Espionage: You're tasked with spying, but you'll blow up the Special Higher Police?

“I’ll talk, I’ll talk! The defense map is inside my body; I sewed it under my skin.”

Zhou Hongyi showed a hint of disgust, reached out and tugged at the other's clothes, and found a small wound on Hirasada Shotaro's side waist, with a loose thread outside the wound.

"Damn it, you pervert. It's just a defense map. You're keeping it to yourself. I'm sorry."

Zhou Hongyi didn't stand on ceremony. He wrapped the thread around his finger twice and yanked it out. With a "plop," the stitched wound tore open, and a blood-stained bag was pulled from the other man's body. After disgustedly wiping it clean, Zhou Hongyi tossed the disemboweled Hirazata Kotaro on the ground and unwrapped the map tightly wrapped in plastic. The map wasn't large, but it was very clearly marked. He quickly scanned it, memorized all the details, and then threw the map into the brazier to burn.

"You...you can't escape, hahaha, so what if you memorize the defense map? You still can't escape!"

Zhou Hongyi looked down and saw that Hirasada Kotaro's stomach was covered in blood. He climbed to the side of the laboratory and pressed the alarm button on the wall.

"Beep beep beep~~~~!"

Red alarm lights began to flash, and a piercing alarm sounded throughout the underground laboratory. Everyone panicked, and Japanese soldiers began to gather in this direction.

Zhou Hongyi sneered and said, "Well done, well done. I'm not afraid you won't do it. I'm just waiting for them to come."

After speaking, Zhou Hongyi walked to the metal cabinet in the laboratory, took out all the chemical reagents inside, and poured the reagents of different colors and textures into a large measuring cup. He did this several times, placing them in several corners of the laboratory and near the entrance. Then, he erected the metal dissection table, covering himself like a tortoise shell, and hid in a corner.

Taira no Kotaro was completely dumbfounded. What was this guy doing? Those chemical reagents were extremely unstable; the slightest mistake could produce unexpected reactions, even a sudden explosion. Yet this guy had just haphazardly poured the reagents together, and nothing seemed amiss. How did he manage that?

"Quickly, everyone to the lab! Zhou Hongyi, you can't escape! Hand over Professor Pingzhen, and we might give you a quick death!"

Zhou Hongyi shouted outside, "I've already killed Hirazato Kotaro! You damn Japanese devils, if you have the guts, shoot me! Hahaha, I bet you don't have the guts!"

He deliberately provoked the Japanese soldiers outside the door, and even heard Fuma Kojiro's voice, thinking to himself, "Well done." Just then, Taira no Kotaro seemed to sense something was wrong and tried to stop him, but it was too late.

"Bang bang bang~! Bang bang bang~!"

Gunfire erupted, and the Japanese soldiers outside the laboratory began indiscriminate saturation fire. The first few shots were manageable, but then one hit the reagent Zhou Hongyi had prepared. In an instant, it was as if a match had been thrown into a pile of gunpowder; the violent explosion came so suddenly, so fiercely, so without warning.

The Japanese soldiers outside were instantly engulfed in flames and shockwaves, dying without even knowing how they were killed. Fuma Kojiro was the first to be hit, swallowed by the flames. The violent shockwave shattered the thick double-layered walls, and the Japanese soldiers and experimental personnel on the outer side were struck by the rubble, suffering broken bones and fractures; the force was even greater than bullets.

Moreover, the explosion in the laboratory triggered other chemical agents, and the small explosions caused a chain reaction, plunging the entire underground laboratory into chaos.

Although Zhou Hongyi and Taira no Kotaro were at the epicenter of the explosion, the former had concealed himself inside the dissection table. After the explosion, the intense flames and shockwave suddenly blew open the wall behind him. Zhou Hongyi, hiding under the table, was spared from the flames, but the enormous explosion still caused him to lose his hearing. Immediately afterward, a large amount of water rushed in from behind the wall.

It turns out that the explosion connected the underground laboratory to an underground river. But this was actually part of Zhou Hongyi's Plan B. Before he entered the prison, he had ordered the secret digging of an underground tunnel leading towards the prison. This was a last resort in case he couldn't escape, and unexpectedly, it came in handy.

The underground explosion alerted the prison guards above and the military camp next door. All the Japanese soldiers grabbed their guns and began searching for the source of the explosion. But suddenly, the entire Gaosen Prison plummeted downwards with a loud "boom," crashing into a large crater.

