The Cycle of Reincarnation in the Four-Courtyard House: A Journey Through the Heavens

Fifteen minutes after Li Xiao left the Japanese headquarters, Okamura Yasuji's confidential secretary quickly walked to the office door.

It knocked on the door: "Your Excellency, a telegram has arrived from headquarters!"

There was no response from inside. The secretary knocked on the door again, but still no sound came out.

The confidential secretary sensed something was wrong and quickly pushed open the door and went inside.

Once it saw the scene inside the office, it couldn't help but scream in alarm.

At this moment, in the center of the huge office, Okamura Neiji and Shinotsuka Yoshio were kneeling on the ground, with sanitary napkins wrapped around their heads.

Both men had short samurai swords stuck in their stomachs, and judging from the cross-shaped wounds on their stomachs, they were clearly loyal to the Heavenly Locust!

The secretary was stunned for more than ten seconds before she hurriedly ran out of the office to call someone.

The news of Okamura Neiji and Shinotsuka Yoshio's suicides quickly reached the Little Life Headquarters.

After some analysis, the headquarters concluded that the two men had repeatedly lost large quantities of supplies in North China, and this time they had lost more than 50,000 tons of grain.

This is three months' worth of rations for the entire Japanese army in North China!

With such a huge blunder occurring, Okamura Neiji and Shinotsuka Yoshio were undoubtedly to blame, which is why they chose to commit seppuku.

Subsequently, the Japanese Imperial Headquarters ordered General Yoshijiro Umezu, commander of the Kwantung Army stationed in Northeast China, to urgently travel south to assume the post of commander of the Japanese Army stationed in North China.

Yoshijiro Umezu naturally learned about the theft of supplies in Beijing. Before leaving Xinjing, he allocated 40,000 tons of grain from the Kwantung Army and urgently sent it to Beijing by rail.

This can be considered the last time he exercised his power as the commander of the Kwantung Army.

Otherwise, if he goes to North China empty-handed to take up his post, where will he get food to appease the soldiers?

These matters were quickly reported to Li Xiao by his subordinates, and Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.

If the Japanese soldiers here were to become extremely hungry and plunder the people's food to feed their troops, he would have no choice but to gather all his men and wage guerrilla warfare against them.

With the food, quilts and cotton clothes provided by Li Xiao, the refugees outside the city were led away from Beijing in batches by the guerrillas and settled in the Yanshan Mountains to the north.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, the subordinates that Li Xiao had sent out had perfectly completed the tasks he had assigned.

Xu Mo and Du Hongmei successfully arrived at the sea off Havana, the capital of Cuba, and found the Spanish shipwreck that sank in the 17th century—the Madame Atocha.

The space supermarket has a full set of deep-sea diving equipment. With his physical strength, which is ten times that of an ordinary person, Li Xiao successfully dived to a depth of more than 200 meters and put all the treasures in the sunken ship into his space.

Next, Li Xiao went to the largest arms factories in Japan, including Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard, South Manchuria Army Arsenal, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Fuji Heavy Industries, and emptied them of all their raw materials and machinery.

These devices were all transported to Brunei, located in northwestern Borneo, several months ago and have now been fully installed.

This place later became the capital of Brunei, and its geographical location was extremely advantageous.

This region has extremely rich oil and natural gas resources, as well as abundant rubber and timber resources.

Therefore, Li Xiao placed the first industrial base of the future Nanhua Kingdom here.

After completing their mission in India, Gu Ming and Zhang Meilan came directly here.

Carrying a large amount of gold and grain, the two quickly organized an armed organization composed of Chinese people in the area—the National Protection Vanguard Army.

The large quantity of Japanese weapons and equipment that Li Xiao obtained from the Fengtai warehouse played its due role here.

It took Gu Ming and Zhang Meilan four whole months to select one hundred of the most elite soldiers from the 83,000-strong National Protection Vanguard Army to form a special operations brigade called Sharp Blade.

Gu Ming personally served as the captain and instructor of the Sharp Blade Special Forces Brigade.

Zhang Meilan also selected eighty of her most elite female soldiers to form another special operations team—the Stinger.

The weapons used by these two special operations teams all came from the modern equipment in the Space Supermarket's weapons store.

Each person was assigned a Glock 17 military pistol, an MP5 submachine gun, an M16 assault rifle, and an M9 saber, which would later become the standard US military weapon.

In addition, they are fully equipped with digital camouflage combat uniforms and ceramic bulletproof vests, and their Kevlar bulletproof helmets are equipped with a set of military night vision devices. These two special forces teams are special forces with all-weather combat capabilities and are absolutely top-notch in the world today.

Li Xiao didn't stay long in Borneo. After briefly checking the progress there, he returned to Beijing via spatial coordinates.

It was early July 1943.

After having lunch with Liu Qianqian at Zhengyangchun Restaurant, Li Xiao walked out of the restaurant.

The young girl suddenly suggested today that she wanted to go shopping with Li Xiao.

She had heard from a girl in the next courtyard who was about her age that the Tianqiao area in Beijing was very lively, so she had always wanted Brother Xiao to take her there for a stroll.

This was the first time Liu Qianqian had made a request to Li Xiao since being adopted by the Li family, so he naturally couldn't refuse and readily agreed.

Ever since Liu Qianqian was rescued by Li Xiao, perhaps because her family members all died tragically and she almost lost her own life, she has been timid and reluctant to go out.

Under the loving care of the entire Li family, the little girl's inner turmoil gradually melted away, and the smiles on her face became more frequent each day.

Whether it was because Li Xiao saved her or not, Liu Qianqian was unusually obsessed with him.

Whenever Li Xiao is home, the little girl likes to stick close to him and listen to him tell her about things outside.

When Li Qian heard that her older brother was going to take her sister Qianqian to the overpass to watch the acrobatics, she immediately insisted on going along, but Wang Xia stopped her.

Wang Xia adored Liu Qianqian, not only because of her delicate and beautiful face, but also because the little girl was very diligent at home and helped Wang Xia a lot.

Wang Xia had long considered Liu Qianqian as her future daughter-in-law, but since the two were still young, she had kept this thought to herself.

As usual, Li Xiao did Liu Qianqian's makeup first before taking her out.

He took the little girl directly to Zhengyangmen Street, one of the most bustling areas in Beijing, with all kinds of shops lining both sides of the street.

Li Xiao bought Liu Qianqian two sets of summer clothes and shoes, and also bought her a red hair tie.

The two strolled around until almost lunchtime, then went directly to Zhengyangchun Restaurant for lunch.

In the afternoon, Li Xiao pushed a bicycle out of the restaurant and took Liu Qianqian straight to the overpass.