Lao Fu originally wanted to be lazy, but he didn't expect that the person he was looking for would be so capable. But more than half an hour later, news came from a brother-in-law in the south of the city that they had found clues to one of the photos. Lao Fu, who was ecstatic in his heart, immediately led people to rush over. The person who recognized the photo was a hawker selling food on the street in the south of the city. When Lao Fu saw this hawker, he was holding a roast chicken with his mouth full of oil and eating it. joyous.
A hoof and a roasted chicken can be exchanged for a clue. Even in Lao Fu's opinion, this kind of deal is extremely cost-effective. After careful questioning by Lao Fu, the street vendor did indeed identify the person in the photo. When Tang Cheng arrived, Lao Fu just finished the questioning. Tang Cheng just glanced at the street vendor and did not ask him again. Instead, based on Lao Fu's dictation, he drew a rough sketch on the white paper brought by the restaurant owner.
"According to this vendor, the target appeared here." After simply drawing a few streets on the white paper, Tang Cheng used the pencil in his hand to mark a black dot in the middle of one of the streets to represent At that time, the hawker saw the specific location of the target. "We've been here for a long time in this area in the south of the city! Almost all merchants live around this street, so the target's foothold cannot be around here." As Tang Cheng spoke, the pencil in his hand moved all the way east. Finally, draw a circle two streets away.
"This street goes east and has the most mixed-up housing. Even people from the local police station rarely come here. If it were me and I wanted to settle in the south of the city, this would be the best choice." Tang The pencil in Cheng's hand tapped heavily on the circle he had just drawn. Lao Fu immediately understood what Tang Cheng meant, and immediately called his team members, and immediately went to the area designated by Tang Cheng to investigate.
This street vendor, who had had a good meal, could not leave smoothly. Instead, he was sent back to the military camp by people from Tangcheng. He had only identified the photos before, and Tangcheng then arranged for him to identify the two arrested people face to face. of attackers. Things seemed to be going well, and before Lao Fu could make any gains, there was a call from the military camp, saying that Tangcheng had sent people back to the street vendors in Juntong and had successfully identified one of the attackers.
Zhang Jianghe, who made the call in person, sounded very excited on the phone. He did not expect that Tangcheng would move so quickly. "Uncle, don't be too happy! We have only found traces of one of the attackers who once appeared in the south of the city! If this attacker appeared in the south of the city just by chance and did not really settle here, our The investigation will have to start all over again!" Tangcheng really can't dampen Zhang Jianghe's enthusiasm, but some things are not just what you want.
Zhang Jianghe, who was poured cold water on the phone by Tang Cheng, didn't care at all. He just hung up the phone and the next second he called the bureau directly to make a report. Like Zhang Jianghe's previous reaction, the bureau chief who received the call did not expect that the search team would move so quickly. Less than half a day had passed before Tang Cheng used that stupid method to find traces of one of the attackers in the south of the city. The bureau seat, which was already a little anxious, started to feel full of expectations from this moment on.
At this moment, Tang Cheng, who was secretly investigating in the south of the city, did not know these things. He just followed the street vendor's instructions and continued to look for traces of the target's appearance, starting from the street where the target appeared. Relying on the banknotes in their hands as chips, Tang Cheng and the others soon found traces of the target's past here, but the target's movement route was a bit beyond Tang Cheng's expectations, because the target appeared in the south of the city and seemed to be just here to buy things.
"Captain, so far, we have found traces of four targets through the shops on the street. However, according to the memories of the shopkeepers and clerks in these shops, the targets seem to only come here to buy things. This is not consistent with our previous inferences. It doesn't match." A search team member beside Tang Cheng wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand while looking at Tang Cheng who had a calm expression. After hearing this, Tang Cheng did not open his mouth to explain, but continued to look around at the situation.
The next second, Tang Cheng stopped looking. Several team members followed Tang Cheng's line of sight and happened to see a hotel across the street. The south of the city is the place where most people from all religions and nine streams gather in Chongqing, so there are many large and small hotels here, and the hotels here never have so-called guest registration books. A quarter of an hour later, Tang Cheng was already sitting in the hotel manager's chair, holding in his hand the account books that the hotel manager used to handle police inspections. The hotel manager was standing in front of Tang Cheng with a nervous look on his face.
Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the chair, looked at the account book with an expressionless face. The more silent he was, the more panicked the already panicked hotel manager became. After more than a dozen breaths, Tang Cheng finally threw the account book on the table in front of him, then looked up at the hotel manager. "Don't be too nervous. We are not here for you today! Look carefully at these two photos and think about whether you have seen the two people in the photos."
As soon as Tang Cheng finished speaking, a team member handed the two photos to the hotel manager. The hotel manager, who was secretly relieved, quickly reached out to wipe the sweat off his face and looked carefully at the two photos in front of him. It's a pity that the hotel manager didn't recognize the two attackers in the photo. Tang Cheng was not in a hurry and just asked the hotel manager to gather the clerks in the store and let them all carefully identify the people in the photo.
Naturally, Tang Cheng did this not on a whim. The memory fragments he had copied from the minds of the two attackers contained information about this hotel. He had previously led his team members to search for traces of the target left in this area, just to pave the way for now. Sure enough, under Tang Cheng's continuous hints and threats, a waiter in the hotel finally nodded and said that he recognized one of the people. The attacker identified by the hotel clerk happened to be the man that the street vendor did not recognize. The two circumstances put together just proved the inference that Tang Cheng had given before.
The search team members who followed Tangcheng originally thought that they would not gain anything here. But no one expected that a waiter at the hotel would actually identify one of the attackers. Knowing that the attacker, identified by the hotel clerk, had not checked out yet, at Tang Cheng's signal, team members immediately went upstairs with pistols to search the target's room. Tang Cheng did not go upstairs, but waited in the lobby downstairs of the hotel, because he knew that the attacker was unlikely to leave any useful clues here.
"I know that your hotel is related to Brother Pao in the south of the city." Tang Cheng, who was still sitting in his chair, looked at the hotel manager with a calm expression. "But you have to understand that we are not here to rip you off. What we want to catch are the Japanese and puppet spies lurking in the city. If you think those robe brothers can protect you, then you are wrong. If If you continue to hide it, I can guarantee you will end badly."
The hotel manager thought that his performance was completely flawless, but he did not expect that Tang Cheng had already seen through his plan. Facing Tang Cheng's intimidation, the hotel manager, who was already extremely confused, still tried his best to resist, but in the next second, Tang Cheng pulled out the pistol from his waist. Tang Cheng looked at the other party without blinking, while slowly opening the safety of the pistol, and then loaded the bullet. Before Tang Cheng could speak again after finishing this, the hotel manager who was supporting him knelt down in front of Tang Cheng with a plop.
Just as Tang Cheng thought, the hotel owner who pretended to be timid was indeed hiding something. After all, this is an open-door hotel, and the hotel owner, who has been diligent and calculating all his life, is worried that if things get too big, his hotel will lose business. He originally thought that this was the south of the city, and perhaps relying on the reputation of those robe brothers could save his hotel from trouble. But he didn't expect that the young man in front of him was actually a ruthless character.
The hotel manager, who knelt down and begged for mercy, quickly poured beans out of a bamboo tube and told him everything he knew. "So, when the person in the photo came here, he was accompanied by a guy named Ma Laosi?" The hotel manager revealed a guy named Ma Laosi. According to him, Ma Laosi and the target It looked very familiar, and he could faintly hear Ma Laosi and the man talking about the teahouse on the next street.
The hotel owner's confession made Tang Cheng completely relieved, because all the information that had been learned so far was enough for him to guide Lao Fu and the others to find the attacker's foothold in the south of the city. The team members who went upstairs to search quickly came down. As Tang Cheng guessed, the attacker who lived here did not leave any useful clues or traces in the hotel room. They missed it.
"Remember what I told you, you and your people had better keep your mouth shut about us coming here. If I find out that you and your people tell us about coming here, you I will spend the rest of my life in a labor camp outside the city." When Tang Cheng led the people away, he did not forget to threaten them with words. Compared with those traitors who secretly helped the Japanese and puppet spies, the hotel owner was still Chinese, but Tang Cheng was very annoyed by the hotel owner's concealment of clues.
The next place Tang Cheng went to was the teahouse that Ma Laosi had mentioned to the target. This time, Tang Cheng also did not plan to sneak in in disguise, but directly blocked the entire teahouse with great fanfare. Still the same as before in the hotel, Tang Cheng first took out the photos and asked the teahouse owner and waiters to identify them, and then used words to threaten the teahouse owner.
