Chapter 55: The Gold Arrives
"The movements are all smaller, don't make any noise, I guess there should be someone on duty in the basement." When Hans's four men entered the Jincheng branch through the main gate, Tang Cheng immediately locked the gate as it was, and after whispering to the four of them, Tang Cheng walked in the direction of the basement with his pistol. The basement of the Jincheng branch is very cleverly built, this four-story building already has a basement, after the Jincheng branch occupies here, the basement has been reinforced and rebuilt, and the entrance to the basement is actually rebuilt in a room on the first floor.
Tang Cheng stood outside one of the doors and didn't move, and the other four thought that Tang Cheng had suddenly developed hysteria, and one of them reached out to get the doorknob, but was stopped by Tang Cheng. "This is the entrance to the basement, and the guards are inside the door, and this door is locked from the inside, and it can't be opened at all from the outside." Tang Cheng's voice was very low, but in the ears of the other four people, it was no less than a thunderclap. What does it mean that the door is locked from the inside and cannot be opened from the outside? So what else are we going to do?
Seeing that someone was about to open his mouth to speak, Tang Cheng hurriedly raised his finger and motioned to the other party not to make a sound. After looking down at his watch, Tang Cheng's face showed a smile, Tang Cheng's memory fragments copied from Park Zhihao and Xu Yingzi were not much, but they also included several key parts. First of all, after the Jincheng branch gets off work every day, there are only guards on duty here, and the branch manager will not come here again after work. The second is the basement of the Kaneshiro branch, which was built in a more guarded backyard than other Japanese trading houses, but was converted directly from the basement.
Then there is the situation of the night guard of the Jincheng branch, which has 16 night guards, divided into four shifts according to four people in each shift. Every three hours, a shift will be replaced to guard the first floor of the Jincheng branch, the basement of the Jincheng branch is rebuilt from a basement, and among the four guards guarding the first floor, two guards will be divided into two guards who will be directly in the basement, and the two guards stationed in the basement will also take shifts every three hours.
Last but not least, the basement of the Jincheng branch is keyless, because there are guards on duty 24 hours a day. Moreover, when this basement was designed, the storage of the basement could only be locked from the inside, but it could not be opened from the outside. In other words, as long as the guards on duty inside the basement don't take the initiative to open the door, there is no way for the people outside to enter, unless they use a stupid method to blow up the door outside the basement with **, otherwise they can only look at it dryly.
The people who worked in the Jincheng branch, especially the guards, all knew that the handle of this door was simply an ornament. If someone unknowingly twists the doorknob, the guard on duty in the room will immediately close the second door in the basement and immediately call the other guards upstairs. Of course, Tang Cheng would not choose to force his way through the door outside, he looked down at his watch just now, and he was confirming the time.
According to the memory fragments that Tang Cheng copied from Xu Yingzi, a quarter of an hour will be the time for the first shift of the night guards, and the two guards on duty in the basement will also need to be rotated. Therefore, Tang Cheng doesn't have to do anything now, he just needs to wait patiently for the shift change time to come, and when the time comes, someone will naturally take the initiative to open the door from the inside. The four subordinates sent by Hans saw that Tang Cheng looked confident, so they forcibly endured the impatience in their hearts, and just followed Tang Cheng's instructions, and stood on the left and right of this gate with their backs against the wall.
Time passed minute by minute, and Tang Cheng, who had been waiting outside the door, soon heard a sound coming from inside the door. Tang Cheng, who was originally standing in the corridor with his arms naturally drooping, immediately changed his body, his feet parted one after the other, looking like he was about to step out of the lunge posture. In his left hand, he held a short knife, the tip of which was closed upwards at his side, while his right hand was empty, but it stretched forward, and his palm was even more empty, which looked a bit like a grab.
Hans's four subordinates looked puzzled, but looking at Tang Cheng's calm face, it seemed that something was about to happen, so they just watched but didn't make a sound to ask. After more than a dozen breaths, a voice finally came out of the room, which had not moved, and it seemed that someone was talking behind the door. The doorknob slowly turned under the gaze of everyone, and as everyone's breathing became thicker, the door was finally pulled open from the inside, and the sound of speech, which was not inaudible, immediately became clear.
"Koizumi, they must have forgotten the time to play cards upstairs again, I'll go up..."A slightly hoarse voice came out of the crack in the door, and Tang Cheng, who heard the sound, immediately sank down, and then lunged forward. The door was just opened a gap, and the people inside the door didn't see Tang Cheng carrying a short knife outside the door at all, Tang Cheng pounced forward, and the man who didn't know anything inside was still pulling the door, which gave Tang Cheng a chance.
