Chapter 101 Small Doubts
The four of them were riding in the first-class compartment, which was very spacious and comfortable. The people sitting inside were either rich or noble, and even if they spoke, their voices were not loud.
Such an environment allows Chu Lingyun to look through the files with peace of mind.
The first case Chu Lingyun saw was a case where they went to catch a Japanese spy but didn't even know that the spy had escaped.
This case made Virgo furious, but the process was not complicated.
The intelligence department of the headquarters is much stronger than that of the Wuhan station and has certain capabilities. They discovered two suspicious persons in the net they cast outside.
These two people have legitimate identities, but they often go in and out of a newspaper office run by Japanese.
The intelligence department made inquiries from various sources, tracked and monitored them, and finally determined that the true identities of these two people were Japanese and they were real Japanese spies.
At this point, we can continue to monitor and also close the net to arrest people.
Xu Yi, the head of the Intelligence Department, was a bit greedy. He continued tracking for a while and finally decided to take action after confirming that there was nothing else to gain. The operation was carried out by a group from the Operations Department. The entire group went out, but ended up with nothing.
Afterwards, Xu Yi shirked responsibility and accused the Operations Department of leaking the information. He Nian naturally disagreed and instead said that it was their Intelligence Department that had the loophole. The two sides blamed each other, which made the director very annoyed.
It is unclear from the files whether the mistake was made by the Intelligence Department or the Operations Department, but the two Japanese spies did escape, and they escaped under heavy surveillance. Afterwards, the Operations Department carefully searched the residences of the two Japanese spies but did not find any tunnels.
It's very strange that two living people just disappeared like that.
Chu Lingyun carefully read the case three times before opening another file.
This file contains the incident in which a Japanese spy was killed. At that time, Xu Yi made a military order to the director, promising to catch the Japanese spy. After that, the entire intelligence department was mobilized and finally locked in another Japanese spy suspect.
But when the action took place, the other side was well prepared. Liu Wannian, the leader of the second action group, had no choice but to order a violent attack, which eventually killed the Japanese spy, but two of his own brothers were also killed.
This case made the director even more angry. It was after this case that He Nian had no choice but to invite Secretary Qi for a drink, and then he decided to recruit Chu Lingyun to the headquarters.
Chu Lingyun was not aware of what happened next, but after reading the case file twice, Chu Lingyun immediately opened the Japanese spy case and quickly turned to one of the pages.
"At 6:00 PM on April 29th, Operations Team 2 received three smoke bombs, ten grenades, and six rifles."
In the missing Japanese spy case, the operation was scheduled for the next morning when the two men went out, and the operations department withdrew some weapons and equipment in advance.
Everyone usually carries a pistol, and what needs to be withdrawn is something that can be used temporarily during an operation.
In the case of killing a Japanese spy, there is a similar description, but the time is different.
"At noon on May 12th, Operations Team 1 will receive two smoke bombs, six grenades, and four rifles."
Just looking at these two descriptions, there is no problem. What Chu Lingyun cares about is the time. The operation time of the killing of the Japanese spy case was 3 pm, and the equipment was temporarily withdrawn. The missing Japanese spy case was a day earlier.
After receiving the equipment a day in advance, the Japanese spy disappeared. After receiving the equipment temporarily, the Japanese spy discovered their intention. Is there any connection between the two?
Chu Lingyun never believed in coincidences. The more coincidental something was, the more detailed the investigation would be.
Continuing to look through, in the case of arresting a traitor, equipment was also received in advance, but there was no accident this time. The traitor was successfully arrested, but arresting only one traitor obviously could not satisfy the director.
The Japanese spies confessed by the traitors had long since disappeared without a trace.
Chu Lingyun put down the file, leaned back in the chair, and closed his eyes to think.
The Equipment Department is a department of the headquarters, unlike Wuhan Station, where the Equipment Department and the General Affairs Department are merged together.
Chu Lingyun could understand this. After all, the headquarters was very large and the equipment department had a lot of money. After being separated from the general affairs department, more and better manpower could be allocated.
But what if someone in the Equipment Department collaborates with the enemy?
When the Operations Department receives the equipment, the people in the Equipment Department must know that there is an operation. If there is an enemy spy in the Equipment Department and he has discovered the target of the operation, they can notify the Japanese spies in advance and let them move quickly.
In this way, the cases of missing and killed Japanese spies all have reasonable explanations.
In the case of the missing Japanese spy, the traitor received his equipment one day in advance, so he had enough time to notify people. However, in the case of the killed Japanese spy, due to time constraints, the Japanese spy was unable to evacuate safely and ultimately had no choice but to resist stubbornly.
As for the third one, he is a traitor himself, so perhaps they don't need to take the risk of notifying him and can just arrest him.
After all, every time you notify someone, the risk increases by one level.
This possibility is not impossible. Chu Lingyun knows as much about Japanese spies as the people at headquarters, and he is well aware of their cunning.
The Wuhan station was established not long ago, and Gao Yi appeared there, while the headquarters had been established for some time, and this was Nanjing. Chu Lingyun absolutely did not believe that the Japanese spies had not placed undercover personnel at the headquarters.
Perhaps in these two cases, neither the Intelligence Department nor the Operations Department made any mistakes, but they ultimately failed because of the betrayal of a traitor.
This was just Chu Lingyun's own idea, and there was no evidence at all, it was pure speculation. Furthermore, since it involved a traitor, he had to be cautious and could not point the finger at anyone without any evidence, otherwise he would cause endless trouble.
But this was indeed a small doubt that Chu Lingyun found after looking through the files.
However, there was one point that Chu Lingyun had not thought clearly about. If there really was a traitor in the Equipment Department, how did he know the specific target of the operation?
The intelligence department is different from other departments. Matters related to intelligence and operations need to be kept strictly confidential.
If he didn't know the target of the operation, no matter how he notified them, it would be useless. Chu Lingyun believed that there must be many Japanese spies lurking in Nanjing. After all, this was the capital, different from Wuhan.
The Japanese spies in Wuhan had been lurking for relatively short periods of time, but it was different in Nanjing. Chu Lingyun would not be surprised if someone said there were Japanese spies lurking here for more than ten years.
It is impossible for the Japanese spies to evacuate everyone just because of a little disturbance. If they did that, they would have nothing to do. Everyone would have run away, so what would they do?
Closing his eyes to rest, Chu Lingyun continued to think from another perspective.
If he is the traitor in the Equipment Department, how can he find out the specific target of the operation?
First, Chu Lingyun excluded the members involved in the operation. If there were traitors or accomplices among them, the Japanese spies would know the news in advance without waiting until the end and make proper arrangements.
In this way, there will be no casualties in the end. For the Japanese spies, these hidden agents are even more precious, and they are unwilling to lose any of them.
Apart from them, who else could know the specific objectives of the action?
The higher-ups at headquarters must know about this, such as Chu Zuo, Xu Yi, and He Nian, but they are unlikely to leak any secrets. If even they cannot be trusted, then no one at headquarters can be trusted.
According to his guess, he had to find someone who was not of a high rank but had access to this confidential information.
Chu Lingyun suddenly opened his eyes and thought of a department, the Confidential Department.
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