At about one o'clock in the morning on August 9, 1945, Wei Ran, Tao Canhua, and Guan Bingwen quietly returned to the deserted Love Letter Apartment under the cover of darkness.

After climbing over the wall and entering the courtyard, Guan Bingwen took the two of them into the storage room through the dark window of the small building. Then he carefully closed the heavy curtains and then installed light-blocking wooden baffles.

It was only then that he allowed Wei Ran to light the flashlight. It was only then that Wei Ran and Tao Canhua noticed that in the storage room, there were several thin wires tightly connected to the door of the storage room.

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After Guan Bingwen carefully opened the wooden board that locked the basement and removed another well-hidden hair pulling wire, the three of them walked up the steps into the basement.

However, when he walked into the basement, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat. The hair-pulling wire he had just removed was connected to the explosive bags tied to the four crucial load-bearing columns in the basement!

On the table next to the load-bearing columns, there were still several glass jars with picric acid and potassium chlorate that he had seen in later generations. However, at this time, these glass jars were filled with

kerosene!

"It will definitely be enough to dismantle these four explosive packets."

As Guan Bingwen spoke, he carefully removed the obviously homemade explosive packages from the four load-bearing columns.

"Going to blow up the opium den on the pier?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice while taking the explosive bag, "What did you ask?"

"I asked for the contact information of those cranes and the identities they used as disguises."

As he spoke, Guan Bingwen took off the grenade used to detonate the explosive pack, "In addition, according to the woman, Youmei is actually a subordinate member of hers. The reason why Youmei is preparing to replace Sister Meixiang and Chunhua Troupe is because she is planning to use the show to

It is convenient for the team to travel around the world and keep in touch with the cranes lurking in the Northeast.

In other words, rather than saying that she is Ueda's partner, it is better to say that Ueda is her partner. One of the two is overt and the other is secretive. Ueda is responsible for making friends with the powerful people of Jinmen, and the woman is responsible for maintaining the operation of the crane.

By the way, there is also the child, who was actually born to Ueda by Yumi. The woman just now and Ueda are not husband and wife. But compared to these, there is another more urgent matter now."

"What's the matter?" Tao Canhua asked subconsciously.

"According to the original plan, Ueda will leave Jinmen for Peiping tonight, and then go north to Fengtian and join Youmei.

The woman took another group of people and took the passenger ship tomorrow morning south to Shanghai to form a new crane organization.

Now the people they are going to take to the Shanghai market are hiding in the opium den next to the pier, and we have to keep them before they get on the ship."

After saying that, Guan Bingwen looked at Wei Ran, "We have to go blow it up now..."

"Brother Guan," Tao Canhua said, "I, I want to join you."

"Anti-Japanese murder gang?" Guan Bingwen asked in a joking tone.

"It's okay," Tao Canhua said rather bluntly, "An anti-Japanese murder gang is also okay, I won't pick it."

Hearing this, Guan Bingwen smiled, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and then said, "Okay, it's easy to join the Anti-Japanese Killing Corps. Next, you and I will take an oath together. After taking the oath, you will be deemed to have joined."

"Okay!" Tao Canhua agreed simply, "I swear! I..."

"Don't worry, that's not what I swore."

Guan Bingwen stopped Tao Canhua, looked around and asked, "Is there paper and pen here?"

"have!"

Before Tao Canhua finished speaking, he ran to the stage, opened a wooden cabinet, took out a stack of rice paper, and then asked, "Is it okay if I only have a brush?"

"A brush will do, too." Guan Bingwen took the brush handed to him and wrote a few lines of oaths in neat calligraphy.

Throwing the brush aside, Guan Bingwen showed the oath to Tao Canhua and said, "This is the oath. I'll give you a minute to familiarize yourself with it."

Taking the rice paper with the oath written on it, Tao Canhua immediately began to recite silently, while Wei Ran also stood beside him silently and watched.

A moment later, Guan Bingwen took the oath away and placed it on the table. He raised his right hand into a fist and said seriously, "I swear."

"I swear," Wei Ran also raised his right hand into a fist and said.

Guan Bingwen glanced at Wei Ran in surprise, and then a smile appeared on his face. At the same time, Tao Canhua also reacted belatedly, imitating the two men and raised his fist, "I swear."

Guan Bingwen turned his head, looked forward and continued to recite, "I vow to join the Anti-Japanese Killing Group with sincerity. In the future, I am willing to work actively under the leadership of the organization, obey orders and absolutely keep secrets."

"I swear to join the Anti-Japanese Killing Group with all sincerity. From now on, I am willing to work actively under the leadership of the organization, obey orders and absolutely keep secrets." Wei Ran and Tao Canhua followed the oath in unison.

"If there is any violation, I am willing to accept the severest sanctions." Guan Bingwen recited the last sentence of the oath.

"If there is any violation, we are willing to accept the harshest sanctions."

"Sign your names." Guan Bingwen put down his arm, picked up the brush he had just thrown on the table, and handed it to Wei Ran and Tao Canhua.

"I'll come first"

Tao Canhua excitedly took over the writing brush and solemnly wrote his name in regular script under that short but particularly vigorous line of oath.

