Dark Cave - part 8 - Chapter 36
At this time, Kurumada Kosuke hurried in and said excitedly: ” We finally contacted Officer Ba, and he will be here soon. Someone from the Japanese Consulate will also come to work with the police to deal with those pottery works. Dr. Yamashita, can you move? ”
Yamashita Yuji said: ” The person was awake, but his hands and feet were still soft and he couldn’t move them. ”
” Where are the pottery works? I can stay there and hand them over to the authorities as soon as possible, ” said Kosuke Kurumada.
” Hold me, I will take you to find it. ”
Two reporters came forward to help Yamashita Yuji, but Yamashita Yuji was too big and it was difficult for them to help him up.
” The police and ambulance will be here soon anyway, so why don’t you tell us where they are. ”
” It’s in the safe in my office. The combination is 034915. ”
Suddenly, Kurumada Kosuke had a pistol in his hand, and pointed it at Anzaki Sachiko: ” Yamashita Yuji, when did you become so smart? There is only a pile of useless waste paper in your safe. ”
Inoue Jin, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly said: ” That’s the key . I just read Yamashita Masahiro’s words, but added a few words, which indirectly told Yamashita Yuji that he doubted us. ”
Yamashita Yuji said no more and glared at him. It was indeed a key reminder. When reciting the words, a word was added to the beginning of each of the first four sentences, namely “蒂” , “房” , “两” , and “人” , which means ” beware of two people ” .
Key said: ” But it’s too late. I don’t know what you injected us with. We can keep our minds clear, but our limbs are further anesthetized. What kind of advanced medicine can anesthetize such a wide range without passing through the spinal cord? Mr. Inoue’s technique of using a syringe to draw medicine and pop bubbles is very professional; the timing of your appearance is just right; the murder of Miss Sachiko’s father ten years ago, the pottery robbery and murder case five years ago, and the recent series of murders, the only constant seems to be you two. Only when you two work together can these cases be handled seamlessly. . Your goal is the history that Dr. Yuji Yamashita just told. He is a kind-hearted person and could not bear to let this history be buried. At the same time, he is a weak person and did not have the courage to make it public until his death . But he must have been tempted, especially five years ago, when the lawsuits against the Japanese government by the families of the victims of the germ warfare were in full swing. The fake “Fireflies Facing Each Other” was smashed here, which means that what you want is the secret in the pottery bottle! Masahiro Yamashita must have recorded everything that happened here, and you want that secret to never see the light of day! Who are you? ” Guan Jian finally heard the clues .
Yamashita Yuji said: ” Let me use my imagination, Mr. Inoue, I even suspect that you are the youngest son of Kuroki Masaru, the child who committed suicide in a strange way, a top student in medical school, that is you! In fact, your identity has been changed, and you have become a militarist and came to China as a civilian spy. In fact, Kuroki Masaru is not dead yet, and is operating a right-wing group … You … You are the culprit who killed my father! ”
Inoue Jin shouted angrily: ” Stop talking nonsense. Are you going to hand over the genuine Fireflies? ”
” I have made arrangements. Everything my father told me is known by the other party. Once I am killed, the truth will immediately make headlines in major newspapers. ” Yamashita Yuji remained highly calm.
” In fact , if everyone could control their mouths, there would be fewer innocent ghosts in hell, ” said Kosuke Kurumada.
” But if this is the case, and evil is allowed to run rampant, the world will become a hell. Just like here fifty years ago. ” Guan Jian glared at the two of them.
” Then your girlfriend will have to go to hell first . ” Kosuke Kurumada put the muzzle of his gun against Sachiko Anzaki’s head.
Yuji Yamashita shouted, ” I say! ” But it was too late, as a gunshot was heard in his shout .
The pistol in Kurumada Kosuke’s hand rolled to the ground. Inoue Jin ran out of the door quickly, but was illuminated by several flashlights. Someone shouted: ” Don’t move! ” Officer Chen and several armed criminal police surrounded Kurumada Kosuke and Inoue Jin.
With a rope hanging down from the mouth of the well, Bayusheng slowly descended into the well in the backyard of the Notre Dame Church, with the flashlight moving on the well wall. The well wall was originally made of bluestone, dark without sunlight, and one of the pieces was slightly protruding and light in color. Bayusheng pushed hard, and a small piece of stone fell back, revealing a ” hole ” on the well wall .
