At the same time, in the French Concession in Shanghai, a man in a long shirt walked into a high-end apartment, he entered the room, took off his top hat, and it was Iwai Nosuke, an agent of the Japanese Special High School.

Iwai Nosuke has been depressed since he was transferred to the action team as the captain, originally thought that he would be able to solve a major case and be valued by his superiors, and he would rise to prominence, but it backfired, and he worked hard, but he was transferred out of the intelligence team, and his future was bleak, and he was disheartened.

But I didn't expect that the new intelligence team leader Kitaoka Ryoko, in the review of the previous case file, found that Iwai Nosuke was extremely prominent in the case of cracking the military intelligence station in Shanghai, China, so he immediately met with Iwai Nosuke, and after talking, he admired his talent very much, and quickly transferred Iwai Nosuke to his command and re-entered the intelligence group.

And a month ago, he sent Iwai Nosuke to the Shanghai Concession to carry out intelligence activities and became the leader of an intelligence team.

After entering the French Concession, Iwai Nosuke quickly began his work, and is currently investigating the whereabouts of the Chinese agents.

When several Japanese agents in the room saw Iwai Nosuke coming in, they all quickly stood up and said, "Iwai-kun! ”

Iwai Nosuke nodded, came to the sofa and sat down, threw a stack of old newspapers in his hand on the table, sighed and said, "It took so much effort to find these newspapers, Matsumoto, what progress is there on your side?" ”

Matsumoto Matsumoto, an agent of the Special High School, hurriedly took out a few old newspapers from the side and replied: "We have found a few copies, mainly because too much time has passed, and we have bought off the workers of the newspaper hall to find these copies in the old warehouse, plus the ones collected before, it is quite a lot." ”

Iwai Nosuke looked at the pile of old newspapers on the table, nodded and said, "We've been collecting for so long, it should be about the same, pick it up and find out all those gunmen." ”

Since being sent to the concession, Iwai has gradually begun to search for the whereabouts of the Chinese agents, he has done his homework, researched a lot of information, and finally focused on several major assassinations in the concession a year ago.

In this confession, Cui Guangqi clearly confessed that the assassination of Nagatani, an agent of the Japanese military department, occurred in the French Concession in Shanghai a year ago, and it was the Chinese agent headed by Ning Zhiheng.

At that time, along with Masaki Hase, there was also the Chinese cotton tycoon Fu Yaozu, who escaped and was rescued by his own driver.

This assassination case caused a sensation in the French Concession, and the specific cause was that at that time, reporters in all major newspapers and periodicals in the French Concession published articles exposing the fact that the cotton merchant Fu Yaozu colluded with the Japanese, and then this assassination occurred.

Iwai Nosuke judged that this was the Chinese agent who first used public opinion to expose Fu Yaozu's traitorous behavior, and then imposed sanctions on him, so as to achieve the effect of warning others and killing chickens and monkeys.

At that time, Fu Yaozu's contact with the Japanese was very secretive, so how did these reporters know about Fu Yaozu's traitorous behavior?

Quite simply, they must have been detected by Chinese agents first, and then they bought these reporters to be gunmen and create public opinion in major newspapers and magazines, and in the whole assassination case, only these reporters had contact with these Chinese agents, so it became the only breakthrough in the whole case.

Iwai Nosuke focused his attention on these reporters, and during this time, he began to collect old newspapers from major newspapers and magazines a year ago, and his agents spent a lot of effort to find out some newspapers about exposing Fu Yaozu's traitorous behavior from the old warehouses of major newspapers and magazines at that time.

At that time, there were many reports in the newspapers that Fu Yaozu betrayed the country and was willing to be a traitor, and most of them followed the trend and reported it, which attracted people's attention, but there must have been reporters who were really bought by Chinese agents and became gunmen.

How do you identify these journalists? Iwai divided the collected newspapers into categories, and selected the journalists who published the first such articles in chronological order, and then selected the journalists who published the most such articles from the subsequent newspapers.

After a few hours, he finally discovered that there were four newspaper reporters who had published the highest number of articles in the order of time, and that they had published the most articles later.

"Liu Deben, Shi An, Lu Mingyi, Wu Ziang!"

Iwai Nosuke wrote the names of these four people on paper, thought about it for a long time, there should be nothing wrong, these four people must be the gunmen bribed by Chinese agents, under their momentum, other reporters followed suit and reported, and soon set off a tide of public opinion, and even in the subsequent newspapers, it was also shown that Fu Yaozu also hired a group of gunmen, and the two groups of gunmen engaged in a fierce battle of public opinion in the newspapers, and the articles of these four people were published the most and the words were the most intense.

He pushed the names of the four reporters on the table and instructed the agents around him: "Starting tomorrow, find out the whereabouts of these four people, look for opportunities to arrest them, interrogate them, and see how much they know about the Chinese agents!" ”

The intelligence team under Nosuke Iwai has sixteen agents, and the manpower is very rich, so it is not difficult to do these things.

However, an agent beside him was a little hesitant, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Iwai-kun, once the person is arrested, it is impossible to let him go, after the interrogation, he must be silenced, if the four reporters disappear at the same time, will it be too conspicuous, before we entered the concession, the head of the Kitaoka team once explained that the concession is not an urban area, and our whereabouts here must be concealed and not exposed, otherwise it will attract the attack of Chinese agents." ”

Iwai Nosuke frowned suddenly, he didn't like his subordinates to question his decision, but now the members of this intelligence team are all Japanese agents transferred by Kitaoka Ryoko from the North China Headquarters, which can be regarded as Kitaoka Ryoko's old department, and Iwai Nosuke is not too strict with them.

Iwai Nosuke had no choice but to hold back his displeasure and said: "We have no other way, if we just come to the door to ask, they will definitely not tell the truth, even if they are bought with money, how can we guarantee that they will tell everything they know, only strict interrogation and repeated verification can ensure the authenticity of the confession, you are all trained agents, this common sense should know, as for whether it will alarm others, the population in the French Concession is hundreds of thousands, and the security situation is not good, as long as we arrange it cleverly, It shouldn't attract the attention of others, we are decisive in our profession as agents, and we can't look ahead and backward, understand? ”

"Hey!" The agents around him bowed down in agreement.