Seeing that it was not early, Binggen reminded that after six o'clock, patrols on the Concession Street would increase, and it was obviously time to find a place to stay. They are carrying dozens of oceans and 500,000 counterfeit coins, but where should they stay? In Lin Xiuxuan's common sense, of course, those miscellaneous small hotels are the most suitable for hiding, but he saw that the civilian houses nearby, the low-rise buildings of Yishui, seemed to be very unsuitable for radio communication, and there were many people, fish and dragons, and things as big as the radio station and antenna were easy to expose.

"Team leader, we haven't been in touch for a long time, and I don't know if those drones are still on our heads."

Ma Qiang also thought of this matter and reminded Lin Xiuxuan that Lin had been thinking about it for a long time. Lin didn't speak, and walked straight to the outer wall of a tiger stove on the side of the road, and looked at the hotel revelation posted there, the most recent one read: Tongfuli, Guangchang Hotel, the hostel guild is rated C, tea is free, and poker and mahjong are available.

There is also an advertisement on the side: Wuhu Hall, No. 9 Salted Melon Lane, facing south on the street, hot water all day, downstairs bathhouse, Yangzhou chisel. It could be seen that his scalp was numb.

A shirtless man in the shade next to him, seeing them looking at the hotel poster with their luggage, came over to say hello: "Boss, we are in the alley of the Afugen Hotel, the C-class hostel, opposite the Suzhou bookstore, the morning and afternoon commentary, downstairs is the flatbread beach, the duck shop, the taste is good." ”

Seeing that Lin Xiuxuan ignored him, the shirtless man walked away.

"What do you mean when the team leader is waiting for a hotel?" Ma Qiang asked curiously.

"In the past, Chinese-style hotels were rated with A, B, C, D, which was about the same as the star rating of foreign hotels."

"Then C is equal to three stars?"

"Is this...... There is still a big difference. ”

Lin really can't imagine how the hotel downstairs is a public bathhouse can have anything to do with the three-star, he has a little bit of cleanliness, even if he is on a mission, he really doesn't want to find such a dirty and cramped place, he has seen a lot, on the wall and on the telephone pole psoriasis everywhere hotel advertisements, many nearby Chinese hotels, are alley hotels, I haven't seen any of them say that there is a separate bathroom, and even a flush toilet has not been seen.

"If the drone goes back, we will lose the ability to relay communication, and the radio will have to be set up at a high place." Lin Xiuxuan looked up at the sky and said, "There are a lot of high-rise buildings nearby, but there are White Russian guards with guns at the door, or Indian security guards, and it is not easy to sneak in." ”

"I think it's the highest."

Lu Dacheng raised his hand and pointed to the tallest building in the north, and there seemed to be no taller buildings in the entire Shanghai Beach.

"International Hotel?" Lin blurted out.

"We can't be too high-profile, right?" Ma Qiang immediately objected, but strangely, this time Lin Xiuxuan didn't speak.

"Otherwise, the overseas Chinese hotel next to it will also do......"

"Why don't you find a little hotel on the side of the road? What does it matter if it's the safest and dirtier? ”

"Just go to the International Hotel, where the highest is easy to receive signals, our radio has 6 whip antennas, which are easy to detect in ordinary places, only where they will not be seen. We won't be able to stay long anyway. ”

Lin Xiuxuan interrupted the argument between the two and decided to go to the highest hotel in Shanghai, as for whether it was completely for the convenience of communication, only he knew.

The three of them wanted to find the No. 5 station on Petain Road, checked the stop sign, starting from Haig Road, the terminal station is the old North Station, passing through Petain Road and Xiafei Road along the way, exiting the French Concession through Minti Niyin Road, entering the public concession Xizang Road through Nanjing Road to the north, which is a line that runs through the north and south of the concession, and can probably go to the vicinity of the International Hotel.

I asked passers-by, this tram is about once every 15 minutes, and it just took off, so I have to wait. Lin Xiuxuan couldn't stay idle, walked around in all directions, but saw two newsstands on the left and one on the right at the intersection, the locations were very close, and the meaning of parting with each other was very strong. But one of them was surrounded by a lot of people, and the other newsstand was not very popular, and business was much worse. So, he couldn't contain his curiosity and wanted to go over and take a look, and walked to the side of the less crowded newsstand first.

The stall owner's newspapers and magazines were neatly stacked and pressed with a ruler. Prices range from a dime to a few cents. Most newspapers featured prominently on the front page with articles commemorating the fourth anniversary of the 77 Incident. Some of the articles are based on the title, as well as the development of the war situation, which is more than unrealistic, overly optimistic expectations, and does not see the newspapers issued by the puppet government.

Lin noticed that the long headline of the front-page article in the "Sino-American Evening News" read: Four years after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands are about to impose more severe sanctions on Japan, and the Japanese Imperial War Machine may be difficult to maintain.

