novelaction Chapter 642 Silver Fox Connection
Chapter 642 Silver Fox Connection
mountain city.
As night falls, the street lights on Ganquan Road in Nan'an District are dim and there are few pedestrians on the road. An ordinary-looking middle-aged man wearing a robe and a top hat is walking quietly on this remote street.
After walking for a while, he saw the sign for the Tuojiang Hotel on the roadside and turned in. It was a small hotel with outdated facilities. The middle-aged man quickly ascended the dimly lit stairs to the second floor. He observed his surroundings, but found nothing unusual. He stopped at the second door in the corridor and knocked three times, then stopped and knocked three more times. Soon the door opened, and the middle-aged man walked in. The door was immediately closed behind him by a young man.
This middle-aged man is none other than Masao Otake, the leader of the Silver Fox team, codenamed Silver Fox, alias Chen Yongliang, and his public identity is the owner of Chen's Grocery Store.
This young man was a member of his team, Nomura Jiro, codenamed Feihu, and aliased Liu Yitong. He was a rickshaw driver who rented a rickshaw from Zhengxing Car Dealership and drove it daily, paying a monthly fee as a cover. He was both Silver Fox's courier and a surveillance agent.
It’s just because the situation has been tense recently, so Silver Fox asked him to hide and stay out of the limelight for the time being.
The same is basically true for several other team members, which is why the Military Control Commission's counter-espionage department could not find these people.
Silver Fox himself was also very cautious. He temporarily closed his grocery store and hid in a safe house that had been rented long ago. He was proficient in disguise and would disguise himself every time he went out to contact people, so every time the team members saw him, he would have a different appearance.
This time was no exception, but Jiro Nomura still knew that the person coming was his team leader Silver Fox through the agreed knock on the door.
He whispered:
"Team leader, you are here."
Silver Fox nodded without saying anything. He walked to the window facing the street, looked at a house across the street, observed it for a moment, and then said:
"Have you found anything suspicious in the past two days?"
He prepared the house at No. 54 Ganquan Road for the Guangtian Group. It was a relatively remote place, and most of the residents around it were lower-class people, many of whom had fled from the occupied areas, so the population was quite complex.
The members of Hirota's group arrived here one after another in the past two days. This was what Hirota Naoki told him in a telegram, hoping to contact him immediately to discuss the matter of stealing the legal currency engraving.
He could have gone to see Hirota Ueki immediately, but he didn't. Instead, he said it was not convenient now and would meet again in two days. After that, he immediately let Nomura Jiro stay in the hotel and secretly monitor him from the opposite side.
He wanted to observe for two days to see if there was anything unusual. If everything was normal, he would go to see Hirota Naoki.
Mr. Iwai telegraphed him, asking him to assist the Hirota team and only be responsible for providing information. He was not allowed to participate in the operation personally, and he must not reveal the identity of the Silver Fox team.
Although Mr. Iwai did not say it explicitly, Silver Fox also knew that Mr. Iwai regarded the Silver Fox team as more important than the Hirota team and was also protecting the Silver Fox team.
In fact, this is easy to understand. If it were not the case, Mr. Iwai would not have sent the Hirota team, but let the Silver Fox team carry out the task. After all, the Silver Fox team is in Yamashiro, and it is not impossible for them to complete the task. Of course, this task involves great risks.
This also shows from one side that Mr. Iwai no longer trusts Naoki Hirota so much.
He didn't know what happened. As Mr. Iwai's assistant, Hirota Naoki had always been his most trusted person. That was why he decided to meet Hirota Naoki two days later.
Nomura Jiro immediately said:
"I've been observing them for the past two days and haven't noticed anything suspicious. They haven't gone out. Only one person went out and bought a lot of food. There was no movement around, and I didn't see any suspicious people."
Silver Fox didn't find anything suspicious when he was observing on the street and from the upstairs window just now, so he thought there should be no problem.
He decided to meet with Hirota Naoki, but he did not go downstairs immediately. Instead, he waited for another hour. Before leaving, he observed from the window for a while. After confirming that everything was normal, he asked Jiro Nomura to continue monitoring here before going downstairs and leaving the hotel.
When he arrived outside the hotel, he glanced around and then slowly walked across the street.
Across the street is No. 54 Ganquan Road, a two-story wooden house that he rented a long time ago in case of emergency. It is now temporarily used as a residence for the Guangtian group.
He walked to the door and knocked gently a few times. Immediately, a question came from inside:
"Who is it?"
"It's me, my cousin."
Silver Fox said this calmly. This was the code word he and Hirota Naoki had agreed upon.
"It turns out that my cousin is here."
The person inside opened the door while speaking, and the person who opened the door was Hirota Naoki.
Naoki Hirota has been trekking through mountains and rivers for more than ten days, and finally entered the mountain city and arrived at No. 54 Ganquan Road, Nan'an District. For safety reasons, he has been hiding here for the past two days and has not gone out. He also does not allow other members of the team to go out, and will make plans after making contact with Silver Fox.
He currently knew nothing about the safekeeping of the fiat currency plates, and without the information provided by Silver Fox, he would have been unable to complete the mission. He knew that the Silver Fox team was the most suitable to complete this operation, but Iwai Yuichi had insisted on letting him lead the team, saying that he trusted his ability more and asked the Silver Fox team to assist him.
Naoki Hirota also knew very well that after a series of events, Mr. Iwai had begun to distrust him, otherwise he would not have sent him deep behind enemy lines and take such a big risk to complete the mission.
The purpose of sending him here was probably to test him. Only by successfully completing this mission could he regain Mr. Iwai's trust.
He is now very much looking forward to meeting Silver Fox as soon as possible. After understanding the situation, he will formulate a targeted action plan and strive to take action as soon as possible to obtain the legal currency engraving. Otherwise, the longer the night, the more troubles there are and anything may happen.
Today is the agreed meeting day, and he began waiting for Silver Fox's arrival as soon as it got dark.
When he heard the other person say that he was his cousin, he knew that it was Silver Fox who came. He immediately opened the door. When he saw the person outside the door, he was stunned for a moment. This person did not look like Silver Fox. He had seen Silver Fox before and knew what Silver Fox looked like, but he quickly realized that Silver Fox was good at disguise and must have come in disguise.
This was not surprising. He knew that Silver Fox was cunning and cautious by nature, and was born to be a spy. Mr. Iwai valued him very much, and he lived up to expectations and made many contributions.
Mr. Iwai gave him the code name Silver Fox, and he really lived up to his name. It was precisely because of his cunning and caution that he was able to carry out operations while lurking under the nose of the Yamashiro Military Control Commission, and the Military Control Commission was never able to catch him. This is also why Naoki Hirota admires him.