Lu Yuan went to Shanghai to find a well-equipped metal processing factory so that he could modify the two Japanese-style 38 rifles that he kept in his baggage. The other is that because of the preparations for the upcoming Battle of Songhu, no matter whether the modification of the 38 cloth rifle is successful or not, Lu Yuan must participate in the Battle of Songhu. With a full-view map and storage space in hand, Lu Yuan is completely sure that he will survive the brutal street battles on the Songhu battlefield, where there are Japanese soldiers, Lu Yuan will go there, in order to save enough killing points to return to his family, Lu Yuan has chosen to forget all dangers and variables.

Lu Yuan, who left Zhangjiakou, chose to follow a caravan straight to Beiping, and then took the sea route from Tianjin to Shanghai. Relying on the two golden finger skills he possessed, Lu Yuan walked all the way without danger, if this trip was placed in the future life, whether it was by train, plane or long-distance bus, it would not take more than a week from Zhangjiakou to Tianjin to Shanghai, but now, it took Lu Yuan a whole month to arrive in Shanghai.

A few decades ago, Shanghai's Shili Ocean Field seemed to have a fatal temptation for Lu Yuan, a person from later generations. Although Lu Yuan has been to Shanghai more than once in later generations, he has never been able to see the scene of Shanghai decades ago with his own eyes as he does now. At this time, it was the end of June, and there was only one and a half months left before the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, and Lu Yuan, who had stepped off the side of the ship, refused the rickshaw driver's accosting, and instead carried a cowhide backpack along the flow of people, walking aimlessly in downtown Shanghai.

Compared with Shanghai a few decades later, Shanghai in this era did not have as many high-rise buildings in later generations, but it was definitely a bustling city, especially after Lu Yuan entered the concession, and the lively scenes on both sides of the street made Lu Yuan linger. There are many shops on both sides of the street, the road is full of traffic, the streets are bustling with people, and the entrance of nightclubs, theaters, cafes and bars is even more crowded, which can not help but make people feel that this place is infinitely prosperous.

According to the instructions of the British chief mate on the ship and his own inquiries along the road, Lu Yuan found an apartment building run by a White Russian not far from the patrol house of the French Concession, and rented a room from it at a monthly rent of up to 20 yuan. There are many apartment buildings like this in the concession that are run by White Russians, and although Lu Yuan spends a lot of money on rent, he is very satisfied with the facilities in the room and the location.

After spending two more oceans, Lu Yuan asked for information he was interested in from the mouth of the Belarusian landlady who had been chattering. Take a bath, change clothes, after nightfall, Lu Yuan, who walked out of his residence and re-entered the street, has a new look, Shanghai Beach at night is more prosperous than during the day, and it is a bit of a colorful life in the later life, but in the opinion of the message, the prosperous Shanghai at this time is much worse than the Shanghai in the later life.

Listening to the tram in the distance with a unique "ding" sound driving through the intersection, Lu Yuan walked aimlessly on the street, and what he saw in front of him made Lu Yuan secretly sigh, this is the famous Shanghai, this is the famous Shanghai, this place with Chinese and foreign miscellaneous, known as the "Oriental Pearl" and "Adventurer's Paradise", seems to be really lively. In fact, Lu Yuan didn't know that only Shanghai was the place where Westerners called the Oriental metropolis, and when the Japanese were salivating about China and were about to show their fangs, in the city of Shanghai, there were more people who lived drunk and dreamed all day long.

Lu Yuan wandered aimlessly along the street, until he unknowingly slipped to the vicinity of the famous Paramount Ballroom in Shanghai. Paramount Ballroom is one of the best dance halls in Shanghai, many celebrities and tycoons in Shanghai like to come here to spend a lot of money, and agents and spies from various countries like to come here to pass on and exchange information, "Old Xu, you said they won't come, right?" Outside the Paramount Ballroom, Xie Chen, who was disguised as a rickshaw driver, looked around, and did not forget to lower his voice and ask Xu Huaishan, who was sitting beside him.

Xu Huaishan also disguised himself as a rickshaw driver, compared with the young Xie Chen, and Xu Huaishan has been lurking in Shanghai for more than four years, originally this joint mission should not have brought Xie Chen, but Xu Huaishan still brought Xie Chen here, giving young comrades a chance to perform the task, but also to let them grow faster.

Hippo is the nickname of an insider, Xu Huanshan and Xie Chen will come to Paramount in disguise this time, just to connect with the inner line nicknamed Hippo. Xu Huaishan and the famous hippopotamus have never been masked, but he has long admired the hippopotamus, and this insider, nicknamed the hippo, has provided important information to the underground party many times. Xu Huanshan was not a liaison officer who specialized in liaising with hippos, and if it were not for the fact that a secret stronghold of the underground party was discovered by the Kuomintang secret service last month, Xu Huanshan, who should have left Shanghai and returned to the Soviet area, would not have been ordered to continue to lurk in Shanghai.

