Chapter 38: Frequent Situations (1)
Hans promised Tang Cheng to help him find suitable manpower within three days, but even Hans himself did not expect that in just one night, his men found more than a dozen alternative targets from the slums in the concession according to Tang Cheng's request. Tang Cheng, who received a call from Hans early the next morning, was secretly happy that if he could find a suitable candidate, he would not only be able to leave Shanghai immediately, but perhaps the plan could be implemented in advance. Tang Cheng, who left his residence, was in a good mood, but after he bought a copy of today's newspaper, his mood suddenly turned bad.
When Tang Cheng left Chongqing and rushed to Shanghai, Zhang Jianghe told Tang Cheng that there were two secret ways to contact Shanghai Station. Tang Cheng, who had already completed the task of hoeing and raping, did not feel that he still had the need to contact Shanghai Station, so he pointed out that he planned to leave Shanghai as soon as possible. The Shanghai Station, which had been unable to contact Tang Cheng for a long time, was anxious, so they published a missing person notice in the newspaper in accordance with the method sent by the Military Command Headquarters, which was the last means of contacting Tang Cheng.
The missing person notice used for contact looks ordinary, but in fact, it has the role of transmitting messages in terms of format and word count. Zhang Jianghe told Tang Cheng that the number of words in the missing person notice was 21 words, neither more nor less, and there would also be specific words in the missing person notice to indicate Tang Cheng's identity. If the Shanghai station wants to use the missing person notice to contact Tang City, it needs to publish a 32-word notice in the newspaper, and the notice will use homonyms to indicate the place and time of the meeting.
At this moment, on the newspaper in Tang Cheng's hand, there is such a missing person notice, and Tang Cheng, who saw this missing person notice, didn't need to carefully count the number of words in the notice, and already understood that this was Shanghai Station taking the initiative to contact him. Tang Cheng was very conflicted in his heart, he had completed the task of hoeing and raping, and the most important thing he should do now was to return to Chongqing immediately and return to his family. But on the other hand, he deduced that Shanghai Station would never take the initiative to contact him for no reason, and there must be something important to find him.
Tang Cheng has always been very hesitant in how to deal with the relationship with the military commander, and he who retains the memory of this future generation, of course, knows that there is no good end for following the military commander. But when he came to this era, after having contact with the military commander, he learned that there were many heroic warriors who shed blood and sacrificed their lives for the country and the nation. Vision and status determine a person's perspective and way of dealing with problems, Tang Cheng now agrees with this statement, but he is still very conflicted and hesitant.
Thinking like this, he was in a hurry to return to Chongqing, and went out full of joy, but immediately saw the missing person notice published in the newspaper. If Tang Cheng chooses to ignore it and return to Chongqing, those bigwigs in the Military Command Headquarters may let Tang Cheng go for the sake of Tang Cheng's father's face in addition to being angry, but as Zhang Jianghe, who has a close relationship with Tang Cheng, he will inevitably be deliberately excluded by those people in the Military Command Headquarters, and even framed by design. After hesitating in his heart, Tang Cheng still called Hans first and postponed the recruitment of personnel by a day.
"Don, we're friends, if you're in trouble, be sure to tell me!" Hans, who was in the office of the restaurant, didn't hear anything wrong with Tang Cheng from the phone, but he was habitually alert, and he still expressed his worries. Hans's words made Tang Cheng's heart warm, but the matter was related to Shanghai Station, even if he was familiar with Hans, it was impossible to tell Hans about it. Tang Cheng naturally pretended that he had nothing to do, but just said that he had something to deal with, and told Hans not to worry.
Hanging up Hans's phone, Tang Cheng called a rickshaw to rush to the French Concession according to the time and place indicated in the missing person notice. Because of Tang Cheng's previous successive attacks on the special high class operation team, even the French Concession, which has the best public security environment in the concession, is now panicking. Along the way in Tang City, they had already seen a lot of suspicious men, and these people were paying attention to everyone who passed by them with scrutinizing eyes, obviously looking for someone or something.
Tang Cheng has a tender face and a broad dress, even if he can speak fluent Shanghainese now, those men who look suspicious do not regard Tang Cheng on the rickshaw as their target of attention. Tang Cheng was quiet, especially when Shanghai Station took the initiative to send out a contact signal, Tang Cheng didn't want to make trouble. The rickshaw called by Tang Cheng was very stable and quickly arrived at the place across the street from the meeting place, but just when Tang Cheng got off the bus and paid for the car, the accident appeared again.
Tang Cheng chose to get off here because he was going to secretly observe the situation around the meeting place first, after all, the situation in the concession looked chaotic, and he had to be careful in everything he did. Tang Cheng got out of the car and was taking out the money from his pocket, when he suddenly heard two gunshots at the corner of the street not far from him, and then several men in black chased a couple of men and women towards him. Almost every day in the concession, there were chasing people, such as seeking revenge or collecting debts, which could cause riots in other districts, but in the Shanghai Concession, it was commonplace.
