Chapter 45: Night Kill (1)

Hongkou District at night is not as prosperous as the concession, but there is no shortage of pedestrians who go out to hang out after dark. When Tang Cheng left the courtyard, it was already close to nightfall, and he casually found a place to eat on the side of the road, and when Tang Cheng, who was full of water and food, reappeared in the street, it was already dark. Tang Cheng didn't convince Xu Yingzi, but he wasn't without gains, at least he already knew about a secret route that Xu Yingzi and the others could freely enter and leave the Hongkou District.

Tang Cheng didn't know until now that there were many Korean soldiers in the Japanese army in Shanghai, and the reason why Xu Yingzi and the others were able to have such a secret passage was because they had already bribed a Korean officer in the Japanese military police in Shanghai. With this message, Tang Cheng was even more confident about tonight's action, at least he no longer worried about how to get out after the action. It was still early days, and Tang Cheng was wandering aimlessly through the streets, at least the hidden route needed to be walked first.

Yokomoto Ichiro has been in Shanghai for three days, and in two days, this person will leave Shanghai, and these two days are also Tang Cheng's last chance to assassinate. Tang Cheng, who was secretly thinking in his mind, was secretly paying attention to the movements around him while blending in with the flow of people. With the passage of time, the flow of people in the streets of Hongkou District began to decrease, and those who still went out to wander at this time were not drunkards and idlers, but only the police and gendarmes who patrolled the Hongkou District according to the orders of their superiors.

Tang Cheng, who was traveling all the way with the help of cover, had slowly approached Yokomoto Ichiro's residence at this time, and he had already opened the triple eyepiece without being affected by the night, and soon he had already touched a place a street away. In the darkness of night, the number of gendarmes and plainclothes far exceeds that of daytime. There was still a street away, and Tang Cheng had already spotted several plainclothes agents in a row, and at least two military police patrols had walked by.

Seeing this situation, Tang Cheng knew that it was impossible to break in, there were so many gendarmes and plainclothes agents arranged here, if he broke in by himself, maybe he didn't even see the face of the target, and he might be killed here. If Tang Cheng hadn't asked Hans for help before entering Hongkou District, perhaps he would have felt that this was probably a trap for the Japanese. But now, as he realizes that this place is heavily guarded, he feels that the target is in the residence in front of him.

Since you can't break in, it's only a matter of outwitting, and the information Hans helped collect once mentioned an inconspicuous message, this Yokomoto Ichiro loves to eat sea fish, and only likes to eat fresh fish. The military police headquarters specially arranged a special person to go to the dock in the early hours of every morning to get the freshest sea fish back, and now according to this situation, Tang Cheng felt that this originally inconspicuous information might be able to be used. After even reinforcing the temptation, he felt that he had no way to infiltrate the target's residence, so Tang Cheng had no choice but to retreat to the road leading to the dock and wait patiently.

Time passed little by little, and in Tang Cheng's patient waiting, at four o'clock in the morning, the movement of cars finally came from the empty streets. Tang Cheng, who was dressed in black and completely integrated into the night, suddenly came to his senses, and looked in the direction from which the voice came, and Tang Cheng, who was lying on the roof, saw a military truck driving from the direction of the target's residence, and there was a special three-wheeled motorcycle for the military police in front of the truck. It should be this military truck, yes! After seeing the three-wheeled motorcycle in front of the truck, Tang Cheng was secretly happy.

Most of the people who guarded Yokomoto Ichiro's residence were military police, and when Yokomoto Ichiro came to Shanghai, it was the military police headquarters that entertained him, so it was only the gendarmerie headquarters that arranged for people to go to the dock to fetch fish. The partial three-wheeled motorcycle that Tang Cheng saw at the moment was the standard equipment of the Japanese military police in Shanghai, so after Tang Cheng saw the partial three-wheeled motorcycle, he could immediately determine that the military truck behind the motorcycle was the vehicle that went to the dock to get fish.

Military trucks and three-wheeled motorcycles drove quickly along the deserted streets, and Tang Cheng, who was lying on the roof of the street, did not make any movements, but secretly used his system skills to mark the military truck when it passed him. With this skill mark, as long as this military truck enters within 100 meters of Tang Cheng's side, Tang Cheng can immediately find it, and it can also accurately lock the specific location of this military truck.

Tang Cheng, who had been hiding on the roof as the truck left and slowly disappeared at the end of the street, quietly came down from the roof. The speed of the truck just now, Tang Cheng saw it all, the speed of the truck going straight was too fast, even if Tang Cheng's skills were far beyond ordinary people, he didn't dare to implement the method he thought of at this speed. Tang Cheng, who jumped off the roof, quickly moved down the street to the end of the street, and after avoiding a military police patrol in the shadow of the street, Tang Cheng stopped at the end of the street.

