Chapter Seventy-Eight: Cleaning Up the Traces

Now Ma Hong and Zhang Pei are all relevant personnel in the Shadow Team case, and the case has been taken over by the upper echelons of the Military Intelligence Department, and Ning Zhiheng has not been able to intervene for a while.

But these are all small minions, after the case passes, the Central Party Affairs Investigation Office will definitely take people back, and then they can get rid of this Zhang Pei, Ning Zhiheng believes that it should not be difficult to find an opportunity to take his life with his own skills!

Thinking of this, Ning Zhiheng took the camera, rushed to the ambulance room, and found that Lu Ming's body had been sent to the morgue.

He rushed to the morgue again, took a photo of Lu Ming's remains, and specially told the staff that the body must be properly preserved, and when the case is over, he will choose a place with good feng shui for burial.

When he returned to the office and washed out the photos, it was already late at night, and Ning Zhiheng hurried home.

The first thing he did when he got home was to quickly take out the blank paper and paintbrush, and he wanted to draw portraits of people while his memory was impressive.

This time, Lu Ming's memory gives relatively little information, and the first picture is very easy to understand, it is a scene of Lu Ming's life in his youth, which can be ignored.

The second picture is his memory of combat life after joining the army, which only shows that he used to be a soldier and was useless.

The third picture is the scene where he took the oath when he joined the Red Party, and it is also the most profound scene in his memory before Lu Ming's death, in which there is an officer of the Qing Dynasty who is about the same age as him, who is his introduction to the party, this person is only middle-aged now, and his appearance will not change much, it must be drawn, if he has the opportunity to meet in the future, Ning Zhiheng can immediately determine his identity to facilitate his actions!

The fourth picture should be Lu Ming's beloved partner who was shot and finally died in his arms, and with Lu Ming's death, her portrait has no value to keep.

The most important thing is the fifth picture, which reveals the most information, first of all, he mentioned the sacrifice of a comrade-in-arms named Boran, mainly mentioning that Lu Ming took over his work and inherited his code name "Shadow"! The main thing is the contact person with the code name Farmer, and the portrait of this person is the key and must be drawn.

He quickly drew the two people in Lu Ming's memory, carefully added the subtleties, and made notes on the side, and then put down the pen with satisfaction.

Push open the desk, open the safe, and store the portrait of Lu Ming's introduction to the party. As for the portrait of the farmer, you should carry it with you.

Everything was cleaned up, it was already two o'clock in the morning in the second half of the night, Ning Zhiheng had time to rest, fortunately, there was a spiritual platform space to recuperate, enter the state of emptiness, and use the magic of the Bodhi tree to restore his strength, and when he got up early the next morning, he was full of energy and vigorous!

In the morning, he rushed to the Military Intelligence Department, immediately called Shi Hong and Wang Shucheng, distributed Lu Ming's photos to them, and asked them to lead the team members to various police stations in Nanjing to arrange the investigation of household registration files, especially those who have been reported missing in the past few days, all of them will be reported to the Military Intelligence Investigation Department, and they will be summarized in a unified manner, and he believes that clues will be found soon!

The Military Intelligence Investigation Department's notice of assistance in the investigation was then sent to all police stations, and for a time a wide net was cast throughout Nanjing, and the household registration departments of each police station worked overtime, and two days later found hundreds of citizens with similar appearances.

Among the more than 100 people, they all found him, and only Lu Guangran, chief of the second section of the National Defense Department of the Ministry of Finance, had not gone to work for two days.

Ning Zhiheng hurriedly notified the Ministry of Finance to claim the body, and soon three staff members of the Ministry of Finance came, and after claiming it, it was confirmed that the body was Lu Guangran, the chief of the second section of the National Defense Department of the Ministry of Finance.

They were all Lu Ming's colleagues before his death, and they knew that the usually honest and low-key Section Chief Lu turned out to be the underground party of the Red Party, so they didn't dare to get the body back at that time, for fear that they would be targeted by these spies of the Military Intelligence Investigation Department in the future and be implicated, and Lu Guangran himself had no family.

Ning Zhiheng didn't plan to let them take the corpse away, so he carefully inquired about Lu Ming's work and home address, and let them go!

In two days, Ning Zhiheng used a huge amount of human resources to finally find Lu Ming's disguised identity. This is the strength of the state apparatus, which justifiably uses the energy of government departments to easily achieve its own goals!

As the case-handling officer who arrested Lu Guangran, a member of the underground party, it is also normal for him to conduct a routine investigation and confirm the identity of the body, and no one will think of going anywhere else!

He didn't take anyone with him, and according to the situation said by the Ministry of Finance, he rushed to Lu Ming's house as soon as possible, which was a very remote house, but the area was not small, and there was a big lock on the door.

