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 may be his own, but the boat is not a small object. Wherever Tianfu puts it when it is not in use, he cannot take it back to his home. Then a fool will know that there is something wrong.
Disguised and hiding by the river?
Doing this on a wild river is not a big problem, but this is not a wilderness. This is the densely populated Jinling. There are residential areas along the river. Hiding a boat by the river will only have two consequences.
Being discovered or stolen.
Looking at Tianfu's skillful entry and exit from Min Ping's residence, it shows that he had a plan in advance, so the ship must have been prepared in advance. Why was the ship not discovered after being hidden for so long?
"Snapped."
Zuo Zhong killed a mosquito that was parked 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 ship was small in size or light in weight.
This is easy to understand. It is small in size and will not easily attract other people's ideas when hidden. It is light in weight and can be easily moved to a remote place to hide, and then dragged to the river when needed.
Or maybe it’s both, easy to hide and easy to move. Is there such a water transport? 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 can also be used as a production tool when needed. An adult woman can easily carry it walking down the street. This weight is even easier for a professional spy.
However, this thing is not easy to control. Even experienced users will often capsize. At the same time, its floating is mainly supported by water plants such as water chestnuts. It is easy to turn upside down on open water.
It is unlikely that Tianfu will use this kind of tool. If he is a doctor and carries a big bathtub in public, is he afraid that others will not suspect him? Lurkers should try to keep a low profile.
What could that be?
Zuo Zhong recalled various lightweight boats and quickly thought of one thing, that is, an inflatable and deflated rubber boat. Only this 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 19th century, countless explorers and inventors have wanted to use rubber to make ships, and the United Kingdom has conducted a large number of experiments in this area.
According to the relevant information obtained by Zuo Zhong, Daiying still has a lot of imagination. For example, the cloak rubber boat used for polar expeditions is made of fabric coated with some rubber and is very light.
Before inflating, the cape boat can be used as a awning. After inflating, it becomes a single-person inflatable boat. The bellows is only the size of a suitcase, and the cane and blades become a rowing oar.
After so many years of development, coupled with the technological explosion brought about by the last war, there was even a two-person boat placed in a backpack. Although it was not as good as later generations, it was enough for Tianfu to use.
(The picture is an Easter egg, not a fabrication.)
This small river is not the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, in the last century, four people rowed rubber boats across the Atlantic Ocean 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 war, the intelligence battlefield is also a testing ground for various new technologies. It is not surprising that the Japanese have rubber boats.
If Zuo Chong remembers correctly, Japan will rely on this thing in the future war of aggression to stay in an uninhabited area in the Jiangnan area with dense river networks. After capturing Tianfu, it can be used as a reference.
More importantly, another thing can be deduced from this, Tianfu should have a car, the origin is temporarily unknown, the car is different from the boat, the borrowing 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 arrive here in a rubber boat from a very far away place. The longer the distance and the longer the time, the greater the chance of being discovered.
It is 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 enters the water from the other side, what is the meaning of this passage.
So he needs to transport the rubber boat from a certain place to a suitable location. There will be witnesses in the rickshaw. The bicycle may not be able to carry the rubber boat. The most likely thing is a car.
Zuo Zhong raised his head and took a sip of cold water that smelled of vinegar. He sat on the wooden post and raised his ears, listening to the movement around him, but he heard nothing except the chirping of cicadas.
Tianfu should have evacuated, and presumably he would have done more reconnaissance beforehand. There was no need to stay too long after completing the screening, unless it was confirmed that there was a problem and he was ready to wait and see.
Zuo Zhong observed the trestle in the dim moonlight. It was a simple trestle. The method was to drive two rows of wooden piles into the water and put a wooden board in the middle. There was a certain distance between the bridge deck and the water surface.
This is a calm inland river. If it were placed in an outer river with strong waves, a strong wind could overturn it. But it was this inconspicuous little trestle that created a huge hidden danger.
If Min Ping had not deceived Tianfu, all that would have been left to the Intelligence Department would have been a cold corpse. Even if Min Ping had the chance to call for help, Tianfu would have been prepared if she dared to show up.
Fortunately, it didn't come to that.
Zuo Zhong stood up and walked on the bridge with one hand on his knees. The bridge suddenly made a creaking sound. He stopped at the end of the trestle and then lowered his head slightly to look at his feet.
