Chapter 5 Tracking
Tang Cheng, who was far away in Chongqing, did not know about the military headquarters, and at this moment he was sitting at a small food stall on the corner of the street, and not far from his left was a bookstore, Lai Wenguang, who was closely monitored by the search team. Just entered the bookstore a few breaths ago. Without Tang Cheng's signal, the team members who were secretly following Lai Wenguang did not follow into the bookstore, on the contrary, they had already pretended to be passers-by and walked slowly outside the bookstore.
Lai Wenguang's entry into this bookstore can be understood as the other party's anti-investigation means, and it can also be understood as Lai Wenguang's connection with the people in the bookstore, but no matter what, Tang Cheng will never allow Lai Wenguang to find out that he has been followed and monitored. Tang Cheng lowered his head to eat wontons, but the corner of his eye kept paying attention to the movement of the bookstore, through the glass window of the bookstore on the street, Tang Cheng on the snack stall could clearly see Lai Wenguang's position at the moment.
Lai Wenguang in the bookstore stood alone in front of the bookshelf, neither the bookstore owner nor the other two customers had any contact with him. At this moment, Lai Wenguang looked very leisurely on the surface, but in fact, he was extremely nervous in his heart, because just now, walking on the side of the street, he suddenly realized that he seemed to be being followed. The reason why he was not sure whether he was really being followed was because Lai Wenguang did not find the person who was following him behind him, but that feeling kept churning in Lai Wenguang's heart.
Similar to Tang Cheng's guess, Lai Wenguang suddenly walked into the bookstore on the street because he was not sure if he was being followed. Tang Cheng outside the bookstore, when observing Lai Wenguang through the bookstore window from afar, Lai Wenguang inside the bookstore was also paying attention to the situation outside the bookstore under the pretense of flipping through the book. Lai Wenguang stayed in the bookstore for about a quarter of an hour before walking out of the bookstore with two newly purchased books, but instead of continuing south along the street, he turned around and walked back the way he came.
Seeing this, Tang Cheng did not get up immediately, but touched his nose with the index finger of his left hand as usual, and the vendor not far from the snack stall immediately followed Lai Wenguang far away. The street vendor with the basket was naturally part of the search party, and it was rare for such an older kid to look like a teenager and be associated with a stalker. Especially this street vendor, when Lai Wenguang turned into this street before, he had already appeared in this street.
How can such a street vendor with a basket shouting while walking, and stopping to trade and ship goods when he encounters customers. There are still many members of the search team with an obvious market atmosphere like this, they were originally low-level little people in Chongqing, and in this mountain city with an increasing population, small people like them are not conspicuous at all.
Lai Wenguang turned around and walked back, but before he could reach the corner of the street, he suddenly turned around again. Lai Wenguang's hand, even Tang Cheng didn't expect it, but the street vendor was not slow to react, and walked past Lai Wenguang with the same shouting as usual. Tang Cheng, who was about to get up and follow, cursed secretly in his heart, he had no choice but to leave in the direction of Lai Wenguang, if he and Lai Wenguang faced each other at this time, he would probably show his feet.
The street vendors can no longer follow Lai Wenguang, but fortunately, in order to track this Lai Wenguang, Tang Cheng has mobilized four tracking teams in advance to participate in today's tracking operation. The rest of the group with the street vendors, in the previous tracking, had to withdraw from the operation early because of Lai Wenguang's anti-investigation methods. Seeing Tang Cheng's gesture, the second team, hidden in the shop on the street, immediately went out and took over the work of the first team.
Tang Cheng deployed very carefully, even if Lai Wenguang had used anti-reconnaissance methods many times along the way, he could not get rid of the tracking and surveillance of the search team. After walking two blocks in a row, Lai Wenguang walked into a teahouse on the side of the street, where he was to meet an insider, as agreed. Meet every five days, this is the agreement between Lai Wenguang and this insider, if it does not appear in the agreed place when it expires, it means that something is wrong.
When Lai Wenguang entered the teahouse, he didn't see the figure of the insider, he looked down at his watch, and Lai Wenguang realized that he had come half an hour early. Finding a place in the corner to sit down, Lai Wenguang was reading a book while drinking tea, looking leisurely, but in fact he was secretly paying attention to the situation in the teahouse. Xiao Benzheng, who is known as Lai Wenguang, has been lurking in Chongqing for three years, and it was not until half a month ago that he was awakened and activated, and he received the task of cooperating with the special high school department to investigate the reason for the repeated arrests of the secret service team that had been lurking in Chongqing a year before.
When Xiao Benzheng was not awakened and activated, he also learned several times that there was a special high school intelligence team lurking in the city that was cracked, and through several internal lines developed by himself, Xiao Benzheng also collected some relevant information. The inside person to meet today is a section chief of the Chongqing Police Department, and Xiao Ben is trying to gather more relevant information through this person. Xiao Benzheng seemed to be looking at the books without distraction, but in fact, he was secretly thinking in his heart that the answer he wanted might be in the labor camp outside the city.
