After Akiyama went downstairs, he gave a wink to Awahara who was checking the water pipes.

Seeing this, Awahara immediately ended his fake inspection and said to the servant, "I've checked the villa's water pipes, and there's nothing wrong. It's likely that there's a blockage somewhere outside the villa. Let's go outside and check along the water pipes. We'll come back and let you know when we find the cause!"

After coming out of the villa, the two pretended to check along the water pipe.

"How about it?"

"It's installed. It's installed inside the telephone in the study. You can't find it unless you take it apart!" Akiyama said clearly.

Awahara breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I hope we can find evidence soon!"

The two men walked to the sluice gate and opened the sluice switch leading to Ishida Villa, then returned to tell the servant that the blockage had been cleared and water was supplied to the villa.

The two men returned to a nearby pickup truck. Several monitoring devices were placed in the truck cabin, and two monitoring personnel were debugging the equipment.

"Is it debugged? Can you hear it?" Qiushan asked clearly.

A monitoring person replied: "It has been debugged. There is no sound at the moment because no one has entered the study and no calls have been made into the villa!"

At noon, on the monitoring truck, Akiyama Shiki, Awahara and others had just finished lunch and were drowsy and dozing off.

Suddenly, the monitoring device lit up red, and a monitor wearing headphones immediately said, "Someone has entered the study!"

When the others heard this, they immediately woke up from their sleepiness and Akiyama put on his headphones immediately.

At this time, Ishida Hanako opened the door of the study and walked in, then gently closed the door with her backhand, and then looked at the furnishings in the study.

As she walked forward, she muttered, "There's something he hid here that can prove his identity. Why can't I find it after searching so many times? Where did you hide it?"

"Could it be under the floor?" Ishida Hanako muttered to herself, then she leaned over and tapped the floor with her fingers, one piece at a time.

Every floorboard makes a solid sound when you knock on it; not a single floorboard makes a hollow sound.

When she had knocked almost all the floorboards in the study, she bit her lip and said, "Impossible! I've checked every inch of the wall and there's nothing wrong with it. Now there's no problem with the floor either. Where did you hide the thing? Why do I hear someone talking in the study several times? That must not be the sound of a phone call. It seems to be the sound of a recording device."

"Where did you hide the recording equipment and tapes? Whose conversation was recorded?"

At this time, Ishida Hanako seemed to be possessed. She had indeed heard several sounds in the study that seemed to be coming from a recording device. She had also secretly come here to look for it many times, but each time she returned empty-handed and found nothing. However, she firmly believed that Zhang Yunhe's secret was hidden in the study.

However, she didn't know that what she was talking to herself in the study was heard clearly by Akiyama Shili and others in the monitoring car outside.

He was monitoring the car on the street until he heard footsteps fade away in his headphones. The moment the study door closed, Qiu Shan took off his headphones and said, "Play back what we just monitored from beginning to end!"

"Hayi!"

The monitor first cut the tape to remove the silent areas, and then played the recording continuously.

Ishida Hanabuko's soliloquy in the study was played back in its entirety.

"Click" the monitor turned off the playback.

Akiyama turned his head and looked at Awahara: "Awahara-kun, what do you think?"

Awahara said: "This Mrs. Ishida seems to be prying into Ishida's secrets. Why do I feel that she also has problems?"

Akiyama thought for a moment and said, "I'm surprised by Mrs. Ishida's behavior. Logically, if her husband keeps something at home, her wife should know it clearly. But the current situation is that Ishida must have hidden something in the study, but Mrs. Ishida has secretly searched for it many times and can't find it!"

"This also means that Ishida has a secret that Mrs. Ishida doesn't know about, and he is guarding against her!"

Awahara said, "Let's report this to Captain Yamauchi!"

"Well, I'll go call him!"

More than half an hour later, Yamauchi Taiichi arrived by car.

After listening to the monitored recording, he thought for a moment and asked, "Do you think the call reporting Ishida could have been made by Mrs. Ishida?"

"Huh? Mrs. Ishida beat him? She reported her own husband? That's a little unlikely, right?" Awahara was surprised that Yamauchi Taiichi thought so.

Yamauchi Taiichi said: "If she suspects that her husband has been switched, it is very likely that she would call the police! After all, they are husband and wife. If someone really switched, Mrs. Ishida would definitely notice and suspect it!"

"But...her voice seems different from the woman who called to report it a few days ago!"

At this time, the monitor saw the indicator light on the monitoring device light up again, and immediately heard the phone ringing in the headset. He hurriedly said, "There is an outside call to the villa!"

Yamauchi Yasuichi immediately took the other earphone and put it on.

The phone was quickly picked up: "This is Ishida Villa... Mrs. Hatoyama? Oh, okay, please wait, I'll ask your wife to answer the phone."

After a while, the voice of Ishida's wife, Hanako, came from the headset: "Miyoko, what's going on?"

"Hua Xinzi, how have you been these past two days?"

"It's okay. I eat well and sleep well, but the baby in my belly is very fussy!" said Hua Xinzi.

On the phone, Miyoko asked, "Where's Director Ishida? Is anything going on at home?"

"He went to work at the police department, and everything is fine at home!"

"That's great. I'll come see you at three o'clock!"

After the call ended, Yamauchi Taiichi also took off his headphones and put them down. He turned to Akiyama Shiki and the others and said, "The person who called was a woman. Her surname is Hatoyama and her given name is Midoriko. I remember this woman's voice. She was the one who called to report Ishida!"

Akiyama Shili, Awahara and others looked at each other in bewilderment. It seemed that the situation here was very complicated!

"Keep monitoring!"

"Hayi!"

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Hatoyama Midori came to the Ishida Villa again. In order to make it easier to talk and not be heard by the servants and bodyguards, Hanako took Midori to the study on the second floor. Their conversation happened to be monitored by the spies.

"What? You said you called the Special High Technology Department to report Ishida? This...how could you do that?" Hanako was very angry.

Miyoko Hatoyama said, "Hanabuko, since this Ishida is fake, no matter who he is, his existence is a great threat to you. The purpose of my calling is to alert the enemy and see who he is. As long as the Special High Technology Bureau keeps an eye on him, if he is a spy, they should find out quickly."

"As long as he senses danger, he will run. Only when he runs away can you be safe. Do you understand?"

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