above the point of the knife

Chapter 247 I am a shadow
Suzuki Yoshio also saw Zhou Sen. He raised his head, smiled at him, nodded, and walked towards the female owner of the izakaya.

Said two words in a low voice.

With a shy smile on her face, the female boss stepped out of her busy schedule and led Suzuki Yoshio to the back.

Just when passing by Zhou Sen's booth.

"follow me."

Suzuki Yoshio dropped a sentence.

Zhou Sen was taken aback for a moment, but still got up and followed.

Open a door curtain and walk in, a corridor that is not too long. After stepping on it, Zhou se followed Suzuki Yoshio and followed the female boss into a small room.

Turn on the light, there is a small space inside, it seems to be a small room, it is very clean and tidy.

The whole room is filled with a faint scent of flowers, which is the scent of the female boss. Could it be that the female boss's boudoir?
This is obviously not a business area, but a private territory.

What is the relationship between Yoshio Suzuki and the female owner of this izakaya, lover, or other secret and unknown relationship?
The female boss was still there, so it was hard for Zhou Sen to ask more questions.

On the tatami, there is a short table.

"Huizi, it's time to work."

"You are too kind."

Only then did Zhou Sen know that the Japanese female owner of this izakaya was called Keiko, and she had a very unusual relationship with Suzuki Yoshio.

When Huizi left, he also gave Zhou Sen a slight nod in greeting, and Zhou Sen also nodded slightly as a response.

"Zhou Sen, sit down." Suzuki Yoshio greeted Zhou Sen very casually, took off his shoes, got on the tatami and knelt down.

"Yes."

Zhou Sen also took off his shoes immediately and sat on the tatami.

"I thought you would come to me soon, but I didn't expect to keep me waiting for so long." Suzuki Yoshio smiled slightly.

"Your Excellency Deputy Director..."

"Don't call me deputy chief, this is not No. 3 Yiyuan Street, just call me uncle." Suzuki Yoshio raised his hand and said.

"Uncle...Uncle..." Zhou Sen reluctantly called out.

"I have had a relationship with your adoptive father Anthony for almost 20 years. He and I were both in Moscow at the time. I worked at the Japanese Embassy in Moscow in Soviet Russia. It was he who introduced and understood Marxism. Since then, we have been We became friends." Suzuki Yoshio explained.

"You are the Japanese Communist Party?" Zhou Sen was very surprised. He knew that there were many Japanese Communist Party members in the Japanese military circle, and they were deeply hidden, providing a lot of information for the "anti-Japanese".

"I have nothing to do with the Japanese Communist Party." Suzuki Yoshio smiled and explained, "Of course, I am not the Soviet Communist Party either."

"Then who are you?"

"I am just me, a person with a conscience." Suzuki Yoshio explained, "So, because of my relationship with your adoptive father Anthony, I became the guardian of his secret intelligence organization 'Leo' team lurking in Ice City."

"guardian?"

"Any secret intelligence organization will be exposed one day. If the enemy discovers and exposes it, then once the organization is destroyed, someone needs to lend a helping hand at a critical moment and rescue it. This is the meaning of my existence." Suzuki Yixiong said, "When you are all going well, I am a shadow. Only when you are in trouble, I will appear. After helping you recover, I will become a shadow again."

"Do you know the secret of Leo's group?"

"No, I don't know. I only know that you are Anthony's chosen successor. Once something happens to him, you will be targeted. This result is inevitable." Suzuki Yoshio said.

"But why didn't daddy mention this to me?"

"First, he may not have the opportunity to mention it to you at all. Second, you can only pass the screening and assessment if you don't know anything."

"Is that why he doesn't trust me?"

"If you don't trust me, how can you put the heavy burden on your shoulders?" Suzuki Yoshio was about to continue, when the sound of clogs came from outside the door, he immediately stopped his voice.

dong dong...

"Enter!"

The female owner of the izakaya named Huizi came in from outside the door with the food and wine. After setting it up for the two of them, she bowed down and saluted with the tray in her arms, and then backed out.

"It's not necessary, Anthony doesn't want you to be involved in such a brutal struggle." Suzuki Yoshio explained.

"But why did he force me to take the police exam?"

"Prepare for a rainy day. Although he doesn't want to do that, he can't just do nothing. If something happens to him, wouldn't all previous efforts be wasted?" Suzuki Yoshio poured Zhou Sen a glass of wine and said.

"Actually, if he had told me earlier, maybe I could have handled it better?" Zhou Sen picked up his glass and drank it down.

"There is nothing perfect in this world. He never expected that he would be selected by the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army to participate in the top-secret 'bear hunting' plan. When I got the news, I couldn't stop it." Suzuki Yoshio road.

"So you informed the Soviet Union of the 'Bear Hunt' operation?" Zhou Sen asked.

"I don't have a direct contact channel with the Soviet Union, but this news does have something to do with me." Suzuki Yoshio admitted.

"Since the Soviet Union knows the information, they can wait for everyone to enter the territory. Why do they directly do it at the border?" Zhou Sen asked.

"I don't know about this. You have been to Khabarovsk, why didn't you find the answer?"

"They don't know the details." Zhou Sen shook his head.

"Some things, after you investigate and understand later, you will naturally know." Suzuki Yoshio said, "You should have unlocked the secret of what Anthony left for you, right?"

