Chapter 25: The Arrival of the Night Demon (1)
Boss Yu, who ran the tea house, was just an inconspicuous ordinary small businessman, and if he wanted to get acquainted with those famous Chinese businessmen in the concession, he had to think of other ways. When night falls, Shanghai's concession is transformed into a modern world, which is so prosperous that it contrasts sharply with the other side of Suzhou Creek. Before Boss Yu contacted the person in charge of the Chinese condolence group in the concession, Tang Cheng, who had already done almost the preparatory work, finally started his second step.
Whether it was to hire a large number of foreign doctors in the concession through Hans, or to contact foreign merchant ships to transport the officers and soldiers of the lone military camp out of Shanghai, it would cost a lot of money. Tang Cheng didn't have much money with him when he left Chongqing, so he had to get as much money as he could before Hans gave an accurate reply. There were many wealthy people in the concession, including Chinese businessmen, foreign businessmen, and gangsters, but tonight, it was Japanese businessmen who were targeted by Tang Cheng.
The Japanese army controlled Shanghai outside the concession, but the Japanese army was under pressure and promised that the Ministry of Industry of the Concession would not send troops into the concession, and in return, the normal operation of Japanese merchants in the concession would also be protected by the Ministry of Industry of the Concession. At this time, it was already after nightfall, and there were still many places covered by shadows in the prosperous concession, and Tang Cheng, dressed as an ordinary person, used these shadows to walk through the small alleys of the concession at this moment.
Karachi's target tonight is a place called the Kanto Trading Company, and just by listening to the name of this trading company, anyone with a discerning eye will know that it is related to the Japanese. Thanks to the agreement between the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession and the Japanese army in Shanghai, the business of the Kanto Trading Company in the concession has been good, and it has not been attacked by so-called patriots so far. Tang Cheng did not use Boss Yu's connections to inquire about the Kanto Trading Company, the name and address of the Kanto Trading Company were just heard by chance when Tang Cheng was wandering around the black market.
It's just an accidental sound, and it's not an intentional investigation, even if the matter is big, it won't involve Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng, who had already opened the triple eyepieces, walked all the way, and the dim visibility had no effect on him, but those concession patrols that appeared from time to time were discovered in advance by Tang Cheng, who was hiding in the shadows, and avoided them one by one. After about an hour of dodging, Tang Cheng appeared at a T-junction, and according to the route he had taken beforehand, as long as Tang Cheng turned left and walked out a short distance at this moment, it was the location of the Kanto Trading Company.
Tang Cheng looked down at his watch, and after confirming the time, he did not leave the position at the moment immediately, but stood in place and waited patiently. Tang Cheng had been to this place twice, each time staying for more than four hours to observe the situation. According to what he had observed on the previous two occasions, in another quarter of an hour, the loyal manager of the Kanto Trading Company would return to the trading company to work overtime to sort out the books. Japanese people have long been accustomed to working overtime, and almost at the same time as last night, the window on the second floor of the Kanto Trading Company was lit up again.
The light shining through the window made the corners of Tang Cheng's mouth curve in an arc, and whether or not tonight's action went smoothly fell on the diligent manager of the Kanto Trading Company. Seeing that the lights in the manager's office of the Kanto Trading Company had been turned on, Tang Cheng quickly left the place where he had been standing for almost half an hour, and after giving way to two pedestrians sideways, Tang Cheng, who was walking on the side of the street, leaned over and climbed the wall of the Kanto Trading Company with both hands.
For Tang Cheng, climbing over the wall is simply familiar to home, and before the two pedestrians who have not gone far hear the movement, Tang Cheng has already climbed into the wall. Tang Cheng, who landed on his feet, did not immediately move his position, but first squatted under the wall to see the situation inside the wall, and after just a few breaths, Tang Cheng immediately moved forward, and soon appeared behind the shrub fence in the courtyard. It's just a trading company, and although there are guards in the trading company, the number of guards is not large.
Through the gap in the bush fence, Tang Cheng could clearly see that at the entrance of the small building of the Kanto Trading Company, there were two sturdy guards smoking and chatting, although they couldn't hear what they were saying, but judging from the expressions on their faces, it was obvious that the two guards were not serious. Tang Cheng already knew in advance that the two-story building of the Kanto Trading Company did not have a back door to use, and the architectural style of the small building was obviously Western-style, so there should be no place for flying claws to use on the roof of the slanted style.
If you want to enter the small building, the only way is to enter through the main entrance, Tang Cheng, who was squatting behind the bush fence, suddenly found that the only way left for him was to break through the road. Just thinking about it casually, Tang Cheng reached out and picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it into the open space on the left side of the main entrance of the small building with a wave of his hand. The stone was not big, but it made a noise when it landed in the open space paved with stone slabs. The two guards who were standing at the main entrance of the small building and smoking looked very relaxed, but they were not slow to react after hearing the sound.
