Chapter Seventy-Four: Assassination

After retreating safely to his residence, he slept beautifully, only to find that the conflict he was expecting had not appeared. According to Tang Cheng's original idea, at this time, he was secretly instigating the Koreans and the Japanese to fight several times, but he had already promised Boss Yu that he would stay honest during this time and would never provoke the Japanese again. Boss Yu tried his best to restrain Tang Cheng, because he was worried that Tang Cheng would delay the assassination operation three days later because of his recklessness.

Tang Cheng didn't take the assassination mission issued by the headquarters of the Intelligence Department seriously at first, but after he got the follow-up information sent by Boss Yu, his attitude changed. At the beginning, Boss Yu just told Tang Cheng that Xie Tiancheng, the target of this assassination, was a traitor to the report. If the assassination of Xie Tiancheng was just to clear the portal, Tang Cheng would have thought that this operation would be simple, but after he looked at the rest of the information, he found that this assassination operation was not so simple.

According to the information provided by Boss Yu, this Xie Tiancheng is just the chief of the logistics and general affairs section of the intelligence department at Tianjin Station, and this person is not involved in the daily operations of Tianjin Station. Such a middle-level officer who is only in charge of logistics, even if he surrenders to the enemy, the consequences he can cause should not be very large. But why did the Japanese send a rebel who was originally subordinate to Tianjin Railway Station to Shanghai Tegaoke? And the intelligence department, why is it in such a hurry to kill this person?

The information sent by Boss Yu has been carefully read by Tang Cheng many times, but he has never been able to see why this Xie Tiancheng is so important from this information. If it were someone else, he might think that Xie Tiancheng was just a simple assassination target based on this information, but Tang Cheng didn't think so. The more suspicious the information related to Xie Tiancheng, the more Tang Cheng felt in his heart that something was wrong with this matter, but Tang Cheng couldn't say where the specific thing was wrong.

Tang Cheng has always been very confident in his instincts, whether it was when he attacked a Japanese officer in Hongkou District last year, or in a Japanese military hospital a few days ago, Tang Cheng's intuition has played a role. Tang Cheng believed in his instincts, but he didn't want to ask Boss Yu, because if he didn't know about it, he rashly came to the door to ask about it, maybe it would backfire and make Boss Yu resentful.

Two days later, it was the time when Xie Tiancheng arrived at the Shanghai dock, and Tang Cheng, who had never found an answer after thinking about it, simply didn't think about it, and the rest of the time was just a step to perfect the assassination operation. Two days passed quickly, and Boss Yu, who was worried that Tang Cheng was going out to do things, had called Tang Cheng's residence many times during the period, knowing that Tang Cheng had been honest and had not gone out for the past three days, so Boss Yu was relieved.

The third day was the time for the operation, and Tang Cheng got up very early to prepare the weapons and equipment to be used today, as well as the things needed for disguise. After breakfast, Tang Cheng left the residence early, but he did not immediately rush to the dock to wait for the target to appear, but wandered aimlessly in the concession with a leisurely face. Just like three days ago, there are still many suspicious-looking men in the concession, and the Ministry of Industry of the concession has obviously made private deals with the Japanese, at least the Concession Patrol House has not driven these people away.

Tang Cheng, who was mixed in with the flow of people, looked coldly at those suspicious people who were moving at the corner of the street, and said in his heart that if there were still important things to do today, none of these guys would be spared. Finally, glancing at the short-clothed men who were not far from him, Tang Cheng slowly turned around and turned into the street on the left side along the street, if he walked along this street all the way, he only needed to pass three more streets, which was Tang Cheng's position in advance.

According to the information provided by Boss Yu, Xie Tiancheng will arrive in Shanghai by boat, and the dock is crowded with people, which is the best place to assassinate Xie Tiancheng. But Tang Cheng always felt that there was something strange in this matter, so he didn't choose to do it on the dock, but chose the only intersection after leaving the dock as the place to do it. If Xie Tiancheng came to Shanghai, it was a trap set by Tegaoke, then they would never have imagined that they would choose this place as the place to do it.

Tang Cheng walked slowly along the street, and there was still at least an hour and a half before Xie Tiancheng's boat arrived at the dock, which was enough for Tang Cheng to arrive at the starting point and lurk down smoothly. Tang Cheng, dressed as a student, walked all the way, paying attention to the situation around him along the way, and from time to time he would buy some snacks from the small shop on the street. When there was still the last street left from the hidden location, Tang Cheng was already holding a few bags of snacks in his hands, and no one who looked at it would not regard Tang Cheng, who was so greedy, as a dangerous person.

Tang Cheng, who didn't notice anything unusual around him, was secretly happy in his heart while eating and walking, and after about a quarter of an hour, Tang Cheng finally walked downstairs to the latent point. Tang Cheng chose a five-story hotel on the side of the street, Tang Cheng, who had already seen the scene a day in advance, detoured to the back alley of the hotel with a familiar car, and then used the flying claw rope and light body skills to quickly climb to the roof of the hotel silently. Tang Cheng, who had climbed to the top of the building, lowered his figure, moved to the edge of the roof, and slowly straightened up and looked in the southeast direction of the hotel.

