When Cao Mute hid in the corner and got ready, Wei Ran took out the hairpin and carefully pried open the door.

Pushing the door and walking into the room, this suite was extremely stuffy. The only window was not only tightly closed, but also reinforced with steel bars inside.

Except for the windows with anti-theft functions, the furnishings inside are extremely simple. There is only a table and a set of sofas outside, and the table does not even have drawers. It is completely an office.

Looking inside, there are two single beds and a wardrobe. There is also a safe on the bedside of the two single beds that serves as a bedside table.

Just like what you see outside, the windows in this room are also tightly closed, and the inside is reinforced with steel bars to prevent theft.

Covering the head of the flashlight with a pillow towel, Wei Ran lit the flashlight and did not rush to move the two safes. Instead, he carefully opened the wardrobe with the faint light.

There are indeed a few women's and children's clothes hanging in this closet, but on the bottom floor, there are still four suitcase-style British B2 radios and several American-made speakers that are only ten centimeters square.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Gently taking out a radio, Wei Ran turned the key that was inserted on it to open it, and then saw the four passwords fixed on the inside of the box lid.

notebook, as well as a plastic notebook and pencil inside.

He glanced at Cao Muba behind him. The latter immediately locked the radio and then picked up an extra one. He walked out of the room and returned to the next door where he had just climbed up. He tied the two radios with a rope and put them along the window.

Went to the first floor.

Soon, when he retracted the rope, the radio was gone, and what was tied to it instead was a glass jar filled with kerosene.

After taking off the glass jar, Cao Muba used ropes to lower the other two radio stations, and lifted up another jar of kerosene.

While Cao Yuba was busy working, Wei Ran was not idle either. He had already pried open the two safes on the bedside and carefully opened the thick safe door.

One of the two safes had been completely emptied, and the only thing left in it was a silver dollar that seemed to have been forgotten.

In another safe, there was a tray full of more than a dozen palm-sized spy cameras on the upper half of the tray, as well as several boxes of supporting films.

On the lower half floor, there is a stack of portfolios and a photo frame.

In this photo frame, there is a photo of the captured woman and another woman, but the two people in this photo are very young, so it looks more like a photo taken when they were students.

Wei Ran could even vaguely recognize that the other woman in the photo was exactly the woman who was hung upside down and drained of blood after he killed her, Ueda's original female companion!

That was...37 years ago...

Wei Ran muttered secretly, threw the photo frame back into the safe, and casually pulled out a file bag and opened it.

In this file bag, there is only one newspaper from North China News. In this newspaper, issued in February 1945, there is a missing person notice circled in red handwriting. In this missing person notice, there are:

The person he was looking for was a fur trader named Zhang Mingyi from Hebei Province.

The general content is that the payment for goods owed to a certain trading company has been delayed for a long time. If anyone provides clues, he can get 20% of the payment owed.

Underneath this missing person notice, someone also wrote an additional line of address in Fengtian with a pen, as well as a set of numbers that seemed to be radio channels, and the words "1345 Night at 10:15".

Wei Ran stuffed the newspaper back into his file bag and picked up the second one. There was a stack of declarations issued in January 1944.

In this newspaper, there is also a missing person notice circled in red pen. In this missing person notice, what is being searched for is the escaped concubine of a wealthy businessman. Not only is the concubine's name and year of birth written on it.

Yue He had a blurry photo, and there was also a detailed introduction, such as accent, height, etc., and at the end of the missing person notice, he also promised a large sum of money to anyone who provided clues.

Just like before, under this missing person notice, there is also a line of address and a set of numbers that appear to be radio channels. The only difference is that the line of address becomes a place in Ice City, and behind the address, written

It is the words "11:30 on the night of January 256".

Without continuing to browse, Wei Ran put the file bag away, then pulled off the sheets, carefully wrapped the dozen file bags in the safe, along with the cameras and films, and handed them to Cao Yuba who returned.

In fact, he has a rough idea that the crane's contact method is most likely based on the various newspapers published as code books, and those missing person notices are most likely the true identity of the crane. As for the remaining addresses and the like, there is no need for them.

I explained, that should be the address channel and contact time used for contact.

After the mute uncle sent these things out, he motioned to Wei Ran to hold the two glass jars filled with kerosene and place them on the high tables on both sides of the stairs that were originally used to place vases.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Dumb took out two two-foot kicks as thick as a wrist from his pocket. The cannon-twisting positions of these two two-foot kicks were tied with cloth strips each as thick as a chopstick, but there was only one.

A stick of incense stick as long as half a finger.

After looking at each other with Wei Ran, Cao Duba handed over a two-kick, and then tied the two-kick in his hand to the glass jar.

Following the same pattern, he tied the incense stick in his hand to the glass jar he was responsible for. Wei Ran and Cao Yuba lit the incense stick in no particular order.

The two of them returned to the room where the two and four people were lying, and when they were about to go down the rope, Guan Bingwen and Tao Canhua also arranged four explosive packets outside the opium den that were enough to blow off the load-bearing columns.

