Chapter Ninety-Three: Being Stalked
Yuan Cheng, who had been thinking about Tang Cheng all along, was in a small hotel at the moment, standing sideways in front of the window and looking out into the street. Behind him, there were two men in suits, just looking at the bulging piece on the waists of these two men in suits, anyone with a discerning eye knew that these two men in suits would not be ordinary people. After Yuan Cheng took refuge in the special high-tech department, he has been protected by the special high-tech in Hongkou District, and after being repeatedly investigated and questioned by the special high-tech department, Yuan Cheng came to the French Concession according to the order of the special high-tech department, and cooperated with an action group of the special high-tech to find the stronghold of the intelligence department Shanghai in the French concession.
After Yuan Cheng defected, the strongholds deployed by the Intelligence Department in the concession were all changed places, and there was a small restaurant diagonally opposite the hotel where Yuan Cheng and the others were staying at the moment, which was suspected by the Special High Branch to be a secret stronghold of the Intelligence Department. Yuan Cheng's task was to hide in a room on the second floor of the small hotel, observe the small restaurant diagonally opposite the hotel, and identify suspicious people from the guests entering and leaving the small restaurant.
For two days in a row, Yuan Cheng and the two plainclothes agents of the special high-tech department were all nested in this room on the second floor of the hotel, except for going to the toilet, even the drinking water was brought into the room by other plainclothes agents. Kung fu does not take much effort, this sentence does not seem to have been fulfilled in Yuan Cheng and the three of them, staring at it for two days in a row, everyone who entered and exited the small restaurant was looked at by Yuan Cheng, but he did not find anyone from the Shanghai Station of the Intelligence Department.
"Haneda-senpai, do you think the information is wrong this time? We've been staring at this for two days, and Yuan Sang hasn't noticed any people from the intelligence department entering or leaving the restaurant opposite. The younger of the two plainclothes agents finally couldn't bear it anymore, and then lowered his voice and asked his middle-aged companion who was smoking a cigarette beside him.
The middle-aged spy who was called Haneda's predecessor by the young spy didn't raise his head when he heard this, but just said in a muffled voice, "Kogoro, when you were training, didn't your instructor tell you that you must be patient when performing tasks?" In particular, a surveillance mission like this is not something that can be gained in a day or two, and as for whether the intelligence is wrong this time, it is not something we can discuss. Our captain Sasaki, when he was in the base camp, was a very strict person. ”
The young spy named Kogoro didn't immediately understand what his senior meant, and after the other party winked at him continuously, Kogoro finally understood and hurriedly bowed to his senior. Tegaoke is not monolithic, there are also factions, and the captain Sasaki they just mentioned was just transferred from the mainland. Yuan Cheng, who was standing behind them at this moment, in some name, belonged to the direct subordinate of Captain Sasaki.
Time passed little by little, and Yuan Cheng, who had been guarding the window, was still patient, but the cigarette butts under his feet had already revealed the irritability and impatience in his heart. Suddenly, a slightly familiar back made Yuan Cheng's brows jump a little, but for a while, Yuan Cheng couldn't remember where he had seen this man in cotton robes. After a few breaths, Yuan Cheng, who was highly concentrated, slapped his head, and he finally remembered who the familiar man in the long shirt was.
"Haneda-kun, the middle-aged man wearing a sauce-colored cotton robe and a polite head who went in just now should be a special commissioner from the Nanjing headquarters of the Intelligence Department, named Bai Zhanshan." Yuan Cheng's face showed a hint of excitement, how could he, who defected from Shanghai Station, not know the weight of Bai Zhanshan. It was a special commissioner sent to Shanghai by the Nanjing headquarters of the Intelligence Division, and how could an ordinary member of the Intelligence Division compare with this special commissioner, this is a big fish.
The excitement on Yuan Cheng's face seemed to be infected with the other two, and the originally lifeless room instantly became hot. Haneda paused for a few seconds, then immediately opened the door and went to the next room, and a few seconds later, two plainclothes agents dressed as lovers hurried downstairs to leave the hotel and cross the street into the small restaurant diagonally opposite. The three of Haneda were only in charge of observing the small restaurant diagonally opposite this room, but there was someone else who was specifically moving, and the man and woman who had just gone downstairs were the ones in charge of keeping an eye on.
Knowing that this Bai Zhanshan was a special commissioner sent to Shanghai by the Nanjing Headquarters of the Intelligence Department, the special high-tech department decided to secretly keep an eye on his person first, trying to lock down the strongholds and personnel in the concession of the intelligence department through this person. Bai Zhanshan, who was discovered by Yuan Cheng, didn't know that he had been watched at the moment, and after holding a note in the banknote and handing it to the restaurant guy, Bai Zhanshan, who had only eaten a bowl of noodles, immediately got up and left.
"He's gone!" Yuan Cheng, who was standing in front of the window, let out a low cry, and Kogoro, who had been eager to try, squeezed to Yuan Cheng's side and looked out at the street through the gap in the curtain. The young Kogoro has long been tired of the current fixed surveillance task, and the eagerness and eagerness in his heart made him exert too much force in his excitement, and when he squeezed Yuan Cheng away, his left hand happened to touch the curtain on one side, and he inadvertently tore out the gap in the curtain to the extent that his head was enough to drill out.
