In the extraordinary era, you will eventually meet extraordinary people.

It is only today that Takeki Masashi understands the meaning of this sentence.

Lin Hai is not a close opponent to him, and whenever the former regroups and intends to fight him to the death, Takeki Ya thinks that he is sitting in the circus and watching a clown burlesque performance.

Perhaps life is so dramatic, from the moment he set foot on the land of Shanghai Tang, China, the gears of fate have begun to turn.

Takekiya was convinced of the decisions of the Japanese emperor and the strength of their Yamato nation.

They will conquer the whole world, he said.

In Takemuya's impression, Chinese rarely have hard bones, and most of them do not care about the fate of their country. The walking dead who are struggling to survive and desire are more concerned about the next meal, or whether they can win back the money they lost in the next game.

China's territory is so big that Takekiya loves it, and he finds that many of the vast expanses of land are needed by Japan, and he says there are many undiscovered treasures.

Therefore, in his eyes, the owner of this treasure land should not be a group of sick men of East Asia.

The first three years that Takemu Ya spent here had been smooth sailing, and it was not surprising that he even became the head of the special high section.

In the past three years, he got rid of many military commanders or CCP people, some businessmen who did not cooperate very much, and personally executed a very stupid colleague with a fat brain.

Shanghai, China, is a city that never sleeps, but he prefers to describe it as an island.

Takekiya loves everything in Shanghai.

But he preferred cigars, whether it was Padgas or Upman, for him.

He loves their tangy flavor.

Takeki Ya is an excellent chess player, and he always thought that he could do whatever he wanted here. He is the only one who can control the chessboard. At least in Shanghai, China, he is definitely going to be windy and rainy.

Things were somewhat derailed when he wanted to put a Chinese on his side.

It was the winter of 1940, and the cold was sweeping through Shanghai. In this cold that is different from the past, Takekiya experienced the bloody story that he had scoffed at before.

Perhaps it was also from this time that Takekiya had already lost this game of chess since he taught him shooting, cooking, and the most basic Japanese and English.

Lin Hai escaped three times.

Even frozen faint on the streets.

"He's not Zhou Mu, he's too weak."

Whenever Zhumuya had this thought, Lin Hai would always do something that he didn't expect, but it was understandable.

Therefore, when Zhumu Ya caught the real wild wolf Zhou Mu, she did not make half a wave in her heart.

He prefers this alternative.

It was Takemuya's negligence, and he always thought that the Chinese's small-centered thinking was deeply rooted in the bone marrow, which was their inferior root.

It's also that he's too conceited. From the moment Lin Zhou, who was lurking in Chongqing, lost control, he should have firmly grasped Lin Hai and not let him have the slightest possibility of leaving.

But Zhumuya sent him away with his own hands.

He thought that Lin Hai would always be an existence that could be used and kneaded at will.

He was still snickering as he watched Lin Hai take the woman's hand.

That woman is inextricably linked to the Chinese Communist Party, even related to the previously lost penicillin. So Takekiya gave up the opportunity to get him back, and even kicked him out, forcing him to find the woman.

Put a long line and catch big fish. Whether it's a whale or a grass carp, he wants it.

He thought it was all in his plan.

Takekiya remembers that as he walked down the street where Lin Hai had fainted, he saw a blind fortune teller.

The fortune teller said that Zhu Mu Ya was the fate of killing Wang Wuyin and the financial official Yin Wang, which was a good thing, but who knew that the fate was red and pretentious.

"Too greedy, not enough to swallow elephants. I got what I wanted at the beginning, but after that, I wanted more. In the end, it was nothing more than nothing. ”

"Count the heavens and the earth, count the world, and in the end, you can't count yourself."

"It's bad thing, it's also yourself, sad, it's a pity."

In fact, he should have understood that since Lin Hai joined the "76" and followed him to kill his compatriots, and even stabbed his colleagues who had worked together in the military command, he should have been wary of Lin Hai who he had created with his own hands.

But he didn't, and Takekiya pampered him.

The people around Lin Hai who could be trusted, except for that woman, everyone else was firmly controlled by Zhumuya.

He once thought that Lin Haihui would always be his puppet and a tool that could be used by him.

Lin Hai asked Zhu Muya for three things, namely a box of Hardman cigarettes, a radio, and a khaki striped scarf.

He remembered that Lin Hai liked money, and Lin Hai told him that money could buy women.

So in the "No. 76" prison, Zhu Muya took him out, regardless of Lin Hai's unclear suspicions, and still kept him by his side.

"I'll give you both money and women, and you're going to do things for me."

Takekiya clearly remembered that Arakawa Engen, the section chief of the Mei Agency, had warned him, but at that time he only cared about taking Lin Hai back to Sakuragi House.

Arakawa Engen said to him,

"Mr. Takeki, we are all loyal to the Emperor."

"Chinese, not worth trusting."

