Chapter 29 Misfortune Hides in Good Fortune

  Facing Colonel Kuroki's scolding, Feng Renhao bowed his waist and kept saying "yes yes yes", with a flattering expression on his face.

  At this time, a soldier came in and whispered something in the ear of Lieutenant Ishihara, who was accompanying Fēng Rén-hāo to receive reprimand. A smile immediately appeared on Ishihara's face.

  Ishihara Lieutenant sent away the orderly, came to Kuroki Major's side, and whispered something in his ear. A sinister smile also appeared on Kuroki Major's face. "Yo! Yo! The plan of Kuroi Keikanshoku is great! Great! Ishihara, tonight you will lead people to Sōmon Dōjō, assist Kuroi Keikanshoku and capture them all at once. Hahaha!" Kuroki Major burst into laughter.

  Kuroki Taisha laughed halfway, suddenly stopped his laughter, he slapped the table and shouted at Fēng Rén Huò standing beside him: "Don't go down to continue searching for rebels in Bì Yuán Temple throughout the city, what are you doing standing here?"

  "General Hei Mù, General Hei Mù, please calm down. It's not that our security team didn't try their best to capture the rebels at Biyuan Temple, but rather those few rebels at Biyuan Temple had too high of martial arts skills and repeatedly escaped from us. Just now, my deputy officer Hu San Shui came back to report that the Eighth Route Army guerrilla leader Qiu Hua Chun, who was captured in Xiao Jing Zhuang, was also rescued by the monks of Biyuan Temple." Feng Ren Hao didn't dare hide this matter, and could only stiffen his scalp to report.

  "What?! You're all useless! A bunch of trash, you caught an Eighth Route Army soldier and let him escape! Good-for-nothing!" Colonel Kuroki pointed at Feng Renhe, too angry to speak.

  Ishihara Shousa also stared at Feng Renhe, hearing his subordinate's words, and sarcastically said: "Commander Feng, have you put all your energy into investigating the treasure from 18 years ago, and treated the pursuit of the rebels in Bisheng Temple as a trivial matter, not putting in enough effort for the Imperial Army?"

  "Hmm, nothing, nothing..." Upon hearing Ishihara's words, Feng Renhe was shocked and thought to himself: "How does this Ishihara know everything?! How did he find out about such a secret matter? The Japanese are really ghosts, I'll be more careful from now on." Although Feng Renhe thought this way, his mouth denied it outright.

  "Captain Ishihara, what are you talking about? Treasure? What treasure? I don't know anything about it! Captain Ishihara isn't spreading rumors, is he? No way, absolutely not." Feng Renhao said, shaking his head.

  "Commander Fēng, Commander Fēng! Are you hiding something from the Great Imperial Japanese Army? Your loyalty, we must reevaluate!" Lieutenant General Kuroki shot out a piercing gaze, staring at Fēng Rénhuā.

  "General Kuroki, you're also misunderstanding me. My loyalty to the Imperial Japanese Army is as clear as day and night. General Kuroki, you should believe me. The treasure is just a fabrication, it's completely nonexistent. Lieutenant Colonel Ishihara must have received false information, or maybe someone is framing me, or trying to drive a wedge between me and the army's close relationship. Please, General Kuroki, believe me, I'm devoted to the Imperial Army!" Fēng Rénhuò's words were sincere and heartfelt, his acting skills had reached an unprecedented level in front of the Japanese, he wasn't afraid that Lieutenant Colonel Kuroki wouldn't believe him.

  Kuroki and Ishihara exchanged a glance, neither of them could bear to ask further.

  "Alright, alright, Commander Feng. Considering your loyalty to the Imperial Army, I will temporarily believe what you say and consider it a mere rumor. Let's not mention this matter again. However, since your subordinate allowed the key suspect of the Imperial Army to escape, shouldn't you, Commander Feng, take responsibility for that? I order you to find out the whereabouts of Qiu Huachun within three days, no mistakes allowed!" General Kuroki gave Commander Feng a way out.

