Twenty minutes ago, they said they would go their separate ways and asked me to report to them within three days. Now they have changed their minds and want to take me away. The word "credibility" is worth less than fart to the Japanese.

Su Bai did not raise any objections. Since he was in their hands, he could only follow them out of the yard and then look for an opportunity.

After leaving the yard, the four men immediately split up. Su Bai followed the officer, and the other three went in three different directions.

After walking for only five minutes, Su Bai saw the towering bell tower of St. Peter's Basilica in the distance. It turned out that this place was so close to the Fifth Rescue Team, definitely not more than a mile away.

It seemed that my guess was correct. When they were in St. Peter's Basilica, they alarmed Teacher Li and called the rescue team. After they fled the cathedral in a hurry, the gendarmerie patrol was nearby, so they were temporarily unable to escape. They had to find a private house with some space to hide for the night.

If the military police are able to lock down this area, they will first block all possible escape routes, and then send people into the area to search house by house.

It’s a pity that the military police are short of manpower, so they can only block the area first and cannot immediately assign personnel to conduct a search.

But the Japanese also knew that it would not be long before the military police would bring people in. Even if the number of military police and police was insufficient, there were plenty of volunteers.

After the officer took Su Bai towards St. Peter's Basilica for a few minutes, a guy who had walked away when he was discharged from the hospital ran over and said something in the officer's ear.

Su Bai heard it roughly. This area had been completely blocked. There were people guarding every intersection and alley, and there were also many patrol teams.

The officer brought Su Bai back to the same yard. He asked Su Bai to sit on the chair behind the desk and told her in a friendly manner that this residential area had been tightly blocked and they could not get her out safely, so they had to leave separately.

"Today is September 9th. Our invincible Imperial Japanese Army has launched a full-scale offensive along Jungong Road, Songhu Highway and Luodian. The capture of Shanghai is just around the corner. Miss Lan, a man of insight is a hero. I hope you won't let us down."

The officer said that he would give Su Bai some time to consider and prepare. After meeting her in the French Concession before September 9, he would send someone to send her to the Japanese-controlled area. If she was willing, he could even send her back to Japan, build a pharmaceutical factory for her, apply for the Nobel Prize on her behalf, and even summon her to the Emperor.

However, if Su Bai chose not to cooperate, the consequences would be beyond her imagination. Disgrace would be the least of her worries.

She, and everyone associated with her, will die.

"Remember, we will meet at your Fahua Pharmaceutical Factory before September 9." The officer said as he covered Su Bai's face with a towel soaked in medicine:

"Miss Lan, I'm sorry to bother you for a moment. You will wake up on your own in an hour or two. This place is very close to St. Peter's Basilica."

Su Bai lost consciousness before he even had a chance to struggle.

……

It was already dusk when Su Bai walked out of the yard, rubbing his forehead which was in such intense pain with one or two fingers.

Not long after leaving the yard, we encountered a patrol team consisting of five people, two gendarmes and three people who were dressed in civilian clothes and looked like volunteers.

It seems that they have officially begun to enter this residential area.

Su Bai just wanted to get back to St. Peter's Basilica as soon as possible, so he walked out with his head down, sticking to the wall. But after a few steps, he was stopped by the military police: "Miss, please wait a moment!"

He chased after her for a few steps and first explained to Su Bai that Japanese spies had kidnapped a doctor and hid him in this residential area, and asked her if she had seen anyone suspicious.

When Su Bai answered no, he asked again: "Where does this lady live? Can you take us to see it?"

At this time, a person in plain clothes came over: "Are you... Miss Lan?"

Su Bai didn't expect that he was recognized.

It was this man in plain clothes who recognized him. He had carried wounded people to St. Mary's Ambulance several times and had seen Lan Jieru from a distance twice, so he had some impression of her.

This can be regarded as the most efficient military and political work done by Su Bai in the more than four months since he returned to Shanghai. If he had achieved such high efficiency earlier, his own pharmaceutical factory would have been built long ago.

Dumbfounding.

At this point, Su Bai had no choice but to admit: "I am Lan Jieru, and I am going back to the Fifth Rescue Team of Shanghai Medical College at St. Peter's Basilica."

What Su Bai didn't expect was that the military policeman actually said, "I'm afraid that won't work. Miss Lan has to go with us."

"What did you say?" Su Bai could hardly believe his ears.

"We are performing military duties. Please cooperate with us, Miss Lan." The military police officer was about to hold Su Bai's arm, but Su Bai shook him off: "I can walk by myself!"

This is not difficult to understand. The blockade lasted almost a day and a night, and such a large number of manpower were mobilized. Now that Lan Jieru was found, they must have gone back to report first.

Su Bai followed a few people and walked towards St. Peter's Basilica. After leaving the residential area, they saw a large tent that was temporarily erected. The military police told Su Bai that this was the temporary command center for their blockade operation.

In the short distance of a few hundred meters from being recognized by the military police to this tent, he encountered several patrolling and house-to-house search teams, with a team of three or four people at the least and seven or eight people at the most. Su Bai couldn't believe that his kidnapping would attract so much attention?

Could it be that Vice President Zhang's hard work paid off and attracted the government's attention?

It seems unlikely. Although Vice President Zhang had started contacting the Health Bureau and relevant government departments while distributing penicillin, it was just the beginning. It is impossible to attract such high attention in such a short time.

When Su Bai followed the military police into the tent, he immediately saw a man sitting behind a makeshift desk made of bricks and wooden boards in the middle of the tent: Yang Rufeng, the battalion commander of the 1st Military Police Regiment, who had half-requisitioned and half-robbed a bottle of penicillin from him a few days ago as a backup medicine for their military police regiment to use in the next battlefield.

"Miss Lan," Yang Rufeng saw Su Bai coming in, and quickly stood up from behind the table and walked forward, smiling: "I am so happy to see you come back safe and sound. Yang finally fulfilled his mission!"

"Thank you, Captain Yang. Can I go back to the rescue team now?" Su Bai didn't have time to chat with him. She had to express her gratitude. She was more concerned about St. Peter's Basilica now. She didn't know what the situation was there and whether Wan Qili had returned.

"Of course," Captain Yang ordered a military policeman beside him, "Go to St. Peter's Basilica and ask them to pick up Miss Lan!"

what's the situation?

Do I have to go through a procedure to return to the church by myself?

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