Chapter 30: Secret Service Headquarters
"Those who know me, Iwai-kunya. In this world, apart from myself, the second person who can know me so well is really Iwai-kun. Chen Lei, who was sitting on the right side of the back seat of the black car, smiled at Ichiro Iwai, who was sitting next to him, and said.
After bowing his head slightly, Chen Lei pretended to bluff, feeling that what he said next to Iwai Ichiro could not be heard by the driver who was sitting in front of him and was in charge of driving, although this full-time driver was a young Japanese man who had been Iwai Ichiro's personal assistant for a long time, and could only speak Japanese and could not understand Chinese.
For the sake of caution, Chen Lei attached to Iwai Ichiro's ear and whispered in Chinese: "Iwai-kun, this morning, I took this piece of camera back shell fragment from the group of people at the secret service headquarters, and just after a glance, I found that this camera is the brand of Laika.
"The LYCRA brand camera is not owned by ordinary people. According to my judgment, the person who can own such a camera should be a reporter based in the Shanghai Tan Rental, which may be from the Public Concession or the French Concession. By looking at the gendarmerie soldiers who were in charge of guarding the front of the Japanese Navy Club building that day, it may be possible to ask how many people had Laika cameras.
"After all, there were many media reporters who came to the celebration dinner of the Japanese Navy Club last night, and more than 30 newspapers of all sizes in Shanghai sent reporters to take pictures on the spot for news reporting."
After listening to Chen Lei's words, Iwai Ichiro was still a little puzzled, he attached to Chen Lei's ear, lowered his voice and continued to ask: "Chen Leijun, I still don't understand. If the person with the Lycra camera was a newspaper reporter from Shanghai Tang, then why did they put the camera in the cherry blossom forest? Are they not paying attention to where they lost their cameras, or are they trying to cover up something with their cameras? ”
Of course, Chen Lei would not tell the true answer to Iwai Ichiro's questioning, but Sun Chenglin pretended to be a newspaper reporter, took a Laika camera that had been transformed into a time bomb, and buried it next to the courtyard wall on the side of the cherry blossom forest near the Japanese Navy Headquarters, thus detonating the munitions warehouse across the wall.
Originally, Chen Lei thought that there was such a violent explosion at that time, and the Laika camera, which had been used as a time bomb, should be blown to pieces, but he never thought that a fragment of the back shell of the camera the size of a squad leader was left behind, but it was almost intact, which was indeed unexpected by him.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Lei pretended to be unaware, and also attached to Iwai Ichiro's ear in a puzzled tone, and said softly: "Yes, Iwai-kun, I'm also very curious, what can this Leica camera do?" Tomorrow, let's follow this clue first. Then, I'll track down some other interpretations of the use of cameras on the Secret Service Headquarters side, which may be some other way. ”
The two of them sat in the back seat of the car and bit their ears and whispered to each other, and in less than half an hour, the black car stopped at the entrance of Yong'anli, Feixia Road, French Concession, Shanghai.
After saying goodbye to Iwai Ichiro, Chen Lei got out of the car, stood at the entrance of Yong'an Lane, and watched Iwai Ichiro's special car leave, and only after the black car disappeared from his sight did Chen Lei turn around and walk into Yong'an Lane.
After returning home, Chen Lei, as usual, checked the ground on the inside of the threshold on the first floor, as well as on the balcony facing the street of the bedroom and bathroom on the second floor, and found that the thin layer of fragrant ash sprinkled on it did not leave the slightest trace, which made him feel at ease.
At this time, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, Chen Lei was lying on the bed in the bedroom on the second floor, and fell asleep in less than five minutes.
Early in the morning of the first day, at about seven o'clock, Chen Lei left the house, drank a cup of coffee and ate two sandwiches at a Western restaurant on Feixia Road, then took a rickshaw and went straight to the secret service headquarters at No. 76 Jisfeier Road in the western area of Shanghai Tang.
This time, Chen Lei did not go to work at the Iwai Mansion (Special Investigation Office) located on Baoshan Road in the Zhabei region, but went straight to the secret service headquarters of the Wang puppet regime, in order to learn whether Li Shijun had found any important clues based on the fragments of the back shell of the camera at the first time, so that he could take measures in time.
