"You come in" saw Xie Bo away, and Robert, who had returned to the room, shouted out the door, knowing that Tang Cheng must be waiting outside his room. Just as Robert expected, Tang Cheng was really waiting outside his room, and as soon as he heard Robert calling him, Tang Cheng pushed the door and walked in with a smile on his face, but Tang Cheng still had the new cigar cigarette he bought for Robert in his hand.

"Do you know what that officer did just now?" Enjoying Tang Cheng's leg beating service, Robert in the rocking chair smoked a cigar beautifully, and Robert, who took off his priest's robe, returned to the role of a family man, and he planned to talk to Tang Cheng like an ordinary father and son. "That officer surnamed Xie is here to recruit you to be a soldier, tell me what you did with them today."

Tang Cheng, who beat Robert's legs, secretly grimaced, but he still told Robert carefully what happened today, even what happened after going to Xie Bo's barracks, including people like Liu Goat next to Xie Bo. "You mean, they let you lead the way to the Japanese Concession? Also went to the Marine Corps command of the Japanese? Robert asked Tang Cheng quietly, and the latter just nodded inexplicably.

Robert is a person who has fought in the war, and it is easy to guess that Xie Bo's entry into the Japanese concession this time is actually the so-called pre-war reconnaissance, and Robert has also heard about what happened at Hongqiao Airport. Today, the U.S. Consulate has issued a notice to U.S. citizens living in Shanghai that it is better for all U.S. citizens to leave Shanghai in the near future if they have no important business, and it is better not to leave the concession if they are stranded in Shanghai.

The consulate's notice, coupled with the events that Tang Cheng experienced today, made Robert already have a plan in his heart, and it seemed that war between China and Japan was inevitable. Five years earlier, China and Japan had fought a battle in Shanghai, but Robert was still in Beiping with Tang Cheng at that time, and he did not catch up with that battle. After the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japan's ambition to annex China has become clear, and if Japan and China go to war in Shanghai this time, it will definitely not end as easily as it did in 32 years.

"Okay, you're tired after a day of running, let's go rest first, what's the matter, let's talk about it tomorrow." Tang Cheng was still looking forward to telling Robert about Xie Bo, but he didn't expect to be pushed back by Robert and ordered to go to bed immediately. The heartless Tang Cheng would never have imagined that after he went back to his room to sleep, Robert, who had changed his clothes, quietly left the church and went to a bar in the concession.

On weekdays, the Rose Bar is very crowded, but today there are only a few people who look a little deserted, and Robert, dressed in casual clothes, bypasses the bar and knocks on the bar owner's office. "God, Robert, you're a rare guest of mine, it's been a while since you last came to me." With a bulging belly and a smile on his face, the barkeeper Mike opened his arms and hugged Robert.

"Don't worry, I'm absolutely safe here, the bartender and the pianist are our people," after a brief pleasantry, Mike locked his office from the inside, and beckoned Robert to the back of the office. Taking a big gulp of the wine glass into his stomach, Robert, who had been cold-faced, relaxed a little, he and Mike, the owner of this rose bar, were both secret agents under the CIA's Asia Division, and the rose bar was their junction and logistics base, but Robert rarely came here.

"Mike, I think we should evacuate." After a few sips of whiskey, Robert revealed the purpose of the trip to Mike, "The Japanese provoked an incident at Hongqiao Airport yesterday, and I have received an order from the domestic headquarters asking us to temporarily suspend all activities in China. But now it seems that things have changed, I think that this war between China and Japan will definitely break out, and once China and Japan start a large-scale war, these people who remain in China will be very dangerous, and I am ready to contact the headquarters to ask for all evacuation. ”

"But the people from the consulate came to me in the afternoon, and they said that the Chinese may not dare to go to war with the Japanese in Shanghai, Robert, this is not like your character of doing things, you chose to stay in China voluntarily, just go back to the headquarters, those high-level CIA leaders may not continue to use people like you and me." Mike and Robert have known each other for a long time, and he knows that Robert is a stubborn character who does not hit the south wall and does not look back, but suddenly Robert mentions the decision to withdraw to the United States, which makes Mike a little unacceptable for a while.

"Consulate?" Hearing Mike mention the consulate, Robert couldn't help but sneer, "Those guys who can only spend a lot of time drinking can know what to say, as long as the Japanese invite them to a few more drinking parties, and then send them some worthless Japanese lacquerware, they will even say that the United States should ally with Japan." Robert is right, the people in the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai have been a little slimy with the Japanese recently, and Mike has also received similar information, and the **** intelligence officer he developed has seen the people from the consulate enter the Japanese liquor house more than once.

