bookrandom Chapter 605: 707 Mist (1)
Chapter 605: 707 Mist (1)
In the afternoon in Yangon, the sun scorched the streets left over from the colonial era, and the air was so humid that it seemed as if water could be squeezed out of it.
A middle-aged man in an ordinary white short-sleeved shirt and brown trousers, with a briefcase tucked under his arm, walked slowly on the busy sidewalk.
He was a senior spy at the KMT's Yangon station, codenamed "Fisherman".
As an important chess piece in Dai Chunfeng's personal layout of Southeast Asia, the Military Control Commission's Yangon Station has gone through many ups and downs.
During the Japanese occupation, they went underground, moving in the dark like moles, collecting intelligence and occasionally planning some sabotage.
When Zhang Chi led his troops south to recapture Yangon, they turned into chameleons and quietly integrated into this reborn city, continuing to lurk and wait for orders.
The "fisherman" considers himself a veteran.
He habitually stopped in front of the window, pretending to look at the merchandise, glancing at the people behind him out of the corner of his eye; he would suddenly turn into an alley, quicken his pace, and listen to the movements behind him; he would buy a newspaper at the newsstand, and while getting the change, observe the faces around him.
A set of anti-tracking procedures are implemented smoothly.
Unfortunately, he was not facing the colonial police of the past or the Japanese Special High Police.
A few dozen meters around him, in the crowd, three men and women wearing ordinary Hawaiian shirts or dresses seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but they were communicating through miniature microphones hidden under their collars and in-ear headsets.
"The target passed the clock shop at a normal speed."
"Roger that, Turtledove. I've advanced and will be waiting at the next intersection."
"Hummingbird followed up, the target showed no unusual behavior."
Their voices were delivered via portable frequency-hopping radios, technology at least a decade ahead of its time.
This is the field operations team of the Nanyang Central Intelligence Agency.
The "fisherman" circled several times and finally slipped into a three-story building facing the street - a sign of "Xinglong Trading Company" was hung on the door.
On the surface, this place is engaged in the trade of Southeast Asian specialties. Every month, a large number of goods are purchased from the market and shipped to the Republic of China for sale. It also runs an immigration business.
The branch of Xinglong Trading Company in the Republic of China would help the people of the Republic of China who wanted to go south to handle the procedures, contact the fleet, and eventually send people to Southeast Asia, and would charge a considerable agency fee in the process.
Business seems to be booming.
"The target has entered the nest."
The team leader Xu Tong, a young man who looked like a college student, reported in a low voice, then walked naturally past the door of the store and disappeared around the corner.
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Across the street, a newly opened "Nyonya style" restaurant is doing a booming business and is packed with diners.
Captain Chen Mo of the Nanyang Central Intelligence Department, wearing a wrinkled work suit, walked into the kitchen after opening the curtain like a worker who had just finished work.
Passing through the smoke-filled kitchen, he opened a secret door disguised as a utility room, walked down the narrow stairs, and entered a cool, soundproof basement filled with instruments and monitoring equipment.
"How is it?" Chen Mo took off his work clothes, revealing the short-sleeved shirt underneath, and picked up a glass of ice water.
A monitor wearing headphones raised his head, rubbed his swollen temples, and said helplessly:
"Boss, it's the same old thing. These guys spend their meetings discussing whether they can get a good price for this shipment of fragrant rice from Siam, whether the next batch of 'immigrants' will arrive on time, and how to trick the customs officials into smuggling a few more boxes of 'Valentino' suits... I think they've almost forgotten whether they're part of the Military Control Commission or the Chamber of Commerce."
In fact, the Central Intelligence Agency had long been eyeing Xinglong Trading Company.
Months of surveillance have shown that among the so-called new immigrants who came through the Xinglong Trading Company line, there are a large number of spies carefully packaged by the Military Control Commission.
But the CIA did not alert the enemy. Its strategy was to play the long game and catch the big fish.
Even more than a month ago, when Xinglong Commercial Bank used the excuse of business expansion, adding a third floor and carrying out interior decoration, the Central Intelligence Department's technical operations team cleverly disguised themselves as a construction team and sneaked in.
Not only did they figure out the internal structure of the entire building, they also secretly installed multiple state-of-the-art miniature wireless eavesdropping devices inside the walls, under the floors, and in the chandeliers of several key rooms.
At that time, the eavesdropping devices used by mainstream Western intelligence agencies were mostly bulky, requiring physical lines to connect for power and signal transmission, and were extremely easy to be discovered.
These eavesdropping devices, manufactured by Nanyang Radio Institute No. 6, use microcircuits and new battery technology. They are only the size of a large coin and can convert the collected sounds into radio signals and transmit them.
Of course, due to the limitations of basic materials science of this era, its wireless transmission distance is very short.
In order to solve this problem, the Central Intelligence Agency simply allocated funds, bought land opposite the Xinglong Trading Company and built a two-story building, which is now the popular "Nyonya Flavor" restaurant.
Chen Mo smiled when he heard the answer and was not surprised.
The chief of the Military Control Commission's Yangon Station was a man who was much better at making money than gathering intelligence. Before, he was able to run a successful business in Yangon, which was occupied by the Japanese, and maintain the status of the Yangon Station even though he had cut off ties with the Republic of China.
Now, Xinglong Trading Company is more like his personal money bag than an intelligence base.
"Any mention of '707'? Any related people or events?"
Chen Mo asked, his expression becoming serious.
The monitor shook his head affirmatively:
"No, not once. There's absolutely no mention of that in their call logs."
Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief.
"707" is a top-secret code name that is currently known to a very small number of people within the Nanyang intelligence system.
Its origin can be traced back to the Battle of Sumatra that ended not long ago.
The Nanyang National Defense Army killed many Japanese generals in this battle, and Zhang Chi once again received generous rewards from the system, including more than a dozen valuable "Industrial Exchange Coupons" and several seemingly inconspicuous but priceless books.
It includes a resource atlas that details the distribution, reserves, grades and future exploration directions of major mineral deposits in countries such as Persia and Shuangzhi, as well as an "Introduction to Modern Petrochemical Technology" that explains in an easy-to-understand manner the technological path of petrochemical industry in the next 50 years.
Zhang Chi used the exchange voucher without hesitation and exchanged it for a set of industrial mother machine tools that did not reach maturity until the late 1960s in the original timeline and represented the pinnacle of Western precision manufacturing.
This set of industrial machine tools includes a series of ultra-high-precision jig boring machines and jig grinders produced by the Hauser factory in Bern.
These machine tools are the absolute authority in precision measurement and machining.
They adopt precise mechanical structure, temperature compensation system and optical measurement technology, and can perform hole processing, contour grinding and precision measurement with amazing accuracy at the micron level. They are the core equipment for manufacturing molds, precision fixtures, gauges and high-precision gearboxes.
An early three-axis CNC machining center produced by White Eagle Princeton University.
This machine represented the dawn of automated machining.
Although it is not as flexible as the five-axis machine tools of later generations, it already has the ability to perform coordinated cutting on the three linear axes X, Y, and Z under the command of the CNC system. It can automatically complete various processes such as milling, drilling, and tapping, greatly improving the efficiency and consistency of processing complex boxes and plate parts.