Chapter 189: Dark Night Ghost
Chapter 189: Dark Night Ghost
Outside the warehouse, Jiang Shiyuan was waiting anxiously, vigilantly observing any movement around him.
"Why hasn't he come out yet? Did anything happen?" Jiang Shiyuan was secretly worried.
Just then, she suddenly heard a dull sound coming from the warehouse, like the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.
"Not good!" Jiang Shiyuan was shocked and immediately realized that something was wrong.
She quickly ran to the warehouse door and looked inside.
In the warehouse, Stationmaster Wang and four other men were surrounding the bronze statue, sweating and panting.
"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Jiang Shiyuan asked with concern.
Stationmaster Wang wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "This bronze statue is too heavy. It took us a lot of effort to lift it up a little."
Jiang Shiyuan blinked and asked, "Do you want my help?"
Stationmaster Wang supported his old waist and waved his hand, "No need, Shennong, you continue to be on guard, and we, the grown men, can carry it!"
Jiang Shiyuan nodded and continued to keep watch at the door.
Finally, Stationmaster Wang and his four companions worked together and finally lifted the bronze statue onto the iron cart.
"Okay, let's go!" Stationmaster Wang gave an order, and the four of them pushed the cart and quietly left the warehouse.
Under the cover of night, they walked along a secluded path towards the Shilipu Wharf.
Jiang Shiyuan followed quietly not far away to protect them.
They were very careful along the way, trying to avoid street lights for fear of being discovered by the Japanese pirates.
"Webmaster, where are we going to hide the bronze statue?" Houyi couldn't help but wonder.
Stationmaster Wang patted his old waist and patiently explained, "I remember there is a dense forest nearby. It is the same dense forest we found when we ambushed the Japanese spies in Inoue Mansion last time."
"We can't transport the bronze statue directly into the concession now, so we can only bury it there first."
"After the war of resistance is won, we will go and dig it out!"
"Good idea!" Houyi and Nezha nodded in agreement.
So they quickened their pace and headed towards the dense forest.
However, just as they were about to reach their destination, an accident happened.
"Baga, who's over there?"
A team of Japanese pirate soldiers who were patrolling nearby heard the creaking sound of a cart continuously rolling over the road and shouted.
"Not good!" Stationmaster Wang said secretly, beads of sweat oozing out of his forehead.
"Hurry, everyone, disperse and hide!" He whispered, then pushed the cart hard and ran towards the bushes on the side of the road.
Houyi and Nezha also reacted very quickly. They looked at each other and ran in opposite directions tacitly.
Lao Huang picked up some gravel from the roadside and threw it towards the Japanese pirates, trying to attract their attention.
"Baga!" The Japanese pirates were indeed attracted and chased in the direction of Lao Huang while cursing angrily.
While running, Old Huang led the Japanese soldiers towards the place where Chen Qingyan and Fang Lansheng were ambushing.
Jiang Shiyuan's heart sank when he heard the noise: "Oh no, they've been discovered!"
She quickly hid behind a big tree and stuck her head out to observe the situation.
I saw five Japanese pirates holding guns, chasing after Old Huang who was throwing stones.
"Baga, we can't let them get away!" the patrol team leader shouted.
At this moment, Chen Qingyan, who was hiding in the dark, fired a bone-penetrating needle at the captain.
"Ugh..." The Japanese pirate fell to the ground, twitching in pain, spitting out black blood, and soon died.
"Baga, who is behind this?"
The other four men panicked for a moment, standing back to back with their guns pointing outward.
Seeing this, Jiang Shiyuan and Chen Qingyan fired bone-penetrating needles at two of the Japanese pirates respectively, and they fell to the ground one after another.
Lao Huang and Fang Lansheng aimed at the remaining two targets and each threw a small silver dagger with all their might, inserting it steadily and accurately into the hearts of the Japanese pirates.
The Japanese pirate patrol team was perfectly dealt with, and Jiang Shiyuan also successfully met up with Chen Qingyan, Fang Lansheng and Lao Huang in the dark.
