The two spies who found Li Yan and his bicycle were both members of Meng Longsheng's detective team, and they had just wandered all the way from the direction of the city hall, intending to go to Dongguan Street to find a favorite restaurant for dinner.

As a result, the two spies met with the male lieutenant of the military commander.

Ever since the assassination of a member of the detective team in front of Meng Longsheng's house in Luoguxiang, they have begun to look for bicycles in the city based on the sighting clues before the crime, and even when they find excuses to enter the homes of ordinary citizens, they do not forget to pay attention to whether there are any traces of bicycles. However, in the occasional clues, the suspicion of the owner of the bicycle was finally ruled out.

At this moment, the man standing on the street with his bicycle in both hands not far away seems to have never entered the field of vision of the detective team. The two agents exchanged glances with each other and paced slowly.

The next thing they noticed was that the bicycle man's eyes were fixed on the small building of the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters across the crossroads, and this unusual behavior of civilians made the two detectives more and more vigilant. One of them whispered: Don't do it yet, see what he's going to do.

Li Yan, an agent of the military command, was completely unaware that he had become a target of surveillance. As soon as the street lamp was lit, Li Yan was standing under a telephone pole, and he immediately pushed his bicycle forward for a short distance, thus avoiding the reflection of the street lamp. However, in the darker place behind him, two burning eyes stared at him.

Gazing at the small red building at the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters across the street for a moment, Li Yan decided to give up - wanting to learn about every move in that small red building from the outside, it is completely hopeless to improvise like himself, unless a fixed monitoring point is set up nearby - the concept of a fixed monitoring point instantly jumped into the mind of the military commander agent, and he began to consider whether it was really necessary to give action to his own lightning thought. So he looked around again, looking around at the buildings near the Little Red Mansion, but perhaps because of nightfall, the military commander's agents did not find the ideal location.

He muttered, finally lifted his leg to the saddle of his bike and rode forward along City Hall Street.

Of course, if the agents of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command had been able to perceive that someone had already been in the same position before him to monitor the nearby Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters, and had already successfully set up camp, he would have given more careful consideration to the thoughts that had just flashed through his mind.

Li Yan's bicycle slowly traveled westward until it reached the opposite side of the Kansai restaurant before coming to a stop. This time, the owner of the bicycle did not get out of the bike, but supported the body with one foot on the ground, and his eyes were on the brightly lit and thriving Japanese restaurant across the street.

The two members of the detective team followed the neighborhood at a rapid pace, secretly glad that their opponents were not riding at a fast speed, otherwise they would have to spread their legs and run. When they stood in the dark shadow and continued to observe the cyclist, and found that the target of the other party's stop to observe at this time was a restaurant run by a Japanese, the two looked at each other again, and they had more and more bottom points in their hearts - this guy on a bicycle is definitely not a good type!

"What to do? Do you want to take him now? One of the detectives asked his companion.

"Don't worry, keep following," the detective team member who replied was obviously more sophisticated, and the training given to him by the Japanese military secret service in Wencheng showed results at this moment: "This kid must have a foothold, let's see where he rides in the end." ”

"Could it be anti-Japanese?" The one who asked the question earlier looked very nervous, and one hand had been subconsciously copied into his waist, grabbing the handle of the Mauser* gun he was carrying: "Just the two of us, there are too few people, if he finds out, it will be terrible." ”

The member of the detective team who answered, when his companion said this, was also a little hairy: after all, it was not broad daylight at this moment, and the anti-Japanese elements who made trouble in the city before were all characters with accurate marksmanship and vicious shots, and the corpses of the detective team brothers who were killed are enough to prove it. He looked left and right, there was no and it was unlikely that other members of the detective team would appear - the captain of the island and Captain Meng had divided the scope of activities for the thirty or so members of the detective team, and if there was no emergency, the team members would not cross the line with each other without authorization.

"Look where he is going in a while, there is a hotel in the direction of the town hall in front, there is a telephone in it, you keep an eye on him when the time comes, I will call someone." The seasoned detective team member whispered.

Before they could finish speaking, the cyclist they were monitoring had resumed their ride, and to their dismay, they did not turn in the direction of the town hall, but turned around and rode away the route they had come; Luckily, the ride was still slow. Two members of the detective team immediately followed, about a dozen steps apart.

The reason why Li Yan, an agent of the military command, watched the officers who came out of the Hagiwara brigade headquarters walk into the Kansai restaurant across the road and accompanied him was actually subconsciously doing something wrong: he really wanted the beautiful female major of the military command to be with him at the moment, so he swaggered into the restaurant with the Japanese officers, not only to find out the news, but also to enjoy a delicious Japanese meal.

