"Mr. Stewart, this is Bai He."
Late at night, at a telephone exchange in Paris that was still open, Bai Heqing called Stewart's phone number.
On the rest bench not far behind him, Mary was sitting there, her eyes alert to the movements around her.
The two of them did not go back to the apartment that was used as a contact point by MI6. After all, if Andrew is really the person in charge of MI6 in Paris, these contact points are likely to have been monitored. The two are now There is no difference between the past and falling into a trap.
Therefore, the public long-distance phone became the only way for the two to contact Stewart.
"Shirakawa?"
Hearing Bai Heqing's voice, Stewart on the other end of the phone was visibly relieved.
"Young man, you finally showed up... You don't know how many calls Old Man Hatoyama called me during the whole day you disappeared.
Every time I picked up the phone, he would first ask me if I had found you, and then he would talk rubbish to me over the phone. Just a few minutes before your call, I had just calmed down his irritable temper. Temper...Thank God, now I don't have to listen to his trash talk anymore.
Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore. Now tell me young people, what exactly did you encounter before? Did something happen to Mary? "
"Thank you for your concern. Mary and I are both fine, but we did encounter some troublesome things before..."
Considering that this was not something that could be said over a public phone, Bai Heqing made a subtle hint.
"Is it something inconvenient to talk about?"
Stewart understood what he meant immediately. On the other end of the phone, there was suddenly the sound of drawers being pulled and files being turned over.
"Tell me where you are now."
"Paris Telephone Office No. 1." Shirakawa Qing replied.
"The first telephone office? It just so happens that there is a suitable stronghold on the nearby street. Bai He, please note the location and I will give you another number. This number is no longer in use. You can call me when you get there.
Don't worry, I'm the only one who knows that stronghold. It's very safe and no one will come to disturb it. "
Stewart emphasized the last sentence.
"Yes, I will contact you again soon."
After writing down the location and number, Bai Heqing hung up the phone and turned to look at Mary behind him.
"How is it?" Mary asked quickly as she stood up from the bench.
"The director gave us an address and asked us to go there and contact him." Shirakawa Qing replied as he left the telephone station with Mary.
"Is it also the base of MI6 in Paris? Could it be there..."
"No." Knowing what she was worried about, Bai Heqing explained: "Only the director himself knows about this stronghold, and it is not under Andrew's control."
"good."
Under the cover of darkness, the two quickly arrived at the address given by Stewart, which was also a vacant apartment.
After taking out the apartment key stuck to the bottom of the potted plant at the door, the two opened the door and walked in.
"Watch your surroundings."
Throwing the small pistol he had snatched from the dock to Mary, Shirakawa Qing locked the door and walked towards the study room of the apartment.
"Um."
They tacitly agreed not to turn on the lights. In the dark room, Mary walked to the window with a gun and took a look at the situation on the street below.
Bai Heqing, as Stewart said before, activated the mechanism behind the bookshelf in the study and opened a small secret room.
There is a landline phone in the corner of the secret room.
Picking up the phone, Bai Heqing dialed the phone number Stewart just gave him.
"Young man, you are moving very quickly." The call was quickly connected and Stewart said with a smile.
"How's it going? Are you interested in joining our MI6 office?"
"Mr. Stewart, you are joking." Bai Heqing declined politely.
"Haha! Just kidding, even if you, young man, are willing, I think that old man Hatoyama will definitely not let go.
Okay, let’s stop talking about these gossips. Let’s talk about it. What happened to you in the past two days? "
"Yes, yesterday afternoon, Mary received a temporary assignment from her superior..."
Over the phone, Bai Heqing explained in detail what he and Mary had experienced from yesterday to today, including what happened on the dock and what happened to Andrew.
However, he concealed the details related to the Black Rose, saying only that he and Mary evaded the search of the French Mafia by hiding on a ship.
As for the way they learned that Andrew was the head of MI6 in Paris, Bai Heqing also grafted it onto the murdered mafia boss Harry.
"Andrew..."
When Stewart heard this, he suddenly fell silent. After a long time, he finally said: "Bai He, the information you got is correct. The head of the Paris station of MI6 is indeed called Andrew, and he does have a person on the surface. The identity of a businessman...
You mean, he has a smuggling deal with the French mafia? "
"Yes, according to the information Mary investigated before, the French mafia who cooperated with Andrew is named Harry. The two have been conducting illegal smuggling transactions of cultural relics from various countries in the past few years. The cultural relic smuggling case I came to London to pursue this time seems to be Also involved with them.
After Mary's whereabouts were exposed, Andrew quickly discovered her identity as an MI6 agent and sent snipers to kill us..."
"Your visa to Paris was exactly what I asked Andrew to contact the French authorities to expedite for you. The agent sent from London happened to appear at the scene where he met with the mafia...
I think it was precisely because of these two coincidences that he made the misjudgment that London was investigating him out of fear, and thus came up with the idea of silencing you...
The French mafia in Paris have been searching your whereabouts for the past two days. I thought you had some conflict with them before. Now it seems that Andrew wants to use the help of these mafia to get rid of you two... "
Sighing slightly, Stewart continued:
"Bai He, this matter is my negligence. MI6 has actually heard about Andrew's long-term contact with the French Mafia. It's just because his ability as an agent is not bad, and he didn't do anything. Something too outrageous had happened, so London did not pursue the matter too closely.
It's just that I didn't expect that he would be so courageous that he would even dare to attack his colleagues!
This has seriously violated the discipline of MI6. Logically speaking, I should ask people from the Intelligence Agency to investigate now, and then secretly escort him back to London to face sentencing after collecting enough evidence.
But I think this is not the purpose of Baihe calling me, right? "
Stewart asked with a smile. He seemed to have guessed the real purpose of Bai Heqing's call to him.
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(End of chapter)
