Eight o'clock in the morning, gendarmerie headquarters.
"Major, don't forget the military joint meeting at the headquarters." Commander Suzuki came in to remind.
Hattori Hikoo put down the official document in his hand, rubbed his temples, and said, "I understand."
He put on his military uniform, walked out of the team headquarters, and was about to get into the car. After thinking about it, he returned to the interrogation room.
The doctor in the clinic walked out of the interrogation room carrying a medicine box, bowed and said, "Major."
Hattori Hikoo pointed to the interrogation room and said, "How is the prisoner?"
"He was infected with wind-chill and had some fever symptoms."
"is it serious?"
"It's not serious. I just took the medicine. I think the fever will be gone by evening."
Hattori Hikoo's eyes flashed and he said: "The medicine the prisoner took himself?"
"yes."
"very good……"
"Major, if there's nothing else, I'll go back first."
"Well, go ahead."
A person who keeps saying that he only wants to die takes the initiative to take medicine and cooperate with the doctor's treatment, which shows that his desire to live is very strong.
Qin Li's performance was completely opposite to before, and Hattori Hikoo felt a glimmer of hope!
The guard opened the iron door of the interrogation room, Hattori Hikoo stepped in, and Qin Li leaned in the corner, dazed.
"Mr. Li, how do you feel now?" Hattori Hikoo's attitude was very polite.
Just as Jiang Xinyu analyzed, Qin Li's thinking is undergoing great changes!
After last night's fake shooting incident, Qin Li realized something he believed to be correct - no matter what, living is the most important thing!
"Do you want to smoke?" Hattori Hikoo handed over a cigarette.
Qin Li hesitated for a moment and did not reach out to pick it up.
His current mood is very complicated, betraying the faith he has held for many years is not something he can do easily.
Hattori Hikoo could see all these subtle changes in expression. He happily lit the cigarette and took a deep breath.
"Mr. Li, I still say the same thing, as long as you are willing to cooperate, everything will be different for you now."
"...I have nothing to say."
"To put it bluntly, to the senior officials in Chongqing, you are just a drop in the ocean, a dispensable little person. If you die, except for your own family who will be sad, who will remember you?"
"He died to resist foreign humiliation and die for the rise of the nation. No one needs to remember it!..."
"But, have you ever thought about it, there are many people like you in China, what do they get after they die?"
"There is death in life. If you die well, why should you hate it!"
Hattori Hikoo shook his head and said: "I know you have been in Shenyang for many years. Looking at the peace and prosperity of Manchuria now, do you really think that our Empire of Japan came here for invasion?"
Qin Li sneered: "What else?"
"We are here to build a new order in East Asia! For hundreds of years, European and American powers have been trying to carve up Asia. The British occupied India and Burma, and the Russians occupied you..."
"Major, the time is almost up." A military policeman came in and reminded again.
Hattori Hikoo glanced at his watch and said, "Mr. Li, I have official duties, so I'm sorry to be with you. I hope that when I come back, we will no longer be hostile!"
Qin Li didn't speak, using silence to express his final inner struggle.
Hattori Hikoo was very satisfied. Judging from his attitude, it was only a matter of time before "Li Jinshan" surrendered.
After leaving the interrogation room, Hattori Hikoo specifically asked the guard, "Let the kitchen bring him something to eat, preferably fish and meat. You can't treat him like ordinary prisoners. Do you understand?"
"clear!"
"Besides, you are not allowed to torture him again without my order!"
"yes!"
A few minutes later, Hattori Hikoo drove to the North China garrison headquarters in Yanjin. Almost in front of him, Chang Hongling and Hattori Mina arrived at the gendarmerie.
The two people came to the team headquarters, and the guard at the door said respectfully: "Mrs. Hattori, Miss Ayako. The major has just gone to the headquarters."
Hattori Mina said angrily: "He didn't say when he would come back?"
"Probably before 11:00," the guard replied.
Hattori Mina said to Chang Hongling: "What should I do? I originally wanted you to calm down, but my brother is not here."
As an agent, Chang Hongling had long known that the headquarters would hold a military joint meeting today. She deliberately delayed at home for a while, figuring that Hattori Hikoo was not in the gendarmerie, so she rushed over with Hattori Mina.
Chang Hongling said: "Mina, accompany me to the interrogation room!"
Hattori Mina said in surprise: "What are you doing there?"
Chang Hongling said bitterly: "If it hadn't been for Li Jinshan, Hattori-kun and I wouldn't have had conflicts. He would be the culprit!"
Hattori Mina thought for a while and said: "That's true...but what else can you do if you go?"
"You can vent your anger by scolding him a few times!" As she spoke, Chang Hongling walked quickly to the backyard.
Hattori Mina had no choice but to follow step by step, and she didn't think it was a big deal.
The smell of food wafted out of the interrogation room. Hattori Mina sniffed it and said, "Is the prisoner's food so good?"
Chang Hongling said to the guard: "Open the door."
The guard said: "Mrs. Hattori, this is the interrogation room, you..."
"Me and Mina both know this person, is it okay to come and visit the prisoner?"
"But……"
"I told you to open the door!" Chang Hongling said sternly. She knew very well that the guards would never dare to stop Major Zuo's wife and sister.
The guard vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he did not dare to offend these two people, so he took out the key and opened the iron to let them in.
There was a bowl of beef stew with potatoes and a plate of braised hairtail on the interrogation table. Following Hattori Hikoo's order, the kitchen specially prepared two Chinese dishes for Qin Li.
Qin Li hadn't eaten all day and night, and his appetite was surprisingly good. In fact, he already had the idea of surrendering to the enemy, but he just didn't want to admit it.
When Chang Hongling walked in, Qin Li was holding a rice ball in his hand and beef on his chopsticks, looking like he was gobbling it down.
"Lingzi..." Qin Li put down his chopsticks in embarrassment.
Looking at everything in front of her, Chang Hongling knew in her heart that Jiang Xinyu's guess was close to the truth, and Qin Li might indeed rebel.
"Li Jinshan, you have caused me so much pain!" Chang Hongling pretended to grit her teeth and said.
Hattori Mina also said from the side: "Mr. Li, please don't talk nonsense. Ayako has suffered a lot because of this incident."
Qin Li said: "I didn't say anything nonsense..."
Chang Hongling pressed hard and asked, "Aren't you talking nonsense?"
Qin Li knew what she meant by asking, and whispered: "No."
Hattori Mina patted her chest and said, "Thank God, you didn't say anything nonsense. Ayako is very kind to you. She also said that she would plead with her brother for you. Please don't hurt her."
When three people talk, both of them mean the same thing, but Mina Hattori is in her own league, and what she says doesn't add up at all.