And at the thought of those sashimi, fried beef, and charcoal-grilled shrimp, Li Yan's stomach reflexively growled - it was already meal time, even if he couldn't go to a Japanese restaurant, it was always feasible to find a restaurant run by Chinese to treat himself. Thinking of this, the military commander agent rode faster, and when he rode back to the opposite side of the small red building of the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters, he slowed down for a moment and looked at the building a few more times, and the idea of setting up a fixed observation point nearby resurfaced, but was eventually expelled by hunger. So, he turned around City Hall Avenue and galloped north along Dongguan Street.

At this time, the two members of the detective team who followed him suddenly complained, they never thought that the guy who was riding slowly in this area would suddenly accelerate away, and they began to run away unprepared, but when they turned Dongguan Street, the bicycle man threw them a distant back.

The street lights along Dongguan Avenue are much sparser than those on City Hall Avenue, so the vision is even darker, and even if the two detective team members run wildly, they can only watch the tracking target gradually move away. In the hurry, one guy stumbled on the soles of his feet and lost his balance, and when he was about to fall, he had to grab his companion who was close at hand, and as a result, the two people stopped running at the same time.

"What the fuck are you doing with me! Didn't you see that kid running away!? The detective team member who was grabbed by one arm angrily scolded at his companion in a loud voice.

"Chasing ...... Can't catch up...... People are riding, let's run ......" The detective team member who almost fell on his heels complained breathlessly: "I just said that I did it just now, you ...... You don't listen to my ......"

"Scratch a fart! Can you judge a fart just now? Didn't I think about digging his lair! ”

These two guys got carried away and ran all the way for dozens of meters, and at this moment they stood on the side of the road unscrupulously and talked loudly, without any scruples about the few passers-by who passed by them.

Among the passers-by who couldn't avoid it, one of them almost encountered the two of them head-on, and witnessed the scene of the other party almost falling, and he flashed to the back of a tree alertly, so he listened to the next conversation between the two people clearly, and couldn't help but be shocked, and understood what kind of person he had encountered.

This passer-by is the captain of the enemy engineering team of the Xu Brigade Detachment of the Eighth Route Army: Xiao Junping.

Xiao Junping, who had just finished dinner, wanted to go to the No. 16 courtyard of Dongguan Street at this time, which was the monitoring point he had placed before, and he had moved some personal belongings into it one after another in the past two days.

As a result, the captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army, who was holding a burden in his hand, was about to reach his destination when he almost collided with the two men who were rushing towards him. Now, hiding behind a tree, he quickly judged the identity of his spy from the conversation between the two men in a few words.

Since he had already had a hot fight with the captain of the detective team in the city, Xiao Junping also knew several spies who often followed Meng Longsheng's side. At this delicate moment, the captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army was in a hurry, and simply boldly flashed out from behind the tree and greeted enthusiastically:

"Two bosses, dare to ask, but are you Captain Meng's subordinates of the detective team?"

The spies, who were still panting, were stunned by the sudden appearance of the passerby, and one of them asked angrily, "Which one are you?" Lao Tzu is on a business trip, what do you want to do? ”

"I listened to the words of the two bosses, it seems that they are chasing people, who are they chasing?"

"Are you impatient? Dare to inquire about anything! ”

"Hehe, the two bosses are not strange, the brother's surname is Xiao, he is the second shopkeeper of Chengruixiang Silk Village not far ahead, and he has a very good relationship with your Captain Meng, do you need my help?"

Although these two members of the detective team have not met Xiao Junping, they have also heard the captain mention it several times, and they know the names of Cheng Ruixiang and Xiao Er's shopkeeper, and they are a big friendly financier.

"It turned out to be Xiao Er's shopkeeper," the experienced detective team member arched his hand towards the other party: "You just came from the north?" Ever see a guy on a bike rushing over? ”

In the impression of walking over, Xiao Junping really had the memory of a man riding a bicycle passing by, but he didn't care about it at the time. Looking back now, the other party doesn't seem to be very old.

"Some of them seem to have passed in front of my eyes!" The captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army pretended to be shocked and shouted: "Who is it? Want to work two bosses to arrest him? I knew I would have cut it off for you! ”

"Don't ask so much, is there a phone around here?"

"That pawnshop should have a phone." Xiao Junping turned his head and pointed to the Jin Heng pawnshop directly opposite the Catholic Church and said.

The agent who spoke to him stopped talking, waved at his companion, and the two of them trotted towards the pawn shop's door.

The captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army stood in place, watching the two traitor spies disappear into the pawn shop door with the lamp still in hand, but his heart was turning over the river and the sea: Who are the spies chasing? Obviously not an enemy engineering team, but obviously it should be an anti-Japanese comrade.

He once heard Meng Longsheng, the captain of the detective team, mention when he was drunk that the head of the Japanese secret service was chasing down a group of rampant "Blue Coat Society" elements in the city -- Xiao Junping knew that the Blue Coat Society in the mouth of the devil was the Military Command Bureau under the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government.

The one who just passed by him on a bicycle is the Blue Coat Society?!