Hans promised Tang Cheng to help him find suitable manpower within three days, but even Hans himself did not expect that in just one night, his men would come from the slums in the concession according to Tang Cheng's request. A dozen alternative targets were found. Tang Cheng, who received a call from Hans early the next morning, was secretly happy. If he could find a suitable candidate, not only could he leave Shanghai immediately, but maybe the plan could also be implemented in advance. Tang Cheng was in a good mood after leaving his residence, but after he bought a copy of today's newspaper, his mood suddenly turned bad.
When Tang Cheng left Chongqing and rushed to Shanghai, Zhang Jianghe told Tang Cheng two secret ways to contact Shanghai Station. Tang Cheng, who had completed the task of hoeing the rapists, did not feel that he still needed to contact the Shanghai Station, so he planned to leave Shanghai as soon as possible. The Shanghai Station, which had been unable to contact Tangcheng for a long time, was anxious, so they published a missing person notice in the newspaper according to the method sent by the military command headquarters. This was the last resort to contact Tangcheng.
Missing person notices used for communication may seem ordinary, but in fact, in terms of format and word count, they have the function of conveying messages. Zhang Jianghe told Tang Cheng that the total number of words in the missing person notice was 21, which could not be more or less, and there would also be specific words in the missing person notice to indicate Tang Cheng's identity. And if the Shanghai Station wants to use a missing person notice to contact Tangcheng, it needs to publish a 32-word notice in the newspaper. The notice will use homophones to indicate the place and time of the meeting.
On the newspaper that Tang Cheng was holding at this moment, there was such a missing person notice. When Tang Cheng saw this missing person notice, he didn’t even need to carefully count the number of words in the notice. He already understood that this was the Shanghai Station. Take the initiative to contact yourself. Tang Cheng was very conflicted in his heart. Having completed his task of eradicating the traitor, the most important thing to do now was to return to Chongqing immediately and return to his family. But on the other hand, he also deduced that Shanghai Station would never take the initiative to contact him for no reason. There must be something important that needs to be found for him.
Tang Cheng has always been very hesitant about how to deal with the relationship with the military commander. He, who retains the memory of future generations, certainly knows that following the military commander will not end well. But after arriving in this era and having contact with the military commander, he realized that there were many heroes and warriors in the military commander who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country and the nation. Vision and status determine a person's perspective and method of dealing with problems. Tang Cheng now agrees with this statement, but he is still very conflicted and hesitant.
Just like this, he was anxious to return to Chongqing. He went out happily, but he immediately saw the missing person notice published in the newspaper. If Tang Cheng chooses to ignore it and return to Chongqing, the big bosses at the military command headquarters may be angry and let Tang Cheng go for the sake of Tang Cheng's father, but as Zhang Jianghe, who has a close relationship with Tang Cheng, It is bound to be deliberately excluded or even framed by those in the military command headquarters. After much hesitation in his heart, Tang Cheng called Hans first and postponed the recruitment for a day.
"Tang, we are friends. If you are in trouble, you must tell me!" Hans in the restaurant office did not hear anything wrong with Tang Cheng on the phone, but he was habitually vigilant and still expressed his concern. to relieve his own worries. Hans' words made Tang Cheng feel warm in his heart, but the matter was related to Shanghai Station. Even if he was familiar with Hans, it was impossible to tell Hans about it. Naturally, Tang Cheng pretended that nothing was wrong, he just said that he had something to deal with and told Hans not to worry.
After hanging up Hans' call, Tang Cheng called a rickshaw and rushed to the French Concession according to the time and place indicated in the missing person notice. Because of Tangcheng's previous attacks on the Special High School Action Team, even the French Concession, which has the best security environment in the concession, is now in panic. Along the way to Tangcheng, many suspicious-looking men have been seen. These people pay careful attention to everyone who passes them, obviously looking for someone or something.
Tang Cheng was young-looking and well-dressed, and considering that he could now speak Shanghainese fluently, the men who looked suspicious did not regard Tang Cheng on the rickshaw as their target of attention. Tang Cheng remained calm, especially when Shanghai Station took the initiative to send out contact signals, Tang Cheng did not want to cause trouble. The rickshaw called by Tang Cheng was very fast and stable, and it quickly arrived at a place across the street from the meeting place. But just when Tang Cheng got off the car and paid for the taxi, the accident happened again.
Tang Cheng chose to get off the bus here because he was going to secretly observe the situation around the meeting place. After all, the situation in the concession looked chaotic, so he had to be careful in everything he did. Tangcheng got off the car and was taking money out of his pocket when he suddenly heard two gunshots from the street not far from him, and then several men in black chased a man and a woman toward him. He ran over to his side. Chasing people, such as revenge or debt collection, happens almost every day in the concession. These things that may cause riots in other districts have become commonplace in the Shanghai concession.
