Following the traces left by years of traffic on the floor, Lin Mo led people to the right-hand side of the wall. The wall was exposed with unpainted blue bricks. There was a blue brick protruding for a finger and a half, and there was a
There are traces left by years of contact.
Lin Mo put away his flashlight and held the convex brick, and with some force, he pulled a wall. It was actually a secret door disguised with bricks. Lin Mo carefully pulled it open and used his flashlight to look inside.
Only go in if there is no need.
The space inside was narrower than Lin Mo expected, only a little over one meter, because the wall was built very thick. In addition to hiding valuable items, it may also serve as a temporary shelter. Thick walls can ensure safety and prevent the transmission of movement and sound.
out.
On the left hand side of the door, that is, the section adjacent to the room next to it, there are several small shelves placed on one side of the compartment. The marks on them seem to be used for storing shoes. There is also a low door under the roof at the end, which is very convenient.
It was short, so Lin Mo probably had to squat down like a duck to get across.
The shorter compartment on the right hand side was clean and empty of anything. However, Lin Mo discovered that there was a rope attached to the floor, which was probably a secret door leading to the secret room below.
After thinking about it, Lin Mo asked one of his team members to pay attention to the short secret door. He carefully opened the secret door on the floor. He lay down and probed under the floor. He shrank back when he tried it. After repeating it three times without finding anything, Lin Mo finally opened the secret door on the floor.
Open it to the same position as the secret door and get stuck.
Under the secret door, there is an L-shaped staircase leading to the lower floor. There are no handrails. Of course, the space here is narrow and there are handrails, so larger people will have to squeeze in.
Lin Mo walked down the stairs cautiously, turned the corner of the stairs, and found that under the upper half of the stairs was a large bookshelf, but the files placed on it filled up nearly half of the space.
A few steps forward after going down the stairs, there is an inverted L-shaped ‘desk’ facing Lin Mo. It is actually made of some wooden boards on the corridor and should be used for office work.
The side parallel to the long partition is close to the wall. It is longer but narrower, only about 20 centimeters. There are pens, ink, lamps and other office supplies on the table. There is a small cabinet of the same width below, which holds papers.
Manuscript paper, portfolios and other items.
It is perpendicular to one side of the compartment, blocking the entire compartment. The table top is wider, and there is a hinge where it connects to the narrow side. It should be able to be flipped over and accessed to the back.
But the wide-side tabletop should normally be cleaned up, but now there were two pieces of manuscript paper stuck crookedly at the joints, and there were a few slippery sheets on the ground. Lin Mo moved the chair that was also crooked to check.
Lin Mo rubbed the writing on the manuscript paper with his thumb, and found that it was stained with light ink. He touched the desk lamp and found that the lampshade was still slightly warm, and in front of the lamp holder, which blocked his view, he found an... utensil.
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It's just a rectangular wooden box with three small light bulbs installed on it. Corresponding to the light bulbs, there are a few circles of holes punched in. There may be things like buzzers and horns inside. When you pick up the wooden box, you can see the connections.
The multiple wires are probably used to send alarm reminders.
Lin Mo took off the manuscript paper, lifted up the table, checked it and went inside. There was a high cabinet on one side, and the door was locked. He pried open a bag full of documents, and at the end of the aisle
It is a safe about one meter high.
There was also a rope attached to the floor in front of the safe, but it had been trampled into shape. It was probably rarely opened. Lin Mo pulled it open and took a brief look. It was filled with old sundries, a very narrow bed frame, and a folding
There were also small mats, wooden tables, and even a tattered quilt, a kettle, broken dishes and chopsticks and other items, which were probably from the past of this secret room. As Lin Mo guessed, the secret room had been used as a temporary refuge and hiding place.
After checking, Lin Mo returned to the secret room on the second floor to conduct a rough inspection with his team members, and took notes. The inspection confirmed that there was no danger, and he roughly counted and recorded the items. Unfortunately, the safe was difficult to open, so he left it there for now.
Returning to the secret room on the next floor, Lin Mo opened the short secret door. After entering and confirming that there was no danger, Lin Mo was a little surprised when the scene in front of him was illuminated by multiple flashlights.
On the floor of the attic, there are passages paved with cement, in the shape of "Feng", with a width of about one meter. One in the middle of the attic leads directly to the other side, and branches extend out on both sides. The corresponding ones should be
The elegant room downstairs.