"My calligraphy is not very good"

As Wei Ran spoke, he also took the writing brush and wrote his name as neatly as possible.

When he put down his pen, Guan Bingwen took out a lighter and burned the oath with their names on it to ashes in front of the two of them.

"It stands to reason that after joining the anti-Japanese murder gang, in order to keep the secret, I should have given you a false name."

Guan Bingwen crushed the ashes and said, "But today's murderous gangs are no longer what they used to be, and I am the only one who knows that you two joined, so we don't care about so many rules."

Having said this, Guan Bingwen picked up two explosive packets and said, "Let's go, let's blow up that opium den first as an anti-Japanese killing gang!"

"Walk!"

Tao Canhua was far more excited than Wei Ran, and without saying a word he picked up the other two explosive bags with great enthusiasm.

Seeing this, Wei Ran, who was empty-handed, looked around, and simply threw the British spy radio station, the pocket of passports, and the US dollars that he had previously seized from Ueda into the secret door leading to the underground printing room, and then locked it again.

After seeing the big mirror, he followed with two glass jars filled with kerosene.

The group of three people left the study apartment under the cover of darkness, quietly returned to the abandoned yard in the French Concession, and packed all the explosive bags and glass jars containing kerosene into the trunk.

After a while, the cheongsam woman who was originally tied to the tire and the child upstairs no longer knew where they were, leaving only Ueda, who was still tied to the sofa with bamboo sticks, still shaking and blocked.

The head with the mouth.

After the mute uncle also got into the car, the four of them drove the car belonging to Ueda, still without turning on the lights, and drove towards the dock in the dark.

“That’s the one”

Guan Bingwen, who was in charge of driving, stopped the car far away, pointed to a smokehouse not far away and whispered, "On the surface it is a smokehouse opened by a British businessman, but in fact it is all people from Ueda.

According to the woman, this is also the base that He will soon abandon, and even the Japanese soldiers stationed in the concession don’t know of its existence.”

"Blow it up or go in?" Wei Ran asked.

"It has to be blown up, but before that, we have to go in and get some things."

Guan Bingwen explained, "The westernmost room on the dark side of the second floor is where the woman and Zhida live. There are several radio stations and code books that we are going to take to Shanghai. We need to get these things to supplement our radio station.

It's not enough. Secondly, it's also to verify the truth of what the woman said.

In addition, the identity records and code books of the cranes are also kept in that room, and it is said that they are in the safe under the bed in that room."

Having said this, Guan Bingwen glanced at Cao Mute, who was sitting in the passenger seat, and said, "Brother Wei, how about you and Uncle Mute go to the second floor to look for things, while I take Canhua to arrange the explosive packs downstairs?"

"Okay." Wei Ran agreed happily.

Originally, Tao Canhua was planning to say something, but Cao Muba had already opened the door and got out of the car, and took out a roll of rope from the trunk.

Seeing this, Wei Ran, Tao Canhua, and Guan Bingwen all followed the same example, either picking up explosive packets or holding glass jars containing kerosene, and moved towards the shadow of the building.

"Canhua, follow me to the front." Guan Bingwen whispered and led Tao Canhua around to the main entrance of this opium den.

Wei Ran and Cao Yuba looked at each other in the night, nodded to each other, and walked to the dark side of the opium den.

On the first floor of this opium den, all the doors and windows were boarded up and closed. Although the windows on the second floor were all open, there were no lights on at all.

Without any discussion, Cao Muteba handed the rope to Wei Ran, then put his hands together and leaned his body against the wall.

Wei Ran also didn't pause. He stepped on the opponent's stacked hands, and while the former was lifting him up with force, he also jumped up and easily climbed onto the second floor window.

Thanks to the summer temperature, the windows on the second floor were not closed, and what blocked him from entering was only a layer of cotton gauze.

Holding the window edge with one hand, Wei Ran took out his bayonet and easily cut through the screen, and quietly got into a bedroom on the second floor.

There are four beds arranged side by side in this bedroom. There is a cigarette lamp at the head of each bed, and there is a ceiling fan squeaking and rotating above the head. But among the four beds, only two are lying on each other.

Man snoring.

"puff"

Wei Ran stabbed the man lying on his side through the back of the heart and chest with a knife, then pulled it out and stabbed the liver and lungs from the ribs.

Next, he rushed to the other person's side without even drawing his sword, and hugged his head.

The sleeping man reacted quickly, reaching under the pillow without even opening his eyes.

However, before he could touch the weapon under the pillow, his neck made a crisp "click" sound when Wei Ran moved it, and he also collapsed and became motionless.

Until this time, Wei Ran threw himself next to the previous man, pulled out his bayonet and stabbed him in the neck.

After easily dealing with the only two people in the room, Wei Ran untied the coil of rope he brought up and threw one end out of the window.

Soon, Cao Mute climbed up on the rope.

After looking at the two corpses on the bed, Cao Mute drew his pistol again and was the first to walk out after Wei Ran opened the door. Wei Ran, who came out a little later, gently closed the door.

By the moonlight outside the window, the two easily found the darkest room on the west side of the second floor.
To be continued...