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Chapter 383 Traces
The possibility of borrowing is unlikely. Tianfu is a very cautious person. He knows that once the passage is discovered, the Secret Service will inevitably conduct a large-scale investigation. The source of the ship is a good direction.

The boat can only be his own, but the boat is not a small object, where Tianfu puts it when it is not in use, and can never take it back to his home, then the fool will know that there is something wrong with it.

Hiding by the river in disguise?
It is not a big problem to do this by the river in the wild, but this is not the wilderness. This is the densely populated Jinling, and there are residential areas along the river. There will only be two results if the boat is hidden by the river.

be found, or be stolen.

Looking at how Tianfu went in and out of Min Ping's residence so skillfully, it meant that he had a plan in advance, so the boat must have been prepared in advance. After hiding for so long, why was the boat not found.

"Snapped."

Zuo Zhong killed a mosquito on his arm. Looking at the faint lights on the Pearl River Road on the other side, he naturally thought of two possibilities, either the boat was small in size or light in weight.

This matter is easy to understand. It is small in size, and it is not easy to attract other people's ideas when it is hidden; it is light in weight, so it can be easily transferred to a relatively remote place for hiding, and then dragged to the river when it needs to be used.

Or both, it is easy to hide and easy to move. Is there such a means of water transportation? Yes, for example, the peasant women picking water chestnuts in the countryside around Jinling use wooden basins as boats.

This kind of wooden basin can be used for bathing at ordinary times, and it is also a production tool when needed. An adult woman can easily carry it around the streets. This weight is easier for a professional spy.

However, this thing is not easy to control, even veterans will often capsize, and at the same time, its floating is more supported by water plants such as water chestnut, so it is easy to turn upside down on the open water.

It is unlikely that Tianfu will use this kind of tool. If he is a doctor and walks through the market carrying a big bathtub, is this because he is afraid that others will not suspect him? Lurkers should keep a low profile as much as possible.

What would that be.

Zuo Zhong recalled all kinds of lightweight boats, and soon thought of one thing, that is, the inflatable and deflated rubber boats. Only this kind of thing can meet the two characteristics of small size and light weight at the same time.

Since the emergence of vulcanized rubber technology in the first half of the [-]th century, countless explorers and inventors wanted to use rubber to make ships, among which Britain conducted a large number of experiments in this regard.

According to the relevant information obtained by Zuo Zhong, Daiying still has a lot of ideas, such as the cape rubber boat used for polar exploration, the raw material is a fabric coated with some rubber, which is very light.

Before inflating, the cloak boat can be used as a rainproof canopy, and after inflating, it becomes a one-person inflatable boat. The bellows is only the size of a suitcase, and the cane and blades become paddles for rowing.

After so many years of development, coupled with the technological explosion brought about by the last war, even a double boat in a backpack appeared. Although it is not comparable to later generations, it is enough for Tianfu to use.

(The picture is in Easter eggs, not fabricated.)
This small river is not the Atlantic Ocean. What's more, in the last century, four people crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a rubber boat and successfully reached the UK from New York. Technically speaking, there was no problem.

And any technology is the first to be used in the military. As an important part of warfare, the intelligence battlefield is also a testing ground for various new technologies. It is not surprising that the Japanese have rubber boats.

If Zuo Zhong remembers correctly, in the future Japan will rely on this thing in the war of aggression in the south of the Yangtze River where there are dense rivers and networks. After capturing Tianfu, it can be used as a reference.

More importantly, another thing can be deduced from this point, Tianfu should have a car, the source is temporarily unknown, the car is different from the boat, borrowing it is not so conspicuous and abrupt.

The reason why he made this judgment is also very simple. First of all, it is impossible for the other party to come here in a rubber boat from a long distance. The longer the distance and the longer the time, the greater the chance of being discovered.

It is also impossible for the other party to enter the water from a very close place. The purpose of Tianfu's establishment of a secret passage is to avoid possible surveillance. If he launches from the opposite bank, what is the point of this passage.

So he needs to transport the inflatable boat from a certain place to a suitable location, there will be witnesses in a rickshaw, and the inflatable boat that may not be carried by a bicycle is most likely a car.

Zuo Chong raised his head and took a sip of the vinegar-flavored cold water. He sat on the wooden stake and listened to the surrounding movement, but he heard nothing except the continuous chirping of cicadas.

Tianfu should have already evacuated, thinking about it, at most he would do more investigation beforehand, and there is no need to stay for too long after the screening, unless he is sure that there is a problem and is ready to wait.

Zuo Zhong observed the trestle bridge under the hazy moonlight. This is a simple trestle bridge. The method is to drive two rows of wooden piles into the water, and put wooden planks in the middle. There is a certain distance between the bridge deck and the water surface.

This is the calm inner river. If it is placed on the outer river with strong waves, a gust of wind can overturn it, but it is this small unremarkable trestle bridge that has caused a huge hidden danger.

