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Of course, there is some good news for Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary.
The London Police Department had already informed the Paris police in advance that the Black Rose would appear in the Louvre tonight to steal cultural relics.
Although the Paris police did not inform the public of this information in order to minimize the impact on society, both Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary noticed many plainclothes police officers disguised as tourists inside the Louvre.
"It seems that the Paris police also attach great importance to the mysterious thief..."
On the second floor of the Louvre, standing in front of the famous "Mona Lisa's Smile", Marie spoke.
"Yeah." Bai Heqing nodded and responded. His responses were always concise and he would not say a single extra word if he could.
Mary had almost gotten used to his habit.
"Coming all the way up from the underground first floor, I noticed that there were nearly thirty plainclothes officers," she spoke again.
"Twenty-eight."
Shirakawa Qing added for her.
“And most of them are located near the entrances and exits of each floor.”
Perhaps because they stayed in front of Mona Lisa for too long, they both noticed that some plainclothes policemen wandering around began to look at them with suspicion.
In order to avoid causing unnecessary misunderstandings, the two turned around and walked towards the third floor of the Louvre together.
"What are you going to do? Cooperate with the Paris police?" Marie asked.
"It's too troublesome." Bai Heqing shook his head and said, "It would be more convenient to act alone."
He and Marie are both foreigners in France. Even if Shirakawa Kiyoshi can use his identity as a Japanese police officer to endorse him, it would be difficult for him to gain the trust of the Paris police.
By then, let alone a joint investigation, it would be good enough if we were not restricted in our movements by the Paris police.
And from a personal point of view, compared to working with these unfamiliar police officers, Shirakawa Qing actually trusts his own abilities more.
"Is this the artifact that Black Rose announced she was going to steal tonight?"
Arriving near a booth on the third floor of the Louvre, Bai Heqing looked at the jade statue in the booth and asked.
This is a jade statue from the Big Rabbit. It is said that it was looted from the Big Rabbit by the French government during the war in the last century and has been kept in the Louvre ever since.
The carving technique of this jade statue is extremely exquisite and has extremely high artistic value. Starting from last week, the Louvre announced that the jade statue will be displayed to the public for a week, and today is the last day.
"That's it." Mary nodded back.
This is Black Rose's target tonight. Because of this, there are many more plainclothes police officers around here compared to other places in the Louvre.
These policemen mingled with the surrounding tourists, wandering around the exhibition hall and keeping an eye on the tourists around them, making it so that Shirakawa Qing and Mary did not dare to get too close to the stand where the jade statue was.
"You two, I think you are tourists from abroad. Is this your first time at the Louvre?"
However, although the two were very restrained, they were still noticed by the extremely sensitive plainclothes police officers around them.
A female staff member suddenly came over and looked at the two of them with a smile.
Chapter 404 Help, these two are so vicious
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"Well, it's definitely our first time at the Louvre."
Under the vague gazes of the plainclothes policemen around her, Mary smiled and nodded at the female staff member who suddenly came over.
"That's right." The female staff member smiled professionally and continued, "In that case, would you like me to take you to visit the various exhibition areas of the Louvre?"
"Okay, I'll trouble you then."
Following the staff member out of the exhibition hall, Shirakawa Kiyoshi asked in Japanese: "What did she just say?"
"She is a staff member here. She said she would take us to visit the exhibits in the Louvre."
Mary also replied in Japanese, and the two of them didn't try to lower their voices because the staff couldn't understand them anyway.
"I guess those plainclothes police asked her to come... Ha, those police are really sensitive. We were just standing there for a while, and they were suspected?"
"It seems that this Black Rose is very powerful." Baihe Qing said.
"Well, that's normal. After all, this Phantom Thief Black Rose has never failed since her debut a few years ago..."
At this moment, neither of them noticed that the female staff member walking in front of them had a thin layer of cold sweat on her forehead and a panicked expression on her face as she listened to their conversation.
[White teeth, white teeth, white teeth! The two people behind can actually speak Japanese? And it sounds like they also noticed those plainclothes policemen? 】
[Who are these two people? Japanese... Could they be related to the transnational thief gang I met in London before? Could they be brought back from Japan? They don't look like thieves? Could they be here to arrest me too?]
Speculating constantly in her mind, the staff member used the reflection from the glass of the display case next to her to secretly look at Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary who were walking behind her and communicating in Japanese.
But before she could take a closer look, she saw Bai Heqing suddenly turned his head and looked at her, and their eyes suddenly met through the reflection of the glass.
