to set off immediately and help you get the box. Sato looked down at the box and thought about something, while the attendant stared out the door, a subtle smile on his lips.

Sato asked: How long does it take to get from the station to the gendarmerie?

After about 20 minutes by rickshaw, Zhang Yu was afraid of offending the Japanese, so he easily had a question that didn't need to be bothered, so he hurriedly answered, as if saying a few more words to Sato would make him have a good impression of himself.

"If you don't know, don't mess around, it's dark in the middle of the night, where to find a rickshaw, which driver doesn't sleep. Chief Sato, it will take about forty or fifty minutes to walk from here to the gendarmerie, so you may be able to walk a little earlier. ”

Sato was a little helpless after hearing this, it was obviously inconvenient to walk with such a heavy box, and he was even more troubled when he met the robbery halfway, he walked around the office and found that there was a safe in the corner of the back room that had been painted, with a key socket on the left and a password knob on the right. Sato touched it in the past, it felt very thick, and lifted it again, but it didn't move.

"Who keeps the password and key to this safe?" Sato asked.

"The password is kept by me, and the key is handed over by the station attendant who changes shifts every day," the attendant replied.

Sato thought for a while, and said in a commanding tone: "You open the cabinet, put the box in the cabinet and lock it, and then you give me the key," Zhang Yu touched a bunch of keys pinned to the belt of his trousers, hesitated, and looked at the attendant timidly, "This doesn't seem to meet the rules of the station, you see......" The position of the attendant at the station seems to be much higher than Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu hesitated and waited for the attendant to reply. The attendant gave him a look and motioned to open it. The two of them squatted on the ground, one turned the password, the other twisted the key, and the cabinet door opened with a bang, and it was very empty, only some messages and schedules. Sato handed over the box, stared at the two of them locking the safe, and turned the combination lock twice to shuffle the code. After doing this, Sato took away Zhang Yu's key and said to the watchman: Now you take me to the gendarmerie, the watchman looked at the sky outside, with a reluctant face, and there was really no way, so he just said I put on my coat and wait a while.

The attendant wrapped himself tightly, like a brown bear that was only ready for winter, and said to Sato: Sir, you can go, Zhang Yu, you take care of the cabinet at home. Zhang Yu had just been here for less than two days, and although he lacked work experience, he could see that there was an emergency, so he didn't dare to slack off and replied yes, and watched the two disappear into the vast darkness.

Zhang Yu sat in the office by himself, looking at the watch on the wall from time to time, the first time he was on night shift, he didn't expect the night to be so difficult, there was nothing to do, so he came over to look at the newspaper of the duty officer, the first two pages of the Shanghai News always reported on the recovery of the economy, the new ** policy and other current political news, he was not interested, in order to increase sales and attract readers, the newspaper often added some of the actress's lace news in the later editions, or where the homicide was detected by the police and other news, Zhang Yu quickly found this edition, It said that a certain actress in Shanghai was married to a predator in the business world, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but say to himself: Such a young girl married an old man, but it's a pity, my mother always said that I was unproductive and timid at home, and I didn't know when I would be able to say a daughter-in-law. Continue to look down, a piece of news made him shudder, there have been three murders in Shanghai recently, the murderer is extremely cruel, every time he commits a crime, he gouges out the eyes of the deceased, from the first case of a vendor selling knives and noodles, to the later two cases of the murder of a dancer in a song hall, all of them were committed in the early morning, the newspaper called on the police to solve the case as soon as possible, and gave the deceased a justice, and called on the public to go to the police station immediately to report the case as soon as they have clues, and provide valuable clues Once confirmed, 30 yellow croakers can be obtained.

Zhang Yu looked at the dark sky outside the window, thinking about what he could do if he met this murderer, and was thinking wildly, when suddenly someone outside vaguely called his name, he looked up at the watch on the wall, it was half past four in the morning, and they should come back when they counted the time, but it shouldn't be so quiet outside, every time the gendarmerie came out, it was a military vehicle, and a bunch of Japanese-speaking people were messy, so he decided to go out and take a look by himself, with the dim light of the platform, I don't know when there were water drops on the ground, It seems that someone is carrying a kettle from here, and the traces of the water spilled out, Zhang Yu is curious, and goes forward along the water stains, there is an extra paper package on the edge of the platform at some point, and the outside of the paper has been soaked with water, he is afraid that the water will not be clean and get into his hands, so he picked up the branch on the side of the platform, carefully opened it, and a head came into view, "Chief Sato, you, how are you, you were still just now... ”

Zhang Yu was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and was incoherently speaking, a black shadow slowly walked towards him, Zhang Yu saw the shadow leaning on the ground, his eyes were full of horror, he turned around and saw a person wearing a black cloak, his face was pale, like a skeleton came over, only to hear this person yin and yang said in a strange way: You have seen it, don't blame me. When Zhang Yu heard that his pants were wet at that time, he hurriedly begged for mercy: You let me go, let me do anything, I still have a mother waiting for me to take care of, please.

"It's okay to stay alive, but I'll borrow one of your things."

"You say, as long as I have it, do you want money? I'll give you mine. As he spoke, Zhang Yu flipped through his clothes.

The man in black waved his hand and said, "I want a pair of eyes from you."

"It's you, the murderer is you, and you killed the first few people, please don't kill me," Zhang Yu was frightened by this scene, as if he was stimulated, he was incoherent while slamming like a fly, just ran a few steps, and then planted his head on the platform.

Ringing bell, the crisp phone ringing broke the quiet morning in the office, Bai Yunfei just picked up the phone, just after the secretary Xiao Wang knocked on the door, it seemed that he was going to bring someone in, and when he saw that the director was busy, he retreated, Bai Yunfei listened to the phone, his expression became more and more serious, and after hanging up the phone, he shouted to the door: Come in. Xiao Wang heard the call, hurriedly pushed open the door and came in, followed by a soldier in a navy uniform, who came in without greetings, went straight to the topic, and said in a somewhat anxious tone: Director Bai, it was the chief Suzuki of the special high school who sent me to pick you up, please go to the train station, there is an emergency over there.

"Okay, I know, the efficiency of the extra high class is so high, you just received the call, and you arrived."

The visitor saluted, "Then I'll wait for you at the gate." ”

"Okay, wait for me for a while, and I'll be out right away." Bai Yunfei put on the coat he had just taken off, and told Xiao Wang: Xu Kai will come back in a while and let him put the raw fry on the table, I will go to the station and tell him that he doesn't need to pick me up, and prepare a few suspicious elements provided by this month's special high school in the morning.

"Yes, Director," Xiao Wang replied earnestly.

Xu Kai walked through the alley and came to a fried shop at the corner of the street, the shop was not big, there were five or six tables, all of them were full of people, Xu Kai looked around, Uncle Ding was sitting in the corner against the wall, Xu Kai walked to him and asked: Old man, is there anyone here? Uncle Ding glanced up at him, said that there was no one, and lowered his head to eat his own, Xu Kai sat down and shouted to the guy: Two raw fried, one taken away, and then a bowl of bean curd.

After a while, the guy put the dishes together, one was plated, one was wrapped in oiled paper, Xu Kai picked up and took a bite with chopsticks, the outside of the fried noodles was very thick, and there was very little meat inside, but there was a lot of oil, and after a few bites, his mouth was covered with oil, Uncle Ding finished eating, covered his mouth and coughed twice, took out a handkerchief from his bag, wiped his mouth, Xu Kai saw a few small words written in ink on the edge of the light-colored handkerchief, which read: There is something to the station, look forward to find out. Xu Kai nodded, indicating that it was clear. Uncle Ding put away the handkerchief and got up to settle the bill.