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Chapter 1063 Telephone Offices
"Check, the number is 956."

"Record, number 956, Commander Wang's mansion, address 24 Yinglie Street."

"Check, the number is 1761."

"Record, number 1761, XX Nanhuo Store, address No. 7, Lailong Lane."

"Check, the number is 787."

"Records, there is no record in the Yellow Pages, please refer to the telephone exchange bill."

In the large office room of the Second Military Command, Song Minghao reported the call records of Xing Hanliang's privately connected public phone when he was out, and a group of small spies quickly rummaged through the yellow pages and answered loudly from time to time.

No matter how lazy the police department is, it is still the police system. The disciplined forces enforce police regulations.

Therefore, in less than half a day, Xing Hanliang's time trajectory for the past two months was locked, and thousands of call records were quickly reduced to less than 300.

This is undoubtedly good news for the Second Office. According to the telephone yellow pages and telephone exchange bills, they can quickly find out the owners and addresses of these numbers.

Gu Qi walked around the office room with his hands behind his back, listening to the reports of the little spies, occasionally stopping to look down at the notebook to ensure that the records were accurate.

For the military commander who is becoming more and more professional and pays more and more attention to technology and writing work, he is actually a little unaccustomed and unfamiliar.

During the period of the Secret Service a few years ago, they focused more on action when investigating cases, but now they focus more on analysis and judgment, even in intelligence work against Japan.

If you want to catch the enemy's tail, you need to work hard on the enemy's funds and personnel appointments, and conduct research and judgment on the enemy's magazines, newspapers and other public materials.

These seemingly inconspicuous information often hide vital clues. Only by effectively synthesizing countless small clues can a complete puzzle be assembled in the end.

On the contrary, the guiding thinking of the Central Committee seems to be still stuck in the six-door era, thinking that only what can be obtained by prying the safe is called intelligence, and the value of public and low-class information is too underestimated. No wonder there are few major gains.

Looking at the "gentle and polite" little spy, Gu Qi even wondered whether the intelligence agencies in decades from now would lose their operational parts and rely entirely on open information collection for intelligence activities┴.

After thinking for a while, he shook his head lightly, drove the messy thoughts out of his head, continued to supervise the screening work, and did not leave until night fell.

The lights at the second office stayed on all night, and the next morning, Gu Qi, who hadn't slept all night, took Song Minghao to the telephone office in Shancheng to read the installation slip.

On the road.

The car was much slower than usual, walking for a while, stopping for a while, which made Gu Qi, who was checking the records in the back, frowned, and asked the driver in a deep voice what happened.

"Report, there is a traffic jam on the road, MD, those black skins don't know where they went." The driver hurriedly replied, and scolded the police officers of the Shancheng Police Station.

Congestion?

Gu Qi and Song Minghao stretched their heads to look outside, and saw mountain people with baskets on their backs everywhere on the narrow cement road, donkey carts, horse-drawn carriages, and mountain sedan chairs, all blocking the way ahead.

The police officers who were supposed to manage the traffic at the intersection were nowhere to be seen. The roads in the mountain city are complicated, and without control, they would naturally be chaotic. No wonder the drivers would curse.

Looking at the scene outside the car, Gu Qi and Song Minghao glanced at each other quietly, knowing that Lao Bai must have activated it, and the police officers are causing trouble.

At this moment, a group of police officers in the distance raised banners and walked across the street in a chaotic manner, shouting slogans. The content of the slogans shocked the surrounding people.

"The central government excludes dissidents, and the high-level police sit on the sidelines!"

"The secret agent framed the police, we want justice!"

"Injustice! The Central Committee abused lynching, and Qu┴ beat him into tricks!"

Hei Pi, who used to be domineering, bullying men and women, and doing all kinds of crimes, is now going to speak justice.

The common people snickered secretly after being shocked, and they were not in a hurry to hurry. They got out of the way and looked lively. How could they miss the dog-eat-dog show.

The muscles on Gu Qi's face twitched slightly, Bai Wenzhi didn't know how to come up with a better slogan, but the policeman shouted grievances in the street, Xu Enzeng should have a headache now.

"Reverse the car and take a different path."

He was not interested in watching the performance of Lao Bai's subordinates, so he asked the driver to change the route. They had to find out Xing Hanliang's contact person as soon as possible, which was the top priority.

When the driver heard the order, he gestured behind him to the escort vehicles in front and behind. The convoy turned around in an orderly manner and drove into a small street.

Half an hour later, the car that made a long detour slowly stopped in the yard of the telephone office. Gu Qi and his party aggressively approached the high-level executives of the telegraph office and asked them to cooperate in their work.

The high-level executives of the telephone bureau had dealt with the military command a lot, and they understood that it was not a good thing to get too close to these spies, so they got oily on the soles of their feet after asking someone to bring them a receipt.

Gucci didn't come to socialize, and he didn't care if he was accompanied or not, so he immediately asked the accompanying spy to compare the receipts and inquire about the phone owners and addresses not registered in the Yellow Pages.

