Chapter Fifty-Six: A Stroke of Inspiration
Tang Cheng's words were relaxed, but Hans couldn't be relaxed at the moment, because Tang Cheng could leave Shanghai at any time, and he still had to stay in Shanghai. Once he becomes the target of suspicion in the Concession Patrol House, he may also be targeted by the Special High School, and Hans, who is familiar with the inside of the Concession Patrol House, knows that there are not only Japanese patrols in the Concession Patrol House, but also many Chinese patrols who are also working for the Special High School in private.
Tang Cheng didn't know what Hans was worried about, but just glanced at Hans with a strange face, and Tang Cheng smiled. "Rest assured, Hans, this matter will never involve you. What I just said is only my current idea, and the real plan of action needs to be decided after I have seen the terrain on the ground. There are many ways to kill a person, and you don't necessarily have to use a firearm. Tang Cheng's persuasion made Hans breathe a sigh of relief, and at this moment he could only secretly pray in his heart for God's blessing.
Leaving Hans's restaurant, Tang Cheng did not return to his residence, but went straight to Hongkou District. After the Izakaya Bloody Case, the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai and the Special High School strengthened their control over Hongkou District, and the Izakaya Bloody Incident has not been solved, so Tang Cheng saw the Japanese military checkpoint in Hongkou District from a distance, and found that there were many suspicious people around him. Most of the suspicious people noticed by Tang Cheng were wearing dark coats, and occasionally pulled out of the queue and asked in a low voice, Tang Cheng guessed that these people might all be plainclothes from the special high school.
Tang Cheng, who was just stopped here at the corner of the street, was also questioned by a man in a coat, it may be that Tang Cheng's tender appearance played a confusing role, and the other party just asked Tang Cheng a few words, and then did not continue to entangle. The checkpoints were also strictly checked, and the Japanese soldiers who were placed at the checkpoints not only had to check everyone's documents and ask for their addresses in Hongkou District, but they also had to register them for verification. I didn't expect the Japanese to be so strict in advance, Tang Cheng watched from a distance for a while, and did not wait in line in front of the checkpoint with the flow of people.
Without entering Hongkou District, Tang Cheng had no way to personally check the locations he had selected before, but Tang Cheng had already thought of other ways. "Why are you back again?" When he saw Hans again, the latter was busy in the back kitchen of the restaurant, and when he saw Tang Cheng go and return, Hans's face immediately showed a faint impatience, because he knew that there was absolutely nothing good for Tang Cheng to come back to find him.
"Hans, I need your help, to be exact, I need you to lend me a few people." Tang Cheng didn't care about Hans's ugly expression at the moment, and just pulled Hans into the office, who was busy. "Don't worry, the people you lend me, I will never put them in danger. I just have trivial things that need someone to help me with, and in an hour at most, I'll let them go. As he spoke, Tang Cheng took out the makeup paint and clothes he had stored with Hans from the cabinet in the corner.
Hans had no choice but to call three of his subordinates who were in the black market according to Tang Cheng's request. "What you have to do is very simple, when I have cleaned up here, you can follow me to the docks. I know there should be a cruise ship from Tianjin this afternoon, I don't care what method you use, steal, rob, or spend money to buy it, in short, I need a ticket from Tianjin to Shanghai, third class. In front of Hans, Tang Cheng applied makeup paint to his face while explaining Hans's three men.
Hans, who was originally worried, couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief when he heard Tang Cheng say that he was just asking his people to help get a ticket, just to get a useless invalid ticket, which was too simple. "Don, what do you want a useless ticket for?" Hans, who was finally relieved, immediately turned into a curious baby, because he didn't understand what Tang Cheng was doing with such a useless ticket.
Tang Cheng, who was sitting in front of the mirror, glanced at Tang Cheng angrily, and after hesitating for a moment, he whispered under Hans's eyes full of curiosity. "The Hongkou district has been almost completely controlled by the Japanese military police and police, and when you pass through the checkpoint, even the Japanese need to check your documents and register your address. I had documents, but I couldn't provide a specific address, so I had to forge a new identity to get through, such as the abandoned son of a family who had just come to Shanghai from Tianjin to earn a living. ”
"That's right, your method is really good!" As soon as Tang Cheng's words fell, Hans slapped his face by inference. "A person who has just come to Shanghai from another place is indeed unable to provide a fixed address, if you only register your name, your fake document is enough to deal with the inspection." With Tang Cheng's explanation, Hans could fully understand what Tang Cheng's idea was, and a ticket from Tianjin to Shanghai became the most important part of Tang Cheng's fabricated lies.
