"Walk!"

Looking at the curtains swinging with the wind, Guqi only said one word and quickly ran downstairs.

The rest of the people automatically divided part of the protection site, and Song Minghao and another part followed Gu Qi and came to the small garden on the first floor directly below the window.

The light emitted by the flashlight shone on the soft soil, and everyone immediately saw several lines of chaotic footprints, which all extended towards the wall without exception.

Guqi squatted down and observed the ground carefully, reached out to mark the size of one of the footprints, and then touched the brown soil and placed it in front of his nose and sniffed it, slowly opening his mouth.

"Women, the sole pattern is the same as that of the leather shoes distributed in the bureau. They should have been injured. The smell of blood is very strong and the amount of bleeding is not small."

These clues all point to the missing female radio operator. The people present looked solemn. The staff in the telegraph room fought to the last moment, which must have been to cover the other party's evacuation, and the password book was probably also on the other party.

After saying that, Gu Qi looked at the pair of footprints next to him and continued in a deep voice: "There are no less than 10 pursuers, the footprints are deep and the strides are consistent, and there are traces of training."

Then he got up and turned to look at the courtyard wall. Without saying anything, he ran up and turned to the wall, looked outside the wall, turned around and waved to everyone.

"Old Song, please bring ten people to follow me, and the remaining people will look for witnesses, and then notify the garrison headquarters to block the passages in and out of the city, including waterways."

After giving the order, Guqi climbed over the wall neatly and fell on the ground, pulled out his gun and hid in the dark corner of the wall, and looked around vigilantly.

After the explosion, the residents next to the safe house did not come out to watch the fun, nor did they run around, but stayed quietly at home, with no one in the narrow streets.

After two years of air strikes, the people of the mountain city today know what to do and what not to do.

With a few faint sounds of landing, Song Minghao and ten spies also climbed over the wall, surrounded Guqi in combat formation, and silently loaded the gun in his hand.

"Old Song, look."

Guqi lit up the flashlight and shone it on the ground, then quickly turned it off, changed his position under his feet, and whispered a reminder.

Relying on this extremely short light, Song Minghao saw a pair of bloody footprints running towards the alley, which was very consistent with the female footprints in the garden. It seemed that the other party had successfully escaped from the safe house.

There is no need to talk about what to do next. The small spies are divided into multiple combat groups and follow the footprints. This is not difficult for spies who have received professional training.

After following for more than two hundred meters, they found many bloodstains on the telephone poles, ground and other items along the way, and Gu Qi and Song Minghao's expressions became heavy.

With such a large amount of bleeding, even if the escaped radio operator was not captured by the enemy, he would not last long without timely rescue.

After walking about a hundred meters, the traces suddenly disappeared.

This means that the radio operator was either captured or noticed blood and bandaged the wound himself. Judging from the on-site environment, the former is more likely.

Gu Qi was anxious and quickly ordered a scattered search. When the enemy took away the radio operator, there would definitely be traces left.

The mountain city is no different from other places. Military police and constitutional special gathers. Once the explosion sounds, the surroundings will be blocked. If the enemy wants to escape safely, especially if they escape with a prisoner, they must use transportation.

Therefore, there should be ruts nearby. Even if they are not good, they can get relevant clues from nearby residents, such as the sound of a car engine.

But after searching around, the spies found no traces, and the missing radio operator and the enemy seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

Just as Gucci was about to order a large-scale search, the flashlight accidentally swept across a bookstore in the corner of the street, and a faint reflection on the surface of the closed door panel seemed to stick to it.

"Warning! You and you, come and take a look."

Guqi lowered his body, clicked the two of them and made another gesture. He aimed the PPK in his hand towards the direction of the bookstore, and then prepared to exchange fire with the enemy.

The two spies who received the order did not hesitate and covered each other and moved outside the store. One of them turned sideways and listened to the movement inside, and the other approached the door panel and sniffed.

Blood!

The disappeared blood reappeared here. The little spy turned around and clenched his fists, indicating that he had discovered something. Then he walked to the door and kicked it hard towards the door panel.

After a bang, the thick solid wood door panel was kicked open, and a scream suddenly came from the black-painted shop.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I didn't see anything."

Two little spies, one on the left and one on the right, rushed into the room with Zuo's action method. They held guns in their right hand and raised flashlights in their left hand, and the light quickly swept through the house.

This type of holding a flashlight is commonly found in low-visibility indoor combat, with the purpose of allowing hidden enemies to miscalculate their height and position, although it is not very meaningful.

Under the bright flashlight, a middle-aged man in a long gown came out of the cabinet and raised his hands, begging for mercy at them, his face full of horror.

In addition, at the entrance, there was a person lying at the foot of the two of them. There was a collapsed bookshelf in front of each other, and there was no other item on the ground except a broken kerosene lamp.

After checking in the house, one of the small spies walked to the door and gave a brief report to Guqi and Song Minghao outside.

Guqi thought for a moment and ordered people to go back to report the news, guiding the subsequent large troops to come here to support him, and then he strode into the bookstore and leaned over to check the fallen person or the body.

With the help of the flashlight, a pale female face appeared in front of him. The other party had burning marks on both hands, multiple gunshot wounds on his back and legs, and a simple bandage of the wound on his legs.

In those dull eyes, there was fear of death, a little relief from pain, and more of an indescribable look of firmness.

"She is Xiao Lingzi, from Shanghai, and she is the only daughter at home. She graduated from Liling training class last year and entered the Telecommunications Department of the Second Department. This year, she just 18."

