Chapter 18: Terror on a Rainy Night
Within three days. Tang Yan made an appointment to meet Yan Qingyu again, this time they changed the location of the joint, on the bank of the Huangpu River in the autumn rain, the two walked slowly on the street with an umbrella, like a couple.
"The organization has obtained accurate information, and the evidence of the betrayal of the Chongqing authorities is hidden in the residence of Takeo Imai on the eighteenth floor of the Broadway Building, you go and get it." Tang Yan said softly.
Yan Qingyu nodded: "Okay, the terrain of the Broadway building is quite familiar, I will act with the camera." ”
"No, we have to act tonight."
"Why?"
"Tonight Takeo Imai will go to Nanjing to negotiate the merger of Wang Puppet and Liang Hongzhi's new government, he is not at home, this is a great opportunity, and tomorrow afternoon he will take a boat back to Japan, so only tonight is appropriate."
Yan Qingyu said: "Time is too rushed, let me think about it." ”
After thinking for a while, he said: "The eighteenth floor is the residence of senior officers, the staircase is sealed, there are military police on duty at the elevator door, and the whole building is full of Japanese, and it is more difficult to sneak in without knowing it than to climb to the sky." ”
Tang Yan said: "You can climb up from the outer wall." ”
Yan Qingyu said: "I can fly the eaves and walk the wall, but it is all Chinese-style buildings, even if it falls, it can't be killed, you let me climb the eighteen-story building, you go to see the exterior wall of the Broadway building, such a narrow and shallow brick seam, how to climb, and there are lights everywhere at night, I lie on the wall like a gecko, and it will take less than three minutes to be hit by the military police as a target." ”
Tang Yan smiled faintly: "You don't have to worry about these, there will be a power outage in Suzhou Hebei tonight." ”
Yan Qingyu said: "If you say there is a power outage, there will be a power outage." ”
"Yes, if I say there will be a power outage, there will be a power outage." Tang Yan's smile was unfathomable.
"That's not going to happen, it's raining, it's wet and it's hard to climb, in case it ......"
"There won't be any eventuality, believe in yourself." Tang Yan suddenly held Yan Qingyu's hand and looked firmly into his eyes.
After more than ten seconds, Yan Qingyu finally gave in: "Okay, okay, I'll do it." ”
Tang Yan said: "On behalf of the people, I thank you. ”
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Back at the residence, Yan Qingyu put the night clothes, flying tiger claws, ecstasy incense and other things into the briefcase, tied up the tie in front of the mirror, and as soon as he walked out of the bedroom door, Asakusa Jiadai presented the umbrella: "Master, do you want to go out?" ”
"yes, it's a bit of a matter to go out, and I won't come back for dinner at night."
Asakusa Kayo kept sending Yan Qingyu out of the door, and only closed the door when he saw his back go away.
Yan Qingyu did not drive, but took the tram to the Broadway Building, where the gendarmes at the gate were changing their posts at six o'clock, soldiers in green raincoats were changing shifts in the rain, and bayonets were flashing under the street lamps.
Broadway Building is a modern apartment building integrating office and residence, the basement is the boiler room, the first floor is the lobby and public service area, the second to ninth floors are apartments, the tenth to sixteenth floors are guest rooms, the seventeenth floor is the restaurant kitchen, the eighteenth floor used to be the owner's residence, now it is the residence of senior officers of the Japanese army, and the nineteenth to twenty-first floors are the equipment floor, so the eighteenth floor is the highest residential floor, it is difficult for outsiders to come up, and there is a squad of armed gendarmes stationed in peacetime, and there are people on duty 24 hours a day.
Yan Qingyu went up to the eleventh floor first, entered the office of the imperial agency, pretended to deal with official business, and after a while, several staff members went home from work, and he was the only one left, so he turned off the lights and waited quietly for dark.
The rain is getting heavier and heavier, the glass windows are blurry, the neon lights of the Bund are flashing in the distance, the lights are red and green, and Yan Qingyu is still sitting firmly on Mount Tai.
The wall clock on the wall was ticking, it was already twelve o'clock in the night, and the lights were still bright outside, although the power supply was insufficient, but the Broadway Building was a priority target, and the power outage was also the first to stop the areas such as the north and south of the city.
Suddenly, the lights went out outside, and the entire area on the north bank of Suzhou Creek was turned off.
Yan Qingyu took off his suit, opened the window, and a cold rain poured in, making his mind wake up, overlooking the outside, the neon on on the Bund had been extinguished, and there was a faint candle flame at the sentry downstairs, and the rain continued to fall, and there was no sign of stopping.
It was obviously too difficult to climb up from the eleventh floor, he first took the stairs to the seventeenth floor, the restaurant was closed late at night, the door was locked, and the marble lock was not difficult to defeat the famous snitch, and the door was opened with a card, and he quietly touched in, and heard a snoring sound, and the restaurant cleaner was working here at night, and he could not wake them up.
Open a window and slowly climb out, cover the window, step on the narrow brick gap under your feet, climb the window sill with your hands, and move towards the side of the building.
The two ends of the Broadway building are in a figure-eight shape, forming an L-shaped structure at the junction, which is easy to climb, but even so, Yan Qingyu's movement is still extremely slow, the rain washes the exterior wall, and the coffee-colored Taishan tiles are extremely smooth, and the slightest carelessness will fall down and break your bones.
It was pitch black outside, the rain hit the face, cold, the height of the seventeenth floor, the wind was blowing, and there was a whistle in the ears, and above was the residence of Takeo Imai, Yan Qingyu gritted his teeth, buttoned the spring in the sleeve, and the flying tiger claws were thrown out, grabbed the windowsill, and dragged it to test the strength, it was very strong.