But this time it was different. After all, a gunshot was fired. Along with the shouting and shouting after the gunshot, passers-by who heard the gunfire fled in all directions. Many of them, like Tangcheng, went straight into the street. Take shelter in a nearby shop. When a gun goes off, it means trouble. As frightened as the passers-by are the shop owners on this street. Of course, there are some who are not afraid of trouble, such as the shop that Tang Cheng got into. Although the shop owner was a middle-aged woman, she did not close the shop in a hurry like other shop owners.
Tang Cheng ignored what the female shop owner was saying. He just looked out through the window facing the street and happened to see the man and woman being chased running past the door of the shop. do not know! This was Tang Cheng's first reaction when he saw the man and woman, and then he secretly judged the identity of the man and woman. Of the couple that Tangcheng saw, only the young woman was holding a pistol in her hand. Judging from the appearance of the pistol, it should be a Browning pistol. Most of the people who use such popular pistols in Shanghai are engaged in intelligence work.
Tang Cheng did not go out of the store, but continued to wait in the store like the others. Until the men in black who were shouting to catch up had gone away, Tang Cheng followed the others out of the store. Tang Cheng stood on the street and glanced in the direction where the men in black disappeared. Without stopping, Tang Cheng immediately turned around and left. However, the direction he left was the direction of the street where the gunfire suddenly rang out just now.
Chinese people like to watch the excitement. A gun was fired at the street entrance, but the people who fired and chased them had already left. When Tang Cheng walked to the street entrance, many people were already talking about the shooting. Tang Cheng came here just to find out what happened just now, but he behaved quite cautiously. He was worried that there might be some plainclothes among these people. Tang Cheng would just listen and not tell, and at most he would be regarded as a young man who loves to join in the fun. .
There were quite a few people here at the street entrance who saw what happened just now, so Tang Cheng quickly figured out what had just happened here. When he learned that the men in black were all gangsters in the concession, Tang Cheng frowned secretly. . When talking to Hans on the phone, Hans told Tangcheng on the phone that the Special High School had found many gangsters who were living in the concession to help them find resistance forces in the concession. Listening to the people around him talking about what just happened, Tang Cheng was worried. He guessed that the man and woman who were chased just now were either members of the underground party or the military commander.
Tang Cheng, who pretended to join in the fun, immediately left the street after figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, because the middle-aged man with the loudest voice looked very strange. Tang Cheng, who was worried about the plainclothes people here at the street entrance, chose to leave. At this moment, there was less than half an hour left before the meeting, and Tang Cheng needed to rush there in advance to make some preparations. The meeting place between Shanghai Station and Tangcheng was a cafe called Banjiao in the French Concession. When Tangcheng actually saw this cafe, he finally understood why it was called Banjiao.
Half Corner Cafe is located on the corner of the street. Sitting in the cafe, you can see both directions of the street through the street window. When Tang Cheng saw the Banjiao Cafe, he did not choose to wait outside or walk around outside the Banjiao Cafe to confirm the situation. He just crossed the road and entered the Banjiao Cafe directly without any pause. As usual, Tangcheng did not choose a remote table, but chose a table next to the window, which has a wide view and is easy to leave.
Sitting under the window, Tang Cheng looked no different from the other people in the Banjiao Cafe. It was just that while the others were drinking coffee and chatting, Tang Cheng was drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. Tang Cheng looked very relaxed when he was alone, but in fact he was not relaxed. While paying attention to other people in the store, he also had to observe the situation outside the cafe through the street window. The meeting time was getting closer and closer, and Tang Cheng, who was still unable to confirm the situation of other people in the store, had no choice but to activate his insight technique.
As soon as the Insight Technique was activated, Tang Cheng could see the situation of other people in the store at a glance. No one from the Juntong Shanghai Station appeared, so Tang Cheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he came to Shanghai this time to work for the military commander, Tang Cheng still had a wariness about the military commander hidden in his heart. In particular, Shanghai Station has been repeatedly surrounded and pursued by the Special High School during this period. If there is no problem in Shanghai Station itself, Tangcheng will not believe it even to death.
It is for this reason that Tang Cheng is cautious in everything. As time passes, the Banjiao Cafe, which originally had few customers, begins to have a few more male and female customers. Tang Cheng's expression also changes accordingly. Tang Cheng sighed secretly in his heart and put his hand on his forehead. It seemed that his hunch was not wrong. There was really something wrong with Shanghai Station!
