Under the shade of the trees on the street, several children were gathering together, watching a young man weaving grasshoppers out of weeds. These children are all children of merchants in this street. They usually play here, but no one pays any attention to these children. Noto Koji, whose pseudonym is Li Hai, appeared at the street corner from a distance. Noto was holding a bag of fruit in his hand. He seemed careless, but in fact he was secretly paying attention to his surroundings.
Koji Noto is Takenan Takada's old subordinate. When he came to Chongqing this time, Takenan Takada specially brought Koji Noto because Koji Noto was thoughtful and outstanding. The street in front of him was still as noisy as when he left. Noto Koji didn't notice anything strange, but he was still cautious. After all, this was a Kuomintang-controlled area. If they were not careful, they would face danger and trouble.
Every move of Koji Nodō was watched by the young man under the shade of a tree on the street. Seeing that the other man did not pay attention to him, the young man's mouth tilted up to reveal a smile. Leading Koji Noto past the boy, one of the children who had been surrounding the boy immediately stood up and jumped all the way behind Koji Noto. Chongqing, which has experienced two severe crackdowns, has good security. There are many children playing in the streets like this. Koji Noto never imagined that he would be followed by a seven or eight-year-old child.
On the way to the meeting point, Noto Koji used anti-tracking methods several times, but nothing unusual was found until Koji Noto, who looked calm, slowly walked into the bamboo shop on the street and followed him. The child then turned and left. "Brother Heizi, that man went to the Zhang family's bamboo shop. I personally watched that man go to the back hall of the bamboo shop." The child who returned to the shade of the tree squinted and whispered into the boy's ear.
"I'll go to Aunt Yun and get two yuan to buy some candies later. Just say it's me who said it." Hearing this, the young man chuckled and whispered to the child who was talking to him, while handing over the grasshopper he had knitted in his hand. To a girl child. The young man sitting in the shade of the tree weaving grasshoppers was none other than Heizi. Among the children in the circle around him watching the fun, those over seven years old were all children from the home of the veteran policeman from the search team. Kuroko's mission today is to keep an eye on this street and determine which store Noto Koji went to.
Takada Takenan and the three of them lived in the small courtyard. The first person to be targeted was Noto Koji, whose pseudonym was Li Hai, but Noto Koji didn't know it yet. Originally, Tang Cheng did not agree with Heizi's participation in the search team, but Heizi ran to Tang's mother and cried and complained. Tang Cheng was also annoyed by Tang's mother's lectures, and finally had to agree to take Heizi with him. Takenan Takada had a good background, which was easily seen from the secret telegrams from the Military Command Headquarters. Tangcheng, which had almost all the manpower available, had no choice but to assign tasks to Kuroko.
What Kuroko received was just a trivial task, but no one would have thought that Koji Noto, who was being closely monitored, would eventually appear on the street that Kuroko was monitoring. After confirming the target and entering Zhang's bamboo shop, Heizi immediately sent someone to deliver a message to the intelligence point on the next street. About a quarter of an hour later, someone stood at the intersection of the street and signaled Heizi under the shade of a tree. Heizi immediately stood up and followed the person who gave the signal at the intersection into a diagonal alley in the next street.
Tang Cheng was in the first courtyard of this diagonal alley. Seeing Heizi coming in with sweat all over his face, Tang Cheng did not ask questions immediately, but first handed him a bowl of mung bean soup. Mung bean soup can relieve the heat, especially if it is chilled. After a bowl of mung bean soup, the heat all over Heizi's body will instantly dissipate. "Brother, that person did go to the Zhang family's bamboo shop!" Heizi put the empty bowl on the wooden table next to him, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and spoke before Tang Cheng could say anything.
When he heard that the target entered a bamboo shop, Tang Cheng's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and Lao Fu, who had been standing beside Tang Cheng, said immediately. "The Zhang family bamboo shop has been on this street for two years. The owner's surname is Zhang. He has a wife who is sick in bed all year round, but few people have seen his wife. The surname Zhang only has a sick wife and no children. She lives in the city. There are no relatives here. When we were preparing to set up an intelligence point here last year, our people investigated the surrounding businesses, including this bamboo shop."
Lao Fu only introduced the situation of the bamboo shop to Tang Cheng, but instead of solving Tang Cheng's confusion, his words made Tang Cheng frown. "There's something wrong with this bamboo shop!" Tang Cheng, who had been closing his eyes slightly since Lao Fu spoke, suddenly opened his eyes. "Who investigated this area last year? Who checked afterward? Go and check, I'll wait for the results here." Tang Cheng's expression looked very serious, but his current attitude was not that he had any objection to Lao Fu, because Even Zhang Jianghe cannot guarantee that everyone at Chongqing Station will have no problems.
