Chapter 31: Temptation
After enjoying the breakfast cooked by Hans himself, Tang Cheng beckoned Bowman, who had volunteered to be his chauffeur, to leave the restaurant and go to survey the terrain. To be honest, Tang Cheng didn't want to get involved in the matter that Hans mentioned before, although Hans gave enough money, Tang Cheng always felt that he would become a killer in this way. If it weren't for the fact that the photos brought by Hans were all Europeans, maybe Tang Cheng would not have bothered with Hans at all, and the dead were all Europeans.
Bowman volunteered to be Tang Cheng's driver, naturally with other purposes, seeing that Tang Cheng didn't speak after getting into the car, Bowman took the initiative to speak to Tang Cheng. "Don't you want to know why Hans cleaned up the people in the picture?" Bowman's question was sudden, and Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, paused for a moment, and then answered Bowman's question with a relaxed face.
"Why should I know? Hans paid me for help, and when I took the money, I naturally wanted to help Hans eliminate the disaster. It's just a business, and everything else has nothing to do with me. Tang Cheng knew that Bowman wanted to get to the bottom of himself, so he tried his best to play the role of a cold-blooded killer, and if Bowman continued to ask other sensitive questions, Tang Cheng could also use this as an excuse to answer the other party.
As Tang Cheng expected, Bowman obviously didn't expect Tang Cheng to make such an answer, but Bowman didn't give up, because Hans had said that judgment of Tang Cheng before, and Bowman would also feel that the young man behind him had received a certain amount of anti-reconnaissance training. "What if I tell you why now?" Bowman raised his eyebrows and glanced at Tang Cheng sitting in the back seat from the rearview mirror.
Bowman was paying attention to Tang Cheng's reaction in the rearview mirror, in fact, Tang Cheng was also observing Bowman through the rearview mirror, and the eyes of the two intersected through the rearview mirror of the car, Tang Cheng grinned, but Bowman looked a little unnatural. "If you say it, I'll listen, but if I had to choose, I'd rather you say nothing. As I said earlier, I don't want to know, I don't want to know, I just need to do what I have to do. ”
Tang Cheng's blunt refusal made the atmosphere in the car instantly cold, and Bowman opened his mouth, so he had to hide the remaining questions in his heart for the time being. Sample, you still want to set my words! Seeing that Bowman finally quieted down, Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, secretly laughed in his heart. When Hans took out those photos, he didn't carry Bowman on his back, Tang Cheng already understood that this person named Bowman must not be simple, but Tang Cheng from later generations knew that the Europeans were also good at playing intrigue and tricks.
In the silence of the two Tang Cheng, the car slowly passed through the concession, and according to the addresses provided by Hans, Tang Cheng looked at almost all of them through the car window. "Stop, I'll go down and have a look." When the tram in the middle of the street passed, Tang Cheng suddenly shouted to stop, and before Bowman could open his mouth to speak, Tang Cheng walked down from the car parked on the side of the street. "You wait for me in the car, I'll be back in a moment." With Bowman's words, Tang Cheng walked directly through the street and disappeared into an alley under Bowman's eyes.
Tang Cheng got out of the car, not because he saw a familiar person appearing, but because he suddenly had an idea in his heart. Passing through this alley, Tang Cheng walked back down the next street, and finally stopped in the back alley of a building. Seeing that no one appeared left and right, Tang Cheng, who was in the back alley of the building, took out a fishing rod from his equipment bag, shook off the fishing hook with counterweights and threw it upwards vigorously, and in the next second, the fishing hook with the counterweight hung firmly on the edge of the roof.
Tang Cheng, who used light body skills, turned the reel of the fishing rod, and in just a dozen breaths, he successfully climbed from the back alley of the building to the roof of the building. The cat's waist crouched on the roof of the building, and Tang Cheng, who activated the triple eyepiece, immediately looked at the position where Bowman parked, and the triple eyepiece easily shortened Tang Cheng's visual distance, and at this moment, Tang Cheng could clearly see Bowman who was looking left and right in the driver's seat of the car. Determining this location can clearly see Bowman, the Tang City on the roof of the building changed several positions one after another, and after some field observations, the Tang City on the roof returned to the back alley of the building along the fishing line.
Bowman, who was waiting in the car on the side of the road, was bored, but saw Tang Cheng reappear on the opposite side of the street, let a tram pass slowly, and Tang Cheng who appeared next to the car pulled the door and sat back in the back seat. "Let's go, go back, go outside the bakery we talked about earlier." Tang Cheng, who returned to the car, didn't say much, just asked Bowman to drive back the same way, Bowman just frowned slightly, and then started the car to turn the car back the same way according to Tang Cheng's request.
