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【Who is this East Asian man? 】
"Major, I'll go after him."
Without saying anything else, Mary turned and quickly left the bar.
The sky outside London was foggy. Mary came to the street and soon found Baihe Qing who had not walked far.
He did not try to hide his whereabouts. He walked along the street with a box in his hand, scanning the shops on the roadside one by one, as if he was looking for something.
"Hey! Wait!" Seeing this, Mary hurriedly chased after him.
The East Asian man named Shirakawa Kiyoshi really seemed to not understand English. He didn't even respond to Mary's call. It was not until Mary's footsteps sounded behind him that he finally turned around and looked.
He looked at Mary, frowning slightly, then took out his little notebook from his pocket, turned to a page skillfully, and said in a poor accent like a beginner according to the mark on it:
"I don't speak English, what can I do for you?"
Well, the language barrier is indeed a tricky problem.
"I……"
Just as Mary was thinking about how to communicate with Shirakawa Qing, she suddenly noticed out of the corner of her eye that the pronunciation annotations on the small notebook in Shirakawa Qing's hand were actually in Japanese?
"Are you...from Japan?" Mary asked tentatively in Japanese.
"Who are you?" Now Bai Heqing understood. He did not answer Mary's question, but asked back.
[Very good, we can communicate now. 】
Mary breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but she did not relax her vigilance against Baihe Qing. Instead, she took out her MI6 ID and said in an official tone:
"MI6, Mary Sera, your name is Shirakawa Kiyoshi, right? Now please tell me who you are and why you came to London."
"Japanese police, coming to London to handle a transnational case, this is my visa." After looking at her ID, Shirakawa Qing took out his visa and the corresponding police officer ID.
[Kiyoshi Shirakawa, 24 years old, police rank is...Inspector?! ]
Looking at the police rank and position marked on Officer Qing Baihe's ID card, Mary was a little surprised.
Considering this person's age, he should have been in the police force for less than two years, right? And he has already reached the position of police captain?
Inspector, the fifth of the ten levels of police ranks in the Japanese police force, is already at the level of middle-level cadres.
For a moment, she even doubted the authenticity of this police officer's ID.
Could this be fake?
However, the style of this visa is authentic. Due to her profession, Mary can see that Bai Heqing's visa is not forged. Even if there is a problem, she can check the code on it and it will become clear.
But no matter what, she still has to control this danger first...
"Hey! Wait!"
Just when Mary was a little distracted, Bai Heqing abandoned her directly and turned to leave.
No, are you leaving just like that?
He didn't seem to be at all worried about his documents falling into Mary's hands.
Mary was stunned by Bai Heqing's action. She took his police officer ID and visa and hurried after him.
"stop!"
"Is there anything else?" Bai Heqing stopped and looked at her calmly.
He has a kind of coldness that makes him difficult to approach.
"Take your things and tell me in detail the specific purpose of your visit to London and the situation of the transnational theft gang you mentioned."
Perhaps to increase the legitimacy of her words, Mary added another sentence.
"This is a routine inquiry."
"The transnational theft gang stole cultural relics in Japan and then fled to the UK. According to the information I got in Japan, they would contact traders in a bar in East London whose name begins with the letter 'J' and then sell the cultural relics.
My mission here is to arrest them and recover the stolen artifacts.”
As Mary requested, Shirakawa Kiyoshi explained the whole story in detail.
A bar that starts with the letter J?
Mary suddenly remembered that the name of the bar she and the major had been to seemed to start with the letter J.
So you were wandering around this street just to find a place to trade with the criminals?
"Since you are dealing with a transnational theft gang, why don't you seek help from the London Police Department?" Mary asked again. She did not easily believe Bai Heqing's words.
As she asked this question, Bai Heqing suddenly looked at her with a strange look.
"After getting off the plane, the first thing I did was go to the London Police Station," he replied.
"Because the relevant intelligence sharing had been completed before I came, the London Police Department told me that they would do their best to assist me in catching those criminals.
So I asked them for a list of all the pubs in East London that started with the letter 'J'."
"They... didn't give it to you?" Mary seemed to know why Baihe Qing was wandering the streets alone.
"No, they said yes."
