Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1412 Confession
This is a gloomy basement. Except for a heavy wooden door wrapped in leather, the whole house has no windows, and it is as tight as a can.No sound from the outside can come in at all, and the people in the house can only hear the hum of the wind coming from the vent.No matter day or night, the lights are on and the place is bright and white, making it difficult to distinguish day from night.This is the interrogation room of the underground prison of the Political Security Service.

The walls and floor of the room are tiled to facilitate cleaning of blood and excrement.The room was empty, except for the table used by the interrogators, there was only a hardwood chair in the middle that was reinforced with iron bars and firmly fixed to the ground.Several full-time thugs from the Security Bureau were smoking cigarettes, standing aside and watching the people on the chairs.

A naked woman is bound to a chair by handcuffs and leg shackles.Her head fell to her chest, her long black hair fell loose, her body twitched and cried.Her body was already covered with bruises. Black electrodes were fixed to Beep and Beep, and the wires ran from her to the hand crank telephone on the table.

Zhou Dongtian stood in front of her, his coat had been taken off, and the sleeves of his white shirt were rolled up.

"Did you really say everything that Hao Yuan said?"

"Really...really..." The woman couldn't help shaking her head, crying and shaking her head, "I've told you everything I know..."

"You are dishonest." Zhou Dongtian said sharply, "you are not the only one we caught. There were other people present at that meeting besides you."

"Woooooo..." Jia Le cried bitterly. From being arrested to being transferred to Lingao, she had lost the concept of time.Ever since she disembarked and was sent here to be tortured, she read almost every moment in hell.The day and night interrogation and torture nearly broke her spirit.

In fact she couldn't tell how much time had passed at all.She had passed out and woke up several times. Every time she woke up, it was like crawling out of hell, thinking that she had got a new life, but when she opened her eyes, it was still dark.

The clothes on her body had already been stripped off, but she had no sense of shame at all.I only felt burning pains all over my body, especially the "beep" and "beep" that were covered with tape and connected with black strings. Except for the head, face, hands and feet, there were scars almost everywhere.

These people alternately pressed two questions: one was Hao Yuan's organization: what is its structure?How many people are there?Who are the backbone?What activities do you usually have?What theory did Hao Yuan instill in them?The second is the situation of Hao Yuan himself. What kind of words does he often say?What about daily behavior?Did he talk about his life, his parents, his friends...

These contents were interrogated over and over again, even if she told everything she knew, it would not help. The thugs did not seem to believe in her memory, and the repeated torture forced her to "remember" constantly.Any clues will be pursued.

It was Zhou Dongtian himself who presided over the torture to extract confessions. Besides his own disciples, there were also a few government servants retained by various government offices.

"Director, your phone number." Just as Zhou Dongtian pressed for questions, someone came to report.

Zhou Dongtian walked out of the interrogation room, picked up the phone, and looked at his watch. It was just after seven o'clock in the morning.

It was Zhao Manxiong who hung up the phone, asking if there was any new progress.Zhou Dongtian reported the latest interrogation situation.

"Very well, hurry up and press it to see if there is any new content. There will be an internal security meeting at nine o'clock this morning. This case will be discussed at the meeting. The more detailed the materials, the better."

Zhou Dongtian put down the phone, wiped off the sweat from his head, drank another large cup of herbal tea, stuffed a few snacks into his mouth and returned to the interrogation room.

"Think about it again, what do you remember about the meeting held by Hao Yuan?" Zhou Dongtian slowed down his tone, and his eyes fell on the telephone on the table again.A worker approaches the table.

"No, don't, don't—" Jia Le screamed, struggling to twist his body, "I said, I said, I said everything..."

The weekly "internal security meeting" is held in the confidential meeting room of the executive committee compound as usual.This is a joint working meeting of powerful departments of the Senate, attended by representatives from the General Administration of Political Science and Security, the Investigation Executive Bureau of the Arbitration Tribunal, the Army, Navy, Foreign Intelligence Service, National Police, Customs, and Cheka.The main purpose is to exchange information from the previous week, opinions and views on the current security situation, and to report the work carried out by each department in the next week.Communicate in meetings when you need to collaborate.Representatives of the Executive Committee and the Standing Committee of the Senate will also attend the meeting when "major security issues" need to be discussed.

Today's meeting was like this, so there were a lot of people coming out of the meeting room when the meeting ended.

Jiang Shan quickly walked out of the conference room amidst the crowd, unlike other people who were whispering about the content of the conference, he did not greet anyone, walked out of the crowd, and quickly walked towards Wu Mu who was about to walk out of the gate .

