Early in the morning, as soon as Qin Lang walked into his office, O'Connor followed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info His expression made Qin Lang feel that he had a very serious and urgent problem - O'Connor did have a problem, and his intuition told him very clearly that it was brought by Qin Lang.

Only he would do that.

"You sent someone to kill the Chinese governor?"

"What?"

"Don't look at me like that, Qin, you know what I'm talking about." O'Connor said, "The explosion made by the conspirators didn't kill their target, but someone helped them with their mission, using a rifle to make a hole in his head, from a great distance from the scene." You know, this reminds me of mercenary snipers, and the mercenaries you picked out to do wet work, and finally, you just need another promotional material......"

Qin Lang blinked. "You mean, I knew in advance that the conspirators wouldn't succeed, so I arranged for a hitman to be used as a backup plan for their assassination plan?"

"Yes. Don't tell me you have faith in the guys you've always called crappy conspirators. ”

"Yes, I don't have confidence in them, but that doesn't mean I'm going to send someone to help them get it done. You know, the conspirators didn't sign a contract with us, which means they won't pay for it. ”

"Maybe you decide to do them a small favor for free, for the greater good." O'Connor pulled a chair, sat down in front of Qin Lang, and continued in a very serious tone: "Listen, Qin, this is never a good idea, if people find out that we are both a killer business and a security service, we will be in big trouble. Customers will see this as a way for us to blackmail them in the future......"

He was interrupted before he could finish his sentence - Rachel burst into the office.

For a moment, the eyes of the two people in the room were focused on her. She fearlessly rushed to Qin Lang to meet their gaze, slapped the desk hard, and asked, "Did you send someone to kill that Chinese governor?" ”

Qin Lang looked at her, then at O'Connor, spread his hands, and sighed helplessly. "Why do you all think I sent someone to kill that hapless guy?"

"Because you do." The two replied in unison.

"Interesting." He stared at the two of them intently, and then squeezed a smile out of the corner of his mouth, "But, apparently you don't know yet, the murderer has been caught." ”

O'Connor and Rachel exchanged glances. "Who is it?"

"A twenty-one-year-old young man called Shi Jianru. Information was provided to the authorities that the police had caught him on a ferry bound for Hong Kong. ”

"How did you catch him?" Rachel sat down next to O'Connor and asked with a concerned expression.

"His uncle provided information to the authorities." Qin Lang shrugged.

"Unbelievable."

Unbeknownst to Rachel - and of course the same was true for Qin Lang and O'Connor, who knew nothing - in the history of another time and space that Qin Lang knew, Shi Jianru's uncle was also responsible for the young man's arrest: he provided reliable information to the authorities and sent his nephew to the guillotine.

Again, again.

It's just that since no one is clear about this history, no one has expressed more emotion. Even Rachel quickly emerged from a family tragedy and returned to important issues.

"Can you confirm that it's this person?"

"He rented a house in his name near the Governor's Palace, where the authorities found drawings of the tunnels, tools for digging the tunnels and entrances to the tunnels." Qin Lang said, "There are also a small number of weapons, including a selected Predator rifle. ”

"Featured Predator rifles?" Rachel was surprised again, "We only made two thousand of these rifles. ”

"And the conspirators got at least two."

"Two? You just said—"

"The police only found one rifle, but there were two sets of packages." Qin Lang explained, and then said, "I have instructed Hartman and Wang Zhenqing to check their sales records, and if the Qing government needs it, I will consider providing it with records." ”

Neither Rachel nor O'Connor disputed his arrangement—it was just a routine. They are concerned about the assassination itself. What the police found in the young man's rented house did not represent the truth of the matter, perhaps he dug the tunnel, and he planted and detonated the explosives, but could he have been a good gunman? Or is there a gunman among the conspirators who can shoot their targets from a distance?

Suspicions still exist, and Qin Lang can't wash away his suspicions for the time being, as well as the suspicions of the UMBRELLA group.

O'Connor looked up. "What was the young man's confession?"

"Your question really stumped me, Sean." Qin Lang shook his head, "The person in charge of the interrogation is the police in Guangzhou, not our people, and frankly, I don't think that young assassin will confess." ”

"No, or can't?" Rachel asked.

Qin Lang smiled again. "A twenty-one-year-old conspirator, Rachel, Sean, we should know young people of this age very well, they are usually very stubborn, obsessed with their lofty ideals and great causes, willing to endure all kinds of hardships, and even willing to sacrifice themselves for it."

O'Connor knew what he wanted to say. "Like easy water?"

