Gray Dragon Island, China: 04:16 AM: There is another junk moored nearby. Who could it be?? It is dark and difficult to see anything with any certainty but we don’t think it is Ho Fong’s boat. Simon hears someone coming up the stairs… Talking Chinese… Greg knocks over a pan (!!!!) and alerts the guard!…
Category: China
23: Planning for Gray Dragon Island
Shanghai, China: 17:00 PM: We retrieve as much of our stuff as we can. Hotel gunfight headline news. Someone is dragged into the building. A spy? They have a gun to his head. Brady: “He’s a spy and we have to kill him.” Gaidar: “No he’s our friend.” Captain Taro: “I am Captain Taro Isoge…
22: Shanghai Notes 2
Shanghai, China: 18:45 PM: Somewhere in Nevada, 1938: INTERVIEWER AGENT SMITH: “Mr., ahem – I mean, sorry, – Professor – Fock, I would now like to ask you about what happened on the evening in Shanghai following the poisoning incident at the hotel. What do you recall?” FOCK: “I remember many things that happened in…
21: Shanghai Notes 1
Shanghai, China: 09:00 AM: WE HAVE TO MAKE THREE ROLLS… The missing Choi Mei-Ling (flower girl): where is she? We decide to split into 2 groups to work through the list of experts. GROUP 1: Trent, Joe, Irma, Wesley: Seaman’s Lodge GROUP 2: Gupta, Simon, Gaidar, Trixie: The Monks of the Purple Lotus We hire…
20: Welcome to Shanghai
Shanghai, China 11:44 AM: We arrived in Shanghai on Saturday 11th April 1925. Sure New York has a busy waterfront, but this place is chaos. Vast crowds of people gathered everywhere. Coolies, Soldiers, officials, junks, rafts, and tiny row boats swarm all over and around our freighter. The officials grab our crates; crowbar them, before…