It was impossible for Tang Cheng to tell Hans that the main reason why he chose to come to Japan to scrape land was to avoid the Chongqing talks that would start in August. Tang Cheng, who was still in Chongqing at the time, almost forgot about this major event in the history. If he hadn't received a call from the bureau, Tang Cheng would not have thought of going south to Myanmar to avoid the upcoming talks. The Chongqing talks lasted for more than 40 days, and many high-level officials from Yan'an came to Chongqing. Tangcheng believed that Chongqing during the talks would be the most sensitive place in the country.
Therefore, in order to avoid the troublesome Tangcheng, he chose to take the initiative to come to Japan to scrape the land. Now that November has entered, the talks have long ended, and Tang Cheng feels that it is time to go home. But during this period of time, Hans fully enjoyed the benefits of Tang Cheng being around to help. Therefore, no matter how Tang Cheng explained, Hans just refused to let Tang Cheng leave. In the end, Tang Cheng, who was forced to do nothing, could only promise Hans that after spending the New Year in Chongqing, he would come to Japan to join Hans as soon as possible.
Two days later, just as Tang Cheng was preparing a gift to go home, Major Smith of the Marine Corps who was guarding the dock brought good news to Tang Cheng. "Tang, two of my soldiers were attacked by the Japanese when they went out to drink last night. After receiving the news, the officer on duty immediately led people to search for the attackers. As a result, they were found not far from the dock. A batch of aluminum ingots that were buried. Because the attackers have not found them yet, that area is still under our blockade."
When Smith said the last words, he did not forget to wink at Tang Cheng. The latter immediately understood that the place where the aluminum ingots were located was still under lockdown. This was to facilitate the transfer of the batch of aluminum ingots. Tang Cheng, who was secretly happy in his heart, then stuffed a box of cigars into the other party, "Smith, my friend, I also think that the aluminum ingots you found were probably hidden by the attackers. In this case, before the attackers Before they are found, why don’t we get those aluminum ingots back as evidence?”
As Tang Cheng spoke, he stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of counting money in front of Smith. Excitement immediately appeared on the latter's face. When Tang Cheng followed Smith to the location where the aluminum ingot was found, he discovered that it was actually a school. Of course, this school was now blocked and taken over by the US military. There were a lot of aluminum ingots that Smith mentioned, and they were stored in a dilapidated warehouse behind the school. After Tang Cheng took a closer look at the school, he discovered that the school was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
"Smith, do you want to make more money?" While Smith's soldiers were busy loading the aluminum ingots, Tang Cheng walked up to Smith and whispered. Smith's relationship with Tang Cheng was naturally to make money. When he heard that Tang Cheng said he could make another fortune, Smith immediately became energetic. Tang Cheng then nuzzled at a few Japanese standing far away, "Look at those Japanese standing over there, I guess they are staff of this school, or teachers or something."
"So many aluminum ingots were transported away by us in such a big way. They should be angry. But looking at their reaction, it seems that they are not interested in the aluminum ingots we are loading. But if you If you observe carefully, you can find that they seem to hope that we can leave here quickly, as if there are still things hidden here that they don't want us to know." Tang Cheng deliberately guided Smith, who followed Tang Cheng's instructions As expected, I noticed something strange about those Japanese people.
After Tang Cheng came to Japan, he has been wearing a US military uniform, but this US soldier is a fake. But Smith was different. This guy was a genuine Marine Corps major officer, and he was so messy that Tang Cheng was a little scared to see him. Before Tang Cheng reached out to stop Smith, the guy was already heading towards the Japanese. Smith gave the order, and the Japanese standing far away were detained by Smith's soldiers. .
Upon seeing this, Tang Cheng immediately went to the motorcade and said that the next thing had nothing to do with him. The aluminum ingots in the warehouse in the backyard of the school were only half filled, and a proud Smith ran to the backyard to find Tang Cheng, "Tang, you are such a lucky guy!" Smith, with joy in his voice, said sneakily Pulling Tang Cheng aside, he whispered what he had asked from those Japanese people. "There is a secret basement under the coal pile behind the boiler room of this school. They said that one night three months ago, someone transported many boxes here."