Whether it is the underground party or the Kuomintang, they are very interested in this famous hippopotamus, but because of the mystery of the other party, few people have seen the true face of the hippopotamus. Looking down at his watch, Xu Huanshan looked up at another underground party member who was more than ten meters away from him, the time he had made an appointment with the hippo was about to come, but Xu Huanshan had not yet found any trace of the other party. More than ten meters to the left of Xu Huanshan and Xie Chen, there is also an underground party member disguised as a sugarcane seller, once Xu Huanshan has an accident here, the underground party member disguised as a hawker will be the backup of Xu Huanshan and the two.

Xu Huanshan didn't find any trace of the hippopotamus, but Lu Yuan, who was squatting on the corner of the street and secretly looking at the Paramount Ballroom, had already noticed Xu Huanshan disguised as a rickshaw driver, and the blue towel that Xu Huanshan hung on the rickshaw was the code of the joint, but a driver using a blue towel suddenly appeared among the rickshaw drivers who were used to using white towels, which made people look a little abrupt. Besides, Lu Yuan didn't think that a guy who supported his family by pulling rickshaws would have the money to buy a watch.

Lu Yuan has seen too many spy war film and television dramas and novels in later generations, and based on his first impression, Lu Yuan can already basically determine that this suspicious rickshaw driver will definitely not be an ordinary person. In other words, if this thing is not a gangster outlaw who is in the middle of the world, then there are only two choices left, either a spy or a so-called underground party. In later generations, Lu Yuan used to be a senior otaku who knew the world's affairs without leaving home, and with the influence of his family, Lu Yuan's ability to know people was not small. And now, Xu Huanshan has been locked by Lu Yuan as a suspicious person, anyway, he has nothing to do, Lu Yuan plans to see what this suspicious person wants to do.

Lu Yuan discovered Xu Huanshan's abnormality, but Xu Huanshan didn't see Lu Yuan's abnormality, and time passed little by little in Lu Yuan's secret observation. The time of the joint has long passed, but Xu Huanshan and Xie Chen still haven't found any trace of the hippopotamus, Xie Chen couldn't help but be impatient, although he was slightly restrained under Xu Huanshan's appeasement, but as long as a clear-eyed person saw Xie Chen, he would find that this young rickshaw driver really looked a little abnormal.

Just when even Xu Huanshan felt that Xie Chen's performance was a little abnormal, a middle-aged man dressed in Western style slowly walked out of the Paramount Ballroom, and from the familiar response between the ballroom doorman and the middle-aged man, it was not difficult to see that this middle-aged man was a frequent visitor to the Paramount Ballroom.

The middle-aged man who was slowly moving forward did not look around, but only used the corner of his eye to secretly observe the movements and abnormalities on his side, and in a blink of an eye, the middle-aged man had already walked in front of Xu Huanshan. "Chartering your car to the Bund, 10 yuan? I only have dollars, though. The middle-aged man walked up to Xu Huanshan casually, and without waiting for Xu Huanshan to answer, he raised his leg and got into Xu Huanshan's rickshaw.

Xu Huanshan was shocked, because the other party's sentence just now was the street code agreed with the hippopotamus, according to the agreed code, Xu Huanshan should shake his head and answer at this time, no, I only accept fiat currency here. Before answering the code, Xu Huanshan first turned his face and glanced at the other party, but what he saw in front of him made Xu Huanshan stunned.

The age of the other party looks about the same age as Xu Huanshan himself, this person's Western-style dress is different from the tweed suits often worn by those Xiaokai people in Shanghai, although the dress on this person is also a single-breasted suit with lapels, but the style is very different, and the cut is also very fine and fitting. The most important thing is that even Xu Huanshan can see that the material of the clothes is quite high-end, it looks light and thin but very falling, and it looks like a high-end product.

Although he couldn't see the other party's appearance clearly, Xu Huanshan felt that there was a hint of civility between this person's eyebrows, which was not quite the same as he expected in advance. Xu Huanshan, who was disguised as a rickshaw driver, did not answer the other party immediately, but first glanced left and right with complex eyes and vigilant expressions, and then turned his head to look at the pedestrians on the street who were either in suits and leather shoes, or cheongsam, until Xu Huanshan did not find anything unusual from his companion who was on guard, and then turned back to look at the middle-aged man who was already sitting in the rickshaw again.

But just as Xu Huanshan opened his mouth to speak, Xie Chen, who was originally sitting next to him, suddenly turned his face to look at the middle-aged man sitting in the rickshaw, and asked with a hint of impatience, "Why are you here now?" We've been waiting for this for a while. Xie Chen's sudden question made the middle-aged man on the rickshaw frown, and a bad premonition suddenly appeared in his heart.