The Japanese Navy has never stopped searching for the crashed airliner. More than 20 hours have passed, and after carefully searching a large area of sea near the crash site, they finally found some pieces of wreckage and several bodies floating in the sea.
Most thankfully, they finally found the only survivor, the Japanese pilot, on a piece of wood floating at sea.
After emergency treatment, the pilot recovered. Upon questioning, it was learned that after Xu Yongchang's assassination attempt, the agents in the cabin were in complete chaos. Several were overcome by the thick smoke, and others were forced to jump out of the cabin by the fire. However, they did not know how to use parachutes and fell into the sea from high altitude, where they were instantly killed. Only the Japanese pilot, who had received training, managed to escape using a parachute. Fortunately, he was from a fisherman's family and found a plank at sea, which allowed him to survive. A Japanese naval warship arrived in time and rescued him.
As for the passenger plane, it also crashed into the sea. The plane was smashed to pieces by the violent impact, and naturally, no one on board survived.
The Navy returned the seven bodies they had found, along with the surviving pilot, to Qingdao and handed them over to the Qingdao Special Higher Police.
Since the victims were all subordinates of the Kagesa Agency, the case was naturally handled by the Kagesa Agency. After receiving the report, Kagesa Hiroki personally went to the North China Special Higher Police's headquarters during the lunch break to learn about the case.
Kagesa Hiroki led his men directly to the Special Higher Police morgue to examine the seven bodies they had recovered. He needed to confirm the fate of Wang Hanmin and Fu Shengyuan as soon as possible.
Liaison Officer Hasebe, who had just arrived from the hospital, gave Kagesa Hiroki a detailed report.
"Chief, I have questioned the passenger plane pilot Kawamoto in detail, but he doesn't know the specifics very well either. However, based on his description, we have pieced together part of the truth."
First, it was determined that the plane crash was not an accident, but a premeditated assassination. Kawamoto heard several gunshots in the cockpit before opening the cockpit door to check. He found that the cabin was engulfed in flames, and the fire was very large. He judged that the plane could not be sustained, so he slowed down the flight speed and lowered the altitude to allow the passengers to escape on their own. However, he then heard a series of gunshots. At that time, Kawamoto did not witness the assassination. Later, some passengers jumped out of the plane, and he jumped out as well. However, according to him, there was almost no chance of survival for these people.
It is understood that besides Kawamoto, there were fourteen other people on board the plane, but the Navy only found seven bodies, all of which drifted into the nearby sea and were subsequently recovered.
After hearing the report, Kageyama Hiroki waved his hand and ordered, "Confirm the body first!"
Upon hearing Kagesa Hiroki's instructions, a morgue worker led them to a row of corpses covered with white sheets.
Kagesa Hiroki reached out and lifted a white sheet. He glanced at it, frowned, and asked in surprise, "How could this be?"
It turned out that the body had been severely burned by the fire, with a large hole burned in its chest.
Major Yokota, who was in charge of accompanying the group, said, "Our forensic doctor has examined the bodies and found that two of them were burned very thoroughly, especially the bones inside the body, which were partially burned. Normal burns do not reach this extent. This situation is very abnormal. We judge that they were burned alive by phosphorus powder."
"Phosphorus powder?"
Kagesa Hiroki's eyes narrowed, and he asked again, "Can you confirm?"
Major Yokota nodded and said, "It can be confirmed. Our initial assessment is that it is yellow phosphorus. The Navy also found several pieces of aircraft wreckage at the same time. Here are the photos from that time!"
After saying that, Major Yokota took out a stack of photos from his briefcase and handed them to Hiroki Kagesa.
Kagesa Yuuki took the photo, unfolded it, and examined it carefully. He couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Burned like this?"
Apart from some aluminum shells, there is almost nothing left of the aircraft wreckage in the photo; it is not recognizable as aircraft parts unless you look closely.
Major Yokota continued, "We found that the aluminum shell of the aircraft was also severely damaged. Judging from these photos, there are even signs of melting. The combustion temperature at this level must be extremely high, which is consistent with our previous guess that accelerants such as phosphorus powder were used. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain!"
Upon hearing this, Kageyama Hiroki said slowly, "So, these people secretly put yellow phosphorus on the plane and used its spontaneous combustion properties to ignite the fire. But since they designed such a trap that could have caused the plane to crash and everyone on board to die, how could there have been gunshots? Did the assassins not get off the plane after setting the trap, but instead boarded the plane with Wang Hanmin and continued the assassination on board?"
But even he himself couldn't convince himself of his own guess: how could the person who planted the yellow phosphorus be willing to sacrifice himself if he knew that boarding this plane meant embarking on a path to death?
Hasebe, standing nearby, also said with a puzzled look, "This really doesn't make sense. Logically, after setting up the traps, they should have left quickly, unless he had special circumstances that prevented him from leaving, or he was unsure whether the operation would succeed, so he simply boarded the plane himself and carried out the assassination at the last moment to ensure its success!"
His words made everyone in the room gasp. If the situation was really as Hasebe guessed, such an assassin was truly terrifying, completely disregarding personal life and only caring about the success of the assassination. He was a death knell!
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