Chapter 147 Kawamoto Confession
The belief of being loyal to the emperor still controlled him, but on the other hand, he felt very sorry for his brother. At this moment, his heart was stabbed by Chu Lingyun and was bleeding continuously.
Now he really regretted it. He shouldn't have come to Nanjing, and he shouldn't have teased Chu Lingyun and deliberately angered him after being caught.
With his criminal record, he believed that Chu Lingyun could do what he did.
"I hope you don't regret it."
Chu Lingyun looked at him deeply, turned around and left. This time when he walked out of the cell, Jiang Binghui didn't call him again.
This result made him a little disappointed, but he was not in a hurry. Jiang Binghui was like a stone in the toilet, smelly and hard. It was difficult to make him speak by torturing him, but people have weaknesses. Those without weaknesses are machines. Ma Jingyuan was obviously his breakthrough point.
Chu Lingyun believed that he could use this to torture him, or continue to provoke him after catching Ma Jingyuan.
"Team leader, he, he agreed."
Before he walked out of the door of the Military Intelligence Department, a team member guarding Jiang Binghui ran over, caught up with Chu Lingyun, and said breathlessly.
"Okay, let's go back."
Chu Lingyun did not blame the team member. Fortunately, he arranged two people to guard him, and someone else just needed to stay by Jiang Binghui's side. Jiang Binghui couldn't move, so even if he transferred one person away, he couldn't do anything.
Back in the cell, Jiang Binghui no longer had his previous arrogant attitude. He lowered his head and looked decadent.
After Chu Lingyun left, he became more and more afraid the more he thought about it. In the end, family affection finally defeated his faith. He could bear all the infamy himself, but he had to fulfill his oath.
When he was young, he swore to protect his younger brother.
"I hope you're not kidding me this time, or I'll torture him even more cruelly."
Looking at Jiang Binghui, Chu Lingyun threatened again. Jiang Binghui raised his head with tears still on his face.
"I can tell you everything you want to know, but you have to swear that after I tell you, you will let my brother go and not arrest him."
"You speak first. I want to see if the information you provide is worth his life."
Brother, Chu Lingyun guessed correctly, Ma Jingyuan indeed has a very close relationship with him.
"Don't worry, his life is worthless. He was just a radio operator and never participated in any operations. If you can capture Zhang Bai, he will be of no value to you."
Jiang Binghui said bitterly and closed his eyes.
In the end, he still betrayed his beliefs. Even if he did it for his brother, he could not accept it, let alone forgive himself.
"If it's really as you say, I will let him go."
Letting him go does not mean letting him go. Sparing Ma Jingyuan's life is completely irrelevant. He is just a radio operator and his value is really not that high.
If Ma Jingyuan is the radio operator, then there is no need to continue investigating the bookstore. He could only contact Zhang Bai and would not contact other intelligence officers.
Jiang Binghui is a special case because they have a special relationship, but Chu Lingyun will not give up the investigation of the bookstore customers until he has verified and proved that what Jiang Binghui said is true.
"You must swear an oath, swear by your country and your parents."
Jiang Binghui looked at Chu Lingyun, and Chu Lingyun was stunned. He didn't expect that Jiang Binghui, a ruthless man who dared to play tricks on him after being caught, would actually believe in the oath.
“Okay, I swear by my country and my relatives that if you didn’t lie to me, I would spare Ma Jingyuan’s life.”
"No, you have to swear not to arrest him."
Jiang Binghui shook his head again. Chu Lingyun looked at him and suddenly wanted to laugh. Not to mention that the other party had no way to deal with him if he did not keep his oath, even if he kept his oath, if he did not catch him, couldn't he let others catch him?
"Okay, I swear..."
Chu Lingyun repeated his oath. Jiang Binghui slowly closed his eyes and said slowly, "My real name is Kawamoto Xiangta. I am a member of the Special High Section's operations team with the rank of Major. Apart from my name, I didn't lie to you about anything else."
Kawamoto Muta did not tell the truth before, but his words were true and false, and his identity as a member of the action team was real.
At that time, he never thought that he could survive, let alone that he would confess.
"continue."
Chu Lingyun looked at him, and the team members around him had already started taking notes with pen and paper. These were all Kawamoto Xiangtai's confessions.
"You already know my code name, Crocodile. My mission is indeed to assassinate Yan Kuian."
"You have action team members in Shanghai, right? Why did you run from Nanjing to Shanghai to assassinate him?"
Chu Lingyun asked the question that was in his mind. He had originally planned to ask Zhang Bai the reason after catching him. But since Kawamoto Xiangtai confessed unexpectedly, he could just ask him directly.
It was indeed a pleasant surprise that Kawamoto Xiangtai could speak. Chu Lingyun came here purely to provoke him and avenge him for his previous behavior of teasing him, but he did not expect to gain such a huge reward.
"Yan Kuian has a great influence, and the higher-ups are worried that a rash assassination would attract more criticism from the literati, which would be more trouble than it's worth. Because Yan Kuian and I know each other, and I'm good at creating accidental deaths so that no one knows it was us, that's why they sent me there this time."
So that's how it is. The Japanese are really being hypocritical and putting up a facade. They killed people and didn't dare let people know it was them who did it.
But this is not surprising, the Japanese have always been like this.
"Last time you said you came to Nanjing to carry out the mission of killing me. Is that true or false?" Chu Lingyun continued to ask.
“It’s both true and false.”
Kawamoto Xiangtai smiled self-deprecatingly. It was really ironic that he came to kill people but was caught by others.
"Explain clearly."
"I did want to kill you. You killed Huizi, my most proud disciple. I want to avenge her, but I didn't receive any mission to kill you. All of this is my own behavior."
Kawamoto Xiangtai explained, and Chu Lingyun felt a little relieved.
He was not sent by the Japanese, which means that the Japanese do not value him to the point of killing him. This is good news.
My parents are still safe for now, but it’s not a bad idea to send them away early, as this will provide an extra layer of protection for their safety.
"How many of your people are in Nanjing?"
Chu Lingyun asked the key question. The reason why they went to such great lengths to capture him secretly was to get this information from him so that they could capture him when the enemy was unprepared.
"You've already found what I know, but I don't know the rest."
Kawamoto Xiangtai shook his head. He only knew two of his own people in Nanjing, Zhang Bai and Ma Jingyuan. The funny thing was that these two people were exposed because of him.
Before Jiang Tengkong returned to China, he went to meet him on purpose.
It was Jiang Tengkong who told him that Huizi was captured by a very young man named Chu Lingyun. This man had just arrived at the Military Intelligence Department, but he was very scary.
Fortunately, this person was transferred to Nanjing, and Wuhan was temporarily safe, but he had been transferred and would leave soon, and everything in Wuhan could only be handed over to his successor.
Chu Lingyun's transfer to Nanjing was not kept secret. Jiang Tengkong found out from someone in the Hubei headquarters.
There was no confidential information, and it was very easy for the Hubei Headquarters to find out.
