Li Guangzhi found himself being followed on the second day of his tour.

On the morning of the first day, the first place Li Guangzhi went to was the elementary school he had attended in his previous life. Although it was during the winter break, he was not able to enter the campus. However, in the commissary outside the school gate, he had an unexpected gain.

A product on the counter of the commissary triggered a memory that he had forgotten in his previous life, and he suddenly thought of an idea to start a business. And, based on the memories of his previous life, he was convinced that this was definitely an idea that could make a lot of money.

Therefore, he was in the excitement of this day, and he didn't pay too much attention to the situation around him at all, nor did he find that he had been followed.

However, when he went out the next morning, two men in leather jackets also walked out of the opposite room at the same time, and followed him all the way down the elevator stairs. This scene, which seemed to have happened in the previous day, made him feel strange, but also a little vigilant.

And in the following day, when he saw the familiar figures of these two leather jacket men on different occasions several times in a row, no matter how absent-minded he was, he began to realize that something was wrong.

In the early 90s, the public security in China was not very good, and Li Guangzhi thought that he had accidentally exposed his wealth and attracted the covetousness of criminals. Therefore, after he returned to the hotel that afternoon, he hurriedly called the front desk and asked the hotel to help him call the police.

Half an hour after the call, the hotel's room manager led two police officers in olive green uniforms up and knocked on the door. The two policemen claimed to be from the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Jianghan City Public Security Bureau, and after a few cursory inquiries. On the grounds that Li Guangzhi was a foreigner, he asked him to go to the city bureau to make a detailed record.

After checking the documents of the two people, Li Guangzhi followed them in a police car to the office building of the Jianghan City Public Security Bureau. Once inside the building, the two policemen took him to a small separate office on the third floor, told him to wait there, saying that someone would take notes for him, and then they closed the door and left.

After Li Guangzhi sat for nearly half an hour, he didn't wait for anyone to come in. Feeling a little impatient, he got up and walked to the door, intending to open the door and go out to ask someone. However, what he didn't expect was this. The door was locked from the outside. He can't even open it inside!

Such a situation made Li Guangzhi feel surprised, but also faintly began to feel a little uneasy.

In his impression, the domestic police in this era did not seem to be very strict in terms of system management. And his own identity. Another single foreign tourist with a lot of money. It's hard to do it. I was targeted by a black policeman, and I got myself here because I was going to knock on a bamboo bar?

However, he quickly dismissed his own idea. After all, this is the office building of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, if you really want to rip off the bamboo. There's no need to get yourself here. Moreover, doing this kind of thing in the city bureau is a little too risky.

So, what exactly is it that keeps you locked up in this office? He thought about it, but he couldn't find a clue.

After sitting for more than ten minutes, Li Guangzhi suddenly heard the sound of the door being opened from the outside. He hurriedly turned his head to look at the door, only to see two men in civilian clothes open the door and walk in. And these two men are the same two people who have been following him for the past two days!

This strange situation made Li Guangzhi couldn't help but jump up from his chair in amazement. He put on a posture ready to fight, staring at the two men who came in with vigilance, but the doubts in his heart were about to overflow.

"Who the hell are these two guys, and how did they end up in the police station? And, looking at this posture, it seems that they are still going to make a record for me? ”

After the two men entered the door, they ignored Li Guangzhi, who was standing in the center of the room in a sanda pose, but closed the door again in an orderly manner, and then walked to the seat opposite the desk and sat down. After the two put the teacups and notebooks they were holding on the table, the older one of them looked Li Guangzhi up and down a few times, and finally spoke:

"Mr. Takahashi, please be seated. You don't need to be so nervous, both of us are police officers, not criminals as you think. You can rest assured about this. ”

The middle-aged man's accent is very standard Mandarin, his voice is very distinctive, calm with a strong confidence and persuasion, people can't help but want to do what he says.

Li Guangzhi set his eyes on the face of the middle-aged man who spoke. This person's appearance is very ordinary, with short hair and a square face, and his facial features are not particularly prominent. Only those half-squinted eyes, when looking at people, their eyes are so sharp that people dare not look directly.

Li Guangzhi, who barely stabilized his mind, sat back in his chair and couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "You said you two are policemen?" So why are you stalking me? ”

"Why are we following you, then you have to ask yourself!" The younger of the two stopped the pen he was recording, looked up at Li Guangzhi with contempt, and said coldly.

Although Li Guangzhi's heart was full of doubts at the moment, he was still a little angry by the young man's eyes like looking at shit.

"I'm not your leader, how do you know what you two are sneaking up on!" He also stiffened his voice and said a word back. Originally, he was going to say "I'm not your father", but when the words came to his mouth, he weighed it in his heart, and felt that he still couldn't offend people to death at such a time, so he took it back and changed it to I am not your leader.

