Chapter 102: The Dead

Hearing Tang Cheng admit that the things in the street of the photo studio were related to him, Xu Huanshan, who was originally anxious, was unexpectedly relieved. Xu Huanshan has Xie Ziyao's report record here, so he knows the danger contained in that situation at that time, Tang Cheng can help Xie Ziyao, Xu Huanshan is grateful in his heart. But he was also very worried about Tang Cheng's behavior of shooting and killing people in the concession at will, even if Tang Cheng killed all Japanese spies, it would still attract the secret investigation of many people in the concession.

The timing of Xu Huanshan's call today was obviously wrong, and Tang Cheng, who was in a hurry to put the gold bars and US dollars on the table into the safe, didn't say anything more to Xu Huanshan on the phone, and hung up the phone. Tang Cheng took the initiative to hang up the phone, this was the first time, when Xu Huanshan on the other end of the phone reacted, there was only a blind tone left in the phone receiver. Xu Huanshan, who was sitting still, seemed to think for a while, and then opened the dark compartment on the wall and took out an envelope from inside.

This envelope was hidden in this secret compartment by Xu Huanshan yesterday morning, and it contained some information and intelligence summaries of the Shanghai headquarters of the special high-tech department collected by the Shanghai underground party, Xu Huanshan originally did not want to hand over these things to Tang Cheng so early, and Tang Cheng's act of hanging up the phone just now made Xu Huanshan have to take out this thing. After Tang Cheng arrived in Shanghai, a series of actions against the special high-tech and the Japanese army in Shanghai made the situation in Shanghai more and more tense, but also made the Shanghai underground party organization breathe a sigh of relief, so that they would not be forced out of breath by the special high-tech department.

It is precisely because Xu Huanshan saw this that he decided to cooperate with Tang Cheng to weaken the vitality of the Shanghai Station of Special High-tech Station, which would only be more beneficial to the underground party organization in Shanghai. Xu Huanshan had already made up his mind to cooperate with Tang Cheng, but when he was about to send Ah Jiu to contact Tang Cheng with the information, he found that Tang Cheng could not be contacted inexplicably. Tang Cheng lost contact, not because he was rounded up by Tegaoke for exposing his whereabouts, but because there was a problem with the Shanghai station of the intelligence department.

When he received Boss Yu's call, it was already early in the morning, Tang Cheng didn't dare to delay too much, and immediately rushed to the tea house to meet Boss Yu. "Something happened, I just got the news that someone at Shanghai Station has defected, and the two contact points in the concession of Shanghai Station have been cracked by Tegaoke, and a total of eight people have lost contact, and they don't know if they live or die." Tang Cheng had never seen Boss Yu be so angry as he was now, especially when Boss Yu said the last four words, he was almost gritting his teeth and saying word by word.

There are traitors within the intelligence department, Tang Cheng doesn't find anything strange about this, throughout the entire course of the Anti-Japanese War, traitors and traitors who defect to the enemy and treason abound, Tang Cheng guessed that Boss Yu would be so angry, there should be a reason why he doesn't know. Sure enough, after the mood calmed down a little, Boss Yu told Tang Cheng the truth. "The person who defected at the Shanghai station is called Zhou Haiping, this person was originally a student of Peking University, and he has been working at the headquarters since joining the intelligence department, and he was transferred to Shanghai this time to be specifically responsible for screening the social relations of newcomers."

Screening the social relationship of the newcomer? What does this mean? When Tang Cheng was confused, Boss Yu explained. "During the Shanghai Campaign last year, the division ordered the organization of the Einsatzgruppen to participate in the battle, and a large number of personnel were transferred to the Einsatzgruppen in various sub-stations and headquarters, and the result was heavy casualties. After the headquarters was moved to Wuhan, many new people were recruited to join, and this work of screening social relations was to investigate the family social relations of Shanghainese newcomers, so as not to be confused by the Japanese. ”

After listening to Boss Yu's explanation, Tang Cheng understood what social relationship screening work is, and dared to feel that this is identity verification and screening in disguise. "When Zhou Haiping came to Shanghai, he had a list of Shanghainese newcomers with him, if he really betrayed the Intelligence Department, then the content of that list would give Tegaoke an opportunity. If it were the other thing that my family and friends were controlled by the Japanese, then I might be the next betrayer to be plotted against by the Japanese. ”

Tang Cheng is no stranger to what Boss Yu said, and a large part of the renegades he caught in Chongqing at the beginning were forced to agree to do things for the Japanese because the Japanese spies used the lives of their relatives as bargaining chips. "What do you mean over there? Do you want to kill this Zhou Haiping immediately, or do you want to get him back to dispose of him? Tang Cheng didn't want to get involved in the internal affairs of the Intelligence Department, so he still followed his previous style and sought answers from Boss Yu.