Bai Zhanshan, who was born in the army, was transferred to the intelligence department halfway through his home, and when he entered the Nanjing headquarters of the intelligence department, he served as the head of the operations team; although he did not receive systematic training, he heard and witnessed it every day, and he also learned some counter-reconnaissance methods. When he walked out of the small restaurant, Bai Zhanshan habitually glanced left and right with the help of the action of wearing a hat. Just as he turned around, his eyes inadvertently followed the rotation of his body to his left front, and the change in the curtains of a room on the second floor of the hotel across the street immediately entered his line of sight.
Bai Zhanshan's heart couldn't help but flicker, and the curtains were still drawn in broad daylight, which was very suspicious in itself. I obviously saw the curtain behind the window change just now, but the curtain that was torn open immediately returned to its original state, and Bai Zhanshan, who was already very suspicious, only felt a cold sweat break out on his back. When he was in Nanjing, he specialized in arresting Japanese spies, and he was all too familiar with how to monitor their targets.
Thinking quickly about countermeasures in his heart, Bai Zhanshan quietly continued to walk along the street to the street in front of him, how to change to someone else, at this time, he should use the street window to observe the opposite side of the street, or with the help of the feint of bowing his head to light a cigarette and leaning over to tie his shoes, to determine if there is a suspicious person behind him. But Bai Zhanshan didn't do this, he just walked with the flow of people, and didn't look back or stop suddenly at all.
The couple of men and women who followed Bai Zhanshan out of the small restaurant did not see that the target they were following had been alerted, but they never expected that just a dozen meters behind them, a rickshaw driver pulling an empty car had already turned his attention to them. The appearance of rickshaws did not attract the attention of Yuan Cheng and the three people in the hotel, although this street is not the main street, it can be regarded as lively, and rickshaws often appear.
Yuan Cheng and the others didn't know that the rickshaw driver who had just passed in front of the hotel was a subordinate brought by Bai Zhanshan from Nanjing. After Bai Zhanshan left the restaurant, he was supposed to get on the rickshaw as soon as possible, but because of Bai Zhanshan's sudden vigilance, he immediately made a move to leave on foot, which could be regarded as a warning signal to the subordinate who was disguised as a rickshaw driver.
Bai Zhanshan's move of leaving on foot really alerted the subordinate disguised as a rickshaw driver, and when he saw Bai Zhanshan turn away, he did not immediately follow, but slowed down and secretly noticed the person walking behind Bai Zhanshan on the other side of the street. The pair of young spies sent by the special high-tech to disguise themselves as a couple quickly entered the sight of the rickshaw driver, followed the two of them out of more than ten meters, and pulled a female passenger's rickshaw on the side of the road to accelerate past the Japanese spy who looked like a couple.
The woman sitting on the rickshaw was also Bai Zhanshan's subordinate brought from Nanjing, and she was also surprised that Bai Zhanshan did not look at her or communicate with her when he passed by. "Sister Hua, the captain was targeted, it was the young couple who followed them all the way from the cavern, and I saw it with my own eyes." The driver's explanation made the woman named Sister Hua in the rickshaw suddenly realize that Bai Zhanshan's strange behavior just now should have discovered something.
Seeing the rickshaw pulling Sister Hua from across the street without looking back, Bai Zhanshan, who was walking on the side of the street, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that his two subordinates had understood what he meant. According to Bai Zhanshan's itinerary today, after he came out of the small restaurant, he should get in a rickshaw and pretend to be husband and wife with Sister Hua, and go to a private party as a businessman. The two subordinates who came to pick him up had already left, Bai Zhanshan's heart was relieved, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.
The man and woman sent by Tegaoke followed Bai Zhanshan from a distance, and after walking through two streets in a row, the two found that something seemed to be wrong. "Komatsu-kun, do you think he has already discovered us?" Michiko Matsushita, who had been reaching out to hold her companion's arm, whispered, and at the same time turned her head to look across the street, muttering in her heart, when will the support from the headquarters arrive? The two of them were so distracted, and when they looked ahead again, they found that they could no longer see the target.
Suddenly losing the trace of the target, the two of them suddenly became anxious, especially Michiko ran forward quickly. The two of them ran to the location where the target disappeared in their memory, only to find that there was actually an alley on the side of the street. Seeing the alley, the two couldn't help but glance at each other, and the goal should be to get into this alley. Without the slightest hesitation, Michiko drew her pistol with her backhand and rushed into the alley before her companion.
The young male and female spies entered the alley one after the other, but unfortunately they found nothing, and asked the young children playing in the alley, but they all shook their heads and didn't know. "Damn, let him run." Michiko's face was full of hideousness at the moment, and she walked the entire alley, and found that the other end of the alley was on the next street, and Michiko and the two looked depressed, knowing that this mission was a mess.