Pulling the rope and climbing up, the window was closed, and there were curtains hanging inside, Yan Qingyu pulled out a knife to open the window, and listened attentively, the room was silent, there should be no one, so he gently climbed in, closed the window, and stood quietly for a while, and waited for his eyes to adapt to the darkness in the room, and confirmed that no one was there again, so he took a kerosene lighter to play, and quickly observed, there was a safe in the corner of the wall, with a password disk and a keyhole.
The ancient lock not only has the kind of home-style lock that is opened at the first time, but also has an extremely complex royal lock, and the Japanese safe Yan Daxia has not been opened, and the theft of the Japanese Legation in Beijing was a shocking case.
He took out a stethoscope and pressed it on the code plate, twisted it lightly with his right hand, turned it back and forth a few times, and then took out the wire and tinkered with it in the keyhole, and whispered: "Sesame open the door." ”
The safe opened in response, and there were several thick stacks of cash in it, as well as more than a dozen gold bricks, shining yellow in the light of the lighter, Yan Qingyu swallowed and saliva, and used all her strength to suppress the desire to put all the gold bricks in her pocket.
The important thing was in the drawer inside the safe, a thin file bag containing the report and a few photographs.
In one of the photos, it is his brother-in-law Chen Zikun, and he is sitting face to face with Takeo Imai, which is ironclad evidence that the Chongqing authorities have betrayed the country.
Suddenly, there was a voice outside, and it could be heard being a conversation between Takeo Imai and the gendarmes on duty on the floor.
"Your Excellency Dazuo, why did you come back overnight?"
"Oh, yes, it's a busy military affair."
The footsteps are getting closer and closer, if the two of them come in together, Yan Qingyu does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to retreat with his whole body, the people in charge of high-level security tasks are all elite gendarmes who have received special training, and Takeo Imai himself is a seventh-stage judo, which cannot be underestimated.
"Holy shit! How did you come back early. Yan Qingyu was shocked, fortunately, this is a suite, it takes a certain amount of time to come in from the outside, which leaves him time to abscond, he quickly stuffed the photo back into the file bag, put it in the waterproof fish skin bag he carried with him, closed the safe, turned the password disk to its original position, climbed out of the window, untied the flying tiger claw, and closed the window The moment he closed it, Takeo Imai came in.
Yan Qingyu's whole person was like a gecko on the eighteenth floor of the building, enduring the wind and rain, not daring to move, his feet stepped on the shallow brick cracks, his fingers buckled on the windowsill, if Imai Takeo opened the window, he would definitely find someone hanging here.
When Takeo Imai entered the door, he found that the carpet of the window was wet, and his years of experience as a spy made him develop the habit of being a soldier, and immediately called the military police on duty: "Yamada-kun, please come." ”
Yamada is a military police officer, and when he heard Imai Daisa's call, he immediately became vigilant, took out his southern fourteen-year pistol, and gently pushed the bullet.
The sound of the bullet loading reached Yan Qingyu's ears, and he regretted it in his heart, he knew that he would not take this job, and he was frustrated, the window had been pushed open, and the first thing that came out was the black barrel.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a thick cable hanging from the wall on the side, Yan Qingyu didn't have time to think about it, he jumped over and grabbed the cable tightly and clinged to the bottom of the window.
Yamada Juncao came out, shone it with a flashlight, shrank his head back and said, "It's nothing, did Your Excellency Dazuo forget to close the window before leaving?" ”
Imai Takeo shook his head, the room was cleaned by the orderly, maybe the kid opened the window to breathe in and forgot to close it to cause the rain to come in, he was too busy these days, and he was nervous and suspicious, he smiled bitterly: "It's okay, thank you Yamada." ”
"It's okay, I'm retiring." Yamada Juncao put away his gun and exited Takeo Imai's room.
The suspicious Dazuo still went out to check it out in person, but due to the blind spot in his line of sight, he also didn't see Yan Qingyu under the windowsill.
At this time, Yan Qingyu was most fortunate that he was not greedy for money and took those heavy gold bricks, otherwise, he would definitely not be able to ensure balance and fell into a mess of flesh.
Imai Takeo was very tired, he directly undressed and went to bed, and soon there was a sound of snoring, Yan Qingyu tried his best to restrain the idea of climbing up and blowing a tube of ecstasy incense to completely numb him and then sweep away the good things in the safe, concentrated, eliminated distracting thoughts, and slowly climbed down.
Climbing the wall, it was more difficult to go down than up, almost inch by inch, and finally climbed to the seventeenth floor window, but to the chagrin to find that the window was closed by a handyman who woke up in the middle of the night, and these people secretly lit candles in the restaurant to steal sushi.
Rushing in will definitely startle the snake, but continue to climb down, Yan Qingyu does not have that confidence, in case he accidentally falls down, he will lose all his efforts, fortunately, the shape of the Broadway building is more chic, starting from the eleventh floor to gradually shrink, forming a tower-like structure, he only needs to translate to one side.
Finally climbed into the stairwell from the fifteenth floor, quietly descended to the eleventh floor, entered the office of the imperial agency, took off his wet night clothes, changed into dry clothes, lay on the sofa and let out a long breath, lit a cigarette to calm down, thought about it, took out the photo from the fishskin bag and re-examined it, and finally lit the one with Chen Zikun with a lighter and burned it to ashes.
In the early hours of the morning, the rain stopped, and the power supply was restored, Yan Qingyu went out of the building, couldn't help but look back, and said that Lao Tzu almost fell from the eighteenth floor yesterday, fortunately there was a life-saving cable, hey, no, where did the cable go?
The exterior walls of the eighteenth floor are clean, and there are no hanging cables.