The weather in the afternoon is sunny, and the sun is warm and sprinkled on people's bodies.

Meng Shaoyuan sat on a bench with a cup of tea on the side and a cigarette in his hand, waiting there quietly.

"Mr. Meng, or should I still call you Liuchuan-kun?"

A man sat down beside him.

Koichi Habara.

He smiled and said: "That time, I would never have thought that the famous Meng Shaoyuan would appear in Nanjing with a swagger, would appear in front of me unscrupulously, and chat with me. ”

"yes, looking back now, I think I'm pretty bold myself." Meng Shaoyuan took a puff of his cigarette and handed the cigarette case to Habara Koichi.

"Thank you."

Koichi Habara was not polite, took the cigarette case, took one out of it, and lit it.

"It's a pity." Meng Shaoyuan suddenly sighed.

"It's a pity?"

Koichi Habara didn't particularly understand.

"Now, we have the ability to poison food, but unfortunately we can't poison cigarettes." Meng Shaoyuan said slowly: "We have tried many methods, but we can't be colorless and tasteless, and there is no flaw. ”

"Sooner or later." Koichi Habara took a deep breath of his cigarette: "In the past, we couldn't believe that humans could soar in the sky, but we did. Times are advancing, and all technology will progress with it. ”

"I'm starting to like you a little bit."

Meng Shaoyuan said: "Normal people, after hearing my words, will stop smoking my cigarettes. ”

"What are you going to kill me for?" Hakuhara Koichi didn't particularly care: "I'm just a small person, insignificant, if I wasn't the Japanese army's Shaozuo, you wouldn't have looked at me more than anything when I appeared in front of you." Besides, the hostage you want is still in my car, and you won't kill me until it's exchanged. ”

Meng Shaoyuan thought for a while, and then nodded seriously: "It makes sense, there can be a talent like you in the Shanghai secret service, I have to think about it, whether I want to find a way to kill you." ”

"It's my honor to be the target of Meng Shaoyuan's assassination." Koichi Hahara actually smiled: "Let's talk about business." Chen Rongyang: I brought it, and he is still relatively healthy. In fact, I know that he is Cheng Yiming's person, and he doesn't know much about you, but there is no way, and I have to torture him according to the procedure. ”

"I understand, I can totally understand." Meng Shaoyuan sighed: "Procedure, everything must go through the procedure." Chen Rongyang was arrested for helping me, so I tried every means to rescue him. I wonder how you let him go so easily. What's the conspiracy inside? I hadn't figured it out before.

Later, I suddenly understood that Chen Rongyang was not my person, and after he was rescued, he would be sent to Cheng Yiming as soon as possible. Cheng Yiming's people, who did things for me, were arrested, and I actually rescued them, which will make our Cheng Secretary gloomy, there are already seeds of discord between me and him, and what you are doing now is just watering and fertilizing this seed. ”

A smile appeared on Hakuhara Koichi's face again: "Yes, that's what my true purpose is. Even if you see through it, you can't do anything about me. You can only hand over Chen Rongyang to Cheng Yiming, Cheng Yiming will be angry with you, will be jealous of you, the cooperation between you will break down, and then, your friend Chen Rongyang will be treated unfairly.

If I can't defeat you head-on, then I can add a lot of trouble to you, and that's what I want to see. This is also our sorrow, in the face of an enemy like you, I can only resort to such a somewhat despicable means, unless one day I can really find a way to deal with you, I hope, that day is not far off. ”

They weren't at all like two enemies, but chatting like two normal friends.

Hikaru Habara told the other party frankly about his conspiracy, but even a person like Meng Shaoyuan couldn't find a good way to deal with it.

Fights in officialdom are often the most troublesome and the easiest to be exploited.

Koichi Habara grasped this very well.

However, Meng Shaoyuan didn't feel angry at all, he and Mitsuichi Hahara were enemies, and each wanted to find a chance to give the other a fatal blow.

Once such an opportunity is discovered, no one will give up easily.

They are all doing their best to do their job.

Don't easily blame the other party for being insidious, a person with integrity and perfection without any flaws on his body is not a qualified intelligence officer at all.

"Mr. Meng, I would like to ask you some questions, is it okay?" Koichi Habara suddenly made such a strange request.