The middle-aged man saw that his companion was going to continue talking, so he raised his hand and patted his arm, and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Tian, don't speak, concentrate on making your records!" ”

Then, he opened the Wen Jiàn folder in front of him, and while looking at the Wen Jiàn in it, he said slowly:

"Mr. Takahashi, the two of us are not ordinary policemen, but from the National Security Agency. We invite you to come today. There are a few questions that I would like to answer with your cooperation, Mr. Takahashi. Speaking of this, he raised his eyelids and looked at Li Guangzhi very intently with the surprised look on his face at this moment that was shocked by the name "National Security Bureau", and then continued:

"Today was just an informal conversation, not a formal interrogation, and we also knew that you were fluent in Chinese, so we didn't let the interpreter be present. Mr. Takahashi, how about it, would you like to cooperate with us in answering questions? ”

How could you mess with someone from the NSA? Li Guangzhi, who was completely confused about the current situation, could only look at the middle-aged man with a dull face at the moment. But he was so surprised that he didn't know how to answer his question for a moment.

The middle-aged man waited for a while. Seeing that Li Guangzhi didn't mean to speak, he didn't mind, but continued to ask questions on his own: "Mr. Takahashi, you entered China from the Beijing Airport on January 22 this year. Then on the same day, I transferred to a domestic flight to Jianghan City. My first question was. What is the purpose of your visit to Jianghan City? ”

Li Guangzhi finally came back to his senses at this time. Although there are still some doubts about the identity of the two men who claim to be national security. But he was still very cooperative and replied cautiously: "I'm here to visit relatives." ”

The middle-aged man looked at the previous text a few times with an expressionless face, and continued: "According to our investigation, Mr. Takahashi, your hometown is in Hashi in the northeast. As orphaned offspring. Your father is a remnant orphan in Japan and has no relatives in the country. And your mother's family has lived in the Northeast for three generations, and all the relatives are basically concentrated in the Northeast. ”

He raised his head and stared at Li Guangzhi with half-squinted eyes, and asked, "So, Mr. Takahashi, I am curious to ask, when you came to Jianghan City to visit relatives, what relatives of your family were you visiting?" ”

Li Guangzhi was stared at by his sharp eyes, and avoided his gaze a little weakly, and did not dare to look at him. However, his weakness at the moment comes more from the fact that he really doesn't know how to answer this question.

Coming to Jianghan City to find his mother in his previous life, this answer cannot be said no matter what. Moreover, even if he says it, the other party will only think that he is talking nonsense. However, for the fact that he came to Jianghan City to find someone, he really didn't prepare any excuses in advance. How could he have thought that he would be semi-forced to ask this question!

Or, use the reason that Gao Dali's previous brain made up, saying that he came to find his childhood sweetheart when he was a teenager? Li Guangzhi's mind spun around, and he immediately denied this idea.

Judging from the fact that these two people can grasp their identities so clearly, I am afraid that the fact that they claim to be national security cannot be faked. Then, since the other party is a national security, they will naturally have various channels to investigate and verify the situation in their hometown in the northeast. If you still make up some childhood sweethearts at this time, I'm afraid it will be debunked in minutes.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the movements he has made in Jianghan City in the past few days are not secretive, and many people know that he is looking for a middle-aged woman in her 30s named Zhao Xiumei. With this piece of evidence, he has to make it up, and he has to make it up on this basis in order to be reasonable.

Li Guangzhi desperately recalled in his mind, but the memories he inherited from his original body were incomplete, and few of his relatives in his hometown in the Northeast even remembered their names. I really can't pull out a relative in Jianghan City from them.

Since Li Guangzhi had not opened his mouth to answer, the young man who made the transcript also stopped writing at this moment. He looked at Li Guangzhi, who was bowing his head and being silent, turned his head and elbowed the middle-aged man next to him, with a smug expression on his face.

The middle-aged man ignored his companion's ostentatious expression, he waited for a long time, and when he saw that Li Guangzhi still bowed his head and remained silent, he asked again: "Mr. Takahashi, it doesn't matter if you don't answer this question." After all, you have been looking for Jianghan City with great fanfare for several days, and we also know who the 'relative' you are looking for is. ”

He took out a piece of paper from the folder of the text, lowered his head and read: "Zhao Xiumei, female, born in 1948, 34 years old, widowed, residential address, No. 59, Renjia Road, Qingshan District. has a son named Li Guangzhi, born in 1982, 10 years old, studying in the third grade of Hongqi Primary School in Qingshan District. ”

"Mr. Takahashi, the profile information of these two 'relatives' you provided is still very detailed." The middle-aged man raised his head, looked at Li Guangzhi with a smile and said, "It stands to reason that there is such detailed information, although Jianghan City is not small. But it should still be easy to find these two people. ”

"It's strange here, not only have you not been able to find these two 'relatives', but even we have used a lot of manpower to check the household registration information of the permanent residents of the entire Jianghan City, and we haven't found these two 'relatives' of yours. This is very confusing. ”

"Mr. Takahashi, given this situation, I can only make such inferences. You deliberately came to Jianghan City from Japan, spending a lot of time, energy and money, but you were looking for two people who didn't exist at all. So. Mr. Takahashi. Can you explain this strange behavior of yours? ”

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Li Guangzhi's heart suddenly sank, and his hands and feet began to be a little numb with nervousness.

