In the French Concession, on the second floor of Kate's Western Restaurant on the west bank of the Haihe River, near the window, Xu Chengyan watched the boats plying back and forth on the Haihe River and kept thinking in his heart.

Today's operation went very smoothly. If nothing goes wrong, the obituary of Pan Yugui, the mayor of Tianjin under the Japanese and puppet government in North China, may be published tomorrow or at least the day after tomorrow in newspapers. It is just unclear what reasons will be used to explain the cause of Pan Yugui's death.

In total, I have been in Tianjin for half a month, and the tasks assigned to me by Zhou Shirong have finally been completed, and I have finally lived up to my expectations.

However, assassinating the mayor of Tianjin who was the Japanese and puppet government in North China was definitely a great achievement. However, because he wanted to repay Zhou Shirong's favor, it was a pity that he could not report his merits.

In order to get ahead as soon as possible, Xu Chengyan and Ji Yun braved hardships and dangers and went through life and death, which led to their previous promotions. Next, they will face the most critical step in their military careers, being promoted to school-level officers. It is the time when they need to accumulate military merit.

But he could only watch such a great achievement slipping away from his hands, and it couldn't be attributed to him. It was really a bit sad.

However, Xu Chengyan can afford to take it up and let it go. This thought only flashed in his mind, and then he threw it behind him. The credit for this time will be given to Zhou Shirong. If he finds another opportunity in the future, he will not be guilty of it.

Tangled.

The mission has been completed, and the next thing he has to think about is to find his family. The only gain so far from the trip to Tianjin is to find Han Chang, an uncle who has become a disabled person, and learn more than 20 things from his mouth.

In the old case from two years ago, Master's enemy, Bai Yisheng, the leader of the Youth Gang, was on Xu Chengyan's blacklist.

It's not that Xu Chengyan is murderous. Putting aside the grievances and grievances in the world, and not talking about who is right or wrong, it is just that from Xu Chengyan's perspective, this Bai Yisheng should be eliminated as soon as possible, because Bai Yisheng has now become an obstacle for him to find his family.

Master Lei Tai is a key clue to whether he can find his family. As long as he finds Lei Tai, he can find his family. To say the least, even if his guess is wrong and Lei Tai and his family are not together, he should still be able to know their family members.

Wherever they go, they are one step closer to finding them.

But now Bai Yisheng is still in Tianjin and in charge of the huge Youth Gang. As long as he is around, Lei Tai does not dare to return to his hometown, or in other words, even if he comes back, he does not dare to show his face in public.

You must know that Tianjin is the largest city in northern China, with a huge population of nearly two million, and the existence of concessions from various countries, forming a country within a country. If you want to find Lei Tai in such a large city, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I hope

It's unclear. If he continues to hide it deliberately, it will be even more impossible for Xu Chengyan to find him.

Therefore, Xu Chengyan decided to deal with Bai Yisheng before leaving. As long as this person dies, Lei Tai may return to Tianjin. If he contacts his junior brother Han Chang, whom he has not seen for a long time, wouldn't this mean that he can contact him again?

Have you fallen in love with him? This is a clue that cannot be ignored. Now in order to find his family, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, he cannot give up.

Besides, Xu Chengyan also knew something about Bai Yisheng. He had been the hegemon in Tianjin Wei for decades and had been doing evil for decades. After the fall of Tianjin, he had defected to the Japanese, doing evil and poisoning the people. He had a lot of blood in his hands. People like this would kill dozens of people.

Killing a hundred times is not too many, and there is no need to feel any psychological burden at all.

The more Xu Chengyan thought about it, the more it made sense, and he secretly decided in his heart that his next target of action was Bai Yisheng. After dealing with this person, he immediately returned to Peiping, bid farewell to his teacher Yoshinoemon, and rushed back to Taiyuan as soon as possible.

Just as he was thinking about it, time passed little by little. He couldn't help but feel a little strange. He took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was already more than half an hour past the appointed time, but Lin Guangyan still didn't show up.

