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1941, Beiping (Beijing).

North China Area Army Military Police Headquarters.

Colonel Abe Sho, the commander of the military police, had a grim face.

"Baka!"

Abe Sho suddenly grabbed the ceramic teacup on the table and smashed it on the ground!

"A humiliating disgrace! This is an unprecedented humiliation for the Imperial Army and for my North China Area Army!"

"In Beiping! In full view of everyone! A dignified Imperial Sergeant was publicly executed, his head blown off like a chicken!"

"This isn't just murder; it's a slap in the face to our entire military police headquarters! It's a slap in the face to my Abe family!"

Adjutant Ken Yamaguchi bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle: "Hey! Commander, please calm down! It was my incompetence and negligence in maintaining order that led to this disaster. I am guilty beyond redemption!"

The adjutant, being a smooth talker, quickly found a way to save face for his superior.

Abe Sho was panting heavily, and it took him a while to barely suppress the burning desire.

At this moment, the adjutant, Kenji Yamaguchi, cautiously spoke up: "Commander, please calm down and take care of your health."

"I have ordered a city-wide curfew, with all four gates tightly shut! Not even a fly will be able to escape!"

"At the same time, all available military police and collaborators have been deployed to conduct a thorough search of the area centered on the incident site, going door-to-door!"

Upon hearing this, Abe Sho's gloomy expression softened slightly, and he nodded: "Yoshi, Yamaguchi-kun, you did a good job! Beiping City is only so big; unless that assassin grows wings, there's absolutely no way he could escape."

"We should receive good news soon."

"Once we catch that arrogant bastard... I want to interrogate him myself!"

"Skin him alive, gut him, electrocute him... I want him to suffer every form of torture imaginable, to wail for three days and three nights before he finally dies!"

Ken Yamaguchi bowed deeply again: "Hey! Commander, you are wise!"

After saying that, the two old Japanese soldiers looked at each other and smiled.

In their view, capturing a lone assassin in Beiping, which was under the absolute control of the Imperial Army, was as easy as catching a turtle in a jar.

however……

Time passed by, second by second.

It went on until late at night.

The expected news of "catching the assassin" did not arrive.

The composure on Abe Sho's face gradually disappeared. He stopped sipping his tea and his fingers began to tap the table unconsciously.

The rhythm of the tapping became faster and faster, and more and more chaotic.

"Bang!"

Finally, Abe Sho couldn't hold back any longer and slammed his fist on the table, making the teaware rattle: "What's going on? Why haven't we heard anything yet?"

Although only one sergeant died, this incident caused quite a stir and had an extremely negative impact.

After all, it happened in broad daylight, under the watchful eyes of everyone.

If the enemy cannot be punished and brought to justice as soon as possible, the Imperial Army's face will be thoroughly humiliated.

It's possible that even Commander-in-Chief Toshiaki Tada will have to get involved.

Abe Sho knew very well that Commander Tada hadn't had an easy time either over the past six months.

Just as he was about to explode again, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and a Japanese soldier ran in, panting.

"Reporting...reporting to Commander!"

"Tell me! Have you caught that bastard yet?" Abe Sho roared.

The Japanese soldier shrank back: "Commander... Commander! We... we have already searched all suspicious areas in the city and questioned a large number of residents as ordered... but... but..."

"But what?" A sense of foreboding rose in Abe Sho's heart.

The Japanese soldier's voice trembled: "But we haven't found any trace of the assassin! That person... it's as if... it's as if he vanished into thin air!"

"What?!"

Abe Sho suddenly stood up, his expression changing drastically in an instant.

A city-wide search yielded nothing?

A perfectly healthy person, after killing an imperial officer in martial law-bound Beiping, simply vanished into thin air.

"Baka! This is impossible!"

"unless……"

"Unless, he has accomplices!"

In an instant, Abe Sho thought of the only possibility.

Only in this way could they possibly evade the search by their imperial army.

"Commander, what should we do next?" Adjutant Ken Yamaguchi asked with some concern.

If the other party really has an accomplice with a "law-abiding citizen" identity helping to cover for them, then it won't be easy to find them.

It will be difficult, at least in the short term.

To everyone's surprise, Abe Sho laughed.

"It's good to have accomplices. I was just looking forward to killing one person without feeling satisfied. This is the perfect opportunity to take them all down."

"Commander, do you mean... fishing?" The adjutant, Ken Yamaguchi, seemed to have realized something.

"That's right!" Abe Sho nodded.

After the daytime assassination, the three "Communist bandits" were not executed again, but were instead taken back into custody by him.

The Japanese colonel was a very prestigious position.

Abe Sho's ability to become the commander of the North China Military Police was due not only to family connections but also to his own outstanding abilities.

His face was cruel: "Pass down the order, the execution will be carried out again in three days, but this time it will not be by shooting, but by the death penalty."

"Extreme punishment?" The adjutant didn't quite understand.

Abe Sho smiled slightly: "I've heard that there's an extreme form of torture in China called Lingchi (death by a thousand cuts)."

"Lingchi..." Ken Yamaguchi shuddered.

He had certainly heard of this form of torture; it was extremely cruel, but it seemed that only in this way could the enemy be lured into taking the bait to the greatest extent possible.

"Commander, you are brilliant! This plan will surely lure those resistance fighters into your trap!" Ken Yamaguchi bowed and accepted the order, but before turning away, he couldn't help but ask one more question:

"Sir, what if... what if the enemy holds back and doesn't take the bait?"

Upon hearing this, Abe Sho gave a cold laugh: "Then just grab a few Chinese people, impersonate them as accomplices of the assassin, and publicly execute them by slow slicing!"

"The soldiers of the Empire must not die in vain! The honor of the Imperial Army must be washed away with blood!"

"As for whose blood it was... that's not important."

. . .

[Ding! Please prepare, host. Initiating the time travel process...]

[Ding! Spacetime coordinates locked, environment scan complete, no one around, safe to land!]

Swah——

A glimmer of light.

The next second, Shen Wang's figure reappeared in a secluded alley in Beiping.

"Hmm? It's just dawn?"

Shen Wang paused for a moment, then looked up at the sky, which was just beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.

What the hell is going on?

He remembered that when he traveled back to reality before, it was noon, and the sun was high in the sky.

But now, it's back to the early hours of the morning.

"Time travel?"