The sky was so dark that I couldn't even see the blinking stars, and Suzhou Creek fell into a deep sleep as if it was tired.

"Whoa, whoa!" The silence was broken by the sound of paddling, and a small boat suddenly rowed out of the shadows, appeared on the surface of the river, and quickly leaned towards the shore.

Before the boat stopped, Shen Chen had already jumped ashore, beckoned to the boat, and quickly climbed onto the embankment.

He didn't expect that Cao Bingsheng would come to see him off in person, and it was estimated that he also saw his decisive intention of "the strong man is gone".

To be honest, Cao Bingsheng is not a good person. He is not only the leader of the gang, but also the head of the law capture room, which is similar to Huang Jinrong back then.

In that big dye vat in Shanghai, to have such a status, there must be no less things that hurt nature and reason.

Shen Chen knew that Cao Bingsheng seemed to be harmless to humans and animals, but he was known for his ruthlessness in the underworld, and he even had a group of fierce brothers who could fight. And their father and son, even No. 76 are quite jealous and dare not start easily.

However, in the context of the war, even bandits and thieves, as long as they do not treat the Japanese devils as dogs, as long as they dare to do anything with the Japanese devils, other bad deeds can take a back seat.

Besides, Cao Bingsheng has never had a conflict with Shen Chen, and even helped in many places. And if he can send him off in person tonight, Shen Chen also recognizes him as a friend.

Reciprocating the peach is Shen Chen's code of conduct, and on the ship, he showed Cao Bingsheng a way to leave Shanghai and start another career.

Whether to listen or not is Cao Bingsheng's business, and whether to say it or not is Shen Chen's responsibility.

In addition to sending each other and giving Shen Chen some information, Cao Bingsheng also told him two secret locations, which were in Hongkou.

Shen Chen doesn't necessarily need it, but he also misses it.

After observing from the embankment, Shen Chen jumped out of his hiding place, quickly ran over, and disappeared into the vast night.

In the 20 th century, in order to win "great power treatment" in Shanghai, Japan always demanded a "Japanese concession" like Britain, the United States, and France. They had the wolf ambition of turning Shanghai into a Japanese colony, to transport Japanese to China, to "live a heavenly life in Shanghai", and they came to Shanghai, and most of them lived in Hongkou.

By 1942, there were more than 94,000 Japanese expatriates in Shanghai, accounting for the vast majority of the total number of foreigners in Shanghai.

The Japanese also like to go shopping, and you can see the Japanese everywhere on the northeast road of Shanghai, especially in North Hongkou, where there are many Japanese, so that it is also known as "Little Tokyo".

The Japanese diaspora in Hongkou can also be divided into the so-called "community faction" and "indigenous faction".

The "indigenous faction" mostly gathers in downtown areas such as Wusong Road in the central part of Hongkou, and mainly operates small shops.

On the other hand, the "kaisha faction" refers to the working class working in Japanese-funded enterprises, who usually have a higher socioeconomic status and mainly live in the "cross-border road construction" area of North Sichuan Road, north of Yokohama Bridge.

The overseas export of Japanese capital in the "North Hongkou" enabled the Japanese consortium to grab huge profits. The upper echelons of the "club faction" sang songs in Shanghai every night and spent a lot of money, and the middle-level staff also wore suits and leather shoes, earning a lot of money.

By the time of the 1937 August 13 Incident, Japan's economic strength in Shanghai (including Hongkou) had developed unprecedentedly.

In the two Songhu Wars, a considerable part of the economic plundering of the "Huishe faction" in Hongkou was used for the war military expenses of the Japanese invaders.

Compared to the well-paid "community factions", the early "indigenous factions" had a much worse livelihood.

After arriving in the area of Wusong Road in Hongkou, the men worked as small traders and hawkers, many women got involved in the sex industry, and a small number of them were ronins who could not get along in their own country.

After the "918" incident in 1931, Japanese goods flooded half of China, causing the residents of Hongkou to be disgusted, and some enthusiastic young people took to the streets to boycott Japanese products and promote domestic products.

As the "indigenous faction", the Japanese feel an existential crisis because they run small and medium-sized shops, drag their children and daughters, and have a heavy economic burden, and the boycott of Japanese products by the Chinese in Hongkou.

However, instead of settling the account on the Japanese military headquarters that launched the war of aggression against China, they vented their resentment on the Hongkou Chinese.

During the two Songhu Wars, they either led the way for the Japanese army, built fortifications and loaded and unloaded military supplies for the Japanese army, or participated in the smashing and looting of Chinese stores in Hongkou.

And the Japanese ronin among them, armed with bayonets, followed the Japanese army to capture the Hongkou anti-Japanese soldiers, burn and kill, and plunder. The "indigenous faction" also fell from earning their own livelihood to aiding and abetting abuse, and became accomplices of the Japanese army's aggression.

