"Kikube-kun's attitude towards doing things is commendable," Araki Harima said.
Cheng Qianfan glanced at Araki Harima. It seemed that Araki Harima would not suddenly speak up for Kikube Hirao.
However, he was not in a hurry to refute anything.
Sure enough, then he heard Araki Harima say, "Hiroyuki Kikube reported to the section chief that a secret investigation was underway before Naito Tsubasa's disappearance, and he believed that Naito's disappearance might be related to the secret investigation."
As he spoke, Araki Harima said in an admiring tone, "With regard to Naito's disappearance, the investigation intensity at the Consulate General is not as strong as before, but Kikube-kun is still concerned about this matter. Isn't this attitude commendable?"
He picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and continued, "The section chief was impressed by Hiroyuki Kikube's serious work attitude and persistence, and has approved Mr. Kikube's independent and secret investigation into the disappearance of Naito Kotsubasa."
"Do you know what kind of secret investigation Naito Tsubasa was conducting before his disappearance?" Cheng Qianfan sneered and said, "This may be the direction of the investigation to find Naito Tsubasa."
"I don't know about that." Araki Harima shook his head and said with a smile.
The two made eye contact and both nodded.
Hiroyuki Kikube couldn't stay.
They knew that the section chief should have the same attitude. Otherwise, it was Hiroyuki Kikube who secretly reported to the section chief. The section chief also readily agreed to Kikube's independent and secret investigation into the matter. So how did Araki Harima find out?
What about this matter?
"Military rule has begun to revive again recently." Cheng Qianfan seemed to be thinking of the assassination on the Bund and said with lingering fear, "We all need to be more careful."
He lit a cigarette, took a puff and said, "Chen Gongshu, the new district chief of Shanghai District under Military Tong, is a master of assassination. We all need to be more careful."
Araki Harima glanced at his friend, frowned slightly, and seemed to be a little hesitant. He took another green radish and ate it, and then said slowly, "The section chief still has some official matters to attend to in Nanjing."
deal with."
Cheng Qianfan smiled, his smile unabashedly.
…
"Brother Fan, we're here." Haozi stopped the vehicle steadily, glanced at the rearview mirror, and woke up Cheng Qianfan, who was asleep in the back seat.
Cheng Qianfan lifted the car curtain and glanced outside, "Go back."
"Go back?" Haozi was a little surprised.
This is Ying Huaizhen's home, to be precise, the house that Cheng Qianfan recently rented for Ying Huaizhen. Because Ying Huaizhen's residence on Lafayette Road was accidentally discovered by Bai Ruolan, Mrs. Cheng brought a group of ladies and broke in.
I went to try to humiliate the vixen severely, but it happened that Ying Huaizhen was not at home that day and luckily escaped, but the furniture in the house was also smashed to pieces.
Cheng Qianfan had no choice but to temporarily place Ying Huaizhen in this small villa in Beitang District.
"Go back." Cheng Qianfan yawned and said, "Go home."
"Yes." After arriving at the door of the 'aunt's house, he turned back. Although he felt a little strange, Li Hao still turned the car around.
Cheng Qianfan rubbed his eyebrows.
He had just been thinking about how to get rid of Hiroyuki Kikube.
First, Hiroyuki Kikube must die.
Kikube Hiroyuki insisted on investigating the disappearance of Naito Kotsubo, which directly determined that Kikube Hirooo could not stay.
This was not only the decision of Kentaro Miyazaki, but also the tacit approval of Jiro Mimoto, the director of the Special Higher Education Course.
As for Araki Harima, he seemed a little hesitant, but finally chose to acquiesce.
In front of Araki Harima, Cheng Qianfan showed almost no hesitation. He did not hide his hatred for Kikube Kano, and even showed his determination to get rid of Kikube Kano without any hesitation.
Araki Harima naturally understood this, and the answer he gave was, ‘The section chief will stay in Nanjing for a few days due to official business’.
Cheng Qianfan was not afraid to take the initiative to show this attitude. Although this kind of cannibalism is a taboo and a big handle, for him, the advantages and disadvantages can be said to be relative, and the disadvantage is that Ling San
Mimotojiro and Araki Harima saw clearly his "cruel" temperament. Even towards Japanese compatriots, as long as interests were involved, they would be merciless.
It must be satisfactory from a personal perspective.
Cheng Qianfan mentioned Juntong Shanghai Station in front of Araki Harima, and his intention was to tell Araki Harima that he planned to send someone to pretend to be Juntong Shanghai Station to attack Kikube Kano.
Later, Cheng Qianfan was thinking about how to attack Kikube Hiroo.