At the same time, he himself and Song Minghao conducted a second check on the dial records and receipts that had already been found out, so as to avoid errors in the yellow pages, which would affect the results of the investigation.

The little spies were very nimble, and quickly found the remaining numbers from the many slips, and quickly took pictures and records.

After completing the work in this area, Gu Qi asked people to scramble all the receipts to prevent the details of the investigation from being leaked, and then led them into the wiring room.

It was the peak call time at this time, and the police officers were "making troubles", and the operators were so busy that they didn't even have time to drink water.

The person in charge of the wiring room saw Gu Qi and others coming in, and was about to swear when he saw the ID card with the words "Military Command Bureau" printed on it. He immediately became polite and politely asked Gu Qi and others why they came.

Gucci didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked the other party to arrange a quiet office, a connected switch and a best operator.

Any communication and industrial facilities have design redundancy in order to keep running in extreme environments, and the telephone office is no exception, so the person in charge immediately agreed without hesitation.

It didn't take long for the equipment and room to be ready, and a frightened operator sat on a stool, at a loss as to what to do.

For ordinary people, Gucci did not threaten or threaten. He took out a thick record and handed it to the operator, patiently expressing his request.

"Dial all the numbers above and ask for the name and address of the head of the household. The reason is that your telephone company is checking the information.

Don't be nervous, just do the same work as Pingshi. Don't worry, if this matter is done well, we will ask the telephone company to reward you. Let's start. "

Gu Qi was aware of the operator's worries, so he said a few words of comfort, and then used lures to alleviate the other party's resistance and minimize the chance of making mistakes.

Noticing the mild tone of the agent, the operator relaxed a little, glanced at the records on the table, took a deep breath and began to work.

Since the first number was not within the jurisdiction of the manual switchboard in front of him, he plugged a plug into the AC circuit, and used the microphone to announce the phone number of another operator to make a relay call.

Ten seconds later, a voice appeared in the microphone, asking for the identity of the caller, and the operator asked the head of the household and the address according to Gucci's instructions.

Hearing that it was the telephone company who came to check, the other party didn't care, and answered all the questions happily, and there was no difference between what he said and the invoice.

Gu Qi, who was wearing earphones next to him, nodded to Song Minghao. Song Minghao drew a tick in front of the number with a pen, and a piece of information was checked in this way.

The second number happened to be within the jurisdiction of the exchange, and the operator skillfully established a connection, pressed the ring switch of the number, and successfully made a connection.

In this way, numbers were connected one by one. During the period, there were errors in the information, and there were no answers. Song Minghao made detailed notes.

Time passed by, and a small spy went out to buy some food. The people and the operator settled the meal casually in the room, checking the phone number non-stop.

When the clock on the wall reached 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the operator, who had been completely relaxed, connected a call again, but Gucci stopped him when he just wanted to speak.

Ordinary people receive a call, they will take the initiative to ask who is calling or say hello, the previous call is an example, but this call is different, the other party does not say a word after answering.

Covering the earphones and listening for a while, Gu Qi seemed to hear someone breathing softly. He thought for a while and signaled to the operator to speak. The operator cheered up and revealed his identity.

The electric current in the microphone buzzed, and the operator was afraid of being angered by the spies, so he quickly shook his head at Gucci, expressing that it was not his fault.

Gu Qi didn't have time to pay attention to the operator's mood. He looked at the string of numbers and addresses on the record and fell into deep thought, then called Song Minghao outside the door.

The two found a secluded place, each took out a cigarette and lit it, and whispered about the phone call just now.

"Old Song, what do you think of this?"

"Director, it's weird. Do you want to send someone to look it up? Anyway, we have an address here."

"I'm afraid this is a trap. Once our people go, the other party will know that they have been exposed."

"What should I do?"

Faced with Song Minghao's question, Gu Qi took two puffs of cigarettes. Under the stimulation of nicotine, his brain, which had been dulled by staying up late, regained its sharpness and helped him make up his mind.

"Leave it alone, and continue to check the remaining numbers to see how many big fish there are in this pond." After speaking, he stubbed out the cigarette butt with his hand.

Under the current situation, it is easy to startle the snake by acting rashly. If the suspicious person contacting Xing Hanliang is alarmed, it will be difficult to continue the investigation.

But you can't do nothing, Gu Qi continued to monitor the phone conversation, and at the same time asked Song Minghao to take the car away to clear their tracks.

In particular, the staff of the telephone exchange should be warned not to disclose today's events to other people at will, so as to prevent the other party from conducting counter-investigation.

At the same time, for the sake of confidentiality, he also sent reliable personnel back to the headquarters and reported the matter to Zuo Zhong.

When the moon rose into the night sky again, Gu Qi and others mingled with the off-duty crowd and left the telephone office, then quickly dispersed and walked in all directions.

In the hotel opposite the telephone office, a guest sitting by the window was drinking while observing the movement outside from the corner of his eye.

It wasn't until most of the staff left┴ that the mysterious man dropped his meal money, put on his hat, walked out of the restaurant in a hurry, and disappeared soon after.

(End of this chapter)