When Tang Cheng, who had sneaked into the Xinya Hotel, was secretly thinking about the underground party man and woman, he was now using the pseudonym Sato Shuichi, that is, Li Muxin, whom Tang Cheng had met once before. At this time, he was in the hotel room, waiting anxiously.
The appearance of the contact person. Li Muxin and his female companion were ordered to pretend to be Japanese and sneak into the New Asia Hotel. They were not here to assassinate Shimakawa, but to receive top-secret information.
According to the agreement, the contact person who delivered the information should also be in the Xinya Hotel at this time. However, the agreed time for handing over the information had already passed, but the contact person still did not show up. Li Muxin felt a bad feeling in his heart.
"We can't wait any longer, leave here now!" Li Muxin looked down at his watch and found that the time was already a quarter of an hour past the agreed time. Although he didn't want to, Li Muxin decided to leave here first.
If he missed the contact, he would have to agree on a new time and place. But if things really went wrong and the two of them were rounded up by Japanese agents, Li Muxin no longer dared to think about it any further. He accompanied Li Muxin to Xinya.
The young woman in the hotel was Li Muxin's junior sister Ran Jing. When she heard Li Muxin said she was leaving immediately, Ran Jing didn't say much, but immediately opened her suitcase and started getting ready.
Li Muxin and Ran Jing are both action personnel. Although they are not allowed to bring weapons into the New Asia Hotel, the suitcases they brought into the New Asia Hotel contained some small gadgets that could kill people. It only takes a cigarette.
, Li Muxin and Li Muxin, who cooperated tacitly, were already ready to evacuate. In particular, Ran Jing's hair bun and cuffs had sharp weapons hidden, and Li Muxin had a soft sword wrapped around his waist.
Just as the two were about to leave, there was a sudden knock on the door. Ran Jing looked stern and was about to pull out the flying needle pinned in her bun, but was stopped by Li Muxin. "No. 24, Beide Road, No. 3
I live on the left, in blue clothes and black trousers." Before Li Muxin could open the door, a somewhat confusing sentence came from outside the door. Although there were only fifteen words, and there were three pauses in the middle, Li Muxin's expression changed.
Transition from the alert state to a relaxed state.
"It's okay, it should be one of our own..." Li Muxin, who had put his right hand on the soft sword on his waist, turned to Ran Jing and smiled. However, after he opened the door with his left hand, the relaxed expression on his face froze for an instant, and then
Immediately turned into confusion and vigilance. "Who are you? I don't seem to know you!" Li Muxin said these words in Japanese. Ran Jing, who was standing next to Li Muxin in the room, also immediately lowered her eyebrows.
It looks like a Japanese woman.
The person who appeared outside the door was Tang Cheng in disguise. His meeting with Li Muxin was just an accident, and he had no verbal communication with Li Muxin at that time. The other party did not recognize him, which was very natural.
"You don't want me to come in and sit down? The last time I went to Beide Road, you made me tea." Tang Cheng, who was standing outside the door, deliberately grinned, but he mentioned Beide again.
When he walked away from Delu, Li Muxin's eyes became even more confused.
No. 24 Beide Road is a secret stronghold of the Shanghai Underground Party in the concession. The last time Tang Cheng met Xu Huanshan at No. 24 Beide Road, Li Muxin happened to be there. Tang Cheng was at the door.
The three people on the left and the blue clothes and black trousers mentioned above were Li Muxin’s position and what he was wearing in the secret room at No. 24 Beide Road at that time. But the more Li Muxin recalled the situation at that time, the more he became confused.
Became confused.
"Who are you? I don't think I've seen you before!" Li Muxin did not let Tang Cheng enter the room. Instead, he used his free left hand behind his back to send a signal to Ran Jing to take action at any time. He was already secretly paying attention to Li Mu
Tang Cheng, who was Xin's every move, had already noticed the strange movement between the man and woman, and then smiled and reached out to lift up the front of his shirt, so that Li Muxin could clearly see the pistol in his belt.
The Xinya Hotel is in a Japanese-controlled area. The only people who can carry firearms here in civilian clothes are plainclothes military police or plainclothes spies. So after seeing the pistol on Tangcheng's waist, Li Muxin's eyes froze.
It could be that he really had murderous intentions. People like Tang Cheng, who often walk on the edge of danger, are very sensitive to murderous intent. As soon as Li Muxin revealed his murderous intent, Tang Cheng, who was standing at the door, immediately noticed it.
"Restraint, please restrain yourself first. At least wait until I reveal my identity before you start shouting and killing me!" Tang Cheng said, while his right hand that had been holding the door frame was like lightning.
He reached forward. Tang Cheng poked out his right hand, and his index finger hit the back of Li Muxin's right hand. Although Tang Cheng's finger did not use all his strength, it still caused a numbness in Li Muxin's right hand. While Li Muxin was feeling heavy in his heart,
Taking the opportunity to step back in surprise, Tang Cheng, who was standing outside the door, took advantage of the situation and squeezed into the room.
