noffsinger Chapter 949 Discovery of the Safe Being Stolen
Chapter 949 Discovery of the Safe Being Stolen
Matsui then said to He Dayou, "Continue the investigation and try to find more clues. Also, conduct autopsies on these bodies. I need to know if they were killed by one or two people. Bring the report to me when it's ready!"
He Dayou quickly stood at attention and bowed: "Put on your clothes!"
"Let's go!" Matsui said, then turned and walked towards the convoy.
After getting into the car, the driver turned around and asked, "Sir, are you going to headquarters or home?"
Matsui rubbed his temples and said, "Let's go home. I want to take a shower and have breakfast made by my wife!"
"Hai!" the driver replied.
Matsui suddenly remembered something: "By the way, has the matter of notifying the main leaders of each unit and department to come to headquarters for a meeting been settled?"
The adjutant, sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and said, "It's been arranged. When we called, the heads of the respective departments answered personally, or their adjutants answered."
"Okay, let's drive!" Matsui said, then closed his eyes.
Back at his villa, Matsui enjoyed a relaxing hot bath with his wife's help and ate a carefully prepared breakfast.
After finishing breakfast, Matsui glanced at the wall clock, thinking he still had plenty of time, so he went to the bedroom, knelt down in front of the safe, and used the key and combination to open the safe door.
When Matsui saw that the safe was empty, his eyes widened, his face changed drastically, and he roared in fury, "Ah—ah—!"
Hearing the roar, Mrs. Matsui rushed in and asked, "What happened? What's wrong?"
Matsui suddenly turned his head, looking like he wanted to devour someone, and asked angrily, "Where are the things in my safe? Did you open it?"
The woman quickly replied, "I don't even know how to open your safe, how could I possibly open it?"
After hearing this, Matsui realized that he always opened the safe without his wife's knowledge. Even if his wife, who was his bedmate, could get the key, she wouldn't know the password. So who opened the safe and stole the gold, banknotes, and top-secret documents inside?
"You really didn't open the safe and take the things inside?" Matsui stared intently into the woman's eyes.
The woman was furious: "You old bastard, how could you doubt your wife of over twenty years? Do you think I'm capable of opening a safe?"
Matsui's face darkened, and he asked, "Has anyone else come to our house while I've been away?"
The woman thought for a moment and said, "While you were away, several officials' wives did come to visit me. We didn't do anything special, just chatted about clothes, jewelry, cosmetics, and food."
"Whose wives are they?" Matsui immediately pressed.
The woman quickly recounted the names of the other women who had visited.
Matsui immediately got up and made a phone call to the head of the intelligence department at headquarters.
“The safe in my bedroom was opened. Inside were some gold bars, banknotes, and a top-secret document. My wife said that while I was away, several wives of high-ranking officials visited her. I’m handing this case over to you. No matter who is involved, you must get to the bottom of it. The gold and banknotes don’t matter. You must recover that top-secret document for me!”
After hearing the case, the head of the intelligence department felt that it would definitely be very difficult. He could imagine that the thief who could steal from the garrison headquarters was either a spy or a member of Matsui's family. The investigation would definitely encounter great resistance. Moreover, they could not torture Matsui's family members, and the wives of the high-ranking officials who came to visit Mrs. Matsui were not ordinary people either, so they could not torture them either.
Obtaining a confession without resorting to torture would be extremely difficult.
But this was a task assigned by Matsui, and he had no choice but to accept it.
"Hay, please rest assured, Commander, I will solve the case as soon as possible!"
"How long will it take you?" Matsui asked.
"May... half a month!"
Matsui immediately rejected the idea: "I don't have that much time for you. You must solve the case and retrieve the top-secret documents within three days!"
"Ha Yi"
With the meeting time fast approaching, Matsui immediately rushed to the garrison headquarters.
Upon arriving at the headquarters building, the adjutant greeted him: "Commander, everyone who was notified has arrived and is waiting for you to attend the meeting!"
"Yoshi!" Matsui nodded and walked into the office building.
Upon arriving at the conference room on the third floor, the door was pushed open by a guard standing outside.
The adjutant immediately shouted, "Everyone stand up! His Excellency the Commander has arrived!"
The senior officers sitting on both sides of the conference table stood up and kept their eyes straight ahead. Although they were no longer very obedient to Matsui's orders, they could not give Matsui an excuse to make trouble for them in terms of etiquette.
Matsui, gripping his katana, strode into the conference room, sat at the head of the table, and looked at his generals.
The high-ranking military officers standing on both sides of the conference table were all puzzled, wondering what Matsui was up to.
After a long while, just as everyone was getting impatient, Matsui finally raised his hands and pressed them down, saying, "Sit down!"
The Japanese officials then sat down one by one with long faces, some even shaking their heads and stretching their arms.
Matsui looked at everyone and said, "A lot has happened in Shanghai and Shanghai recently, especially in the intelligence sector. Take the Special Higher Police, for example. First, all the personnel in their secret base were killed, the prisoners were rescued, and then the reinforcements that arrived were also met with heavy losses."
"Furthermore, the 8th Military Police Unit's barracks was infiltrated, hostages were easily taken away, and a lieutenant and two second lieutenants were killed in an explosion. The hostages' bodies were even displayed on the clock tower the next day. This is a provocation and contempt for the Empire's military power and prestige."
"In view of this, I originally planned to request the General Headquarters to replace the heads of the Special Higher Police and the Military Police Command, but I did not expect that before the General Headquarters had replied, the Special Higher Police Chief, Sakata Tadayoshi, and the Military Police Commander, Sato, both died last night. How did they die? Lieutenant, you come and tell them what happened last night!"
"Ha Yi"
The adjutant stepped forward and immediately reported: "Last night, the military police garrison at Yangjiaxing was shelled, all personnel were killed, and the garrison was reduced to ruins. The one that fired the shells was actually the artillery battalion of the 33rd Brigade!"
"Then, upon receiving the news, Military Police Commander Sato urgently dispatched a company to the scene, but upon arrival, they were met with a massacre; everyone was killed. As for who did it, the investigation is still ongoing!"
"Immediately afterward, the Special Higher Police was bombed, and no survivors have been found. The cause of the bombing is still under investigation. Before the bombing, Military Police Commander Sato hanged himself from his office window, and hundreds of tons of munitions and military supplies were stolen from the Military Police Headquarters warehouse—all vanished! These are the events that occurred last night."
After the adjutant finished speaking, he stepped back to the wall.
Matsui looked at everyone and asked, "Did you all hear that? The security situation has deteriorated to this extent. What are the intelligence agencies doing? Are they all just taking a paycheck and not doing any work? Are all the security personnel incompetent?"
"I hereby order a citywide state of emergency, effective immediately from 10:00 AM today. A thorough, door-to-door search of residents' identification documents will be conducted in all districts, including not only Chinese but also foreigners and citizens of the Empire! All troops stationed within and outside the city will cooperate, and the intelligence department must uncover all spies from various factions hiding in the city within three days!"
As soon as Matsui finished speaking, Kagawa, the commander of the 137th Brigade, said, "Commander Matsui, haven't you made too much of a commotion by doing this?"