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"Baka! How could the bank building catch fire? This is clearly arson! Check it out! Where are all the staff and on-duty personnel? Where did they all go?"

Tu Feiyuan stared blankly at the bank building, which had been reduced to a mere shell by the fire.

But there was also more anger. No one expected that the bank would be burned down, and that half of a street on one side would also be burned down, more than 20 shops would be burned down, and seven buildings behind it would also be burned down.

"I'm sorry, we've checked, and there weren't any guards or staff on duty in the entire bank. As for the armored trucks, they've already left."

"What? They're all gone? They're all gone! Where are they? Are they all dead? Investigate?"

“Our people are searching the building, but they haven’t found a single person. So I suspect that these people either disappeared intentionally or that something uncontrollable happened to them and an accident occurred.”

"Baka! Investigate it for me!"

"Hi!"

The fat man on the side glared at her and cursed loudly. Then he stood there, watching the Japanese military police come and go.

"General, most of the military police have been transferred here. There are about fifty dead people in one of the rooms. The bodies have been found, but they are burned beyond recognition."

Xiao Ze reported that the fire had been extinguished, but the remaining traces still needed to be cleaned up and the ruins still needed to be dealt with.

As for the staff and security guards in the building, where they all went remains a mystery.

Before long, several agents ran over and earnestly reported to Ozawa: "Major, we couldn't find the duty officers, and their families said they didn't go back either, which is true."

"Also, we went to quite a few taverns, and the people there said they didn't see any staff on duty. After all, the staff on duty here rarely go out at night, since they are on duty and drinking is not even allowed."

"The guards are in the same situation, so now everyone is missing and we have no leads at all."

"This, this..."

Before long, more and more people came to the front of the bank building and joined in the cleanup.

Time passed by second by second, and the cleaning inside the building was quite fast. In no time, a large area was cleared.

Perhaps because there were so many people involved—a team of nearly 500 was mobilized to clean up the building—the process was naturally much faster.

As the sky grew brighter, and a sliver of white appeared in the east, the earth changed color when that ray of light shone upon it.

The expression on the faces of Doi-chan, who stood motionless, and Kagesa, who stood to the side, was also quite grim. After all, no one wanted to see something like this happen.

"General, the underground vault has been opened, and everything inside has been burned to ashes. There's no money left, only the skeletons of a dozen or so people that haven't been completely burned yet."

"Where's the money in the bank? Where's the money?"

"Du Feng is gone. Not only that, the temperature inside is terrifyingly high. Even the money melted. I don't know who it was, but they piled up a lot of charcoal here. They must have been afraid of not dying fast enough."

Hearing his subordinates' report, Tu Feiyuan was really upset. After all, although he didn't know what was inside, it was true that there was a lot of money inside.

Now there's not a single penny left; it's almost unbelievable to say that.

"What exactly happened? Why did this happen?"

“We’ve also investigated. It seems that all the staff and guards went into the vault. We don’t know how the vault door was closed, and then the fire started inside. I suspect that they accidentally started the fire, and it burned the entire vault down.”

"Baka, do you really believe that?"

Tufeiyuan pointed directly at the reporting lieutenant and cursed loudly, his voice becoming much more serious.

"But General, we have no other explanation. After all, so many people went into the vault, and the entire vault is completely empty, not even a single hair. We can't explain this to the outside world."

"Baka! Can't you think of a solution?"

"Hey!" As for what to do next, Tu Feiyuan was also having a headache.

However, when the bank manager looked at the bank that had been burned down to nothing, even the vault was gone, he knew that he was really finished.

He returned home in a daze and committed suicide by shooting himself.

As for how much money was in the warehouse, how much gold, silver, silver dollars, and paper money there was, no one knew, but everyone knew that the bank had been burned down.

As for the money inside, it's all gone.

As for how the Japanese handled it, not many people know. Apart from a few rumors circulating privately about the fire at the Bank of Japan, there was no further news.

It's as if the whole thing has nothing to do with ordinary people.

……

Meanwhile, Zhang Tianhao had already returned home and was standing at the door.

His expression remained unchanged, as if he wasn't the one who had just thrown Xiaoyue into the countryside.

Standing alone at the entrance of the courtyard, he slowly smoked a cigarette, a hint of doubt creeping into his expression.

He heard someone talking inside his house, and it seemed to be his neighbor, Zhang Fang.

"It's so late, or rather, at this time, for Zhang Fang to come to my house and chat with Song Wen, isn't that a bit too unfortunate?"

He gave a wry smile and didn't say anything more. Instead, he stood there, carefully eavesdropping on the conversation between the two women inside the room.

Unfortunately, the two women didn't say much. Instead, they chatted about the possibilities of what was happening outside, or their guesses, or more likely, what they planned to do the next day.

"Miss Song, I don't know what happened up north. It's really scary. Half the sky was burned. It was terrifying."

"Me too, I was also startled awake, and I'm still a little scared. But we're lucky that the fire didn't break out here, really."

"By the way, Miss Zhang, is your husband still at home?"

"I don't know, he said he went out to see what was going on!"

"Oh, I see. Watching the show is fine, but those are all Japanese people over there. They probably won't let him over there, right?"

"I don't know, but he does have some status. What about your husband?"

"Sigh, I don't know what happened to Xiaoyue. She ran out saying she wanted to go see what was going on. The master went out to look for her. It's so late, it's dangerous for a child to run out to see what's going on. I really don't know if he's found her yet."

"That's true. Why don't they get some proper sleep? You've spoiled them. They're out playing outside in the middle of the night instead of sleeping."

"There's no other way, she's my little sister, if I don't spoil her, who will I spoil?"

"I can't do anything about it, mainly because her husband spoils her too much."

"That's true. You can't spoil children. If you do, they'll really get spoiled. Going out to watch the excitement so late at night is just asking for trouble."

"Yes!"

Song Wen sighed as well, then placed the jade tripod on the table and said helplessly, "Thank you for the gift, but the master said it's too valuable and we can't accept it!"

"I'm so sorry, please take it back!"

"That's not right. How can I take back a gift I've already given?" (End of Chapter)