Regarding the unlucky journey of his trip back to China, Li Guangzhi has now gained a lot of experience. So. Since the beating of these two people claimed to be national security. He immediately thought of the worst possible - he was afraid that he would be suspected of being a spy.

But. He thought that in the past ten days in China, he had not done anything else suspected of being a spy except for his strange behavior of looking for people. So. Before, except for secretly sighing in his heart that his bad luck was against the sky, he was not particularly nervous and worried about the current situation.

However, when he heard the middle-aged man say just now, they actually organized a large number of people to check the household registration information of the entire Jianghan City for this matter. This made him start to feel scared.

In his previous life, he didn't know much about the institution of national security, except for some exaggerated descriptions he had seen in novels and on TV. However, even if you don't understand how national security works at all, you can only infer it from common sense. Since these people will spend so much manpower and energy on themselves, their characterization in their eyes will definitely not be as simple as being suspicious.

If the charge of espionage is really confirmed, the consequences of its severity can be imagined by Li Guangzhi! This is a crime that will be shot if you don't do it well!

He sat there in a cold sweat, racking his brains to reminisce. What have you done in the past ten days to lead to such suspicion? However, he thought about the experience of these days several times, but he could not find that special event.

The middle-aged man asked three questions in a row, and after seeing that Li Guangzhi was finally forced to show a frightened demeanor now. He turned his head sideways and exchanged affirmative glances with his companion beside him.

"Mr. Takahashi, don't you have anything to explain?" The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and tapped rhythmically on the table, but his tone suddenly became stern.

"I tell you, keeping silent won't work with us! Do you think that if we don't have some substantial evidence in our hands, we will invite you here? ”

Li Guangzhi raised his head at this time and defended himself: "I helped an elder in Japan come to visit relatives, but he has not been in touch with this relative in China for many years, and it is estimated that he has misremembered the address information." The Zhao Xiumei I'm looking for may not be in Jianghan City at all. ”

This is the only explanation that Li Guangzhi can come up with at present, and as for whether this explanation can play a role, he himself is not sure at all.

His search for his mother in his previous life was originally based on a reason that could not be explained by common sense. It can be said that in addition to the real reason, no amount of carefully fabricated lies can explain all the doubts in his behavior. So, on this issue, he can't explain it in any way.

The middle-aged man sneered and sneered: "I haven't been in touch for many years, and I remember the wrong address, but I know that her child is in the third grade of Hongqi Primary School." Mr. Takahashi, are you fooling us for fools? ”

Li Guangzhi smiled helplessly, and said a little disheartened: "Even if I'm looking for someone who doesn't have zài, it's not illegal, right?" If you suspect me, you must have investigated my actions these days. Tell me, which law did I violate? Seriously, I can't figure out what kind of mistake I made to bring you here! ”

At this time, the young man named Oda threw the pen in his hand to the side, slapped it the table, and shouted, "Takahashi Hiroshi! You really don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin! And say you didn't break the law? Liu Changsheng from the logistics department of Jianghan Iron and Steel Plant, do you know him? You bribed him $500 to take you to the steel mill's archives to check the materials, is there such a thing? Say! ”

Li Guangzhi was taken aback by his sudden outburst, and subconsciously defended; "It's just friends helping each other. I just asked him to take me to check the list of employees in the factory, and the purpose of my check is just to find someone, is this also illegal? ”

The middle-aged man said at this time: "The person you are looking for is named Li Jianguo, right?" The employees of the fourth branch of the steel plant died in the line of duty six years ago, right? Hehe, what a coincidence, the Li Jianguo you are looking for is another character who does not exist at all. ”

"Mr. Takahashi, don't tell any more lies about Japanese elders remembering the wrong person. These names are actually made up by yourself, right? Your purpose is not to find someone at all, but to get the list of employees of the fourth branch! Am I right? ”

As soon as the middle-aged man's words fell, Li Guangzhi raised his head suddenly, revealing a stunned expression. Reminded by the information in the middle-aged man's words just now, he finally figured out why he would be suspected of being a spy.

It was only now that he recalled that the fourth branch of the Jianghan Iron and Steel Plant, where his father worked, used to be a military-oriented special steel smelter. It was not until the end of the 90s when the military industrial group was formed that the military business of the fourth branch was stripped off and reorganized into another specialized military industrial enterprise. In this era, the fourth branch factory is a military-level secret unit.

As a foreigner with Japanese nationality, he actually used guò bribes to check the list of employees of a military factory. It's like you're dying on your own! (To be continued......)