His initial assumption was that 'Mr. Xiao Cheng' had a private meeting with his lover Ying Huaizhen and accidentally revealed the whereabouts of Hiroyuki Kikube. Then Ying Huaizhen must have found a treasure and reported this information to the team leader Xiao Mian, Shanghai
The special situation team can then take advantage of the situation to formulate an action to eliminate Japanese agent Hiroyuki Kikube.
This is plan A, and there's plan B.
That is, after Xiao Mian received Ying Huaizhen's report, after careful thinking, he felt that it was not appropriate to make big moves under the current situation. At the same time, he was somewhat reluctant to give up such a good opportunity, so he called Chongqing to ask the headquarters for advice.
Based on Cheng Qianfan's understanding of Dai Chunfeng, Dai Chunfeng, who attaches great importance to the safety of the Shanghai Special Intelligence Group, will not give up such a good opportunity to assassinate the middle-level officers of the Special High School. Therefore, Dai Chunfeng will carry out this assassination mission.
Let it be done by Juntong Shanghai Station.
"My brain is crazy." Cheng Qianfan patted his forehead.
He took a bath in Yuchun River, drank some rice wine, and drank tea. He felt dizzy. In addition, he was tired from the previous journey and had not rested well.
When he regained consciousness, he immediately rejected the plan.
The assassination of Kikube Hiroo must not have anything to do with the military command. Neither the military command Shanghai District nor the Shanghai Special Intelligence Team could be tainted with this matter.
This is the possible sequelae of wearing multiple identities. He cannot relax or become tired of "crossing identities" for a second, and must maintain absolute sobriety and rationality 24 hours a day.
The person who assassinated Kikube Hiroo must be a fake military commander!
"Haozi, contact us." Cheng Qianfan rubbed his temples and said, "Kill Kikube Hiroo."
"Okay." Haozi said, "Brother Fan, should you contact Jiang Mulezi or the little Taoist priest?"
He said he was inclined to contact Jiang Mulezi, so he put Jiang Mulezi's name first. After Lu Xingge went to Nanjing, the special task force was led by Jiang Mulezi, and the second action team of the little Taoist priest experienced the loss of rescuing Sheng Shuyu.
, and is still very weak.
"We don't need our people." Cheng Qianfan said, "Find someone to pretend to be a military commander and get rid of Kikube Hiroyuki."
After a pause, he reminded again, "Remember, it must not involve ourselves."
Haozi immediately understood that he was looking for those seemingly shady friends to do this big thing.
…
Asakusa Hotel.
This is a hotel run by Japanese, and most of the tenants are Japanese.
Kikube Hiroo, who just returned to Shanghai from Nanjing, temporarily lived here.
He received orders from Jiro Sanbon to secretly investigate the disappearance of Tsubasa Naito. At the same time, Hiroyuki Kikube also knew that Miyazaki Kentaro's popularity within the Super High School had always been good, or to put it bluntly, there were people within the Super High School.
The resistance from the relatively strong "Jiujiu Securities" was especially led by Araki Harima and Koike.
In order to avoid the leakage of the news that he was secretly investigating the matter, Kikube Hiroyuki chose this hotel owned by a friend as his temporary residence.
There are many files scattered on the long desk.
Kikube Hiroyuki picked up the two documents, his expression was solemn and thoughtful.
Of these two files, one is of course an investigation file on the disappearance of the Consulate General’s assistant, Tsubasa Naito. This file can be described in one word, that is, ‘no progress or results were obtained’.
Among them, there is even such an analysis and speculation in the archives:
Naito Kotsubasa was dressed in gorgeous clothes and liked gold watches, so it may have been the leakage of money that led to his death.
It is true that the public security in Shanghai is not very good, and it is absolutely rare for someone to be killed due to money leakage. However, Kikube Hiroyuki subconsciously believed that the possibility of this happening to Naito Kotsubasa was not high.
high.
Apart from anything else, even if he really encounters bad guys, and not to mention that Naito Tsubasa himself is by no means powerless, as long as Naito Xiao Tsubasa speaks Japanese, Kikube Hiroyuki doesn't think those bad guys will dare to take action:
The crime of kidnapping and harming Japanese people is not something these criminal thieves can bear.
In Kikube's view, the investigation file of the Consulate General was really not flattering. He even felt that there was an illusion that the Consulate General did not seriously investigate and treat the matter.
However, Hiroyuki Kikube shook his head and rejected this wrong feeling.
Tsubasa Naito is a close assistant of Counselor Hyōtaro Imamura, and has always won the trust of Counselor Hyōtaro Imamura. It is said that after Tsubasa Naito disappeared, Counselor Imamura was very anxious and worried, and stayed up all night to guide the search work. Therefore, the Consulate General
With Counselor Imamura here, he should not dare to shirk responsibility for this matter:
Even the disappearance of ordinary people of the empire can be called a big incident, let alone the disappearance of the participating sponsors.
