As usual, after reading for a while after dinner, Cao Shan washed up and went to bed early. The laughter of the neighbor's children outside the window was the best lullaby. But tonight, Cao Shan couldn't fall asleep. I don't know why.
The reason was that Cao Shan always felt strange tonight. Unable to fall asleep, Cao Shan had to get up and make a cup of coffee. The coffee powder was given by a regular customer of the barber shop, and he didn’t know how long it had been there.
Although this was in the concession, the prices of milk and sugar were beyond what Cao Shan could afford, so the coffee he brewed could only be original. The bitter taste of original coffee made Cao Shan feel energetic while standing by the window.
He fell into a trance, but his heart was always tense. "Bang, bang, bang!" Suddenly there was a knock on the door behind him. Cao Shan, who had been standing in front of the window, immediately turned around and took out a revolver from under the pillow.
Lift your mouth and face the door.
Cao Shan has always kept a distance from the surrounding neighbors, and it is already dark at this time. No one will come to him at this time. Cao Shan, who is alert, is ready to shoot at any time, but after he holds his breath and prepares for the response
, but there was no movement outside the door, as if the knock on the door just now had never occurred. After waiting silently for a cup of tea, Cao Shan moved forward and slowly moved to the position behind the door.
Cao Shan, who was cautious in his heart, held the gun in his right hand and pressed his left hand on the wall in front of him. He pressed his whole body against the door. He held his breath and listened quietly to the sound outside the door. The result made Cao Shan a little disappointed.
It was completely quiet outside the door. Only the laughter of children in the distance could be heard. Cao Shan, who was greatly confused, went through a fierce psychological struggle before reaching out to open the door. The result was the same as what he had just heard.
The same as before, there was nothing outside the door.
What on earth is going on? Is it a children's joke? Cao Shan closed the door and looked confused. However, when he returned to the window and was about to continue drinking the cup of coffee, a small black figure appeared on the window sill.
The cloth bag made Cao Shan feel like he had fallen into an ice cave. The seemingly closed window opened with a push, but Cao Shan clearly remembered that he had inserted the latch of the window before going to bed, and the small black cloth bag that appeared on the window sill also proved that
This window has been opened.
The person who opened the window put down the cloth bag and then closed the window. This meant that the other person had no ill intentions toward him, otherwise he would have been controlled by the other person just now. He did not stick his head out of the window to look around. Cao Shan just closed the window.
Then he picked up the small black cloth bag on the window sill. He first weighed the weight of the small black cloth bag and found that the weight of the bag was
It was no surprise that Cao Shan took the cloth bag and sat down at the table.
Opening the cloth bag, the first thing that caught Cao Shan's eyes was two large yellow croaker gold bars. Under the gold bars was a folded note. "In three days, come to this address and medicine will be delivered! The gold bars will be given as gifts.
Funding, I hope you will insist on it, and don't sacrifice it lightly!" Cao Shan opened the note and found that there were not many words on the note, but the content displayed by these words combined was enough to shock Cao Shan's heart.
After the Battle of Songhu, even in Shanghai, a metropolis known as the Pearl of the Orient, medicines were in short supply. Although they were not in short supply, the prices of medicines on the black market were prohibitive enough. This picture
The note said that medicine would be delivered in three days. Cao Shan's mind was in chaos at the moment, but he also knew that if this was true, it would be a great thing.
What really made Cao Shan think about the wontons was not the medicine, but the word sacrifice at the end. Being able to use these two words, Cao Shan secretly felt that the person who sent the cloth bag was probably him.
Even if he is not, he will be a progressive person who sympathizes with the revolution and is a very skilled progressive person. Cao Shan is just the person in charge of the contact point of the barber shop. He cannot make the final decision on many things. The note mentioned
When it comes to medicines, Cao Shan still needs to report them to his superiors for a decision.
The sudden appearance of the cloth bag and note kept Cao Shan, who had always had a stable schedule, unable to sleep all night. He finally suffered until dawn, and the impatient Cao Shan left the residence early. "Why are you here? Didn't you agree to die?
Do you want to contact me through the mailbox?" Lin Mo just came out of the house and saw Cao Shan sitting at the breakfast stall across the street. He secretly observed left and right. Lin Mo crossed the street and said hello to the familiar neighbors who also got up early. In Cao Shan
He sat down behind him.
Cao Shan didn't speak. After hearing Lin Mo's voice, he just quietly handed the note hidden in his hand to Lin Mo. Cao Shan hurriedly finished his breakfast and checked out, but Lin Mo turned around and returned home after finishing his breakfast.
Lin Mo read the note over and over again several times. He didn't know how the note got into Cao Shan's hands, but he didn't find anything wrong with it.
