Masao Kojima's continued investigation of Zhou Yi's clue was divided into two ways.

On the first way, let Meng Longsheng, the captain of his Zhina special service team, go to the streets of Wencheng to inquire, and strive to find someone who has met or even dated this Zhina woman; However, for this journey, the head of the Japanese secret service did not have much hope.

The second way is his focus, he arranged a few capable subordinates, and first arrested a cadre of people in the north freight yard of Wencheng Railway Station: from the freight yard shopkeeper to the porter, repeatedly pry everything about Zhou Yi from their mouths. The focus is on introducing the woman to the middle of the job in the freight yard.

Soon, the second way came first.

According to the shopkeeper of the North Freight Yard, he received a call from a business partner in Taiyuan, asking him to arrange for Zhou Yi to work as a handyman in the freight yard, because this Zhou Yi had a cousin and was an old acquaintance of the business partner. The shopkeeper of the North Freight Yard also saw Zhou Yi's cousin, surnamed Li, who looked less than thirty years old, and was a businessman who did small business in cities along the railway line.

Masao Kojima immediately ordered to follow this clue to track down Taiyuan: the business partner of the shopkeeper of Wencheng North Freight Yard was working as a dispatching supervisor at Taiyuan Railway Station. After being contacted by Kojima, the Taiyuan secret service took away and interrogated the dispatch supervisor, and then learned that Zhou Yi's cousin was named Li Yan, who had worked in the Tongpu Railway Construction Bureau in the Yan Xishan era, and after the outbreak of the war, he left the Road Construction Bureau and did business in Taiyuan, and it is said that he was mainly engaged in the trading of towns along the Tongpu Road Railway south of Taiyuan.

But the annoying thing is that none of these relevant information about his name Li Yan can be verified from a third party, and there are no other clues to find his foothold in Taiyuan, and he doesn't even know what business he does!

However, the cunning and calm head of the Wencheng secret service found something strange from Li Yan's elements: if this person leaves immediately, he has a certain trajectory of activities among the people, but they are all vague and vague; He seems to have a fixed identity and occupation in the eyes of outsiders, but if it is really checked, there is no basis at all - all of these are in line with the relevant characteristics of underground spies.

It's time to be on the scene!

Now, Masao Kojima is almost certain that Li Yan, who has no head or tail of the dragon, and the female corpse lying naked in the torture room, are both spy personnel of the same organization, and the Blue Coat Society is the most likely. He took advantage of his old relationship in the railway to arrange that Zhou Yi to the North Freight Yard of Wencheng Railway Station in an inconspicuous manner, in the name of workmanship, but secretly monitored the movements of the imperial army in the area of the railway line. Kojima's men had carefully searched Zhou Yi's single dormitory, but found no trace of spy work, which undoubtedly showed that the woman still had a foothold in other parts of the city; And that foothold is likely to be the nest of this organization in Wencheng.

At this time, the head of the secret service remembered a clue provided by Meng Longsheng temporarily, according to the street ruffian, just after the Spring Festival, when the Otsuka Wing of the Hagiwara Brigade had not yet occupied Wencheng, and the independent 12th Brigade of the Jin army was still stationed here, he and several brothers were near Dongguan and had a fight with a group of unknown men and women, during which a woman in the group pulled out a pistol and killed one of his little brothers on the spot.

However, Meng Longsheng said with great certainty that the two women in the group (including the one with the gun) were not Zhou Yi in the current torture room of the corpse in terms of appearance—those two women were very beautiful, and one of them was quite young.

Despite the cover-up of the Shina secret service captain, Masao Kojima immediately understood the nature of the fight—the pretty, young woman—and it was apparently that the bunjo ruffians failed to flirt with each other, leading to the use of force. This bastard!

The beautiful woman carries a gun with her, which can't help but attract the attention of Masao Kojima. Could it be that he is also a member of the Blue Coat Society? It is rumored that in the South and Central China regions, the Blue Coat Society prefers to recruit young and beautiful women, train professional skills and then devote themselves to the organization of the Blue Coat Society in various places.

However, what made Kojima Masao cry and laugh was that Meng Longsheng, the bastard, except for remembering that there were two beautiful women in the gang, couldn't tell anything about their other characteristics, probably after the other party suddenly shot and fired, he was so frightened that he ran away.

"Chief Kojima, I can guarantee that if I see those two little ladies again, I will definitely recognize them on the spot!"

This is the most valuable sentence that the captain of the special service in China has said in this matter. Fortunately, if this guy meets the beautiful woman with the gun in Wencheng in the future, the answer may be revealed. Either way, it's a clue to look forward to.

As for the moment, all Xiao Dao can do is to coordinate with the Taiyuan secret service, so that the dispatching supervisor of the Taiyuan Railway Station will pay more attention to the news of the man named Li Yan, and report it as soon as he appears. In addition, from the known pitiful amount of information, the head of the secret service could not even figure out whether this Li Yan was active in Taiyuan or Wencheng.

