Dark Cave - part 7 - Chapter 33
Key said: ” When I saw those fake pieces just now, I thought that those pottery pieces were indeed moved by Mr. Yamashita. The murderers five years ago did not get the real ones. After discovering the truth, they were furious and smashed all the fakes here. Oh my God … After we dug out the poems that the old man wrote to He Lingzi , did you think of Mr. Yamashita’s own tomb? Maybe there are still secrets, so you went to the International Cemetery to dig up Mr. Yamashita’s tomb …”
Yamashita Yuji sighed: ” What a shame ! ”
The key is to know that Yamashita Yuji acquiesced, and then asked: ” But, how do you know this place? ”
” If I can tell you, you will understand why I care so much about the whereabouts of artworks, ” said Yuji Yamashita .
the Greater East Asia Drug Management Bureau was completed, the Japanese troops who had been stationed there for a long time were named ” Secret 429 Unit ” . April 29 is Emperor Hirohito’s birthday, which shows the importance of this small unit.
of the collective escape of the young men made Yamashita Masahiro think hard about the path and mission he had chosen . A group of young men who were captured from Shaanxi to build the underground project were dissatisfied with the closed living environment and hard work. They had been planning to escape collectively for a long time. When they were almost successful, they were exposed in time by the undercover intelligence officers of the Special High Section. In the end, they were all caught in one fell swoop, and no one could escape from the underground. After asking his superiors for instructions, the commander of the unit, Yasaki Munemitsu, implemented a decision that Yamashita Masahiro found shocking: all the escaped young men were assembled in the newly built poison gas laboratory to become the first batch of poison gas test subjects.
Sixty-five strong men stopped struggling after more than ten minutes.
From then on, nightmares began to recur in the middle of the night .
Prior to this, Yamashita Masahiro had received comprehensive training in human physiology and bacteriology research. He had already believed that the living people on the dissection table and the cruel scenes he had to endure were all part of his dedication to science and part of his loyalty to the emperor and the country of Japan. His childhood education was strengthened at the Medical University and the Army Medical School, and Yamashita Masahiro had no doubt about his duties. He wanted to be a determined man and an outstanding talent who could contribute to the country and society.
However, the punishment for these escaped men was clearly a massacre.
” First, it’s a warning. According to the Chinese , we should kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. There are at least two hundred laborers here, ” Anzaki Munemitsu sensed the depression of Yamashita Masahiro. ” Second , it’s a punishment. You know, the reason why we in Japan can leave our doors unlocked at night is the result of strict and clear punishments. The most important thing is to keep our mission secret. ”
After the construction was completed and the mass killings were over, everything calmed down.
Yamashita Masahiro ‘s passion for the career he chose to devote himself to dragged him into a state of numbness. He even participated in many live dissections – in fact , in the ” Secret 429 Unit ” , this underground building, the one with the most solid foundation in anatomy and pathology and the most sophisticated scalpel skills was the elegant-looking Yamashita Masahiro.
” Maluda ” ( the name for the subjects) who were dissected alive , their struggles, their screams, their angry and resentful eyes, all became abandoned objects of numb emotions after being ” commonplace ” .
Before coming to Jiangjing, as a military medical talent that Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii was going to focus on promoting, Yamashita Masahiro had visited other units for internship. He found that the research work of the ” Secret Unit 429 ” in the first half of the year was not much different from that of other bacterial warfare and chemical warfare units . Neither Kuroki Masaru nor Yasuzaki Munemitsu mentioned to him where the ” secret ” of the ” Secret Unit 429 ” was.
Until that fall.
It was a gloomy late autumn. Yamashita Masahiro, who had not seen the sun for a long time, changed into casual clothes, came to the ground, and breathed the damp and cold air. Outside, there was a misty rain. The gate of the Great East Asia Drug Business Bureau suddenly opened, and a truck with the ” Great East Asia Drug ” trademark drove in through the rain curtain. Another batch of ” road trucks ” arrived.
” Maru-da ” means ” log ” in Japanese , and here it refers to human test subjects, who were left to be chopped, felled, and sawed like logs by woodcutters. They were mainly Chinese , and most of them were put into the crematorium after vivisection. The crematorium and the gas test room were in the same enamel hut, and under the hut was an advanced large furnace that could burn coal, oil, and gas.