"this matter,
What do you think?" When Lin Mo was a child, he appeared in the backyard of the bookstore with many people around him. They were all members of the Shanghai underground party. "I have sent someone to ask the person who received the note. He said it was yesterday.
Wan quietly opened the window of his residence and placed it on the windowsill. Along with the note, two gold bars and a piece of black cloth appeared." As he spoke, Lin Mo placed the gold bars and black cloth he took from Cao Shan on the table.
superior.
"I have asked someone to check the gold bars and this piece of black cloth. They are very common street goods. I can't find any clues at all." Lin Mo reached out and tapped the table, "The person who sent the things didn't do anything to us last night.
If someone does something extraordinary, I judge that this person has no ill intentions towards us. If he wants to do something to us, he shouldn't be so troublesome, he can just arrest our people and torture them for questioning."
"But we shouldn't be careless. Medicines are a hot commodity in Shanghai right now. This person left a note saying that the medicines will be delivered in three days. I personally feel that the medicines mentioned in the note are probably not in this person's hands yet. I'm worried,
Because of these drugs, Shanghai is likely to be completely in chaos." After all, Lin Mo was an underground party member for many years, and he could roughly guess the truth about the drugs just from the two sentences Tang Cheng left on the note.
Lin Mo's judgment was very good, but he didn't know that after Tang Cheng sent a black cloth bag to Cao Shan last night, he immediately started taking action. Lin Mo was discussing countermeasures with the members of his team when he suddenly received a call
News came from the line inside the Concession Patrol Room that a fire suddenly broke out in a clinic in the Concession in the early hours of yesterday. What’s even more coincidental is that the clinic that caught fire last night was listed in the Concession Patrol Room’s report book within two days.
It had only been burned by fire once before.
"It seems that my guess is correct. The person who left the message should have no ill intentions towards us, and what happened at the concession clinic last night was probably done by the person who left the message." Lin Mo paused and saw his group.
Everyone else in the room had confused expressions. After Lin Mo coughed lightly, he had to tell the answer he had guessed. "Where is the clinic? It is a place that specializes in seeing and treating diseases. How could there not be a place for treating diseases?"
drug!"
"A fire was reported in this clinic two days ago. According to the insider in the patrol room, two nights ago, in this clinic, the people of the Zodiac Society suffered a big loss. I heard that several special high-tech doctors died.
The instructor stationed at the Zodiac Club reported another fire last night. In any case, it was impossible to find a place.
It burned twice in two days. I guess the fire last night was set by the person who left the message, because after he stole the medicines in the clinic, he needed to set fire to cover up his whereabouts and traces."
Lin Mo's inference sounded a bit confusing, but after straightening out his thoughts, Lin Mo's inference was close to the truth. The person who set fire to the clinic last night was indeed Tang Cheng. After sending Cao Shan the gold bars and notes, Tang Cheng rushed
Go to the clinic. According to the Zodiac's thinking, since the opponent has raided the clinic the night before, he will never come to this clinic again. After all, the clinic has been exposed and has lost its function.
But Tang Cheng came back just one night later and quietly killed a night watchman left by the Zodiac in the clinic. Only Tang Cheng was left in the entire clinic who could breathe. Gun battles and explosions in the clinic
The traces of blood are still there, and the blood stains in the corridor have turned dark black. The Zodiac Society only regarded this place as a trap, but did not move away the equipment and medicines on the second floor.
Before Tang Cheng left the residence, he had temporarily left the contents of his equipment bag at the residence. He only had a pistol and two spare magazines with him. On the second floor of the empty clinic at this moment, Tang Cheng's hands and feet were brisk.
They pried boxes of different sizes and dug out the medicines and surgical instruments. The actual medicines found in Tangcheng were not many, but there were quite a few alcohol, iodine, gauze, etc.
In addition to some surgical instruments, there are more than a dozen boxes filled to the brim.
There were so many useful things that Tang Cheng was reluctant to leave behind, but he couldn't bring them all back to his residence, so the rooftop of the three-story building diagonally opposite the clinic became Tang Cheng's temporary
The place where these things were stored. After going back and forth several times, Tangcheng finally moved these things to the roof of the building over there, and used oilcloth and sundries to cover the boxes. Tangcheng then really set fire to it.
to the clinic.
The address left for Cao Shan and the others was not the rooftop opposite the clinic, but neither Cao Shan, nor the Zodiac Society people thought that the missing items in the clinic were less than 200 meters away from the ruins of the fire scene.
Tang Cheng's move was a typical one of those under the lights. When the Zodiac Society and T&T High-tech Section strictly blocked the passage out of Shanghai, he just quietly used his own equipment bag to safely transfer those things into pieces.