Chapter 212: Not Assassination, But Guarding And Stealing From Oneself?
“Heh, who knows if the address you’re giving is real or fake?” Cao Weida sneered disdainfully, his eyes full of ‘are you treating me like a fool?’ expression,
“What if it’s fake? Wouldn’t I be losing both my wife and my troops?”
“It’s real, hero, my life is in your hands, how dare I lie!” Liu Huai raised his hand to swear, looking utterly sincere, but his eyes were subtly turning.
The telephone had just rung, he didn’t answer it, the bodyguards outside would definitely get suspicious, and might come in any moment.
As long as the bodyguards came in, he’d have room to negotiate, he had to hold on a bit longer!
Seeing his appearance, Cao Weida had already guessed he wasn’t being honest.
He sneered inwardly, yanked him up and dragged him to the table to sit down, dagger pressing against his throat: “Since you’ve said so, I’ll tentatively believe you once,”
“If I can sneak in quietly once, I can do it twice. If you dare give me a fake address, next time I’ll make sure your head rolls! Write it now!”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’ll write it right now, right now.” Liu Huai quickly agreed, picked up paper and pen and started writing, but his writing speed was deliberately slow, clearly stalling for time.
“Trying to play tricks with me?” Cao Weida’s voice turned cold, the dagger in his hand instantly pressing closer.
Hiss~~
Liu Huai’s face changed instantly, the stinging pain at his throat and the tactile sensation of liquid sliding down warning him that his skin had been cut!
“Hero, don’t get agitated! I’ll write faster, please move the dagger back a bit.”
“What a spineless wretch, you have to suffer some pain!” Cao Weida snorted coldly, pulling the dagger back slightly: “Write fast! If you try any more tricks, you won’t need to write anymore!”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’ll write, right now.” Liu Huai was thoroughly scared, this guy was simply a plague god!
He had no doubt that if he tried any more tricks, the dagger at his throat would unhesitatingly slit it.
He wrote quickly, but to stall for time, he wrote three addresses on the paper in succession.
After putting down the pen, he obsequiously handed over the paper: “Hero, it’s done, take a look.”
Cao Weida took the paper and looked at it, couldn’t help sneering: “Are you sure these addresses are real?”
“Of course, these addresses are naturally real! My life is in your hands, how dare I deceive you, right?” Liu Huai nodded firmly, inwardly cursing why the bodyguards at the door hadn’t come in after so long.
“You’re waiting for those people outside the door, aren’t you.” Casually stuffing the paper into his pocket, Cao Weida sneered: “Don’t worry, they’ve already gone ahead to scout the way for you.”
Liu Huai was shocked, stammering: “No, hero, we jianghu folks have to keep our credibility! I’ve already given you the address, you can’t go back on your word!”
“Heh, jianghu folks do need to keep credibility, but are you sure all the addresses you gave me are correct?” Cao Weida’s tone was low, his eyes shooting out cold light:
“You think your little tricks can fool me? Are you treating me like a fool?!”
“Two of these addresses are for proper households with no relation to you at all, you think I don’t know that?!”
“And the other address is probably a trap too. If I remember correctly, that’s one of the little devils’ secret outposts.”
“What, you planning to have me go ask the little devils for the money?”
“Liu Huai ah Liu Huai, your conscience is greatly bad!”
“Looks like you didn’t take my words seriously, sorry then, I can only send you to meet your subordinates!”
Liu Huai’s face changed drastically, he didn’t expect Cao Weida to see through his little tricks!
Why does he know so much about these?!
No time to think more, Liu Huai suddenly smashed his head backward, trying to break free from Cao Weida’s dagger control at the same time.
The idea was good, but execution went wrong.
Before his head could smash into Cao Weida, the dagger suddenly hooked, then with lightning speed slashed across his throat.
“Urk”
Liu Huai’s eyes bulged, hands clutching his gushing neck, face full of despair as he collapsed to the ground convulsing.
“This is all your own doing, who made you a traitor aiding and abetting evil!” Cao Weida squatted down, coldly watching the not-yet-dead Liu Huai, wiping the dagger on his body, said coldly:
“The wicked will eventually bring ruin upon themselves, killing you like this is really too easy on you!”
“Don’t worry, after you die, your reputation won’t vanish, you’ll be nailed to the pillar of shame, reviled for ages!”
Hearing this, Liu Huai convulsed even more violently, his eyes filled with hatred and regret.
Even more disbelieving that this would be his end.
But no matter what, it was already too late to turn back.
Fear of death enveloped his heart, his eyes gradually dulled, the convulsing movements slowly ceased.
