Chapter 243: Hua Lei Arrested

Fujiwara Kintaichi listened, then knew what Tsuchihara Ni was worrying about, smiling and explaining: "General, you overthink; I, your humble servant, also thought of these at the start."

But when I, your humble servant, spoke with you on the phone, Chen Sang wasn't by my side; he was helping in the kitchen the whole time, only coming out after our call ended.

The kitchen is quite far from this living room, and I kept watching the kitchen without seeing him leave; moreover, there's no phone in the kitchen, so eavesdropping is impossible.

Upon hearing this, Tsuchihara Ni felt it made sense, pondered a moment, then said: "Enemy activity has been too frequent lately; we must find a way to uncover some leads."

Please rest assured, General; those folks at Section 76, although mostly thugs, do have some brains—they're investigating the underground arms trade market, and I believe they'll have results soon.

Even if we can't find any leads on the weasel, we can still find a few scapegoats to take the blame.

Hearing this, Tsuchihara Ni finally nodded in satisfaction: "That weasel is very cunning; I think we must devise a way to lure him out."

Hai! Fujiwara Kinta responded, standing upright.

Speaking of which, two sides.

Chen Yongren also brought Zeng Qiru and Gu Yongshan along, heading together to Saito Apartment.

It seems because she left a bad impression on Chen Yongren last time, Gu Yongshan wants to perform well today.

Chen Yongren let her go as she wished; when they arrived at Saito Apartment, outside there were already Japanese gendarmes enforcing martial law.

Fortunately, Fujiwara Kinta had already greeted in advance; with the pass, Chen Yongren smoothly brought people into the apartment.

Niikawa Naoyuki's corpse had vanished, but the bloodstains on the sofa remained, the red-and-white brain matter splattered onto the floor.

At a glance, it's clear Niikawa Naoyuki did not die peacefully.

Chen Yongren scanned the indoor surroundings.

"Advisor Chen, I, your humble servant, have already inquired; the best sniper points are all guarded, with nobody leaving midway." Gu Yongshan leaned close to Chen Yongren.

"What about the bell tower?" Chen Yongren asked again: "Besides those few buildings, only the bell tower is the best sniper point."

"Director Fujiwara also sent people to search that bell tower, but they found nothing." Gu Yongshan immediately said: "It's very likely the enemy deliberately cleaned up the scene before leaving."

Chen Yongren naturally didn't believe it, and still led his team to inspect.

"Advisor Chen, we've searched this several times already; searching again would be pointless." Zeng Qiru said.

"Who the hell told you to search the bell tower?" Chen Yongren bluntly said: "The enemy's weapon is a standard-issue rifle."

"It's impossible to spot a person from 500 meters away, so the enemy likely has a scope."

"Such items are hard to obtain domestically; we can investigate further based on this lead."

Moreover, this person must have undergone strict military training; otherwise he wouldn't be qualified to use such high-end equipment.

After killing someone, he could still clean up his traces in an orderly manner, which also proves this point from another angle.

Chen Yongren said coldly: "Section Chief Zeng, immediately send people to inquire along the streets with the bell tower as the center, asking whether any suspicious persons are loitering nearby."

Don't limit to this one street; take Saito Apartment as the center, thoroughly question all streets within a 500-meter radius!

"Huh?" Zeng Qiru startled, seeing Chen Yongren's face darken, immediately said: "Yes, Advisor Chen, I, your humble servant, will arrange this right away."

This is hardly just an advisor coming.

Clearly, a retired emperor has arrived.

A 500-meter radius—how long will this take to investigate?

We need to recruit people—we must recruit externally!

Gu Yongshan saw Zeng Qiru suffer a setback and held back her laughter.

"What the hell are you laughing at? You're the same!" Chen Yongren glared at Gu Yongshan and said bluntly: "I didn't bring you here to be a decoration, standing around waiting to be inserted; if you have nothing to do, go gather useful clues nearby."

"Yes!" Gu Yongshan's smile froze.

Investigate away; even if you search to death, you won't find any clues.

