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Chapter 1541 Extra (Beiping Station 2, Part 3)

Jingshan Subdistrict, Beiping.

Luo Yongying and Yang Wei walked out of the subdistrict office compound, looking somewhat tired. This was the fourth subdistrict they had visited, but unfortunately they hadn't found anything.

That day, Luo Yongying found Yang Wei and introduced the situation of the mysterious radio station. After thinking about it, Yang Wei gave three clues for investigation.

First, if the sender is an agent of the former Kuomintang's Military Intelligence Bureau or the Kuomintang's Foreign Intelligence Bureau, the other party will definitely have a stable job and is more likely not single, because being single or unemployed would easily arouse suspicion.

He was an old acquaintance of Zuo Zhong and the old Military Intelligence Bureau, and was very familiar with their ways of doing things. Unlike the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, Zuo Zhong's subordinates were extremely cautious.

To prove his point, Yang Wei recounted a true story he heard while drinking with Song Minghao after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan.

Back then, the Kuomintang's Military Intelligence Bureau sent someone to infiltrate Shanghai. In order to deceive the Japanese and puppet regime's intelligence agencies, the first thing this undercover agent did was not to gather intelligence, but to get married and have children. He only started working after his child was born.

Second, the sender must have come from outside Beiping, not be a local.

Luo Yongying was puzzled, but Yang Wei explained the reason with a smile.

Forty-five years later, Zuo Chong rarely paid attention to domestic affairs, and all his elite troops were transferred overseas.

Yang Wei didn't understand Zuo Zhong's intention at first, but when the National Government moved into Xiaoliuqiu, he realized that Director Zuo had probably seen that the National Government was at its last gasp and had thus withdrawn in advance to preserve its strength.

In that case, overseas spies can only enter Beijing under the guise of visiting relatives and friends or being transferred for work.

Third, the sender is likely someone who infiltrated the mainland within the past year, which aligns with the timing of the mysterious signal.

With the three clues provided by Yang Wei, Luo Yongying quickly determined the scope of the investigation, which was all the non-local people or families who had moved to the area around Dongcheng within the past year.

Yang Wei didn't have much work to do, so he volunteered to accompany Luo Yongying on the visit, but the result was not satisfactory.

Today, Dongcheng District consists of two districts: Dongdan District and Dongsi District. After the end of military control, it has nine subdistrict offices under its jurisdiction. If no suspicious persons are found in these nine subdistricts, the case will be in jeopardy.

After resting by the roadside for a while, Yang Wei asked, "Luo Tongzhi, which street should we go to next?"

Luo Yongying took out her notebook, glanced at it, and replied in a low voice, "Jiaodaokou Street isn't far from here, let's go." "Okay, let's go."

Yang Wei smiled and agreed, then stepped onto the worn-out bicycle and pedaled hard.

The former Deputy Minister of the Interior, who used to drive around town in a luxury car every day, not only had no complaints about this impoverished life, but even enjoyed it.

Luo Yongying followed behind him on a bicycle. With the country in dire need of reconstruction and the impact of the Korean War, it was already a rare privilege for civil servants to have a bicycle when going on official business.

The two arrived at Jiaodaokou Subdistrict Office in no time. Luo Yongying took out her Civil Affairs Bureau ID and asked to see the resident files. The subdistrict office staff were very vigilant and only led them to the archives room after verifying their identities.

The cramped archive room had only one incandescent light bulb, which would occasionally go out due to power outages. Yang Wei and Luo Yongying could only carefully examine the files by the sunlight streaming in through the window.

Jiaodaokou, as the core residential area of ​​Beiping, was densely populated with a permanent population of 30,000, and there were at least several hundred suspects who met the screening criteria.

These hundreds of files required Luo Yongying and his colleague to study them one by one, looking for flaws in the text, which was a huge amount of work.

After placing another file that had been cleared of suspicion back on the bookshelf, Yang Wei rubbed his eyes, picked up another file at random, opened it, and then froze.

Luo Yongying noticed his unusual behavior and quickly asked, "What's wrong, Lao Yang?"

Yang Wei took a deep breath, said nothing, and pushed the file directly in front of Luo Yongying: "Look who this is."

Luo Yongying turned her head and saw a photo pasted on the top right of the file. The photo showed a smiling man whose face looked very familiar.

After quickly searching her mind, Luo Yongying suddenly realized something and exclaimed in a low voice, "Zuo Zhong!"

Who would have thought that Zuo Chong, the Kuomintang's biggest intelligence chief, who had once again served as the director of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, the director of the Second Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, and the director of the Overseas Intelligence Bureau after fleeing to Xiaoliuqiu, would appear in Beiping?

The other party used the alias Mr. You and lived in the heart of the capital for a whole year under the guise of a teacher, which was incredibly audacious.

The news was quickly reported to higher authorities, and the entire military and police force in Beiping, and even the entire north, went on high alert. Nanluoguxiang was completely surrounded.