Meng Shaoyuan's curiosity was also aroused: "It depends on what kind of problem it is." ”

"For example, this time, the spy we planted in the Fifth War Zone in Xuzhou was caught by you." Hawara Koichi's expression became serious: "What is certain is that you are not using magic, but psychology. As you probably know, our Kojiro Kawamoto also studied psychology in the United States, but you have far more knowledge than him.

On the other hand, it's your secret weapon, but you've never shied away from using it, and this time, for example, you've used it to the fullest, casting an incredible spell in front of us. However, the research on psychology in China is almost blank, and where did you master these magical magics? ”

This question is kind of interesting.

Of course, Meng Shaoyuan couldn't tell him, I actually don't belong to this era, psychological research is my main business, and I have mastered more knowledge than any psychology expert in this era.

He thought for a moment there: "I don't agree with you that there is almost no research on psychology in China. In fact, psychology has been around in China for a long time. Above the court, how can a minister figure out the emperor's thoughts, and if he makes important suggestions in a way that does not anger the emperor, this is psychology.

On the rivers and lakes, how can those fortune tellers know why you come to tell fortunes, who you are going to tell fortunes for, and what are you most worried about? This is also psychology. Some great fortune tellers are not inferior to those of the experts in psychology, and it is for this reason that they are regarded as fairies. ”

Hikaru Hawara listened very carefully.

He kept nodding slightly: "You mean, you have absorbed the talents of these people?" Perhaps, but I think you still have a lot of things to say. Ah, I'm delusional, we're enemies, how can you say so much about an enemy? But I still want to thank you, Mr. Meng. ”

He threw away the cigarette butt in his hand: "I have many, many doubts in my heart, if it weren't for the war, I would even want to worship you as my teacher, it's a pity." Mr. Meng, if the war ends one day, no matter who wins or loses either China or Japan, I hope that we can sit together again and have a good chat, and I can ask you for advice. ”

I'm afraid there is no such opportunity.

Meng Shaoyuan was sure that he would never let this dangerous person live until the end of the Anti-Japanese War.

Hawara Koichi stood up: "When I leave here, Chen Rongyang will be delivered, and he is in the car behind me." ”

"You don't look at your people?"

"No need."

Habara Koichi said lightly: "You get Chen Rongyang, and you will also release our people at the same time, if you can't even do this, how can you match the strongest agent on the surface?" ”

"The strongest agent on the surface?"

"Yes, this is the name that our Envoy has chosen for you, the strongest agent on the surface. I'm jealous, but I'll try to catch up with you too. Ah, right. ”

Koichi Habara seemed to suddenly think of something: "And the two people you used to rescue Chen Rongyang, I also brought them." This is also the person you proposed to exchange, although some of our people do not agree, but I think, what is the point of keeping them? They don't know much about you, and staying there is useless except to consume our food. ”

He said these words and left.

Chen Rongyang and two of Meng Shaoyuan's men were immediately released.

Meng Shaoyuan also followed his promise and released the Japanese agents he brought.

It was just an ordinary, numerous hostage exchange in the Public Concession.

But because one person is involved, it has to be not so simple first:

Meng Shaoyuan!

"He's relatively healthy."

This is what Koichi Hahara said.

If a person covered in bruises can be said to be "relatively healthy", what does an unhealthy person look like?

Chen Rongyang almost had no injuries all over his body, and he had to rely on the support of one person to barely support him.

When he saw Meng Shaoyuan, he didn't have a happy expression at all, but asked with one mouth: "I'm finished, isn't it?" ”

Meng Shaoyuan wanted to tell a few lies to comfort his classmate, but he really couldn't say it.

The future for a captured agent will be very bleak, he will be subjected to strict interrogation, and even torture by his own people.

Even if it turns out that there is nothing wrong with him, it will be difficult to reuse it in the future.

In particular, between him and Meng Shaoyuan, there is also a Cheng Yiming.

"I want to keep you with me, but I can't." Meng Shaoyuan said silently: "Organizational discipline, after you are released, you will be immediately taken to a secret place to be detained, and then as your immediate boss, Cheng Yiming will take over." ”

"Shao Yuan, I have considered this before helping you do things, at least, I have done something meaningful." Chen Rongyang sighed softly: "I beg you for one thing." ”

"You say."

"When my review is over, please try to send me to the front line, you have a way. Send me to the most dangerous place, at least, I won't have to live so aggrieved in the future. ”

This is also Chen Rongyang's only request.