"Sister Mary, you have really gone through a lot..."
Japan, Tokyo, in the kitchen of an ordinary rental house, while telling Carly about the past events, Mary almost prepared all the dishes to be made today.
"What happens after that?"
Having completely wiped out a large bag of potato chips, Carly sat on the cupboard at the back, smacking her hands and asking curiously:
"He just went back like this?"
"What else can we do if we don't go back? Do we want him to stay in London?" Mary asked with a smile, her back turned to her.
"Too."
Carly nodded, expressed her agreement, and then turned to complain: "But usually in TV dramas, the male protagonist will always choose to stay at this time..."
"Carly, that's why I keep telling you to watch less of those mindless romantic dramas. It will really help your intelligence."
After washing her hands under the faucet, Mary said helplessly:
"Besides, I'm not the heroine in his story."
"Slightly..." Sticking out his tongue at her, Carly continued to ask curiously: "Then did you still have contact with each other later? For example, call each other or something?"
Her body suddenly stiffened, and Mary was silent for a long time before replying:
"there is none left."
"Huh? We obviously lived and died together, but we didn't have any contact at all after that?" When Carly heard this, her eyes widened in disbelief.
"Yeah." Mary nodded again.
"I feel now that you should be the one with the problem, not me."
"This is a normal thing."
Mary didn't explain much about her words, she just replied softly.
"We don't have a very special relationship to begin with. We were thousands of miles apart at that time, so it was normal for us to have no contact with each other..."
"I don't understand... So the next time you meet is twenty years ago?" Carly shook her head, too lazy to complain about the two people's brains.
In her opinion, even if we can only be ordinary friends, it is not a sinful act to occasionally contact each other to express concern. Why do we have to act like we have severed the relationship from now on...
"Not really."
It seemed that she was also lost in memories. Faced with Carly's questions, Mary chose to answer them all.
"The next time I saw him was ten years ago. As for twenty years ago...he didn't show up."
Twenty years ago, Kiyoshi Shirakawa, who had already served as the chief inspector of the Japanese police, was accidentally killed in a terrorist attack.
Due to the special identity of Shirakawa Kiyoshi, this news caused an uproar in Japan at the time, and even Mary in London heard about it.
Bai Heqing is dead.
On a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists, at the last moment of dealing with the terrorists, he was killed by a bomb planted by the terrorists on the cruise ship.
The terrorist leader who caused this incident was not arrested by the police and is still at large.
When she learned the news, Mary didn't believe it at all.
No matter from any angle, she didn't believe that Bai Heqing would die in such a way.
Therefore, Mary immediately left for Japan at that time. Her intuition told her that there must be something wrong.
But twenty years ago, the miracle didn't happen.
After Mary came to Japan, she happened to run into the second terrorist attack that the absconding terrorist leader was trying to plan.
So she assisted the Japanese police, easily solved the incident, and successfully arrested the terrorist leader. The whole process developed extremely smoothly.
Only Bai Heqing seemed to have really died on the sunken cruise ship. All the information she could collect at the time confirmed this, making his death gradually no longer suspenseful.
It wasn't until ten years ago, when Mary took her children on vacation in the United States, that she saw the man again who was supposed to have been dead for ten years.
It was an encounter that caught both of them off guard.
"Your affairs are really complicated...forget it, what about the woman who calls herself Black Rose?"
After complaining for a while, Carly suddenly asked: "I feel like this person is an easy person to get along with. Sister Mary, have you ever contacted her again?"
"She..."
Seeing Carly mention the black rose, Mary slowly turned around. She leaned on the edge of the cabinet, lowered her eyes, and sighed softly.
"She died a long time ago."
"Huh?" Her answer caught Carly by surprise.
"Black Rose and I... are not very familiar with Mina. The farewell in London was the last time I saw her. In the following years, she was still active in various European countries.
Then suddenly one day, she disappeared, and the police in various countries never obtained any information about her actions.
I only learned about her subsequent experiences when I met Bai He again ten years ago and chatted with him.
A few years after we parted ways in London, Mina washed her hands and returned to Japan to get married.
After getting married, she gave up her identity as Black Rose as a phantom thief and became a folklorist, conducting local B&B inspections in various remote areas of Japan... She is indeed a person who is very interested in history. "
At this point, Mary suddenly smiled, her eyes a little sad.
"Perhaps because Shirakawa settled in Japan, the relationship between the two of them has been good since then.
During Mina's inspections in various places in Japan, she often encountered some complicated and difficult incidents. At each of these times, it was Shirakawa who helped her solve these incidents so that her inspections could proceed smoothly.
Until later, an accident happened...she was killed like this. By the time Bai He realized that she was in danger, it was already too late.
These things happened more than 20 years ago. Mina's husband died early. Her murder made her still young daughter suddenly become an orphan without a father and mother.
The child was later raised by Shirakawa, which was okay. At least she grew up safely and is now quite famous in Japan. "
As soon as the words fell, Mary's originally sad face suddenly showed a smile.
"This is a very beautiful and talented girl. If there is a chance later, I will introduce you to her."
"Why does it sound like I have become a big star..."
"Buzz!"
As soon as Carly finished complaining, Mary's cell phone suddenly rang. She took it out and took a look, and her eyebrows suddenly furrowed.
"What's wrong? Whose phone number is it?" Carly asked curiously.
"It's Xiuyi who called," Mary replied.
"He actually took the initiative to contact you?"
In this morning's amusement park incident, Akai Shuichi hijacked Miyano Akemi in the amusement park and ran away, completely disrupting Mary's original plan. Afterwards, Carly wandered around the area for several times without finding anyone...
"Um."
Mary nodded and answered Akai Shuichi's call.
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(End of chapter)