Jiang Shiyuan couldn't help but said with lingering fear: "Thanks to the arrangement of you here in advance, otherwise it would be troublesome..."
Chen Qingyan patted Jiang Shiyuan on the shoulder and praised: "Ayuan, you are still as good as a god!"
Fang Lansheng also nodded, and then calmly suggested: "Let's take off the Japanese uniforms first, as well as the rifles and bullets. Take them all."
"These things may come in handy when we are carrying out missions in the future!"
The members of the Lantern Bearer team acted quickly, and Lao Huang imitated the cuckoo's call to convey the safety signal to Stationmaster Wang and others.
"It's Kuafu's signal. We are safe!"
When Stationmaster Wang heard the signal, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hurry, let's hurry up and bury the bronze statue!"
Lao Huang also rushed back at this time, and they worked together to push the bronze statue into the depths of the dense forest.
Then they dug a hole half a meter deep and more than two meters wide, buried the bronze statue of Mr. Sun with fallen leaves and soil, and marked the surrounding area.
"Well, we finally fulfilled our mission and completed the task safely!"
The four of them sat on the ground, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Let's go, let's retreat quickly!"
After saying that, the four of them quickly evacuated the dense forest.
In the blink of an eye, a hint of paleness appeared in the sky.
There is morning fog over the Huangpu River.
Several Japanese warships were anchored majestically on the river.
At the dock, a group of Japanese soldiers were busy preparing to load Mr. Sun's bronze statue onto a ship and ship it back to Xijing.
"Hurry up, the Emperor is waiting to see!"
A short and fat Japanese officer waved his command sword and shouted loudly.
"Hi!" The Japanese soldiers responded in unison and quickened their movements.
"Report to the commander, something big has happened!" A panicked Japanese soldier came running over, crawling.
"Baka! You're so flustered! What a mess!" The short and fat officer glared at him fiercely.
"Tell me, what happened?"
"The soldiers guarding the bronze statue..." The Japanese soldier was so scared that he stuttered.
"What's wrong with the soldier? Tell me quickly!" the short and fat officer urged impatiently.
"They...they are all dead!"
"What?!" The short and fat officer was horrified and grabbed the soldier by the collar.
"Three of them died right at the table, and two others died in the bushes..."
The short and fat officer pushed the soldier away and ran towards where the bronze statue was kept, holding his command knife.
I saw the three soldiers lying on the ground in a disorderly manner, each of them had a strange dark blue color on his face, and his death was miserable.
There were almost no visible wounds on their bodies, only the black blood at the corners of their mouths indicated that they died of poisoning.
"Baga, what the hell is going on?!" The short and fat officer was shocked and angry, with veins bulging on his forehead.
"Who did it? Who killed them?!"
"Report to the commander, the bronze statue is also missing!" The voice of another Japanese soldier trembled.
"What?!" The short and fat officer felt a black screen before his eyes and almost fainted.
He grabbed the soldier who reported the incident and shouted at the top of his lungs, "How could such a large bronze statue disappear?"
"This, this..." The soldier was so scared that his face turned pale and he stammered, unable to speak.
"Waste! You are all a bunch of waste!" The short and fat officer kicked the soldier to the ground in frustration.
"Seal off the dock immediately and search it. Dig deep to find the statue and the murderer!"
"Hi!"
"Report to the commander! We found the bodies of the patrol team in the dense forest!"
"What's going on?!"
"All five soldiers were killed. No signs of fighting were found at the scene. The initial judgment is that they were assassinated!"
"Baga, another assassination, could it be done by the same group of people?!"
"Seal off the scene immediately and catch these daring Chinese!"
"Hi!"
However, no matter how hard the Japanese military and police searched, they found nothing.
The members of the Lantern Bearer Team and the Snake Catcher Team had already evacuated safely and disappeared in the vast crowd.
They are like a group of ghosts in the dark night, coming and going without a trace, leaving the enemy with endless fear and difficult-to-solve mysteries.
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