Compared with the concession, the sanitary environment of Hongkou District is not bad, there is no debris and garbage here at the end of the street, but there are still some potholes on the ground. Tang Cheng personally looked at the potholes on the ground, and then calculated the exact distance between these potholes and the end of the street, he was still a little uneasy, so he directly took out a short knife from his carry-on equipment bag and secretly dug these potholes on the ground again. From here to drive to the wharf, it may only be ten or twenty minutes away, counting the time to pick up and load fish, Tang Cheng calculates that the return of the truck will be half an hour later.

About a quarter of an hour later, Tang Cheng, who had cleared all the traces, launched his light body skill to climb onto the roof of the street again, he thought of all the possibilities he could think of, and all that was left was to wait, and then verify whether his method was feasible. Tang Cheng wanted to hide on the side of the street and wait for the truck to appear, but there was no place to hide on the side of the street, so he could only hide on the roof in the middle of the street, waiting for the opportunity to appear. While Tang Cheng was anxiously waiting, the sound of a truck engine was faintly heard in the distance, and soon, Tang Cheng on the roof saw the three-wheeled motorcycle first.

That's great! Tang Cheng on the roof was overjoyed, and his heart was even more excited. As long as the obstructive three-wheeled motorcycle is still ahead of the truck, his method is already half the battle. The military truck that followed behind the motorcycle soon turned into this street, and Tang Cheng's entire energy was also focused on this military truck. Condescendingly, Tang Cheng, who watched the truck pass by and made sure that the rear box panel of the truck was covered by a tarpaulin, and had been hidden on the roof, immediately jumped off the roof.

Tang Cheng, who had light body skills, barely made a sound when he landed, and he ran fast immediately after landing, and it only took a few breaths to catch up with the truck that faintly emitted the smell of seawater. The potholes near the street entrance did not cause trouble to military trucks, but the drivers of military trucks habitually stepped on the brakes and slowed down. Just as the truck slowed down through the pothole and the driver was about to shift gears to refuel, Tang Cheng, who had been following the truck, suddenly accelerated and deftly drilled into the bottom of the truck from the left side of the truck.

Tang Cheng got under the car very quickly, and the driver in the cab would be looking at the rearview mirror on the left side of the truck. Tang Cheng, who quickly got under the car, didn't have the slightest advantage, so he directly opened his hands and feet and climbed on the bottom of the truck like a spider. Tang Cheng didn't have time to prepare in advance, and this method was only his temporary idea, so he could only grit his teeth and insist silently.

Fortunately, it was not far from Yokomoto Ichiro's residence, and it only took five minutes for the accelerated truck to drive into Yokomoto Ichiro's residence. Tang Cheng, whose hands and feet were already sore, was still gritting his teeth and insisting, only when all the Japanese soldiers who were waiting to unload the car left, he had a chance to relax while hiding under the car. Half an hour's persistence was a test and a challenge for Tang Cheng, but fortunately, before he acted, Tang Cheng had already drunk a bottle of physical strength elixir, otherwise it would be difficult for him to persevere.

Tang Cheng, who was silently calculating the time in his heart, simply closed his eyes, and waited for the backyard where the truck was parked to be quiet, and Tang Cheng, who had been climbing under the car, relaxed his hands, feet and body, and let himself stretch and lie flat on the cement floor under the car. Tang Cheng, who was slowly moving his hands and feet, secretly adjusted his breathing to recover his strength as soon as possible, while paying attention to the movements around him, until he felt that his hands and feet were no longer sore, and then rolled out sideways from under the truck. The lights were on in the room closest to the truck, and Tang Cheng, who could smell the food from a distance, knew that it should be the location of the kitchen.

In the information provided by Hans, there was no floor plan of this residence, nor did it have the details of the residence, so everything here was completely blind to Tang Cheng. According to ordinary people's thoughts, perhaps entering from the kitchen would be the best way to sneak in, but Tang Cheng dispelled this idea as soon as possible, and Tang Cheng, who had just come out of under the truck, had just glanced at it and already saw that there were at least three people in the kitchen.

Tang Cheng, who was sitting on one knee on the side of the truck, first looked left and right a few times, and after confirming that it was impossible to sneak in from the kitchen, Tang Cheng immediately looked up to confirm the top of the wall on his side. Tang Cheng, who has flying claws and light body skills in hand, has already made up his mind to sneak in from the top of Yokomoto Ichiro's residence, and according to the courtesy of the gendarmerie headquarters to entertain Yokomoto Ichiro, Tang Cheng guesses that the target should live in the best and largest room.

What is the best largest room? In this era, generally the best room will not be on the first floor, so Tang Cheng's judgment cannot be wrong. Tang Cheng, who had made up his mind in his heart, immediately threw his flying claws upward, and then launched his light body skill to climb the wall along the thin rope.