Chapter 55: Secret Liaison
Liao Fei and the others finished eating hot dogs and walked into the British Museum.
There are eight thick and tall Roman-style columns on each side of the main entrance of the British Museum, and the large atrium is located in the center of the museum, which is the largest covered square in Europe. The top of the square is composed of 1656 pieces of glass of strange shapes, the center of the square for the museum's reading room.
Fisk introduced Lin Jiaqin like a tour guide, while Wang Liqiang and four bodyguards followed behind Lin Jiaqin, protecting her dutifully. The marketing staff was like Liu Lou Lou entering the Grand View Garden, looking left and right, curious about everything, and Fisk's staff introduced a few things from time to time. Liao Fei and He Jiayu, on the other hand, were absent-mindedly following at the end.
On the Grand Russell Square, several agents dressed as tourists got off a bus marked with the word Caesar Tours. They quickly gathered around toward the hot dog cart. One man came to the window, took out an ID from his pocket and said, "I'm from the Security Bureau, please don't alert the others and walk out slowly."
Fear flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes, and his right hand slowly reached down.
Several men quickly pulled out their pistols and shouted, "Don't move."
The middle-aged man selling hot dogs was stunned and immediately didn't dare to move. An agent opened the door of the van, rushed in and pinned the middle-aged man to the ground, handcuffed him and dragged him out of the hot dog cart.
Big Russell Square is crowded, there are many police officers here to maintain law and order, see the hot dog van situation, immediately hold the gun at the waist to run over. Without waiting to run to the place, they were stopped, and after showing them their papers, the police car immediately turned around and went back to continue their duties.
Two agents rushed to the car and searched the hot dog cart. The middle-aged man selling hot dogs, escorted by four agents, got into a sedan and headed straight to Thames House, which is adjacent to the Houses of Parliament in London's South West Zone 1, where the British Security Service is headquartered.
Dobbs was in the Security Bureau at this time, and when he heard that a suspicious person who had been in contact with Liao Fei had been arrested, he immediately asked them to bring the person to the interrogation room, and he wanted to interrogate him personally.
There was a long table in the interrogation room, and the middle-aged man's hands were handcuffed to the table, looking at Dobbs in the room in horror.
Dobbs asked, "What country do you serve?"
The middle-aged man was dumbfounded by the question! Blinking, he said, "I ... serve England."
"Serving Britain? Giving information to foreigners is a service to Britain?" Dobbs said, "Your transactions with Liao Fei are under our surveillance, don't try to muddle through. Tell us honestly what information did you pass to Liao Fei?"
"I don't know Liao Fei, let alone the information you said, you're mistaken, I'm just an ordinary hot dog vendor."
"Tough talk won't do you any good, if you give an honest account, I can apply to make you a double agent."
The man stood up excitedly and yelled, "I'm not a spy, you've got it all wrong."
Seeing that the man was not cooperating at all, Dobbs had several sensors of the lie detector placed on the man's body and pointed the camera at his eyes.
Lie detector is actually an instrument that records a number of physiological responses, to be precise, it is not a test of the lie itself, but to measure the changes in physiological parameters caused by the stimulation of the psyche.
When a person is lying, there are a number of physiological changes that occur, some of which can be observed with the naked eye, such as the appearance of ear scratching, legs and feet shaking and other unnatural movements. There are also some physiological changes that are not easy to detect, such as abnormal respiratory rate and blood volume, respiratory depression and breath-holding; accelerated pulse rate, increased blood pressure, increased blood output and changes in composition, resulting in obvious pale or red skin on the face and neck; increased secretion of subcutaneous sweat glands, resulting in skin sweating, sweating between the eyes or upper lip first, sweating fingers and palms are especially obvious; dilated pupils of the eyes; stomach contraction. abnormal secretion of digestive juices, resulting in dryness of the mouth, tongue, and lips; muscle tension and trembling, resulting in stuttering of speech. These physiological reactions are due to the autonomic nervous system, which is generally not under the control of human consciousness, but rather autonomous movements, and a series of conditioned reflex phenomena occur under external stimuli.
The polygraph is analyzed by polygraph experts to determine whether the physiological reactions of the person being tested are lying.
Dobbs waited for the instrument to be connected and asked the staff, "Is it ready?"
The staff shook his head and said, "No, his mood swings are too great to form a reference value."
Dobbs nodded and interrogated the man again, "What's your name?"
"Monroe."
"Who's in your family?"
"...."
The two men engage in a brief question and answer session, all simple questions. After half an hour, Monroe, the hot dog seller, calms down and his heartbeat, breathing and pulse return to normal, giving the lie detector a reference median.
Dobbs saw that he could continue and said, "From now on, you have to answer yes or no to my questions, no need to say anything else."
"Got it!" Monroe agreed.
The heartbeat count on the tester fluctuated substantially, indicating that Monroe was nervous at the moment.
"Have you ever betrayed the interests of Britain?"
"No."
"You passed information to Liao Fei?"
"No."
"You ..."
Under a series of questions, although Monroe appeared all nervous, he passed the lie detector test. Combined with the information found and Monroe's situation, it proved that he was not a spy.