"Comrade Wumu!" He greeted in a low voice, "I want to talk to you."

Wu Mu blinked his eyes. The Foreign Intelligence Service and the General Political Security Bureau have some business overlaps, but they have very little contact with each other, let alone the other party's direct request to "talk".

He immediately realized that Jiang Shan wanted to talk to him about Hao Yuan's case.

This matter has been listed as the number one case investigated by the General Political Security Bureau. At today's internal security meeting, the introduction and discussion of this case took up more than half of the meeting time.

"I'm going back to the office to do something now, why don't you go back in the same car as me?"

It takes 15 minutes to walk from the headquarters compound of the Foreign Intelligence Service to the headquarters compound of the Political Security Bureau, but Jiang Shan thinks it is worth the trip.

Jiang Shan nodded, and after coming out of the courtyard gate, he whispered a few words to the security secretary who came with him, and sent them and his carriage back first.The two got into Wumu's Dongfeng carriage together.

The carriage was driving on the cinder road.Neither of them spoke for a while.Jiang Shan knew very well that the unattractive man next to him, with the temperament of a clerk who had worked in an office for ten years, was the No. [-] figure in the Political Security Bureau, and also the highest-ranking head of the Political Security Bureau that most veterans could come into contact with.

"Don't you have a feeling that Hao Yuan and Hale have some kind of connection." Jiang Shan said slowly.

Wu Mu was silent for a moment cautiously, and said, "You mean, they all have some kind of characteristics that only traversers have in them?"

"Yes." Jiang Shan nodded.

"But the autopsy report tends to judge that Hao Yuan is a native of this time and space."

"Because Hao Yuan is an aborigine physically, but his mind is a time traveler, that's why I said that Hale and Hao Yuan have some kind of connection."

"You mean: Hao Yuan's thinking comes from Hale?"

"Exactly. Unless you believe that there are soul wearers in our time and space."

"Your speculation is very reasonable, but even this does not completely prove that Hao Yuan had direct contact with Hale—you must know that Hale is in Manila, and Hao Yuan is a Chinese."

"Hao Yuan is a Chinese, but he is not a native of Hangzhou. According to intelligence, he did not appear in Hangzhou City until after the summer of 1632. According to the information obtained from the interrogation of the captives: Hale visited many times in 1631 when the Zheng Group was negotiating. Only at this time can he obtain the first-hand information in China. If he knew the news about Zhao Yingong at that time, then no matter whether Hao Yuan was appointed from Manila or Hao Yuan was developed locally, there would be enough time. .”

"But there's no direct evidence."

"Yes, there is no direct evidence yet. Hao Yuan is dead, but there are still prisoners," Jiang Shan said, "Mr. Lando has written a collection of Hale's remarks. If we can collect enough Hao Yuan's In terms of speech, by comparing the two, we can know where Hao Yuan's modern thinking comes from, and whether there is any relationship between them."

Xihua, Jia Le and several other Hangzhou natives who were arrested have been sent to Lingao and are currently being interrogated in the secret prison of the General Political Security Bureau.

Wu Mu fully understood what he meant: "You want to get those interrogation records and secret reports."

"Yes"

"Are you doing this for Mr. Lando?"

"It's because of our actions in Manila. I'm very worried now: our opponent may be an unprecedentedly difficult person." Jiang Shan said seriously, "Hao Yuan's appearance made me see a dangerous signal."

Not cannons, muskets, or reverberatory furnaces—from the few words about Hale and Hao Yuan revealed in the meeting report, he realized that Hale was probably teaching his ideas systematically.In his view, these ideas were far more dangerous than any technological innovation Hale had made in Manila.To the Senate, any army, fleet, or empire in this time and space is insignificant. Even if Hale has three heads and six arms, what if he can create a new type of artillery factory and create a few cannons that are beyond the age?It's not the same life that was crushed.However, if that little spark is not extinguished in time, sooner or later it will become a fire that swallows the Senate!
So he eagerly wanted to know if Hao Yuan was his student.How far Hale and Hao Yuan spread these ideas.

"Okay," Wu Mu said, "let's make an agreement like this: we will give you a copy of Hao Yuan's case files... I guarantee that all future interrogations and reports on this case will also be copied to the Intelligence Bureau But how much to copy and what to copy must be in our hands. Out of the principle of reciprocity, you also have to give us Lando’s materials in Manila.”

"OK."

(End of this chapter)