"I must point out that Yi Shui is not stubborn at all." Rachel protested. Qin Lang's hints made her uncomfortable, as if Yi Shui was also one of the conspirators, but he wasn't, and although he had some secret plans and had private contacts with Chinese rebels, he was clearly not stupid enough to get involved with a bunch of idiots.

Rachel thinks there are some issues that she has to clarify, and knows how. "Yi Shui is our student, and we've always taught him well, haven't we, Qin?"

"I just want to say that the young man's stubborn mind will make sure he doesn't divulge any secrets about his organization." Qin Lang diverted the topic, "Although, if the bureaucrats of the Manchu government had enough patience, they could still wait for the day when he spoke, but they obviously didn't have that much patience. ”

"What do you mean?"

"In retaliation, as well as to deter other conspirators and potential rebels, and to prevent the conspirators from rescuing their comrades, the Qing government will soon execute him." Qin Lang's smile became brighter and brighter, "Then, with his death, the secret will become a dark curtain in history that can never be understood." ”

"It sounds like you're part of a secret." Glancing at Rachel, as if asking for her opinion, as if to signal her not to speak for a moment, O'Connor then spoke his opinion. "Qin, you really have nothing to do with the assassination? I think you care too much about that, it's not like you're always doing. At the same time, as we said at the beginning, arranging a backup for a killer to act as a conspirator after the scheme fails, again like your style. ”

"You need more evidence than speculation and inference, Sean—"

"Listen, Qin." Rachel interrupted him, "I'm not against your plan, but I don't want people to know that we're engaged in assassination while providing security to dignitaries. ”

"That's what I've already said, when you didn't come in." O'Connor said.

Qin Lang looked at them. What else needs to be done at such a time? All he had to do was smile - of course, he couldn't help but open his mouth in the end. "If you think I'm going to put assassinations on my company's list of services, you're very wrong."

"So what is it? An ineffable special service, for VIPs only? ”

"You can think so." He answered O'Connor's question with a noncommittal attitude.

For O'Connor and Rachel, it was unacceptable, but there was nothing they could do about it. As Qin Lang said, if they want to prove that he is related to the assassination, then they need more evidence than speculation and inference, but those evidences, even if they have not been properly handled, are not available to anyone.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs was still an institution they could not interfere with, and, even if they could, the special department associated with the assassination would still be an untouchable dark zone, with only one distinctive feature, a myriad of numbered bald men. Unfortunately, I'm afraid no one can pinpoint exactly which bald head is in a particular place at a particular time - they look almost indistinguishable.

Neither O'Connor nor nor Rachel liked this kind of thing, but they had some secrets of their own that no one else knew, and Yi Shui had it, so it seemed like it had to stay as it was.

At least for now, it must remain as it is.

Both of them were pondering, while Qin Lang just looked at them quietly, neither speaking nor moving. The silence lasted for a few minutes, until Yi Shui stepped back and opened the door and walked in.

"You're all here." He held up a newspaper, "What the hell, an organization called the China League has claimed responsibility for the bombings and assassinations in Guangzhou—"

"So?" O'Connor asked.

"What's the problem?" Rachel didn't get it either.

"What do you want to say?" Qin Lang looked at him.

For a moment, Yi Shui couldn't believe his ears: it looked like he was the only one who didn't know what the China League was, and the last to get the word that it was responsible for the bombings and assassinations. He lowered his hand and sighed in frustration. "What else I don't know?"

"What do you want to know?"

"China Alliance, what's going on with this organization?"

"It is a new group that was merged and reorganized by the Xingzhong Society and several other anti-Qing groups, and was announced in Japan last month." Qin Lang showed a nonchalant demeanor, although in reality, this matter should be taken seriously—the League should have been established in 1905, but now it has been advanced by five years.

However, he didn't care about the slightest change. Rachel, by contrast, is much more cautious than he is, albeit for another reason. "We have reason to believe that the Japanese government facilitated this merger."

"Japanese?" Yi Shui's face turned ugly, "Don't tell me, this assassination is also related to the Japanese government." ”

"Not exactly." Qin Lang replied, then turned to O'Connor and Rachel, "You once said that I paid too much attention to the assassination in Guangzhou, not like my style. Actually, I was concerned about this because the agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had discovered that the Japanese intelligence services and the Japanese troops still in Formosa were involved in the secret activities of the League, not only in the assassination in Canton, but also in a large-scale armed rebellion. ”

"Are you kidding?" Yi Shui screamed.

"No, I'm serious." Qin Lang replied word by word, "It is very coincidental that the person who planned and was in charge of these activities was an old friend of ours who had been dating for several years. ”

"Hitoshi Kuroshima?" Besides him, Yi Shui couldn't think of a second name.

"You guessed it." (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )