"Seal this yard. All personnel involved in the arrest tonight will be brought back to the headquarters for temporary resettlement. No one can leave the headquarters without my order." There was no trace of the joy of completing the arrest on the face of the bureau chief. After listening to Tang Cheng's whispered report, his expression changed drastically, and he made a series of decisions that also confused others around him. Tang Cheng, who was standing next to the bureau leader, was also speechless. He never imagined that he, who was forced to participate, would have no way to go home tonight.
The director's change of expression and Tang Cheng's helplessness were all because of something Tang Cheng found in one of the rooms in the courtyard. That thing really involved too many people and things, and even the director had to treat it with caution. The entire courtyard was tightly sealed, and all personnel involved in tonight's operation were brought back to the military command headquarters for temporary isolation. Only Tang Cheng was still with the bureau, waiting for the results of the search in the courtyard. "What do you think of this case?" The bureau chief, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly turned to look at Tang Cheng.
Tang Cheng, who was sitting next to the bureau chief, did not immediately answer the bureau chief's inquiry. After pondering for a while, Tang Cheng spoke. "It is now confirmed that there are Japanese among these people tonight. According to our past experience in fighting against Japanese and puppet agents, such lurking Japanese and puppet agents rarely take the initiative to provoke us, let alone attack us. personnel. So, I think there is something going on here, and it is not a trivial matter." Tang Cheng answered very carefully, especially when he found the thing in one of the rooms.
After hearing this, the director immediately stretched out his hand to pinch his eyebrows, the fatigue on his expression was very obvious. "I have sent someone to take the thing you found for inspection as soon as possible. If the thing is really what we guessed, this matter is definitely not a big deal! The three injured operators of ours are still in a coma. Only when they wake up will we know what happened to them!" As expected, the bureau leader's response was not slow and he immediately grasped the crux of the problem.
At the request of the bureau chief, a large number of military special agents thoroughly searched the yard, and finally found an iron box under the stove in the kitchen. "Secretary, please get out of here first!" As one of the insiders, Tang Cheng, after receiving the report, jumped in front of the bureau and blocked the kitchen door. Faced with the resolute Tang Cheng and the dissuasion of others, the director had no choice but to be escorted out of the courtyard.
After the bureau chief was escorted out of the courtyard, Tang Cheng simply drove the remaining people out of the kitchen. There are no fools among the military special agents who can follow the bureau leader. Although they don't know what happened, they all saw the process of Tang Cheng blocking the bureau leader just now. Therefore, after they were kicked out of the kitchen by Tang Cheng, no one dared to complain against Tang Cheng. On the contrary, they became increasingly aware that the box they had just found under the stove in the kitchen was not simple.
In the originally crowded kitchen, Tang Cheng was now the only one left. After adjusting his breathing and mood, Tang Cheng slowly squatted down in front of the box. At this time, Tang Cheng suddenly remembered the logistics team he had formed. If He Sanshou was still with him, there would be no need to do things like opening boxes himself. With an anxious mood, Tang Cheng took out his short knife and used only the tip of the knife to open the old-style lotus leaf lock on the box.
Tang Cheng was very gentle when picking the lock, and he was even more careful when opening the box. He even used a small iron needle to stick it through the gap in the lid of the box to feel whether there was any mechanism inside the box. Tang Cheng, who confirmed that he had been too careful, put away the iron needle and dagger before opening the lid of the box. Sure enough, the contents in the box were the same as Tang Cheng had guessed before, so Tang Cheng's face instantly turned pale.
At this moment, the director waiting outside the courtyard was also pacing back and forth. Although he seemed calm without saying a word, the worry on his expression had already been clearly seen by others. "Bureau chief, Xiao Tang is out!" Just when the bureau chief was upset, the secretary of the bureau who had been staring at the situation in the courtyard suddenly pointed in the direction of the yard and whispered to the bureau chief who happened to have his back to the yard. Upon hearing this, the director turned around suddenly and saw Tang Cheng standing at the door of the kitchen with a pale face and a box in his hands.
The director was shocked and was about to cross the gate and enter the courtyard when he saw that Tang Cheng had raised his right hand and made a stop gesture towards him. The expression on Tang Cheng's face and the stop gesture he made at this moment all indicated one thing. Their previous guesses had come true. The director stood stiffly outside the courtyard gate. At this moment, he could hardly control his emotions. But when he thought of the terrible consequences of this incident spreading, he could only forcefully lower his eyes and force himself not to look. Tangcheng.
The courtyard that had been searched was sealed off. Only Tang Cheng himself was left in the empty courtyard. More than twenty armed military agents were scattered in the four corners of the courtyard and at the main entrance, eliminating any possibility of approaching the courtyard. Tang Cheng sat in the yard with a tired look. The iron box he found under the kitchen stove was placed squarely in front of Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng's only task now was to keep an eye on the box.
Why is my life so miserable! Tang Cheng, who watched the bureau chief and others leave, sat in the courtyard with a bitter look on his face. Now only he and the Bureau knew what was in this box. Before anyone else came to take over the box, the fate of Tangcheng was firmly linked to this box. Tang Cheng himself did not expect that these Japanese and puppet spies would be so bold as to smuggle this kind of thing into Chongqing City. Once the contents of this box spread out, this mountain city would become a dead city. possible.
The director who took the people away did not return directly to the military command headquarters, but went directly to the South Bank Villa. He urgently asked to see the chairman of the committee, and without any scruples, he informed the chairman of today's actions and everything that was subsequently searched. "Principal, we are still not sure how much of this kind of thing they have smuggled in. I suggest that you take your wife and leave here first. Once this kind of thing spreads, the consequences will be disastrous."
Faced with the suggestions given by the bureau chief, the chairman of the committee acted very fearlessly. After all, the thing that the bureau chief sent for inspection before had no results yet. Seeing that the chairman insisted on staying in the South Bank Villa, the bureau chief felt helpless and could only take people back to the military command headquarters. He wanted to speed up and pry open the mouths of the prisoners as soon as possible. Zhang Jianghe, who escorted the prisoners back to the military command headquarters first, never saw Tang Cheng appear, but when he asked several people, they all had weird expressions and just said they didn't know. Zhang Jianghe couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Returning to the bureau seat at the military command headquarters, he did not hide anything from Zhang Jianghe. He immediately called Zhang Jianghe to his office and informed Zhang Jianghe of his and Tang Cheng's speculations. "Previously, relevant news came back from our intelligence station outside the customs. However, the intelligence we collected only showed that the Kwantung Army was secretly researching this kind of thing. There was no information that this kind of thing had been studied. Xiao Wu The things we found had Japanese writing on them, and we still have to wait for the test results to come out before we can really confirm.”
Knowing that Tang Cheng stayed at the location of the operation, guarding a box that was suspected to be a big trouble, Zhang Jianghe's heart also started to hang. He had heard about the horror of such things. But in front of the bureau chief, Zhang Jianghe didn't say much and could only hide his worries deep in his heart. Because of the urging of the bureau chief, the military command headquarters immediately started moving at full speed. After the few survivors who had been escorted back were tortured in turn, some finally couldn't stand it anymore and spoke.
It was more than an hour before the bureau chief received the confession. After briefly reading the confession, the bureau chief already had a clear understanding of the case. According to the prisoner's confession, the few military operatives who were attacked were not their active targets. It was a complete coincidence. "Fortunately, this was an accidental incident. If they hadn't been discovered due to the attack, this incident might have been a big disaster." The bureau chief who had read the confession secretly found a decent reason for himself.
This is because the director himself knows that the reason he just found cannot withstand scrutiny at all. Now he can only look forward to the confessions of other prisoners. Only after comprehensive analysis of the confessions of all prisoners can he obtain the final answer. The wait is long, and not every prisoner who is captured will choose to confess. Two hours passed quickly, and the bureau chief finally received the second confession, and this confession did not contain the content the bureau chief needed.
"Intensify the intensity and continue the trial. Don't worry about the prisoner not being able to bear it!" This useless confession finally angered the bureau chief. Zhang Jianghe, who had been accompanying him all the time, even heard murderous intent from the bureau chief's tone. . The bureau chief gave the order, and the people below naturally tried their best. Especially the bureau chief gave the greatest convenience and support. The torturers at the military command headquarters simply let go. They then used many methods that had never been used before. . When the third confession was delivered to the bureau's office, Zhang Jianghe vaguely smelled the smell of blood emanating from the confession paper.
At this moment, Tang Cheng, who was still in the yard where the operation was taking place, was still silent and thinking. It had been more than two hours since the bureau leader had left here, but no one had come to inform him of the situation. Although no news is good news, Tang Cheng knows that the longer the delay, the more troublesome the matter will be. The skills provided by the system can only be used against living targets, so even if Tang Cheng suspects the contents of the box, he has no way to use the system skills to determine whether the contents of the box are what he guessed.