  "Yes, yes, I'll go and arrange it right away!" Feng Renhe took the opportunity to withdraw from General Kuroki's command center, his heart racing with fear, the sweat on his back soaking through his clothes.

  Feng Renhao sat in the car on his way back, thinking to himself: "As the ancients said, accompanying a lord is like accompanying a tiger. Accompanying Japanese people is even more terrifying than that. If you're not careful and say something wrong, your head will roll off. This Japanese person's nose is really long, he actually sniffed out my investigation into the treasure. Dammit, from now on I'll have to be doubly cautious when doing things."

  After Feng Renhe left, Ishihara Shōsa didn't understand why Kuroki Taishō didn't continue to press for questioning and asked: "General, Feng Renhe was obviously telling a lie, why not pursue the matter of the treasure?"

  "Ishihara, when dealing with an old fox like Fūin Kō, strategy is key. You need to keep him in line without being too harsh, or he'll turn against you. As for the treasure, just keep an eye on it from afar, don't make a big deal out of it, or he'll get spooked and we won't be able to reap any benefits! Hahaha!" said Kuroki Taisha with a laugh.

  "General's thoughts are indeed profound!" Lieutenant Commander Ishihara gave a salute to Major General Kuroki, showing his admiration.

  "Go! The Director of Kure One is still waiting for you!" said Major Kuroki with a wave of his hand.

  "Ah!" replied Lieutenant Ishihara, and withdrew.

  Yuan Ren and Yuan Zhen, under the cover of night, quietly arrived at the outer wall of the Cangmen Taoist temple. Yuan Ren and Yuan Zhen wanted to destroy this scourge that had been harming the Chinese people, the Cangmen Taoist temple, and rescue the Chinese people trapped inside.

  Tonight is a gloomy night, the sky is pitch black and you can't see your fingers when you stretch out your hand. Yuan Ren secretly delights in this kind of night, which is just suitable for launching a surprise attack, making Ju Yiguanzhang not even dream that someone would dare to break into his Tianmen Daoist temple.

  Yuan Ren whispered to Yuan Zhen, "Get on the wall." The two of them simultaneously used their lightness skills and leaped into the air, already standing on top of the wall. Yuan Ren and Yuan Zhen crouched on top of the wall, gazing out at the vast expanse, the Chongmen Arena was shrouded in darkness, a pitch-black scene without even a glimmer of light.

  Yuan Ren and Yuan Zhen had already visited the Cangmen Daochang during the day, so they should be familiar with the paths inside. The two of them jumped down from the wall, exerted their footwork, and rushed towards the front row of practice rooms in the daoist temple.

  Just as Yuan Ren and Yuan Zhen were about to kick in the door of the training hall, the searchlights on all four sides of the Cangmen dojo suddenly lit up. The dojo's martial artists led by Jiuyuan and the Japanese garrison soldiers led by Ishihara shouted and rushed towards Yuan Ren and Yuan Zhen from all directions.

  "Hahaha, rebels of Byōsenshi Temple, we've been waiting for you for a long time. Hurry up and surrender, or else... Hahaha, our machine guns will turn the two of you into sieves!" Lieutenant Ishihara laughed wildly.

  Yuan Ren and Yuan Zhen immediately understood that they had fallen into the enemy's ambush.

  "Big Brother, today is also a dead end, we're going to fight those damn Japanese devils to the death!" Yuan Zhen's two eyebrows were raised.

  "Killing one is just right, killing two earns us one. We die in battle and become anti-Japanese heroes too! Let's kill those Japanese devils!" Yuan Ren said with a loud voice. "Younger brother, listen to my command: one, two, three, roll out the knives!"

  Yuán Rén and Yuán Zhēn, facing the large group of devils, spun their weapons around their bodies. Two rolling black shadows charged into the devil's formation. The Japanese soldiers in the front row let out a chorus of "ahhh" as they fell to the ground, arms and legs severed. Yuán Rén's iron chain struck down a large swath, while Yuán Zhēn's dual guns took down an entire row. In an instant, over ten devils lay dead in a pool of blood.