Chapter 1: Old Acquaintances
Lu Yuan chose to return to Shanghai by train, but with the further expansion of the war and the repeated attacks of anti-Japanese forces in various places, Lu Yuan's train stopped and stopped along the way, and experienced a * attack during the period, and finally arrived in Shanghai safely. In Shanghai, Lu Yuan has been away for more than half a year, and when fighting in other places is in full swing, the Chinese in the Shanghai concession are still living a life of drunken dreams and death.
When Lu Yuan returned to Shanghai, he did not go home first, but went to Hans's bar. As when Lu Yuan left, Hans's bar was still doing very well, and as the Japanese army further expanded the scale of the campaign, there were signs of increasing intelligence dealers from all over the world who gathered here in Hans. Lu Yuan's arrival did not attract the attention of many drinkers in the bar, only the old Hans standing at the bar was very vague He gestured to Lu Yuan, seeing the gesture of the old Hans, Lu Yuan nodded knowingly, took the beer glass in his hand, and walked towards Hans's office casually.
"When did you come back?" Then the old Hans who entered the office hugged Lu Yuan fiercely, and there was even a faint moisture in his eyes. "I thought I would never see you again before I died, but I didn't expect you to come back suddenly." After letting Lu Yuan go, Hans got himself a glass of whiskey. Looking at Hans squatting and drinking the wine in the glass, Lu Yuan understood a little, it seems that Hans is not having a good time during this time.
"Berlin has sent me several telegrams in a row that they want to transfer me back to Berlin, and some of my old friends in Berlin say that I may be transferred to France to serve as an executive officer in the occupied zone, that is, to organize and mobilize supplies locally to replenish the front-line troops." After a glass of wine, Hans said a lot more, but Lu Yuan could hear that Hans didn't want to return to Germany, and he didn't want to be an executive officer.
"I have been in China for more than ten years, and I have also accumulated a family business, and the last time you told me that Macau is a good place, I secretly transferred some things to Macau, and my family members have already been brought to Macau. Germany's population is too small, and if the war goes on for too long, or if the front line is extended, Germany will face the dilemma of lacking reserves. I'm too old to go into battle and fight the enemy, just for my family, and I don't mind being a deserter. ”
Hans's words sounded a little incoherent, but Lu Yuan listened to it with some deep sympathy, but when Hans said the last sentence, Lu Yuan finally understood Hans's plan, this old guy was going to go to Macau to live in seclusion. "Hans, if I were you, I would probably make the same choice and decision." Lu Yuan's comforting eyes patted Hans's shoulder, "Don't worry, it's okay, I'm back, I'll help you." ”
Lu Yuan's words made Hans's mood gradually stabilize, and he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a batch of weapons and ammunition from the United States in his warehouse. "Hans, these are small things, and I won't leave Shanghai in a short time." took the list of items handed by Hans, and the 30,000 large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets and 500 kilograms of TNT * on the list made Lu Yuan secretly happy, just these large-caliber bullets and *, he could brutally abuse the Japanese army several times.
Sitting with Hans for a while, under Lu Yuan's comfort and persuasion, Hans's mood gradually stabilized, coupled with Lu Yuan's assurance, Hans gradually regained his former calm. "I'll go home first, I'll come back to you tomorrow, if there are other things, let's discuss it tomorrow." Declined Hans's offer to send someone to take him home, Lu Yuan, who had taken a bottle of German dark beer from the bar, walked out of the bar with a leisurely face, but when he walked out of the bar, he found that there were plainclothes agents outside the bar.
Finding that there were plainclothes agents outside the bar, Lu Yuan didn't show anything unusual, just walked aimlessly along the street like those passers-by. After walking out, Lu Yuan stopped outside a shop on the side of the road, and found that there were no plainclothes agents behind him. Lu Yuan, who suddenly became interested, was not in a hurry to go home, but walked into the café next to him, sat by the window facing the street, and secretly observed the movement in the street outside through the window.
It's a loss, Lu Yuan's brows furrowed secretly, because he suddenly saw an acquaintance outside the window. The person Lu Yuan saw was Xu Huanshan, and in the entire Shanghai underground party, Lu Yuan was most familiar with none other than Xu Huanshan. Compared with half a year ago, Xu Huanshan, who is walking on the street outside at the moment, is dressed in leather shoes, looking high-spirited. Lu Yuan hurriedly opened his full-view map, and only after he found that the small dot representing Xu Huanshan was still non-abnormal, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Xu Huanshan had betrayed.