After Shen Chen sneaked into Hongkou at night, he did not deliberately hide it, but disguised himself as a Japanese and stayed in a hotel. The next day, he came to the Yokohama Bridge area, and it happened that the Ramos apartment was for rent, and he moved into it smoothly with fake documents.

Ramos Apartment, located on North Sichuan Road, was invested by the British Ramos and built in 1928, and is one of the famous apartments in Shanghai.

After the outbreak of the "Battle of Songhu", overseas Chinese and middle-class Chinese evacuated from the cross-border road construction area, and Japanese overseas Chinese began to settle in these vacant shops and residences.

Except for a few Belarusians, almost all of the residents of the current Ramos apartment are Japanese expatriates, and even the apartment has been renamed "Shirakawa Apartment" to commemorate the Japanese invading army General Shirakawa who was killed by Yin Bongji in Hongkou Park.

Diagonally opposite the apartment is the huge "Headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps". In the area around Yokohama Bridge, there are many Japanese military dormitories.

As a rule, the junior officers each occupy two rooms on the first floor, and the senior officers in the back occupy one each, and a large house at the bottom of the alley seems to serve as an officer's "clubhouse", with a gaming table and some erotic services."

The more dangerous the place, the safer, Shen Chen had such an idea, but the apartment where he temporarily settled was not the last stronghold.

In this place where there are Japanese people everywhere, it is really not easy to find out if he lives in seclusion this holiday.

The Japanese invading army regarded the Chinese as pigs and sheep, but they did not expect that a tiger had been mixed between them. Moreover, Shen Chen was bold enough to act under the nose of the Japanese army.

After renting an apartment, Shen Chen wandered around Beihongkou for a long time, mainly in the area of Hengbang Bridge and Wusong Road.

The dormitory area of Japanese officers in the area of Yokohama Bridge took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to deal the greatest blow to the enemy, which was Shen Chen's idea; The area around Wusong Road is lined with Japanese shops and shops, densely populated, and lax defense.

After the hard work of most of the "indigenous factions" and the accumulation of funds, the area around Wusong Road is filled with Dongying scenery.

There are many shops and shops, with Japanese-style oval white lanterns hanging under the eaves, and long strips of sake flags sticking out of the shop signs, hunting in the wind.

The smell of sake and food wafts through the streets, and getals walk along the gravel path with long sleeves, hair in a high bun, and a sash draped over their backs. It's no wonder that the Japanese are already "treating Hongkou as Tokyo".

After wandering around, Shen Chen had a better understanding of the environment, and he was more confident in his actions at night.

As night fell, Shen Chen quietly left the apartment, went straight to Yokohama Bridge, walked around the Japanese officers' dormitory area, and selected a target.

It was a small western-style building with lights on, and Shen Chen wanted this effect, he was not afraid of someone inside.

Looking around, no one noticed, Shen Chen hurriedly ran, jumped, climbed over the wall, and jumped into the wall.

Because it was the residence of a Japanese officer, and because it was Hongkou, the defense was even more lax than that of the Japanese trading houses and residences in the public concession.

Anyway, the firm had to hire bodyguards, but the Japanese officers had only two guards and lacked vigilance. And in this invaded land, in the courtyard of the house they forcibly occupied, a killing god coldly launched a killing.

Poof, poof! The gunfire was dull, but murderous, and the corpse fell to the ground, and a large red blood splattered from the wall behind it.

After killing two guards, Shen Chen entered the building. The gun was fired quickly and accurately, and his shot did not give the opponent a chance to speak at all.

There was only one room upstairs with the lights on, and Shen Chen was already in control of the victory, so he was not in a hurry. At a glance at the exquisite katana hanging on the wall, he reached out and took it off, revealing a sinister smile.

There were about fifty or sixty bullets with me. Although he took precautions, he brought a simple silencer that could be used in the king's box. But the performance of that gun is really not flattering, and it is not intended to be used until the end.

Therefore, the bullets of the P08 can save one by one, and it is also a very good choice to kill the enemy with a knife.

There was the sound of footsteps on the stairs, and Shen Chen hid in the shadows, holding the handle of the knife tightly.

The brush, the knife came out of the sheath, and the cold light flashed, and the Japanese officer didn't even have time to turn his head before he felt flying.

For the first time in the tumble, he saw his body from a strange angle, a body that had lost its head slowly knelt on the ground, pumping a bunch of blood high from the incision to the rhythm of his heartbeat.

Shen Chen hurriedly walked upstairs with a katana in his hand and went straight to the room with the lights on the left.

As soon as the door opened, a Japanese woman walked out with small steps and was taking a look at Shen Chen.

