Late at night, inside the Xiamen Puppet Government Building, the lights are bright and the figures are moving, which makes people feel uneasy.

In Li Zaixin's office, Li Zaixin seemed to have a bad premonition. He kept pacing around the room when a phone rang quickly.

Li Zaixin hesitated for a moment, then grabbed the phone with a nervous expression: Hello, hello, this is Li Zaixin.

The urgent voice on the phone said: "Mayor Li, the cruise ship 'Sightseeing' was bombed and sank. You must immediately start investigating all the people who know the news. If you can't find out, I will question you."

Li Zaixin was stunned for a moment. The phone fell out of his hand and fell on the table with a clang.

He was completely furious, grabbed the glass on the desk, and threw it heavily to the ground, causing glass shards and tea leaves to splash everywhere.

Hearing the crash, two policemen quickly walked in to see what was going on.

"Get out of here, get out of here!" Li Zaixin shouted hysterically, scaring the two of them and quickly retreating.

It started to rain and the seaside was filled with fog.

Li Zaixin stood at the seaside, staring blankly into the distance, letting the rain hit him.

Hong Xingtai hurried over with an umbrella in hand and quickly held Li Zaixin's head.

Li Zaixin looked at the rough waves and hazy sea level, silent. His face looked tired and haggard.

Hong Xingtai, who was holding an umbrella, looked up at the sky and came over to persuade him: Mayor Li, it’s raining heavily, go back!

Li Zaixin stood motionless. He looked like he was crying and said: "So many Japanese officials and Taiwanese officials died on the 'Sightseeing' ship. Isn't this costing my life? How can I report to the Imperial Japanese Army?"

Explain!"

Hong Xingtai patiently persuaded: "You are not entirely to blame for the bombing of the 'Sightseeing Ship'! The anti-Japanese elements are so rampant, and you can do nothing even if you have the ability to do things differently."

Li Zaixin said painfully and bitterly: "I am the mayor of the Xiamen Municipal Government. I proposed the plan and came up with the idea. Now that such a big thing has happened, how can I get away with it?"

Hong Xingtai consoled him: "We can't get wet here. Let's go back first and then think of ways to deal with the Japanese."

Li Zaixin listened and walked forward slowly. As he walked, he said regretfully: "I shouldn't have given them this idea in the first place. I just shot myself in the foot. I, I regret it!"

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Hong Xingtai then said: "The Japanese Imperial Army will understand your painstaking efforts. Besides, the 'Sightseeing' was bombed at sea because the Japanese did not take good care of it. What does it have to do with you?"

Li Zaixin sighed and said: "It's useless to talk about this now, let's see how to escape this disaster!"

Both of them walked forward with deep thoughts.

At the enemy's Xiamen Garrison Headquarters, the Japanese and puppets are holding an emergency meeting.

There is a telegram on Miyata's desk, which contains a dense list of people who were killed on the sightseeing ship.

Miyata seemed to be reading a telegram or bowing his head in silence in the room.

Next to him, Uchida was sitting on the sofa with an expressionless expression.

After about a minute, Miyata raised his head and shouted with a gloomy face: Shame, shame on the Japanese Imperial Army.

Li Zaixin, Hong Xingtai, and the head of the Xiamen secret service, Tamura Takunori, stood aside, too frightened to speak out.

"Report!" Following the voice, a Japanese officer walked in and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, a secret message from the Navy."

Commander Miyata quickly received the secret message and looked at it hurriedly.

The Japanese officer left Miyata's office knowingly.

Tamura Takashi looked at Miyata and asked in a low voice: Miyata-kun, did the Navy Department's message mention any suspicious people, such as when boarding the ship at the dock and while the "Sightseeing" was sailing...

Miyata handed the telegram to Uchida with a heavy heart, and after reading it, Uchida gave it to Takunori Tamura with a serious expression.

After Takano Tamura read the telegram, he pondered for a moment and said: "The Admiralty Headquarters suspects two people. One is Kanako, Akutsu's personal doctor, and Onodaichi, the crew member of the 'Sightseeing'. According to telegrams sent from China, although Mr. Akutsu was invited

He boarded the Sightseeing, but died shortly after boarding."

Uchida looked surprised and asked: "Akutsu was killed after boarding the ship, which means he was killed by anti-Japanese elements. So the person who played Akutsu and his so-called "personal doctor" were both anti-Japanese elements?"

Tamura Takano nodded and said: That should be the case.

Miyata said doubtfully: I still don't believe it was just the two of them who blew up such a large and heavily guarded tourist ship. I'm afraid there might be some of their accomplices, anti-Japanese elements, working cunningly.

Tamura Takano gritted his teeth and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, I must find a way to find out the identities of these people!"

Li Zaixin took the opportunity and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, the anti-Japanese activities in Xiamen and Gulangyu Island are extremely rampant. I think they must be responsible for this."

Uchida waved his hand: Mayor Li, your judgment is not entirely correct. Some of the people who participated in the bombing of the sightseeing ship may have been hidden among us.

Tamura Takano asked in confusion: "Mr. Consul General, you said there are anti-Japanese spies among us?"

"Yeah!" Uchida further analyzed and said: Without their help, the anti-Japanese elements would not have been able to obtain the information about the "Sightseeing Number".

Uchida interjected: So, they have grasped the whereabouts of the "Sightseeing Number" in advance. This is top-secret information from our senior management!

Miyata nodded slightly.

Tamura Takunori: Your Excellency, I analyze that this matter may have been done by the Kuomintang Chongqing government.

"So, we have their spies inside!" Miyata asked.

"It's not within us, it's within the city government!" Tamura Takashi said here, then looked at Li Zaixin and said: "Yesterday, 'Snow Wolf' said in the secret message that she found an unknown radio signal in the East Block, so

The time was short and we were unable to lock on to the target and find out a clear location. The city hall is in the east block, so the signal was most likely sent from the city hall."

Li Zaixin was suddenly frightened and broke into a sweat. He hurriedly defended: Commander Miyata, this is absolutely impossible. The East Block is so big and messy. Who knows where the signal came from.

He turned around and said to Tamura: Director Tamura, this is a matter of life and death, you can't unjustly accuse people!

Tamura Takashi looked at him coldly: He was wronged, and the people from your city government are the most suspect!

Li Zaixin hurriedly defended: Commander, I am loyal to the Imperial Japanese Army, and I am not half-hearted at all!

Commander Miyata waved his hand and said: This matter will be left to the two of you to investigate. You must work together and do your best to detect the enemy's radio station and the lurking spies within 10 days.

"Yes!" they both responded.

Uchida, who had been rarely speaking, stood up and said with concern: "Looking back at the resistance incidents that have occurred since the Imperial Japanese Army regained Xiamen Island, various signs indicate that there is an invisible spy network in Xiamen Island, maybe from Chongqing, or from Chongqing.

They may be from Yan'an. They colluded with Gulangyu Island and assisted each other. For example, the sightseeing ship was bombed and thousands of people marched on Gulangyu Island. There was a close connection between them, which made the Imperial Japanese Army's governance of Xiamen Island and its control of Xiamen Island.

The implementation of the policy of 'administering China with China' has caused great harm. What we urgently need to do now is to strengthen our espionage work, enhance our strength and equipment, and find the key to this spy network. On the one hand, we must start from Xiamen Island

, strengthen detection and eavesdropping work to find the anti-Japanese elements hiding inside; on the other hand, we should start from Gudao and ask the consulates on the island to cooperate in arresting the organizers and leaders of the anti-Japanese activities, and rigorously interrogate them to find a breakthrough.

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Chapter completed!