However, while they were investigating this matter, another place also experienced a major incident.

Within the 76th Office's Operations Division, one team specifically tasked with monitoring underground arms trafficking cracked an arms smuggling case.

The team's leader, Wang Fang, is the younger brother of Wang Mu, whom Chen Yongren shot to death.

Knowing his younger brother was killed by his direct superior as a warning, Wang Fang naturally felt resentful.

But he was only resentful, nothing more.

Under Wang Fang's harsh interrogation, and after they found firearms and ammunition, the shop owner finally couldn't hold out and handed over the recent arms transaction list.

They discovered that a person named Zheng Xiao frequently appeared, with records of purchasing explosives, firearms, and ammunition.

After an investigation.

Wang Fang discovered that the so-called Zheng Xiao was actually Zheng Gan, the owner of Zheng's Chinese Medicine Shop.

Eager to earn merit, he immediately set up an ambush.

But Zheng Gan never showed up—until he saw a girl walk in.

Zheng Gan, who had remained hidden, suddenly appeared.

Wang Fang immediately concluded that this girl was the one meeting with Zheng Gan; otherwise, what a coincidence.

Even if not, once brought back to Section 76, she would have to be.

Because the incident happened suddenly, Zheng Gan had no preparation.

Besides Zheng Gan, Cheng Qingyuan and shop assistant Wu Wei were arrested on the spot and taken to the Section 76 prison.

Including that unlucky girl, Hua Lei.

As the weather turned cold, not only Chen Yongren and Hua Lei themselves were taking medicine to strengthen their bodies, or brewing nourishing chicken soup and bone broth.

She had intended to buy some medicine, but was directly apprehended by Wang Fang.

Seeing they were armed and claimed to be from Section 76, Hua Lei warned Wang Fang that she didn't know who they were and begged to be released.

But Wang Fang still ignored the warning.

That said, his subordinates noticed something, seeing that Hua Lei was not to be trifled with, they advised Wang Fang to give her special treatment, transporting her alone in a separate vehicle.

When they rushed back to Section 76, Chen Yongren and his team had just finished assembling and returned.

Advisor Chen, you've worked hard today—what would you like to eat tonight? Zeng Qirui smiled.

Advisor Chen, you've worked hard today; what would you like to eat tonight? Zeng Qiru had a smile on his face.

We still count on Chen Yongren to feed us in the future, so we have to butter him up now; if we cause trouble in front of the Japanese, we'll surely have no good days ahead.

We still count on Chen Yongren to buy us meals later; right now we really need to butter him up, because if we cause trouble in front of the Japanese, we'll definitely have no good days ahead.

Chen Yongren was just about to speak.

Chen Yongren was just about to answer.

"We nabbed three communists at once—this time we'll surely earn great merit!"

We caught three Red Party members in one go; this time we'll surely make a great achievement!

"Brother Ren, where are you? I'm being bullied."

Ren Ge, where are you? I'm being bullied.

"Later you must definitely avenge me."

Later you must definitely avenge me.

……

……

A flood of thoughts came through.

A stream of thoughts came through.

Three communists were caught?

Three Red Party members were caught?

He hadn't processed the news yet when Hua Lei's thoughts reached Chen Yongren's ears.

Not having reacted to the news, Hua Lei's thoughts entered Chen Yongren's ears.

How did Hua Lei get dragged into this?

How did Hua Lei get dragged into this as well?

He was just thinking about it.

Just as he was thinking,

Chen Yongren saw two people dragging Hua Lei off the prison wagon.

Chen Yongren then saw two people pulling Hua Lei down from the police van.

"Let me go—my brother would never treat me like this. Touch me again and I'll make you regret it." Hua Lei struggled.

Let go of me, even my brother wouldn't treat me like this; if you touch me again, I'll make you regret it." Hua Lei struggled.

"I'll only regret it if I let you go!" Wang Fang yelled.

I'll only regret it if I let you go!" Wang Fang shouted angrily.

It really is Hua Lei?

It really is Hua Lei?