Cao Weida just watched him slowly die, no trace of sympathy in his eyes.
Such a traitor, scum, if possible, he actually wanted to hand him over to Liu Zhan, let him properly ‘take care’ of this scum, make him unable to rest even in death!
After confirming he was dead, he disgustedly kicked him aside, then began ransacking the room thoroughly.
From the drawer, wardrobe’s hidden compartment, calligraphy and paintings’ hidden compartment behind, he scraped together quite some gold, US Dollars and silver dollars.
Then he went upstairs and ransacked more, scraping together quite some antique calligraphy and paintings, pearl jadeite.
After packing all the previous things into the space, Cao Weida checked the courtyard guards through the second-floor window.
The guards in the courtyard weren’t many, two teams total, five per team.
Cao Weida’s eyes turned, an idea came to mind.
The next day.
Beiping Gendarmerie Headquarters.
“Baka!!”
Miyamoto Ichiro looked incredulously at the corpse carried out from the western-style building, his face seemed to have been slapped left and right, waves of pain!
Beiping had assassinations popping up from time to time lately, making all the Japanese Army and traitors in Beiping tremble in fear, he as the Gendarmerie Headquarters officer was driven to distraction every day.
The previous assassination case hadn’t settled, now this happened, simply.
Baka yarō!!!
Carried out together with Liu Huai were five guards, two door guards and two bodyguards’ corpses.
Looking at the corpses neatly laid on the open ground, Miyamoto Ichiro’s forehead twitched nonstop.
If this continued, the traitors and lackeys in Beiping would live in fear, a very dangerous signal for their rule over Beiping!
A coroner was carefully examining the corpses, soon after, he stood up and removed his gloves and mask.
“How is it, any results?”
Miyamoto Ichiro immediately asked.
The coroner said: “Officer Miyamoto, by my judgment, this should be a long-premeditated internal personnel murder for money case!”
“Internal personnel murder for money?!” Miyamoto Ichiro’s full anger suddenly stalled, even a bit pleasantly surprised, hurriedly asked: “Are you sure?”
If this assassination wasn’t by resistance elements, the pressure on his shoulders would immediately lighten a lot.
His eyes stared straight at the coroner, hoping to get the answer he wanted from him.
The coroner shook his head: “Not certain.”
Miyamoto Ichiro gritted his teeth, the next second, the coroner added: “But, most likely it is.”
He pointed to the two guard corpses on the ground: “Officer Miyamoto please look, these two are the door guards, no signs of resistance before death, clearly killed by a close-range instant fatal strike.”
“To approach them silently and kill them in an instant without them noticing at all, while not impossible, would require what level of skill?”
“Look here.” He pointed to the two bodyguards again, “According to the survivors in the courtyard, these two were Liu Huai’s bodyguards, always guarding his door, same as the previous two, killed by instant fatal strikes.”
“These two were martial artists, very skilled, and they were killed while fully conscious.”
“So I have reason to suspect it’s an acquaintance crime, only an acquaintance could approach without defense and strike fatally!”
An officer nearby disagreed: “But I checked, there were only these people in the courtyard, not one missing, you can’t say the assassin killed himself at the end, that the assassin is one of these corpses, right?”
The coroner said sagely: “No, the assassin isn’t here, but one of these corpses was swapped!”
He pointed to the remaining five corpses on the ground, looking fully in control,
“These five corpses have deliberately smashed faces, faces somewhat blurred, this was intentional by the killer, I dare say at least one isn’t from the original patrol team!”
Miyamoto Ichiro quickly had people identify, though most faces were damaged, they were people who saw each other daily, ultimately identifying that one corpse indeed wasn’t from the original patrol team.
“Yōshi!” Miyamoto Ichiro was overjoyed, so this matter really wasn’t resistance elements, but someone inside embezzling, eyes blinded by greed!
But before he could be happy long, the officer who raised the question earlier doubted again:
“The electric fence wires on the wall were cut, the barbed wire at the wall corner was cut, how do you explain that?”
“If it’s internal embezzlement, why do this unnecessary work?”
The coroner said: “This is exactly the killer’s smokescreen, trying to make us think it’s an outsider.”
“But…”
“Baka!” Seeing he still wanted to ask, Miyamoto Ichiro couldn’t hold back anymore, slapped his face, roared:
“Xiao Kou Tai Zhi, are you done!”
“The matter is very clear, this case is internal greed leading to collusion inside and out to kill Liu Huai and flee with the donation!”
“If you dare spout nonsense again, this commander absolutely won’t let you off!”
