The Spy

Chapter 41 Finding out the reason
Xu Qingyun woke up before dawn.

He glanced at his watch and saw it was five o'clock. He had a bad feeling. In fact, he woke up at night and forced himself to go back to sleep so that he could get enough rest and be ready to deal with any situation at any time.

No one called him all night, proving that the target did not show up.

Two people from the action team are watching at the same time, and Yan Ming is there all the time, which is equivalent to three people watching, so the possibility of mistakes is very small.

"Captain, you're awake."

In just one night, Yan Ming's eyes were already red, with traces of moisture at the corners of his eyes, and it was obvious that he had rubbed his eyes many times.

"Thank you for your hard work. What's the situation now?"

"No one showed up." Yan Ming shook his head.

Xu Qingyun picked up the telescope, looked into the distance, suddenly put it down, and walked out.

He was worried that Yan Ming's guess would become reality. If that happened, it would only mean that the two Japanese spies had extremely superb acting skills and had deceived all of them, and even he was fooled by them.

Arriving at the entrance to the sewer, Xu Qingyun shone his flashlight downwards.

The light shone on the card slot below, and Xu Qingyun's face changed.

The intelligence that was originally blocked by the card slot is gone. The Japanese spy has appeared and taken the intelligence away under their noses.

How did he do that?
Yan Ming was following Xu Qingyun. Seeing that he had a strange expression, he leaned over and immediately froze like Xu Qingyun.

The outer packaging of the intelligence was made exactly according to what Mina Takamoto said. Although he was not the one who released the intelligence, he already knew that the intelligence was stuck in the sewer, and at this moment there was nothing underneath.

"team leader."

Yan Ming was extremely shocked. There were only two of them at the scene, and Xie Yongshan had not yet gotten up.

"Hold the flashlight for me."

Xu Qingyun handed the flashlight to Yan Ming, lifted the manhole cover, and went down. Yan Ming helped hold the flashlight and shine it downwards.

The card slot was still there, but the information was gone, along with some of the larger pieces of junk I'd seen yesterday.

Xu Qingyun ignored the dirty water and reached out to touch the slot. After a while, he touched the two ropes beside the slot.

Pull up one card and the slot flips upwards. Pull up another card and the slot flips downwards.

Touching the rope, Xu Qingyun finally understood why the intelligence was gone. It was not because the other party did not show up, but that the dead mailbox was just a cover.

In other words, this is not just a dead mailbox, but a disguise of a real dead mailbox.

“Give me a flashlight”

Xu Qingyun shouted, and Yan Ming immediately handed over the flashlight. Through the light of the flashlight, they could see that there was an obvious turn in the sewer less than ten meters ahead.

Remembering the approximate angle of the turn, Xu Qingyun climbed out and took Yan Ming to the direction of the sewer water.

After walking around in front, I soon arrived at the entrance of an alley. After walking a few steps inside, I saw the sewer manhole cover.

Xu Qingyun estimated the distance. This manhole cover was not far from the one outside the teahouse, only about twenty meters at most.

He already understood how the information was taken away.

Arriving at the manhole cover, Xu Qingyun searched carefully with a flashlight. There were marks of car wheels on the ground, traces of someone sitting on the ground, and several mottled footprints.

Someone was passing through the alley, and two footprints were left on the wheels of a car.

"Yan Ming, go back and get the camera."

Xu Qingyun ordered, but Yan Ming did not move, and whispered: "Captain, do you want to change your clothes and shoes first."

The weather is quite cold now. When Xu Qingyun jumped into the sewer just now, his feet and calves were obviously wet. When the cold wind blew, you can imagine how it felt. "This is an order."

Xu Qingyun glared at him. The most important thing now was to collect evidence. There was no time to change shoes and clothes. The cunning of the Japanese spy was beyond his imagination. Even he and everyone else were deceived.

It wasn't Mina Takamoto who lied to him, but her team leader, Mina Takamoto, who didn't know the truth.

If he had realized earlier that the sewer was a cover, the Japanese spy would definitely not have escaped. Unfortunately, when he first saw the blocking slot, he really thought it was a setting solely to block intelligence and prevent it from flowing out.

"Yes."

Yan Ming was startled and ran back quickly. When he returned to the surveillance point, Xie Yongshan had already put on his clothes.

Xu Qingyun was the person in charge of the case. When his team members saw that he woke up and took people out, they did not dare to be careless and immediately woke up their team leader. If there was really something wrong and the team leader did not wake up, he would definitely be scolded if the stationmaster knew about it.

When the team leader gets scolded, he will scold them when he gets back.

"Yan Ming, what happened?"

Seeing Yan Ming coming back in a hurry, taking the camera and about to leave, Xie Yongshan shouted hurriedly.

"The information has been taken away by Japanese spies."

Yan Ming gave a brief explanation and left. The captain was waiting for his camera and wanted to send it as soon as possible.

"impossible."

Xie Yongshan was slightly startled, screamed, and ran out after Yan Ming.

He and his men had been keeping an eye on the dead mailbox during the day, and they were sure that no one could take the information without being discovered by him. Could it be that when he came at night, the person guarding it was asleep, and the Japanese spy happened to come to take the information at that time?
If that was the case, he would not spare the people on duty at that time.

The intelligence department has very strict punishments. If you neglect your duties when monitoring someone, you will be shot in serious cases.

Yan Ming quickly ran into the alley. Xu Qingyun had already used a flashlight to observe the entire area around the manhole cover.

Holding the camera and setting up the lights, Xu Qingyun took pictures of all the traces on the ground. Then he opened the manhole cover and jumped down again.

There was also a blocking groove in this place, and he soon found the rope with a knot tied and nailed above the sewer.

Just as he guessed, the Japanese spy set up a very clever dead letter box, dropped intelligence at the sewer entrance, and collected it at the wellhead below, thus concealing it from all of them.

"Captain Xu, what's going on?"

Xie Yongshan followed Yan Ming out. When he saw Xu Qingyun taking pictures with his camera, he didn't dare to ask anything until Xu Qingyun climbed out of the sewer again.

"The enemy is too cunning. He set up a movable blocking slot. He used the rope inside the well to pull the blocking slot open and wait for the intelligence to flow down and take it away."

Xu Qingyun sighed, and Xie Yongshan was stunned.

The Japanese spy really took away the intelligence, but not in the way he thought. The real situation was more complicated than he thought.

"Wait for me here, I'll go in and take a look."

Xu Qingyun asked the two of them to stay where they were, and he took a flashlight and searched carefully along the alley, mainly for traces on the ground.

This alley has two entrances and exits. He was mainly looking for car tracks and shoe prints. The car tracks on the manhole cover just now were a bit abnormal. Even if they were normal, any traces left at the crime scene must be recorded.

This is the basic principle of handling cases.

Fortunately, the tire tracks are still there. Judging from the shape of the tire tracks, the car came from above and then left through the alley entrance.

The sky gradually brightened, and Xu Qingyun felt a tingling sensation in his feet. There was water on his calves and feet, which mixed with the cold morning air and made him bone-chilled.

Third update, thanks to Dao Li for the reward of 100 Qidian coins.



(End of this chapter)