Looking at her, Bai Heqing said calmly: "They asked me to wait in the lounge for a while, but I waited all morning and no one came to give me the list. When I asked, they just told me to keep waiting.
I think the people in the London Police Department usually have a lot of work to do, and they are so busy that they need to drink coffee all the time to stay awake. In this case, it is not convenient for me to trouble them for help. "
"Sorry..." Mary replied apologetically.
How could she not hear the negative meaning in Bai Heqing's words?
Perhaps because Bai Heqing was a foreigner who couldn't even speak English well, the people from the London Police Department didn't take his needs seriously at all. Not only did they stay in the police station drinking coffee to kill time, they also left Bai Heqing in the lounge for the whole morning.
"No need to apologize."
In response to her sudden apology, Baihe Qing did not react at all.
"After all, I didn't expect them to be of much help at first. Their response made it easier for me to act."
The implication is that rather than being left aside, Shirakawa Kiyoshi was more worried that the London Police Department would hinder his arrest.
"Do you have anything else you want to ask?" Bai Heqing looked at Mary and asked, as if he felt that he had answered most of his questions.
"Uh, there is none at the moment. Thank you for your cooperation..."
"Then can I go?"
"This one……"
Just as Mary hesitated, not knowing how to start.
Although Baihe Qing's answer sounded fine, this man still showed great aggressiveness in the bar just now, and it was impossible to let him leave.
At least we can't let him continue wandering the streets alone.
"Mary!"
Just then, behind Mary, one of her MI6 colleagues ran over.
Chapter 396 You two should go on a date
"Mary!"
On the streets of London, an MI6 agent ran over quickly.
"What's wrong?" Mary asked, looking back at him.
"The major asked me to give you a message." The agent said, signaling with his eyes to Shirakawa Qing who was standing next to Mary.
In this era, convenient things like mobile phones have not yet been invented.
"What did the Major say?"
After looking at Baihe Qing apologetically, Mary pulled the agent to the corner of the street, and the two talked in low voices.
"We've figured out the identity of this person. He's Shirakawa Qing, a police officer from Japan. He came to London to track down a transnational theft gang. He got off the plane this morning. The embassy urgently processed his visa for him. He can only stay in the country for seven days..."
"Go on." Mary nodded. She already knew all this information.
"The major has already contacted the director. This person...has a very powerful background."
Glancing at Shirakawa Kiyoshi who was patiently waiting by the side, the agent whispered in Mary's ear, "He seems to be the grandson-in-law of the Japanese Hatoyama family..."
"Hatoyama family?"
"Well, Japan is a family-based politics. Mary, you should know this better than me. I heard that the Hatoyama family is a family with great power in Japanese politics...
The current head of the Hatoyama family seems to have a good relationship with our director. On the phone just now, the director personally vouched for this man's exoneration and asked the major not to embarrass him..."
Mary finally understood why Bai Heqing dared to beat someone up in the bar and left without a note, and why he didn't care about his documents being confiscated by her...
So you really have a backer?
Or her top boss, the Director of MI6?
"What is the Major going to do?" Mary asked, feeling a little headache.
She hated dealing with people with backers the most.
"The director has spoken, what else can the major do? Anyway, we don't need to compensate for the losses of the bar. When the time comes, we can just ask the director to reimburse us at public expense. However..."
Glancing at Bai Heqing again, the agent lowered his voice and said:
"But this person is indeed dangerous. Although the director has guaranteed him, the major is still worried that he will do something dangerous in the future. So we need at least someone to watch him and prevent him from causing trouble..."
"Ok?"
Suddenly, Mary seemed to understand what the agent was really trying to say to her.
She pointed at her face and asked incredulously, "Does the major want me to look after him?"
"What else?" The agent chuckled, "Mary is the best fighter in our group. You've seen that guy's fighting prowess before. He can kick people so far away. You must be the right choice for this one." ah!"
"But……"
"Okay, I understand. Mary, don't feel too burdened. He's just staring at him. I don't want you to do anything.
Just think of it as the major giving you a few days off, go out and have a date, I think that guy is pretty good looking, and you two are both good fighters, it's a good opportunity to get together..."
"I'll date your head!"