"Father Robert, you are here. Please come in. I just got a bottle of good whiskey. Let's have a drink." The door of the bungalow opened. The person who opened the door was Parker, the military attache of the US Consulate. He has been in China for three years.
Parker loves whiskey as much as Robert. Under the intentional matchmaking of Mike, the owner of the Rose Bar, the two became friends. The person Robert was looking for was Parker.
"Honey, go get my bottle of whiskey, we have to chat for a while." After letting Robert into the living room, Parker asked Laura, the female secretary of the consulate who was staying at his place, to get the wine. Parker was a romantic man, and his house
There are often women coming and going in the house, and Robert has long been accustomed to this. However, as for Parker's ability to hook up with the consul's beautiful female secretary, Robert is deeply impressed by Parker's skill.
"Your affairs have been settled. This is the child's passport. Do you really plan to return to the United States? What does the church say? Will the Vatican agree?" Laura put down the wine and went upstairs to sleep. Parker
The passport he took out from the safe was handed to Robert, who opened it, checked it, and put it in his pocket. However, when Parker asked three questions in succession, Robert didn't know which one he should answer first. The priest only used it in China.
According to the Vatican's church regulations, the priest's whereabouts must be reported to them, but Robert is simply a fake priest, and there is no need for him to follow those procedures.
After drinking several drinks with Parker, Robert, who had been vague all the time, stood up and said goodbye. Parker was from the consulate and also belonged to the type of people Robert suspected of having secret intelligence transactions with Japan. Robert did not dare to reveal the intelligence he knew.
To Parker, Robert now only trusts Mike in Shanghai. He doesn't trust anyone else, including the Americans in the consulate. No matter what happens when it involves politics, it's dirty. Robert has always suspected that someone inside the consulate is giving advice to Japan.
Robert's suspicion was obviously not groundless. Before he left Parker's house, Parker, who looked gloomy, immediately dialed a number and whispered a few words.
It was already dark, and there were no rickshaws on the road. Although it was already dark, this was a concession after all, and the security was relatively good. Robert was not worried about any dangers on the road, so he walked back to the church boldly. He walked past two places in a row.
At the intersection, Robert suddenly realized that someone was following him from behind. Being followed felt like someone was holding a knife on his back, like a stab in his back. Robert wanted to go to Parker's house to get his passport from Tangcheng, so he went out.
At that time, he did not carry a weapon with him as usual. Robert, who noticed something unusual, could only speed up his pace and try to walk to a bright place.
After passing a few Chinese people carrying things, Robert turned and entered a dark alley. There are many such alleys in Shanghai, and there are often miscellaneous things piled up in the alleys. Robert gently posted
He stood against the wall. Before his eyesight could adapt to the darkness in the alley, he could only stand like this. "Japanese?" There was more than one person following him. When three figures flashed past the alley where Robert was hiding, he felt that they were nothing like the Japanese.
Robert didn't know why the Japanese were following him, but he did hear them talking in Japanese as they passed the alley.
Robert took a few steps back and reached out to pick up a broken bamboo basket from the ground. In just a few clicks, he broke the broken bamboo basket into a pile of bamboo fragments and picked out a few centimeter-long relatively strong bamboo fragments and held them in his hand.
, Robert walked slowly out of the alley. Cold weapons were not Robert's strong point, but now he couldn't find anything else that could be used as a weapon. These bamboo pieces were used well, and they may not be incapable of killing people. "Rickshaw"
The plan did not change quickly. When Robert walked out of the alley and planned to fight to the death, an oncoming rickshaw appeared in time. Robert, who was overjoyed, threw away the bamboo pieces in his hand and quickly got on the car, urging the rickshaw driver to speed up and leave.
The nimble rickshaw driver pulled the rickshaw very fast. In a short time, Robert, who was sitting in the car, could already see the church steeple. When he saw that he was almost there, Robert asked the driver to slow down.
When we came down, there was a bakery run by Jews at the corner of the street. Tang Cheng liked to eat his cream bread very much. Robert bought Tang Cheng's palm today and thought of taking some cream bread back, and discussed with Tang Cheng to prepare for his return.
American things.
"No need to change, the extra money is a reward for your service." The fare was only fifty cents. Robert was in a good mood when he saw that the bakery was not closed yet, so he gave the driver a dollar directly. Before the driver could express his gratitude, Robert had already
Walking towards the bakery. "Be careful." The rickshaw driver, who bowed to Robert's back repeatedly, bowed for the last time and straightened up, when he suddenly found several black figures suddenly emerging from the darkness on the roadside and heading towards the road.
The priest in the middle and the unarmed rickshaw driver could only shout to be careful, then turn around and run away with their rickshaw.
