As soon as Lao Hou saw this pistol, he knew that this gun was really good, and for a guard in charge of the accompanying chief, he took the importance of the gun very seriously.

So he took the pistol and said to the guard: "Please rest assured, I will bury this gun here, and I will find a way to bring this gun back to the base area and return it to you when I have the opportunity in the future." Okay, we have to get up early tomorrow, so let's rest early. ”

The next morning, before dawn, Lao Hou woke up, he looked at the sky outside, woke up the two men he was going to escort, told them to get ready, and immediately rushed to the checkpoint west of Stone Town.

When the three of them arrived at the checkpoint set up by the Anti-Smuggling Investigation Department in the west of the city, they passed the border smoothly because they did not carry any goods. After walking about a mile, they came across the Japanese military police checkpoint in the distance.

At this time, the sky was just dawning, and there was already a long queue outside the military police checkpoint, and many ordinary people got up very early in order to enter the city early, because the Japanese military police at the checkpoint were very strict in the past few days, and it took much more time to pass through the checkpoint than before.

As the long queue moved forward step by step, Lao Hou and the others waited in line for two hours before moving in front of the Japanese military police in charge of inspection.

The Japanese military police officer Cao who led the team paid special attention to the two middle-aged men and a young man, he first checked the good citizen certificates presented by Lao Hou and others, and asked the military police under his command to carefully search the three of them. But everything was normal, and no doubts were found with the identification of the three people.

But this Japanese military police officer Cao was still a little suspicious, and he did not rush to return the certificate of good citizenship to Lao Hou and the others, but asked the translator to come forward and translate his question to Lao Hou and others: "What did the three of you enter the city for?" ”

Lao Hou replied with a smile: "Taijun, the three of us are all from Stone City. You see, our good citizen certificates are all issued by Stone Town, but we went out of the city a few days ago to run errands, and we only returned to Stone Town today. I run a tea shop on Shamao Street, and these two guys are my hired buddies and have a clean bank. ”

The translator relayed Lao Hou's words to the Japanese military police officer Cao, who stared at Lao Hou for a while, and then returned the certificate of good citizenship to Lao Hou, waved his hand and said: "Work to open the road!" ”

In this way, Lao Hou walked through the checkpoint with the two people he wanted to escort. As they were about to continue walking towards the city, a small car suddenly drove in the distance, with the Japanese flag hanging from the front.

Lao Hou was shocked, because he recognized that this car was the car of the special high school in Stone Town, and there must be a military stick of the special high school on the car. So he immediately beckoned the two men behind him to stand on the side of the road, ready to wait for the car to pass before leaving.

Lao Hou thought that the people in the car would not notice the three of them standing on the side of the road, because at this time, many ordinary people were also standing on the side of the road like them, and they gave way to the car in a proper manner.

But Shinnosuke Murakami, who was sitting in a car, happened to inadvertently look at the side of the road when he passed by Lao Hou and others, and happened to see Lao Hou and others.

Suddenly, he immediately asked the driver to stop, and then got out of the car and walked in front of Lao Hou. When Lao Hou saw Murakami Shinnosuke get out of the car, he was a little nervous, for fear that Murakami Shinnosuke would be suspicious of them and his group, so he took the initiative to bow to Murakami Shinnosuke and said, "Hello Murakami Taijun." ”

Shinnosuke Murakami nodded to Lao Hou, then glanced at the two people beside Lao Hou, felt a little familiar, and asked, "Hou San, why did you enter the city so early?" Have I seen the two of them before? ”

Lao Hou hurriedly replied with a smile on his face: "Yes, Murakami Taijun." You may have forgotten that the two of them are from our Yokota Co., Ltd., and there was a little misunderstanding in the east of the city when we last went to Stone Town. You've seen them. ”

The old man said that it was dangerous, and if Shinnosuke Murakami was there when he passed the gendarmerie checkpoint just now, he might really be in a little trouble. Because the last time Shinnosuke Murakami saw these two people at the gendarmerie checkpoint in the east of the city, they didn't have a certificate of good citizenship. If these two people had shown the certificate of good citizenship issued by the Stone Town Police Department today, perhaps Murakami Shinnosuke would have been suspicious.

Murakami Shinnosuke looked at the appearance of the two people beside Lao Hou again, and then he remembered, and he continued to ask, "Oh, then what did you Yokota Co., Ltd. do when you sent them out to the city?" ”

Lao Hou hurriedly explained: "This ...... At the lower peak, they were sent to Baimadu to have some things to do, and the specific details were inconvenient to say in such detail at the bottom. The two of them were on secret missions, so they weren't authorized, and I can't say that. If you are really interested, please ask the person in charge of Yokota Co., Ltd. in Shanghai to ask him. The two of them have been in Stone Town for a while, and they are going to return to Shanghai today after completing their mission. ”

Shinnosuke Murakami was a little dissatisfied with Lao Hou's answer, but Lao Hou's identity had already been confirmed, and even he couldn't force Lao Hou too much to tell what the secret mission was, after all, the two secret agencies were not subordinate to each other, so intelligence business matters would only be reported to each other unless communication was needed.

So he could only laugh at Lao Hou's soft nails, and Murakami Shinnosuke patted Lao Hou's shoulder and said, "I understand, it seems that Hou Sang, you have a strong sense of confidentiality." Well, then I won't bother and take my leave. ”

Lao Hou watched Murakami's car go straight to the gendarmerie checkpoint in the west of the city, and then hit the road again with his two companions.

At this time, the important cadre asked Lao Hou softly: "This Japanese soldier Shaozuo is a special high class?" ”

"Yes, he is a young intelligence officer of the special high class, and he is specially responsible for dealing with various anti-Japanese organizations in the city and arresting anti-Japanese elements. However, he didn't have any suspicions about you just now, and I also reported to him that you two would leave Stone Town and return to Shanghai today. Since you are also a member of Yokota Corporation, and it is a legitimate reason to return to Shanghai, he has no reason to suspect anything. Let's go, it's best to go to the east of the city and get out of the city early. Lao Hou also replied softly, and then strode forward.

After more than two hours, the three of them arrived at the gendarmerie checkpoint in the east of the city and began to line up, leaving the city without any problems. Lao Hou kept sending the two target people who needed to be escorted to the comrades who had been escorted by their superiors to escort them for the next part of the journey, and then turned around and went back to Stone Town. The rest of the road was easy to walk, and the important cadre and personal guard only had to walk more than ten miles before leaving the main road, burrowing into the dense forest, and taking the small road, so that they could return to the guerrilla garrison in less than a day.