Yamashita Masahiro stretched his muscles, walked back to the building, and walked down the stairs on the ground floor into the underground passage. The light in the underground passage was dim, and he saw from afar the newly arrived ” Roadmasters ” waiting in batches to take the elevator under the escort of a small team of military police.
The first batch of ” road police ” took the elevator under the escort of three gendarmes. Only four gendarmes were left in the underground passage to monitor more than ten ” road police ” .
Suddenly, ” Maluda ” took action. A sturdy man suddenly pushed a gendarme against the wall and tightly grasped the gendarme’s neck with both hands. The other gendarmes were also hugged by several other men. A female voice shouted: ” Take away their guns! ”
Yamashita Masahiro immediately sounded the alarm on the wall, and the shrill cry echoed throughout the underground. At the same time, he drew his pistol and ran to the scene of the fight. When he ran to the front, he saw a woman who had already grabbed a rifle and was stabbing a military policeman.
Yamashita Masahiro shouted: ” Don’t move, or I’ll shoot! ” The muzzle of the pistol was pointed at the back of the head of the woman who had snatched the gun.
Everyone stopped, and many Japanese soldiers who had heard the noise came rushing into the corridors on both sides .
” Put down the gun! ” Yamashita Masahiro shouted in Chinese.
The woman slowly put down her gun and slowly turned her head. What Yamashita Masahiro saw was a pair of eyes full of resentment, anger and sadness. There was also a familiar face, a face that had haunted him in his dreams.
He Lingzi!
Even in Yamashita Masahiro’s most horrifying nightmare, he never thought that he would meet the woman he once loved deeply in this underground devil’s cave. He Lingzi said calmly : ” I hope you have forgotten me. ”
It was He Lingzi’s reappearance that made Yamashita Masahiro dig deep into his heart: it turned out that he had never forgotten her.
She is still so beautiful, she is still so unruly.
The moment he saw He Lingzi, Yamashita Masahiro’s heart was like a piece of pottery falling to the ground and shattered into pieces.
” Her Chinese name is He Ling. She is a spy for China . She is fluent in Japanese and uses a Japanese alias. She mainly relies on the beauty trap. She is like a fish in water among the important military and administrative officials of the Imperial Army. She has stolen a lot of intelligence, which led to the assassination of many officials, including a senior officer of the Special High Police … Oh, by the way, Kuroki-kun reminded me that you two were in love before. ” Yasaki Munemitsu tried to use a light tone.
” I … have forgotten her. ”
” Well, Director Ishii and Mr. Kuroki have good vision indeed …” Anzaki Munemitsu suddenly called out, and an orderly came in with a dagger in his hand. Anzaki Munemitsu said: ” I believe you must have seen this. ” It was an antique dagger , the weapon that He Lingzi used in Nara.
” Look, you still remember some details. It is said that she always carried this sword with her, and used it to kill important members of the Imperial Army. Since she came to us, this trophy has also come with her. If you want, you can take it as a souvenir. ”
Yamashita Masahiro shook his head and said, ” No, I want to … forget it more thoroughly. ”
” As the military medical officer in charge of the experiment, you should make good use of her. This road is big. ”
” What … are we going to do … to her ? ”
” You just asked, let’s discuss the specific plan together: Actually, what we are doing is just some preparatory work, training medical soldiers and medical interns. From today on, the mission of our 429th Unit will officially begin. ”
” Please specify. ”
Although there were only two of them in the office, An Qi Munemitsu lowered his voice and said, ” These people are not ordinary people. ”
If the lights are not turned on, the underground base of Unit 429 will always be in darkness.
It was already night, and when Yamashita Masahiro passed by the Japanese soldiers’ rest room, he stopped. There was no sunlight all year round, life was dull, and the soldiers were homesick. At some point, someone collected a lot of fireflies and, according to the custom of their hometown, put them in paper lampshades to make firefly lamps.
In his palm, he also holds a ” firefly ” . In the painting of Reiko Watanabe in the glass jar , the firefly looks sad.
to Japanese folk tradition, each firefly represents a soul. The underground base of Unit 429 was established only a year ago, and how many souls have turned into ghosts? Thinking of this, Yamashita Masahiro felt a chill down his spine.