About a quarter of an hour later, Tang Cheng, whose face had changed most of the time, blasted Hans and the others out of the office, and when he changed his clothes and came out of the office, even Hans, who was very familiar with Tang Cheng, couldn't help but call God Dad. "Oh God! Don, how you did it, it's amazing!" Tang Cheng, who originally had a handsome face and eyes like electricity, had now turned into a frustrated young man in an old suit with a slightly haggard face, if Tang Cheng hadn't spoken first at this moment, Hans would definitely regard the person in front of him as a stranger.
"Hans, can you keep your mouth shut first, it's not magic, it's just a simple makeup technique!" Tang Cheng pouted angrily, and said in his heart that if you can live to see the famous Korean makeup in the 21st century, maybe you won't be so surprised. Asked Hans to help check if there was anything missing, and finally Tang Cheng, who deliberately soiled his shoes, then carried a suitcase containing a few clothes and two Japanese books, Shi Shiran left Hans's restaurant and went straight to the dock.
Tang Cheng was very confident in his plan, and it was only for the sake of caution that he made some disguises in Hans's restaurant office. Hans's three subordinates did not follow Tang Cheng closely, but according to Tang Cheng's explanation, they were scattered far away around Tang Cheng's side, if it weren't for the people who knew the bottom line to see the four of them, they would never have thought that Tang Cheng and the others were in a group. The cruise ship from Tianjin had not yet arrived, and after Tang Cheng, who was carrying a suitcase, entered the dock, he did not immediately wipe off the camouflage on his face as planned.
As soon as the American cruise ship from Tianjin began to have passengers ashore, Tang Cheng would blend into the crowd to wipe off the camouflage on his face, and then leave the dock disguised as a passenger of the cruise ship with his original face. This is the method that Tang Cheng suddenly thought of outside Hongkou District, if he can find the plainclothes of the special high class here at this moment, maybe he will wipe off his disguise for a while, and he will deliberately stage a new drama in front of the plainclothes of the special high class, so as to deepen the impression of the other party.
There are a lot of people on the docks, and maybe the person you just talked to in dialect is a plainclothes agent, maybe he belongs to the special high school, maybe he belongs to the police department, or maybe he is a gangster who secretly works for the intelligence department. Looking at Tang Cheng, who was honest, sitting on a bench with a few middle-aged people, listening to the business stories of the middle-aged people around him, Tang Cheng quietly began to use his spare eyes to secretly observe the men and women around him. After the first round of scanning, Tang Cheng did not find any suspicious people, but he did not give up the search, but became more careful.
After observing for a long time, Tang Cheng finally noticed some abnormalities, especially the hawker-like guys in front of him, Tang Cheng actually found that one of them was wearing a Western-style shirt under his short coat. There are a lot of street vendors like this in Shanghai, most of them wear cardigans, and there is absolutely no street vendor who wears expensive Western-style shirts under their coats. Tang Cheng's eyes immediately locked on this suspicious vendor, and in just a few minutes, this hawker-like guy had been close to at least four people and whispered.
Without physical contact with the other party, Tang Cheng had no way to confirm the identity of the other party 100%, the thoughts in his mind flashed, and Tang Cheng finally gave up the idea of contacting the other party. Time passed little by little in Tang Cheng's observation, as time went by, there were more and more people on the dock, and one of Hans's men appeared not far from Tang Cheng, and in Tang Cheng's sight, he lit a cigarette and smoked it casually. Lighting a cigarette in Tangcheng in advance is a code, which means that the cruise ship from Tianjin is about to enter the port.
After a few minutes, the dock became more and more lively, and many men and women who came to the dock to pick up people were looking forward to the cruise ship slowly approaching the pier. Tang Cheng blended in the crowd, and the hand towel with water in his hand quickly slid on his face, and in just a few clicks, the oil paint on his face had been wiped clean. Tang Cheng, who appeared on the dock with another face entirely, stood quietly beside the two old men, if there was no old suitcase at his feet, perhaps people would think that this was a family of three who came to the dock to pick up people.
The cruise ship docked, and passengers began to disembark, Tang Cheng carefully observed the passengers who got off the cruise ship, and finally, Tang Cheng locked on a suitable target. This is a young man, who looks a few years older than Tang Cheng, but looking at his timid eyes, Tang Cheng judged that the other party should be a rookie who is going out for the first time. Tang Cheng turned his head and nodded lightly to the man in the top hat who was three or four positions away from him, and when the other party looked at him, Tang Cheng used his hand to draw the shape of a peaked cap on his head, and gestured to the young man who was walking off the cruise ship.