Chapter 18 New Directions
Loach ran out immediately, and Chu Lingyun picked up the phone line and pulled it, but it didn't move.
After a while, the phone on the coffee table rang. Chu Lingyun's heart sank and he grabbed the receiver.
Sure enough, the sound of loach came from the other end of the phone.
"Captain, why is it you?"
Hearing Chu Lingyun's reply, Loach was extremely surprised, while Chu Lingyun had a gloomy face. He had already understood all the causes and consequences.
The person who actually answered the call from Watanabe Ichiro was the neighbor on the left, not Yang Jian.
In this case, the person living on Yang Jian's left is the real Japanese spy, and Yang Jian is just a cover. He asked Shen Hanwen to secretly watch Yang Jian's house, and Yang Jian would not notice anything. However, the person living on the left has an attic, and Shen Hanwen and their surveillance point can be seen through the attic.
Chu Lingyun hung up the phone and went straight to the attic in the yard.
This attic is very secluded, with a curtain on the window. Through the gap, you can clearly see the opposite side. Chu Lingyun even saw the figure of Loach.
This time it’s really not Wang Jialiang’s fault, there was an accident on his side.
"Hanwen, go check immediately and find out when the people in this family disappeared." The people have already run away, but Chu Lingyun will not give up.
Shen Hanwen had seen the couple living here, so it would be most appropriate for him to investigate.
"yes."
Shen Hanwen took the order and went outside. Soon a team member came to report that a secret compartment was found in the bedroom of this house.
Chu Lingyun immediately went to the bedroom on the second floor. Sure enough, there was an empty secret compartment under the floor under the bed, and there was a square mark inside, which was most likely the trace left by the previous placement of the radio.
A Japanese spy with a radio station.
Chu Lingyun clenched his fists tightly. Unfortunately, he had not thought that the Japanese spy would find a substitute. If he had guessed this earlier, this Japanese spy and his radio would never have been able to escape.
This time, Chu Lingyun fully felt the cunning and treachery of the Japanese.
Even if he is a person from later generations, he cannot underestimate anyone of this era, otherwise he will definitely suffer a great loss. There are many simple people in this era, but there are also countless insidious and cunning people.
Looking at the secret compartment, the other team members were also disappointed. Such a big fish actually ran away. If they could catch it, everyone would have made a contribution.
There was a faint fragrance in the bedroom. Chu Lingyun kept sniffing and he could smell that it was the scent of a mixture of cosmetics.
Generally, such cosmetics are used by women. Shen Hanwen had said before that a couple lived here. The man was older, while the woman looked very young and beautiful.
Beautiful women usually care about their appearance and are willing to spend money on themselves and buy high-end cosmetics.
Chu Lingyun still remembered reading a report in his previous life. During this period, a famous female writer received her first royalties of five dollars in her life, and without hesitation, she used the five dollars to buy a small lipstick.
Five dollars is enough to cover a family of five’s expenses for a month.
This news shows how much women value beauty, and it also shows that cosmetics during this period were not cheap.
In Chu Lingyun's previous life, he relied on his superb makeup skills to imitate celebrities so closely. He knew more about cosmetics than many women.
This bedroom is not small. In addition to the bed and wardrobe, there is also a large dressing table. Chu Lingyun came to the dressing table and searched carefully.
There was nothing left on the dressing table. A real agent would not leave behind his daily necessities. He would take away what he could, and destroy what he could not.
But there was one thing they couldn't take away, or rather, it was impossible for them to take it away.
That's the taste.
Chu Lingyun's nose kept sniffing, looking for the smell of cosmetics on the dressing table. In his previous life, he could identify objects by scent. He could accurately identify the same product as the one he smelled.
Even though he has traveled through time and space, this ability has not disappeared and still exists.
On the dressing table, Chu Lingyun smelled the scent of perfume. The fragrance was not strong, but very pure, the scent of high-end perfume.
After noting the smell, Chu Lingyun continued to sniff. All the team members looked at their captain in confusion, sniffing here and there, and had no idea that Chu Lingyun was looking for clues.
After a while, he discovered the scent of two more cosmetics.
Cosmetics are consumables, and you will definitely buy them again after you use them up. However, women usually choose and buy cosmetics themselves.
For intelligence personnel, any possible clues must be taken seriously. If the two Japanese spies did not leave the city, this would be a new direction of investigation.
In the bathroom, Chu Lingyun found the smell of shampoo again. Just as he remembered the smell, Shen Hanwen hurried back.
"Captain, we found out. Someone saw them carrying boxes out two hours ago and asked for a rickshaw."
Shen Hanwen's investigation soon produced results. Unlike Yang Jian, this family did not stay at home all day, and many of their neighbors knew them.
Two hours is not a short time, it is enough to get out of the city. This place is not far from the city gate.
"Are they riding in a rickshaw?"
Chu Lingyun asked immediately, a rickshaw is not a car. If you want to leave the city, the rickshaw will only take you outside the city at most, and you need someone outside the city to pick you up.
"It's confirmed, it's a rickshaw." Shen Hanwen nodded.
"You will immediately lead a city-wide investigation of rickshaws to find out who is pulling them. Everyone else should go back first."
The search for Jinsan Lane was also stopped following Chu Lingyun's order. This search could be said to be very necessary and yielded great results.
If he hadn't thought of searching the entire Jinsan Lane, he probably wouldn't have discovered the place where the real Japanese spies were hiding, let alone understand how they were exposed.
Yang Jian was tied up and taken back. Regardless of whether he was a real Japanese spy or not, his living here was equivalent to covering up for the Japanese spies, and he could not escape the charge of being a spy for Japan.
"Lingyun, what's going on?"
Chu Lingyun brought his men back with Yang Jiangang. Before they went to the interrogation room, Wang Yuemin came over.
Wang Yuemin has been keeping a close eye on this case, and he hopes to hear good news from Chu Lingyun.
"I'm sorry, Station Master. This is my mistake. They set up a maze. Yang Jian is probably not the real Japanese spy, but just a cover for them. The real Japanese spies are named Liu Wei and Zhang Jing. They are hiding their identities as a couple and have already escaped."
Chu Lingyun reported in a low voice that he had successfully captured Yang Jian, and told Wang Yuemin all the information he had found during the search of the entire Jinsan Lane.
Wang Jialiang was standing nearby. Hearing this, he immediately said, "Stationmaster, I told you this isn't our intelligence team's fault."
"Just shut up."
Wang Yuemin immediately scolded him, and Wang Jialiang shrank his neck and said nothing more.