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

Although the gunshots were faint, they still alerted the guards in the east wing. After a series of sounds, the door to the east wing was suddenly opened.

However, the next moment, no one came out of the open door; instead, several bullets were fired toward the main house.

Li Xiao was no longer there; he was hiding at the door of the east wing. After the gunshot, Li Xiao threw in a flashbang.

"Boom!"

After a dull thud, a scream rang out from the east wing.

"Pfft pfft~"

Li Xiao flashed into the house and pulled the trigger on two men inside who were covering their heads.

Without pausing, he slipped into the main room where Yoshiko Kawashima was, searched it thoroughly, and found a basement there.

After rummaging through the area, Li Xiao packed a small radio, two nanmu wood boxes, and a small combination lock into his own space.

The last commotion alerted the neighbors, and a squad of Japanese military police arrived just ten minutes after Li Xiao left.

That night, when Li Xiao returned home, he first opened the locked nanmu wood chests. One of the chests contained two hundred small yellow croakers and one hundred large yellow croakers, while the other chest was full of silver dollars, totaling as many as ninety thousand.

As for the coded box, it contained military intelligence about China from the island nation's secret intelligence agency. Li Xiao handed over all the classified documents to Shen Chuan the next day.

Now, Shen Chuan and Fan Wenfang have taken over from Wang Min and Zhao Yi as liaisons for the underground party in Beijing.

With these classified documents from the Japanese, the couple would undoubtedly receive a major commendation from their superiors.

The murder of Yoshiko Kawashima caused some shock among the Japanese troops stationed in North China. Commander Yoshijiro Umezu ordered a thorough investigation, but this time the Japanese did not conduct door-to-door searches.

Nowadays, Yoshiko Kawashima is no longer as highly regarded by the island nation's intelligence agencies as she was a few years ago. For example, during the Pacific War, Hideki Tojo refused to allow her to participate in high-level negotiations, believing that relying on a woman would damage the dignity of the island nation.

As the war situation gradually deteriorated, the island nation began to abandon it, and ultimately refused to protect it after its defeat. This further illustrates that its importance was limited, primarily dependent on the island nation's short-term strategic needs.

However, Yoshiko Kawashima caused immeasurable losses and impacts to the country and the nation. Such a person deserves to be torn to pieces!

On August 15, 1944, after careful preparation, the photos that Li Xiao handed to the brigade commander, showing the Japanese Kwantung Army's water supply and epidemic prevention unit conducting virus experiments on Chinese civilians, were exposed to the world by several influential media outlets.

When governments and people from all countries saw the photos of those horrific human experiments and the top-secret experimental data recorded in the island nation's language, they were all outraged.

All member states of the Allied Powers stood up and began to strongly condemn the island nation's despicable and inhumane act. Even the Axis powers' Little Beard expressed strong dissatisfaction and the strongest condemnation of this beastly behavior that had no human bottom line in the media.

Back in China, after seeing these reports, the bald man in Chongqing immediately instructed various media outlets to express the strongest condemnation of the island nation's beastly behavior and to declare his determination to eliminate the Japanese devils.

In private, however, the bald man was yelling at Boss Dai.

"Damn it, how did these documents end up in the hands of the Communist Party? At this crucial juncture, these classified documents that could put the island nation under international pressure were leaked by them. How can foreign governments view our intelligence capabilities? How can the people at home trust the ruling party's ability to govern?"

Boss Dai was sweating profusely as he wiped his sweat while enduring the bald man's scolding, not daring to offer any explanation.

"Yu Nong, what did you find out about the matter I asked you to investigate last time?"

Boss Dai quickly stepped forward and said, "President, according to our informants who have infiltrated the area, the batch of brand-new equipment and logistical supplies for the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi seems to have been donated by an overseas Chinese group in Southeast Asia. As for who exactly is behind it, I'm still investigating!"

"Find out who's in charge of this overseas Chinese group as soon as possible! Damn it, we are the legitimate representatives of the Dragon Kingdom! Can't these overseas Chinese even find the right temple to burn incense?"

If Li Xiao were here right now, he would definitely retort, "No matter how much supplies we donate, how much of it will actually reach the soldiers on the front lines? The Party-State is rotten to the core from top to bottom!"

Three days later, an international observer group, mainly led by the United States, prepared to travel to China to investigate this crime against humanity.

What frustrated the people in Chongqing the most was that the destination of this international observation team was not Chongqing, but northern Shaanxi.

Last time, Li Xiao had secretly sent all the evidence he had collected and the information about his compatriots who had suffered inhumane abuse from that hell on earth in Harbin to the other side.

This incident caused great unease in the island nation, and the newly appointed Prime Minister, Kuniaki Koiso, who had just taken office, issued a statement to the outside world.

Koiso Kuniaki shamelessly denied all the evidence presented by China, stating that it was nothing more than carefully fabricated evidence to smear Japan. He claimed that China's aim was to incite hatred towards Japan worldwide and thus hinder Japan's great progress in building the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in Asia.

At the end of his speech, Kuniaki Koiso solemnly declared: "The island nation will absolutely not stand against all of humanity!"

Kuniaki Koiso also expressed his clear opposition to the international observer mission's planned trip to China, arguing that an international observer mission without the participation of island nations lacks any legitimacy or rationality, and that he would not recognize the mission's findings.

Koiso Kuniaki's speech quickly spread throughout the country, and the news was published in many newspapers.

This news article, like a giant spark, immediately ignited the flames of anger among all the people of the Dragon Kingdom.

A nationwide movement to resist Japanese aggression and save the nation swept across the country, from north to south and from west to east.

Students in many cities spontaneously formed marches and demonstrations, shouting slogans such as "The Japanese devils get out of China!" and "Blood debts must be repaid with blood!" The entire land of China was once again in an uproar.

At this moment, the Japanese soldiers stationed on the land of China have already begun to retreat eastward due to the shortage of logistical supplies. Li Xiao has also sent his top subordinates in Beijing, except for Lu Yuan, to various parts of the country in advance.

Li Xiao gave them only one task: to protect the students who were demonstrating and to prevent them from being suppressed or harmed by the Japanese and their puppet troops as much as possible!