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. For some reason, 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 is in the concession, the prices of milk and sugar are beyond Cao Shan's affordability, so the coffee he brews can only be original. The bitter taste of the original coffee made Cao Shan feel a little dazed while standing by the window, 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, took out a gun from under the pillow, and raised the muzzle of the gun to face the door.
Cao Shan has always kept a distance from the surrounding neighbors, and it is already dark at this time. At this time, no one will come to him. Cao Shan, who was alert in his heart, was ready to shoot at any time, but after he held his breath and prepared for the response, there was no movement outside the door, as if the knock on the door had never happened. 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 a gun in his right hand, pressed his left hand on the wall in front of him, and pressed his whole body against the door. He held his breath and listened quietly to the sounds 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. The confused Cao Shan went through a fierce psychological struggle before reaching out and opening the door. The result was the same as what he heard just now, there was nothing outside the door.
what on earth is it? Could it be a children's joke? After closing the door, Cao Shan looked confused. However, when he returned to the window and was about to continue drinking the cup of coffee, a small black cloth bag appeared on the window sill, which 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 bolted the window before going to bed, and the small black cloth bag that appeared on the window sill also proved that the window had 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. Without sticking his head out of the window and looking around, Cao Shan just inserted the latch of the window and then picked up the small black cloth bag on the windowsill. Cao Shan first weighed the small black cloth bag and found that it was not light. Then he took the 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, with a folded note underneath the gold bars. "In three days, come to this address. There will be medicine delivered! I will give you gold bars to use as funds. I hope you will persist and don't sacrifice lightly!" Cao Shan opened the note and found that there were not many words on the note, but these words The contents displayed together were enough to shock Cao Shan.
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. 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 it 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 a progressive person who is very skilled. Cao Shan is just the person in charge of the contact point of the barber shop. He cannot make the decision on many things. For the medicines mentioned in the note, Cao Shan still needs to report to his superiors for final 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 long. He finally suffered until dawn and was impatient to leave his residence early. "Why are you here? Didn't you agree to use a dead mailbox to contact us?" Lin Mo just came out of the house and saw Cao Shan sitting at the breakfast stall across the street. He secretly observed around. Lin Mo crossed the street and met the same person. The familiar neighbors who got up early said hello and sat down behind Cao Shan.
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, who hurriedly finished his breakfast, checked out and left, but Lin Mo turned around and returned home after finishing his breakfast. Lin Mo read the note Cao Shan gave him over and over again. He didn't know how the note got into Cao Shan's hands, but he didn't find anything wrong with it.
"What do you think of this matter?" When Lin Mo was a child, he appeared in the backyard of a bookstore with many people around him. They were all members of Shanghai's underground party. "I have sent someone to ask the person who received the note. He said that he quietly opened the window of his residence last night and placed it on the windowsill. Along with the note, there were two gold bars and a piece of black cloth." After saying that, Lin Mo put the gold bars and black cloth he took from Cao Shan on the table.
"I've 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 took action. Lin Mo was discussing countermeasures with the members of his team when he suddenly received news from the concession patrol room. In the early hours of yesterday morning, a fire suddenly broke out in a clinic in the concession. What's even more coincidental is that the clinic that caught fire last night was recorded in the police report book of the concession as having been burned by fire only two days ago.
"It seems that my guess is correct. The person who left the message should not have any 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 team Everyone else in the room had confused expressions. After Lin Mo coughed lightly, he could only tell the answer he guessed. "What kind of place is a clinic? It's a place that specializes in seeing and treating diseases. How can there be no medicines in a place that treats diseases!"
"There was a fire in this clinic two days ago. According to the insider in the patrol room, two days ago at this clinic, the people of the Zodiac Society suffered a big loss. I heard that several special high-tech doctors also died. Instructor stationed at the Zodiac Society. Another fire was reported last night. In any case, it is impossible for a place to burn down 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 from the clinic, he needed to set fire to cover up his whereabouts and the traces he left behind."
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 to the clinic. According to the Zodiac Society'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 and quietly killed a night watchman left by the Zodiac Society in the clinic. Only Tang Cheng was left in the entire clinic who could breathe. The traces of gun battles and explosions in the clinic were still there, and the blood stains in the corridor had 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 empty second floor of the clinic at the moment, Tang Cheng quickly pried boxes of different sizes and dug out the medicines and surgical instruments inside. The actual medicines found in Tangcheng were not many, but there were a lot of alcohol, iodine, gauze, etc., plus some surgical instruments, and there were more than a dozen boxes filled with them.
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 Where to store these things. After going back and forth several times, Tang Cheng finally moved these things to the rooftop over there, and used oilcloth and sundries to cover the boxes. Tang Cheng then really set the clinic on fire.
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 under the light. When the Zodiac Society and T&T High School strictly blocked the passage out of Shanghai, he just quietly used his personal equipment bag to safely transfer those things into pieces. In an apartment in the French Concession.
