Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 648 Li Yunlong's Bewilderment

After meeting with Chi Tiecheng, it was already lunchtime.

Ye Shaohong usually eats lunch at the company cafeteria to save time.

But he changed his mind today.

Before the end-of-get off work bell rang in the office building, Ye Shaohong had already changed out of his military uniform, put on civilian clothes, and driven away from the Jiangcheng Station of the Special Service Department.

After a long and winding journey, he finally arrived at Yan Hui Lou, outside the embassy district.

This isn't a restaurant.

Instead, it was a secret outpost of the Party Affairs Investigation Department located in Jiangcheng, a three-story modern hotel. It also served as the lodging for the eldest son of the Kong family.

After finding a suitable spot to park the car, Ye Shaohong opened the car door and got out.

Looking around, the area around the hotel is quite lively and bustling.

In front of him was a Sichuan restaurant, next to which was a gold shop with a strong historical atmosphere, and many rickshaws were parked on both sides of the street to pick up customers.

On the street, there were also young girls carrying wooden trays with various cigarettes on them, calling out their wares.

It fully embodies the style of the Republic of China era.

Ye Shaohong walked across the street, and after walking a short distance, his gaze fell on the shoeshine stall on the street corner.

Ye Shaohong walked over there.

After sitting down, Ye Shaohong first raised one foot and put it on the shoe-shining rack.

Then, as if on a whim, he picked up a newspaper left behind by some customer from a wooden box next to him and casually flipped through it.

After a few breaths.

The shoe-shining stall owner was already skillfully cleaning the dirt off Ye Shaohong's shoes.

When no one was paying attention, Ye Shaohong's voice finally rang out softly.

"How's the situation?"

His gaze remained fixed on the newspaper in his hand the entire time, and the words he uttered were soft and weak.

But the shoeshine stall owner still heard it.

"There was no movement at all."

“Since the target entered Yan Hui Lou, none of them have come out in the past half day.”

The shoeshine vendor also responded to Ye Shaohong's question in a very low voice. "Nobody's coming out?"

"What about the internal situation? Have you sent anyone in to investigate?"

Ye Shaohong asked another question.

"It has been investigated."

“We sent two people, divided into two time periods, to stay at Yan Hui Lou as itinerant merchants.”

"But this is a secret stronghold of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, and most of the service personnel in the building are also undercover agents of the Party Affairs Investigation Department."

"So after they went in, they only confirmed the room numbers of the target group's residences. Further investigation and eavesdropping could not be carried out yet!"

While wiping Ye Shaohong's leather shoes with a towel, the shoe-shining stall owner lowered his head and reported their investigation progress to Ye Shaohong.

Upon hearing this, Ye Shaohong immediately frowned. Clearly...

He is very dissatisfied with the current progress of the investigation.

Ye Shaohong was well aware that the shoeshine stall owner's report was true. Being in the secret stronghold of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, and unable to expose themselves, it was indeed difficult for them to make any discoveries.

But should he give up when faced with difficulties? That's not Ye Shaohong's style.

He frowned and thought for a moment, then reached into his coat pocket and took out his pen, and then took out a note from his wallet.

He placed the note on his lap and slowly wrote a line of text.

Finally, he signed his name.

"Take it!"

"Take my warrant and send someone to the telephone exchange to have their operators closely monitor the outside phone lines at Yan Hui Lou." "I need to know who they are contacting privately."

To be honest, Ye Shaohong's arrangement was somewhat risky.

Telephone communication during the Republic of China era did indeed require the assistance of program-controlled exchanges and operators.

The addition of human intervention increases the risk of information exposure.

and so.

Regardless of the intelligence agency, they all have their own intelligence agents planted in the telephone exchange to secretly monitor the frequency bands of the numbers they need to be aware of.

The telephone exchange had people from the Special Service Department, and naturally, it also had people from the Party Affairs Investigation Department.

There were also people from the Ministry of National Defense.

Ye Shaohong's high-profile deployment of personnel to the telephone exchange to monitor Yan Hui Lou, a secret stronghold of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, was bound to attract attention. It might even provoke dissatisfaction and backlash from the Party Affairs Investigation Department itself.

But he still did it.

The reason is simple: he wants to get involved in this matter.

of course.

The intervention mentioned here does not mean directly informing other factions that he has taken notice of the Great Western King's treasure.

Ye Shaohong was merely using a pretext to attempt to intervene.

What was his reasoning?

A few days ago, Dai Yunong sent him a secret telegram, instructing him to secretly investigate the attack on the Party Affairs Investigation Department's stronghold.

That's a perfectly valid excuse.

With the Party Affairs Investigation Department staff member dead and no suitable leads available for the time being, Ye Shaohong had no choice but to take a different approach and begin investigating what cases the Party Affairs Investigation Department had been handling and what actions they had been carrying out recently.

Just then, a group of mysterious strangers moved into Yan Hui Lou, the secret stronghold of the Party Affairs Investigation Department.

It's perfectly reasonable for Ye Shaohong to send someone to investigate.

This is the contingency plan that Ye Shaohong prepared.

And what about the shoeshine stall owner?

He was visibly taken aback when he heard Ye Shaohong's order and saw the note Ye Shaohong casually handed him.

However, he did not ask any questions.

The orders given by their superiors were simply to be carried out by these low-level intelligence personnel.

Could they possibly press Ye Shaohong for an explanation?

"Ok."

"I'll arrange for people to go to the telephone exchange immediately. Do we need to leave a few people there to be stationed long-term?"

"Need not!"

"Find the person we have planted in the telephone exchange and have him keep an eye on this matter privately." "Whether it succeeds or not is not important. What's important is that the other expatriates in the telephone exchange realize our intentions."

Ye Shaohong flipped through the newspaper in his hand, then changed the foot he was using to shine his shoes, and then fell silent.

After he finished polishing a pair of shoes, he casually tossed down a silver dollar and, amidst the stall owner's profuse thanks and compliments, turned and left with a nonchalant air.

A dozen minutes later, Ye Shaohong had returned to the Jiangcheng Station of the Special Service Department.

He then called Li Yunlong over.

Under Li Yunlong's puzzled gaze, Ye Shaohong recounted what he had just done.

Simultaneously.

Ye Shaohong also told Li Yunlong about the task that Dai Yunong had secretly given him a few days earlier.

He put Li Yunlong in charge of the matter personally. Upon hearing Ye Shaohong's explanation, Li Yunlong was stunned and dumbfounded.

"No... stationmaster."

"You want me to investigate the attack on the Party Affairs Investigation Department's headquarters?"

"Do we still need to investigate this case?"

"We made it!"