Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Serendipity

Japan and Germany were privately allied, but the Germans did not actually look up to the Japanese, and Hans was one of them. Having lived in China for a long time, Hans knew Japan as a country better than his native Germans, especially the inferiority of the Japanese in their bones. The Hongkou District Izakaya murder case was not so much a premeditated attack as a retaliatory action by the Chinese, and the street shootout that took place in the concession more than a month ago is still fresh in Hans's memory.

Because of the Izakaya murder in Hongkou District, Hans suspected that Tang Cheng was a member of the Intelligence Department, and that he was an operative sent by the Nanjing headquarters of the Intelligence Department to Shanghai to carry out retaliatory actions. It's just that the investigators he sent to Nanjing haven't sent back the exact news yet, so Hans can't really be sure of Tang Cheng's identity at this moment. Through tonight's actions, Hans completely recognized Tang Cheng's skills, and he felt in his heart at this moment that it was better for such a person to be a friend, and if he was an opponent, it would be terrible!

The battle between heaven and man in Hans's heart, Tang Cheng, who had already separated from them, did not know, because Tang Cheng had more important things to do at this moment. When assassinating Huang Lianqi and Kokura Chiya that night, Tang Cheng once extracted an address from Kokura Chiya's memory, which led to a scuffle that took place in Hongkou District. Although this scuffle was because Tang Cheng happened to be involved in the confrontation between the Special High School and the Korean Salvation Army in Exile, Tang Cheng was not without gains, at least before the captain Noda of the Special High School took his last breath, Tang Cheng got another address in the concession.

Shanghai is a metropolis that was once known as the Pearl of the Orient and is also a place where a large number of intelligence officers have clashed each other. The opponents of the special high school here are not only the intelligence department, but also the intelligence personnel of the CCP's underground party organizations and other countries, and even the German government has a large number of intelligence personnel in Shanghai, such as Hans. The address that Tang Cheng extracted from the memory of the captain Noda of the Special High School was strictly speaking, just a monitoring point in the concession set up by the Special High School, and as for who this monitoring point was, Tang Cheng still didn't know.

Tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high, it is a very suitable killing night, after separating from Hans and them, Tang Cheng saw that the time was still early, so he planned to go to that address to see the situation. Tang Cheng did not go directly, but first returned to the residence to take a bath and change clothes, and then hid the things he got from Henry in the study, and then Shi Shiran left the residence. Zhang Jianghe didn't ask Tang Cheng what he was doing when he went out, nor did he ask what Tang Cheng had done when he went out before, but the faint smell of blood that he smelled from Tang Cheng's body, Zhang Jianghe already knew it.

Leaving his residence, Tang Cheng suddenly realized that although the rain had stopped, there were not many night owls in the streets who came out to have fun, and there were many fewer wandering warblers who came out as long as it was dark. Tang Cheng immediately became more careful, there was no flow of people who could be used as a cover, and there were great variables and dangers in his actions. When there were still two streets to go, Tang Cheng stopped the rickshaw, and after paying the fare, Tang Cheng immediately went into a small alley next to it.

Not getting off the bus close to the destination, Tang Cheng didn't want to attract attention, and he also had the idea of avoiding the surveillance point. Moving quickly in the dark alley, Tang Cheng, who had already opened the triple eyepiece, saw the night as day at the moment, and ordinary people did not have the speed of travel like him in such an environment. When he reached the middle of the alley, Tang Cheng suddenly heard someone whispering in front of him, and Tang Cheng, who was not in a hurry, just stretched out his hand to climb the wall next to him, and the whole person climbed to the wall in the blink of an eye.

After more than a dozen breaths, there was a person coming over in the dark alley, and Tang Cheng, who was lying on the wall and holding his breath, was dressed in black, if he hadn't stared at the wall intently, he wouldn't have found that there was still a person lying on the wall. The two people walking towards him were getting closer and closer to Tang Cheng on the wall, and the conversation between the two became clearer and clearer, and Tang Cheng on the wall changed his voice when he heard it, because one of the voices was too familiar to him.

Among the two people walking in the alley, there seemed to be a person familiar with Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng on the wall was also very puzzled at the moment, why did the Nanjing underground party surnamed Xu come to Shanghai from Nanjing? That's right, the acquaintance who appeared in the alley at this moment was Xu Huanshan, who had contact with Tang Cheng in Nanjing, and Xu Huanshan, who was talking to people in a low voice in the alley, didn't know that Tang Cheng, who had contact with him, was in the place where he looked up.

Tang Cheng remained silent, just bated his breath and crouched on the wall, quietly listening to the conversation between Xu Huanshan and the two. "Old Tan, there is absolutely no room for negotiation in this matter, this batch of materials is urgently needed by Yan'an. Those who go to the north can leave later, but this batch of materials must be shipped on time, otherwise it will delay the plan on the Yan'an side. Xu Huanshan's voice sounded a little tired, but there was undoubted strength in his words.