For Lin Guangyan, after these several contacts and exchanges, Xu Chengyan felt that they had met each other late and cherished each other. Especially Lin Guangyan was very knowledgeable and extraordinary in conversation. Xu Chengyan was impressed by him and had several long conversations.

, the two of them get along very well.

Although he had doubts about Lin Guangyan's identity, he would never have thought that things in the world were so coincidental that the friend he had fallen in love with immediately after arriving in Tianjin would actually be a Japanese and an intelligence team member of the Special Higher Education Course.

Chief, a well-known intelligence officer in the Japanese intelligence community.

As time continued to pass, Lin Guangyan still did not show up. Even with Xu Chengyan's patience, he was getting a little anxious. Could something happen? Xu Chengyan felt something was wrong.

In the interrogation room of the Special Higher Education Course, Kobayashi Mitsuhiko was glaring angrily at Pan Yugui, who was restrained in the interrogation chair by handcuffs and anklets.

At this time, an intelligence officer walked in quickly, handed a paper bag to Kobayashi Mitsuhiko, and reported: "Team leader, after testing, this half of the cigarette contains highly toxic potassium cyanide. The section leader smoked it."

A cigarette, killed on the spot!"

Having said this, the intelligence officer also turned to look at Pan Yugui, his eyes full of anger.

Kobayashi Mitsuhiko took the paper bag, took out the half cigarette from it, looked at it carefully, and asked: "Have the other cigarettes been checked?"

"It has been checked. Only this one is highly poisonous. The other cigarettes are all fine."

Kobayashi Mitsuhiko nodded slightly, came to Pan Yugui, held the cigarette in front of him, and asked in a cold tone: "Mayor Pan, please explain to me why you do this?"

As soon as Suzuki Eisuke died, Kobayashi Mitsuhiko immediately took control of Pan Yugui, because the time from cyanide poisoning to death was extremely short, and the only thing Suzuki Eisuke had come into contact with before was this half-smoked cigarette, so Kobayashi Mitsuhiko quickly judged

This was a poisonous cigarette. After inspection by the technical team, his judgment was confirmed.

At this time, Pan Yugui had a look of horror on his face. He had not yet recovered from the previous shock. He did not know why Suzuki Eisuke suddenly collapsed in front of him.

At this time, when I heard Mitsuhiko Kobayashi's inquiry, I was immediately frightened out of my mind, and quickly defended: "Kobayashi-kun, please believe me, I don't know that this cigarette is poisonous at all, I don't know! How could I poison Suzuki-kun, we

We have been friends for many years..."

At this point, he suddenly thought of something, the fear in his eyes became a little more, and his tone became higher, "Someone put poison in the cigarette, they want to poison me, they want to poison me!"

"

Kobayashi Mitsuhiko snorted coldly. He was thoughtful and astute. He was one of the top intelligence experts in the special high school course. How could he not think of this?

As Pan Yugui said, no matter what aspect, he really has no reason to poison Suzuki Eisuke, not only because Suzuki Eisuke and Pan Yugui have a very good personal relationship and have known each other for many years, but also because they are both close confidants and confidants of Keiji Tsuchihara.

His subordinates all belong to the same camp, and Suzuki Eisuke is one of the staunchest supporters behind Pan Yugui.

Unless Pan Yugui was crazy, he would do such a stupid thing, but the facts are before his eyes. No matter how he speculates, it is not as good as seeing with his own eyes the facts that happened before his eyes.

"You brought the cigarettes, and you personally handed them to the section chief. You said someone wanted to poison you, but why? There were ten cigarettes in this pack, but you chose the one that contained highly toxic potassium cyanide.

The cigarettes were given to the section chief, how do you explain this?"

"This this……"

Kobayashi Mitsuhiko's inquiry left Pan Yugui speechless. He hesitated for a long time before explaining: "Coincidence, this is a complete coincidence! Kobayashi-kun, please think about what poisoning Suzuki-kun will do to me."

What’s the benefit? Taking a step back and saying, even if I want to do this, I can’t go to the extra-high school class and poison myself in front of you. Isn’t this going to die? What’s the benefit of this to me? Am I tired of living?

