Spy Wars: I am the Captain of the Military Police

Chapter 1145 is almost a tacit admission

Xu Tian raised his eyes and looked at Shen Suqiu, his gaze still calm, with a hint of inquisitive curiosity, as if it were just a casual chat between siblings: "Suqiu, you know him, don't you? At least, you like reading his articles, right?"

Shen Suqiu's heart was pounding wildly in her chest, almost as if it would burst out of her ribs.

Cold sweat soaked her underwear again.

How much did my cousin actually know?

He was using this information he had "accidentally" overheard to test her step by step.

Or did you just happen to hear or see it, and are asking out of concern at this moment?

Should she admit to having "seen a little," deny it outright, or remain vague?

The immense pressure made it almost impossible for her to think. Instinctively, she chose the seemingly safest and most vague answer, trying to limit the matter to the scope of "ordinary student reading."

“I…I’ve read a little bit,” she said softly, her eyes darting around. “His articles weren’t just circulating in Shanghai. I used to read them privately among my classmates in the school library…no, I thought they were quite interesting.”

She used the neutral word "interesting" in an attempt to downplay its political connotations.

“That’s interesting…” Xu Tian nodded, as if accepting her statement. His expression even seemed to understand, as if to say, “It’s normal for young people to like reading radical articles.”

This reaction eased Shen Suqiu's tense nerves a little.

However, Xu Tian's next words were like a bolt of lightning that tore through the night sky without warning, instantly shattering Shen Suqiu's self-righteous "safe zone" and making her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave!

"Then," Xu Tian's tone remained unchanged, still calm, even with a hint of thoughtful recollection, "when you were delirious with fever, besides repeatedly calling his name, it seems... you also said some other fragmented things."

"Wh...what did you say?" Shen Suqiu's voice was already trembling, filled with a fear she could hear herself. She felt dizzy, and an ominous premonition, like cold vines, coiled around her heart.

Xu Tian spoke slowly, word by word, his gaze still calm as he looked at her, but beneath that calmness seemed to lie a sharp light that could see through all secrets.

"You said... a single spark... can surely start a prairie fire..."

Xu Tian paused noticeably and deliberately, his brows furrowing slightly as if trying to discern the vague syllables in his memory: "You spoke the last few words too quickly and unclearly, I didn't hear them clearly, it sounded like 'red flag'?"

"Red Flag!" "A Single Spark"! These two words, combined, are so clearly targeted as to be almost terrifying! These are definitely not words from an ordinary article!

This is a slogan! This is a belief! This is a taboo that must never be spoken aloud!

Shen Suqiu's mind went blank for a moment with a loud "buzz".

The blood seemed to rush to the top of my head instantly, only to freeze into ice in the next second.

She felt dizzy, as if the walls were pressing in on her.

Xu Tian wasn't finished speaking. As if oblivious to Shen Suqiu's sudden, distraught, and swaying state, he continued in his calm, reminiscent tone:

"You also said, comrade... persevere... Kyoto... Kyoto's cherry blossoms..." When Xu Tian read out "Kyoto's cherry blossoms," his tone even carried a perfectly appropriate hint of curiosity and incomprehension, typical of an ordinary citizen.

"Is this also part of that article? It sounds a bit strange. I'd like to see what it says."

"Kyoto's cherry blossoms!"

If "Red Flag" and "Comrade" were thunderclaps, then "Kyoto Cherry Blossoms" were the last straw that broke the camel's back, a precisely dropped bomb that was enough to detonate everything!

This is no longer a general term that might appear in other radical texts; it is an extremely specific and highly targeted suggestion!

Her ramblings were linked to a person of special status from Kyoto, Japan!

Moreover, her cousin added, "I also want to see," attributing his "discovery" entirely to curiosity about the "content of the article," thus disclaiming his own intentions and pushing Shen Suqiu to the brink of disaster.

She must explain why, while in a coma, she uttered such a combination of words that clearly carried special political and regional connotations!

Xu Tian laughed again, because the breathing at the door had become even heavier.

"No! Cousin! You misheard!!" Shen Suqiu suddenly sprang away from the wall, stood up, and completely lost control of her emotions. Her voice involuntarily rose, sharp and trembling, echoing in the small cell: "I was talking nonsense! I was delirious with fever!"

She was burned beyond recognition!! How could I possibly say those things!! She shook her head frantically: “I don’t know anyone from Kyoto at all!”

I'm just an ordinary student! Cousin! Were you so frightened by how sick I was those few days that you started hallucinating?!

Yes! It must be a hallucination!!

Her words were incoherent, and her vehement denial seemed more like a cover-up.

His body was trembling violently, his face was ashen, his eyes were unfocused, and he was on the verge of collapse.

Seeing his cousin's flustered state, her eagerness to deny it, and even her accusations that he was "hallucinating," Xu Tian's last bit of doubt vanished.

He was originally just speculating and probing based on various unusual signs.

It was illogical that my cousin was able to be admitted to a heavily guarded Japanese military police hospital to "recover" after being injured in Tianjin.

After arriving in Shanghai, she quickly became close friends with a group of "classmates" and "friends" with unclear backgrounds. They frequently held secret gatherings, going out and chatting for hours on end. When they returned home, their eyes shone with a tired yet excited light, yet they remained tight-lipped about their whereabouts and the content of their conversations.

These details, like scattered beads, were silently etched into his heart.

He did hear some fragmented words from his cousin's delirium while she was unconscious.

Words like "red flag" and "comrade" came out of her mouth vaguely once or twice when she was extremely feverish and delirious, but never as specifically or coherently as he had just described.

"The cherry blossoms of Kyoto" was an impromptu and bold attempt on his part.

This probing stemmed from the subtle Kyoto accent in Itai Yudai's speech today, which differed from standard Japanese, and from the extremely complex rescue behavior of this Japanese military police officer, which contradicted his rough appearance.

Xu Tian connected this detail with his cousin's possible secret activities, weaving it into a highly impactful and seductive "dreaming".

As a result, Shen Suqiu's reaction was too intense, and also too... an attempt to cover up the truth.

Instead of calmly denying "I didn't say those things," she emotionally broke down and accused her cousin of "mishearing" and "hallucinations."

This reaction is almost a tacit admission...