"Exceptionally, unless it is a large ship of an international shipping company flying the British and American flags, but every Western ship is clearly registered, and they do not go through inland rivers, so far no suspicious ones have been found."

Kinoshita said with certainty.

"It's really puzzling, what means were used to transport the things from a warehouse? Kinoshita-kun, is there any news on that anti-smuggling boat? ”

"All 38 anti-smuggling boats of the Wang Jingwei government have been checked, and they are all there, and no traces of gunfire or repair have been found on the side of the ships. It is absolutely certain that there must be other ways for this ship. But the entire East China water network is actually under our surveillance. ”

Kagesa walked over to the window and sorted out the clues that were messing up in his head. He had realized before that one of the most puzzling things about tracking down this Lin Jiu was that every time there was a breakthrough, a new clue would appear, completely subverting the previous judgment and making it absurd. For example, seeing that this group of people came and went without a trace, and the means were superb, but they found that they were actually engaged in smuggling rice, which was really incredible.

"It occurred to me that there was a possibility." Kimura suddenly spoke, interrupting Kagesa's thoughts, and Kagesa waved his hand impatiently to let him continue.

"Unless they buy a boat in a nearby shipyard. The entire East China water network, where motorized boats can be built, is actually here. ”

"Is that possible?" Kagesa asked lazily.

"I don't think it's likely, but it doesn't mean that there isn't any," Kimura said, raising his voice, he was trying to show his reasoning and not let Kagesa underestimate himself, "The British merchants on this river, Yeson, Xiangsheng, and Mahler, all have the ability to build mechanical ships of more than 500 tons. ”

"Is that so?"

Ying Zuo walked to the window, and looked out from here, he could see the British merchant Xiangsheng Shipyard on the edge of Lujiazui, and there were still two dirty and broken ships parked on the slipway waiting to be repaired.

"Well, these three factories are currently able to produce ships?"

"Yes, just these three. Although they are operating dismally, they still have manufacturing capacity, you only need to send a few men to take a speedboat over and check it. ”

"That's good, I'll give you a boat, you go to each of them to see it, and in 3 hours, come back and report to me." Don't wait, go now. ”

"Three hours?" Kimura raised his hand impatiently to look at his watch, "That's before 3 p.m." But I'm still anxious to go back to the Hongkou case, and if I'm there, I should be able to find more clues from the deceased, and you can find someone else to do such a simple errand. ”

He was indeed a little dissatisfied, originally thought that he wanted to come to Yingzuo to hear his own opinions, but he didn't expect to be called around by this guy who had no authority in the morning, rushed from Hongkou to Nanshi, and went to Xuhui to check canned food.

Kagezo walked up to him silently.

"Kimura-kun, the watch is good."

Kimura suddenly realized something and quickly put down his hand.

"You bastard, let you do your business, stealing dead people's things is very nimble, tsk, if everyone is as ashamed as you, how can the empire exist?"

"You!"

Kimura has never been so humiliated and wants to fight back, but there is really nothing to say, this time it was really careless, and as a result, everyone was stolen and arrested, maybe ...... This pit was dug by the old fox in the first place.

"Alright, alright," Kinoshita hurriedly came over to play the round, "Chief Kimura, don't take it as an example, you hurry up and go to the shipyard on the other side to have a look." We are here for you to report. ”

"Don't delay, hear me, come back to see me before 3 o'clock."

Kagesa dropped a sentence, and then stood on the second floor with his hands on his hips, watching with a blank face as Kimura huffed to the edge of the dock and boarded a boat heading for the other side.

"Actually, Kimura has always been very motivated, this kind of thing, don't worry too much, right?" Kinoshita excused his men.

"For this kind of guy who dares to commit crimes, he has to be cured."

12:30. Lin sat in his office and once again detected the signal that had made his heart beat, just to the south, and he immediately stood up and looked over the river. This time, he could clearly see that a medium-sized motorboat with a Japanese flag was passing at high speed from 400 meters away, heading towards the opposite Xiangsheng shipyard, and the radio signal of this era was so far that his warning radius increased.

Then the signal faded away, and it was confirmed that it was on that ship. He hurriedly grabbed the binoculars and looked over there, hoping to see if there was Zhang Guangcai on the ship, but he only saw a few figures dressed and standing, and did not see anyone lying down.

"It's weird."

He muttered to himself, in addition to not knowing why the signal source was on the ship, another strange thing was that the ship was heading towards the shipyard opposite, did this mean that the Japanese had begun to perceive something?

He hurriedly went downstairs to the workshop to check on Shu Ping's progress, and now was the time he had promised to finish. When I got there, I saw that it was still being processed slowly and methodically. Shu Ping said that the false alarm he sent in the morning stopped production for more than an hour, and it must take about 100 minutes to make up for it, so the final completion may be around 2 o'clock.

Lin ignored him and continued to the riverside to look into the distance, imagining the worst-case scenario.