At first, Xiao Benzheng did not pay much attention to the labor camp outside the city, but as the information he collected gradually increased, he finally learned about the relationship between the labor camp outside the city and the Chongqing Station of the Military Command, the Chongqing Police General Bureau, and the local guard group. It was at this time that the search team formed by Tang Cheng appeared in Xiao Benzheng's sight, but Xiao Benzheng did not know the deeper relationship between the search team and Chongqing Station.
Time passed little by little, and there were more guests in the teahouse, but among the guests who appeared later, there was no one who Xiao Benzheng paid special attention to. Most of the people who make teahouses in Chongqing are locals who are in the upper grades, and some idlers who have nothing to do, and then there are the robe brothers who can be seen everywhere in Chongqing. Most of the guests who appear behind Xiao Benzheng are elderly, so naturally they will not receive special attention from Xiao Benzheng.
But what Xiao Benzheng didn't know was that the more people he didn't pay attention to, the more likely they were not ordinary people. Just like at this moment, among the few guests playing mahjong on the left side of Xiao Benzheng, the old man who happened to face Xiao Benzheng was a member of the search team. This old man who was playing mahjong while secretly paying attention to Xiao Benzheng was one of Zhao Dashan's own seniors, and the old man who was also a member of the robe brother was the oldest member of the search team.
Old people, women, children, at least half of the dozen or so full-time tracking teams of the search team are composed of these people, and before Tang Cheng told the truth, even Zhang Jiang and the stationmaster of this Chongqing station absolutely did not believe that it was actually these people who made great contributions in the search team. Xiao Benzheng, who has always been cautious, naturally would not have thought that this old man with gray hair and unattractive appearance would be the one who secretly stalked and monitored him.
When there was only one minute left before the joint time, Xu Sanchong, who was dressed in civilian clothes, walked into the teahouse, and Xu Sanchong's appearance immediately attracted the attention of Tang Cheng and others outside the teahouse. "Captain, I know this person, it's Xu Sanchong, the sergeant of the Chengnan Police Station, I heard that he has been transferred to the General Bureau." Xu Sanchong is also an old man in the Chongqing Police Department, and Zhao Dashan, who was born as a veteran policeman, naturally recognizes the other party. "This Xu Sanchong's reputation is not bad, but he likes to gamble, and he is still a single."
"Since it's someone from the police station, then inform our people that there are people who have met with this Xu Sanchong, and they will withdraw immediately." Tang Cheng, who was standing in front of the window, did not move, but the telescope in his hand kept pointing at the teahouse across the street. According to the usual behavior of the Chongqing police, even if they come to the teahouse to drink tea, they don't need to wear casual clothes. Even if Xu Sanchong was transferred to the General Administration as a civilian, it was still working time, and Tang Cheng immediately included this Xu Sanchong in surveillance.
Xu Sanchong entered the teahouse and did not sit directly next to Xiao Benzheng, but after confirming Xiao Benzheng's position, he found a place to sit down at a table. Xiao Benzheng, Xu Sanchong and the old man nicknamed the old knife, the position of the three of them just forms a triangle, and the position of the old knife also happens to see the every move of Xiao Benzheng and Xu Sanchong. The old knife touched the cards and played cards, looking at nothing abnormal, he didn't pay attention to Xu Sanchong at first, and after finding that Xiao Benzheng was behaving abnormally, he noticed Xu Sanchong who had just appeared.
According to the agreement, after Xu Sanchong entered the teahouse where he was meeting, he could not directly sit with Xiao Benzheng and talk, and he would take the initiative to come over and talk to Xu Sanchong when Xiao Benzheng confirmed that Xu Sanchong had no problem. Xiao Ben has always had a bad premonition today, but he didn't find anything abnormal, and after repeatedly confirming that Xu Sanchong had no problem, he took his things and sat opposite Xu Sanchong.
The old knife saw that Xiao Benzheng and Xu Sanchong were sitting together, so he deliberately argued with the players at the same table, and then got up angrily and left the teahouse. In the street teahouses in Chongqing, there are often quarrels and even fights because of mahjong, so Lao Daozi's actions at the moment did not arouse the attention and vigilance of Xiao Benzheng and Xu Sanchong.
"Captain, the mustache who just went in, sat down with the target. I was a little far away from my position, and I couldn't hear what they were saying, so I had to come out first. The old knife who left the teahouse was quickly taken to the second floor opposite the teahouse, and in front of Tang Cheng, the old knife described in detail what he saw in the teahouse.
Tang Cheng secretly pondered when he heard this, Xu Sanchong's appearance was definitely not accidental, the teahouse across the street should be the place where the two of them connected. However, according to Lao Daozi's description just now, Tang Cheng guessed that this teahouse should have nothing to do with this Lai Wenguang, otherwise Lai Wenguang should not have met with Xu Sanchong in the lobby of the teahouse.