"This is the entire list of the consulate, all here."

Hiroshi Hiroshi Hiroshi then said: "Your Excellency, the special envoy, has asked you to take charge of this case. I hope Hahara-kun can find the traitor lurking in the consulate as soon as possible."

Komatsu Atsushi had already made a report, and everything started when he received a phone call from the consulate.

And Koichi Hahara was specially ordered by General Yasuhide Itauchi to investigate the case.

Hanbara Hikaru glanced at the list: "The time when Komatsu Atsushi received the call was 12:30 noon, so during this time, people who went to eat or take a lunch break can be excluded.

The call was made from your office. During that time, you were with General Yasuhide Ituchi, so you are absolutely not suspected.

As for your secretaries and assistants, these people are not suspicious in theory. Just check what they were doing at the time.

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

He had the opportunity to gain access to you and even secretly obtained the key to this office. Please carefully recall who has access to the key to the office? Another point is that he may not have been in the consulate for a long time."

"Why?"

Hanbara Koichi smiled: "Your Excellency Hirosawa, he is a person who has been lurking in the consulate for a long time. He has a safer way to do this instead of taking the risk of using the phone in your office, which can be easily traced by us."

Guangze Boman suddenly realized.

"Of course, this person may have run away." Koichi Hahara was a little helpless: "This incident was still planned by Meng Shaoyuan, and he must have taken these into consideration. With his shrewdness, he will never let his latent agent fall into the trap.

It’s in our hands.”

"But we just went through an interrogation and all the consulate personnel are here."

"oh?"

Hahara Koichi was a little curious.

Are they all there?

No evacuation?

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

"Based on your analysis, I thought of a person." Guangze Boman suddenly said: "This person's name is Chen Rongyang. He rebelled from the military command. He was later transferred to the consulate and was directly commanded by me. He can speak very fluent Japanese.

, he is also smart, and has strong hands-on ability, and knows a lot.

Some time ago, a window in my office was broken, and he took the initiative to help me repair it. I happened to receive a call from the Consul, asking me to come over immediately. I locked all the documents in the safe and took the key to the safe.

I had it on my body, and according to regulations the keys must be kept separately. I left in a hurry and forgot the office key here.

Later, when I came back, Chen Rongyang had repaired the window and left, and the office door was also closed for me. I asked my assistant to open the door for me with a spare key. When I entered, I found that the key was on the desk."

"You left a Chinese man alone in your office?"

"Yes, I locked all the files at that time."

"Your Excellency Hirosawa, I think you are careless. The military commander's agents are all-pervasive. Things that you think are worthless will often be found by them as information of great value." Koichi Hahara sighed: "Mr. Chen Rong has serious suspicions.

Bring him."

"OK."

Hiroshi Hiroshi immediately picked up the phone on his desk.

Koichi Hahara stood up and walked to the window.

So careless.

The people in these consulates have really weak awareness of precautions.

This is also an important reason why military reunification has repeatedly succeeded.

"what is that?"

Hahara Koichi suddenly pointed out the window and asked.

After finishing the phone call, Guangze Boman came over and looked outside: "Oh, the domestic garbage in the consulate will be gathered together. Once every three days, someone will come to take it out at a fixed time, including the people who haul the garbage.

stable."

“Four big buckets of garbage every time?”

“There are so many of us, including family members, sometimes we can’t finish the trip in one trip.”

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

"you mean?"

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

"OK."

…

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

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

"Oh, why do you want to thank me?" Hahara Koichi was a little curious.

"I am a person who loves cleanliness very much." Chen Rongyang said lightly: "I hid in the trash can and ran out. My whole body was covered in filth, which made it difficult for me to bear. You even asked me to rinse and change into a clean suit.

clothes."

"I also love cleanliness." Koichi Hahara feels the same way: "If you were standing in front of me covered in garbage and smelling weird, I wouldn't be able to stand it."

"At least we have something in common."

"Mr. Chen, please sit down." Koichi Hahara looked very polite: "Do you want to smoke?"

"smoke."

"OK."

Hikari Hahara placed a box of cigarettes and matches in front of Chen Rongyang.

Chen Rongyang lit a cigarette for himself.

"Mr. Chen, I am against violence." Koichi Hahara sighed and said: "I will never punish the prisoner unless it is absolutely necessary. I think that if you are caught by me like this, you will not be able to find any excuse to deny yourself.

Is he a hidden military agent?"

"There is no excuse." Chen Rongyang said frankly: "Now that it's like this, do I have any better excuse?"

"Look, this is the beginning of a happy relationship between us." Koichi Hahara smiled: "I am very curious, why are you evacuating in a hurry now? In terms of Meng Shaoyuan's command ability, he should have predicted the danger long ago.

.”

"Yes, he really predicted it a long time ago and gave me a retreat warning." Chen Rongyang sighed longly: "Unfortunately, I am not Meng Shaoyuan's subordinate."

"Yeah?"

"I am under the direct leadership of Cheng Yiming, Secretary of the Military Command's Shanghai Latent Area."

I see.

Hanbara Hikaru suddenly realized.

No wonder the prime time for retreat was lost.

"I feel really sorry for you." Han Yuanguang looked like he was acting at all: "You are led by 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 all agents of the military command, there is also a competitive relationship between them. Do you know what this reminds me of?"

Chen Rongyang didn't speak. He took a deep breath of cigarette and listened to Hahara Koichi's words:

"Political struggles, conflicts of interest, and conflicts in officialdom. There is nothing to be embarrassed about. This problem exists in Chinese officialdom, and it is also very acute in Japanese officialdom. For example, Japan's army, navy, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs are very serious, so

You have taken advantage of this many times, but now? It's your turn.

We are all small people. We have no way to influence the decisions of big people. We know clearly that this is wrong, but what can we do? During the time when I was talking to you, Colonel Matsumoto and Colonel Tanishige were probably trying to blame each other again.

Responsibility, they will even yell at each other, fearing that they will be at a disadvantage."

"You are quite interesting, Mr. Hahara." Chen Rongyang finally said.

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

Hanbara Koichi took the cigarette case, lit a cigarette for himself, and took a long puff: "Bureaucrats, this will kill people. Our intelligence work in Shanghai has repeatedly failed. We don't know the responsibility of review, and we just want to ignore ourselves."

The cleaner the better, what about you? You have sacrificed everything for your country, but now, it is very likely that you have been betrayed because of official interests!"

Chen Rongyang continued to remain silent.

"Believe me, Mr. Chen." Koichi Hahara said with great certainty: "Meng Shaoyuan must have tried hard to find Cheng Yiming to assist you in your retreat. You can't blame him. Cheng Yiming will definitely deliberately make things difficult for him. Otherwise, if you could have done it earlier,

If you retreated for even fifteen minutes, you would be free now instead of sitting here as a prisoner."

Chen Rongyang was a little curious: "You actually spoke for Meng Shaoyuan?"

"Why not? Just because we are enemies?" Hahara Koichi felt that it was really strange to ask this question: "I admire Meng Shaoyuan very much. It is admiration from the bottom of my heart. I have never thought that an enemy can be powerful.

At this point, he can firmly seize any opportunity that is lost at once!

I have been working hard 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 of knowledge from China. The funny thing is that after we became stronger, many of us

Everyone has denied this, and being arrogant will only lead us to failure."
To be continued...