Ten minutes later, the car stopped outside a bakery on the side of the street, and Tang Cheng, who pushed the door and got out of the car, still asked Bowman to wait for him here, so he disappeared through the street and disappeared into the crowd. Tang Cheng and the two of them just walked and stopped, stopping in several fixed positions along the way for a while, Bowman didn't understand why Tang Cheng parked in these places by himself, but Tang Cheng didn't say it explicitly, and Bowman didn't take the initiative to ask Tang Cheng.
All morning, Tang Cheng and the two of them were circling the concession according to the addresses provided by Hans. It wasn't until lunchtime that Tang Cheng, feeling hungry, asked Bowman to drive back to Hans's restaurant, and at this time, Hans's men finally delivered two Japanese 38 rifles and 50 rounds of ammunition. The two Japanese-style 38 rifles obtained by Hans's subordinates were obviously old goods, but Tang Cheng didn't care, but in Hans's office, he disassembled and wiped the two 38 rifles one by one, and finally chose one with better performance to keep.
"Don, why do you have to use a Japanese rifle? Our German-made Mauser rifles are better and more lethal!" Bowman didn't seem to understand why Tang Cheng had to use the 38 rifle, and took advantage of the fact that there would be only him and Tang Cheng in the office, so he asked Tang Cheng out of his mouth. Tang Cheng glanced up at Bao Man when he heard this, and then did not answer this question immediately, but after loading the 38 rifle in his hand first, he finally said to Bao Man, who was eager to learn.
"Don't you think the concession has been quiet for a while? I know that you Germans are hostile to people from other parts of Europe, and that the Japanese are not actually treated well by you. The thing that Hans commissioned me to do may seem small, but it will have a great impact afterwards, and if we take the opportunity to muddy the water, it will be of great benefit to you and to me. Tang Cheng's voice was very soft, but these words sounded like a heavy drum in Bowman's ears.
"I am a Chinese, naturally against the Japanese, not to mention that the Japanese are very arrogant in Shanghai these days, and I can't ask for some trouble for the Japanese." Tang Cheng slapped the assembled 38 rifle in his hand and smiled at Bowman. "This is a standard rifle equipped by the Japanese army, I don't have to leave this rifle at the scene, I only need to leave a few bullet casings of Tomosaka rifle cartridges at that time, and those old men in the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry in the concession will naturally think that these things are related to the Japanese. Even if the Japanese later find an excuse or disagree with these bullet casings as evidence, the Ministry of Industry of the Concession will definitely change its current attitude towards the Japanese. ”
"Tang, is this what you Chinese mean by killing two birds with one stone?" Hans, who happened to enter the office, heard Tang Cheng's analysis in the second half of the paragraph, and he had to sigh in his heart that Tang Cheng's mind was ingenious.
Hans's distorted interpretation of Chinese made Tang Cheng squint and appreciated the other party's eyes, "Hans, that's called killing two birds with one stone, not killing two birds with one arrow." "After Hans and Bowman have laughed, Tang Cheng will be right." The terrain, I've already seen it, weapons and bullets are now available. Hans, I'm going to make sure of your attitude now, do you have to kill the people in the picture? I need a clear answer from you, it's important to me!"
Hans and Bowman looked at each other, then turned to look at Tang Cheng and nodded vigorously. "That's right, these guys in the photo have to die, I'm sorry, I can't tell you why, but that's my attitude and answer." Tang Cheng's sudden question made Bowman a little nervous, and he thought that Tang Cheng had suddenly changed his decision, but just when he opened his mouth and was about to speak, he saw Tang Cheng also nodding at Hans.
"Alright, I think I already know what you mean! It's one o'clock, I'm going to rest for a while, and we'll leave at four o'clock, and you should have good news before dark. Motioning to Hans to put the bag of makeup oil paint in his hand on the table, Tang Cheng directly gathered the things on the table to make a space, and with his arms together, he directly lay on the table and began to close his eyes and rest.
Hans and Bowman looked at each other, and then the two left the office quietly, "Bowman, you followed him around all morning, did you ask anything?" Leaving the office, Hans and Bowman went out the back door of the restaurant and smoked in the back alley.
"No, I didn't ask anything!" Bowman shook his head in frustration at the moment, "He's very aggressive, and when I ask the first question, he makes a clear non-cooperative attitude." I knew that at this time, I must not provoke him, so I did not continue to ask. In short, this morning, I just played the role of the driver, he said I would go, he said stop and I stopped, and there was no gain at all. ”
Bowman was in a bad mood, but Hans seemed very excited when he heard his answer. "Bowman, you're doing a good job, at least that proves he's not easy. And judging from what we have already learned, my previous analysis is not unreasonable, this Tang Cheng should be the operation personnel sent to Shanghai by the Nanjing headquarters of the Intelligence Department. The next thing we have to do is to continue to observe him, and at the same time gather and learn more about him, such as his injured uncle. ”