After everything was arranged, the four people returned to the car in the distance and drove away from this busy dock.

Less than five minutes later, with two explosions, the second floor of the opium shop next to the dock was blown open and kerosene was splashed, and it was engulfed in flames in a very short period of time.

"Why hasn't it exploded yet?"

Less than two hundred meters away, Tao Canhua, who was already dressed as a beggar, holding a broken bowl in his hand and a stick in his arms, asked in a worried voice.

"Don't worry"

Before Guan Bingwen, who was also dressed in the same style, finished speaking, a rumbling explosion was heard more than a hundred meters away. The opium den, which was particularly conspicuous in the firelight, also collapsed in the explosion and completely turned into a sea of ​​​​fire.

"There's someone still alive!"

Tao Canhua pointed at a man in the distance who was running out with his body on fire.

Unfortunately, as soon as he finished speaking, the flaming man who kept beating and running stopped and turned into a bright light that was particularly conspicuous in this early morning night.

"Let's go, let's take the radio back."

Guan Bingwen, who was also dressed as a beggar, paused and whispered, "Canhua, we are leaving Jinmen for Lu'an Mansion tonight."

"Today...today?" Tao Canhua obviously didn't expect it to be so urgent.

"If we don't leave now, we won't be able to leave until the Japanese blockade the city because of the explosion in that opium den."

After speaking, Guan Bingwen glanced at Wei Ran and Cao Mute, who were also dressed as beggars, and shook hands with them solemnly, "Brother Wei, Uncle Mute, take care."

"Hey!" Uncle Mute responded forcefully.

"Take care of yourself"

Wei Ran also shook hands with Guan Bingwen and watched him disappear into the night with Tao Canhua.

Waiting until the two people disappeared completely, Cao Yuba patted Wei Ran on the shoulder and led him to avoid the fire brigade and police running not far away, walking through the streets and alleys, and finally got in again.

In a car.

"Put on your clothes," the driver of the car said, turning around and handing over the two bundles.

"Mr. Hong?" Wei Ran looked at the other person in surprise. The driver was none other than Feng Maoyun, who was a frequent visitor to the Love Letter Apartment back then!

"it's me"

Feng Maoyun smiled and said, "Hurry up and change your clothes. I have something to do later."

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately took off his tattered clothes and put on the gown that the other party had prepared for him.

After both of them had changed their clothes, the car drove westward out of Jinmen City without any obstruction, and finally stopped at the gate of a ruined temple by the river.

At this time, outside the ruined temple that had long been abandoned, the members of the Chunhua Opera Troupe formed a circle and stood guardedly with their backs to the ruined temple behind them.

These young men and women all have suitcases at their feet, and each of them holds a different style of plaything in his hand.

After passing through this human wall and continuing into the abandoned and dilapidated small temple, not only Meixiang, Jasmine, Xiao Su's mother, and Qiushi were waiting inside, but also Andy, who was holding a child with the same hatred, as well as Yang's mother and Meng.

The uncle, plus the three girls in charge of the underground printing room, and even the young men who were led by Guan Bingwen to rescue them on the train are also here.

"Canhua has already followed Guan Bingwen to Lu'an Mansion."

Feng Maoyun handed Andy the radio station he had just seized, but what he said was, "Miss Meixiang, it's time for you to set off."

"Wait, where are we going?" Wei Ran, who followed in, asked in shock.

Feng Maoyun and Mei Xiang looked at each other and smiled. The former handed the other radio station he had just seized to Cao Mute, who was carrying a file bag full of baggage. Then he said, "Meixiang, I'd rather give it to you."

My cousin, please explain."

"We are going to the Northeast to hunt cranes," Mei Xiang explained with a smile, "but cousin, you have to stay."

"Should I stay? Shouldn't I follow?"

Wei Ran's heart sank again and again. One can imagine the danger hidden in these two words, "hunting crane".

"You do have to stay"

Meixiang explained with a smile, "This girl Qiushi, as well as Yang Ma, and Uncle Meng are all going to stay.

After we leave, Andy will soon come to Tianjin with her daughter from the south to join me because of her widowed husband. At that time, you and Qiushi will take Andy in on my behalf, and you must work together to ensure that the printing room and radio station continue

Operation, and also responsible for taking good care of Andy and the enemy."

"But you..."

"Don't worry, Jasmine, Xiao Su's mother, Uncle Mute and those young men will follow me."

While Mei Xiang was talking, the mute uncle also walked behind her carrying the radio, and she continued, "Besides, there are people from the Chunhua Opera Troupe protecting me, so there won't be any danger."

"You...when will you come back?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask.

"soon"

Mei Xiang explained with a smile, "It could take half a year, or two or three months as fast as possible. Once all those cranes are killed, we will come back naturally."

"You kid can't bear to let go of your money-losing cousin?"

Little Su's mother, with red and swollen eyes, smiled and teased, "Don't worry, nephew, I will take good care of your cousin."
To be continued...