Kikube Kano interpreted the thinness of the Consulate General's investigation report to mean that the Consulate General was not a professional spy agency after all and their capabilities were limited.
Another file in the hands of Hiroyuki Kikube is what he asked to collect about the situation of Cheng Qianfan (Kentaro Miyazaki), the deputy chief inspector of the Central District of the French Concession, before and after Naito Tsubasa's disappearance.
One of the details caught Kikube Hiroo's attention.
That is, Lu Hu, Cheng Qianfan's absolute confidant in the central patrol room and the third deputy inspector of the patrol room, has disappeared.
This discovery made Hiroyuki Kikube very excited.
His heart was inclined towards the fact that Naito Tsubasa's disappearance was most likely inseparable from Kentaro Miyazaki.
In fact, Tsubasa Naito has been assassinated by Kentaro Miyazaki.
However, after careful analysis by Kikube Hiroo, he concluded that it was unlikely that Kentaro Miyazaki would do it himself. As the deputy chief inspector of the Central District of the French Concession, Kentaro Miyazaki was the most capable person to do such a secret and undermining thing.
The ones who were there were the men in his patrol room.
As for Lu Hu, an absolute confidant of Kentaro Miyazaki, he was able to climb from an ordinary patrolman's background to the position of deputy inspector step by step. This shows that his abilities and methods are outstanding. From this, it can be inferred that this person is most likely to be Miyazaki Kentaro.
The executive candidate selected by Kentaro Saki.
And Lu Hu’s disappearance seems to coincide with this:
Lu Hu assassinated Mr. Naito, and Kentaro Miyazaki naturally would not keep Lu Hu alive, so Lu Hu also disappeared!
Hiroyuki Kikube took a long drag on the cigarette, and he had already figured out the complete chain in his mind.
In addition, the patrol room later found a corpse in the septic tank. This corpse had Lu Hu's ID. Therefore, the patrol room subsequently completed the case of Lu Hu's disappearance by claiming that Lu Hu, deputy inspector of the third patrol of the central patrol room, was killed by a gangster.
The case is closed.
However, after Hiroyuki Kikube’s secret investigation, his subordinates reported an important situation to him:
Forensic doctors from the Terrasto Road Police Hospital examined the body of 'Lu Hu' and found that the body did not match Lu Hu's height and weight. They suspected that the deceased was not Lu Hu.
However, the patrol room seemed to be eager to close the case and did not adopt the forensic judgment.
There is definitely something wrong with trying to cover things up.
Kikube Hiroyuki sneered.
However, soon after he thought carefully, the smile on his face faded a lot.
He found that even though he seemed to have found a breakthrough from Lu Hu, in fact, after careful study, he had to admit that this breakthrough was invalid.
Even if he could prove that the body was not Lu Hu's, so what?
It is too common for the patrol office to be eager to close the case and choose to muddle through. It is difficult to point to and suspect 'Cheng Qianfan' from this point of view.
The most important thing is that Lu Hu never saw a person alive or a dead body. It can be said that there is no evidence of death!
Of course, the discovery of Lu Hu's disappearance still made Kikube Kano a little excited. Although this could not provide strong proof, it also invisibly strengthened Kikube Kano's confidence in continuing the investigation:
He believed that his persistence was correct and there was definitely something wrong with Kentaro Miyazaki.
…
Kikube Hiroyuki lit a cigarette, his brows furrowed amid the smoke.
The focus of his current investigation is on the disappearance of Tsubasa Naito. However, after careful analysis and research, Hiroyuki Kikube had to admit that there were really limited clues about the disappearance of Tsubasa Naito.
Although he must be sure that this matter must be related to Kentaro Miyazaki, there is no evidence.
The cigarette ashes fell sadly, and the cigarette butt burned Kikube's fingers.
Hiroyuki Kikube was in pain, and he quickly put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray.
At this moment, his eyes stopped at a sentence on the file:
Before Naito Tsubasa disappeared, he behaved strangely and seemed to have a secret mission, but the details were unknown.
This is the original statement from the Consulate General’s basic investigation.
Later there was a reply from Counselor Imamura: Naito had no secret mission.
Kikube Hiroyuki's eyes lit up, he naturally knew what "secret mission" Naito Kotsubasa was carrying out at that time.
Naito Kotsubo has been biting Miyazaki Kentaro, insisting that the death of his uncle Nagatomo Akio is inseparable from Miyazaki Kentaro. At the same time, he also questioned the assassination of Taniguchi Hiroyuki and whether Miyazaki Kentaro also acted inappropriately.
at.
Kikube Hiroo's heart moved:
The investigation into the disappearance of Naito Tsubasa has not made any progress. Why not change the idea and shift the focus of the investigation to the assassinations of Nagatomo Akio and Taniguchi Hiroyuki?
Maybe, there will be unexpected gains.
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