"Pfft!" Robert, who heard the rickshaw driver shouting, had not had time to notice the danger. A long knife had already opened a palm-wide gash on his back. Robert, who was screaming inwardly, ignored the pain in his back and walked quickly to a few meters away.
He ran to the bakery outside. No matter who was plotting against him, as long as he could run into that Jewish bakery, the person who plotted against him would be able to escape. Moreover, there were several bosses and apprentices in the Jewish bakery.
, Robert didn’t believe that the assassin dared to chase him into the bakery.
"Help, help, I am Father Robert of the church. Someone wants to rob me. I have a wound on my back. Help me." Robert, with another wound on his back, finally rushed into the bakery. Jewish beliefs and
Robert is not the same, but now Robert can no longer care about that much. Anyone who sees Robert's embarrassment at this time will not associate him with a CIA agent. At this time, Robert is simply a man in trouble who is looking for help.
Fr.
As expected, the assassin did not have the guts to chase him into the bakery. However, the bakery apprentice who had gone out for a walk came back and said that there were a few dark figures standing on the corner of the street. The bakery owner who did not dare to go over and take a look had already called the police patrol.
He also gave Robert a towel to temporarily stop the bleeding. "Robert, what's wrong with you? Who did this?" Before the patrol came, the bakery apprentice sent to the church to report the news brought the church handyman and Tang Cheng.
When he came, he saw Robert who was weak due to blood loss. Tang Cheng's eyes immediately became misty.
The concession patrol came slowly, but before they could enter the bakery, they had a conflict with a few people standing on the street corner. Tang Cheng, who was anxious to take Robert to the hospital, had to borrow the bakery's trolley from the church handyman and leave on foot.
"Go back to the church, there are Japanese people over there, we can't get through." The blade that hit Robert's back must have been smeared with poison. Robert only said a few words and then spent all his strength. If Tang Cheng hadn't put his ear to it,
From Robert's mouth, it was impossible to hear what Robert said.
Although Tang Cheng was usually naughty and ran around wildly, he was still only 19 years old after all, and he had always lived under the care and wings of Robert. Suddenly encountering such a thing, Tang Cheng himself had no idea. He was in a panic.
So he had no choice but to follow Robert's wishes and push the weak Robert back to the church with the church handyman. "Come here, I have something to say to you." Robert, whose cheeks had turned gray and black, waved to Tang Cheng, indicating that Tang Cheng would do it.
Talk at the bedside.
"I have a passport in my pocket. It's an American passport I asked someone to apply for for you. I originally planned to give you a surprise tomorrow, so I'd better give it to you in advance." Tang Cheng has not experienced life or death, but he can feel it.
Robert's condition was very bad. Looking at Robert whose breath was gradually weakening, Tang Cheng held the passport still stained with blood in his hands and burst into tears. Giving Robert a pension to die was just a joke told by Tang Cheng to Xie Bo and the others. Who would have thought that today
Before it's over, all this will become real.
"There is an iron box under the bed. There is some money I saved in it. Take it and go to the Rose Bar to find the boss Mike. He will take you out of China." Robert's eyes suddenly became brighter, and even his voice became clear.
Much older. Tang Cheng was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly wiped the stains on Robert's face with a towel. Young Tang Cheng thought that Robert had turned the corner from danger to safety.
"Don't talk, just lie down. I've asked the handyman to call the doctor. You'll get better after the doctor sews up your wound." Tang Cheng secretly lifted up the towel on Robert's back and took a look at the two men.
The wound that had turned black and emitted a foul odor made his hands and feet numb and his heartbeat quickened. Before the doctor arrived, Tang Cheng could only feed Robert some water and stay with him.
"Child, do you know? When I first saw you, you were only the size of a kitten. In the blink of an eye, you have grown up. Time flies so fast. You have grown up, but I
You are old, you are very smart and excellent, but you are impatient and impatient. When dealing with people in the future, you must remember to be on guard and make a complete plan before doing anything and think of an escape route." Robert
Tang Cheng was explained word for word, but the latter just nodded with tears in his eyes. Although Tang Cheng still didn't know what Robert meant by saying these words, he knew that Robert said these for his own good.
The sweaty handyman and the doctor finally arrived, but as soon as they stepped into the church, they heard the heart-rending cries of Tangcheng. After all, Robert could not wait until the doctor arrived. The Japanese did not know that on the knife
What kind of poison had been applied to him? The whole face of Robert, who had lost his breath, was abnormally black. In his mind, Tang Cheng was so groggy that he forgot everything. He just knelt down in front of Robert's body in a daze.
It wasn't until Mike, the owner of the Rose Bar, came over after hearing the news that Tang Cheng's eyes had a glimmer of light.