A loud bang in the warehouses along the Suzhou Creek shocked the whole of Shanghai, and the authorities were so enraged by this incident that the Concession Patrol House, the Huajie Police Station, the No. 76 Secret Service Headquarters, and the Special High School immediately set up a joint investigation team, headed by Kimura, and the authorities had to find out the ins and outs of this major explosion within three days.

Feng Haiquan also participated in it as a police detective in the Chinese community, he and Inspector Pierre of the French Concession, Inspector Brown of the Public Concession, and Ye Jialiang, the deputy director of the fourth division of the No. 76 Secret Service Headquarters, all received a notice from the head of the Kimura team, Feng Haiquan became famous for cracking the treasure map case, and also brought to justice Liu Dahu, a big bully in Shanghai, and won the support of the majority of Shanghai citizens. Westerners dare not underestimate the Chinese, let them know that the title of Huajie Detective is by no means in vain.

When he received this notice, Ye Jialiang was swallowing clouds and spitting fog in the underground smoke house, Ye Jialiang had participated in the Loyal Salvation Army, and a piece of shrapnel was still left in his head, so every rainy day his head hurt uncomfortably, and he could only rely on smoking opium to relieve the pain, in order to prove that he was not a bad breed, he followed his brother-in-law to the battlefield together, but the bullets on the battlefield were not long-sighted, and if he was not careful, his life would be reimbursed, Ye Jialiang was frightened by the war, so he tried every possible way to transfer from the front-line troops to the rear, and it happened that the battle, Before he could put a shot, he was injured by the Japanese artillery fire, although he picked up a life, but the shrapnel became a permanent souvenir and remained in his head, so he was naturally transferred back to the rear, and later under the persuasion of his fellow townsman Wan Lilang, he got an errand in the No. 76 agent headquarters and became the deputy director of the fourth department, specializing in concession affairs, but Ye Jialiang didn't know anything about detective work, and relied on his subordinates to make a living, and this joint investigation team needed the backbone of various departments to participate, And the director of the fourth division went out for a meeting, so this errand fell to Ye Jialiang. So the boss of Ye Jialiang reluctantly came over from the smoke house, he yawned, and looked drunk and dreaming of death, which made Feng Haiquan frequently look sideways.

When he received the order of the chief inspector of the French Concession Patrol House, Pierre was flirting with his mistress in his villa, the relationship between the forces along the Suzhou Creek was complicated, the north bank of the Suzhou Creek belonged to the Japanese Concession and the Chinese Concession, and the south bank of the Suzhou Creek belonged to the French Concession and the Public Concession, and the explosion occurred on the north bank, and the most seriously damaged were the Japanese arms warehouse, the British Sunset Warehouse and the American Kensas Warehouse, the French warehouse was not seriously damaged, but one wall was a little damaged, so the French Concession was not keen on this matter, But since such a major event had taken place, the French Concession had to stand up as a force to show that the French were not to be underestimated in Shanghai. The chief inspector told Inspector Pierre privately that this matter is just a formality, you just need to point out, as for those investigations and evidence collection, let the Japanese do it, they are the biggest victims of this bombing. Thus Pierre's visit to the Joint Investigation Team was just a matter of making up the numbers.

The explosion has little to do with the public concession, the location is on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek, which originally belonged to the public concession, but after August 13, it is mainly under the jurisdiction of the Japanese. Often do not take the public concession of the Ministry of Industry Bureau in their eyes, the directors of the Ministry of Industry Bureau have long complained about this, and Brown is behind the directors of the Ministry of Industry, and now the sunset warehouse company is suffering bad luck, and the other merchants and the directors of the Ministry of Industry are secretly gloating, they learn that Inspector Brown is going to investigate the matter, so they persuade him to leave the matter alone, telling him that this is God's punishment for the owner of the company that has no one in his eyes.

Inspector Brown, of course, obeyed the directors of the Ministry of Works, so he didn't care about the matter at all, and after receiving the notice to go to the scene to investigate, he did not have the slightest intention of leaving the table, and continued to play cards at the table, and said to the Japanese soldiers who came to inform him to go to the scene: "Please tell the head of the Kimura team, just say that I am sick and can't go, and just tell me the results when the time comes." ”

The Japanese soldier had no choice but to leave in a huff, came to Kimura, and relayed Brown's words to him.