Ning Zhiheng first walked around and observed it, but found no suspicious people before coming to the gate and taking out a bunch of keys, which he searched from Lu Ming.

He knew that the people of the Party Affairs Investigation Department would know Lu Ming's identity sooner or later, find his home, don't underestimate the ability of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, as the earliest spy department in modern China, they have a lot of experienced veteran agents, it is not difficult to find Lu Ming's identity, and this time Ning Zhiheng's movement to find Lu Ming is not small, and they will soon let their keen sense of smell know, so Ning Zhiheng wants to go in in advance to see if there are any items that threaten the underground party, and he must clean it up in time.

Lu Ming's home is very large, after all, he is an official of a government department. But apart from some necessary furniture, there are no extra furnishings, so the home looks empty!

Ning Zhiheng took out a pair of gloves, and carefully tied two pieces of coarse cloth on his leather shoes, this was also just in case, in the future, the people from the Party Affairs Investigation Department would definitely come to search Lu Ming's home, he didn't want to leave any traces!

He first searched the living room, the coffee table, the sofa, the drawers, etc., almost everywhere he could hide things, but he found nothing of value.

Then the guest room, and finally the bedroom, he searched them all, but still found nothing, it can be said that the general family has all the things, but there is nothing related to the underground party! There is no abnormality, it can be seen that Lu Ming must be a very cautious person on weekdays!

But isn't it a little too clean? Ning Zhiheng decided to search the bedroom again.

Most people think that the smaller the space they are, the more secure they are, and what they see with their eyes is the most real, so people's bedrooms are the most likely place to hide their secrets! This is a common human disease!

He searched inch by inch, and when he arrived at the wardrobe, he thought about it and simply took out all the clothes carefully, and groped carefully with his hands, and finally found that a wooden board against the wall was looser than the others.

He took out his dagger and tried to pry open the plank, and sure enough, he took it off with a flick, it should have been taken off a lot in normal times, and there must be something wrong here.

Sure enough, a one-foot-square hole was dug into the wall behind the plank, and a wooden box was placed inside.

Got it!

Ning Zhiheng was excited, this was too secretive, and he almost missed it.

He took out the wooden box, felt the heavy pressure on his hand, placed it on the bedside table, and opened it gently.

There are a lot of things inside, and on the right side are a dozen gold bars, as well as several stacks of banknotes, including pounds sterling and fiat currency, which is estimated to be quite a small amount.

But it's also normal, in fact, as a section chief of the Ministry of Finance, this amount of money is really shabby. In recent years, if there is some real power in the hands of government officials, not to mention this money, it is not uncommon for it to be increased ten times and a hundred times!

Lu Ming's property should be more than that, but thinking of the current difficult situation of the Red Party underground party, it is estimated that all the money he collected has been handed over to the organization as activity funds!

On the left side of the wooden box, there is a red cloth bag, after unraveling, it turned out to be two extremely beautiful rain flower stones, round and smooth, colorful, and then there is a photo below, the photo is the beautiful woman in Lu Ming's memory is smiling with low eyebrows, smiling sweetly!

Check it carefully, there are no other things in the wooden box, and there is nothing wrong with these things, at most they are some of Lu Ming's personal belongings, and I don't see any connection with the underground party!

Ning Zhiheng was a little disappointed, he had already searched the entire house, and there was only this harvest, this wooden box, he would hand it over to the contact farmer!

The money in the wooden box, he didn't plan to move a penny, he didn't lack this money, and besides, the money belonged to Lu Ming, and it should be handed over to the underground party in the end.

As for the two Yuhua stones and photos in the red cloth bag, there must be a story in it, Ning Zhiheng doesn't know how to deal with it, and the farmer and Lu Ming have been comrades-in-arms for many years, maybe he knows how to deal with it.

Although there are some regrets, Ning Zhiheng doesn't plan to waste time here anymore, he has not been short to enter Lu Ming's house!

He carefully restored the objects he had touched to their original positions, and when he wiped the traces in the living room, he suddenly felt that something was wrong there, and he inspected the entire living room again, and finally found that there was a problem there!

It turned out that on the tea table in the living room, there were more than a dozen small tea cans with a very delicate appearance, Ning Zhiheng didn't think it was wrong when he first searched it, he just thought that Lu Ming loved to drink tea, but now it seems that there is a problem!

Ordinary people will not prepare so much tea at home, and Lu Ming lives alone, a pot of tea can be drunk for a long time, even if the tea can is very small, it is a little too much to buy more than ten tea cans, after all, tea also has a shelf life, there is no need!

He stepped forward and opened all the tea cans and checked them, there was no problem, there were only tea leaves in them, nothing else.

But Ning Zhiheng's intuition told him that this must be a flaw left by Lu Ming, and there will definitely be a search by the Party Affairs Investigation Department in the future, and he must take these tea candies away, and no major hidden dangers can be left!