"Lao Xu, I know that my superiors attach great importance to this batch of materials, but you also have to understand the difficulties on my side!" A voice that was still unfamiliar to Tang Cheng sounded, obviously belonging to the person who was talking to Xu Huanshan. "Lao Xu, you must know that this group of progressive students is also very important. The Japanese are currently aggressive in Shanghai, and even the Ministry of Industry of the Concession is helpless against the Japanese, and these students can no longer stay in Shanghai, and the best way is to send them away. ”

"We only have a group of people who are responsible for transporting the supplies, and they escort the materials out of Shanghai, and we have no manpower to escort the students, so in this case, we can only send the materials out of Shanghai with the students." The voice of talking to Xu Huanshan was also full of exhaustion, and there was a lot of helplessness in his words. "Besides, these days, the special high school is keeping a close eye on it, and if that batch of materials wants to be transported out of Shanghai safely, it will take a lot of trouble!"

Tang Cheng, who was hidden on the wall, listened to the conversation between Xu Huanshan and the two, and was secretly silent in his heart, he did not expect that the underground party organization of the CCP in Shanghai would be so difficult, and such an important action as escorting urgent materials and progressive students could only draw out a team of people. When Tang Cheng on the wall was secretly silent, Xu Huanshan also fell silent. The predicament faced by the underground party organizations in Shanghai is also being experienced by the underground party organizations in Nanjing, but the Nanjing side does not have to face the threat of special high classes.

"Otherwise, let's transfer people from Nanjing and Tianjin!" After thinking about it for a while, Xu Huanshan finally gave a suggestion. "The people drawn out of Nanjing are responsible for the goods leaving Shanghai, and the comrades in Tianjin are responsible for receiving and escorting the goods to the north, and the goods go by sea, and foreign merchant ships can be hired." This suggestion was come up by Xu Huanshan after consideration, and in the face of the current situation, Xu Huanshan's suggestion can be regarded as the best solution.

Under Tang Cheng's gaze, Xu Huanshan and the others walked a few meters forward along the alley, and then suddenly turned around and walked back. Tang Cheng, who was lying on the wall, was a little surprised, and saw Xu Huanshan and the two of them enter a door in the alley, Tang Cheng suddenly realized that he dared to love that the Shanghai underground party had a stronghold in this alley. Tang Cheng didn't follow too closely, but after confirming the location, he tiptoed quickly through the alley.

"No wonder!" Coming out of the other end of the alley, Tang Cheng immediately took a step back, hiding his whole person in the shadow of the alley, just in the street opposite the alley, Tang Cheng just glanced out from the alley, and saw at least three suspicious people. Tang Cheng, who was standing in the shadow of the alley, looked up slightly, and he could see the small building on the other side of the street, and as a result, Tang Cheng, who was hidden in the shadows, showed a mouthful of white teeth and laughed secretly, he finally understood the role of the special high school in setting up a monitoring point here.

The stronghold of the Shanghai underground party organization in this alley has obviously been targeted by the special high class, and the three suspicious people on the other side of the street are probably the people of the special high class. Tang Cheng always likes to think about things from the worst perspective, and it is precisely his cautious attitude that he didn't go out of the alley stupidly just now. On the surface, the special high school is not allowed to enter the concession by the Ministry of Industry and Bureau of the concession, especially to arrest people in the concession, but how can the special high school be sure that there is an underground party stronghold here?

Tang Cheng, who was standing in the shadow of the alley, was full of questions, and he who had dealt with the underground party in Nanjing would not have thought that the underground party organization was a plate of loose sand, otherwise the Central Union would not have fought with the underground party for so many years, and still failed to control the development of the underground party organization in the national control area. Could it be that there is a traitor in the underground party organization in Shanghai? It's like a high-level mutiny before the Shanghai Station of the Intelligence Department! In Tang Cheng's mind, a terrible guess suddenly appeared, if there were traitors in the Shanghai underground party, then Xu Huanshan's plan to transport materials and personnel out of Shanghai might have been leaked.

Once Tang Cheng had a guess in his heart, all kinds of thoughts and thoughts came up one after another uncontrollably, and after thinking about it again, Tang Cheng finally made a decision. He didn't immediately turn around and send an alarm to Xu Huanshan and them, but decided to follow his previous idea and take advantage of the good weather tonight to visit the special high school monitoring point across the street. At this moment, all kinds of speculations and doubts in his heart are still based on his own guesses, as long as he catches any person in the surveillance point of the special high school on the opposite side, Tang Cheng can solve this puzzle.

Tang Cheng, who was standing at the mouth of the alley, slowly retreated, stopped a little outside the door where Xu Huanshan and the two entered, and immediately strode away. There were suspicious people outside the alley, and it was impossible for Tang Cheng to get out of the alley without being discovered by the other party, so he chose to withdraw from this alley, and then detour through the two streets, approaching the other party from the back of the special high school surveillance point. With those auxiliary small equipment in the carry-on equipment bag in hand, plus light body skills, it is not difficult for Tang Cheng to quietly approach this special high class monitoring point, the only thing that Tang Cheng needs to pay attention to is the timing of his shot.