The road to the southeast of the hotel is the only way to connect to the wharf, and all passengers or goods who disembark at the wharf will enter Shanghai through this street. Tang Cheng used the sundries on the roof of the building to quickly build a temporary bunker, even if someone came up to the roof at this moment, it was impossible to find Tang Cheng lurking under the temporary bunker at a glance. Time passed little by little, and Tang Cheng, who had already taken the sniper rifle out of his carry-on equipment bag, carefully inspected the weapon, and slowly pressed the bullet into the magazine.

Among the information provided by Boss Yu, there was a photo of Xie Tiancheng, and after secretly activating the triple eyepiece skill, Tang Cheng, who was hiding on the roof of the hotel, could condescendingly see all the people who passed by the road below and left from the dock. Just when Tang Cheng was hiding on the roof of the hotel, patiently waiting for Xie Tiancheng to appear, a group of special high-tech plainclothes scattered on the dock were also waiting nervously.

Tang Cheng's hunch was very accurate, and this thankful achievement was a trap set by Tegaoke, the purpose of which was to encircle and suppress the members of the Shanghai Station of the Intelligence Department who were hiding in Shanghai. Although Xie Tiancheng said that in Tang Cheng's opinion, he was an insignificant little person at all, but Tang Cheng did not know that when Xie Tiancheng was in Tianjin, he had been secretly responsible for the smuggling activities of Tianjin Station. If Xie Tiancheng made public the matter of colluding with Japanese businessmen in smuggling at the Tianjin Station, the reputation of the Intelligence Department would be greatly damaged, and the headquarters of the Intelligence Department would order Tang Cheng to assassinate Xie Tiancheng for this reason.

Xie Tiancheng, who has been used as bait, also understands this truth in his heart, but now he can't turn back, and he can only survive by hugging the thighs of the Japanese tightly. Xie Tiancheng's boat had not yet docked, and several special high-tech plainclothes agents who were responsible for protecting him all the way had already increased their protection against Xie Tiancheng again. As the protected object, Xie Tiancheng can only stay in the cabin honestly at this time.

In the chorus cheers of the crowd at the dock, Xie Tiancheng's boat finally docked, according to the order of Shanghai Tegaoke, Xie Tiancheng should take the initiative to appear on the deck at this time to lure the members of the intelligence department who may be hidden on the dock to show up. Xie Tiancheng, who was trembling in his heart, really appeared on the deck under the close protection of several people on his side, but unfortunately, the situation expected by Shanghai Tegaoke did not appear. "Captain Hashimoto, could it be that the Shanghai Station still doesn't know the news that Xie Tiancheng is coming to Shanghai?"

A group of special high-tech plainclothes hidden in the cargo area of the wharf are already a little unbearable, and if the Shanghai Railway Station does not send people to the wharf, all the arrangements they have made will be in vain. Junichi Hashimoto, who had been cold-faced, did not speak, but just held a telescope and carefully observed the situation on the pier. After the ship docked, the passengers began to disembark one after another, but Hashimoto Junichi still did not notice that there were people from Shanghai Station on the pier.

Could it be that the news of Xie Tiancheng's visit to Shanghai, Shanghai Station really doesn't know about it? With the passage of time and the decrease in the number of passengers on board, even Hashimoto himself is a little out of breath! Xie Tiancheng, who appeared on the deck as a bait, was also dumbfounded at this time, he knew in his heart that if he didn't even have the value of acting as a bait, those people in Tegaoke might do something to unload the mill and kill the donkey.

In Xie Tiancheng's worries, there were fewer and fewer passengers on board, but the pier assassination expected by Shanghai Tegaoke never happened. "Wrap up! Tell everyone on board to come down! Even if he didn't want to believe it in his heart, Hashimoto knew that this operation was a failure, and seeing that there were fewer and fewer people on the dock, Hashimoto had to order to withdraw to the headquarters of the special high-tech department first. Xie Tiancheng, who had not been assassinated, was half happy and half worried in his heart, and then under the protection of several people beside him, he got off the boat and sat in the car brought by Hashimoto Junyi.

Hashimoto Junichi and others, who came and returned in disappointment, had somewhat unsightly faces, and Xie Tiancheng, who was in the same car with Hashimoto, could only choose to play the deaf and blind man, and just sat quietly by Hashimoto's side. All the people brought by Hashimoto Junyi withdrew from the docks, and how could such a group of people leave the docks and hide on the roof of the hotel in Tangcheng. Before Hashimoto Junichi got into the car, the interaction with his subordinates in plainclothes had already made Tang Cheng firmly lock the car that Hashimoto Junichi was riding.

While Tang Cheng was waiting and watching, the car that had been marked by Tang Cheng with his system skills was slowly approaching the hotel building. Tang Cheng, who had secretly adjusted his breathing, slowly poked out the barrel of his sniper rifle through the hole he had carved out on the edge of the roof, and only needed to pull the trigger, and the bullet that could kill a person would immediately burst out of the barrel.