He drove Mr. Kumamoto and the others to the train station. As he watched them leave, infinite sadness welled up in his heart. One of them was his familiar back. Although he was not tall, it was this figure that protected him for four years. Now that they were separated, he did not know if it was forever.
One of them was his best friend, Ichiro Suzuki, who regarded him as a brother. When he saw the dejected figure, he had a bad feeling.
For Ichiro Suzuki to fall so low for a woman, the thousands of women in China, as well as the lovers behind them, had to bear so much humiliation and pain. You Japanese have a cherry blossom complex. Do you think that our Celestial Empire is willing to let you trample on us and crush the petals in our hearts?
Teacher, I'm sorry. Suzuki Ichiro, I'm sorry. In the next round, I'll let your self-proclaimed glory, the star of the North China battlefield, fall! To resolve the hatred in my heart for splitting my country, launching the 918 incident, and killing millions of my compatriots!
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In the afternoon, the door to Kumamoto Shunji's office was left open. Sitting behind the desk was a man with an unkempt beard and a wretched appearance. Without his teacher and Ichiro Suzuki, he was all alone in the Special Higher Police. At this moment, he felt even more lonely.
The setting sun shone through the window and through the door, sprinkling golden light on the corridor. The figure was motionless in the dark corner. His colleagues who got off work quickened their pace when they passed by the door to avoid disturbing him.
A few of the higher-ups who knew about the situation shook their heads when they passed by. They could not persuade him. Everyone knew about his relationship with Team Leader Kumamoto. Team Leader Kumamoto's departure had made him lose someone to rely on.
" Dang, dang, dang." The bell of the New Tianan Church rang. It was six o'clock in the afternoon.
Cheng Xiaofeng took out the key left behind by the teacher and opened the drawer. There were three tea bags inside. One was big and two were small. The big one was labeled as a safe house, the small one was labeled as No. 38, and the other was blank. Cheng Xiaofeng's heart sank. He quickly opened the three bags of tea leaves. His fingers trembled, and half of the tea leaves scattered on the table.
The tea leaves in No. 38 were exactly the same as the tea leaves in the safe house. In the unmarked tea bag, there were jasmine tablets, black tea, and rough tea embryo.
Cheng Xiaofeng felt as if he had been struck by lightning and collapsed on the chair. He remembered the time when he pushed open the teacher's door and the teacher pushed the drawer in front of him. It turned out that the teacher had separated the tea leaves mixed with No. 38 one by one.
The Maofeng tea shop was completely exposed. From the Maofeng tea shop to the New Tianan Church, and Liu Yuexin, Cheng Xiaofeng didn't dare to think further. The entire team was about to be destroyed! He had underestimated his teacher and his opponent!
Suddenly, he realized that the blank tea paper was covered in dense code. This was a message that only his teacher and he could understand. Calm down! Calm down! He kept reminding himself and quickly translated,
"Xiao Feng, I thought about it and decided to give this to you. It's too late for me to regret after six o'clock. It was the withering cherry blossom last night that made me finally confirm this idea.
Teacher, I'm a detective. My job is to find the truth behind the case. Remember, there is no case that cannot be solved, because there will always be a truth, and it really exists. It is the only one. Unsolved cases meant that the details of the case were neglected.
On Wednesday, you brought Wang Xing to the military police station. Not long after you left, I heard the death knell. After the death knell sounded, within a minute, I heard gunshots.
I believe that the strange death knell that day must have left an impression on many people. After the bell rang, the wonton stall was immediately hit. Then, your convoy was forced to stop, and the sharpshooter began to shoot. The clock tower that rang the bell just happened to be able to see the convoy on Zhapu Road, so the bell might be the order for the assassination. This is my first hypothesis.
Every day, there would be many such carriages passing by Zhapu Road. It was impossible to determine which convoy was the real target. However, if it was limited to a certain period of time, then they could accurately grasp the target. If the first hypothesis was true, then there might be a leak in the Special Higher Police and the Military Police. This is my second hypothesis.
