Agent: Intercepting Yu Manli at the start!

The Imperial Palace of Japan.

Prime Minister Tojo had an audience with the Emperor.

The situation is too serious and must be decided by the Emperor himself.

At that time, the Emperor was the spiritual core and de facto commander-in-chief throughout the country. Military and political officials, who had long been influenced by the Bushido ideology, regarded loyalty to the Emperor as the highest creed, and regarded the Emperor as a god, allowing no room for questioning.

The Sugimoto Agency was raided, and many top scholars and experts were killed—this is no small matter and must be reported immediately.

Tojo bowed and reported: "Your Majesty, we have just received an urgent telegram from Shanghai: the headquarters of the Sugi Agency, located there, was attacked and destroyed by anti-Japanese forces, and all researchers perished!"

"What?!" The Emperor's face changed drastically, then he became grief-stricken. "My mentor... he too has died for his country?"

The Sugimoto Institute is nominally a research institution, but in reality it brings together the country's top medical and biological professors and technical experts, including many of the Emperor's mentors from his early years of study.

Tojo quickly offered words of comfort: "Your Majesty, please accept my condolences. These anti-Japanese elements are incredibly audacious, daring to attack unsuspecting scholars and experts!"

The Emperor nodded in agreement, his tone so calm it was almost natural: "They are just scholars buried in their studies, focused on their research."

Shameless!

Absolutely shameless!

innocent?

Their bacteriological weapons and viral agents have already harmed tens of thousands of Chinese civilians!

The so-called "experiments" first involved testing drugs on livestock; once progress was made, they collaborated with Unit 731 to conduct human experiments on living people—prisoners of war and civilians were forcibly injected with pathogens, and the entire process of ulceration, high fever, organ failure, and death was observed, all in order to screen out the most lethal strain of bacteria. The cruelty of their methods was appalling.

What's the point of talking about "innocence"?

How could anyone say such a thing?

It's not surprising—everyone knows that Japan rewrote textbooks and whitewashed its history of aggression after the war. Today's distorted account seems all the more logical.

Tojo continued his analysis: "These scholars enjoy extremely high prestige in the country. Once the news of their deaths is made public, it will inevitably cause a nationwide uproar. Public opinion will be in uproar, and the opposition will only intensify."

"Your Majesty, how should we handle this matter?"

After a long silence, weighing the pros and cons repeatedly, the Emperor finally spoke: "The news will not be announced for the time being, but will be released to the public in stages and in a measured manner."

"To avoid exposing our defensive vulnerabilities, we must highlight the extreme brutality of the anti-Japanese forces—focus on their cold-blooded massacres, thereby guiding public opinion and turning the people to condemn the anti-Japanese armed forces for indiscriminately killing 'unarmed scholars'."

Japan, located on an island, suffered from poor transportation and slow information flow. At that time, the people relied entirely on radio and newspapers to learn about the outside world. With proper control, it was entirely possible to keep the domestic population completely unaware of the truth, or even intentionally lead them to believe incorrect things.

Furthermore, it can subtly transform the pent-up resentment among the people into a fervent force supporting the war.

Tojo nodded slightly: "Tanhuang is right. I'll consider this matter carefully."

After a brief pause, Tianhuang added, "Right now, we must keep this a secret and delay as long as possible—the pressure from all sides is already considerable."

The Sugimoto Agency's status was perfectly clear to Tōjō. It was he who personally instructed Tōjō to establish this special agency.

Now that his organization has been destroyed, he is shocked and caught off guard. He is doing his best to salvage the situation and is shifting all the blame onto the anti-Japanese forces.

Tojo replied, "Yes."

Licking Yellow's gaze darkened, and he pressed, "Have you found out who did it?"

who is it?

The clues have clearly pointed to the Military Intelligence Bureau!

But what can we do about it?

Without their contact points, any counterattack is futile.

Tojo replied, "Current intelligence confirms that it was the work of the Military Intelligence Bureau. The Shanghai intelligence system has been relentlessly investigating their contact points."

Licking Yellow said coldly, "Very well, they must pay for their crimes in blood."

Anger surged within him!

At this moment, a raging fire burned in Huang's heart—

These successive heavy blows not only shook the foundation of domestic public opinion, but also seriously hampered the operational rhythm of the Chinese frontline troops.

If we don't retaliate immediately, what face will the empire have left? Wouldn't that confirm its reputation for weakness and incompetence?

Tojo replied solemnly, "Understood. The General Staff and the Special Service Headquarters have acted in unison and will not allow them to escape unscathed."

Tianhuang nodded slowly, a hint of sadness appearing on his face: "Before he left, my teacher said that he would have a few drinks with me when he returned to Shanghai... Unfortunately, that chance will never come again."

Having set foot on Chinese soil, one should be prepared to die on the battlefield!

China will not tolerate being slighted or bullied!

All aggressors will eventually pay the price for their crimes!

This is their fate!

That night, countless people tossed and turned: Ken Oshima, Kazuji Yamamitsu, Madoka Doi, Prince Miyahito, Prime Minister Tojo... all found it difficult to fall asleep.

Licking yellow?

He slept soundly as usual. To him, the lives and deaths of others were insignificant, and his current setbacks were of no concern.

As long as we win this war in the end, everything else can be ignored.

The one who slept the most soundly was Zhou Xiao.

The two core objectives of "Operation Blue Lantern"—destroying the Sugi Agency and assassinating Asano Hirofumi—have both been successfully completed.

All that's left is to eliminate Ken Oshima and obtain the "Project Celestial" list, and the entire operation will be over.

But there's no need to rush.

Everything is proceeding as planned.

I slept soundly through the night and felt refreshed.

The next morning, the first thing Zhou Xiao did upon opening his eyes was to summon the system: "Sign in."

A crisp system notification sounded: "Ding-dong, congratulations host for completing your daily check-in, you have received 1000 points and the 'Super Memory Training Guide'!"

The points reward was as expected, and nothing surprising happened.

But this "Super Memory Training Guide" caught his eye.

For days, all I've earned from checking in is points, but today I'm finally getting a new way to earn them.

The "Super Memory Training Guide" states that once the host masters this skill, they can quickly understand and apply various scientific memory methods to efficiently extract, integrate, and store a large amount of key information in a short period of time.

Friendly reminder: This skill is not the same as photographic memory, but rather it gives the host a transferable and reusable memory strategy system.

"This thing is awesome!" Zhou Xiao's heart warmed.

He already had an exceptional memory and an extremely strong ability to absorb information in a short period of time; now, with the addition of this methodology, it's like installing an accelerator in his brain.

As a secret agent, if you can't remember clues, faces, or codes, what kind of infiltration and execution are you talking about? You're simply not qualified.

Zhou Xiao decisively ordered: "Immediately load the 'Super Memory Training Guide'."

As soon as the words were spoken, a wealth of memory techniques flowed into the mind like a stream, clearly imprinted, and immediately applicable.

These methods are based on the "principle of left-right brain synergy," which integrates the logical analysis ability of the left brain with the image association ability of the right brain, and then mobilizes attention, imagination, creativity and self-confidence to jointly build a solid and efficient memory circuit.

There are many methods: associative memory, homophonic encoding, chain linking, Roman room, mnemonic extraction, initial letter abbreviation, classification and summarization, diagrammatic organization... Each one directly addresses the pain points of memory and effectively improves the efficiency of information throughput.