But this time it was different, after all, the guns were fired, and with the shouting and shouting after the gunshots, the passers-by who heard the gunshots scattered and fled, and many of them went directly into the shops on the street to take refuge, just like Tang Cheng. When a gun goes off, it means trouble, and the same panic as the passers-by, as well as the shopkeepers in this street. Of course, there are also those who are not afraid of things, such as the shop that Tang Cheng drilled into, although the owner of the shop was a middle-aged woman, he did not close the store in a hurry like other shop owners.
Tang Cheng didn't pay attention to what the shopkeeper was saying, he just looked out through the shop window facing the street, just in time to see the chasing couple running past the door of the shop. I don't know! This was Tang Cheng's first reaction when he saw the man and woman, and then he secretly judged the identity of the man and woman. Tang Cheng saw the pair of men and women, only the young woman was carrying a pistol in her hand, looking at the appearance of the pistol, it should be a Browning pistol, and most of the people who used this kind of road pistol in Shanghai were engaged in intelligence work.
Tang Cheng didn't go out of the shop, but just waited in the shop like everyone else, until the men in black who were shouting and chasing were far away, and Tang Cheng came out of the shop with the others. Standing on the side of the street, he glanced in the direction where the men in black disappeared, and Tang Cheng, who didn't stop long, immediately turned around and left, but the direction he left was the direction of the street corner where the gun suddenly rang out just now.
Chinese people like to watch the excitement, there are guns here at the entrance of the street, but the people who shot and chased have already left, when Tang Cheng walked to the entrance of the street, there were already many people at the entrance of the street talking about the shooting just now. Tang Cheng came here to find out what had just happened, but he was quite cautious, worried that Tang Cheng, who might be in plain clothes among these people, would only listen to it, and at most he would be regarded as a young man who loved to join in the fun.
There were a lot of people here in the street who saw what happened just now, so Tang Cheng quickly figured out what happened here just now, and learned that those men in black were all gangsters in the concession, Tang Cheng frowned secretly. When talking to Hans on the phone, Hans informed Tang Cheng on the phone that the special high school had found a lot of gangsters who had mixed up in the concession to find resistance forces in the concession for them. Listening to the people around him talking about what happened just now, Tang Cheng was worried, and he guessed that the pair of men and women who were chased just now were either from the underground party or the military commander.
Tang Cheng, who pretended to be in the fun, immediately left the street after figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, because the middle-aged man with the loudest voice looked very wrong. Tang Cheng, who was worried that he was in plain clothes at the entrance of the street, chose to leave, and there was only less than half an hour left before the meeting, and Tang Cheng still needed to rush over in advance to make some preparations. The place where Shanghai Railway Station meets Tang Cheng is a café called Banjiao in the French Concession, and when Tang Cheng actually sees this café, he finally understands why it is called Banjiao.
The half-corner café is located on the corner of the street, and if you sit in the café, you can see both directions of the street through the window facing the street. Tang Cheng, who saw the half-horn café, did not choose to wait and see outside, or first walk around the outside of the half-horn café to determine the situation, he just crossed the road without the slightest pause and went directly into the half-horn café. As in the past, Tang Cheng did not choose a table in the middle of nowhere, but chose a table next to the window, which has a wide view and is easy to leave.
Tang Cheng, who was sitting under the window, looked no different from the other people in the half-corner café at the moment, except that while others were chatting while drinking coffee, Tang Cheng was drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. Tang Cheng, who was alone, looked very laid-back, but in fact he was not relaxed, and while keeping an eye on the other people in the store, he had to observe the situation outside the café through the street window. Tang Cheng, who was getting closer and closer to the meeting time and could not confirm the situation of the other people in the store, had to activate the insight technique.
As soon as the insight technique was opened, Tang Cheng knew the situation of the other people in the store at a glance, and he didn't see anyone from the military command Shanghai Station appearing, so Tang Cheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he came to Shanghai this time to do things for the military commander, Tang Cheng still had a vigilance against the military commander in his bones. Especially during this time, Shanghai Station has been repeatedly surrounded and pursued by the special high school, and if you want to say that there is no problem with Shanghai Station itself, Tang Cheng will not believe it if he is killed.
It is precisely for this reason that Tang Cheng will be careful everywhere, and as time passes, the half-corner café, which originally had few customers, has a few male and female guests one after another, and Tang Cheng's expression has also changed. Tang Cheng, who sighed secretly in his heart, stretched out his hand to support his forehead, it seems that his premonition is not wrong, and there is really a problem with Shanghai Station!