【Well! 】
With his heart pounding, the frightened staff member subconsciously looked away.
[This man has such a keen sense! Damn it! If I had known that these two people were not simple, I should have passed the blame to someone else when the plainclothes policeman came to me to get them away just now...]
[Please, don’t find me...]
The staff member kept complaining in her heart, but behind her, Bai Heqing was looking at her with calm eyes.
"What's wrong?" Mary asked beside him.
This time, Bai Heqing did not answer her immediately. Instead, he took out the small notebook he carried with him, opened it skillfully, and pointed out a few words in it.
She, doubt, question, Japanese, may, understand.
[I suspect she has a problem. She may understand our communication.]
Mary immediately understood what he meant. She raised her finger and pointed to the word "understand" on the notebook to indicate that she understood. Then Mary squinted her eyes and looked at the staff member in front of her.
After noticing that the two suddenly stopped talking, the staff became even more panicked.
[Help, this is too scary, they won't really find me, right? ]
Although they felt that the staff member was a little strange, Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary did not take any further action in the end.
After all, the Louvre was full of plainclothes police officers from the Paris police at that time, and this female staff member was most likely one of them. Any rash and extreme behavior would only put the two of them in a more troublesome situation.
Just like that, with both sides having their own thoughts, the three of them briefly visited the Louvre, and then Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary left.
"Thank you, Miss Tour Guide."
Returning to the entrance of the glass pyramid, Mary spoke to the female staff member in French.
"You're welcome. Tourists' satisfaction is the greatest encouragement to us." The staff member replied very officially.
[Huh, I finally got these two people away. Hurry up and leave! Hurry up and leave! It’s best if they don’t come back tonight!]
"Goodbye." Shirakawa Qing also spoke, of course, this time he used Japanese.
"See you."
Subconsciously, the staff member responded.
[Oh my god! I got scammed!]
However, as soon as she said this, her expression changed.
She raised her head and saw that a smile suddenly appeared on Baihe Qing's calm face, and the same was true for Mary beside him.
"You, understand Japanese." He said with a smile.
"Uh, that..." She was so panicked that sweat began to appear on her face.
"You heard our previous conversation, right?" Bai Heqing continued to ask.
"How should I put it, haha..."
"I, I was just called here by those plainclothes policemen to get you away! Don't ask me! I really don't know anything! Welcome to visit us next time! It's better that we never see each other again!"
Overwhelmed by the invisible pressure from Shirakawa Kiyoshi, the staff member shouted a lot in Japanese, then quickly turned around and disappeared from the two people's sight.
"The psychological quality is really poor."
Seeing this, Mary suddenly said, "It seems that she is just a staff member who happens to know Japanese."
"From the current perspective, this possibility is indeed greater." After thinking for a while, Bai Heqing nodded in agreement.
He never expected that the other party would run away after being scared by him, which made him lose the opportunity to further test his identity.
"Let's go back and discuss the action plan for tonight... Well, by the way, I also need to report today's situation to the major." Mary said without thinking any more.
"it is good……"
The two turned and left, and Bai Heqing asked curiously.
"Do MI6 agents have to report to their superiors every day?"
"Normally it's not necessary, but the major is always worried that I might get into trouble, so he specifically asked me to do this..." Mary replied truthfully, with a helpless expression on her face.
At this time, the newcomer Mary still had the impatience common among young people. In order to help her correct this shortcoming for an intelligence officer, the major made many seemingly unreasonable demands on her.
This includes the requirement to report the mission status to him every day when going out on a mission.
If she had any extreme behavior during the mission, the major would point it out in time and repeatedly urge her to correct it.
Although Mary complained about this, she didn't hate it.
On the contrary, it was the major's overly strict requirements on her that eventually prompted her to become the ace agent of MI6 in the future.
"He is a very good superior." Bai Heqing said, knowing the major's intention very well.
"I've always thought so." Mary nodded back with a smile on her face.
However, neither of them noticed that after they walked away, the female staff member who had escaped earlier quietly poked her head out of the glass pyramid to take a look.
[Huh, they finally left. Those two people gave me a really fierce feeling, completely different from those plainclothes policemen... Are they really here to arrest me too? ]
Biting her lip, after an intense mental struggle, she finally made up her mind.
[No, if that's the case, then I absolutely cannot just sit there and wait for death. Anyway, there's still some time until the evening. Let me find out your details first, hehehe...]
After changing his clothes, the staff member hurriedly chased after him.
And under the sleeve on her right wrist, a "black rose" tattoo was faintly visible.