Chapter 42: Questioning
The tunnels are not very high, although Tang Cheng can't move straight in the tunnels, but it is enough for an adult to walk in the tunnels with the usual movement speed of daily life. Tang Cheng walked along the tunnel only a few meters away, and there was a turn, and after walking through the turn, he found that the tunnel was not straight, but a few meters away, and there would be a turn. It's intentional, right? In case the tunnels are discovered, these turns are meant to snipe the pursuers in case of an emergency!
Tang Cheng had to admire these people of the Korean National Salvation Army in his heart, the secret arrangement of the tunnel, which is usually used to hide and transfer in an emergency, has actually been played by the people of the Korean National Salvation Army. It's just one thing, the people who made this tunnel definitely didn't expect that this is Hongkou District, if the guns go off here, even if they rely on these arrangements in the tunnel to block the pursuers, the gunshots will also expose their evacuation arrangements, but it gives the Japanese army the possibility of encircling and annihilating them.
Tang Cheng felt that the main function of the tunnels was to facilitate the evacuation in an emergency, especially the tunnels arranged in enemy-occupied areas like this. Tang Cheng moved forward silently, while secretly calculating the distance silently in his heart, he had already walked two corners in a row, and he silently calculated in his heart that he had walked a distance of almost fifteen or sixteen meters. At a distance of fifteen or sixteen meters, even though there might be a slight deviation in direction between the two corners, Tang Cheng concluded that he had left the backyard of the kimchi shop at this moment.
When Tang Cheng climbed the backyard of the kimchi shop, he had already seen the surrounding situation, and the direction of the kimchi shop's backyard was a residential area, and according to the length of this tunnel, the exit of the tunnel was likely to be in one of the houses. Tang Cheng in the tunnel was about to turn the third corner in front of him, but suddenly a voice came from behind him, Tang Cheng frowned, he knew that someone had gone down the tunnel, maybe it was the pair of men and women he heard talking before.
The couple of men and women guessed by Tang Cheng had already descended the wooden ladder under the box to the tunnel at this moment, and Xu Yingzi, who personally commanded the excavation of this tunnel, had already turned on the flashlight. Xu Yingzi is ostensibly the owner of a kimchi shop, but she is actually the liaison of the Korean National Salvation Army in Hongkou District, and she is also tasked with raising funds for the activities of the Korean National Salvation Army. The middle-aged man who was following Xu Yingzi at this moment was a special agent of the Korean National Salvation Army who had just gone south from the peninsula to Shanghai, and the purpose of this person was to recruit members of the Japanese army to assassinate high-ranking soldiers.
The tunnel below the kimchi shop was successfully excavated by members of the National Salvation Army lurking in Hongkou District under the command of Xu Yingzi, who took more than three months to excavate. Xu Yingzi has walked through this tunnel many times, but today, Xu Yingzi who is walking in the tunnel always feels that something is wrong. The tunnel leads from the utility room in the backyard of the kimchi shop to the backyard of another house, and the two courtyards are separated by dozens of meters, and there is a tunnel in the other yard that leads to other places that are further away.
The tunnel dozens of meters long, although it is difficult to walk, but there are times when it is finished, and the discomfort in Xu Yingzi's heart becomes more and more obvious. When Xu Yingzi used to walk this tunnel, every time he walked to the end of the tunnel, he would always be discovered in advance by the people guarding here and teased a little. But today, she took people to the ladder at the end of the tunnel, but the person guarding the exit of the tunnel did not show up for a long time, which made Xu Yingzi faintly feel that something was not quite right.
Sure enough, the discomfort in Xu Yingzi's heart was not a whim, she climbed out of the tunnel along the ladder, and before she could see the situation clearly, she felt that the back of her neck was pinched heavily, and then she lost consciousness in front of her. Earlier, Xu Yingzi's more than a dozen breaths came out of the tunnel, and Tang Cheng had already successfully controlled the people guarding the tunnel, and the breathing sound that Tang Cheng had faintly heard in the utility room before was made by the guards who were bored and drilled into the tunnel.
It took about half an hour for Xu Yingzi to wake up from a coma, and after waking up, Xu Yingzi found that not only himself, but even the commissioner who came with him was also tied up. Xu Yingzi, who had a cloth ball stuffed in his mouth, tried to struggle hard, but he couldn't break free of the hemp rope that bound him, "If I were you, I wouldn't have to toss around with this effort!" Instead of struggling, think about how you can get your lives back. ”
The sound from behind her made Xu Yingzi struggle even harder, and she tried to roll on the ground so that she could roll over and see the person talking behind her. The person who spoke was naturally Tang Cheng, but he didn't want to stop Xu Yingzi from turning over, because Tang Cheng had a black scarf on his face early, and he was turned around by Xu Yingzi, and she didn't know Tang Cheng's appearance. "Who the hell are you? How do you know about this tunnel? Xu Yingzi, who was trying to turn over, looked a little embarrassed, but when he looked at Tang Cheng, his eyes were full of unwillingness and hatred.