On the bright side, the Japanese steamboat went straight to another shipyard opposite, indicating that they may have guessed something from the size of the warehouse, such as that they had more than one ship, but still did not sketch a clear enough outline, and the unexpected tracking signal also gave him more time to prepare.

The drone tracked the enemy motorboat to the opposite shore, and it can be seen that the group did not bother to find other places, and directly got on several old ships on the slipway that were being repaired, which confirmed Lin's judgment.

After looking around, I probably determined that none of the ships under repair had the ability to sail, so I hurried down. Judging from the satellite images, there were 7 people in the group, and only 5 went on board to check, but 2 stayed on the motorboat, which seems to have a certain warning intention.

Lin calculated that if the enemy came to the Mahler shipyard by water, the most likely place to go ashore was in the small berth behind the Meteor, which could partially block the view of the huge Izumo itself, and of course it was impossible to completely avoid being seen by the ships passing on the river, and it was a little reluctant to do so.

In any case, he must be prepared to fight to the death, he immediately contacted Lu Qingshan, asked him to find a commanding height where he could observe the entire side of the Meteor, hide it with *, and asked Xu Chong to bring a breathing apparatus and fins, and drill into the drainage outlet leading to the Huangpu River to stand by, ready to dive into the river at any time to carry out an assassination mission. Finally, several other members of the special team, the ship's workers, dressed in their clothes, went to the Meteor and pretended to be working, so as to show very naturally that the ship was not yet finished.

The ship was actually not finished yet, and there were many places that could be repaired, and it was not difficult to disguise it as if it had never left the port.

After arranging all this, he had no other better remedy but to wait for the final fate, either the enemy did not come, or he gave it a go.

He returned to his office and continued to watch. Seeing that the enemy boarded the motorboat, left the Xiangsheng Shipyard, and turned to this side, Lin's alarm sounded again, but the enemy turned on the river and went to the Yesson Shipyard, and the investigation was already very clear, and he would definitely come to Mahler to investigate.

On the bright side, the Mahler shipyard was last in line, giving him plenty of time to prepare, perhaps because the Japanese subconsciously positioned Mahler's threat level at the minimum, for various reasons, but it is likely that the Mahler shipyard was so close to the Izumo's berth that the Japanese who were on the verge of a great enemy these days thought that no one dared to set up a base here.

"Maybe they won't come as soon as they are careless?" Lin suddenly had a fluke thought, "No, with the Japanese way of doing things, it will definitely come." Definitely. ”

He held the intercom: "All units, once the operation fails, according to the plan, evacuate to the north." In groups of two or three people, go to the meeting place separately. ”

This is the final plan that was determined last night, at worst, and it is the same as no plan at all. Once the 24 people here are dispersed and evacuated to the north, and it is daytime, someone will soon be caught by the person himself, which must be far worse than Ma Qiang's arrest, the loss of Ma Qiang does not affect the operation of the submarine, and more than half of the people here are the technical backbone of the submarine.

The warning signal went off a tick. Lin looked out of the window and could see the direction of the Yesong shipyard to the east, and the Japanese motorboat flying the sun flag was coming.

He looked at the table below, and at 1:40 a.m. the production of Shuping was almost completed.

He put on a lapel suit and straightened his tie in front of the mirror, the advantage of this suit was that it was easy to pull out a pistol with * from the holster under his armpit, which was not possible with a Japanese uniform. He didn't dare to bring a small smashing cannon with him, this time he brought a *18 pistol, which can hold 17 rounds of ammunition in the long * (in fact, this gun can also carry 31 longer rounds*, but then it leaks out of the lapel).

Sure enough, the motorboat leaned behind the Meteor, and the policemen, whose shirts were soaked, came ashore one after another and began to shout. The agents who pretended to be working on the Meteor on the side ignored them.

Lin Na pinched the heat, he couldn't appear too timely, he saw the Japanese from a distance, and then ran to the Japanese in fear, ran in and out to peek in, sure enough, two people stayed on the motorboat, one of them held an MP18* in his hand, it seems that the Japanese have now reached the point where the grass and trees are all soldiers. This careful berth that grew out of the shore was originally reserved for Mahler to take a car and steamboat back and forth from the mansion on the other side, and the surrounding vision was wide and there was no obstruction, so it was impossible to carry out a sneak attack, but fortunately he had a water ghost named Xu Chong.

In fact, 419 has always carried divers and equipment, and was originally prepared for a month of windy and dark nights, so that Xu Chong went out from the * tube, sneaked up on the Spring Day, installed some equipment, and saw what they were doing, Lin carried so many eavesdropping equipment with him, and it was for this purpose that the spring day sank, and 419 unfortunately crossed. Of course, this time the special team came to the repair shop, and did not bring underwater weapons and diving suits, oxygen cylinders, etc., because it was really impossible to foresee such a need, Xu Chong could only go into the water bare-chested, with a diving goggle with a snorkel, and a knife. If this mission is successful, there may be an additional Japanese-flagged motorboat, but he has not had time to think carefully about what role it can play.