No traces or traces of water whatsoever.
It seems that Tianfu was very careful when landing and evacuating, or did some cleaning work during the evacuation. This is a bit difficult to handle. What he had thought before was all speculation, and there was a lack of evidence to support the speculation.
Without conclusive evidence, we cannot be 100% sure where this secret passage is. The uncertainty of where this passage is means that Min Ping may face life danger at any time.
You can't let people protect her personally. It's better to put up a sign and tell everyone that there is a Japanese spy who was instigated by the Secret Service. When the time comes, it will be difficult to find him if Tianfu shrinks back.
I thought about it for a while.
Zuo Zhong stopped his eyes on the dilapidated bridge deck and stepped lightly on the suspended wooden planks. If no traces of people could be found, then he would check for traces of ships. No one could violate the law of material exchange.
When Tianfu went to see Min Ping, it was impossible to take the rubber boat with him. It was most likely to be buckled on the trestle. Will the friction between the hull and the wooden piles leave traces, and would there be scratches in the mud.
These are all possible, but there is definitely no way to survey the scene now. At least we have to wait until dawn to send people to search secretly, and we also need to prevent Japanese spies from peeking around. This is not easy.
It would be best to find evidence of the existence of the rubber boat from other aspects. Where to start? With the cunning shown by Tianfu, I am afraid that there will not be much evidence left, unless there are traces that cannot be removed.
Traces that cannot be removed.
Zuo Zhong thought thoughtfully. To put it simply, traces refer to the perceptible shapes or imprints after things pass by, such as traces of walking, such as the tracks of ships, 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 require other people and other carriers to be presented. Are there any invisible traces that exist independently?
Yes, smell.
The principle of smell is that tiny particles selectively block the nerve sensation of the small holes in the olfactory sensory terminals. Such tiny particles cannot be seen under normal circumstances, but they are real.
On the premise that Tianfu cannot damage the on-site environment, how can we remove the smell and stand with a fan to blow the air? But thinking about it this way, the other party seems to have another purpose in taking the boat.
Did he want to use this method to avoid being tracked by police dogs? Unlike the police dog industry in the Republic of China, which had just started, the Japanese started cultivating police dogs very early, as early as during the war.
Tianfu can think of using water to block the tracking of odors, which shows that Japanese spies are already training in this area. The strength gap between the Republic of China and Japan is really comprehensive, which can be seen from this.
Thinking of this, Zuo Zhong staggered two steps, pretended to be too drunk, sat down on the ground, and then lay down directly. The part of the trestle across the water was less than two meters, just enough for him to lie flat.
Resting on the cold, hard wood, he sniffed. In addition to the smell of mud and rotten wood, a familiar yet unfamiliar smell filled his nasal cavity, similar to the smell of tire friction.
To be precise, it was the smell of rubber paint. He had smelled it on a gas mask. This convinced Zuo Zhong that, as he had guessed, Tianfu was the Tangzi Alley that was approached by a rubber boat.
The secret passage can be identified.
So now two things can be determined, one is that the other party owns or can borrow a car, and the other is that the other party does approach Min Ping's residence through the river. These two clues are very valuable.
The number of cars in Jinling is not small, and most of them are used by party, government, and military agencies. Public cars must have borrowing records, and the number of private cars is limited and easy to investigate.
As long as we find tonight's witnesses and confirm the car model, color, and license plate, we can sort out the cars in Jinling and find another clue for Tianfu, and it's 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, and that is where to get on and off the bank, otherwise it will be a useless effort if it is discovered.
The small river in Tangzi Lane leads to Zhongshan Road in the west and passes through the urban area in the east. From a safety point of view, Tianfu will not launch water from the east. It is a downtown area and there are many pedestrians even now.
What if an overly curious person saw Tianfu boating in the middle of the night and called the police? How should he explain to the people at the police station that it was fishing? Tianfu would not do such an uncertain thing.
Only to the west.
Zuo Zhong slowly stood up and glanced in the direction of Zhongshan Road with his peripheral vision. There was a bridge there. After crossing the bridge, he left the city. The number of residents on both sides of the bank gradually decreased, which was very convenient for Tianfu's movement.
He had to search along the west bank of the river to find the scene where the rubber boat was launched and possible witnesses. Zuo Zhong immediately squinted his eyes, turned around and walked towards the surveillance point while carrying the bottle.
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