Boss Yu shook his head slowly when he heard this, "I haven't received an order from the headquarters yet, as soon as I receive the news, I will call you immediately." I don't know if the Shanghai station has reported the news to the headquarters, I called you over, I just want you to be prepared, once the situation deteriorates to the Shanghai station and there is no way to deal with it, you have to take action. Boss Yu's move was just to take precautions, but Tang Cheng secretly pouted when he heard it.

"Uncle Yu, it's not that I don't like the ability of Shanghai Station, the news has already reached you, how can I not know about Shanghai Station. It would take at least half an hour to get to you from my residence, and if I were a senior executive at the Shanghai station, half an hour would have been enough to make the necessary response. Anyway, it's already early in the morning, so I won't go back, I'll accompany you here and wait for the order from the headquarters. Tang Cheng had some words that he couldn't say in front of Boss Yu, he was worried that he would make this old man angry.

Time passed slowly in the anxious waiting of Tang Cheng and the two, until when the sky was white, Boss Yu finally received the latest information from his subordinates. "Zhou Haiping has been confirmed to have defected to the enemy, and the raid last night was because of the information provided by Zhou Haiping. Shanghai Station has not reported the real situation to the headquarters so far, and my people have now explored a den in the concession of Tegaoke, and Zhou Haiping is likely to be secretly hidden in this place by Tegaoke. ”

Zhu Haiping defected to the enemy, but was unexpectedly directly hidden in the concession by Tegaoke, which Tang Cheng did not expect. "The Japanese called it the black under the lamp, and they already expected that once we learned of Zhu Haiping's rebellion, we would definitely launch an assassination and attack on Zhou Haiping. Therefore, they did the opposite and secretly placed Zhou Haiping in the concession, on the one hand, they could avoid our assassination and attacks, and on the other hand, it also made it convenient for them to continue to round up and arrest us in the concession. Boss Yu's explanation was simple and clear, and Tang Cheng couldn't help but nod his head again and again when he heard it.

"Since I already know that this Zhou Haiping is in the concession, it's better not to wait for the order from the headquarters, I'll just go over and kill him." If it was just to assassinate this traitor named Zhu Haiping, Tang Cheng didn't feel that it was too difficult, but he didn't mention the list, because Tang Cheng had other thoughts in his heart. Tang Cheng's initiative to ask for help did not surprise Boss Yu, and Boss Yu himself had never doubted Tang Cheng's ability to act.

"Wait, after I call you, I will report the situation to the headquarters, let's wait until breakfast, no matter whether there is an order from the headquarters to come, this Zhou Haiping, you will kill you." Boss Yu has never been a person who does not know how to be flexible, since this Zhou Haiping has been confirmed to defect to the enemy, and this person has posed a threat and trouble to the intelligence department, then he must kill this traitor.

Because of Boss Yu's insistence, Tang Cheng had no choice but to continue to wait, waiting for Boss Yu to accompany him to have breakfast in the warehouse of the tea house, but there was still no news from the headquarters. Tang Cheng's heart suddenly moved, and he asked in a low voice to Boss Yu, "Uncle Yu, there has been no news from the headquarters, do you think this Zhou Haiping will be a move deliberately arranged by the headquarters?" When I was still in Nanjing, I heard that the headquarters had a plan to recruit the dead, could this Zhou Haiping be a dead room? ”

Tang Cheng's words made the originally anxious Boss Yu's eyebrows skip a beat, and carefully pondering Tang Cheng's suspicion just now, it seemed that it was not impossible, the ability of the lord at the headquarters to calculate the Japanese was definitely not something that these small characters could think of. "Uncle Yu, why don't you wait and see! In case this Zhou Haiping is an intentional arrangement from the headquarters, if I kill this person, I may destroy the arrangement at the headquarters. Tang Cheng also felt more and more at this moment that his judgment was guessing the facts.

Boss Yu is no stranger to the dead, in fact, not only the intelligence department, but even the underground party and the special high-tech department have also used the means of the dead. But to say that this Zhou Haiping is a dead room arranged by the headquarters, Boss Yu is skeptical, after all, this Zhou Haiping's qualifications are too shallow, in the words of Boss Yu, this Zhou Haiping can be regarded as a proper novice. But when he thought of the word novice, Boss Yu hesitated even more, according to the style of work at the headquarters, how could he arrange for a novice to come to Shanghai to check the family and social relations of the newcomer?

Tang Cheng's words reminded Boss Yu, and he immediately came to his senses, so he sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Intelligence Department before the tea house opened. Another hour passed, and Boss Yu finally received a reply from the headquarters of the Intelligence Department, and the situation was indeed as Tang Cheng had speculated, and in the telegram replied by the headquarters, he was vague about Zhou Haiping's matter, and it was wrong at first glance.

"You guessed right, this Zhou Haiping really has a problem, and now it seems that not only this Zhou Haiping has a problem, but even the two contact points that were knocked out last night at Shanghai Station also have problems. I don't know who planned this plan at the headquarters, and the price is a bit too big! Boss Yu, who had almost deduced the truth, couldn't help but sigh secretly, for the sake of a dead room, Shanghai Station took the life and death of two contact points and eight team members.