Yes, when Takekiya gave Lin Hai a short knife of his own design, and Lin Hai threatened him with that thing, he decided to abandon Lin Hai.

The words he had with Tachibana and Kazuya all night were actually for himself.

No one knows how many notes Zhu Mu Ya played "Sakura" on the day when she decided to finally squeeze all the remaining value of Lin Hai.

That Harmani's piano carries Takekiya's ambition, and his regret and reluctance.

Lin Hai was the only one who seemed resolute in the morning light?

Masara Takeki never forgot his mission.

But in the explosion that he had carefully designed, Takekiya felt an inexplicable panic.

All desires fell apart, and all schemes vanished in that moment. He only remembered the song "Cherry Blossoms", but despite this, he still played a lot wrong.

A lot.

When he heard his subordinate Shiro Kawamura say that he had informed Tang Yin to bring Lin Hai back for treatment as he had instructed, Takekiya stabilized his mind.

What he needs is victory, and what he needs is the penicillin that was stolen due to the dereliction of duty of the previous chief of the special high section. And Tang Yin, that woman, will be forced to use the batch of drugs that have not yet been shipped out of Shanghai because of Lin Hai.

Tang Yin is the first lady in Shanghai and an excellent businessman, but unfortunately, she is a Chinese.

What's even more a pity is that she is a woman.

In his eyes, women are the creatures that are most easily swayed by feelings.

In that explosion, Zhu Muya remembered the dumplings that Lin Hai cooked for him, and the taste and appearance were really not flattering. But at such times, it brought back his memories.

He seemed to smell the smell of gunsmoke. A non-existent smell of gunsmoke.

A month later, on a cold and gloomy evening, he attended a banquet hosted by a German colonel at the Licha Hotel on the east side of the north side of the Waibaidu Bridge. The tall colonel looked like a clown.

But Zhu Muya didn't expect that in the end, it was because of this unknown thing that his plan was ruined.

When he took Lin Hai out of the woman's house, he felt like he was holding a fragile glass doll.

Takemuya didn't know if Lin Hai would be able to wake up again, but he knew that he had failed this time. Fortunately, he still has some thin face in the military, and if he just returns to Japan and starts living in seclusion, he will not be stopped.

But he, Zhumuya, won't go back.

What he needs, he says, is victory.

Only with victory can you return to your hometown and enjoy the beauty of Mt. Fuji again.

It's not a complete defeat yet.

That night, the ghost of Takemu Ya sent a god to stay by Lin Hai's bedside for the whole night.

Just like the day when Lin Hai was driven away and froze on the street, he sat on the edge of his bed, dozing off but unwilling to close his eyes.

That night, Takekiya came up with a crazy and ridiculous idea.

He thought that if Lin Hai woke up that night, he would tell Lin Hai and he would take him back to Japan. At dawn, Takekiya would join him on the steamer.

Even if at this time, Takekiya did not usher in the victory he had been longing for.

Even if he goes back as a loser.

Even if this game is not a dead game.

But Lin Hai slept very hard, and his closed eyes showed no sign of opening at all.

At dawn, Zhu Muya remembered the last time he took Lin Hai out of Tang Yin's house and sent him to Tongren Hospital. He knew that Lin Hai was not asleep at that time, and the agents were not very careful in moving him, and in that bumpy, Lin Hai must have been awake.

It's just that he doesn't want to open his eyes to face him.

Zhu Muya smiled sadly, he knew that Lin Hai was afraid of him, and he also knew that under that layer of fear, there was endless disgust and hatred.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered Tang Yin, the woman who loved Lin Hai so much, once asked him at the banquet when he was looking for a girl.

Takekiya replied casually at the time.

"When the war is over, I will return to my hometown and marry a virtuous woman."

He has always believed that Japan will definitely be able to defeat China, and this is the trend of the times and the torrent of history, and no one can reverse it.

Takekiya is an excellent teacher, but not a safe soldier. He likes to gamble, and unlike ordinary gamblers, he knows the probability of winning things very well, and he will only act after he has done everything he can.

But he was shackled to the chessboard of the gears of fate.

He is not a chess player, he is a pawn of history.

When Zhu Muya went to see the woman, he wrote a letter, a letter that could never be sent. That night, he took it out of the drawer and wanted to read it word for word to the unconscious man.

"I need your ......"

But after only four words, he could no longer make any sound.

Takemu Ya and Lin Hai are enemies.

It was in the beginning, and it is now.

Lin Hai is not an ordinary person, he, like Lin Hai, is a soldier.

Chinese believe in life, ghosts and gods, and reincarnation.

Takekiya had despised their ignorance before, and now, he had begun to believe in it.

He remembered the words of the blind fortune teller.

"Count the heavens and the earth, count the world, and in the end, you can't count yourself."

In a word, it is a prophecy.

In the spring of 1941, Takekiya put the ring on her index finger on her little finger.