Chapter 536
鈥淒achun, get me a car, full of gas, and weapons, one long and one short gun, with silencers.鈥�
鈥淭eam leader, this is a big task.鈥�
鈥淛ust do as I say, don’t worry about anything else,鈥� Cheng Mo instructed, 鈥淚 won’t forget you when I need you.鈥�
鈥淵es.鈥�
鈥淭ell Mermaid to find out when Wu Sibao left No. 76.鈥� Cheng Mo made another coded phone call to Xu Baichuan.
Xu Baichuan naturally agreed without hesitation.
鈥淐hiyoko, I may have to ask you to cooperate with me for a while.鈥� He went to see Chiyoko again, without saying anything, but Chiyoko agreed.
After doing all this, he was just waiting for news.
He did not go to Peng Nian, who could only be used and could not be trusted. He did not want to get himself into trouble.
This time, he wanted to personally assassinate Wu Sibao.
Before his own child is born, he will completely eliminate this hidden danger.
Only he has the ability to do this. Neither Liu Guoxing nor Kui Zi have this ability, and they cannot take any action either.
All the information from various sources has been gathered, and even Qin Chi has brought the departure time of Lin Zhijiang’s train ticket purchase.
Of course, Cheng Mo has Lin Zhijiang’s information, from the Military Alliance as well as the Political Unit of the International Settlement Police Department.
He also knew that this person had betrayed the military intelligence and joined the 76th Division at an early stage. He had survived the war and was known for being cautious.
If Qin Chi could find out that he had bought a train ticket to Yuhang at the railway station, would he definitely take the train?
No! This was most likely a smoke bomb, a trick he had always used.
Of course, he might be playing a trick of false pretences, so he would still have the railway station monitored by Qin Chi’s people.
Sure enough, the insider 鈥淶hi Liao鈥� sent a message saying that Lin Zhijiang was secretly smuggling some contraband to Haining.
Naturally, smuggling contraband would be checked by the water police, but the smuggling boat had a dispatch from the military police headquarters, so who would dare to check?
Anyway, in these kinds of things, it’s just better to turn a blind eye, and everyone pays a small benefit along the way.
Unless the authorities are serious and the smuggling affects the overall strategy, who would dare to interfere with someone’s livelihood? Putting Wu Sibao on a smuggling boat and secretly transporting him to Haining, and then from Haining to Yuhang, this detour may actually be the safest.
Taking the train to Yuhang may seem safe, but it will actually expose him to the eyes of the military. With such a good opportunity, would the military let him go?
This diversionary tactic made Lin Shiqun feel completely safe.
He therefore ordered that it be carried out, and also told Lin Zhijiang to find someone to disguise as Wu Sibao, and that he himself would escort him to the train station and take the train to Yuhang.
Another group was sent to follow Wu Sibao and take a smuggler’s boat to Haining.
They would leave at the same time, one after the other.
Poor She Aizhen, as Wu Sibao’s wife, was kept in the dark about all this. Lin Shiqun planned to wait until Wu Sibao had safely arrived in Yuhang before telling her the truth.
Although Cheng Mo couldn’t guess how Lin Zhijiang was going to get to Yuhang, the railway had already been eliminated, leaving only the road or the waterway.
The road was not impossible, but if word got out along the way, the assassination would not stop as long as Wu Sibaoyu was still alive.
How many lives would the 76th Division sacrifice for Wu Sibaoyu? That left only the waterway.
The water route goes along inland waterways, which are just as dangerous as the roads, especially in places where water bandits are rampant. If you run into one of those, it’s even more dangerous than taking the land route. Given Lin Zhijiang’s prudence and stability, he will most likely take the sea route.
Once you’re at sea, it’s hard to find your target, so you have to get rid of him before he boards the ship.
It’s too risky to go during the day, and it’s relatively safe at night, and it’s not easy to be discovered.
But Lin Zhijiang had the train ticket bought in the morning, so either tonight or tomorrow night, Wu Sibao would leave Shanghai.
Because the three days given by the police station to No. 76 to respond to the letter were almost up.
鈥淭eam leader, I found out that Lin Zhijiang has a maritime smuggling line that leads to Haining. If someone really goes over there, they can take a smuggling boat and no one will know,鈥� Shen Mo brought him good news.
鈥淲hen does this ship go to Haining?鈥� Cheng Mo asked.
鈥漈he smuggling ship goes every three days, and the next one should be tomorrow night,鈥� Shen Mo said.
鈥滻t seems that Wu Sibao will leave Shanghai on this ship tomorrow night.鈥� Cheng Mo nodded. 鈥滵o you know when this ship will leave port?鈥�
鈥淚 don’t know. The schedule is irregular. They are smuggling ships, so they have to avoid the patrol routes of the coast guard. However, they have someone behind them, so I guess they know the patrol routes in advance,鈥� said Shen Mo.
鈥滽eep an eye on them and prevent them from leaving the port early!鈥� Cheng Mo ordered.
鈥漁kay.鈥�
鈥滿o’er, go to bed early tonight. I may have to go out,鈥� Cheng Mo told Su Mo’er as he escorted her upstairs.
鈥淒o you have a mission?鈥�
鈥漌ell, don’t ask too many questions. If anyone asks, just say that I’m at home tonight and didn’t go out,鈥� Cheng Mo said, 鈥榓nd remind Xiaoyu not to say the wrong thing.鈥�
鈥漁kay, I got it,鈥� Su Moer nodded, 鈥榮o what happens when it’s time to contact tonight?鈥�
鈥滻t’s fine, I’ll explain to the higher-ups afterwards,鈥�
鈥淥kay.鈥� Su Mo’er is pregnant, and it is not suitable for her to move the heavy radio at the moment. If she moves the fetus, it will be even more troublesome.
And occasionally delaying or interrupting contact once is normal for a sleeper agent. After all, a sleeper agent may encounter an accident at any time and be unable to contact within the specified time.
Xu Baichuan knows what he is doing. At that time, he will send a telegram to explain, and Chongqing will confirm it, so there will naturally be no problem.
The Nan City wharf is not under the control of the concession, and there is a guard brigade at 76 Nan City, with Wu Sibao’s brother-in-law Wang Jitian as the brigade commander and also the director of the detention center.
Lin Zhijiang’s smuggled goods are all shipped from the Nan City wharf, and with the escort of the guard brigade commander of the Nan City Guard Hall, the safety on land is naturally guaranteed.
Early the next morning, Lin Zhijiang followed the secret order given to him by Lin Shiqun to go to the detention center to pick up Wu Sibao, but did not leave immediately.
Instead, he had Wu Sibao change clothes with a man of similar build under his command, then took Lin Zhijiang and left through the side gate at No. 76 with 鈥淲u Sibao鈥� in the car, deliberately acting covertly.
It was as if he didn’t want anyone to know.
Cheng Mo had been crouching at the Nan Shi Wharf all night. The smuggling boat hadn’t left, which meant that Wu Sibao hadn’t left that night.
He wasn’t in a hurry, and if he had been, he wouldn’t have delayed for a day.
But that doesn’t mean it was useless, because this was the only way to ensure that Wu Sibao would be kept in Shanghai, and once he had gone to Yuhang, it would be difficult to kill him.
Having stayed up all night, Cheng Mo went to work as usual the next day, and even saw a newspaper report speculating that Wu Sibao was the person behind Bai San’er’s murder.
He believed that She Aizhen had seen it too, and naturally Lin Shiqun had seen it as well.