LRAB Chapter 41 The Crow is Finally Arrested
Chapter 41 The Crow is Finally Arrested
"Good, just as I judged. Since this person not only has no ill will towards us but also has goodwill, then he is a friend of our Great Japanese Empire!"
Another day, I'll have Mieko deliver to him a "highest-level pass" issued by our Special Higher Police, just in case he doesn't speak Japanese and gets offended or even accidentally killed by our bunch of stupid soldiers who don't recognize English passports and don't understand English!
We also invited him to set a time so we could reciprocate!
There's a Chinese saying: "First time is unfamiliar, second time is familiar, third time we're in the same boat!" Haha... As for talented people in academia, we must make them willingly serve our Great Japanese Empire!
Never use force!
Otherwise, if he gets upset and deliberately gives the wrong direction on important scientific data, not only will the research be in vain, but it may even lead the entire project astray, with unimaginable consequences!
His achievements have been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Physics. If he does win the prize, we should immediately report this news to the mainland and make sure that the mainland finds his goddesses, Ms. Momoe Yamaguchi and Ms. Noriko Sakai, and persuades them to use their beauty to bring him into our great Japanese citizenship!
If he were to become a professor at Kyoto University, not only would Japan have its first Nobel laureate, but our country's physics field would also rise to the forefront of the world!
"This achievement is a thousand times, ten thousand times greater than capturing a hundred Chinese spies!" Tsukamoto Kameichi said wistfully.
"Hai..." Inukai Gakufuku stood up and left with admiration for his section chief's foresight!
"How many flights of stairs do you have to carry a bag of rice up..." After Inukai Gakufu left, Tsukamoto Kameichi solemnly began practicing and imitating Han Zhenhua's tone...
Throughout the streets and alleys of Shanghai, wanted posters bearing Lin Wuyai's portrait and huge bounties are plastered like a persistent leech, firmly attached to every corner that might be glanced at.
Ten thousand silver dollars, high-ranking official positions and generous salaries, imperial military ranks... The immense temptation formed by these words eroded the already fragile moral defenses of many people in the chaotic world like a plague.
Deep in an abandoned factory area on the outskirts of Shanghai, a team of about a hundred people is active.
They were not a regular army, but rather a group of stragglers from the Green Gang, the Axe Gang, and those who had failed to rejoin their ranks after the defeat in the Battle of Shanghai and were unwilling to surrender. They called themselves the "Independent Brigade of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army of Shanghai".
Captain Wu Zhiguo was originally a top henchman of Wang Yaqiao, the founder of the Axe Gang, and was famous in Modu for his "flying axe skill".
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan, Chen Guochen, the current leader of the Axe Gang, and Brother Chen, upholding the legacy of their predecessor Wang Yaqiao, organized this civilian anti-Japanese volunteer force in Shanghai.
3000 Axe Gang brothers fought alongside the National Revolutionary Army against the Japanese invaders. The bayonet scars on his face and the three scars on his body from being pierced by Japanese Type 38 rifle bullets are the "Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun" that he named himself for his resistance against Japan!
This is why, after the defeat in the Battle of Shanghai, everyone unanimously elected him as the "leader" and the captain!
The Battle of Shanghai... 3000 Axe Gang brothers! ...3000 brothers! Only a few dozen remain under my command. The leader I respected most in my life was Wang Yaqiao. Although his life's rights and wrongs, successes and failures are hard to judge, he constantly taught me:
A person's life! Murder, arson, bullying men and women, rape, kidnapping, extortion, anything is possible!
But there's one thing I absolutely cannot do!
It means "to become a traitor!"
Because no matter what bad things you've done, as long as you stepped forward and risked your life when the country was in danger, all your evil deeds will be wiped clean, and all the people of the country will forgive you!
After you die, you can enter the ancestral hall openly and proudly, and say: "Although I did many bad things in my life, I was not a traitor, I was a real man!" Your ancestors will line up to welcome you!
But if you "become a traitor!" your ancestors for eight generations and your children for seven generations will never be able to recover!
