The contact person did not appear on time. Li Muxin and the two were ready to leave here immediately, but Tang Cheng's sudden appearance forced Li Muxin and the two to stop. Originally, Ran Jing was complaining about Tang Cheng, thinking that he delayed the two of them to escape. However, after hearing Tang Cheng say that there were more military police outside the hotel, Ran Jing realized that if it weren't for Tang Cheng's appearance, The two of them stopped. Maybe they would have been taken away by the military police outside the hotel.
"You shouldn't show up here without a purpose. I guess you must have a mission when you come to Xinya Hotel!" Seeing that Li Muxin and both of them were silent, Tang Cheng said with a smile. "It doesn't look like you are here to kill people, so there can only be one explanation. You are here to find or connect with people. But looking at the current situation, I'm afraid the person you are waiting for will not know how to do it. Appeared, look at the increased number of military police outside, you can see how strong the Japanese control the New Asia Hotel."
For such a long time, the contact person didn't show up. Without Tang Cheng's reminder, Li Muxin knew that there must be an accident. "What do you want to do?" Tang Cheng said so much, and Li Muxin could tell that the person in front of him was definitely not here to hang out. Li Muxin finally started to get down to business, and Tang Cheng also had a stern look on his face. He changed his previous playful expression and told Li Muxin and the others his purpose.
"Anyway, you two can't leave here safely now. I also need assistants for my operations. Why don't you two help me first? After my operations are over, I will provide you with a batch of supplies for free. Underground party, medicine, weapons or electrical materials, you can choose whatever you want." Li Muxin and Ran Jing are both members of the underground party, so Tangcheng has no need to hide anything when facing them.
"Actually, you don't need to do anything too dangerous. I will finish the specific action alone, but I need your help. After I start taking action, you will create panic in the hotel and help me escape." Tangcheng He did not elaborate on the specific action steps and content, because at this moment, he was not sure whether Li Muxin and Ran Jing would agree to help him. Li Muxin and Ran Jing looked at each other silently. They were already trapped here. If the contact person didn't show up, their trip would be in vain.
But after all, they are members of the Shanghai Underground Party. Even if Tang Cheng is not from the Intelligence Department, if they rashly agree to help Tang Cheng, they may be scrutinized by their superiors afterwards, and they may also cause trouble for the Shanghai Underground Party. Seeing the faint expressions of embarrassment on Li Muxin and Ran Jing's expressions, Tang Cheng pretended to be relaxed. "I know you have concerns. After all, you are all organized people. Unlike me, a gangster who can do whatever I want."
"But I don't need you to do too much. Just cooperate with me a little when the time comes." As he spoke, Tang Cheng took out two matchbox-sized paper boxes from his pocket and handed them to Li Muxin. "These are two cigarette boxes. When using them, just pull the red line next to the box, and smoke will come out of the box. After you hear the gunfire, you only need to go to the place where people gather and release these two cigarette boxes. Just a cigarette box is enough, don’t worry about other things.”
The cigarette box that Tang Cheng took out was only the size of a matchbox. Li Muxin and Ran Jing stared at it for a while, but they didn't see the reason. They just helped put out two cigarette boxes. Li Muxin and Ran Jing The expressions of the two people relaxed a lot. Tang Cheng had no intention of convincing these two underground party members that they would agree to help deliver the cigarette boxes. This was beyond Tang Cheng's expectations. Tang Cheng had no intention of asking Li Muxin and Li Muxin to do the next thing. People are deeply involved.
"Can you trust this person?" Until Tang Cheng left, the contact person still didn't show up. After closing the door, Ran Jing turned around and looked at Li Muxin. Compared with Li Muxin, Ran Jing has always been skeptical about what Tang Cheng just said. Now that the New Asia Hotel has been strictly controlled by the military police, Ran Jing feels that it is difficult to assassinate people protected by the military police in such an environment. Ran Jing does not think that the person just now can do it.
Li Muxin said he was deep in thought. He had already stood at the window and looked outside the hotel. There were indeed many Japanese military police outside the hotel. It was not a wise move for them to leave the New Asia Hotel at this time. Since it was not safe to leave the hotel, they had no choice but to stay here. It seems that it doesn't matter whether you believe the other party or not. Since the other party can come to the door, he already knows the identity of the two of them.
Tang Cheng didn't care whether Li Muxin and Ran Jing believed in him. He just wanted to find two temporary assistants. Even if Li Muxin refused, Tang Cheng would not lose anything. After leaving Li Muxin's room, Tang Cheng climbed out through the window at the end of the corridor, then slid along the rope to the first floor, and quietly returned to the toilet on the first floor. After being able to sneak into the Xinya Hotel, Tang Cheng did not think about leaving easily, because this was the only way for him to get close to Shimakawa.