It was only an eight-minute journey from the Special Higher Police to the assassination site. The best way to send the information to the New Tianan Church two kilometers away and lock the time within ten minutes was by phone. Therefore, I began to investigate the phone records during this period. Before you left for the military police, there were only three calls made from the Special Higher Police. If the Special Higher Police had a leaker, we could only find them from these three calls. This is my third hypothesis. Unfortunately, the gendarmerie didn't make any calls in the past ten minutes. There was only one incoming call.
Among the many phone records, there was a call from Maofeng Tea Shop to Mitsui Yanghang. The line was busy for twenty-four minutes. This call was very abnormal. Not to mention that Mitsui happened to attend the training that day, Mitsui had three phones. If one phone was busy, he could call the other or even the president's office. Waiting for a busy call for twenty-four minutes showed that he was very anxious. However, after that phone call, this phone call was silent. According to basic logic, he should at least call again.
The time when Maofeng Tea Shop hung up the phone was so close to the time when you set off, which deepened my suspicions. Therefore, the Maofeng Tea Shop might have participated in the assassination. This is my third hypothesis.
So I began to look for the relationship between Maofeng Tea Shop and New Tianan Church.
That day, the New Tianan Church was mourning its creator, and the death knell was tolled for him. This was a good reason. It was normal for Maofeng Tea Shop to have trade relations with Mitsui.
All of this seemed normal and reasonable, but it was abnormal that there was a phone call that connected the two. One minute after the call was hung up, a public telephone 200 meters away from Maofeng Tea Shop made a call to the New Tianan Church. He could run 200 meters in a minute. It was very likely that the person who called the Maofeng tea shop had given the order to the New Tianan Church. This is my third hypothesis.
Thus, the entire information transmission channel had an outline.
This information channel should be like this, from the Special Higher Police to Mitsui, from Mitsui to Maofeng tea shop, from Maofeng tea shop to the public telephone, and from the public telephone to the New Tianan Church.
I began to look for evidence to support my hypothesis.
In fact, this series of connections was not rigorous. There was a break point in the connection time, and the length of the call did not conform to logic. For example, the phone near Maofeng Tea Shop was clearly a signal call, so why did it take 45 seconds to make the call? Such a long conversation did not seem like an action order.
For example, how did the news of the Special Higher Police going to Mitsui go? Moreover, the three calls from the Special Higher Police did not overlap with the busy call from the Maofeng Tea Shop to Mitsui Yanghang.
Thus, I had no choice but to overturn all my assumptions and start searching for other clues, such as the items left behind by the murderer. I realized that these items were leading me in another direction.
Until the night we went to Mishima-tei, we saw the two girls from the traffic class with the people from Mitsui. Do you think this is a coincidence? There's a saying in our industry, don't believe in coincidences. Also, you clearly rushed out of the room that day, but why did you retreat? What are you avoiding? At that moment, I suddenly remembered that one of the three calls from the Special Higher Police was from you. On the other hand, you brought wine for Kimura Takuya and requested the car to slow down along the way. You said that you were afraid of breaking the wine bottles, but in fact, you were controlling the time. This is my fourth hypothesis.
Hence, I began to make the fifth assumption: It was the operator. The operator recommended by Xinteng Suyi was the operator that the girl had used to connect the series of calls. She was not simple and had caused a lot of trouble.
So I started to review. You are the initiator of the operation, and your phone is the signal of the operation. With the help of the operator, your phone number overlapped with that of Maofeng Tea Shop. However, a new loophole appeared. From the moment you picked up the phone to the public phone near Maofeng Tea Shop, the process only took 12 seconds. Excluding the dialing time, it only took three to four seconds. No one could run a distance of 200 meters in five seconds.
At this point, my evidence was cut off. Five seconds was an impossible obstacle.
It was you who reminded me that it was fine as long as I saw it, I didn't have to go up to it. And there are two people in Maofeng Tea Shop, a boss and an apprentice. Two hundred meters was no problem for the young man with good eyesight. The call log was also clearly recorded: The caller was no older than twenty. The call to the New Tianan Church should have been made by that young man.
At this point, I had completely connected this logical chain, even though it was just a hypothesis.
I've already gotten the call records of the concession. The time of all the calls are accurate. However, there was no way to check the time when the call ended, because the time was all on the operator's pen. If the operator tampered with it, then all the time breakpoints could overlap or all the overlapping time periods could be disconnected. This was also the drawback of a manual switch.