"Poof!" Tang Cheng threw himself forward, and the left hand that was at his side stabbed forward like lightning, and the tip of the knife pierced through the crack in the open door and stabbed straight into the opponent's neck. If it were someone else at this moment, he might choose to directly stab the tip of the knife into the opponent's neck, but Tang Cheng was not like this, when the tip of the knife touched the opponent's neck, Tang Cheng's left hand suddenly rose up, and the tip of the short knife pierced through the person's chin, and then the tip of the knife stabbed upwards into the cranial cavity.
If the brain is destroyed, no matter who it is, it will definitely be a life of death, and even if it can be saved, it may only be a vegetative person or an idiot. Maybe Tang Cheng's short knife was too sharp, or Tang Cheng's movements were too fast, and the person who was stabbed into the brain by the short knife just began to twitch his body like a sheep's horn, and he hadn't died on the spot. Tang Cheng, who had succeeded in the blow, did not pause, the right hand stretched out forward had already pushed open the door, and when his right foot entered the door, he directly grazed the body of the person who was stabbed and rushed into the room.
Tang Cheng's sudden launch had no warning at all, and his previous sudden lowering of his body was even more like a cheetah that was about to pounce on its predators. Tang Cheng moved too fast, and the four people standing on both sides of the door, although they were already staring at Tang Cheng, they still couldn't keep up with Tang Cheng's movements. By the time the four of them reacted, Tang Cheng had already rushed into the room, leaving them with only a patient with epilepsy who kept squirting blood from his chin.
The room used to conceal the entrance to the basement was a disguise, and although the room was furnished like an office, the tables, chairs, and sofas in the actual room were useless furnishings. When Tang Cheng rushed into the room, the floor in the east corner of the room had been lifted, and a guy who was already half bald on top of his head would be climbing up the ladder from the basement. One of the two guards guarding the basement was stabbed by Tang Cheng with a short knife at the door, and the other was climbing out of the basement, and Tang Cheng's sudden appearance made the guard who climbed out of the basement stiffen on the ladder.
"Poof!" With a soft sound, the ** pistol that suddenly appeared in Tang Cheng's right hand, the gun flame flashed, and the bald head who was standing at the entrance of the basement fell back and slumped on the ladder. Tang Cheng's shot was extremely accurate, and the bullet flew into the temple of the bald guard, and then drilled out from the temple on the other side, which was a direct penetration. "I'll go down and take a look first, and you get the corpse aside, lest it get in the way!"
Tang Cheng lifted the corpse from the ladder at the entrance of the basement with one hand and threw it aside, and then explained, and stepped on the ladder to go down the basement alone. It can be seen that the people of Kaneshiro Co., Ltd. have also put a lot of thought into this basement, which is not only ventilated and dry, but also installed with electric lights and telephones. Even in a corner of the basement, Tang Cheng saw a water tank filled with clean water and some canned biscuits, which were obviously prepared for the guards to deal with emergencies.
Although Kaneshiro Co., Ltd. has a certain scale, it is only a Japanese trading company after all, so this basement looks different from the bank's vault. Tang Cheng stepped on the ladder and went down to the basement, and found that the basement area was not small, but it looked empty, but in the middle of the basement, there was a bunch of bulges covered by military canvas. Tang Cheng had already guessed what the bulge would be when he didn't see the safe or the gold brick wall in the basement for the first time, so he walked over and removed the military canvas.
Sure enough, the military canvas was covered by several nailed wooden boxes, and Tang Cheng used a short knife to pry open one of the wooden boxes, only to find that it contained gold bricks that had been smelted by himself. Tang Cheng's movements were not slow, and before the four of Hans's men could get down, he had already pried open and inspected all the wooden boxes here. Damn it! After priing open all the boxes, Tang Cheng discovered that the news from the National Salvation Army was not very accurate, because the gold here was at least close to 300 kilograms.
Tang Cheng originally thought that there were only close to 200 kilograms of gold here, so he only brought four people to help, but now it seems that there is no way to transport all the gold. In addition to nearly 300 kilograms of gold here, there are also two boxes containing US dollars, and he ventured to come here, but because of the lack of manpower, he could not take all the gold and US dollars, and Tang Cheng himself felt panicked.
Just when Tang Cheng was secretly sad, Hans's four men also went down the ladder to the basement, and just like Tang Cheng, when they saw that these chests were full of gold, the first thing that came to their minds was how to get so much gold! "Don't look at me, I didn't expect it to be like this, I received information that there are only no more than 200 kilograms of gold here, and now it looks like there are almost 300 kilograms!"
The four of them looked at Tang Cheng, but Tang Cheng spread his hands, indicating that he had no choice. But no matter what, it's already here, and after so much effort, you can't leave here empty-handed! Tang Cheng simply didn't care about that much, just asked the four of them to move the gold from the basement first, and as for the rest, they would find a way when they got up.