When Tang Cheng heard this, he immediately became happy. He didn't even wait for Smith to finish what he said, and kept urging Smith and himself to go to the boiler room to find out. "Don, I think we may need more manpower and some machinery to help!" Smith, standing behind the school's boiler room, looked at the hill-like pile of coal in front of him and couldn't help but complain. Tang Cheng, who also saw the coal pile, did not lose control like Smith. On the contrary, Tang Cheng was in a very good mood.
I feel that since the Japanese built such a large coal pile here, what is hidden under the coal pile should be even more important. And now he feels even more strongly that the aluminum ingots in the warehouse in the backyard of the school must have been placed there intentionally by the Japanese. The Japanese's intention was probably to use those aluminum ingots to divert the attention of those who discovered the school, so that those who discovered the aluminum ingots would ignore the basement of the boiler room.
It’s just that the people who hide things here don’t know that Tang Cheng is just a land grabber in Japan. As long as he can use the things, Tang Cheng wants to transport them all back to Myanmar. Therefore, Tang Cheng not only had to take away the aluminum ingots, he also had to take away the coal, not to mention the boxes that might be hidden under the coal pile. Smith was just a major in the Marine Corps. He didn't have the guts to eat good things alone like Mick and others in the logistics department.
Therefore, after Smith calmed down, he immediately contacted his superiors. Ten minutes later, a group of U.S. troops appeared in the school with two bulldozers. In another half an hour, the hill-like pile of coal they were looking at had changed its position, and the entrance to the basement that Smith had mentioned before had appeared in Tangcheng's sight. Smith's superior was very careful and did not ask his soldiers to enter the basement directly. Instead, he released two chickens down first.
Ten minutes later, the two chickens tied to one end of the rope did not show any discomfort, but Smith's superior still lit a roll of paper and threw it into the basement. The ignited paper roll fell on the steps below. Although the flame looked a little weak, it never went out. The blond officer, who was now relieved, immediately assigned two soldiers to go down and lead the charge. The two American soldiers who were named, holding a flashlight in one hand and an engineer shovel in the other, entered the basement one after the other.
After about a dozen breaths, a beam of light shone up from the basement. The voice of the American soldier standing below the basement entrance was full of joy. "Sir, you can come down now. There are many boxes here." Tang Cheng followed Smith and walked down with a flashlight, secretly counting the number of steps as he walked. After walking down eighteen steps, Tang Cheng's feet finally landed on the ground. He then looked around and found that the basement was quite dry, and there was not much moisture in his breath.
The flashlights of Tang Cheng and others illuminated this small basement quite brightly. In the northeast corner of the basement, there were at least forty one-meter-square wooden boxes stacked. Smith's superior, the blond lieutenant colonel, seemed to have an impatient temper. While Tang Cheng was still looking around at the situation in the basement, the blond lieutenant colonel strode to the wooden boxes, took the bayonet of the American soldier next to him, and started to pry the wooden boxes.
When Tang Cheng saw this, he did not move forward. They were all Americans and he was the only outsider. If those boxes contained valuable things, Tang Cheng was worried that these American soldiers would kill him and silence him. 'damn it! It’s all documents! The blond lieutenant colonel quickly pried open one of the wooden boxes, only to find that there were no treasures in the box, only some documents. Frustrated, he immediately pried open several more boxes, only to find that the contents in the boxes were all the same.
After hearing the blond lieutenant colonel's complaints and scoldings, Tang Cheng walked to the box, picked up a document in the box, opened it and took a few glances. "Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan, we have been working together very well, and you should also know that I am Chinese. The documents in these boxes are of no use to you, but I can buy everything here for two thousand dollars. . These documents may be able to find evidence and clues that the Japanese massacred the Chinese, so I paid for these things."
Two thousand dollars is no longer considered small money, and Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan is not a brainless person. After thinking about it for a while, he nodded and agreed. Smith, who was left to help Tang Cheng, was about to go up from the basement, but was grabbed by Tang Cheng. Seeing Tang Cheng's cryptic look, Smith, who was already very familiar with Tang Cheng, immediately reacted, "After we go up there, get rid of all those who are worried. I think there is something weird in this basement. Maybe There will be new discoveries.”
When Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan pried open the box before, Tang Cheng had already quietly tapped the three walls of the basement with the handle of his short knife, and found that there was a faint hollow sound coming from the south wall. Tang Cheng, who did not believe that the Japanese only hid documents and materials here, immediately concluded that these wooden boxes in the basement were probably just a cover-up deliberately left by the Japanese. Behind the south wall were the real good things that the Japanese had hidden. .