Want to die together with Suzuki-kun? This is absolutely impossible!"

After hearing this, Kobayashi Mitsuhiko remained silent for a long time, quickly organizing his thoughts in his mind. In fact, the last reason Pan Yugui stated was exactly what he couldn't figure out no matter how hard he thought about it.

He knew Pan Yugui's character very well. This person was shameless, greedy for life and afraid of death, and had no faith at all. Wanting such a person to risk his life and poison Suzuki Eisuke at the cost of his own life was better than letting him

It’s hard to believe that the pig in front of you is a fairy from heaven.

But he thought about it, walked around the room, and couldn't make up his mind for a moment. Finally, he stared at Pan Yugui and said in a deep voice: "Mayor Pan, I think you know how serious the consequences of this matter are.

This is now beyond my remit.

Just now, I have informed the headquarters that early tomorrow morning, the teacher will come to Tianjin from Shanghai to handle the matter personally. If you have anything to say, you can explain it to the teacher yourself!

However, since you said someone was poisoning you, I believe you for the time being. Now tell me, how did you get this pack of cigarettes?"

When Pan Yugui heard what Mitsuhiko Kobayashi said, his tense nerves suddenly relaxed. He had been Keiji Tsuchhara's confidant for many years. As long as he had the opportunity to explain in person, his life would be saved.

Thinking of this, he took a heavy breath, raised his handcuffed hands, wiped the sweat from his forehead, straightened his body, cheered up and said: "This is my personal secretary Liu Zhengming, I usually respond

He takes care of all the trivial matters, and he also prepared this pack of cigarettes. By the way, there is also a pack of cigarettes in the drawer of my office. You can check them both."

Kobayashi Mitsuhiko no longer delayed and said immediately: "Okay, I will investigate immediately, but before that, you cannot leave the special high school."

After saying that, he turned around and left, but was stopped by Pan Yugui: "Wait a minute!"

"Why, what else is going on?"

Pan Yugui reminded: "Xiao Lin, if anyone wants my life, it must be Liu Houhou and Old Man Bai.

Now that Mr. Suzuki has been killed by them, you can no longer look forward and backward, and you have to act decisively. If the real culprit is let go, you will not be able to explain it to the general."

Kobayashi Mitsuhiko suddenly came back to his senses. He looked at Pan Yugui with a rare hint of appreciation in his eyes.

After all, this guy is an old fox who has been in official circles for a long time. He has a very quick mind. When the matter got to this point, he immediately thought of directing the investigation direction of the matter to his opponent. In this way, his teacher could take advantage of the death of Section Chief Suzuki.

, put pressure on local forces and make a fuss about it, maybe this is a key to opening the deadlock.

"Okay, Mayor Pan, just stay here for one night and I will catch the murderer as soon as possible."

The tone of Kobayashi Mitsuhiko's words became obviously gentle and polite, and there was no longer any criticism or suspicion from before. This made Pan Yugui feel relieved again, knowing that he had passed the test this time.

Kobayashi Mitsuhiko quickly walked out of the interrogation room and immediately issued an order: "Arrest Pan Yugui's secretary Liu Zhengming immediately."

At this point, he thought again and ordered again: "The entire action team is dispatched to arrest Bai Yisheng, the leader of the Qing Gang. Anyone who dares to resist will be shot to death!"

The intelligence officers, who had been on call for a long time, took the order in unison and set out immediately to arrest him.

Kobayashi Mitsuhiko returned to his office, sat on his chair and calmed down, and suddenly realized that he was still wearing a suit and casual clothes, and suddenly remembered his appointment with Xu Chengyan today.

"Oops!" Kobayashi Mitsuhiko slapped his forehead and suddenly lost his voice. Something happened suddenly today and he was so busy dealing with it that he forgot all about it.

He quickly raised his hand and looked at his watch. Two hours had passed. He immediately picked up the phone and dialed. He quickly got through the phone number at Kate's Western Restaurant. However, after asking, he found out that Xu Chengyan had been waiting for a long time.

, just left the western restaurant.
Chapter completed!