There was a loud noise, which must have indicated a serious situation. The three of them rushed to the scene of the explosion as quickly as possible.
The explosion occurred in a utility room of the garrison brigade. The utility room was adjacent to the ammunition depot of the garrison brigade. The explosion detonated the ammunition in the warehouse. The explosion was so powerful that the entire warehouse was almost razed to the ground, leaving only one. The ground is in disarray and ruins.
It is a blessing among misfortunes that it did not happen in the artillery ammunition depot. If there were explosions there, many barracks would be blown into the sky, and it would not be a puff of black smoke...
When such a big event happened, almost all the heads of the fortress came over. The commander of the fortress, Lieutenant General Xu Kang, had a livid face and was reprimanding a group of people, especially the commander of the garrison brigade Yuan Jun, who almost shrank his head into his neck.
"A bunch of idiots! Peng Yuqing is a Japanese spy. He has been lurking in the fortress for so long and you didn't notice it? Or was Staff Xiong of the Military Commission alert enough to catch the spy... The same goes for your garrison brigade. There was an explosion in the barracks in the clear sky? Your brigade What do you do for food?" Commander Xu yelled at the officers.
The usually arrogant and arrogant officers of the national army, whether they were major generals or colonels, stood on the spot like chickens in plague.
Ma Xiaoguang, Lao Li, and Ning Zhongping naturally had to stand at attention. Although it was none of their business, when the top officer of the fortress got angry, of course they had to accompany him to be scolded.
After the reprimand, Commander Xu was probably a little tired, so he called several senior officers to give them a few instructions in a low voice, and then left the scene with his adjutant.
As he was leaving, Commander Xu glanced at Ma Xiaoguang as if inadvertently, and without any more words, he got into the car and left.
After Commander Xu left, the unrelated army officers also dispersed. However, Yuan Jun, commander of the garrison brigade, and Liu Shouping, director of the inspection department, remained at the scene. One of them was the responsible person and the other was in charge of the investigation. They both had to continue. Just running an errand.
Xiong Zizhuang, who was being received by Commander Xu, was bragging about the magic conch. Before the bragging was finished, something like this happened. Naturally, he had a frosty mask on his face and a look of surprise on his face, but he did not leave the scene. He stood there in a daze, a little numb.
Ma Xiaoguang winked at Lao Li and Ning Zhongping. The two of them had already understood and naturally separated to join the on-site investigation team.
Ma Xiaoguang walked to Xiong Zizhuang and asked with concern: "Brother Xiong, are you angry?"
"Brother Si Ke, this is too irritating. Why are these enemy agents so rampant?" Xiong Zizhuang said angrily.
"Not everyone is as sharp-eyed as my eldest brother, who can spot enemy agents at a glance..." Ma Xiaoguang said.
"Oh, that's true. It's just a pity that these ammunition were used. I heard that a few brothers were sacrificed..." Xiong Zizhuang sighed.
This Xiong Zizhuang has a sad and lonely expression. Those who don't know better think that he is really concerned about the country and the people. His acting skills are really good.
"Hey, brother, there is no need to worry too much. We just need to take care of our own errands. There is no dedicated person in charge of espionage prevention... We don't need to take the initiative." Ma Xiaoguang said coldly with some disdain.
"Two senior counselors, there is something going on here, please come together to discuss the details..." Just as the two of them were talking about each other, Liu Shouping, the director of the Fortress Inspection Department, came over and said.
Originally, Ma Xiaoguang and Xiong Zizhuang were not involved in the investigation of the scene, but what the people from the inspection office found at the scene left them scratching their heads.
The inspector hurriedly sought medical treatment, and with the blessing of Xiong Zizhuang's capture of an enemy agent yesterday, he asked two senior officials of the Military Commission for advice. Anyway, this was just a technical issue, and there was no confidentiality involved.
The scene was a mess of rubble, with debris from the explosion everywhere, which made people feel nervous.
Ma Xiaoguang didn't care. This kind of situation was often encountered in the Secret Service. Xiong Zizhuang was not feeling well, and his face turned pale while walking in front.
When we got to the center of the explosion, it was also a piece of debris, and there was nothing surprising about it.
"Two senior counselors, this explosion happened strangely. You see, the center of the explosion is located in the utility room at the back of the barracks. Everything in it is registered and there will be no explosives. However, gunpowder residue was found here... The strangest thing is Yes, how to detonate this location?" Liu Shouping introduced the situation.
The real situation is different from that in many mythical dramas. In this era, no mechanical or electronic time fuze has been invented, which means there will be no time bombs.
"A brother who survived said that no one has been near the utility room since last night, which means that there is no possibility of anyone planting a bomb..." Gao Dequan, captain and staff officer of the Inspection Office, added.
"Is this really a ghost? Could someone use a lead?" Xiong Zizhuang asked curiously.
Hearing this, Gao Dequan quickly said: "No, it has to be more than ten meters from the door or window to the explosion center. We won't use such a long lead. There will be people patrolling the barracks area at any time..."
"Could it be that enemy agents had sneaked into the utility room early in the morning and ignited the explosives while everyone was unprepared..." Xiong Zizhuang simply made nonsense.
As soon as he said this, everyone looked at him with strange eyes. They didn't expect that the wise and powerful Staff Officer Xiong would come up with such a strange conclusion last night.
The patrol team and sentries did not find anyone coming out of the utility room, and no trace of anyone being killed in the bombing was found at the scene. Could it be that this person can fly?