With a "poof", the narrow katana stabbed diagonally into the chest from the stunned Japanese woman's ribs, and the sharp tip of the sword ran diagonally from behind the shoulder blades behind her back.

A large amount of blood immediately poured into her airways, and the Japanese woman, who was suddenly choked by her own blood, tried to cough it up.

With the vigorous movement of her chest, the wound in her lungs was torn wider, which also allowed more blood to flow into her trachea.

After a few such reciprocations, the Japanese woman lost the strength to cough. Seriously injured, she could only let the blood gradually fill her entire lungs, and looked at Shen Chen with her eyes wide open.

Shen Chen smiled coldly, twisted his wrist, and pulled out the knife with a stir.

After searching and killing in the building, Shen Chen only took away the cash banknotes and made another arrangement.

Some food and water, two bottles of sake, a few clothes, and a set of military uniforms, as well as captured weapons and ammunition, Shen Chen hid them in a box in the attic and locked them.

In the event of a murder and the investigation of the scene, the house will be uninhabited for at least a few days, or even ten days. And here, it may become a good hiding place for Shen Chen.

Even if someone moved in, it wouldn't stop Shen Chen, it was just a matter of a few more corpses.

Japanese people probably would never have dreamed that the murderer would continue to stay after committing the crime, or even eat, drink and rest at the scene of the crime, right?

Shen Chen didn't stop there, and another house across the wall became his target again. Climbing over the wall again, he held a gun in both hands and marched forward in a standard posture, God blocked and killed God, and Buddha blocked and killed Buddha.

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The wind was strong and cold at night, Shen Chen walked out of the door, tightened his coat, and walked forward.

A few Japanese people walked over with a swaying and drunken atmosphere, and the two guys were still singing a minor tune, ravaging Shen Chen's ears.

"See what?" A Japanese man unbuttoned his trouser belt, turned around and urinated by the wall, and scolded Shen Chen who was passing by in a slurred manner.

Shen Chen sneered, and there was no need to talk nonsense, "Look at you", his hand held the handle of the gun in his coat pocket, quickly judged the location of the Japanese ghost, and planned to calculate the order of shooting.

Poof, poof! Shen Chen suddenly squatted slightly, holding a gun in one hand and a gun in the other, shooting at the two Japanese.

The first Japanese didn't even react, and fell to the ground with a bloody hole in his forehead; The other Japanese reacted with a stunned expression, his mouth open, and a bullet struck him in the head.

Burst! One shot killed the Japanese who had just turned around, and Shen Chen pointed the gun at the last Japanese ghost who urinated everywhere and did not pay attention to public morality.

With the dull sound of gunfire, the last Japanese ghost threw himself into his urine, blood gushing out and mixing with the urine.

Shen Chen didn't bother to look at these dead ghosts, put away his gun and turned around, hiding in the dark.

Wait for the rabbit and kill people when you see them.

Shen Chen's decision to take this seemingly stupid method also had his own ideas.

Most of the houses around this alley are the residences of Japanese officers, and it is a bit troublesome and troublesome to kill them one by one.

The alley was quiet and dark, and Shen Chen also smashed two of the street lamps, so that it was not easy for the Japanese who entered the alley to find the corpses on the ground.

What's more, he can keep dragging the corpse to the wall, and if he doesn't approach or look closely, he will think that it is a drunk drunkard lying on the ground.

In fact, Shen Chen felt that his choice was quite correct.

Starting at nine o'clock in the night, within more than an hour, Shen Chen killed nine Japanese who went out or walked into the alley, including several officers.

If you add the murder by sneaking into the mansion, Shen Chen has already sent sixteen Japanese ghosts back to Japan to meet their Aunt Amaterasu.

Shen Chen walked out of the alley, just as a rickshaw drove by, he stretched out his hand to stop and jumped up.

Obviously, this rickshaw driver was unwilling to pull the Japanese, and he may not have received any money for the trip just now, and he may have received a few kicks or slaps.

But pulling Shen Chen may be the luckiest thing for him tonight.

When he arrived at Wusong Road, Shen Chen generously gave the coachman a five-yuan bill, and under the coachman's surprised and stunned gaze, Shi Shiran walked into the "Oriental Teahouse".

"The Oriental teahouse is a bush of flowers, and the widow accompanies people with pink faces. Learn three or two languages in the Su dialect, and the green worms have hundreds of degrees of spring breeze. ”

That's right, this "Oriental tea house" in the mouth of the Chinese is a brothel * house, which has a female tea house that does sex * sex * business. At the beginning, some Japanese women who were all "indigenous factions" were forced to make a living and fell into lowly jobs.

Shen Chen's idea was to drink flower wine here, and then take a widow back to the apartment to cover up his suspicion of not returning late at night by having fun.