There is also a cartoon under the title, an old tank is marching all the way, and the scattered parts behind it have fallen to the ground, and a Japanese soldier with a Rendan beard is sitting on the tank and scratching his head, obviously satirizing the fact that the Japanese war of aggression will be unsustainable. However, the author apparently attaches too much importance to the outside world, and he probably could not have imagined that in a few months, Japan would even clean up these countries.

He flipped through the pages, and the newspaper had very little information about the ongoing Soviet-German war, and all of it was paraphrased in English. There is also no clear information about the negotiation process between the Japanese Konoe cabinet and the Roosevelt administration, and it can be seen that the international news section of the newspaper has nothing to say.

On the supplement "Weekly Special Issue" presented with the newspaper, there is the lace news that the actress Li Xianglan is about to arrive in Shanghai to participate in the filming of the new film, as well as a large poster of the movie "The Singer of the End of the World".

In another "Zhengyan Bao," an article entitled "When Will the Chinese Disaster Be the Head?" was published, in which the reader was reminded that it had been four years since the war had been endless, and that now the Central Plains was rampant with floods and wars, and there was a fear of famine in Henan, Anhui, and other places in the coming year.

Wen Wei Po predicted that before the end of the year, the Japanese army would collect troops and attack Changsha from the Yueyang front, and the outcome of this battle would affect the overall situation. There was also an article in the newspaper discussing the situation, which began with "It is easy to shake the mountain, but it is difficult to shake General Xue Yue", which introduced the detailed process of General Xue Yue's annihilation of the Japanese army in the previous Battle of Changsha.

Lin Xiuxuan threw a few copper plates, sandwiched a few newspapers under his armpit, and then took a few more steps to the other crowded newsstand, and saw from a distance that there were many colorful publications hanging there, with women's faces and thighs on the covers, and the crowd of people standing around them were probably all going for these. The stall was a seven or eight-year-old child, who had already seen that Lin had bought a lot next door and was a potential buyer, so he shouted hard without waiting for Lin Dao to get closer.

"Come and take a look, "National Daily", "Ping Bao", "Cosmic Wind", "South Wind", ...... Big star Li Xianglan arrived in Shanghai yesterday and is about to attend the Sino-Japanese cultural exchange conference, and Zhou Xuan's new film "Annoying Spring" will be released next month...... Walk by and take a look, a dime a copy of Shanghai magazine, American swimsuit beauties, French naturist beaches, lots of illustrations. ”

Just listening to what he shouted "Ping Pao", "National Daily" and "Cosmic Wind", Lin Xiuxuan knew that they were all pseudo-government newspapers, and in addition, there seemed to be a lot of pornographic publications. When I walked up to him, I found that the obscene pictorials hanging on it were of little value, so I looked down at the current affairs newspaper below. Interestingly, none of the newspapers here mentioned the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and it seems that the confrontation between the two newsstands was not only a business rivalry, but also a political position.

He picked up a copy of the "Mainland News" with a sensational headline on the front page: "Chongqing Agents Sneak into the Concession and Indiscriminately Kill Innocents." The article condemned the concession authorities for abusing their extraterritoriality and acquiescing in the military unification agents running rampant in the concession for several years, and the newspaper said that as long as Chongqing's newspapers, banks, and courts remained in the concession for one day, this would be the source of chaos in the concession. The Japanese servicemen sacrificed their lives for the reconstruction of the East, and there was no reason to allow anyone to sabotage this great process.

His guess just now has been confirmed, it seems that there are indeed two completely different channels for the distribution of newspapers here, Wang Pseudo and Chongqing, so the positions are diametrically opposed, Lin Xiuxuan is glad that Ma Qiang is not on the side, he is here, maybe he will overturn this newsstand.

He opened a magazine called "South Wind". In the opening preface, editor-in-chief Liu Yusheng wrote: If there is no Japan, Asia would be dark.

Lin Xiuxuan suddenly felt dizzy, he sometimes showed some sympathy for those ruffians who were forced to make a living and committed to the enemy, but such a disgusting toution, he also understood it for the first time.

He hastily scanned the contents, which were nothing more than sarcastic articles accusing patriots of being thieves, and seemed to name several newspapers in the concession, one of which described it like this: "...... It is nothing more than a group of people who are clamoring for a war in China under the signboard of the United States and Britain; hiding in the concession and committing murder with a pen, but not daring to go out and face the cowards of the Japanese", it is obvious that this accusation implies the pro-Chongqing "Zhongmei Daily" and "British Daily"; Lin Wei learned some modern history and knew that these patriotic newspapers were all run by Chinese, and even had a CC background, and the reason why they had a nondecent, half-Chinese, half-foreign name was because after the fall of Shanghai, Japan gave the concession authorities tremendous pressure to stop running all Chinese newspapers in the concession, so there was a workaround of changing the name of the tiger skin, and these patriotic newspapers were also called foreign flag newspapers.