Spy Shadow

Chapter 158 Understatement

"I already know this. Japanese spies are ferocious and not afraid of death. It's a pity not to be captured alive, but it's not a big problem. Why did yesterday's operation fail?"

As expected, Virgo did not blame him. He Nian took the opportunity to say: "Originally, Chu Lingyun planned well. He intercepted the Japanese spies who wanted to go to the countryside to hide at the stuck point. The stuck point was far away from the city. Chu Lingyun brought more than twenty people to ensure the operation. Success. But the police at the stuck point did something wrong. Not only did they fail to help, they exposed our purpose, which ultimately led to the failure of the operation."

"The quality of the police force is getting worse and worse. They are a group of guys who fail to succeed but fail."

Virgo snorted coldly, and He Nian immediately responded: "You are absolutely right, these policemen deserve to die. I have asked Chu Lingyun to investigate them and deal with them after finding the evidence."

"What are you checking? No need to check. If you ruin our operation, it will be a capital crime. Just kill him."

Virgo glared at He Nian, who was slightly startled and quickly accepted the order: "Yes, Virgo, I will execute them myself."

He Nian left the office with a chill on his back.

He thought he knew Virgo very well, but it was still not enough. He just ruined their actions. No other reason was needed. Six lives were taken away with one simple sentence.

He had no sympathy for these policemen. He wanted to deal with these policemen, but Virgo's ruthless behavior made him frightened.

If Secretary Qi hadn't given him the idea to get Chu Lingyun under his command, once he completely disappointed Virgo, the result might not be much better than that of those policemen.

Chu Lingyun was not there and went to Nilu's surveillance point.

Zhang Bai is dead, and he can only find his downlines by himself. The most important thing now is to find all Zhang Bai's downlines.

"How's the situation?"

Chu Lingyun asked Xiang Niyi, who would report to him at certain points how many of Zhangbai's regular customers had bought that newspaper.

Every time one is found, Loach will record a list, and all the names recorded will be the focus of the next investigation.

"Team leader, in addition to Ma Jingyuan and Gu Cheng, whose identities have been confirmed, there are eleven people who have bought News Daily."

"Show me the list." After Chu Lingyun finished speaking, Ni Loach handed over the list.

Eleven is a lot, but compared to Zhang Bai's more than two hundred regular customers, it is much less.

This morning is the most critical. Since Zhang Bai uses newspapers to deliver urgent news to his downlines, his downlines will definitely buy this newspaper every day.

Ma Jingyuan and Gu Cheng bought the newspaper without any surprise.

Eleven people plus the two known people, there are thirteen people in total. Some people did not buy newspapers or were not found out. In the end, the number of people found was up to twenty.

It won't be any more. First, it's time. More than half of the morning has passed, and many people who should buy newspapers have already done so.

Secondly, Zhang Bai would not have so many offline people. If there are so many people in an intelligence team, it is not an intelligence team, it should be called an intelligence station.

The intelligence team of Japanese spies has always been streamlined, and too many people are not conducive to the development of intelligence work.

Who of these people are offline and who are ordinary people? Chu Lingyun will investigate and identify them.

According to the current information, the eleven people range in age from 25 to 50, and come from all walks of life, including teachers, telephone exchange employees, hotel managers, tailors, chefs, and an opera singer in the theater.

Before screening, everyone is suspected, and Chu Lingyun will not give up the investigation just because of his career.

After carefully reading the list, Chu Lingyun ordered: "You will start investigating these people in the afternoon and investigate everything about them in detail, past and present."

"Yes, team leader."

It's just checking people. Ni Luo is familiar with the road. He has checked many people and has rich experience.

When they were in Wuhan, they had investigated a lot of spies. These latent spies had many common characteristics. Chu Lingyun had already summed up the experience for them, so it was not difficult to do this kind of investigation.

…

At Jingyuan Bookstore, Ma Jingyuan was sitting at the counter reading a book.

There was also a copy of "News Daily" beside him. He saw the missing person notice sent by Zhang Bai and understood that Zhang Bai had left Deyuanchi to hide in the countryside.

There was a strong sense of worry between his brows.

What he was worried about was not Zhang Bai, but his brother, Kawamoto Xiuta.

My brother has been missing for so long, where has he gone?

There are trains, ships and carriages from Nanjing to Shanghai, but my brother would only choose to go to Shanghai by train. Relatively speaking, trains are much faster than shipping and safer than horse-drawn carriages. After all, the war is in chaos now and there are bandits everywhere.

Is it possible that my brother was really arrested by China’s intelligence agency?

Then he shook his head. In his eyes, his brother was the most powerful person. He had just arrived in Nanjing not long ago and had not performed any tasks. How could he be discovered by those incompetent Chinese people?

Suddenly, he remembered something.

When his brother came to see him before, he told him that his apprentice Keiko Chishima was arrested while performing a mission in Wuhan. The person who arrested him was named Chu Lingyun, who was from the Military Intelligence Department, and this person had been transferred to Nanjing.

The purpose of his coming to Nanjing was to see if he could find an opportunity to kill this man to avenge Keiko.

Could it be that my brother didn't go directly to Shanghai before, but went to seek revenge on Chu Lingyun, but failed and hid, or was he caught?

The more I think about it, the more likely it is.

Although my brother is very serious about his work, he will carry out the tasks without hesitation. But his brother is also an extremely confident person. He may think that it doesn't take too long to kill just one person, and it won't be too late to go to Shanghai after killing him. So when he was in Nanjing, he went to take revenge first and then go on the mission.

Thinking of this, he finally couldn't sit still, went back to the room, found the pistol, and hid it on his body.

"Xiao Li, I'll go out and look at the bookstore."

After giving instructions to Xiao Li in the store, Ma Jingyuan left the bookstore. The person monitoring him immediately discovered his movements and reported the news to Ni Loach.

Chu Lingyun was at Loach and got the news of Ma Jingyuan's departure immediately.

"Team leader, is Ma Jingyuan going to run away?"

Loach asked carefully. Ma Jingyuan was usually in the bookstore at this time and rarely went out. His behavior today was a bit abnormal.

"Ask him what he did before he went out and what he took with him when he went out."

Chu Lingyun was also suspicious, but to understand the other party's true purpose, he needed more information to make a judgment.

The news came back quickly. Ma Jingyuan had been in the room before going out. He didn't take anything with him when he went out. He also needed a rickshaw when he went out. It's not yet sure where he is going. The surveillance brothers are taking turns to follow him.

Nothing?

Chu Lingyun was a little relieved. He didn't look like running away. If he knew that he was exposed, he would definitely not choose to run out so boldly during the day.

"Continue to monitor him and be careful not to embarrass him. If he wants to leave the city, arrest him immediately."

Chu Lingyun was very careful. Even if he judged that Ma Jingyuan was not trying to run away, he still issued an order to arrest people at any time.

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