There are shelves on both sides of the entrance. Various items are neatly stored on the shelves, including mats, small tables, pens and paper, and some trumpet-shaped copper products. It doesn't take much to guess that they are used for eavesdropping.
Lin Mo led people along the cement corridor. The ground was very solid. Taking off his boots, there was almost no sound. Near the end, there was a corridor leading to another room.
The corridor corresponds to the ridge of the room in the lobby. The door is not like the low door before, so Lin Mo can get through by bending down slightly.
Gently opening the secret door, Lin Mo looked inside and saw several flashlight lights. He retracted and gave the secret signal. Only after confirming that it was his own person did he enter with confidence.
There is also an aisle here, but it is not branching, which is understandable. After all, the downstairs is an open lobby, and the sound is noisy. Even if you hide up there and eavesdrop, you won't hear anything. The aisle should be used to connect to the building on the other side.
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Lin Mo checked at the exit and didn't go any further. After the two parties met, they exchanged information and found that the layout of Zeng Wenchong's side was basically the same as that of Lin Mo's side. There were also secret room compartments, but the secret room was the third one.
On the second floor, a batch of guns and ammunition are stored.
"...I found something in the secret room that seems to be able to alarm people in the secret room. I suspect there is something in the tea that can activate the alarm reminder. It should be something like a power switch..."
"Understood..." Zeng Wenchong nodded and arranged for the team members to go back and search again. After finishing the search, he frowned and asked Lin Mo: "You didn't find the telephone or radio station, did you? Once we got to the attic, I was worried about what other means of communication they had."
"I didn't find it, and I probably didn't, and I discovered something. The desk lamp in the secret room was still warm, and the writing was not completely dry. I guess the store owner was in the secret room when you two teams came in and were noticed.
Based on various time points, I suspect that the scene Lao Sha saw at the window may be that the other party had just come down from the attic after getting the news, and hurriedly opened the door to check the situation inside the tea house. As a result, he was attacked and killed from behind, and there was no time to proceed.
Other warning and contact behaviors.”
"No, no..." Zeng Wenchong shook his head and said: "The time doesn't match up. Judging from the time when the other party sent the message, the other party should have received the news when Xiao He's men came out. It was a long time between when we started taking action.
It is far longer than the time it takes to come out of the secret room and go downstairs. If the warning tool is true, it may be earlier, and the time is longer and inappropriate."
"Eh..." Lin Mo shook his head and said, "Coming out of the secret room and going downstairs only takes part of the time. You can think about it in another person's shoes. Suppose you are lurking behind enemy lines and suddenly learn that you may be exposed. At this time, you
What will you do?"
Hearing this, Zeng Wenchong suddenly understood and replied with a smile: "I don't know exactly what I will do, but I can guess what the other party will do. Judging from the situation of the tea house that he peeked through the door, it is obvious that he will not rush out.
If you fight hard, you will probably leave the others and run away as soon as you see something wrong."
"That's right! But you definitely can't take anything with you when you leave, right? Some important items, confidential documents, etc. are not allowed to be taken away or destroyed? Then the time is right.
The destruction work was not done, and I don’t know whether it was taken away or not, because the safe has not been opened yet. If it was taken away, I don’t know where the item is? So I can’t confirm this conclusion yet.”
Hearing this, Zeng Wenchong replied: "I have a situation here. My brothers were passing through the secret room on the other side and found several rafters that had been sawed off diagonally on the roof outside the house.
The sawed-off part and the surrounding tiles have been fixed with cement. At that point, the roof can be opened up to create a hole for one person to pass through, which is probably reserved for escape."
"Here we have a goal. If we follow the past route and search for a while, we will probably gain something..."
While talking, everyone turned back along the side where Lin Mo checked, but their speed was not fast, because after Zeng Wenchong's discovery, everyone inspected it carefully.
It's just that no similar place was found, which actually didn't surprise anyone. After all, there is a side door below here. If you need to escape, there is a high probability that people will be watching you to death on this side. Isn't it in vain?
Back in the secret room, the team members left behind by Lin Mo had already opened the safe. It was not because the other party had great unlocking skills, but based on that inference at the time, they guessed that the other party was in a hurry and might not have messed up the password too much to allow the team members to do so.
After trying the single circle password, I restored it, and then transferred to other passwords, and it was actually opened.
The inside of the safe was quite messy. Some property, documents, and some ammunition were all rummaged through. This confirmed the suspicion, and the search became more detailed.
