Spy Wars: Get the Predator equipment at the beginning

Chapter 948 Disappeared into thin air again

"What?!" Matsui's expression changed drastically. If it were just a military police station that had been razed to the ground, he wouldn't have even batted an eye.

Even if the Special Higher Police has become like this, he doesn't feel sorry for them, because as a soldier, he already harbors discrimination and prejudice against the Special Higher Police.

Even with the death of Military Police Commander Sato and the disappearance of an entire warehouse of munitions and supplies, he didn't realize how serious the situation was. After all, Sato wasn't the only colonel-level officer to die, and the warehouse had been robbed more than once or twice. The Military Police Headquarters alone had been robbed twice, and the investigations had been ongoing for a long time without any results.

But if an entire artillery battalion is wiped out, the situation changes completely.

"Let's go!" Matsui immediately turned and left, and the officers accompanying him followed.

As Matsui walked briskly, he ordered his adjutant, "Go and call the 13th Army headquarters to confirm whether that artillery battalion is in Shanghai!"

"Hayi!"

Watching Matsui and his group quickly disappear into the distance, Lieutenant Colonel Inukai muttered to himself, "It's all a mess, a complete mess!"

On his way to the wasteland where the artillery battalion had been killed, Matsui involuntarily recalled the image of Sato hanging himself from his office window. Then, images of two other high-ranking officers hanging themselves flashed through his mind. These were from several years ago, and the top-secret files in his safe at home still contained records of these cases. There were several other similar unbelievable cases as well.

These cases, with their remarkably similar scenes, almost all involved suicides by hanging, with no signs of homicide. However, according to the investigations, none of these individuals had encountered anyone or anything that could have driven them to suicide before their deaths.

Sato's death tonight is almost identical to the suicides of several other high-ranking military officers.

There was also the theft of the military police headquarters warehouse. The warehouse was so large that it would have taken dozens of trucks to move all the weapons and supplies. Moving such a large amount of weapons and supplies at once would have caused quite a stir.

Either this was a group theft within the military police headquarters, with everyone colluding; or it was like several other major warehouse thefts in the past, where the weapons and supplies simply vanished into thin air.

If they simply vanished into thin air, Matsui felt it was too eerie. What kind of being could have such power? And for an unknown being with such power, killing them would be as easy as blowing a breath. Why did they only take away the weapons and supplies?

Matsui couldn't figure it out, so he decided to go home and study those top-secret files again, hoping to find some clues or hints.

When Matsui and his group rushed to the wasteland where the artillery battalion had been injured, it was already dawn.

Matsui didn't sleep a wink all night; it was really too much for someone his age.

The convoy stopped at the edge of the wasteland, and Matsui and the others got out of the car. Many police officers in black uniforms were already standing around, and the crime scene was cordoned off.

"Commander Matsui!" A police chief hurried up to greet him.

Matsui looked up and said, "Chief He, it's you again?"

He Dayou said with a wry smile, "I had just returned to the police station after leaving the military police headquarters and hadn't even had a chance to catch my breath when I received the report, so I had to bring my men over here!"

Matsui nodded, and as he walked towards the corpses scattered on the ground, he said, "Tell me what happened!"

"Ha Yi," He Dayou agreed and immediately explained the case: "The first to discover the bodies were several local vegetable farmers. They had to get up very early every day to pick vegetables and then transport them to the city market to sell. When they were pushing their wheelbarrows past here, they discovered the corpses all over the place. They were so frightened that they abandoned their wheelbarrows and the vegetables they had just picked, throwing them down and running away while shouting 'People are dead! People are dead!'"

"It was the local village chief, Huang Youren, who reported the case. The nearby police station was the first to send people to the scene, conduct a preliminary investigation, and set up a cordon!"

"After we arrived, we re-examined the identities of these bodies and found soldier name tags and officer identification on them. They belonged to an artillery battalion of the 13th Army! You see, this is the identification of the highest-ranking officer in this artillery battalion, a major."

Matsui took the officer's ID and opened it. "Major Nagashima Shigo?"

"Yes!"

At that moment, Matsui's adjutant ran up breathlessly and stood at attention, saying, "Reporting, Commander, I made a phone call to the 13th Army headquarters..."

"Why did you stop talking?" Matsui asked his adjutant, puzzled.

The adjutant hesitated when he saw that He Dayou, an outsider, was present.

Matsui waved his hand: "Chief He is in charge of this case. There's nothing you need to hide from him. Just tell me!"

"Hai!" The adjutant stood at attention and immediately continued, "I've already spoken with Commander Sawada's adjutant, and he's confirmed with Commander Sawada that the artillery battalion of the 33rd Brigade has remained here. The battalion commander, Nagashima Shigo, has been ordered to stay and assist Special Higher Police Chief Sakata Tadayoshi in a top-secret operation!"

Matsui's heart sank even further after hearing this, as if a heavy stone was pressing on his chest. He said, "There's no surprise. These dead men are from that artillery battalion."

"Chief He, how many bodies have been found here in total?"

He Dayou replied, "There were a total of 349 bodies. Some died from cold weapons, and some died from gunshots. Whether they died from cold weapons or gunshots, they were all killed instantly. The cause of death was either a pierced heart or a bullet to the head!"

"In addition, we visited and questioned residents living within a mile away overnight. Almost all the residents we asked said they did not hear any gunshots; they only heard the sound of artillery shelling earlier!"

"Based on preliminary assessment, the wounds on the soldiers and officers who died from melee weapons were likely caused by the same sharp blade. The killer's methods cannot be described as merely skillful or proficient; they are unparalleled! The soldiers and officers who died from gunshot wounds were likely fired from the same pistol."

"I really can't understand it. If there was more than one killer, how could their methods of killing be so consistent? This means there was only one or two killers. But if there was only one or two people, one using a melee weapon and the other using a pistol, how could they kill 349 people with just the two of them?"

He Dayou's analysis left the room in a deathly silence; it was too shocking, too terrifying.

After a full two minutes, Matsui asked, "This artillery battalion should have 20 cannons, a large number of trucks, and about 500 mules and horses. Where are these cannons and the traction and transport vehicles?"

He Dayou spread his hands: "They're gone. We only found the tire tracks and hoofprints of the trucks, cannons, and mules when they came, but not the tire tracks and hoofprints when they left. It's as if these things vanished into thin air!"

It's happening again. The munitions and supplies in the military police headquarters warehouse seem to have vanished into thin air. What's going on?

How could so many supplies have vanished into thin air? Who could have caused this? Could it be related to that ghost again?