Hearing the sound on the left-hand side, both guards turned their heads to look to the left, and one of them had already turned on the flashlight, trying to find the source of the sound. It was at this time that Tang Cheng suddenly got up and jumped out of the fence, only to bounce up and go straight to the main entrance of the small building after rolling on the ground. Tang Cheng was too sudden, and whether he jumped over the fence or got up and pounced, he didn't make much noise, and by the time the two guards saw Tang Cheng, the time left for them was not enough.
"Poof!" Tang Cheng, whose left foot was on the ground, spun around, and a flash of light flashed in his hand and grazed the neck of one of the guards, and before the blood arrow spurted out from the knife on the guard's neck, Tang Cheng, whose right foot landed later, immediately took a horizontal step, and at the same time bent his left elbow forward to the top, just hitting the elbow heavily in the throat of the other guard. Tang Cheng appeared suddenly, and he moved quickly, but just by looking at his face, the two guards fell down one after another.
Tang Cheng, who had succeeded in the first blow, did not relax there, but swung his sword again, stabbed the two obviously Japanese guards respectively, and sent them back to Dongying's hometown completely. Tang Cheng didn't want to kill people, but when he saw the Japanese, he couldn't bear it, because the prerequisite for the system lottery was that the Japanese needed to be captured or killed. After all, it was the first time to come here, and Tang Cheng didn't know if there were other guards in the courtyard of the Kanto Trading Company, so the two corpses could only hide behind the bush fence first.
As a matter of fact, Tang Cheng overthought the strength of the Kanto trading company's defense, and with the strong expansion of the Japanese army and the smooth progress of the war, the Japanese in China are now invariably more arrogant. In particular, the Kanto trading company was still in the concession, and according to the urine of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau of the concession, the people of the Kanto trading company did not think that anyone in the concession would be unfavorable to their trading company. The Kanto Trading Company was arrogant and arrogant, but they just met Tang Cheng, and after discovering that there were only these two Japanese guards in the entire Kanto Trading Company, Tang Cheng, who had a faint smell of blood, entered the small building with confidence and boldness.
After entering the small building, Tang Cheng found that in the Japanese trading company, there are name plates on every door, and as long as you look at the name plate on the door, you can know what the room behind the door does. Tang Cheng went up the stairs, his target tonight was only the manager of the Japanese trading house, and according to the urine nature of the Japanese, the funds of the trading company would only be in the hands of the manager. The lights in the hallway looked a little dim, but this did not affect Tang Cheng's movement, and soon, he was standing outside the door of the manager's room.
Tang Cheng, who was standing at the door, thought for a moment, then reached out to hold the doorknob, just pressed down and then nudged inward, and the door of the manager's room was opened by Tang Cheng. "Get out... You... Who is it? "I thought it was a ronin guard hired by the trading company to open the door, but after looking up with anger on his face, Yokotsu Ichiro, the manager of the Shanghai branch of the Kanto Trading Company, stiffened his expression because the one who came in from outside the door actually covered his face with a black cloth." You... What do you want to do, I warn you, the Kanto Trading Company is the property of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan..."
Before Yokotsu Ichiro's words were finished, Tang Cheng, whose face was covered with a black cloth, swung his knife and opened a big hole in the chest of his suit jacket. "I'm just here to ask for money, you give me money, and I'll leave." It's just out of bad taste, Tang Cheng in front of him covered his face with a black cloth and pretended to be a bandit, but Tang Cheng didn't expect that his little evil taste seemed to be very effective, at least the manager of the Kanto Trading Company was shocked by himself.
Yokotsu Ichiro loves money, but he also spares his life, although Tang Cheng's knife just now did not cut through Yokotsu Ichiro's flesh and skin, but the faint smell of blood on Tang Cheng's body and the style of no one around, Yokotsu Ichiro believes that the two guards hired by the trading company are likely to have encountered an accident. Ichiro Yokotsu, who didn't want to follow in his footsteps, was very cooperative, and under the pressure of the short knife in Tang Cheng's hand, Ichiro Yokotsu not only took the initiative to hand over the cash in the desk drawer, but also took out the key to open the safe hidden in the office closet.
"Boom!" Yokotsu Ichiro's head collided with the wall with a crisp sound, and before Yokotsu Ichiro, whose eyes were rolling, slipped to the floor, Tang Cheng's eyes were all focused on the safe that had been opened. The small safe was divided into two levels, the upper one was stacked with some files, and the lower one was filled with gold bars and bundles of dollars and pounds.
Tang Cheng didn't have the time to carefully count how much money was in the safe, but first put the ocean and gold bars that would make a noise after the collision into his carry-on bag, and then took out a leather bag that could be carried diagonally, and packed all the foreign currency banknotes in the safe. Emptied all the money in the safe, those document files, Tang Cheng didn't plan to leave them behind, after roughly flipping through them, Tang Cheng put a few of the files that were still a little useful into his backpack.