"Restrain!" Tang Cheng burst into the room, leaving no room for Li Muxin and Li Muxin to counterattack.
Opportunity, while shouting, the pistol at his waist was already in his hand. "I don't want to shoot here, and I don't want to do anything to you two! But if you two still treat me with this attitude,
Then I won't be polite!" As if to prove that what he said was true, Tang Cheng just pulled the trigger of the gun, and a bullet bounced around in the air and fell out.
Tang Cheng has used actual actions to prove that what he is holding is not a fake gun, and the action of reaching out and poking Li Muxin's back just now shows that his skills are not bad. When Li Muxin saw this, he had no choice but to continue to retreat.
, until the three of them found a place to sit down. Out of caution, Li Muxin and Ran Jing did not sit next to each other. When Tang Cheng saw this, he didn't pay much attention to it. He just sat with the two of them unprepared.
The opposite side of the person.
"Who are you?" Li Muxin, who looked extremely calm, looked at Tang Cheng and repeated the entire question he had asked before. Only this time, when Li Muxin spoke, he no longer spoke in Japanese, but in Japanese.
It was Mandarin with a slight Beijing accent. This change of Li Muxin made Tang Cheng's eyes light up. It was obvious that Li Muxin no longer suspected that the sudden appearance of Tang Cheng was a Japanese plainclothes spy.
"Obviously, I know who you are!" Tang Cheng said with a smile, but he did not directly ask Li Muxin's question, but gave it a small pass first. After waiting for anger to spread in Li Muxin's eyes,
, Tang Cheng continued, "Like you, I have to enter here for some reason. It's just that you pretend to be guests staying here, and I can only pretend to be a Japanese expatriate looking for a job.
I help wash dishes and clean in the kitchen here.”
Li Muxin didn't seem to believe what Tang Cheng said. How could a person who could carry weapons sneak into the Xinya Hotel so smoothly? "Don't be too busy doubting my identity. At least listen to what I have to say first."
Let's make a judgment later." Tang Cheng knocked on Li Muxin's door rashly, not to discuss boring topics like the meaning of life with him. The reason why he chose to come to the door was to confirm that the two of them were coming to Xinya Hotel.
The other purpose is to try to see if it is possible to work together.
"I came here for a Japanese named Shimakawa. According to his itinerary, this person will stay here after arriving in Shanghai." Since he was seeking cooperation with the other two, Tang Cheng had no intention of doing so.
Concealing the purpose of coming here
, especially when both of them are members of Shanghai's underground party. "This man named Shimakawa is said to be an intelligence expert specially invited from Japan by Shanghai Tecnology. I want to assassinate him at the New Asia Hotel. This is why I showed up at
That’s the purpose here.”
"Are you from the Intelligence Department?" Li Muxin's reaction was not slow. After hearing Tang Chenghe Pan explain the purpose of his appearance at the Xinya Hotel, he immediately judged that the person in front of him was an assassin from the Intelligence Department. Many people in Shanghai
Among the resistance forces, only the Intelligence Department acted the most crazily against the Japanese, so Li Muxin's immediate inference could not be regarded as baseless talk.
But when Tang Cheng heard this, he shook his head repeatedly, "I'm not a member of the intelligence service. Strictly speaking, I'm just a lone traveler who gets paid to do things. Except for the Japanese, I will do things for anyone who gives me money. I especially like to work with the Japanese."
Do it!" Tang Cheng smiled sincerely at this moment, but Li Muxin didn't feel much joy in his heart. After all, before Tang Cheng appeared, they were about to leave here, and now, several minutes have passed.
The anxiety flashing in Li Muxin's eyes did not escape Tang Cheng's eyes. Looking at Li Muxin and the other two dressed as if they were going out, Tang Cheng suddenly realized. "When I knocked on the door, were you getting ready to go out?"
Tang Cheng's question immediately drew Ran Jing's eye roll. Upon seeing this, Tang Cheng could only say apologetically. "I'm sorry if it was because of my recklessness that it affected your plan. But I still have to
Say more, leaving the hotel at this time is not a good choice."
"When I came upstairs from the kitchen, I happened to see a lot of military police outside the hotel through the back window. Based on my experience, there must have been some emergency outside the hotel, otherwise the Japanese would never have been there.
At this time, increase the number of military police around the hotel. If you choose to go out at this time, you will definitely become the focus of the military police. Checking your documents will be a trivial matter. Maybe you will be taken directly to the military police headquarters for inspection.
Meticulous identity verification and screening.”
What Tangcheng is saying now, when Li Muxin and Ran Jing entered Hongkou District from the concession, they had already experienced the behavior of plainclothes military police checking documents on the street. If the number of military police outside the New Asia Hotel really increased, Li Muxin and Ran Jing would
People really can't go out casually. Once they are taken to the military police headquarters for identity verification, the two of them may be exposed.