That night, Ono Matsunaga reported to Imai Yushi about the situation of tracking and monitoring Takasugi Hitoki for the past two days.

"Since yesterday, we have carried out a comprehensive follow-up and monitoring of Takasugi Hitoshi, he has not been in contact with many people in the past two days, yesterday morning has been at the United News Agency, came out once, bought two boxes of cigarettes in the grocery store opposite the news agency, at noon, he and his assistant Nomura ate at a nearby restaurant, went out at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, went to the Xiaguan garrison unit to conduct interviews, at 6 o'clock in the evening, at the Hexing Hotel and Yi Chengzhi, director of the Nanjing Government Examination Institute Training Committee, and his wife, had dinner together, and at 8 o'clock in the evening, returned to his home to rest.

This morning, I went to the Xiaguan garrison unit to cover the news, and at noon, I took a rickshaw to the antique market near Xuanwu Lake, entered an antique shop called 'Fang Waitang', bought an inkstone, and then went directly back to the United News Agency, and never came out, and an hour ago, I returned to my home, and now I am under surveillance. ”

Imai Yushi thought for a moment after hearing this, and analyzed: "The people who have been in contact with Takasugi Hitoki in the past few days must be recorded, especially the grocery store opposite the Yonhap News Agency, when we used to arrange hidden missions, we often set up contact points near the residence and work unit of the intelligence officer, and the background of this grocery store needs to be investigated, I think it is very suspicious."

There are also people around Hitoshi Takasugi, who are often in contact with them, and they must be included in the target of suspicion.

There should be no problem with the garrison, the Xiaguan garrison has just changed its defense, and there should be no internal response from him in the troops, I think this is a general interview task.

As for the director and his wife of the Nanjing government, I think it is unlikely that they are accomplices, and generally the time for the accomplices to meet should not be too long, let alone the two of them coming forward together, and they stayed together for two hours, which does not conform to the characteristics of intelligence activities.

And today he took a rickshaw to the antique street, which is the most suspicious, he is the chief reporter of the United News Agency, he has his own special car, how could he take a rickshaw to Xuanwu Lake? It takes time and effort, the distance is not close, this is not to attract attention, what is the name of that antique shop? ”

"Fang Waitang!"

"Fang Waitang! Yes, it is very likely that it is the contact point for him to transmit information, and it is not appropriate to startle the snake now.

The grocery store and Fang Wai Tang should also be closely monitored, and there may be unexpected gains. ”

"Hey!" Ono Matsunaga nodded in agreement.

At the same time, in a room in the central district of the city, Xiao Hong was talking to Lu Chengfeng in a low voice.

Xiao Hong gave a detailed introduction to Lu Chengfeng about everything that happened today, and finally said: "Gao Shan is very alert, he found our warning signal, so he left quickly, and there are indeed people following him behind him, which also confirms that the shadow transmission message is true, Chengfeng, you are from Shanghai, do you know the situation of this shadow?" How did he end up in Nanjing? ”

Lu Chengfeng was specially transferred to Nanjing from Shanghai when the underground party organization in Nanjing was rebuilt, and he was also very high-ranking in the underground party organization in Shanghai before, so after being transferred to Nanjing, he directly became one of the members of Nanjing's eight-member group, and it stands to reason that he may also know about the existence of shadows.

But when Lu Chengfeng heard Xiao Hong's inquiry, he shook his head.

Xiao Hong suddenly reacted, it was indeed inappropriate for him to ask like this, he could confirm it to the Shanghai side according to Cheng Xingye's order, but it was inappropriate to ask Lu Chengfeng directly.

Lu Chengfeng's previous work experience in Shanghai, especially the confidential part involved, does not need to be reported to Xiao Hong unless it is an investigation using organizational procedures.

At this time, Lu Chengfeng opened his mouth and said: "Lao Xiao, I really don't know about the situation of the shadow, we are not intelligence officers on the same intelligence line, Xiucai is very cautious in handling the organizational relationship, according to the situation you said, the shadow must be his direct intelligence officer, and he will not disclose the situation about the shadow to anyone." ”

Xiao Hong didn't know if what Lu Chengfeng said was true or false, but Lu Chengfeng replied like this, Xiao Hong couldn't continue to ask, so he changed the conversation, and then said: "Okay, this matter is still waiting for Shanghai to reply to the letter, let's talk about it, now let's talk about Gao Shan's problem, he is in a very dangerous situation now, after today's incident, he must have noticed it, but he doesn't know the specific reason, which requires you to contact him, you also work in the United News Agency, can you contact him?" ”

Lu Chengfeng pondered for a moment, although he also worked in the United News Agency, but the internal management of the United News Agency was strict, and each had its own rank and division of labor.

The Yonhap News Agency is an official newspaper under the auspices of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its head and key members are all Japanese, such as the president, editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief, department manager, and chief reporter.