Finally, in the gap between the beam and the wall next to the entrance to the secret room on the other side, I found a stuffed leather bag in the style of a briefcase, with a pile of documents, materials, notebooks, etc. messily placed inside.
Banknotes, documents, several packs of bullets and a money bag of copper dollars, foreign gold bars and gold beans.
The documents should be instructions issued by superiors. They are drafted and reported to the intelligence for retention. They are all in Japanese. After checking the information, most of them are important situations recorded by the other party's eavesdropping. There are records in Chinese and Japanese. The notebook is a notebook, recording
A summary of various situations overheard was recorded, and the location where the original records were stored was also marked.
As for banknotes, there are some foreign currencies such as US dollars and pounds, and some are bank notes issued by banks for circulation in Jiangnan. During this period, there were also banknotes in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, but they were not legal banknotes issued and circulated by the government. They were mostly bank notes.
And the mainstream is still silver and copper coins.
As for the documents, there are a lot of them. They should be forged identity documents, and there are also a few Japanese identity documents. I don’t know whether they are genuine or not at the moment.
The two packs of bullets were 7.62x17mm Browning pistol bullets. The other party was previously carrying a Browning M1910 Fancy Mouth Bullet and used this type of ammunition.
The money in that money bag should be used on the way to escape. There are ordinary coppers, some zero oceans, and some small gold pieces, small gold beans, and small gold bars ranging from one or two to several taels, which can cope with the escape process.
various types of expenses.
I came under the sawed rafters, pushed them open and checked, and it was indeed as Zeng Wenchong said, and I also found two ropes under the beam next to it.
"Now I have another question, that is, the entrance window on the second floor. With this escape route, it cannot be used to prepare for escape. So why was the window not closed tightly?"
After listening to what Zeng Wenchong said, Lin Mo thought about it and said: "Look at the teahouse on the side facing the street, which is connected to it. From here, you have to take the alley behind the teahouse. I guess the other party just checked the situation behind the building beforehand.
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The window was not necessarily forgotten to be closed, it was probably left open intentionally so that one could quietly observe the situation behind the building when necessary, so as not to attract attention due to the movement of the window being opened. However, what I didn’t expect was that you guys came in through the window and instead gave us
convenient."
"That makes sense. Forget it, such a small issue is not worth worrying about." Zeng Wenchong nodded and smiled.
"Actually, struggling too much is also a positive thing. Many things come from correcting mistakes and summarizing, and growing and progressing a little bit. Don't be afraid of struggling too much, just be afraid that you won't struggle.
To be honest, Xiao He Laosha's luck accounted for a large part of this sudden action. A little bad luck in many aspects may lead to unpredictable consequences.
For example, there was no one in the attic after the operation, the room was selected with someone in the room and the window was open, the person didn't pay attention to the situation outside the window, etc., and there are many things worth correcting and summarizing."
Zeng Wenchong nodded and said: "The element of luck is undeniable, but the strength of Sha He's second team is also guaranteed, and luck must be grasped by strength. To be honest, I am very satisfied with the performance of your third team, no matter it is
Keen judgment, decisive decision-making actions and personal qualities, to be honest, I am embarrassed to find fault."
The two of them had a commercial boast, but Zeng Wenchong is now a person who sincerely believes in the third team. Just now, Lin Mochong took the lead and not only gave himself the safer side, but also let his subordinates take the lead in evacuating danger.
Give him a thumbs up.
To be honest, he has cooperated with other people a lot in these years. There are many people who have achieved great results while trying to hide things. It is really rare to see individuals and teams like this who are really good at things. When working with such people, I can only say
carefree.
While they were talking, everyone went around the attic and took another closer look, and discovered some things that they had missed before, but they were just minor details and of little value.
Went down to the second floor. The items in the attic and the secret room had been inventoried and moved down. Among them were a dozen long guns, a dozen pistols, corresponding ammunition and two boxes of explosives.
Most of the pistols were Southern-style, but they were carefully kept in a separate box. Judging from their condition, they probably had no chance to be used since they arrived. There were also a few Brownings and some shell guns, which were probably used for daily operations.
But what attracted Lin Mo's attention the most were the two boxes of explosives, both yellow explosives and matching detonators. He didn't know what he was going to do, but he asked the team members and based on the situation in the secret room, the storage time was probably not short.