Ma Xiaoguang didn't speak. He looked at the scene of the explosion and pondered, trying hard to think of various possibilities at the moment. He seemed to have grasped something, but he was still a little uncertain.
He didn't laugh at Xiong Zizhuang. Firstly, he didn't have the intention, and secondly, he knew that Xiongzizhuang might be harboring something bad, and he was not a fool but a fool.
After the people from the Inspection Office investigated for a while, but found nothing, Ma Xiaoguang and Xiong Zizhuang went their separate ways. After all, their jobs were defensive maps, not on-site inspections.
In the afternoon, after Ma Xiaoguang finished drawing the day's fort defense map and handed the drawings and related documents to the fortress confidential room for archiving, he found an excuse and went to the garrison barracks to meet Ning Zhongping.
"Lao Li went out to contact the brothers in the city... and asked them to investigate from the outside..." Ning Zhongpinghui reported.
"Well, be careful. Except for the intelligence line I gave you, don't contact the Secret Service or other intelligence units. This is for everyone's good..." Ma Xiaoguang did not go into details. The party-state's intelligence confidentiality work is very poor and chaotic. It would be harmful rather than beneficial to contact them.
There are certain words and things that everyone should know, but don’t say them out loud.
"We still don't have a clue about the explosion, everyone is like headless flies..." Ning Zhongping said a little irritably.
"Do not worry……"
"Ding ding..." Before Ma Xiaoguang could finish speaking, the phone in the office rang.
Ning Zhongping picked up the phone and agreed, but just listened and didn't say much, but the expression on his face was a little happy.
"Old Li beat me, if there is a situation..."
Upon hearing the news, Ning Zhongping immediately came forward to secondment Staff Ma to the fortress in the name of assisting in the investigation of the explosion.
After the explanation, the two people quickly left the fortress camp and rushed to the "Weizhengxuan" restaurant in Jiangyin City.
After passing through the front hall and kitchen of the restaurant, Ma Xiaoguang and Ning Zhongping came to the backyard of the restaurant.
"What did you find?" Ma Xiaoguang asked.
"Eel reported that after his investigation, he found a suspicious person. This person met with a national army officer, and this officer was the dead Peng Yuqing..." Lao Li Shen Shenghui reported.
"Well done, but you have to be careful when meeting eels, especially to protect his safety." Chief Ma praised.
"Eel" is the code name given to Huang Yongfa by Chief Ma. Unexpectedly, he found the spy's accomplice outside. This person was either on the line or in traffic, and he was definitely not a trash fish.
"Understood... This is not the place to talk. We rented a private house..." As he said that, Lao Li opened the back door of the yard.
The three of them quietly left "Weizhengxuan" through the back door and came to a secluded private house.
As soon as he entered the door, he heard voices begging for mercy coming from inside the house.
"Sir, I'm just a messenger. I really don't know anything, so why don't you show your respect to me!"
"You're using a piece of straw as incense to make a fool of yourself? If you're really just a messenger, Fatty, I'll fry the fish in the palm of my hand for you to eat!"
"Hey, did the fat man encounter a hob meat?" Ning Zhongping walked in and asked with a smile.
"This hasn't even started yet..." the fat man said viciously.
Ma Xiaoguang and Lao Li didn't speak. They lit cigarettes and sat outside the house, not looking worried at all.
Not long after, there was a sound of banging one's head against a pillar, and a "whimpering" sound as someone's mouth was covered...
After a while, the sound disappeared, and the sound of someone gasping for breath came out.
"Okay, let's go in." Ma Xiaoguang put out the cigarette butt and said to Lao Li.
After entering the house, they saw a person tied to the pillar of the main room. His face was bruised and his eyes were swollen. Except for a stab wound on his arm, there were not many wounds on his body.
There was a sour smell in the room, which was a bit overpowering.
"Be honest! How about Fat Master, I'll add some more ingredients for you!" The fat man said with a ferocious expression on the side.
"I tell you, I tell you everything! I am the traffic officer of the Cirrus Intelligence Unit of the Neon Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Super High School Division. I am codenamed Stratus, and my name is Koji Okada. I am mainly responsible for the death of Yoshio Murakami, codenamed Black Cloud, inside the fortress. Peng Yuqing passed on the information..." Okada Koji, who was tied to the pillar, gasped and confessed.
When the four of them heard this, they were all a little speechless, especially Ma Xiaoguang. He did not expect that the situation here was even worse than what Huang Yongfa said. This extraordinarily high school had sent an intelligence team, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Army, navy……
It seems that just a few of them may not be enough.
"Is there anyone else in your intelligence team?" Ma Xiaoguang asked.
"I don't know about this. Every time I send information, it is sent to the dead mailbox on the south gate city wall..."
Not getting more useful information from Okada Koji, Ma Xiaoguang was a little depressed. This was just the "Cirrus" intelligence team, not to mention more other monsters.
"Fat man, keep an eye on him first, and immediately notify the brothers in Jinling to come and escort him back... There are few manpower here..." Ma Xiaoguang ordered, he was depressed because he wanted to advance the work.
Ning Zhongping was recording a formal confession for Okada Koji, while Fatty was sorting out his own affairs.
"It smells so sour, what is this?" Lao Li asked aloud.
"This is rice vinegar, not for repairing this kid... If he were in Jinling, Fatty would just use sulfuric acid on him," the fat man said.
"Sulfuric acid... I thought of it!" Ma Xiaoguang suddenly felt enlightened after hearing what the fat man said.
