The process of finding people was not so smooth. First of all, the East End of London is not small, and it is a famous poor area in London. The building layout is relatively unstandardized. There might be a bar hidden in an unknown alley. The search of Bai Heqing and Mary added a lot of difficulty.
Bai Heqing is a foreigner, and although Mary lives in London, she doesn't know much about the environment in the East End of London, so the two of them almost walked around asking questions and visited most of the East End.
Along the way, the two also solved some minor emergencies, including but not limited to: helping a blind old woman find her lost guide dog, and using physical methods to solve the London gang fire in the alley. He led a lost child to find his parents, used physical means to prevent a robbery, retrieved the cat that was running around for an empty-nest grandfather, and captured the perpetrator who caused a car accident and tried to escape. And use physical means to make them voluntarily pay compensation...
To be honest, Mary had never known that London could be so lively.
It is not an exaggeration to say that they solved an incident just by crossing the street.
Is this because her previous understanding of London was inadequate? Or does the man in front of him have some special physique that is hard to explain?
"This bar is not the same..."
Mary sighed slightly as she walked out of another bar that started with the letter 'J'.
"The owner of the bar has never seen the white male..."
The two of them spent the entire afternoon searching on the streets of the East District. It was already evening, the sun was setting, and the sky was filled with yellow and orange.
"Well, it seems that the situation is more troublesome than I expected." Beside her, Bai Heqing was still holding the box and nodded.
"Do you want to take a rest first?" Mary asked when she saw a stone altar where you could sit in the small square in front.
"good."
In this way, the two people who walked all afternoon decided to take a break.
Bai Heqing sat on the stone altar, while Mary went to the coffee shop nearby. After looking at her poor wallet, she finally ordered only two cups of coffee.
"I'll ask the major for reimbursement at public expense after I get back..."
Muttering quietly, she sat down next to Bai Heqing with two cups of coffee and handed one of them to him.
"Here, it's yours."
"Thank you." After staring at the coffee she handed him for a while, Bai Heqing finally chose to take it and replied honestly: "But I don't have the money to pay you back now."
"It doesn't matter, these expenses will be included in the public funds in the end, no need to... huh?"
Finally realizing what Bai Heqing said, Mary turned her head and looked at him in disbelief.
"You don't have any money on you?"
My friend, don’t you bring any money with you when you go abroad?
"Originally there was..."
For some reason, Bai Heqing subconsciously avoided her gaze. After much hesitation, he explained:
"After getting off the plane this morning, I first found a hotel and temporarily put my luggage in the room...well, and my wallet at the same time.
After that, I went to the London Police Station and waited there all morning. When I returned to the hotel..."
"The money is gone?" Mary tilted her head and looked at him and asked subconsciously.
"……Um."
Avoiding her sight again, Bai He counted his head and continued to explain:
"The window in the room showed signs of being broken into, and it was obviously stolen by a thief. Fortunately, the thief only took away my wallet and did not take away my other luggage..."
No wonder you have to carry that box with you, it turns out it has been stolen once...
Mary could probably understand Bai Heqing's helplessness at that time.
I was in London. As soon as I got off the plane and went to the police station, my money was stolen.
In this era without surveillance and various identification technologies, the language barrier made it impossible for him to collect relevant intelligence from nearby residents and passers-by, and he couldn't even track down the thief...
Ask the hotel for compensation?
It's impossible, no hotel can offer this kind of compensation.
As for seeking help from the Metropolitan Police?
He was tortured by the police all morning...
What a bad luck.
"Then have you ever thought about what to do next?" Mary asked tentatively after taking a sip of coffee.
"I originally planned to finish handling this case today and fly back in the evening..." Bai Heqing replied.
Because if he returns to his country, he can seek help from the embassy.
"Okay! Let's keep working hard! Try to catch those people within today!"
Instead of saying "It seems like this may not be possible now", Mary stood up and encouraged Bai Heqing.
"Let's go. I just heard the news in the coffee shop. There is also a qualified bar in the alley opposite. Let's go and check it out now?"
"Well, thank you." Bai Heqing stood up and followed her.
"It doesn't matter."
The next target was on the path on the opposite side of the highway. Since there happened to be a viaduct that could cross the highway, the two of them walked up it together.
On the street below, a bus arrived on the platform next to the viaduct.
"Bus." Looking down at the bus, Bai Heqing suddenly spoke.
"Are buses rare in Tokyo now?" Mary asked curiously. She had not been to Japan for a while.
"Tokyo's public transportation mainly relies on trams, which were really rare in the past. However, the government has also introduced relevant policies in the past two years. The number of trams is decreasing and buses are beginning to increase." Shirakawa Kiyoshi explained.
"To relieve traffic pressure?"
"It can only be said that it is more convenient..."
While the two were chatting, a group of people suddenly walked out of the next intersection and walked towards the bus parked on the platform.
There are seven people in this group, all of them Europeans. They all have gloomy faces and they don't look like good people.
These seven people did not notice Shirakawa Qing and Mary on the viaduct, but they noticed a certain white man who looked familiar among them.
"It's him!" Mary said quickly while holding on to the railing.
"Well, it's him." Bai Heqing took out the photo and compared it, then nodded and replied.
One of the seven men, a white man, was a member of the transnational theft gang he was hunting.
At the same time, the seven people had already boarded the bus, and the bus began to slowly start.
"Stop that car first! I'll notify the London Police Department!" Mary looked around and saw the public phone not far from the street next to her.
"It's not necessary, it's too much trouble."
"You want to...wait! This is too dangerous!"
However, Bai Heqing rejected her proposal. Just as the bus passed under the viaduct, he climbed over the railing and jumped onto the roof of the bus.
He decided to use a relatively simple and direct physical method to solve the problem.
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(End of chapter)
