kingnovel Chapter 667 Yuan Ye in the Mountain City ()
Chapter 667 Yuan Ye in the Mountain City ()
The Hirota team was arrested, and Iwai Mansion lost contact with them. He must be very worried and want to know what happened. He will definitely ask the Silver Fox team to find out the situation.
Yuan Ye felt that the Japanese spy would most likely go to No. 54 Ganquan Road to learn about the situation. Hirota Naoki was arrested at the Tuojiang Hotel across the street. Would the Japanese spy go there to learn about the situation?
This possibility exists, so Yuan Ye decided to go there and take a look, maybe he could find some clues.
When he thought of this, he immediately got up, left the Military Intelligence Bureau headquarters, and drove to Ganquan Road in Nan'an District.
More than ten minutes later, he arrived at Ganquan Road, parked his car in front of the Tuojiang Hotel, and then walked into the hotel.
There was a fat middle-aged man sitting at the counter on the first floor. He should be the owner of this hotel. Yuan Ye walked straight over, showed his ID and said:
"I'm from the Military Intelligence Bureau, and I want to find out some information from you."
When the fat boss heard that the visitor was from the Military Control Commission, he became a little nervous and said:
"What do you want to know from me?"
Yuan Ye smiled and said:
"Don't be nervous. I just want to ask you if anyone has come to your place recently to ask about what happened in the building across from No. 54. I think you should know what happened there some time ago."
Of course the fat boss knew about it. He was in the store that day and saw with his own eyes a group of people coming out of his store, each holding a gun in their hands, and running straight to the building opposite. Then gunshots were heard from there.
Not long after, his hotel was surrounded by soldiers, and then a group of men in black rushed into the hotel, armed with guns and like wolves and tigers, searching from the first floor to the second floor, and then arrested a man from the second floor. He knew that it was the Military Control Commission investigating the case, but he didn't know who they were arresting. He was so scared that he dared not breathe at the counter.
He felt relieved when he saw that this Military Control Commission member was not looking for trouble with him. Then he recalled that someone had indeed asked him about it. Of course, he did not dare to hide it and immediately said:
"Boss, someone asked me about it, it seemed like just two or three days ago."
Yuan Ye thought to himself, it seems that his judgment was correct. He immediately took out the photos of the six Silver Fox team members and said:
"Do you know that person? Look carefully, is this person in these photos?"
He spread the photos of the six people on the counter. The fat boss did not dare to neglect them and quickly leaned over to examine them carefully. After looking at them for a while, he shook his head and said:
"That person isn't here. To be honest, I've never seen that person before."
Yuan Ye was a little disappointed, but he still didn't give up. He asked the boss to think about it carefully and read it again.
The fat boss was helpless and had to look at it again. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and picked up a photo from the counter and said:
"Boss, there is indeed no such person here, but I think I have seen this person before."
Yuan Ye was delighted when he heard this and quickly took the photo to check it out. The person in the photo was called Nomura Jiro. He immediately asked:
"Where have you seen him?"
"Just a few days before you arrested him, this person stayed at my hotel. There should be a record in my registration book. I can check it for you."
The fat boss took out the registration book and flipped through the pages one by one. He soon turned to the registration page for that day and pointed to a name on the page and said:
"That's the man."
Yuan Ye took a look and saw that the registered name was Yan Laoliu. Yuan Ye knew that this must be a pseudonym, so he asked:
"How long has this Yan Laoliu lived with you? When did he leave? Did you know him before? Do you know what this person does?"
"He stayed there for just one day and one night, and left early the next morning. I didn't know him."
The fat boss said this, and suddenly remembered something, and continued:
"He paid the bill at the counter and walked out of the hotel. I found that he had finished his cigarette, so I went out to buy some. When I walked outside, I found him standing under a tree a few dozen meters behind me on the right. A rickshaw was locked to the trunk of the tree. He was trying to unlock it, and then he drove away with the rickshaw.
I think that person must be a rickshaw driver."
Yuan Ye was overjoyed. This was a very important situation. This trip was not in vain. If he was really a rickshaw driver, it would not be difficult to find him.
Yuan Ye suppressed his excitement and asked:
"Did you see the logo on the rickshaw? Do you know which company it belongs to?"
The fat boss shook his head and said:
"Boss, I'm so sorry, the distance was a bit far and I couldn't see clearly."
Yuan Ye knew that it was indeed difficult to see clearly from such a distance, but it didn't matter. There were only a few car dealerships in the mountain city. Was he worried that he wouldn't be able to find this Nomura Jiro?
He warned the fat boss that he must not tell anyone else about today's questioning, otherwise he would be the only one being questioned. The fat boss nodded in agreement quickly.
Without further ado, Yuan Ye went to the city government and found out that there were five car dealerships in the city, which was not too many, but not too few either. Yuan Ye did not alert the bureau and ask them to send people to assist him in the investigation, as he was worried that too many people might alert the Japanese spies. He felt that it would be more secretive and safer for him to investigate alone.
Of course, this will be a little harder, but it doesn’t matter. As long as we can find the Japanese spy, we can make a breakthrough. What does this little bit of hard work matter?
Yuan Ye worked non-stop and visited four car dealerships in a row. They all said that there was no one named Yan Laoliu. Yuan Ye also took out photos of Nomura Jiro and showed them. Three car dealerships said that there was no such person. One car dealership said that there was a person who looked a bit like the person in the photo. When Yuan Ye finally found this person, after careful observation, he discovered that this person was not Nomura Jiro, but just looked a bit similar.
Yuan Ye was a little disappointed, but there was one last car dealership he had not visited yet. It was called Zhengxing Car Dealership. He wondered if Jiro Nomura would be in this dealership. This was his last hope.