"Hutou met a young officer of the 88th Division of the National Army today, and according to Hutou himself, that officer led people to walk through the entire Japanese Concession today, especially the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters and the Japanese Army Hospital Building. Tiger Head also went to their barracks, although Tiger Head did not see many troops of the 88th Division, but I think this is a harbinger of the Chinese about to start a war with the Japanese army, and they entered the Japanese concession today just to do pre-war reconnaissance. ”

"The 88th Division has been used by Chiang as a guard unit to defend the national government, and if the Chinese military transfers the 88th Division to Shanghai, it means that they are really going to war with Japan." The 88th Division is an elite German model trained by German advisers to help the Nationalist Government, as a CIA agent lurking in China, Mike is no stranger to the 88th Division like Robert, and Mike can even tell the names and origins of officers above the regimental level of the 88th Division.

"The intelligence officers in the urban area brought me new information today, and there are suddenly a lot more people from the Shanghai security team at Hongqiao Airport, but according to my observation, those people are not real security forces, they should all be pretended to be Chinese regular soldiers." Before Mike could digest the news that the 88th Division had been transferred to Shanghai, Robert threw out another piece of information that was enough to make Mike collapse immediately. Robert is a soldier, not to mention that he has experienced a hundred battles, but he will not look away at the security team that also has the atmosphere of a regular army, and Mike, as a partner, has no reason to doubt Robert's judgment.

"That means China is going to war with Japan in Shanghai, damn the consulate." Mike poured himself a glass of wine with a calm face, and based on the news Robert brought tonight and the information he had, Mike was already very sure that Robert's judgment was extremely correct, the Chinese not only began to mobilize troops to Shanghai, but they were also ready to deal with the war, and the war between them and Japan was about to break out.

"The Japanese didn't dare to attack the concession, right? The last time the Chinese and the Japanese fought in Shanghai, it was dark, and I didn't think there was anything big in the concession, and I didn't think we had to all withdraw. Like Robert, Mike has been in China for many years, and unlike Robert, who is a pastor, Mike has had a lot of opportunities to travel around China. After years of lurking and various means, Mike has accumulated a lot of wealth, after the battle of Songhu a few years ago, the housing prices in the Shanghai concession have been rising, and Mike has taken all the idle funds in his hands to invest in real estate, which is suddenly going to be withdrawn, and his investments will not be wasted.

Volunteering to stay in China, Mike's main purpose is to make money, as long as he earns enough money, Mike plans to retire early to enjoy life, and let him leave the hard-earned family money and go back to the United States empty-handed, which is absolutely impossible, so he tries his best to persuade Robert to change his mind and stay in China temporarily. Robert only shook his head and didn't answer Mike's question, Robert wasn't here when China and Japan went to war in Shanghai last time, so it was difficult for Robert to make a judgment without knowing the combat strength of the two sides.

"If you haven't experienced war, you won't understand the cruelty of war, and once the war starts, bullets and shrapnel won't have eyes to identify whether you are an American or a Chinese." Robert was not satisfied with Mike's self-deception, and opened his mouth to warn, "The 88th Division is not only China's elite German weapon model division, they are also the Chinese troops who experienced the Battle of Songhu last time, and the upcoming war will have immeasurable consequences once it expands, and it is too dangerous to stay here, so it is safer to withdraw to the country." ”

It was difficult for Michael to convince Robert to change his mind, but Mike's stubbornness also made Robert very helpless, and the two talked for a long time in the inner room of Mike's office, as for what they said, only the two of them knew, but when Robert left the rose bar, the boss Michael's face was obviously not very good-looking. "You think about it, I guess whether it is the time of the Chinese or the Japanese launch is the last few days, there is not much time left for us, you had better contact the headquarters as soon as possible to report this matter." Robert's words kept flashing back to Mike as he left, and for the first time, a distraught Mike closed the bar early and sat alone at the bar to drink.

After leaving the Rose Bar, Robert did not go back to church, but went to a bungalow not far from the U.S. Consulate, where he was going to get the U.S. passport that had been done for Dontown. raised Tang Cheng until he was 9 years old, and Robert, who temporarily lived in Beiping, applied for Tang Cheng's American identity through his connections with the CIA. Evenson is Tang Cheng's legal status in the United States, and Robert, who already treats Tang Cheng as his son, is ready to leave with Tang Cheng, but Tang Cheng himself doesn't know about it.