044 Analysis
After Pu Su came out, he nodded to Gu Ji, who had been observing outside the door.
In their opinion, it was no accident that the special agents in charge of the search on the dock suddenly changed their guard before the steamer on which Chu Mingyi was on arrived at the 16th Shop yesterday.
The movement of personnel at this time after 3 a.m. is very abnormal in any case.
The shift agents had been staying up at the docks for most of the night. If there is no accident, the superiors will not arrange a change of guard at this time for no reason.
It doesn't make sense if there is a real need for an emergency, and it is not at all the case based on the results of their on-site observations. A few spies only entangled around a family of squires for a long time, and finally knocked a few oceans before letting them go.
So he both suspected that Chu Mingyi might have taken refuge in No. 76 from the military commander's side.
It is very likely that after being temporarily dispatched from the border area, Chu Mingyi used some means to deliver information to this side. Then, No. 76, which received the information, temporarily changed the original agent on duty before the ship arrived.
The purpose is naturally to let him pass smoothly, and then put a long line to catch big fish.
As for the fact that No. 76 did not arrange an ambush at the time of the joint, it may be that it is not meaningful to catch a contact person. Let Chu Mingyi lurk around "King Kong", and the damage caused to the CCP's underground organization will be even more serious.
It's just that after Pu Su tried in the interrogation room just now, he found that Chu Mingyi's reaction was a little different from what he expected.
After all, Chu Mingyi is a highly trained agent, and it is difficult to make an accurate judgment just from his previous superficial reaction. But he and Gu Ji. I have already stood in his position and made some deductions.
No matter what Chu Mingyi's identity is now, with his current situation, if he is given three options to choose. The answer to who to choose between the Japanese military, the 76th, and the Communist Party should be very simple.
Once he falls into the hands of the Japanese, no matter whether he is a special agent of the military command or an underground party member, nothing good will wait for him. No matter which of these two identities is the sworn enemy of the Japanese army, what awaits him in Hongkou can only be life worse than death.
Although Chu Mingyi is unlikely to have thought that he was now captured by Pu Su and them. But here in the Communist Party, if his identity is revealed as a sleeper agent, his fate can be imagined.
Even if it is a situation of all-out resistance against Japan now, he knows very well what he has done. If there were only two options, the Japanese army and the Communist Party, Pu Su even guessed that he would most likely choose to be sent to Hongkou.
Originally, they made a set of plans, and asked Pu Su to take the materials prepared by Gu Ji to interrogate him alone. Because Pu Su was worried that Chu Mingyi would eventually see him in the border area, he gave up.
Since he had seen Chu Mingyi before, he could not rule out that the other party also had this possibility.
Therefore, after discussing it, Pu Su and the others decided to change the plan to confuse him.
If he is indeed the person of number 76. Then the current situation seems to him to be that the water has washed the Dragon King Temple, and he should reveal his identity after some torture. Since even Gu Ji highly respects Lao Ren's business ability in this regard, the follow-up work will be carried out by Lao Ren.
It is assumed that Chu Mingyi is not actually the person of No. 76. The temporary changing of the guard at the dock that day and the successful passage of the search were just coincidences, so all that remained for him was "the lesser of the two".
As long as Chu Mingyi is not stupid, he was handed over to the Hongkou Japanese as a communist; Or simply confess his military identity on No. 76, he will naturally make a wise choice.
In Chu Mingyi's mind, no matter how bad the reputation of No. 76 is, after all, everyone is still Chinese, and there should be many former colleagues in it. Although it is now under the puppet government, it is incompatible with Chongqing; But at least it's much easier to talk than the Japanese.
Besides, Pu Su and they still have some arrangements, and they can't allow him not to believe it when the time comes.
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In the interrogation room, Chu Mingyi shuddered at the thought of being sent to the Japanese as a communist, and all kinds of inhumane torture methods that he had heard about in the past.
As a military commander agent, what Chu Mingyi is most afraid of is not death. There were quite a few communists executed by his own hands, and no matter how arrogant he was in life, a bullet would be like falling asleep when he entered it.
What he feared was endless torture.
If you have to confess after suffering from flesh and skin, then the previous living sins are completely unnecessary.
The mental torture he had endured so far was beyond his reach. Any more points will collapse on his own, but fortunately, the traitor of No. 76 is not as black as the rumors suggested.
Judging from the two interrogations in the morning, it is clear that the interrogators showed little interest in him as a "communist."
The so-called interrogation is simply a formality. The other party was eager to hand him over to the Japanese in a hurry. Chu Mingyi felt that No. 76's business level was still too amateurish compared to their military commanders.
If the other party had fallen into his hands, he would have been stripped of several layers of skin a long time ago.
It's just that he doesn't understand how he was exposed now. When he was in the border area of the Communist Party, there was obviously no problem with his identity, otherwise he would not have been allowed to follow the radio operator to Shanghai to set up an intelligence station.
And the information he sent out after arriving in Wuhu could only be received by his own military commander liaison. In the message, he hoped that after receiving the secret report, the contact person could quickly arrange an operation to sabotage his mission.
This time, the Communist Party asked him to carry the radio station to Shanghai, and he felt that he would be arrested if he could not get to Shanghai at all. Unexpectedly, there were thrilling consecutive passes along the way, and finally arrived smoothly.
It's just that he didn't expect to catch the road when he was connecting.
What went wrong?
In 1935, he was sent by Nanjing to infiltrate the Communist Party base. The environment over there was bad, and after entering, I suffered a lot in the base area. Who knew that it was not easy to take root, and the War of Resistance began.
After the war, his one-line contact was lost for a while.
After reappearing, the order given was also to let him continue to lurk. Over the years, he has also sent out some information one after another, but at present, the work of the entire base area is aimed at the anti-Japanese resistance, and there is not a lot of valuable information.
If the liaison was arrested by No. 76 and confessed to himself, then it is impossible for them not to know their military identity. It obviously doesn't make sense to still send him to the Japanese as a communist based on Li Wenjuan's confession.
He believed that if No. 76 knew that he was a special agent of the military command, he would never be willing to hand him over to the Japanese.
In the past year, their military commander and the No. 76 traitor have assassinated and exchanged fire with each other, and each has suffered heavy casualties. In general, because of the support of the Japanese, the losses of the military commanders who went underground in the occupied areas behind enemy lines were even greater.
He knew that many intelligence agents on his side had defected and taken refuge in the past. Now, if it really doesn't work, he plans to make peace with No. 76 for the time being, and protect himself first.
At this time, Chu Mingyi in the interrogation room had already thought about it.
When they escorted him out, they immediately shouted loudly. Get the attention of the others, and it's best to alarm the chief here.
He is still a little confident that he can keep himself here at No. 76.
Now that the mind has been decided. At this time, Chu Mingyi felt hungry and tired, and the seemingly unhindered sound wave interference had actually caused him very serious damage.
This torture is not just psychological. Because the cells of the whole body are mobilized to resist stimuli, the consumption of the body is also very large.