Cicada Moving

Chapter 383 Traces

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 can 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.

 Hide by the river in disguise?

It is not a big problem to do this by the river in the wild, but this is not a wilderness, this is the densely populated Jinling, and there are residential areas along the river. Hiding a boat by the river will only have two results.

 Being discovered or stolen.

 Looking at how skillfully Tianfu entered and exited Min Ping's residence, it showed 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 boat was small in size or light in weight.

This matter 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 towed to the river when needed.

Or maybe it’s both, it’s easy to hide and move around. 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 through the streets. 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, and 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 and swaggers through the market, is he afraid that others will not suspect him? Lurkers should try to keep a low profile.

What would 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 has the 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 ideas. 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 has even been a two-person boat placed in a backpack. Although it is not as good as later generations, it is enough for Tianfu.

 (The picture is in the easter egg, not a fabrication.)

This small river is not the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, in the last century, four people rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in rubber boats and successfully reached the UK from New York. Technically speaking, there is 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 Zhong 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, and 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 launch the water from a very close place. The purpose of Tianfu's establishment of a secret passage is to avoid possible surveillance. If he launches 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 by taking a 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 do more reconnaissance beforehand. There is no need to stay too long after completing the screening, unless it is confirmed that there is a problem and he is 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.

This is a calm inland river. If it is placed in an outer river with more windy waves, a strong wind can overturn it. But this inconspicuous little trestle has caused huge hidden dangers.

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, so what, Tianfu would have been prepared if he dared to show up.

 Fortunately, things 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, then lowered his head slightly and looked at his feet.

 There are no traces or traces of water. It seems that Tianfu was very careful when landing and evacuating, or did some cleaning work during the evacuation, which is a bit difficult. 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. Being unable to determine where this passage is means that Min Ping may face life danger at any time.

You can't let people protect her personally. In that case, 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 the Japanese spy when the government retreats.

 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 there were no traces of people, then he would check for traces of ships. No one could violate the law of material exchange.

When I went to see Min Ping in Tianfu, I couldn’t take the rubber boat with me. It was most likely to be buckled on the trestle. The friction between the hull and the wooden piles would leave no traces, and the mud would scratch the surface.

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 have to prevent Japanese spies from peeking around. This is not easy.

 It is 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 was thoughtful. To put it simply, traces refer to the perceptible shapes or imprints after something passes by, such as the traces of walking or the track of a ship, 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?

  There is a 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.

How can Tianfu remove the smell and stand there with a fan to blow the air without damaging the on-site environment? But thinking about it this way, the other party seemed 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 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.

He sniffed as he rested his head on the cold, hard wood. Besides the smell of mud and rotten wood, a familiar yet unfamiliar smell filled his nostrils, similar to the smell of tires rubbing against each other.

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 determined.

So now we can be sure of two things. One is that the other party owns or can borrow a car, and the other is that the other party did 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 model, color and license plate of the car, we can sort out the cars in Jinling and find another clue for Tianfu, and it is 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 shore, otherwise it will be found to be a useless effort.

This small river in Tangzi Lane leads to Zhongshan Road in the west and passes through the urban area in the east. From a safety perspective, Tianfu will not launch water from the east. It is a downtown area and there are many pedestrians even now.

Suppose an overly curious person saw Tianfu rowing a boat 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 big 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, looking for the launch site of the rubber boat and possible witnesses. Zuo Zhong immediately squinted his eyes, turned around and walked towards the surveillance point while carrying the bottle.

Please explain. Some people want to read real facts + detection. I want to read it too, and the writing is also easy. However, there are already some Chinese novels in the Republic of China that have been criticized. Well, it is about awakening. So everyone should understand more. Solving the case is also very interesting to watch, that is. The author is too tired to write.

Don’t forget! Don’t forget! Remember history and pay tribute to our compatriots who lost their lives together!

 (End of this chapter)