Since Xu Huanshan has not defected and is still a member of the underground party, then, the woman who walked with him should also be a member of the underground party, right? Looking at the young woman walking beside Xu Huanshan, Lu Yuan's heart suddenly felt that the other party was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen the other party. Xu Huanshan and the young woman walked slowly through the café, not noticing that they were being watched behind them, and Lu Yuan saw this, and slowly walked out of the café and secretly followed.
Xu Huanshan was in a very bad mood, and it seemed that since Lu Yuan left Shanghai, there have been problems with the underground party organizations in Shanghai one after another. First, because of the betrayal of the traitors, several independent intelligence teams were discovered by the Japanese army, and then because of the negligence of the dispatcher, a dispatch team under his direct leadership and command was almost discovered by No. 76. Fortunately, the dispatch team evacuated in time and was not taken advantage of by No. 76, but during the evacuation, a radio station was damaged.
Xu Huanshan went out on the street with a member of the telegram team today, just to go to the black market to get parts for the transmitter, but he didn't know that the two of them had been targeted by the spies. When passing through an intersection, in order to avoid the tram, Xu Huanshan and the two stopped slightly, and when the two of them let the tram go and were about to move on, a child who looked only seven or eight years old inadvertently hit Xu Huanshan.
There are many children like this in the Shanghai Concession, many of them are pickpockets, but instead of stealing the things on Xu Huanshan's body that hit Xu Huanshan just now, he stuffed a paper ball into Xu Huanshan's hand. There was suddenly an extra paper ball in his hand, and Xu Huanshan only flared slightly, and then continued to walk forward quietly. It's just that after crossing the intersection, Xu Huanshan stopped in front of a cigarette stall, and then waited for the stall owner to find money, and opened the paper ball very carefully.
"You've been targeted by the spies!" There were only these very scribbled words on the paper ball, and Xu Huanshan secretly stuffed the paper ball into his mouth under the pretense of lighting a cigarette. Looking left and right a few times very vaguely, he had already found that Xu Huanshan, who was watching, was not flustered, he just couldn't think of who was reminding him. Xu Huanshan had already found the stalker, so he didn't hurry back to his residence, but took the young woman and led the stalker behind him to go around in a few circles.
Lu Yuan, who fell far behind, understood that Xu Huanshan had discovered the stalker, but he didn't understand why Xu Huanshan didn't want to get rid of the stalker since he had found out that he was being watched, and why he had to make great efforts to take the stalker around the world. In fact, Xu Huanshan did this because he wanted to find the person who reminded him of being targeted, and for a moment, Xu Huanshan also thought about whether the person who reminded him would be Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan had been away for more than half a year, so Xu Huanshan didn't think much about Lu Yuan.
"Forget it, it's better for me to help you, and it can be regarded as announcing to the Japanese that I, Lu Yuan, are back again." After following Xu Huanshan and wandering around for a while, Lu Yuan, who was quite bored, finally decided to kill the killer. Crossing this intersection that he had already walked three times in a row again, Lu Yuan suddenly increased his speed, and with only half a cigarette, Lu Yuan was not far from those who were watching, and the plainclothes spy who walked at the back was actually less than five meters away from Lu Yuan.
Glancing left and right, Lu Yuan suddenly reached out and pulled up the scarf around his neck to cover the part below his eyes, and his right hand was turned over and stretched out, and there was already an extra pistol with * in his hand. With a soft sound of "poof", the plainclothes spy closest to Lu Yuan fell to the ground on his back without saying a word. Lu Yuanmai's legs straddled the corpse on the ground, and the gun in his hand sounded softly again, and another stalker was shot and fell.
There were a total of four stalkers, and in the blink of an eye, two of them had already fallen, and the last two remaining ones were also knocked down by Lu Yuan's continuous shooting without realizing it. Lu Yuan's shooting speed was too fast, and when a pedestrian screamed about it, Lu Yuan, who had succeeded in the sneak attack, had already entered a shop on the side of the road as if nothing had happened. There was an exclamation behind him, and Xu Huanshan, who had been cautious, turned around and looked around, only to see that the few plainclothes spies who had been watching him all the way had fallen to the side of the street at this moment, as if something bad had happened.
Xu Huanshan did not choose to stay or turn around to watch, but left quickly with the members of the reporting team, the two things that happened today were too weird, Xu Huanshan felt that the most important thing at this moment was to get rid of the trouble first. After buying some pastries in a small shop on the street, and when he walked out of the shop, Lu Yuan was no different from many onlookers, standing in the crowd watching the concession patrol and a large number of plainclothes spies come to block the scene and transport away the body, Lu Yuan turned around and slowly left with the flow of people.