When Tang Cheng, who had sneaked into the Xinya Hotel, was secretly thinking about the underground party man and woman, his alias was Sato Shuichi, that is, Li Muxin, whom Tang Cheng had met once before. At this time, he was in the hotel room, anxiously waiting for the connection. The appearance of people. 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 New Asia Hotel at this time. It was just that the agreed time for handing over information had passed, but the contact person still did not show up, and Li Muxin felt a faint bad feeling in his heart. "We can't wait any longer, get out of 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 for the meeting. 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. The young woman who accompanied Li Muxin to Xinya 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 got ready.
Li Muxin and Ran Jing were both operational personnel. Although they were not allowed to carry weapons into the New Asia Hotel, the suitcases they brought into the New Asia Hotel contained some gadgets that could kill people. In just one cigarette, Li Muxin and Li Muxin, who had a tacit understanding of each other, were ready to evacuate. In particular, Ran Jing had sharp weapons hidden in her bun and cuffs, and Li Muxin had a knife wrapped around his waist. A soft sword.
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, three people on the left, 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 a few words in the middle. There were three pauses, but Li Muxin's expression had changed from alert to relaxed.
"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 It immediately turned into doubt and vigilance. "Who are you? I don't seem to know you!" Li Muxin said this in Japanese. Ran Jing, who was standing next to Li Muxin in the room, immediately lowered her eyebrows and looked at her like a Japanese woman. appearance.
The person who appeared outside the door was Tang Cheng in disguise. His meeting with Li Muxin was just by chance, and he had no verbal communication with Li Muxin at that time. The other party did not recognize him, which was very natural. things. "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 once again mentioned Beide Road. At that moment, Li Muxin's eyes became even more confused.
No. 24 Beide Road is a secret stronghold of the Shanghai Underground Party in the concession. When Tang Cheng last met Xu Huanshan at No. 24 Beide Road, Li Muxin happened to be there. The three people on the left and blue clothes and black trousers that Tang Cheng said outside the door 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, , and became more and more 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 him to send a signal to Ran Jing to take action at any time. Tang Cheng, who had been secretly paying attention to Li Muxin's every move, had already noticed the strange movement between the man and the woman, and then smiled and reached out to lift up the front of his shirt, so that Li Muxin could clearly see the pistol on his belt. .
The New Asia Hotel is in a Japanese-controlled area, and the only people who can carry firearms here in civilian clothes are plainclothes military police or plainclothes spies. So after seeing the pistol on Tang Cheng's waist, Li Muxin's eyes froze. He might really have 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.
"Restrain, please restrain yourself first. At least wait until I reveal my identity before you start shouting and killing me!" Tang Cheng said, but his right hand that had been holding the door frame was like lightning. Lean forward. Tang Cheng poked out his right hand, and his index finger hit the back of Li Muxin's right hand. Although Tang Cheng didn't use his full strength with this finger, it still caused a numbness in Li Muxin's right hand. Taking advantage of Li Muxin's startled retreat, Tang Cheng, who was standing outside the door, squeezed into the room.
"Restrain!" Tang Cheng burst into the room, giving Li Muxin and Li Muxin no chance to counterattack. 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 is true, Tangcheng Just pull the trigger, and a bullet will jump and spin in the air and fall out.
Tang Cheng has used actual actions to prove that what he is holding is not a fake gun, and the action he just reached out to poke Li Mu's newbie in the back shows that his skills are not bad either. Seeing this, Li Muxin 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. Tang Cheng didn't pay much attention when he saw this. He just sat across from the two of them with a defenseless look.
"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 is Mandarin with a slight Beijing accent. This change in Li Muxin made Tang Cheng's eyes brighten. 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, I can only pretend to be a Japanese expatriate looking for a job and 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 a weapon sneak into the Xinya Hotel so smoothly? "Don't be too busy doubting my identity. At least listen to what I'm saying before making a judgment." Tang Cheng knocked on Li Muxin's door hastily. He was not here to discuss such boring topics as the meaning of life. The reason why he chose to come to the hotel was partly to confirm the purpose of the other two coming to Xinya Hotel, and partly because he wanted to see if it was possible to work together.
"I came here for a Japanese named Shimokawa. According to his itinerary, this person will stay here after arriving in Shanghai." Since he was seeking cooperation with the other two, Tangcheng had no intention of doing so. Concealing the purpose of coming here, especially when the other two are members of the Shanghai underground party. "This man named Shimakawa is said to be an intelligence expert specially invited from Japan by Shanghai T&T Hi-Tech. I want to assassinate him at the New Asia Hotel. This is the purpose of my appearance here."
"Are you from the Intelligence Department?" Li Muxin's reaction was not slow. After hearing Tang Chenghe Pan's explanation of 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. Among the many resistance forces in Shanghai, only the Intelligence Department acted the most crazily against the Japanese. Therefore, Li Muxin's immediate inference cannot be regarded as baseless talk.
But when Tang Cheng heard this, he shook his head repeatedly, "I'm not a member of the Intelligence Department. 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 that flashed in Li Muxin's eyes did not escape Tang Cheng's eyes. Looking at Li Muxin and the two of them looking like they were about to go 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, and Tang Cheng could only say apologetically. "I'm sorry if my recklessness affected your plans. But I still have to say one more thing. 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 not be 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 policemen really increases outside the Xinya Hotel, Li Muxin and Li Muxin will really not be able to go out casually. Once they are taken to the military police headquarters for identity verification and screening, their identities may be exposed.