After entering the cave, there was an extremely narrow passage that only one person could crawl through. Bayusheng crawled forward for more than ten meters, and suddenly a skeleton appeared in front of him! Not far away, he encountered another corpse.
After crawling over more than a dozen corpses, Bayusheng came out of another entrance of the passage and found himself in a dark room. There was a huge stove and seven or eight stoves in the room, which was obviously a kitchen. After touring the entire underground building, he concluded that this was a secret medical base of the Japanese army. The location was exactly the basement of the Institute of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine.
Could it be that the deaths of Sister Cai and An Qi Renji are related to this ” secret in the well ” ?
to his superiors , he suggested keeping the discovery secret for the time being. Just as he was searching for information from all sides and gathering clues overnight, the phone rang. ” Officer Ba, it’s bad, the key is missing! ” Ouyang Shan said in a panic. ” I called him, but no one answered. ”
Soon, the results of various inquiries have been fed back.
The situation was far worse than expected: the police officer who was secretly protecting Guanjian was ambushed and knocked unconscious. Guanjian, Yamashita Yuji, Kikuno Yuji, Chiba Fumika, and Anzaki Sachiko were all missing! Bayusheng and Officer Chen immediately took several police officers to the Institute of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. In the institute, everyone’s personal belongings were still there, indicating that the disappearance may have occurred in the institute.
Bayusheng led the team to the backyard of the chapel, led the way down the well, and the police officers filed in and searched in two teams. Officer Chen’s team found the room where Guanjian and others were staying, and when the two Japanese reporters were about to kill, the sharpshooter opened fire to stop them.
After listening to Bayusheng’s narration, Guan Jian said, ” The passage you climbed into must have been the one dug by the young men from Shaanxi when they fled en masse. The Japanese army and the Special High Section arranged an insider among the laborers, so that group of young men could not escape. The Japanese army would definitely block that passage. I have a guess that the corpses in the passage and underground buildings are Japanese soldiers. The highest officer here, Anzaki Munemitsu, seems to have committed suicide by disembowelment. After the Japanese army was defeated, suicide was very common. Anzaki Munemitsu heard that the Japanese army was about to surrender and burn his years of hard work, so he might have fallen into despair and madness; he would have asked his subordinates to follow suit if he committed disembowelment. Perhaps, among the soldiers who wanted to survive, some remembered the passage dug by the laborers, so they reopened the blocked section. Perhaps, in the end, they were exhausted or shot and could not escape from here. This passage became another secret passage for the two Japanese reporters to enter here. I even think that they took this passage to kill Yamashita Masahiro and two guards. ”
” That makes sense. It also explains why Kosuke Kurumada and Jin Inoue have been frequenting that well and that passage recently. They were secretly observing the progress of your experiment. Their whereabouts were finally seen by the old and dim-sighted Sister Cai. Sister Cai was sure that they were demons and that the demons came out of the well, so she placed a cross at the mouth of the well to suppress the demons. The two therefore knew that their whereabouts had been discovered by Sister Cai, so they killed them to silence them. ” Bayu Sheng said.
” Their motive for committing the crime was that they didn’t want the secret of this underground cave to be made public. Their interest in the experimental team was that they hoped my ‘ special ability ‘ could help Dr. Yamashita find the missing pottery. ”
Bayusheng turned to Yamashita Yuji and asked, ” Excuse me, Dr. Yamashita, where is the original copy of Fireflies Facing Each Other ? ”
At this time, Officer Chen came over, holding a large flower pot with a huge Begonia in it. Yamashita Yuji, who was receiving treatment, nodded and said, ” Please pour out the flowers and soil inside. ” Several pieces of ceramics emerged from the soil, and Bayusheng squatted down and pieced them together into the shape of a slender vase. “Fireflies Facing Each Other”!
Yuji Yamashita said: ” Inspired by Guanjian and Sachiko, I excavated my father’s grave in the International Cemetery. Initially, I just hoped to return the artwork to its original owner and bring it back to Japan. However, as the vicious case escalated, when I saw the sadness in Guanjian’s eyes as he missed Miss Huang Shiyi, I remembered the will my father left me, a photo of “Fireflies Facing Each Other”, and a will with only four words – a Chinese idiom : ” No destruction, no construction ‘ . ”
Everyone understood the meaning of ” destruction before construction ” – Yamashita Yuji smashed the extremely expensive “Fireflies Facing Each Other”.