The prisoners screamed and howled. The sudden tremor warped the iron gates and broke the bars. They took advantage of the chaos to escape from the prison. Some even took advantage of the confusion to settle personal scores, knocking down the Japanese soldiers or prison guards who had beaten them, seizing their weapons, and fighting amongst themselves.

Seeing the chaotic scene, Diao Zhen, leading a group of men, touched his bald head and said, "Director Zhou really went all out this time. He said there would be trouble, and sure enough, there was. Brothers, remember who we're looking for. Once we find them, we'll get out of here immediately."

Diao Zhen had already received instructions from Zhou Hongyi, and the task of rescuing Song Guotao, underground members of the Red Party, and the media tycoon was entrusted to this bald man. With Zhou Keshang's help, he opened the cell door leading to the hardened criminal ward. But in reality, the place was already a mess; the wall next to the cell door had completely collapsed, and the prisoners and guards inside were lying on the ground groaning in pain, and it was unknown how many would survive.

Fortunately, the people Diao Zhen was looking for were still alive. He had his men set up a rescue target and rushed outwards.

Just as the Japanese soldiers began entering the prison to maintain order, gunshots rang out.

"Bang bang bang~!"

"Clap clap clap!"

"Boom~!"

A guerrilla force, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, launched a fierce attack on the military camp. They converged from all directions through the alleyways, as if they had planned it all along. The attack began when the Japanese soldiers all turned their backs to the street and fled towards the prison. This first surprise attack caught the Japanese completely off guard, resulting in heavy casualties.

Subsequently, multiple explosions occurred in the Japanese military camp, and several fires simultaneously emitted thick smoke and flames. The remaining Japanese soldiers shouted everywhere, "The guerrillas are coming!" causing widespread panic and confusion.

In reality, this was all the work of the Razor Society. Those who were shouting nonsense and trying to mislead the Japanese were all imposters.

In an instant, the river overflowed, and the sinister underground laboratory quickly turned into a swamp. Using the current and his superb diving skills, Zhou Hongyi quickly surfaced through another passage.

After he climbed out of the river, a car was parked not far away. Zhou Hongyi took off his tattered prison uniform and got into the car. Manyu immediately draped a thick cloak over him. In the passenger seat, Zhou Pan'er asked worriedly, "Zhongliang, how are you? Are you badly injured?"

Zhou Hongyi chuckled and said, "This injury is nothing. Driving and getting the message out as quickly as possible is the important thing. Let them be in chaos over there for now."

"Hehe, okay, bro."

The person driving was none other than Fu Sheng, who was grinning foolishly. This guy had somehow become a skilled driver, carrying Zhou Hongyi and two women, speeding towards the edge of Shanghai.

The sudden explosion shocked the Japanese garrison in Shanghai. Kondo, the head of the Special Higher Police, vomited three liters of blood on the spot and collapsed to the ground.

However, few people knew about the defense plan itself, and since Taira no Kotaro had been blown to bits, no one remembered that this matter existed.

After Zhou Hongyi sent out the message, Xia Guo's main force launched a targeted attack on several of the Japanese's defensive positions, destroying their pre-prepared biological weapons in one fell swoop. This perfectly thwarted their sinister poison plan and turned the tide of the battle on the front line of the War of Resistance against Japan.

After the failure of this plan, the Japanese military suffered a series of defeats at the front. Shortly afterward, they withdrew Kondo, the head of the Special Higher Police. Since the incident, he had fallen seriously ill, coughing up blood daily, his body unable to withstand the high-intensity workload. However, on the eve of this notorious Special Higher Police head's return to Japan, the car he was traveling in suffered brake failure and plunged into the Huangpu River, never to be retrieved, becoming an unsolved mystery.

With the arrival of the newly appointed head of the Special Higher Police in Shanghai, the Japanese army began a new round of deployments. Former warden of the Grand Prison, Kojiro Fuma, was appointed as the head of the underground intelligence department, responsible for arresting underground members of the Kuomintang and the Red Army.

After Kojiro Fuuma's inauguration ceremony, he sat alone in his office. A very strange smile appeared on his face. After a while, his cheeks, nose, and entire face slowly changed, and he transformed into Zhou Hongyi, the former director of the Jing'an Second Branch Police Station, who had died in the prison explosion.