Zhang Lin nodded hurriedly, turned around and ran into the factory, shouting loudly, and quickly gathered all the workers in the factory.
Before long, more than twenty workers gathered in the open space. Sergeant Chen stepped forward to check their good citizen certificates and verify their household registration information. After confirming that everything was correct, he turned around and nodded to the army lieutenant.
The army lieutenant waved to his men, and the Japanese soldiers began to search the factory.
They searched very carefully, leaving no room unchecked, and quickly searched every corner, but found nothing.
Finally, the lieutenant entered the flour mill's warehouse and saw that it was full of bags of flour. He immediately called over Sergeant Chen, pointed to the stacked flour bags, and waved his hand, signaling for someone to move the flour away.
Jun Yaoming and Zhang Lin had not expected the Japanese to search so thoroughly. They exchanged a glance, looked at the Japanese soldiers with live ammunition around them, and dared not be negligent. They then asked the workers to come and move the flour sacks.
The entrance to the secret room is at the very bottom of these flour sacks. Despite some camouflage, if all the flour sacks are moved, the enemy will likely find the entrance.
At this moment, Duan Tiecheng and the others in the underground chamber were also on tenterhooks. They guarded the entrance, where they could clearly hear the movements above.
Wang Hanmin gently pulled back the bolt of his Browning pistol, while the others waited anxiously for the final moment to arrive.
Just then, Zhang Lin's eyes lit up, and he quickly stepped forward to help with the unloading. After carrying out a few bags of flour, he pulled out a sharp blade and, when no one was looking, lightly sliced the seals of several flour bags. Then, he pretended to shoulder them, and the flour inside the bags immediately tumbled out, raising a cloud of white powder in the warehouse. Then another bag of flour spilled out, and with everyone trampling on it, flour was everywhere in the warehouse.
The army lieutenant quickly retreated, but even so, he was covered in white flour.
The other soldiers were also covered in the filth and looked disheveled, so they all left the warehouse.
At this moment, Chief Chen, who was also covered in flour, quickly stepped forward and said with a smile, "Lieutenant Sakikawa, time is of the essence now. If we linger here too long, we won't be able to search this entire area today!"
Lieutenant Sakigawa was still unwilling after hearing Chief Chen's words. He hesitated for a moment, then looked at the flour sacks that were still mostly empty in the warehouse. Finally, he lost his patience, waved his hand, and signaled all the Japanese soldiers to withdraw.
Jun Yaoming and Zhang Lin immediately felt relieved, because this inspection was really thorough and there was no perfunctory attitude at all. If they hadn't made preparations beforehand and gathered all the flour bags in this warehouse, they would have had a hard time getting through this.
Those in the underground chamber were relieved to hear no movement from above for a long time; it seemed they had managed to get away with it this time.
Duan Tiecheng returned to the secret room, wiped the cold sweat from his brow, and said with lingering fear, "The Japanese searched so thoroughly. Luckily we hid here. Otherwise, if we had stayed in the Lian family's old house, the consequences would have been unimaginable!"
Wang Hanmin and Wei Xuehai nodded repeatedly. If the Japanese almost discovered such a secret room, how could they possibly escape the Japanese search if they stayed at the Lian family's old house?
Wei Xuehai sighed softly, "We really owe the intelligence department a huge favor this time. If it had been two hours later, we would all be in this mess. We were so lucky!"
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