Xu Yingzi can lurk in Hongkou District, he will definitely speak Japanese, Tang Cheng just spoke fluent Japanese, at least Xu Yingzi didn't hear anything unusual. It was because of Tang Cheng's Kyoto accent that Xu Yingzi had doubts about Tang Cheng's identity, because Xu Yingzi learned that he did not come from Kyoto in the Shanghai Special High School. Hearing this, Tang Cheng directly ignored Xu Yingzi's hateful gaze, just took out a pistol and put it on the commissioner's body, and then asked Xu Yingzi coldly.
"If I were you, I would understand my situation, and since the initiative is in my hands, then the communication between us must be carried out in my way. I ask you to answer, if I find out that you are lying to me, there is no way for this person to continue to live! So, it doesn't matter what you think, I don't really care if you're lying! Tang Cheng's words made Xu Yingzi sound very contradictory, what do you mean are you lying, I don't care very much?
When Tang Cheng spoke, the corner of his eye had actually been paying attention to the middle-aged man's reaction, the middle-aged man who was also tied up by Tang Cheng with hemp rope looked like he hadn't woken up yet, but the fingers that were shaking from time to time had already exposed the fact that he continued to pretend to be dizzy. The first thing Xu Yingzi saw after waking up was to observe the environment around him, and the moment he saw the middle-aged man, Tang Cheng obviously noticed that Xu Yingzi was relieved, which showed that the owner of the kimchi shop attached great importance to the middle-aged man.
"Since you haven't spoken out against it, that is, we have reached a basic agreement. Oh well! My first question is that it's not that far from your kimchi shop, and if the purpose of arranging this tunnel is just to make it easier to move here, then I'm going to say that your efforts have been in vain. You shouldn't be so stupid, so I suspect there's another tunnel here, and I want to know if my suspicion is correct. ”
Tang Cheng's speed of speech was not very fast, Xu Yingzi also heard it very clearly, when she heard Tang Cheng suspect that there was another tunnel here, Xu Yingzi, who was full of shock, the first reaction that flashed in her mind was that there should be a traitor among them. When Xu Yingzi commanded the excavation of the tunnel, he used the most trustworthy people around him, if it wasn't for the traitor around him, how did the person in front of him know that there was another tunnel here?
Xu Yingzi's expression and eyes changed, and he did not escape Tang Cheng's observation, but smiled lightly, and Tang Cheng looked at Xu Yingzi with a dull face. "You don't have to guess, the authentic thing is definitely not that there is a traitor around you, it's just that I observed it." Seeing that Xu Yingzi didn't believe what he said, Tang Cheng said what he had observed after sneaking into the utility room. "You put the entrance to the tunnel under the chest, you didn't have to go wrong, but you shouldn't have hollowed out the bottom of the chest."
"If it were me, I would choose to move the box out of the utility room, something so conspicuous and easy to attract attention should never be placed in the utility room, as for the entrance to the tunnel, you can use a stove as a cover. When you pickle pickles, you must use chili sauce, and a stove used to make chili sauce will not arouse suspicion. Add a movable push plate to the wall of the stove, who would have thought that this stove that can be used normally is the entrance of the tunnel. ”
"As for the length of the tunnel, it is the biggest flaw, I don't believe that the National Salvation Army, which has been fighting with the Japanese for so long, would be stupid enough to dig a tunnel that can only be transferred a few tens of meters. If your kimchi shop is discovered by the Japanese, the gendarmes and plainclothes agents will definitely not just surround the kimchi shop, they will even surround the entire neighborhood where the kimchi shop is located. You have been fighting the Japanese for so long, I don't believe it, you would not have thought of it. ”
"So, don't think that your arrangements are very secretive, if you are lurking in Hongkou District, only have this ability, there will be no need for the Korean National Salvation Army to continue to exist." At this moment, Tang Cheng was smiling very happily, especially after he saw Xu Yingzi's expression, the look on the other party's face that wanted to argue but had nothing to say made Tang Cheng feel very comfortable in his heart. The middle-aged man who had been lying on the ground with his eyes closed was also confused in his heart, could it be that Xu Yingzi and the others had such obvious flaws?
"I'm still the same question I asked just now, is there another tunnel in this courtyard?" Tang Cheng spoke, and in front of Xu Yingzi, he briskly pulled the bolt and put a bullet in the chamber. "If you don't answer, or lie to me, I guarantee that he will have an extra bullet hole!" Tang Cheng's expression was relaxed, but Xu Yingzi's heart sank to the bottom, she could see that Tang Cheng was not easy to deal with, so she still gritted her teeth and refused to let go.