Wu Zhiguo also took this as a marker; he had imagined countless ways to die, but he never thought that one day he would "become the very traitor he once hated most, the one he had to kill on sight!"
But! You'll never know the cost of firewood and rice until you're in charge of the household!
The despair of "running out of ammunition and food" on the enemy's rear battlefield, the sadness of seeing 3000 brothers die one after another before his eyes, leaving only a few dozen, and not even being able to eat a bite of food!
The repeated defeats on the main battlefield, and the fact that even the capital Nanjing had been occupied by the Japanese, made his beliefs waver. What was this?
Protecting the homeland and serving the country?
Or was it just a normal "change of dynasty"?
He hesitated, wavered, and felt helpless!
But then a crumpled wanted poster picked up from the ground became the "last straw that broke the camel's back."
When Wu Zhiguo saw the photo on the wanted poster, it was a young man they had "recruited" two months earlier. He claimed to be a student who had fled from war. Because he knew some radio repair skills, he was left behind to be responsible for the maintenance of the brigade's dilapidated radio. He was usually taciturn, and everyone called him "Xiao Lin".
When his gaze swept over the words "100,000 silver dollars" and "police chief," after a day of hesitation, he finally summoned a few trusted confidants and informed them of Kobayashi's bounty...
So, when the dozen or so trusted subordinates who had been with him for over a decade, who hadn't eaten for two days and were on the verge of starvation, suddenly lit up with excitement,
Wu Zhiguo knew he had no way back. If he didn't do it, his men would kill him immediately and then go after Xiao Lin for the reward!
In addition, his own greed, like a mad vine, instantly entangled his entire mind.
What talk of resisting Japan and saving the nation, what talk of brotherhood? In the face of real power and wealth, they all seem so pale and laughable.
That night, Wu Zhiguo, along with more than a dozen trusted men, lured the unsuspecting Lin Wuyai out under the pretext of "discussing urgent intelligence." They then covered Lin Wuyai's head with a sack, tied him up tightly, stuffed him into a stolen truck, and drove directly to downtown Shanghai, heading towards the headquarters of the Special Higher Police.
Inside the Special Higher Police interrogation room, the lights were bright, but they couldn't illuminate the bloodshed and despair that permeated the space.
Lin Wuyai was tightly bound to the cold rack, his clothes were tattered, and his body was covered with whip marks, brand marks, and bruises from being splashed with cold water.
But he still held his head high, and despite the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, his eyes were like tempered steel, staring intently at Tsukamoto Kameichi, Inukai Gakufuku, and the traitor in his brand-new major's uniform who dared not meet his gaze... Mao Baoying.
"Pah! Mao Baoying! You ungrateful bastard!"
"The Party and the State and Boss Dai will never let you go!" Lin Wuyai cursed hoarsely, each word aggravating his wounds and bringing a sharp pain.
"And you, Wu Zhiguo! As a fellow countryman, you are greedy for life and afraid of death, betraying your friends for personal gain! You will die a horrible death!" He then vented his anger on Wu Zhiguo, who was bowing and scraping to the side, waiting to receive his reward.
A hint of embarrassment flashed across Wu Zhiguo's face, but it was quickly dispelled by the power he was about to gain. He fawned over Tsukamoto Kame, saying, "Sir, I've brought the person...the person I've brought you. Look at the silver dollars and the deputy director of the police station..."
As a member of the Axe Gang, a triad society, I have a natural sense of awe for the police station!
Tsukamoto Kameichi nodded in satisfaction: "Mr. Wu, you've made a wise choice. The Imperial Army always keeps its word. The position of Deputy Chief of the Shanghai Police Department is yours."
This is the letter of appointment.
"One hundred thousand silver dollars, not a single penny less!" He gestured to his subordinate to hand a document to Wu Zhiguo.
Wu Zhiguo accepted the document with trembling hands. Looking at the bright red seal and the words "Deputy Director," he was so moved he almost fainted, repeatedly saying, "Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! I will certainly serve the Imperial Army to the utmost!"