But all this was not what Li Anping wanted, and after the arrest work came to an end for a while, he collected the information and confessions of these spies and found that they belonged to different branches, and they were sent here or had long been lurking here to carry out various underground spy work.

Judging from the content of their explanations, they have no connection with the "barber". Li Anping soon understood that Cao Ruofei sacrificed the spy who had nothing to do with him to better hide his identity, and at the same time better gain the trust of his superiors so that he could seek a higher position himself.

For the next period of time, the entire inspection team was interrogating individual spies who refused to give truthful explanations.

Although Li Anping was not interested in the interrogation work, he finally had some leisure time, and he told Wang Yidao that the leaders of the unit had a lot of meetings to hold recently, and that the members of their secretarial department had to stay behind to make meeting minutes like last time, and that they had to mimeograph the minutes overnight and put them on the desks of the leaders.

Although Wang Yidao was a little unhappy, he didn't say anything when he thought that Li Anping was only working overtime in the Municipal Public Security Bureau and was not in any danger.

After appeasing Wang Yidao, Li Anping began to follow Cao Ruofei after work.

Cao Ruofei's whereabouts these days are very simple, and he has never left the house since he came home from work.

Li Anping even doubted his eyes, but the unit where Cao Ruofei lived had only one entrance and exit, unless he jumped out of the window, but he couldn't do it at all.

Disappointment, in addition to disappointment or disappointment.

Although he found nothing, Li Anping did not give up tracking Cao Ruofei. The work of the inspection team is getting less and less, and many team members are idle, it seems that the limelight has passed, and Cao Ruofei will no longer use spies who have nothing to do with him as a back.

Li Anping didn't want to be idle, he had to take the initiative to look for clues. He asked his colleagues how the arrest plan was drawn up and issued, and how the information of the spies of their inspection team was obtained.

A colleague told him that the spy information was mainly reported from the police stations within the jurisdiction of the city, and a very small part of it was obtained directly from the municipal public security bureau. Not all reports will be sent to their inspection team, each police station must have a preliminary investigation, and there must be certain clues and evidence before reporting to Cao Ruofei, and Cao Ruofei's work will be transferred to their inspection team after confirmation. After the secret investigation was confirmed by the inspection team, it was reported to Cao Ruofei, and he worked with relevant personnel to formulate an arrest plan.

All reporting materials must be confirmed by Cao Ruofei!

To put it bluntly, it is ultimately up to him Cao Ruofei to confirm who is a spy and who is not a spy.

Li Anping suddenly remembered that he had reported it to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and he had also reported the case at the Xirong Hutong Police Station. His whole body immediately broke out in a cold sweat, if Cao Ruofei knew about it, he would definitely be wary of him.

Li Anping hurriedly went to the spy information registration room that was the counterpart of his work, and said that he was looking for some information.

The people in the registration room knew that Li Anping belonged to the inspection team, so they opened the information room and left him alone.

There was a lot of information stored in the data room, which were filed and placed on a date-by-date basis, and he could easily find the materials he had reported, which recorded what he said at the time, and the upper right side of the record was annotated with a line of words: "Lack of valid evidence, only for archival purposes." There is only one such annotation, which means that this material has not yet been delivered to Cao Ruofei.

Li Anping confirmed that there was no one around, he folded the materials and put them in his pocket, and then began to review the sleeping reports one by one according to the date.

It took Li Anping three days to read through the information about the spies, and strictly speaking, all the materials on file have one characteristic: they are all dictated by a single informant, no effective evidence is provided, and there is not even a second person to corroborate it.

I have to say that Cao Ruofei's approach can be made public openly and without any questioning.

The information in the special agent information room of the Municipal Public Security Bureau did not summarize the information in the jurisdiction to the police station, so Li Anping thought of going to the police station to check the registered information.

Although the amount of information registered at each police station is far less than that of the city bureau, the number of police stations in the area under its jurisdiction is quite large, and Li Anping has to look at the registered information and select some information that he thinks is valuable to make a good record. Many times he gave up following Cao Ruofei and stayed at the police station all night to check this information.

During this period of working day and night, Li Anping also screened out a lot of useful information. He recorded multiple references to the whereabouts of suspected agents in the same location; Aggregate information about more than one person describing what appears to be the same person...... In this way, there will be clear clues for the summary and comparison of information across regions and times.

As soon as there were many clues, Li Anping began to worry again, it took too long to track him down alone, and there might even be a situation where the spies left the city after completing their tasks; If you hand in these clues to form a report, you will inevitably get stuck in Cao Ruofei's hands.

Li Anping was looking for clues to find someone, and on the other hand, he privately tested his colleagues in the inspection team. He found the eldest, Lao Cheng, and asked if they could act without the approval of their superiors if they found clear information about the agents.

Lao Cheng replied to him that only special occasions and circumstances are acceptable, such as spies who have exposed their identities or are conducting sabotage operations, if they only find clues and need to confirm their identities, they need to be reported to Cao Ruofei, and he will appoint corresponding people to implement the action after making a decision.

The road of finding helpers will not work, and Li Anping can only rely on himself.

Among the clues he had, one clue showed that there were four spy activities between Qingyun Street and Jiqing Hutong, and Huashi Street between the two streets was the boundary between the two jurisdictions of Nancheng and Chengguan.

This area is divided into four police stations, and these four pieces of information are all from those four police stations, and each piece of information is that when the reporter was passing by a certain place at night, he vaguely heard someone saying that when the time is ripe to counterattack the mainland, or seize the time to collect intelligence and send it to Taiwan......

Li Anping has been working underground for many years, and he knows that as long as there are no accidents, the location of the joints between underground workers is often fixed.

The locations indicated in the four reports are different, and it is unlikely that there will be four groups of agents at the same time in this small area, but rather one or two groups of agents connecting between the four locations according to some agreed rules.

Of course, these spies will use some specific codes to connect, and Li Anping seems to have heard what they are saying.

.......

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