"Here's the whole list of consulates, it's all here."

Hirosawa Boman immediately said: "Your Excellency the Special Envoy has asked you to take charge of this case, I hope that Hahara-kun can find the traitor lurking in the consulate as soon as possible." ”

Atsushi Komatsu had already made a debriefing, and it all started when he received a phone call from the consulate.

And Koichi Hawara was specially instructed by General Yasuei Itauchi to solve the case.

Hikaru Habara glanced at the list: "The time when Atsushi Komatsu received the call was 12:30 p.m., so during this time, people who went to eat and took a lunch break can be excluded.

The call was from your office, and during that time, you were with General Yasuei Itauchi, so you were absolutely not suspicious.

And your secretary and assistant, these people, theoretically speaking, there is no suspicion, just check what they were doing at the time.

This traitor, judging by Atsushi Komatsu's report, speaks fluent Japanese, and may be Japanese or Chinese.

He had access to you, and even stole the key to this office, and if you think about it, who has access to the key to the office? Another point is that he may not have been at the consulate for long. ”

"Why?"

Hikaru Habara smiled: "Your Excellency Hirozawa, a person who has been lurking in the consulate for a long time, he has a safer way to do this, and he will not risk using the phone in your office, which is easy for us to find." ”

Hirosawa Boman suddenly realized.

"Of course, this person may have already run away." Yuhara Koichi was a little helpless: "This incident is still planned by Meng Shaoyuan, he must have taken these into account, with his shrewdness, he will never let his sleeper agent fall into our hands." ”

"However, we have just gone through an inventory and all the staff of the consulate are there."

"Oh?"

Koichi Habara was a little curious.

All there?

Didn't evacuate?

Could it be that Meng Shaoyuan was negligent, or was he too arrogant?

"According to your analysis, I have a person in mind." Guangze Boman suddenly said: "This person's name is Chen Rongyang, who defected from the military command, and was later transferred to the consulate under my direct command. He is able to speak very fluent Japanese, is also intelligent, and has a strong hands-on ability, and knows a lot.

Some time ago, a window in my office was broken, he offered to help me repair it, I happened to receive a call from His Excellency the Consul, asking me to go over immediately, I locked all the documents in the safe, and brought the key to the safe with me, according to the regulations the keys are to be placed separately, I left in a hurry. I forgot the key to the office.

Later, when I came back, Chen Rongyang had already repaired the window and left, and the office door was also closed for me, but I still asked the assistant to open the door for me with a spare key. Once inside, I found that the key was on the desk. ”

"You left a Chinese alone in your office?"

"Yes, I locked the documents at the time."

"Your Excellency Guangze, I think you are careless, the agents of the military command are everywhere, and what you think is worthless will often be found by them with information of great value." Habara Guangyi sighed: "Chen Rong ** is a major suspect, bring him here." ”

"Okay."

Hirosawa immediately picked up the phone on his desk.

Koichi Habara stood up and walked to the window.

Careless.

The people in these consulates are too weak in their awareness of prevention.

This is also an important reason why the military commanders have repeatedly succeeded.

"What's that?"

Habara Koichi suddenly pointed out the window and asked.

After making the call, Hirosawa Boman walked over and looked outside: "Oh, the domestic garbage in the consulate will be gathered together, once every three days, someone will come to pull it out at a fixed time point, and the person who drags the garbage is also fixed." ”

"Four buckets of garbage every time?"

"There are a lot of us, counting our families, sometimes we can't finish one trip."

"Your Excellency Guangze, don't you think that such a big barrel is enough to hide one person?"

"What do you mean?"

"Search carefully, every barrel must be emptied of all the garbage inside!"

"Okay."

……

This was the first time Koichi Hahara had met Chen Rongyang.

Chen Rongyang changed into a new outfit, and after seeing Koichi Hahara, the first thing he said was: "Thank you." ”

"Oh, why thank me?" Koichi Habara was a little curious.

"I'm a very clean person." Chen Rongyang said lightly: "Hiding in the trash can and running out, I was covered in filth, which made it unbearable for me, and you specially asked me to rinse it and change into clean clothes." ”

"I love cleanliness too." Koichi Habara felt the same way: "If you stand in front of me with garbage and strange smells, I won't be able to stand it." ”

"At least we have something in common."

"Mr. Chen, please take a seat." Koichi Hahara looked polite: "Do you smoke?" ”

"Pump."

"Okay."

Hikaru Habara put a box of cigarettes and matches in front of Chen Rongyang.

Chen Rongyang lit a cigarette for himself.

