Chapter 29 (1/2)
Chapter 29: A Thousand Times Over
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Yin shi+xiong had attached an exceptionally fine needle to the tip of his oil-paper umbrella
The refined needle was hollow, and contained a deadly poison specially developed by the I into the swing of things now Just as he was at his ainst his calf; it was barely perceptible, lighter than a mosquito bite He did not stop to think about it His short, stuure continued to twirl and dance around the cherry tree
Yin shi+xiong laughed and, following the exaave a feirls himself At the same time, he nosed his way out of the croith the umbrella, and made for the main street
He could see that there were several Secret Service personnel around Oda Masao, surreptitiously watching over him
However, everyone present was entranced by the beauty of the falling cherry blossoms And besides, Oda Masao had successfully hid his true identity for many, many years, and had never attracted any kind of trouble The Secret Service personnel could not be bla that Oda Masao had already fallen victie streams of people ebbed and flowed fro quickly blended into the crowd leaving the garden grounds, and made a beeline for Tokyo Iroup with Huo Shaoheng there
By this ti had already returned to Oda Masao’s laboratory and gri but ashes For the coup de grace, he installed an incendiary time bomb in the lab, one that would soon start a rew even more solemn as he watched all this over the surveillance camera He silently erased the video, then decided to be even h: he uploaded a computer virus to Tokyo Imperial University Hospital’s intranet
The virus would lie in wait on the network; it would only spread through the intranet, wiping all confidential data along the hen the network ad was up and launched their contingencyarrived at Tokyo I had just coh the front doors
The two ot into a taxi, one after the other, and sped towards Tokyo International Airport
Zhao Liangze, as in charge of logistics at the airport, was already on the phone with the Empire’s civil aviation airline
As they would be flying on one of the Empire’s civilian aircraft, they were allowed to bypassthe plane It was their privilege as citizens of the E arrived at the airport, Zhao Liangze iistered Huo Shaoheng’s backpack as check-in luggage This was how they were going to get the test tube sa and his co gate They did not have a lot of luggage with theh airport security, the three of theeway
“This way, please” An attendant stood politely at the entrance to the cabin, siven a private room in First Class, away froers
The plane quickly took off and did a half-circle above Tokyo before flying towards the Empire’s International Airport, in C City
The plane had just entered the Empire’s airspace, when, over in japan, a sudden, thunderous booly ordinary laboratory inside Tokyo Imperial University Hospital This was accoht fro inside exploded into smithereens Theto a crisp, leaving nothing behind
The laboratory staff had been in too much of a panic to put out the fire
Just half an hour before, their mentor, Oda Masao, the japanese Colonel whose identity had been top-secret, had suddenly suffered a heart attack while ad the cherry blossoms He died on the way to the hospital
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Huo Shaoheng closed his eyes and settled into his luxurious chair in First Class He tried to catch a feinks, his arze was zealouslythe news on the japanese intranet
Soon enough, the explosion and fire at Tokyo Ie of Asahi shi+mbun, the japanese news site News of the laboratory fire was acco of a heart attack in theHis sudden death had presuze raised his hand and snapped his fingers He turned to Huo Shaoheng, whose eyes were still closed, and said, s opened his eyes and looked sideways at hize quickly pushed his tablet over, positioning it right under Huo Shaoheng’s eyes “Have a look for yourself…”
Huo Shaoheng lowered his gaze and watched the headline scroll by on the website His face was stony and impassive He closed his eyes and tried to sleep
Oda Masao had been a truly despicable man; he had deserved his death, a thousand times over But what about Gu Nianzhi? Would Oda Masao’s death bring about negative consequences for her?
Chen Lie would be able to develop a vaccine with the documents and research data they had obtained And if that wasn’t enough, Huo Shaoheng would soon be back at the inal virus strain