Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Li Qinwu sat calmly on the chair and did not react at all to the more than 10 guns pointed at him.

He acted so recklessly that he was well prepared to be caught, and at this point in time, the incident was about to begin.

"I have a cigarette."

Li Qinwu said calmly.

The officer who pointed the gun at Li Qinwu's chest glanced at the cigarette on the table and nodded.

Li Qinwu picked up the cigarette and matches, lit one for himself, and then, holding the cigarette in his mouth, he stood up and walked out of the office with them.

A soldier tried to tie up Li Qinwu with a rope but was stopped by the officer.

"No need, let him go on his own."

Li Qinwu glanced at the officer, wondering why he would speak up for him.

When going downstairs, Li Qinwu saw Director Guo, who came up to him with a smile and mocked him.

"Haha, you're in trouble now, kid. You were awesome, weren't you? You were good at fighting, weren't you? Now you're not awesome anymore? You're not crazy anymore? For what you've done, get shot!"

He looked so cocky, as if he was just about to write "report me" on his face. Seeing this guy jumping up to attack him, Li Qinwu kicked him in the crotch.

With a click, everyone present subconsciously squeezed their hips.

"Ouch! Ouch!"

Director Guo let out a heart-wrenching scream, fell to the ground, holding his crotch and twisting around. He felt that his balls had been broken by Li Qinwu's kick.

The officer escorting Li Qinwu frowned, but said nothing. He just asked the soldiers to drag Director Guo, whose egg was broken, to the side, and the few of them continued to move forward.

Now Li Qinwu was really confused. Why was this person so tolerant of him?

What he didn't know was that what he had done in the past few days was reported to Director Guo who was observing him secretly. How to deal with Li Qinwu became a problem. After all, Li Qinwu developed two weapons in just one month and was a high-level talent.

The Arsenal's top management held a meeting for this purpose, and people from the police and the army came. The army's statement was that it was not a serious problem and that it should be let alone.

It is not surprising that the army has this attitude. The army has taken over the weapons made by Li Qinwu, and their performance is excellent in actual use. Li Qinwu also compiled the "Anti-Tank Manual", and the army has begun training according to the above content.

The military still hoped that Li Qinwu could come up with something good, so they sent a colonel to the meeting to express his opinions.

On the police side, Huang Xiansheng was very interested in Li Qinwu. His attitude towards the Japanese was highly consistent with his. He felt that the way Li Qinwu looked at him seemed to see through his thoughts, like an old friend who knew him very well.

Moreover, when Li Qinwu was testing the anti-tank gun, he also asked him to send police officers to test it. Why didn't he ask the military for such a thing? Was he testing the gun or getting familiar with the weapon?

Deputy Director Zhang, who could decide Li Qinwu's fate, was somewhat shocked. The top military and police officers were speaking for Li Qinwu, which made him feel cold. How could a small director gain such a great influence in just half a month? If he was allowed to continue to develop, it might become a disaster!

He was very disappointed with Li Qinwu's arrogant behavior. The more he valued him before, the more he hated him now. He directly took out the evidence of corruption collected by Director Guo and demanded that Li Qinwu be slapped to death!

The factory's top management had a clear attitude. There was nothing they could do and the police system could only arrest people. However, Huang Xiansheng gave a warning and asked his subordinates not to use any means against Li Qinwu. This is why Li Qinwu beat people in person and the leading officer remained indifferent.

Li Qinwu was taken to Fengtian City Prison and was interrogated that evening.

He was handcuffed to a chair of repentance, with a large light on the table in front of him shining on him, forcing him to close his eyes and tilt his head to resist.

He was left alone for more than half an hour before two people came in, turned off the headlights, and began to interrogate him.

The man on the left had a serious face and started asking questions like name and gender as soon as he sat down. This was standard procedure. Asking obvious questions was to train the defendant's obedience and pave the way for subsequent questioning.

In order to avoid being tortured, Li Qinwu chose to answer questions. As he was answering questions, the other party soon asked the key questions.

"Do you have a grudge against Liu San?"

Li Qinwu was stunned for a moment. Who is Liu San?

Seeing his confused expression, the other party reminded him: "Liu San and a Japanese were killed, and the bodies were hidden in the cellar of Liu San's house. After investigation, we found that Liu San was shot at the door of his house, but when we asked the residents around, they all said they didn't hear any gunshots. Do you have anything to say about this?"

Now Li Qinwu remembered that Liu San was the officer who was caught having an affair with a female worker by him. He was somewhat contemptuous of the Fengtian police's ability to investigate cases. It had been such a long time, and an officer had been murdered and still hadn't been found. Perhaps the body was discovered only after it became smelly.

He nodded in acknowledgement.

"I was the one who killed Liu San!"

The two men narrowed their eyes at the same time. They were a little surprised that Li Qinwu admitted it so easily. Assassinating an officer was a capital crime.

They naturally didn't know that today was September 9th, and there were only two days left until September 16th. Li Qinwu really didn't care about anything, and the order to execute him couldn't be issued in two days.

He now just wants to spend a peaceful time in prison, waiting for the outbreak of 918. He doesn't want these people to torture him, otherwise he will not be able to help but open the portal to let his clone come in and kill them. He doesn't want to expose the secret, nor does he want to kill innocent people, so he plans to admit everything and then lie comfortably in prison for two days.

The two continued to ask.

"Why did you kill him?"

Li Qinwu relaxed a little while leaning back on the chair, and told the story that he had bumped into Liu San having an affair, and that the other party had pointed a gun at him and threatened to kill his entire family.

The two people opposite looked unhappy. Vendettas are not a glorious thing no matter where they happen.

The man with glasses asked, "What weapon did you use? Forensic examination found a rifle bullet in Liu San's body, but the people around him clearly responded that they didn't hear any gunshots. How did you do it?"

Li Qinwu replied casually: "Oh, that's a silencer I made by hand, welded with iron pipes and iron sheets, it fires reduced charge bullets, so the sound of the gun firing becomes very small."

The two interrogators were somewhat horrified. The guy with glasses quickly wrote down in his notebook that it was the first time they had heard of the silencer and reduced-charge bullets that Li Qinwu mentioned. They all thought that the guy in front of them was truly a talent, as he could actually think of such a way to reduce the sound of gunfire.

The silencer was actually invented in 1908, but it was not used on a large scale and was a novelty in Western countries. In addition, there is an information gap between China and the West, so except for military industry practitioners, other people basically don’t know about this thing.

The two interrogators thought that the silencer was invented by Li Qinwu, so they were much more polite in their subsequent questions, with a look of regret on their faces. It was such a pity that the talent who could make such a device was about to be shot.

They asked Li Qinwu many questions, including what grudge he had with Director Guo? Why did Li Xiao, the newly emerged gangster boss, go to the Hong Quan Hall to help him out? Why did he exchange nearly 40 yuan into gold? Where did the gold go?

Li Qinwu answered one by one and gave answers that were barely acceptable, and then soon the question came to the most crucial question.

"Director Li, you are such a promising person, and you have so many rewards from the factory, why did you steal guns from the arsenal?

As far as we know, the workshop you supervised could produce 200 Spitfire submachine guns every day, but from September 9 to September 10, the production of Spitfire submachine guns dropped from 9 to 15, and nearly 200 submachine guns and 150 anti-tank guns were missing. Where did these guns go?"