"Mr. Chen, I am against violence." Habara Koichi sighed and said, "If it wasn't for the last resort, I would never have punished the prisoner." I suppose you can't find any excuse to deny that you're a military commander sleeper agent when you're caught by me like this, right? ”

"There are no excuses." Chen Rongyang said frankly: "It's all like this, do I have any better excuse?" ”

"Look, it's a nice start between us." Koichi Habara smiled: "I have a very curious place, why did you evacuate in a hurry until now?" With Meng Shaoyuan's command ability, he should have predicted the danger a long time ago. ”

"yes, he really predicted it a long time ago, and warned me to retreat." Chen Rongyang let out a long sigh: "It's a pity, I'm not Meng Shaoyuan's subordinate. ”

"Really?"

"I am under the direct leadership of Cheng Yiming, secretary of the Shanghai Hidden District of the Military Command."

I see.

Hawara Koichi suddenly realized.

No wonder the golden time for retreat was lost.

"I'm so sorry for you." Mitsuichi Habara didn't look like he was acting at all: "You are under the leadership of Cheng Yiming, so if you want to retreat, you must get Cheng Yiming's approval." But Meng Shaoyuan used his people for this mission. Although they are both agents of the military commandery, there is also a rivalry between them, and you know what makes me think of it? ”

Chen Rongyang didn't speak, he took a deep puff of cigarette and listened to Habara Koichi continue:

"Political struggles, conflicts of interest, contradictions in officialdom. There is nothing to be embarrassed about, Chinese officialdom has this problem, and Japanese officialdom has a very acute problem. For example, Japan's army, navy, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs have shown itself very seriously, so this point has been used by you many times, but now? It's your turn.

We are all small people, and we have no way to influence the decisions of the big people, and we know that this is not right, but what can be done? During the time I was talking to you, Matsumoto Daisa and Gu Fandazuo may have been blushing and shirking each other's responsibilities, and they would even abuse each other loudly, for fear that they would be a little disadvantaged. ”

"You're interesting, Mr. Hawara." Chen Rongyang finally spoke.

"I'm not funny, I'm just pessimistic, and I clearly see our common sorrow in you."

Hawara Koichi took the cigarette case, lit a cigarette for himself, and took a big gulp: "Bureaucrats, this will kill people." Our intelligence work in Shanghai has failed repeatedly, we don't know the responsibility of review, we just want to leave ourselves as clean as possible, what about you? Gave everything for your country, but now, with a high degree of probability, it is possible that it was betrayed because of the interests of officialdom! ”

Chen Rongyang continued to be silent.

"Trust me, Mr. Chen." Yuhara Koichi said with great certainty: "Meng Shaoyuan must have worked hard to find Cheng Yiming in order to assist you in retreating, you can't blame him." Cheng Yiming would definitely deliberately make things difficult for him, otherwise, if you could retreat even fifteen minutes earlier, you would be free now, instead of sitting here and becoming a prisoner. ”

Chen Rongyang was a little curious: "You actually helped Meng Shaoyuan speak?" ”

"Why not? Is it because we are enemies? Instead, Koichi Habara felt that it was too strange to ask this question: "I admire Meng Shaoyuan very much, it is from the bottom of my heart, I never thought that an enemy can be so strong, and any opportunity that is lost in one shot can be firmly grasped by him!"

I've been trying to study him and learn from him. If there was no war now, I would even worship him as my teacher. Japan has learned a lot from China, and the funny thing is that after we became stronger, many of us denied it, and arrogance will only lead us to failure. ”

Chen Rongyang was suddenly afraid of this person.

This Japanese man has always spoken slowly and logically, without being irritable, without shouting, nor immediately tortured him to force him to confess information.

It even seems very gentle.

However, Chen Rongyang was really scared.

A fear that rises from the deepest part of my heart.

Respect your enemies and learn from your enemies.

Before that, it was hard for Chen Rongyang to imagine that this was coming from the mouth of a Japanese.

But now he saw it with his own eyes.

"Mr. Chen, don't be violent, I hate torture." Koichi Habara said "sincerely": "Tell me everything you know, and I will make sure that you are treated the best." I want you to cooperate with me so that I can argue with my superiors to make sure you're safe and that you don't fall into those hands. ”

"Who?"

"People who treat torture as a job, who always think that by whipping you you will get what they want. But you have to understand me, I'm just a young man, and I can't change a lot of things, especially if you refuse to cooperate with me. ”

Chen Rongyang finished smoking a cigarette he had just lit in a few puffs, and then he smiled bitterly:

"Mr. Habara, I think you can torture me!"