Lao Fu did not dare to neglect and immediately left the courtyard with a team member. Tang Cheng arranged for someone to keep an eye on the bamboo shop. In an instant, only Tang Cheng and Heizi were left in the originally crowded courtyard. "Have a rest first. News will be coming soon!" Tang Cheng dragged out two wicker chairs from the house and handed one of them to Heizi. "You have heard what I just told Lao Fu. Tell me what you think!" Tang Cheng lit a cigarette for himself, and while he had time now, he planned to teach Heizi something useful.
After Tang Cheng returned to Chongqing from Shanghai, Heizi often followed Tang Cheng. Although Heizi spent most of the time in the backyard of the military camp practicing martial arts and guns, Heizi also knew the tactics used by the search team to deal with Japanese spies. Since Tang Cheng asked the question at this moment, Heizi had to answer. After thinking about it for a while, Heizi immediately spoke. "Since our target is to enter Zhang's bamboo shop, it means there is something wrong with the bamboo shop."
"You just asked Uncle Fu to investigate who was the person who checked this area last year because you suspected that the person in charge might have made some omissions when investigating this area last year. Compared to the target who entered the bamboo shop, you are more worried about your subordinates If there is a problem with the people, the target can be found again if it is lost, but if there is a problem within the search team, the harm will be great." Heizi imitated Tang Cheng, reaching out to rub his chin while speaking. The pretentious look almost made Tang Cheng laugh out loud.
The smile on Tang Cheng's face made Heizi a little angry, but he knew he couldn't defeat Tang Cheng, so he had no choice but to twist his face and ignore Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng deliberately teased Heizi to no avail, so he had to cough lightly. "The analysis you just made is not wrong, but it is not comprehensive! Every one of the current search team and last year's special investigation team was personally selected by me. I can 100% confirm that there is absolutely no one among them. There will be people who are complicit with the Japanese."
"The reason why I told Lao Fu like that just now was just to remind him! Finding and hunting down Japanese spies is never something worth bragging about, because capturing Japanese spies is often accompanied by blood and sacrifice. Those words of mine , to remind Lao Fu that they must not be careless, and they must not be careless at any time." What Tang Cheng said at this moment was obviously not the truth, but Heizi didn't know the real intention of Tang Cheng's confession to Lao Fu.
Messages were sent to the small courtyard one by one, but Tang Cheng sat firmly on the Diaoyutai with no intention of leaving the small courtyard. Heizi had no choice but to stay here with Tang Cheng. About half an hour later, news came again that the target who entered the Zhangjia Bamboo Ware Shop had left, and the owner of the bamboo shop also left shortly after. "Look! They finally couldn't bear it anymore and are about to reveal their flaws even more!" Tang Cheng got up from the wicker chair, took the pistol handed by his team members, and put it into the quick-draw holster on his waist. "Let's go. I know you can't stay any longer. I'll take you to meet the man behind Boss Zhang."
Heizi followed Tang Cheng out of the small courtyard and back to the main street. Someone came over immediately and reported the latest news to Tang Cheng in a low voice. Noto Koji, who left the bamboo shop, had no intention of going to other underworlds. He followed his team members and determined that the target was the compound where they should return to stay. After Tang Cheng pondered for a moment after hearing this, he still followed the previous plan and asked people to closely monitor the yard. Then he took Heizi to track down the owner of the bamboo shop.
Following the signs seen along the road, Tang Cheng and Heizi soon saw the owner Zhang of the bamboo shop outside a teahouse. "Brother, there's something wrong with this person! He was obviously going to enter the teahouse, but when he walked to the door, he suddenly left. He was counter-reconnaissance!" The word "counter-reconnaissance" refers to the two people Heizi came from Chongqing station. I learned it from the mouths of surveillance experts. In order to improve and strengthen the operational capabilities of the search team members, Tangcheng specially borrowed people from Chongqing Station through Zhang Jianghe to serve as instructors to teach the members of the search team. Heizi had nothing to do and also took several lessons. .
"You're observing carefully, but it's best not to stare directly. This will only expose your whereabouts in advance!" Heizi anxiously wanted to cross the street, but Tang Cheng held him back. . "Now that you have seen that the other party is implementing counter-reconnaissance measures, you should learn to act calmly at this time. If the target is lost, just find another opportunity to follow it. Anyway, we already know their whereabouts. But if you If the other party sees through it, it may alert the enemy and make the target completely lose track."
Heizi didn't know that at the first sight of the owner of the bamboo shop, Tang Cheng had secretly used system skills to lock the target. Even if the target was across the street from Tang Cheng, there was no way to escape Tang Cheng's tracking. Heizi's previous inference was not wrong. The owner of the bamboo shop did conduct a counter-reconnaissance in front of the teahouse, but his whereabouts were not revealed. So after walking along the street for a while, he suddenly turned around and returned to the door of the teahouse. This time, the owner of the bamboo shop didn't hesitate at all and entered the teahouse.