Next came the ordinary Japanese staff, who were journalists sent to China from within Japan, or Japanese expatriates recruited from China.

Finally, Chinese staff are recruited for various reasons, such as peripheral reporters, typesetting workers, printers and other low-level personnel.

Lu Chengfeng thought for a while and said slowly: "After all, the United News Agency is an official department with an intelligence nature, and it is very strict in internal management, the office locations of the Japanese and the Chinese are separated, the office area of the Japanese, we cannot enter, and our Chinese staff have another office location, although I was arranged by Takasugi to join the news agency before, but the middle was also covered, so I never interacted with Takasugi on the surface, if I wanted to contact him, only in the typesetting workshop, he would sometimes go there." ”

"Then go to the typesetting workshop to have a look, Takasugi must also be eager to understand the specific situation, and will definitely find an opportunity to contact you, at present, the special high school should not have entered the United News Agency, you should contact as soon as possible, see if he has a good response, if not, withdraw as soon as possible."

"Got it!"

In the middle of the night, the radio station of the underground party organization in Shanghai received a telegram from Nanjing, and when the telegram was urgently delivered to Lin Hanwen's hands, he could not help but be surprised and inexplicable when he saw the contents.

The shadow that had been lurking in Shanghai suddenly appeared in Nanjing, which was nothing, and what was even more incredible was that he directly contacted Kuquan, the head of the underground party organization in Nanjing, and sent an urgent warning message.

So much so that Kuquan focused on asking about this matter, making himself confused, Kuquan's disguised identity is naturally top secret, how could he know that he was far away in Shanghai?

As for how will the shadow know? Then he can only ask himself, but he and the shadow are also one-way contact so far, and he has never even seen the face of the shadow, and he can't communicate at all, so how can he answer?

Nanjing did not say the details of the shadow warning, but asked to verify the identity of the shadow.

This point can only be conveyed to the person, but unless you see the handwriting on the letterhead, you can't confirm it, the handwriting of the shadow is very recognizable, and every time it is a beautiful imitation of the Song style, especially the signature of the word "shadow" at the end, which is obviously deliberately designed by the shadow, and others can't imitate it at all.

Lin Hanwen thought about it, but in the end he couldn't get the point, he decided to find a time to meet the farmer and ask about the shadow's situation, it seems that there are many things, and the farmer didn't make it clear to himself.

On the morning of the next day, Takasugi Hitoshi stayed in his office and did not go out, and waited until three o'clock in the afternoon, which was the typesetting time for the news agency's manuscript.

Out of the office building, into a passage behind the building, out of the back door of the news agency, there was a guard of the Japanese sergeant at the door, seeing that it was Takasugi Hitoki, several sergeants hurriedly let go.

The courtyard of the news agency is occupied by Japanese staff, and after passing through this back door, you enter the office area of the Chinese journalists, and the typesetting workshop is also located here.

Takasugi Hitoshi didn't go directly to the typesetting workshop, he lit a cigarette in a corner, and stayed leisurely for a long time until the cigarette was finished, and he didn't find any signs of follow-up and surveillance, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this is a good phenomenon, it seems that he is not being monitored within the news agency, that is, the person who follows him is most likely not an agent of the news agency, and things have not reached the worst.

He put the cigarette butt still on the ground, stepped on it, and then continued to walk forward quickly, there was a smell of ink from afar, and he walked through a passage to the typesetting and printing workshop.

At this time, several staff members saw that it was Takasugi Hitoshi who had come in, and hurriedly got up to greet him, as the chief reporter, Takasugi Hitoshi was one of the top officials of the news agency, and the Chinese employees naturally did not dare to slack off when they saw him, and they all bowed.

The workshop director asked softly, "Takasugi-kun, do you have any orders?" ”

Takasugi Hitoshi raised the manuscript in his hand and explained with a smile: "Zhou Jun, there are a few places in my manuscript yesterday that need to be revised. ”

When the workshop director heard this, he quickly nodded and agreed, temporarily changing the content of the editor, as long as the change is not big, there is no need to go through the editor-in-chief, especially the status of Takasugi Renxi, it is just a one-sentence thing, and it used to be a common thing.

"Takasugi-kun is really serious and meticulous, I will arrange it for you."

The workshop director took the manuscript from Takasugi Hitoshi and turned around to arrange the work.

Takasugi Renxi handed in the manuscript and was about to find an excuse to stay longer, when he looked left and right, intentionally or unintentionally, and his eyes quickly swept over, and at a glance he saw a figure in the corner of the corridor.

Sure enough, as he expected, Lu Chengfeng had been guarding nearby, and when he saw Takasugi Renxi appearing, he followed, and the two looked at each other, Lu Chengfeng turned around and left, and Takasugi Renxi also followed quickly.