A few days ago, the first time he went to the secret service headquarters, he was treated as a military commander agent lurking in Shanghai, and he was tortured by Li Shijun, the deputy director of the secret service headquarters, in the underground prison, and later he was able to get out of it by virtue of his relationship with Iwai Ichiro, and now he is revisiting the old place, but his identity is very different.
The first time he entered the secret service headquarters, Chen Lei was treated as an interrogated prisoner, and the second time he entered the secret service headquarters, he was treated as a distinguished guest, and Ding Mocun, the director of the secret service headquarters, personally greeted him at the gate.
And this time he entered the secret service headquarters, Chen Lei, accompanied by Ding Mo Village, walked all the way, and took a good look at this place known as the "magic cave" of Wang's puppet agent.
The headquarters of the secret agents at No. 76 Sifeier Road North in Shanghai, adjacent to No. 74 to the east, and No. 75 across the road are all garden houses built by foreigners who purchased land from the Daotai Yamen, and the house number is a white house on a blue background of the public concession. Before the fall, it was the residence of Chen Tiaoyuan, chairman of Anhui Province, with a western-style building, a new-style bungalow, and a large garden.
On the east side of the gate, there is also a lookout platform facing Jisfeier Road, on which there are four armed Japanese military police soldiers, and those who want to enter the gate must show the light blue pass to the puppet soldiers at the sentry in front of the gate to enter.
The second gate in the secret service headquarters was originally Western-style, and later changed to archway type, with a doorway in the middle, and a plaque above it with white characters on a blue background "The world is public"; The left and right rooms are built as gun holes, and two machine guns are erected for security purposes. Those who want to enter the second gate must show a pale red pass.
On the east side of the second gate, more than 20 Chinese-style bungalows were built in two long strips facing each other from north to south.
The westernmost one on the south side is the office of Wu Shibao, the captain of the guard group, and the westernmost one on the north side is the interrogation room. The rest are the offices of the various offices of the Secret Service Headquarters.
Diagonally across from the west side of the second gate, is a three-story western-style building, called "high western-style house", and people who want to enter the high-level western-style house must have a special sign behind the collar.
When you walk up the stairs, you will be greeted by the hall and the stairs. The first room on the east side of the first floor is the reception room, which has two courtesans as receptionists.
Behind the reception room is a room inside and outside, outside is a telephone operator, there are three male operators on duty in three shifts, two courtesans sometimes come to help, and the inside is a storage room.
Opposite the reception room is the large dining room (dining room), which has a door that leads to the conference room at the back, which is also the oath room for agents new to the secret service headquarters.
On the east side of the second floor, above the reception room is Ding Mocun's office and bedroom, but he only lives in the attached bathroom, and Li Shijun's bedroom is opposite Ding Mocun's room.
The two bedrooms used to be Li Shijun's office, but Ding Mocun also put a desk, but he never went to work.
To the left of Li Shijun's bedroom, there is a long and narrow corridor leading to the guest room and the large hall to the west of the high bungalow. Another corridor leads to Wu Shibao's bedroom at the back, and there are two small cells for female prisoners next to the corridor.
Two rooms on the third floor are prisoner rooms, with iron bars at the staircase and guarded by special personnel.
In front of the high bungalow is a large garden, and a large flower shed on the west side of the garden has been converted into a detention center.
A two-room building was built to the west of the trellis to serve as an electrical office and the radio station was located here.
In front of the trellis is a three-room bungalow, with a novel architectural form, which was used as a supervisor of the Japanese military police.
On the west side of the high western-style house, there was a three-room two-entry shikumen building, which was later opened to the downstairs room, and the patio was put up with a glass ceiling, and a podium was erected, which was changed to a large hall that could accommodate more than 200 people, and the Wang puppet regime often held meetings here.
For Chen Lei, he was accompanied by Ding Mocun to enter the secret service headquarters this time, this journey can be said to be an eye-opener for him, and he felt that the internal setting of this agent headquarters was really eye-opening for him, and when he had time in the future, he had to renovate the Iwai Mansion well, at least he could not be compared to the secret service headquarters, in that case, Iwai Ichiro would feel faceless.