Li Yan is, of course, in Wencheng, with his female boss.

From the perspective of absolute safety, Wang Suihua has decided to evacuate the Nanyang Hotel: Zhou Yi's whereabouts are unknown, her life and death are uncertain, and she knows everything about the Nanyang Hotel. Half of the Shanxi Station Intelligence Group 2 (including cars and radio stations) is now here, and the female major of the military commander does not dare to make such a dangerous bet. She asked Li Yan to immediately find a new place to stay in the city, and made it clear that he would not stay in any hotels and inns again.

In order not to alarm the hotel, they did not check out immediately, Wang Suihua and the elder of the radio station, Liu, first packed the military radio station, moved it into the trunk of the Chevrolet, and the two got into the car and drove to an unobtrusive alley a few miles away from the Nanyang Hotel to park; At the same time, Li Yan has begun to go to the north of Wencheng to look for houses that can be rented out as a new base camp for the second intelligence group.

The main reason why Wang Suihua asked Li Yan to find a new foothold in the north of the city was that it was close to the north gate, which was convenient for them to go out of the city to the courtyard in the northern suburbs where they could monitor the Songjiagou railway branch line. Now, the second intelligence group has revised its tracking thinking, retreated from the main force of the Sena Division in Nantongpu Road, and re-aimed at Xiaoyushu Mountain and Songjiagou Railway Station, which is a dangerous move with no way out; So far, Wang Suihua has not asked the director of the radio station to send a report to the station to report this.

The military commander's strategy was to get out of the dangerous situation of the Nanyang Hotel for the time being, and then turn on the radio station after everything had stabilized in the new area. In fact, deep in Wang Suihua's heart, she also decided to delay the time to report to Zhao Qingwen out of possible reprimand and opposition from the stationmaster. After all, the stationmaster has always insisted that Nantongpu Road is the direction of the implementation of the Japanese army's "wind plan".

Li Yan, who is familiar with the geography of Wencheng, did not take much trouble to find an ideal location in an alley in Beicheng. The male lieutenant of the military commander knew that on the eve of the capture of Wencheng by the Japanese Otsuka Wing, many wealthy and qualified families in the city fled with their families - the massacre of the city after the Japanese army attacked the city in northern Jin and other places, and there was a rumor here in Wencheng - so there are now many houses in the city, which are either empty or only left to be guarded by servants.

Li Yan only wandered around for an hour, and found several such dwellings, including buildings and mansions. Later, at the mouth of a not too cramped alley, Li Yan found a single-door courtyard, and posted a striking "rent" at the gate, but there was a lock on the door.

After a long time, from the opposite courtyard of this house, an old man came out of the door with a creak and asked Li Yan if he was renting a house. It turned out that he was entrusted by the family to help attract tenants; The owner of the house moved his family to Henan as early as last year before the start of the war in Shanxi, leaving only a distant relative to help guard it. On the day when the Japanese army came to attack Wencheng during the Spring Festival this year, the distant relative also ran back to the ancestral house in the countryside, and entrusted the key to the old man before leaving: the two families have lived opposite the door in this alley for more than 20 years, and the relationship is very good. Distant relatives told the old man that the yard of the house was idle, and if someone came to rent, it was better to rent it out for a few dollars than to leave it there. The money collected goes to the old man, who must help take care of the house and the tenants.

Knowing the reason, Li Yan couldn't help but be secretly happy. The alley was close to the street ahead, and it didn't look so conspicuous; Although the house is located at the mouth of the alley, the courtyard wall is not short, and the courtyard gate is also strong. The main thing is that the alley is wide enough to drive the Chevrolet in and park it against the courtyard wall, without affecting the entry and exit of other homes in the alley.

The old man opened the lock of the courtyard door, Li Yan walked in, and found that this was a small mansion, with two main houses with doors and windows open to the south, corresponding to two partial houses with doors and windows facing north, and the courtyard was sandwiched in the middle, and there was a big willow tree on the west wall in the courtyard. The furniture in the two main rooms is fully furnished, and it looks like a solid family once lived; There are two north rooms, one is a kitchen, and the other is a small building with miscellaneous items and a latrine.

Li Yan was secretly satisfied, and immediately negotiated the price with the old man and rented it for three months. When he introduced himself, he still used the guise of a trading company from Taiyuan, but out of caution, he did not mention the name "Fuhua". If it weren't for the Chevrolet sedan at first glance, the male lieutenant of the military commander would not have wanted to use his old identity anymore - if something happened to Zhou Yi, he would be her direct introducer in the freight yard of Wencheng Railway Station, and I am afraid it would be difficult to escape the involvement. This is also what the female boss Wang Suihua has repeatedly told him, at least for a while, not to show up in the place he knew in the past. Everything has to wait for Zhou Yi's whereabouts.

Zhou Yi, my good eldest sister, where are you?