If Min Ping hadn't lied to Tianfu, what would be left to the intelligence department would be a cold corpse. Even if Min Ping had the chance to call for help, so what, Tianfu must be prepared if he dared to show up.

Fortunately, things didn't go that far.

Zuo Zhong stood up with one hand on his knee and walked on the bridge. The bridge suddenly creaked. He stopped at the end of the trestle, and then slightly lowered his head to look down at his feet.

No water marks or marks of any kind.

It seems that Tianfu was very careful when landing and evacuating, or did cleaning work during the evacuation.

Without conclusive evidence, it is impossible to be 100% sure where this secret passage is. If you cannot be sure where this passage is, it means that Min Ping's life may be in danger at any time.

You can't let someone protect her personally, so it's better to hold up a sign and tell everyone that a Japanese spy has been instigated by the Secret Service. When the time comes, Tianfu will retreat, and it will be difficult to find it.

Think for a while.

Zuo Zhong stopped his gaze on the dilapidated bridge deck, and lightly stepped on the suspended wooden planks. If no traces of people could be found, then check the traces of the boats. No one can violate the law of material exchange.

When Tianfu went to see Min Ping, it was impossible to take the rubber boat with him. The most likely thing was to buckle it on the trestle bridge. Will there be any marks left by the friction between the hull and the wooden piles, and will there be scratch marks from the mud.

These are all possible, but there is definitely no way to investigate the scene now, at least until dawn before sending people to search secretly, and it is not easy to prevent spies from peeping around.

It is best to find evidence of the existence of the rubber boat from other sources. Where to start, with the cunning shown by Tianfu, I am afraid that there will not be much evidence left, except for traces that cannot be removed.

Traces that cannot be removed.

Zuo Zhong thinks deeply, traces simply refer to the perceptible shadows or imprints after things pass by, such as the traces of walking, such as the track of a ship, which can be seen with the naked eye.

In addition, there are traces that are invisible to the naked eye, such as sound and radio waves. They need other people and other carriers to be presented. Are there invisible traces that exist independently?

Yes, smell.

The principle of smell is the nerve perception that tiny particles selectively block the small holes at the end of the olfactory sense. Such tiny particles cannot be seen under normal circumstances, but they really exist.

Under the premise that Tianfu can't destroy the environment of the scene, how to remove the smell, and put a fan on it to force the air?But thinking about it this way, the other party seems to have another purpose for taking the boat.

Did he want to use this method to avoid the tracking of police dogs? Unlike the police dog business in the Republic of China, which had just started, the Japanese began to train police dogs very early, beginning during the World War II.

Tianfu can think of using water to block the tracking of the smell, which shows that the spies are already training in this area. The strength gap between the Republic of China and Japan is really all-round, which can be seen.

Thinking of this, Zuo Zhong took two staggering steps, pretended to be overwhelmed with alcohol, sat down on the ground, and then lay down directly. The part of the trestle bridge spanning the water was less than two meters, which was just enough for him to lie flat.

Lying on the cold and hard wood, he sniffled. In addition to the smell of mud and rotting wood, a familiar yet unfamiliar smell filled his nostrils, similar to the smell after tires rubbed against each other.

To be precise, it was the smell of rubber paint. He had smelled it on the gas mask before, which made Zuo Zhong feel confident. Just as he had speculated, Tianfu was the Tangzi Lane approached by rubber boats.

The secret passage can be identified.

So now we can confirm two things, one is that the other party owns or can borrow a car, and the other is that the other party really approached Min Ping’s residence through the river. These two clues are very valuable.

There is not a small number of cars in Jinling, most of which are used by the party, government and military agencies. The public cars must have a borrowing record, and the number of private cars is limited, and it is easy to investigate.

As long as you find the witnesses tonight, confirm the model, color, and license plate of the car, you can trace the cars in Jinling and find another clue to Tianfu, and it is a direct clue.

As for using the river as a channel, this method sounds really good, but there is a problem that needs to be solved, that is, where to get on and off the shore, otherwise it will be useless to be discovered.

The small river in Tangzi Lane leads to Zhongshan Road in the west, and passes through the urban area in the east. In terms of safety, Tianfu will not enter the water from the east. It is a downtown area, and even now there are many pedestrians.

In case someone who was overly curious saw Tianfu rowing a boat in the middle of the night and called the police, how should he explain to the police station that it was fishing? Tianfu would not do such an unsure thing.

Only to the west.

Zuo Zhong slowly got up and looked towards Zhongshan Road from the corner of his eye. There was a big bridge standing there. After crossing this bridge, he left the urban area. The number of residents on both sides gradually decreased, which was very convenient for Tianfu to move around.

He had to search along the west bank of the river, looking for the scene where the rubber boat was launched, as well as possible witnesses. Zuo Zhong immediately squinted his eyes, turned around and walked towards the monitoring point with the bottle in his hand.

　Explain, some people want to read the facts + solve the case, I think so too, and the writing is easy, but there is already a Chinese version of the Republic of China, um, it is awakening. So please understand more, solving the case is also very good-looking, that is The author is too tired.

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