Chapter 158 Understatement
"I already know about this. The Japanese spy was brutal and fearless. It's a pity that we couldn't capture him alive, but it's not a big deal. Why did the operation fail yesterday?"
As expected, the Director didn't blame him. He Nian took the opportunity to say, "Chu Lingyun's plan was originally very good. We intercepted the Japanese spies who wanted to hide in the countryside at a checkpoint. That checkpoint was far away from the city, and Chu Lingyun brought more than 20 people to ensure the success of the operation. But the police at the checkpoint ruined it. Not only did they not help, but they exposed our purpose, which ultimately led to the failure of the operation."
"The quality of the police force is getting worse and worse. They are a bunch of people who are more likely to cause trouble than to help."
The director snorted coldly, and Henian immediately responded, "You're absolutely right. These policemen deserve to die. I've asked Chu Lingyun to investigate them and deal with them after finding evidence."
"What are you investigating? No need to investigate. If anyone disrupts our operation, it's a capital offense. Just kill them."
The director glared at Henian, who was slightly startled and quickly obeyed the order: "Yes, Director, I will execute them personally."
Henian left the office with a chill on his back.
He thought he knew Virgo very well, but it was not enough. He simply ruined their actions. No other reasons were needed. With just a few casual words, he took away six lives.
He had no sympathy for these policemen. He wanted to punish them, but Chu Zuo's ruthless methods left him with lingering fears.
If Secretary Qi had not helped him come up with an idea and asked Chu Lingyun to work for him, once he completely disappointed the director, the result would probably be no better than those policemen.
Chu Lingyun was not at the office, he went to the monitoring point of Loach.
Zhang Bai is dead, and he has to find his subordinates by himself. The most important thing right now is to find all of Zhang Bai's subordinates.
"How's the situation?"
Chu Lingyun asked Xiang Niuqiu, and the people who scattered the newspapers would report to him regularly how many of Zhang Bai's old customers had bought that newspaper.
Every time one is discovered, Loach will record the list, and all the names recorded will be the focus of the next investigation.
"Team Leader, besides Ma Jingyuan and Gu Cheng, whose identities have been confirmed, there are eleven other people who have purchased News Daily."
"Let me see the list." After Chu Lingyun said that, Loach handed him the list.
Eleven is a lot, but compared to Zhang Bai’s more than two hundred old customers, it is much less.
This morning is the most critical day. Since Zhang Bai is using newspapers to convey urgent messages to his subordinates, his subordinates will definitely buy this newspaper every day.
Ma Jingyuan and Gu Cheng bought the newspaper without any surprise.
There are eleven people plus the two known people, a total of thirteen people. Some people did not buy the newspaper or were not found out. The maximum number of people found out is twenty.
There won't be more. First of all, it's time. Now half of the morning has passed, and many people who should buy newspapers have already done so.
Secondly, Zhang Bai would not have so many subordinates. If an intelligence team has so many people, it is not an intelligence team, but an intelligence station.
Japanese spy intelligence teams have always been streamlined, and too many people are not conducive to the development of intelligence work.
Chu Lingyun will investigate and identify who among these people are offline and who are ordinary people.
According to the current information, the eleven people were between twenty-five and fifty years old, and came from all walks of life, including teachers, telephone employees, restaurant owners, tailors, chefs, and an actor in a theater.
Before any identification, everyone is a suspect, and Chu Lingyun will not give up the investigation just because of his profession.
After carefully reviewing the list, Chu Lingyun instructed, "Start investigating these people this afternoon. Investigate everything about them, past and present."
"Yes, Team Leader."
It was just checking people, and Loach was familiar with the process. He had checked many people and had rich experience.
When they were in Wuhan, they had investigated many Japanese spies. These latent Japanese spies had many common characteristics. Chu Lingyun had summarized the experience for them long ago, so it was not difficult to conduct this kind of investigation.
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In Jingyuan Bookstore, Ma Jingyuan is sitting at the counter reading a book.
There was a copy of the "News Daily" next to him. He saw the missing person notice issued by Zhang Bai and realized that Zhang Bai had left Deyuanchi and was hiding in the countryside.
There was a strong sense of worry between his brows.
What he was worried about was not Zhang Bai, but his brother, Kawamoto Xiangta.
My brother has been missing for so long, where did he go?
There are trains, ships, and horse-drawn carriages from Nanjing to Shanghai, but my brother only chooses the train. Relatively speaking, the train is much faster than the ship and safer than the carriage. After all, there is chaos and bandits everywhere.
Could it be that my brother was really captured by China’s intelligence agencies?
Then he shook his head. In his eyes, his brother was the most powerful person. He had just arrived in Nanjing and had not carried out any mission. How could he be discovered by those incompetent Chinese?
Suddenly, he remembered something.
When his brother came to see him before, he told him that his apprentice Chishima Keiko was arrested while on a mission in Wuhan. The person who arrested her was Chu Lingyun, from the Military Intelligence Department, and this person had been transferred to Nanjing.
His purpose of coming to Nanjing was to see if he could find an opportunity to kill this man and avenge Huizi.
Could it be that my brother didn't go directly to Shanghai before, but instead went to seek revenge on Chu Lingyun, but failed and hid, or was caught?
The more I think about it, the more likely this is.
Although his brother was very serious about his work and would carry out a mission without hesitation, he was also extremely confident. Perhaps he thought that killing one person would not take too long and that it would not be too late to go to Shanghai after the killing. So he went to seek revenge in Nanjing first and then to carry out the mission.
Thinking of this, he finally couldn't sit still anymore, so he went back to the room, found the pistol, and hid it on his body.
"Xiao Li, I'm going to go out for a while. You look after the bookstore."
After giving an instruction to Xiao Li in the store, Ma Jingyuan left the bookstore. The person who was monitoring him immediately noticed his movements and reported the news to Loach.
Chu Lingyun was at Loach and was the first to receive the news of Ma Jingyuan's departure.
"Team leader, is Ma Jingyuan going to run away?"
Loach asked carefully. Ma Jingyuan is usually in the bookstore at this time and basically never goes out. His behavior today is a bit abnormal.
"Ask him what he did before he went out and what he took with him when he went out."
Chu Lingyun also had doubts, but in order to understand the other party's true intentions, he needed more information to make a judgment.
The news came back quickly. Ma Jingyuan had been in the room before he went out. He didn't take anything with him when he went out, and he asked for a rickshaw when he went out. It is still not certain where he is going. The brothers who are monitoring him are taking turns to follow him.
Nothing brought?
Chu Lingyun felt a little relieved. He didn't look like he was going to run away. If he knew he was exposed, he would definitely not choose to run away so brazenly in the daytime.
"Keep monitoring, be careful not to lose him, and arrest him immediately if he tries to leave the city."
Chu Lingyun was very careful. Even though he judged that Ma Jingyuan was not going to run away, he still issued an order to arrest him at any time.
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