Through interrogation, it became clear why Monroe's hand was reaching down after the agent showed him his papers; there was a push button below the sales window, and the laughing LCD screen above the window would show a sale when it was pressed; Monroe was just trying to close up at the time. The agent who checked on his car has confirmed this. More know why he in Liao Fei said a series of almost coded words, Monroe is that attitude! Anyone else would have been surprised to hear that they had to buy a hot dog with a double portion of everything inside.
Eventually, Monroe was sent back to the hot dog cart. Dobbs to give the big Russell Square's men Hill: "Liao Fei has fooled us, you guys found out what's going on?"
The bus with the word Caesar Travel was still parked at Big Russell Square,the windows of the car had dark film, so from the outside you couldn't even see the inside. The two sides of the bus slowed down the monitor, the picture above is exactly the British Museum's internal monitoring.
All the images are around Liao Fei and others, the most of which are focused on Liao Fei, through various angles, his every move is clearly seen.
Hill reported back, "Liao Fei does not have any abnormalities."
"Pay attention to the observation, and report immediately if there is any situation."
In the Egyptian Museum of the British Museum, Liao Fei was still hanging back, looking listlessly at the exhibits around him, not even interested in looking at a few of the town's treasures.
He saw in front of a gold-faced mummy, the famous and beautiful museum guide was introducing to visitors the mummy with drawings and words unique to ancient Egypt depicted on its body. Immediately looked around and walked over to squeeze into the circle.
The blonde had just finished her introduction when Liao Fei leaned over and whispered, "Stephanie, Amy asked me to take her to say hello to you."
Stephanie froze, then said, "You know Amy Cuthbert?"
"Yes, she asked me to give you a message."
"What?"
"Let's go to the side to talk." Liao Fei walked to the next corner where no one was around.
Stephanie considered, said sorry to the tourist on the tour guide, and followed Liao Fei to the corner.
"What did Amy say?"
"I don't know."
Stephanie's eyes widened, not knowing what this answer meant. Without waiting for her to ask again, Liao Fei said, "I have something to do, bye!"
Liao Fei acted as if he was teasing her, saying his friend's name and saying that his friend brought a message, only to say that he didn't know and leave. She wanted to go after her and ask, but Liao Fei acted like a psycho, she gave up asking and planned to call Amy later to ask.
Hill saw Liao Fei and Stephanie talking and ducked to the side to say that the tracker could not hear their conversation, and since Liao Fei was talking with his head down, he could not even see his mouth shape. He reported the situation to Dobbs, Dobbs did not even consider it, let Hill bring Stephanie back, for interrogation.
In Dobbs' opinion, Liao Fei might be deliberately disrupting them to cover up his true intentions. Even if he knew Liao Fei's intentions, he had no way of knowing who was the one who was picking up with Liao Fei. To make sure nothing was lost, he had to bring Stephanie back for interrogation.
Several agents found the curator of the British Museum and asked him to help call Stephanie over without alerting others.
The curator took Stephanie around a corner where several agents were waiting. One came forward and said, "Stephanie, we are from the Security Bureau and we need to ask you to return to assist in a case."
Stephanie looked at them in surprise and said, "Are you sure you're not mistaken? To investigate what case?"
"Sorry, you'll know when you get to the bureau!"
"But I'm guiding, can I wait until it's over?" Working as a docent at the British Museum, although she was only a volunteer, she was not willing to leave the group of visitors behind.
The agent shook his head and refused her request.
Stephanie looked at the curator. The curator said, "Stephanie, I've asked someone to take over for you to guide that group of visitors!"
She could only nod and go forward to the Security Bureau headquarters with the agent.
Dobbs still interrogated Stephanie personally, mainly asking Liao Fei what he had said to her. Stephanie was cooperative and basically answered all the questions, except for Liao Fei's last sentence, she always said, "I don't know."
Faced with Stephanie's refusal to account for Liao Fei's last words, he was upset and began to threaten Stephanie in a hundred different ways and investigate Amy.
Amy Cuthbert, a dress designer, was working at her company, lying down and was invited back to headquarters for tea by agents of the Security Bureau.
After a few interrogations, Dobbs in understood that 'I don't know' is what Liao Fei said, not at all Stephanie refused to explain. He looked at the nameplate on the front of Stephanie's clothes and knew that they had been tricked by Liao Fei again. Liao Fei did not know Stephanie at all, just saw her name on the nameplate on her chest and called her that. As for the name Amy, there is nothing to say. Anyone who knows a little about Britain knows that Amy means 'lovely' and 'most beloved' in Britain. This name is the same as the Chinese woman's name is willing to be called what Li, the man's name is willing to be called what strong, is a popular name. Basically everyone in England has a friend named Amy around.
Not waiting for him to put the unlucky Stephanie and Amy back, he heard Hill's report again, Liao Fei mysteriously talking to the two again. Dobbs some headache, this is not play it! If a day to catch back a few people for interrogation is okay, now not much has been caught three, there are two to be caught, if Liao Fei continue to speak to the others out of the blue, similar code words, they are a day to catch hundreds of people are possible. Not to mention the huge workload, but those people's complaints, will make his headache.