newbobooks Chapter 342 Night Detective
Chapter 342 Night Detective
After things were discussed, the soldiers went their separate ways.
They just went there to scout the area and familiarize themselves with the place during the day, so there was no danger. Therefore, Liu Jingxue did not follow the soldiers and followed Director Xie directly back to the Public Security Bureau.
Before the Public Security Bureau closed for business, Director Xie ran to borrow the only camera in the bureau.
Holding the camera, Director Xie returned home slowly.
At this time, Director Xie's wife and children had already returned home.
After Director Xie got home, he said to his wife and children, "I have something to do here. After you finish your meal, go to grandpa's place.
You guys will stay there for the next few days."
Upon hearing this, Director Xie's son immediately asked excitedly, "Dad, has a big case happened in our town?
What major actions does your Public Security Bureau have?"
When Director Xie's daughter heard this, she reached out and knocked her brother on the head, "You forgot the confidentiality agreement again. Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."
The son pouted and said aggrievedly, "I know."
Director Xie patted his daughter's head and said, "My daughter is sensible, unlike that silly boy."
"Is it dangerous?" Director Xie's wife looked at her husband with concern.
Director Xie comforted him, "Don't worry, I'm not the one in danger."
"I don't know you yet. You always lead by example and rush to the front in everything you do."
“It’s not my turn to rush to the front this time. At most I can just be a supporting player in the middle.
Just keep your heart at ease.
Do what you need to do these two days, and don't show any signs of anything." Director Xie instructed.
"Dad, you don't even need to tell me this. When have we ever let you down?"
After dinner, Director Xie’s wife packed up her things and left with her two children.
Director Xie was at home, waiting for the soldiers to arrive.
"Have you eaten?" Director Xie asked after all the soldiers arrived.
Comrade Pan replied, "Don't worry, Director Xie. We all brought dry food with us when we came here, and we have already eaten."
Everyone gathered together, exchanged information, and discussed for a while what to do next.
After the discussion, everyone found a place to sleep for an hour or two.
When everything was quiet, the soldiers went their separate ways.
Liu Jingxue quickly followed Comrade Pan's group to explore the courtyards with tunnels.
Everyone who had been here had memorized the locations of the tunnel entrances, and this time they came here to verify them.
After Liu Jingxue arrived there, she used her spiritual sense to investigate and found that she didn't know whether these people were brave or very confident in their secret passage. No one knew about it and they didn't even send anyone to guard the entrance to the secret passage.
Even the mechanisms and traps were not set up.
Not to mention the secret passages, there were only one person assigned to guard each of the several courtyards, and the rest of them were sleeping in their rooms.
The night watchman did not walk around to check the situation, but stood in a sheltered place, smoking casually.
Perhaps it's because things have been peaceful these years and no one has noticed them, which has made them grow bolder and lose their cautiousness.
But this also made it easier for the soldiers to move.
After discovering that the night watchmen were lax, they seized the opportunity, climbed over the wall into the yard one by one, and hid in the dark.
Several people acted separately and explored the area on their own, and soon gathered together again.
“The situation I discovered over there is the same as on the map.
The location of the tunnel entrance and the furnishings of the courtyard are exactly the same.”
Liu Jingxue, who was following behind, complained in her heart, that was just her, you didn't even look at who sent you the information, how could it be fake?
"Captain, do you want to go down to the tunnel and take a look?"
Comrade Pan quickly stopped him, “Not now.
We have only explored one of the several courtyards so far. If we act rashly and get discovered, we won’t have a chance to explore the other courtyards.”
"Why don't we explore all the courtyards first, and then go down to the tunnel to take a look?" someone suggested.
“Well, go explore each room in this courtyard and find out how many people are in each courtyard.
After we have found out the tunnel entrances and the number of people in each courtyard, we will see if there is a chance to go down the tunnel."
Several people dispersed and went to each room to investigate the situation.
This is more dangerous. If someone wakes up to go to the bathroom at night, they will be discovered.
To be on the safe side, Liu Jingxue simply used her spiritual sense to give some sleeping pills to everyone in the courtyard except the night watchman, to ensure that they would not wake up in the middle of the night.
After investigating the situation, several people gathered together again and summarized the information.
"We have investigated this yard. Next, let's go to the yard on the left."
With Liu Jingxue escorting them from behind and drugging everyone except the night watchmen, the group easily figured out the conditions of several courtyards and confirmed the authenticity of the map.
Even the number of people in each hospital was clear.
"Captain, isn't it time to go down to the tunnel and take a look?"
"Captain, let's go down the tunnel.
These people are sleeping like dead pigs, they shouldn’t notice it.”
"What I'm worried about is that there are people guarding the tunnel. If we go in, we'll run into them."
“I don’t think so.
Look at how lax their night watchmen are. They will think of placing guards in the tunnels.
The tunnels are too depressing to stay in for long, so they probably didn’t send anyone to guard them.”
“I also felt like there was no one guarding it.
Captain, think about it, if there was someone guarding it, that person would not have been able to make such a detailed map and send it to Director Xie.
I guess that person also went into the tunnel secretly to investigate at night.
Apart from this reason, the only other reason is that the map was drawn in such detail by their internal staff.
If they say that it was an insider who leaked the information, I don’t believe it at all.”
"Captain, let's go down to the tunnel and explore."
Comrade Pan thought for a moment and said, "So, aren't there some tunnel entrances that are not in these courtyards, but in other secluded places?
Let’s pick one and go down to the tunnel.
Don’t rush in, if you encounter someone, retreat immediately.”
The others also agreed.
Several people climbed over the courtyard wall and found an entrance to an underground tunnel far away from the other courtyards. After one person stayed outside to guard the tunnel, the others went in.
Liu Jingxue had explored the tunnel before and found that there was no one guarding it and there were no mechanisms or traps set up.
Therefore, the few of them walked through all the branches and forks very smoothly, and verified them one by one with those on the map.
But this took quite some time.
After a few people came out of the tunnel, they found the person who stayed behind and returned to Director Xie's house together. The people who went to explore other places had already returned and had been waiting for them for quite some time.
"Comrade Pan, why did you come back just now?
We were all very worried and thought something had happened." Director Xie said quickly when he saw them coming back.
"Nothing happened. I just went to the tunnel."
"How was it? No one found out, right?"
“Those people were not alert enough and were not discovered.
It is exactly the same as the map provided by that person, with no discrepancies.
How is the situation over there?"
“It’s the same as in the letter.
We have taken photos of the account books and code books and handed them over to Director Xie."
Director Xie replied, “I can develop the photos.
I will develop the photos myself tomorrow morning."
“My family won’t be back these days, so you can stay in this house.
What are your plans?" Director Xie asked.
“Leave a few people here to keep an eye on that Xin and those courtyards.
The others should go and meet up with the others first and tell them about the situation here.
Rest there during the day, and bring more people over at night.
After Director Xie's photos are developed, if there are any key targets that need to be monitored, we can arrange for someone to do it then."
Director Xie nodded, “It’s already three o’clock in the morning, and they will make the deal tomorrow night.
When the time comes, we will have to take action everywhere, so you should arrange the manpower."
"Don't worry, I will deploy the personnel when I return this time.
But I think the focus is still on the dock. I think most of the people in those yards are transporting things to the dock for trading."
"Then I'll take care of everything," Director Xie requested.