The operator had betrayed herself by adjusting the time twice.
By the time I picked out the tea leaves, the evidence was already there. The murderer's contact point was Maofeng Tea Shop, and the shop owner was the same height as me.
He looked at the paper again. It was smaller than all the wrapping paper and was trimmed with scissors. The paper rope was also cut short. All of this had been tampered with before the surprise inspection. It wasn't a brilliant method, but it was very timely. I was also deceived at the beginning.
When did he do it? It could only be that night, the night we went to Mishimatei for a drink. Earlier than this, you and Suzuki went to the concession. You acted separately, and the New Tianan Church was not far from the two of you.
Did the logic of all the assumptions make sense here?
In the end, what happened later once again confirmed the above hypothesis. A Mr. Feng, who claimed to be a bank loan, came forward to confirm the business relationship between Mitsui and Maofeng tea shop and called Mitsui. Since there was a problem with Maofeng Tea Shop, then there must be something wrong with Mr. Feng. Sure enough, after investigation, on the second day after we were attacked, he asked for sick leave. It was his wife who asked for it, not in advance, but after nine o'clock. At that time, it was already after working hours. He was very likely the killer. His wife was a nurse at a church hospital. There were only three hospitals that used both painkillers and antibiotics, and one of them happened to be the church's Sacred Heart Hospital. It seemed that his wife was involved.
Xiao Feng, you're the only one who can plan this case. You're the only one who can fix the loopholes in the past in a short period of time. I have to say, you are a very clever criminal.
There was also a coincidence. The owner of the Maofeng tea shop suddenly disappeared. Who leaked the news?
Although all of this is just my assumption, I already have concrete evidence. All that's left is a confession. I believe that these people will leave behind the confession I want.
If this was a test, I would have failed you! Unfortunately, this was not the case. Xiaofeng, this was life and death! You're out!
Remember, the smarter the criminal, the easier it is to solve his case. Don't try to make up for your mistakes. That will only increase the number of loopholes. He had to know how to give up and minimize the intermediate links as much as possible. He had to not leave any clues, whether it was intentional or unintentional.
This may be my last advice to you, and also my last lesson to you.
Xiao Feng, when so many loopholes were placed in front of me, I realized that I had already embarked on the wrong path. You were luring me onto this wrong path and away from that important goal-Team 5.
I admire your unyielding resistance. At my age, I'm no longer a fanatic. Justice and injustice can't be washed away by time. I'm used to looking at the world with a calm gaze. I'm just a detective. This is a profession that I'm proud of and a profession that I've loved all my life. I hope that all murderers can receive retribution. Yes, retribution. But in the current war, my thoughts were so humble.
Do you know what kind of conflict I'm in? Do you know what kind of torture I've been through last night?
"How should I face them? I'll either capture all of them or release them all. In the end, it'll be your life and death. It'll also affect the honor and disgrace of me and my family.
As a detective, he was unable to face the murderer of 300,000 people. How could he have the face to punish the unyielding people who dared to resist? Did they have to suffer retribution? Yes, they should have retribution. It came from the protection of an old detective who claimed to be righteous!
He protected my enemies and my family. He violated my profession and the dignity of a soldier. I have decided to use my life to restore the dignity of a Japanese soldier and wash away the shame of betraying the motherland.
Xiao Feng, you saved me before. I believe you are sincere. I once said that as long as I am here, I will protect you. Don't worry about the secrets of you and your team. I think you should be the special team. Out of respect for my opponents, I will keep this secret for you with my life.
Xiao Feng, for the sake of your country, you were able to place yourself within the range of two assassination attempts. I deeply admire your courage, but I am also deeply worried for you.
I only hope that you can take care of yourself in the future. Don't take risks and don't make the same mistake again. For you and for my daughter.
Kumamoto Shunji who loves you like my daughter
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This was a very long message, written by Kumamoto Shunji overnight. Cheng Xiaofeng's tears flowed out of his eyes when he thought of his teacher, who had been exhausted the entire morning, and his determined departure.
(The first volume of the Dark Spy, Assassination Crisis, has ended. The second volume, Heavyweight Opponent, will be released soon.)
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