If you don’t change your license plate along the way, there are always traces to follow and you can find a general direction.
Stop and go, asking questions along the way.
Towards evening, we finally reached the vicinity of Pidgin Beach.
It's not that Sugawara-eda was careless, but there was no need to deliberately hide his traces.
According to pre-expectations, the secret code can be obtained from "Gu Linglong" in a very short period of time.
It would take at least two hours until someone came to the door.
The wooden bridge over Yangjingbang is impassable to cars.
Xu Siqi stopped the car, looked around, and said, "This should be it, unless that Dodge car deliberately drove in circles..."
Zhang Huan got out of the car with the patrolman and continued to look for witnesses nearby.
Xu Siqi and Gu Linglong also got out of the car.
"At around nine o'clock yesterday morning, did you see a black car with license plate number 4037?"
Similar inquiries need to be repeated dozens or hundreds of times before clues can be found.
After all, not all witnesses will remember the license plate number.
When a car passes by their door, they don't even give it a second glance.
Nowadays, cars are not a rare thing in Shanghai, especially within the British and French concessions, they can be seen everywhere on the streets.
"If anything happens to Qingcheng, I will be the instigator." Gu Linglong said with a depressed look.
"Stop thinking about this matter..."
Halfway through the words, Xu Siqi's eyes turned from surprise to surprise.
——Gu Qingcheng stood quietly on the side of the road, watching the cars passing by on the street, seeming to be deep in thought.
Gu Linglong also saw it. She walked over quickly, took Gu Qingcheng's hand, and said excitedly: "Great, I finally found you!"
Xu Siqi also followed and said with concern: "Qingcheng, are you okay?"
"I am fine."
Gu Qingcheng replied.
Apart from the slightly surprised look, there was no trace of excitement or joy.
"Qingcheng, what's wrong with you?" Gu Linglong asked uneasily.
She came out in a hurry, but she was still wearing a white wedding dress and various headdresses on her head.
Anyone can see that this is a bride who has just become a perfect bride.
Gu Qingcheng smiled and said, "Are you the bride? Congratulations."
Gu Linglong was stunned, and then whispered: "What nonsense are you talking about..."
Xu Siqi suddenly said: "Qingcheng, who am I?"
Gu Qingcheng was also stunned, looking at Xu Siqi for a while, and murmured: "I think, I think I have seen you somewhere..."
Only then did Gu Linglong realize the seriousness of the problem.
She said eagerly: "Sister, what's wrong with you? Don't you even recognize me?"
Gu Qingcheng said: "I know you."
Gu Linglong breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Then tell me, who am I?"
Gu Qingcheng smiled: "You are the bride."
…
The next morning.
In the living room of Gu Mansion.
Representative Gu, Mrs. Gu, and Gu Linglong each sat on their chairs with frowns on their faces.
As soon as the door opened, Xu Siqi walked in accompanied by a middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes.
A middle-aged man named George is a well-known mental illness expert in Shanghai.
Mrs. Gu quickly stood up and asked, "Siqi, what did Dr. George say?"
Xu Siqi said: "Qingcheng's health is not serious...it's just that she was injected with an excessive dose of scopolamine. Oh, scopolamine is a sedative drug. If used in excessive doses, it will cause varying degrees of damage to the brain in mild cases and severe cases.
May result in permanent coma or even death."
"Doctor, will the patient get better?" Gu Linglong asked in English.
Dr. George said: "Theoretically, it will. However, you must be prepared for the worst."
"Prepared for the worst?"
"Most likely, the patient will never recover!"
Gu Linglong sat slumped on the chair.
Dr. George continued: "In addition to necessary drug treatment, the patient's environment is also very important. My opinion is that there is no need for the patient to go to the hospital. It is best for her to stay at home and see familiar people and things often.
Recovery will be of great help..."
For a moment, the living room fell into silence.
In layman's terms, Gu Qingcheng's current symptoms are actually dementia.
After sending Dr. George away, Representative Gu was furious and walked around the living room with his hands behind his back.
Mrs. Gu consoled her: "Didn't Dr. George say that Qingcheng will recover in the future..."
Representative Gu suddenly stopped, turned to look at Xu Siqi, and said, "Who did this?"
Xu Siqi said: "We are checking."
Mrs. Gu said: "Could he be from a gang?"
Representative Gu shook his head and said: "The gangs in Shanghai are nothing more than the Qing Gang, the Hongmen, and the Ax Gang. I have known Du Wenlong and Huang Yaofa for many years. Although we don't have much friendship, they are not disadvantageous to me. As for the Ax Gang,
, it seems unlikely..."
"They must be Japanese!" Gu Linglong interrupted.
"Japanese?"
"Yes. I understand now that the Japanese wanted to capture me. But they mistakenly thought Qingcheng was me."
"Why does Japan want to arrest you?"
"I guess it's for the secret code..."
Gu Linglong is smart, has received special agent training, and has certain analytical abilities.
Of course she knows the importance of the Sino-British aid plan.
And I happened to have the secret code.
The only enemies of the National Government are the Japanese and the Communist Party.
The Communist Party has no interest in such secrets.
Now it's simple. Based on the principle of whoever benefits, who has the greatest suspicion, it can only be the Japanese.
They have a motive for committing the crime.
After listening to Gu Linglong's analysis, Mrs. Gu said: "Okay, okay, don't speculate on baseless things. The most important thing right now is, what should we do about Qingcheng?"
Gu Linglong said: "The doctor just said that the environment is crucial to recovery. So, I think Qingcheng should be allowed to live at home."
Mrs. Gu nodded slightly and turned to look at Xu Siqi, who was thoughtful.
"As long as it is good for Qingcheng's condition, I have no problem." Xu Siqi expressed his position at the right time.
Mrs. Gu said: "Since we don't have any objections, it's settled. Qingcheng will live in her parents' house for the time being, and she will move back when she fully recovers. In addition, try not to make this matter public, so as not to cause uproar in the city, whether it is Gu Mansion or Gu Mansion.
It still doesn’t do any good to Siqi.”
Representative Gu suddenly said: "If Linglong's analysis is correct and the Japanese know that they have arrested the wrong person, will they continue to attack Linglong?"
…
In order to obtain the secret code, Oshima continued to increase the dose of medicine at Sugawara's request.
It wasn't until Gu Qingcheng's mental state became abnormal that they stopped.
There was no choice but to let Gu Qingcheng go.
There is no need to kill people.
Besides, the Japanese are very afraid of Gu Gongguan.
They don't want to make things worse unless they have to.