The Japanese army tightened their control over the New Asia Hotel and its surroundings. Tangcheng didn't know if this was because Shimakawa was about to arrive in Shanghai. While waiting patiently, another day passed, and tomorrow was the day when Shimokawa arrived in Shanghai. After a day's work, Tang Cheng did not choose to find Li Muxin and the others again. Instead, after dark, he quietly left the dormitory on the first floor of the hotel and began to look for an escape route that might come in handy.
Because of the military police headquarters' schedule for Shimakawa, Tang Cheng decided to assassinate him in the New Asia Hotel. However, how to leave the hotel safely became an important matter that Tang Cheng had to determine tonight. Avoiding the Japanese military police who appeared at any time around the hotel, Tang Cheng spent no effort at all to determine a retreat route for himself. He even found two temporary hiding places.
Tang Cheng, who returned to the hotel dormitory along the same route, repeated the deduction in his mind. From the beginning of the operation to the safe retreat, he repeated the deduction more than ten times before finally deciding to carry out the operation against the target in the New Asia Hotel. According to the schedule of the Military Police Headquarters, after Shimakawa arrives in Shanghai, the Military Police Headquarters will organize a welcome reception for Shimakawa at the New Asia Hotel. Tang Cheng, who was just helping the kitchen, had no chance to attend the meeting, but he knew that the reception would be the best opportunity to do so.
Early the next morning, the Xinya Hotel became busy. During the stay in Tangcheng, he hid in the toilet several times to check the weapons and equipment in his equipment bag. It was almost without incident until lunch time. The number of military police outside the hotel increased again. Personnel entering and leaving the New Asia Hotel, regardless of whether they were Japanese or not, had to be inspected by plainclothes agents of the High School. Even those in Tangcheng and others in the hotel The same goes for the people who work there.
Tang Cheng was very careful, and the forged documents he used passed the inspection of the plainclothes agents. However, there was one thing that made him very dissatisfied. The passage from the back kitchen to the front hall of the hotel was guarded by three plainclothes agents. In other words, if Tang Cheng wants to sneak into the reception, he must first find a way to pass through this passage safely, otherwise he will lose the opportunity to attack Shimakawa at the reception.
As time passed, Shimakawa, who had already arrived in Shanghai, appeared in the New Asia Hotel under the protection of a team of plainclothes military police. According to the arrangement of the military police headquarters, the welcome reception would begin at dinner time. The hotel's kitchen staff, who had already received the notice, began to work even more busily. However, Tang Cheng, who was working as a busboy, had been looking for opportunities to sneak into the reception, but things went against his wishes. The opportunity he wanted did not appear until the reception started. .
Li Muxin and Li Muxin, disguised as Japanese businessmen, were also invited to attend the welcome reception. Just as Ran Jing had worried in advance, Li Muxin did not see Tang Cheng appear at the reception. "Don't worry, wait and see!" Ran Jing was worried that the cigarette box hidden on her body would be discovered by the plainclothes agents at the reception, so she wanted to find an opportunity to throw it away or hide it, but was stopped by Li Muxin. , Li Muxin felt that Tang Cheng would definitely take action tonight.
More and more guests came to the reception at Xinya Hotel, but Tang Cheng could only stay in the back kitchen of the hotel. Finally, he got an opportunity to send the garbage outside the back door of the hotel. Sending garbage far away would mean Given the opportunity to leave the kitchen, Tang Cheng readily accepted the job that no one else was willing to take over. But when Tang Cheng left the kitchen with the trash basket, he was followed by two plainclothes agents. Although the two plainclothes agents said they were going out to smoke, Tang Cheng knew that these two people must have come to keep a close eye on him. my own.
Since it is you who want to seek death, then I can only satisfy your death request! Tang Cheng, who pretended not to know anything, just took the trash basket and walked to the back door of the hotel, but in fact he was already ready to take action. "Borrow me a fire!" After placing the trash basket in a fixed position, Tang Cheng turned around and walked back to the two plainclothes agents. He also took out cigarettes from his pocket and offered to lend them a fire to light their cigarettes. .
The two plainclothes agents who had already lit cigarettes had no doubt that he was there, but when one of them took out a match, the short knife that suddenly appeared in Tang Cheng's right hand had already penetrated the other's left chest. Before the plainclothes agent who had taken out the match could react, Tang Cheng, who withdrew his dagger, quickly raised his arm and swung the knife, and the sharp blade was nailed into the plainclothes agent's neck in the next second. Tang Cheng acted too quickly and chose his timing well. The two plainclothes agents were stabbed one after another and lost consciousness, but they were not noticed by the military police surrounding the hotel.