"Detective Brown is sick?" Kimura asked.

The Japanese soldier's eyes flickered slightly, and then he put his mouth on Kimura's ear and whispered, "Actually, Inspector Brown is gambling at the card table. ”

Kimura cursed in his heart: "Eight grids." ”

But after all, Brown is the senior inspector of the patrol house in the public concession, and this thin face still has to be given, so the corners of his mouth rose slightly: "Then let Inspector Brown recuperate!" When we have the results, let's let him know. ”

"Since Inspector Brown isn't here, let's not waste time, let's start investigating!" Feng Haiquan raised his hand and looked at his watch, he had been waiting here for a long time.

"Okay, then let's get started, let's start with the two arsenals that were the most seriously exploded." Kimura pointed to the Sasaki and Hatoyama warehouses and proposed.

Everyone nodded in agreement, so Kimura, Feng Haiquan, Pierre, Ye Jialiang and the heads of some storage companies conducted on-site surveys together.

This time, Kimura was instructed by Section Chief Kato to investigate this serious explosion to the bottom of the matter, so he did not dare to take it lightly, and the Japanese side suffered the most damage in this bombing, and all the arms in the two arsenals were wiped out, and a guard squad was also killed, and even the military headquarters was shocked by such a heavy blow, so he instructed the Special High School and the gendarmerie to investigate the explosion case clearly.

The group walked into the scene of the bombing, which had been cordoned off since the bombing.

Looking at the two bombed arsenals, everyone couldn't help but sigh at the terrifying power of explosives, and some police officers were carrying out several shattered corpses of guards from the collapsed warehouses. Since the bombings, the police have been removing more than 40 bodies from the rubble of the two arsenals.

The police placed the bodies in the open space opposite the warehouse, covered with a white cloth, and counted them, and now a total of fifty-two bodies have been exhumed, matching the number provided by the gendarmerie. This means that the guards of the two warehouses have all been killed, and none of them have been spared.

Kimura walked over, looked at the tragic situation of his compatriots missing arms and legs, couldn't bear to look at it, and quickly waved his hand to the police, asking them to carry these mutilated corpses into the car and pull them away.

Pierre and Ye Jialiang also frowned, and the two took out their handkerchiefs and covered their mouths and noses, unwilling to take another look.

"Wait a minute." Feng Haiquan walked quickly to the corpses, lifted the white cloth on the corpses, and looked at the corpses, he carefully inspected each corpse before letting the police carry them away.

After that, the group walked into the warehouse, and Pierre and Ye Jialiang went in for a while before coming out, they looked at the ruins, fearing that the precarious warehouse would suddenly collapse and bury themselves alive.

Feng Haiquan looked at the two colleagues with disdain, straightened out the trench coat, and went straight to the places where the explosion was most serious, which was already full of rubble, Feng Haiquan had previously learned the approximate number of these two arsenals from the Japanese gendarmerie, but from the situation observed at the scene, Feng Haiquan had some doubts about the stock of arms in the arsenal.

According to the amount of munitions provided by the gendarmerie, if there is an explosion in the arsenal, the power is enough to blow up the residential buildings on the road behind the warehouse, but now, except for a few pieces of window glass that have been shattered, the entire building of the residential building has not suffered major damage, but only several nearby warehouses have been blown up, and even the roof of the warehouse has not been blown up, so it can be seen that there are not many guns and ammunition, gasoline, explosives and other arms stored in the arsenal. With the exception of the blown up tank and a few armoured vehicles, the amount of other blown up remnants of munitions was modest.

Feng Haiquan squatted down and took a closer look at the pipes buried under the ground of the wall, this huge explosion has blown up all the underground pipes, and the underground is full of deep pits, which are full of rubble, Feng Haiquan pulled the gravel away with his hands, and found that the gas pipes are going in a strange direction, although after the explosion, these pipes will be damaged, but the general path will not deviate greatly, but Feng Haiquan feels that these gas pipes are much worse from the original location, and he can't help but be a little puzzled.

"Feng Sang, do you notice anything wrong?" Kimura saw that Feng Haiquan was carefully inspecting the scene, so he walked over and asked.