"Well, I have the list and information of the 'Leo' group." Zhou Sen nodded. If it weren't for Suzuki Yoshio's guidance, he really wouldn't be able to decipher the secrets on the microfilm in the bullet.

"Then you have officially taken Anthony's place?"

"That's right, but I can't do anything now. The people on the list only support me for the sake of my father. It's really hard to say how much trust they really have in me." Zhou Sen said.

"Take your time, the establishment of trust needs a process, and only you, they will give you this opportunity, if it is someone else, maybe some of them will not see you." Suzuki Yoshio said.

"Uncle Suzuki, will you believe me?" Zhou Sen raised his head slightly, looked at Yoshio Suzuki, and asked seriously.

"What do you think?"

"I would like to believe Uncle Suzuki, but Uncle Suzuki doesn't know."

"Are you defeating my army?" Suzuki Yoshio showed a slight look of surprise, it was obvious that Zhou Sen came to see him for a purpose.

"You said it yourself."

"Well, how can you feel that I trust you?" Suzuki Takeo smiled wryly, Zhou Sen was so guarded and acted so cautiously.

"Toshi Yamamoto of Ice Special Agent is after me."

"You want to get rid of him?" Suzuki Takeo was slightly startled, he didn't expect Zhou Sen to get rid of the director of Ice Spy.

This is too bold.

Is this still the Zhou Sen who was unanimously considered timid?

"Not only did he bribe the people around me, but he also sent people to secretly monitor all my actions. Although I pretended not to know, he did this just to make trouble for me, and even to kill me." Zhou Sen said .

"Is it because you won Sato's grievance when you were receiving special training at Yimianpo?" Suzuki Yoshio asked after thinking for a while.

"Yes, Sato died in the mouth of a tiger, but he turned his anger on me, and because of the 'Troy' plan, he wanted to take this plan into his own hands, and I was his stumbling block, a blocker." Zhou Sen said, "Because Because of Saburo Shibuya, he didn't dare to attack me directly, but once he caught my fault, he would strike mercilessly."

"So, you want to strike first?"

"Yes, unless you can transfer him away from the ice city, only one of us will survive." Zhou Sen said.

"But your conflict hasn't intensified to that level..." Suzuki Yoshio frowned slightly.

"If the conflict intensifies, if something happens to him, I'm afraid he will be the first to suspect me." Zhou Sen said, "Instead of waiting for the conflict to intensify, why don't we let him get away with it once and for all when he's not prepared?"

"Did you know that Yamamoto Min is Qin Yan's confidant?"

"Chief Qin Yan will be transferred to be the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army soon." Zhou Sen said.

"You actually knew that Qin Yansaburo was transferred to be the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army?" Suzuki Yoshio was a little surprised. As a deputy, he only knew the news not long ago. Even so, it would take some time before Qin Yansaburo left.

General transfer, unless it is a battlefield transfer, especially the chief officer of the intelligence department, it is impossible to leave with a single order. If there is no handover, then the next head of the agency will know nothing, and the two will be discredited?

"Your teacher is Shibuya Saburo, and his news is much better than many people." Suzuki Yoshio said immediately.

"Major General Yanagida Yuansan will take over as the head of the second section of the Kwantung Army's General Staff Department and the head of the Harbin Secret Service," Zhou Sen said.

"What do you need me to do?" Suzuki Yoshio asked.

"You don't need to do anything for me, you just need to testify for me when I need it." Zhou Sen said.

"Testimony?" Suzuki Yoshio was puzzled.

"My contact with Cynthia, the medical staff of the Soviet Russian Consulate in Bingcheng, was to report to you, and it was a secret operation under your instruction." Zhou Sen explained.

"You want to use this to lure Toshiro Yamamoto to take the bait?" Suzuki Yoshio said, "Is the risk too great?"

"First of all, Cynthia will take the initiative to contact me, because her real name is Natasha, and we have contacted again in Khabarovsk. She was forced to hide in the ice city as Cynthia after being treated unfairly in the country. As soon as I come into contact with her, it will be a matter of course. If I get in touch with her and get your approval, it is naturally not considered a private act. Moreover, I think a woman who has been treated unfairly has a huge instigation And the conversion of value, according to the logic of our work, even if it is the bait thrown by the Soviet Union, we have to accept it. If Toshi Yamamoto knows that I have been in contact with Cynthia secretly, he will definitely think it is my private behavior. It must be to keep an eye on him, then I will have a chance to find his whereabouts and get rid of him." Zhou Sen said.

"That is to say, even if you have a lot to do with finding out Toshi Yamamoto's death afterwards, you can still get rid of the suspicion. After all, this is his private behavior, right?"

"Yes."

"You never thought that if you let people get rid of Toshi Yamamoto, but you are safe and sound, no one will suspect that this is Toshi Yamamoto who was murdered by Cynthia and you?" Suzuki Yoshio asked back.

"Cynthia's goal was to get rid of me. They mistakenly thought that Toshi Yamamoto was my backhand arranged secretly. They killed him first and then planned to get rid of me, but I escaped and survived."

"You want to use bitter tricks?"

"I've been put on the must-kill list by the Soviet Russian intelligence agency. If I don't even have one assassination or assassination, it doesn't make sense, right?" Zhou Sen said.

"Are you sure?"

"I will choose the most suitable opportunity."

(End of this chapter)