On the side, Song Minghao introduced the identity of the deceased in a low tone, and remembered the scene of meeting in the afternoon.

At that time, the other party told him with excitement that he wanted to go to the north to see the Japanese after driving them away. She was born in the south and had never seen the white snow, but had seen the vast white land in the book.

This is a child who should have been studying in school carefree and enjoying all the beauty of this world. Her life should not come to an abrupt end here.

"Damn the devil!"

Song Minghao's eyes were red and he cursed hatefully, and reached out to help Xiao Lingzi close his eyes. Then he seemed to have thought of something and looked up at Gu Qi.

"The explosion in the safe house should be done by the guards. This is the last method to protect the codebook. The purpose is to die with the enemy, but now only half of the explosives are detonated, and there is a problem here."

As soon as this said, Gu Qi was shocked. Although this sentence was short, the meaning behind it was very complicated.

Why did the explosives only detonate a small half?

Is it moisture-ineffective?

Or was it removed?

But how could the enemy know about this and how to accurately find the location of the explosives? In addition, the attack on the secret surveillance point can never be explained by coincidence.

There must be internal ghosts inside the Military Control Commission and even the Second Division!

Guqi thought for a while, turned his head suddenly to look at the middle-aged man in a long garment who was being searched, and asked coldly: "What the hell is going on, let me be honest."

The middle-aged man was handcuffed with his hands on his back, and he held several pistols on his forehead. When he heard his questions, he immediately replied in Shancheng's dialect with a sad face.

"Report to the sir, as soon as I closed the door, the youngest girl rushed in and pushed the bookshelf down, took out a small notebook from her arms, mixed it into the book on the ground, held the kerosene lamp and burned her fingers, and then died.

Seeing the situation, I hid in the cabinet. After a while, several people rushed in, touched my youngest girl's neck, and shot her a few times. Her things and books on the ground were also taken away by these people.

More than two hundred books are so terrible. If my house (wife) knows it, I will be bad. Sir, I really haven't seen anything, those people are covering their faces."

The middle-aged man who consciously suffered unrestrained disasters became more and more aggrieved as he spoke. He opened a small bookstore and did his business every minute. Who knew that he would encounter such a thing?

Gu Qi and Song Minghao had heard his narrative and fell into silence, and their eyes looked at Xiao Aici with respect.

The two knew that the other party's series of actions were just one purpose, that is, to protect the password book.

The safe house was attacked. The enemy planned carefully, had accurate marksmanship and mastered the internal information of the safe house. The staff had no time to destroy the password book, so they had to cover Xiao Ayako who had been shot and evacuated with the password book.

The reason why she left her hope for life was probably because she was the youngest among spies, or she might have suffered the least injuries.

Xiao Ayako did not disappoint everyone's expectations. After realizing that she could not survive, she made her last effort and did two things with all her might.

First, hide the password book with the help of many books in the bookstore.

The second is to destroy the fingerprints to prevent the enemy from finding the password by comparing the fingerprints after obtaining these books.

In this way, even if the password book falls into the enemy's hands, the enemy will not be able to use the secret power base to try to decipher it in a short period of time, and find the password book from those two or three hundred books.

At the moment of death, Xiao Aico was not thinking about how to escape, but about the task. She made the most difficult choice in the shortest time, and the price was her own life.

As for why you don't hide your password while running away, it's too late in that case, and the enemy is not stupid. You will inevitably search along the way.

It is not safe to destroy the password book after entering the store. Once it is not processed completely, it gives the enemy the possibility of deciphering the secret power base. Xiao Aico's approach is the best choice.

"salute!"

Guqi shouted softly, straightened his body and gave a standard military salute to Xiao Aico. The spies present raised their right hands and placed them on their foreheads to see off the brave and young colleague.

After saluting, Gu Qi slowly put down his hand and asked Song Minghao a question: "Old Song, is the password book specially compiled, or is it selected from the books on the market?"

This question is very important. If it is a specially compiled password book, the enemy can easily find the correct target from the book taken away.

Song Minghao swallowed his saliva and said with gratitude: "According to the deputy director's instructions, the contact passwords to the printing factory must be changed regularly, and it will be very troublesome to compile them specifically, so the password books are selected from books on the market."

Guqi breathed a sigh of relief and replaced it regularly. In this way, no matter whether the enemy can find the password book, he can only decipher some of the secret information.

Then, he asked the middle-aged man if there were any seals or marks in the bookshop, as well as the new and old levels of the books.

These two issues also affect the security of the password book.

If the book is stamped or is a new book, the codebook with traces of use will still be seen by the enemy at a glance.

Fortunately, the middle-aged man trembled and said that the bookstores were full of second-hand books, with different new and old, and there was no stamp on the pages.

After confirming that the password book is safe, at least temporarily, Gu Qi gave Song Minghao four orders.

"Old Song, I sent someone to protect the bookstore owner. After the enemy snatched the books, he found that he could not find the password book. Maybe he would come back and start with him.

You personally lead a group of people to cooperate with the garrison headquarters to strengthen the blockade of entry and exit from the city, and check all water and land transportation, and mailing bags one by one, so that the other party or password book cannot leave the mountain city.

In addition, all left-behind personnel from the second department, together with the police station, shall not miss a room or leave a suspicious person.

The brothers at the scene were responsible for visiting residents near the safe house, surveillance points and bookstores, conducting detailed surveys of these three sites, clarifying all the details at the time of the incident, and pursuing them along the trajectory of the enemy's escape."
Chapter completed!