After getting the number, Zhang Heng carefully observed the crowd in the waiting area. This time the situation was much more complicated. There were not only students, couples, but also couples, fathers and daughters, colleagues, etc. in the waiting area of the Xiangguo restaurant. There were twenty or thirty people, and Zhang Heng even saw two boys who seemed to be gay among them. The fatter one had a pink hairpin with a flirty hello-kitty on his left ear.
It’s hard to tell who was peeping at him just from his appearance. Although there are indeed a few high school students who are still looking here, they are basically peeping at Hayase Asuka, and they were waiting in line before At that time, Hayase Asuka was standing on the other side waiting for him, so the people peeping at him were not these high school students.
In addition, the mall is an open area, and passers-by pass by from time to time. In theory, it is possible that the person who peeped at him before was not in the waiting area.
Zhang Heng frowned. It was not a good feeling to smell something was going to happen in advance but not know what would happen.
Just then, someone tapped his shoulder.
Then Zhang Heng heard an exclamation from Hayase Asuka next to him. He turned around and saw a Kumamon bear.
Many large shopping malls will hire people to put on similar doll costumes to look cute and mean. This is also a way for shopping malls or shops to attract customers, and it is especially popular with girls and children.
Sure enough, Hayase Asuka was pleasantly surprised when she saw Kumamon Bear, "Ah, it's so cute. Can we also see Kumamon in China?" As she said this, she took out her Polaroid from her small bag and said in an expectant tone. He asked, “Can the three of us take a photo together?”
Zhang Heng nodded. Being interrupted like this, he could no longer look for the voyeur before. He found a couple who were relatively close to them and asked the boy among them to take a photo of the two of them.
However, Kumamon did not leave after that. Instead, he stood there and stretched out his hand to Hayase Asuka, making a coquettish gesture of wanting a hug.
The latter laughed when he saw this and generously gave Kumamon a strong bear hug.
As a result, when the two separated, Kumamon had another rose in his hand. He pointed at Zhang Heng and then at Hayase Asuka. Hayase Asuka's face turned red, but he didn't know it was because of shyness. Still because she couldn't speak Chinese, she took the rose and said nothing.
Afterwards, Kumamon expressed his feelings again, then waved and turned to leave, looking for the next couple. However, after this incident, Hayase Asuka seemed a little absent-minded. After a minute, the Polaroid photo came out. When she got the photo, she didn't even bother to look at it and hurriedly opened the small bag, trying to put the photo in, but her movements stopped there the next moment.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Heng asked.
"Eh? Wallet, where did the wallet go? I remember it was still inside when I took the photo." Asuka Hayase muttered as he rummaged through the small bag again, but still couldn't find his wallet.
After that, she searched her pockets carefully, but there was still no sign of her wallet. At this time, Hayase Asuka became a little panicked.
Because there was not only cash in it, but also her domestic and Japanese bank cards and campus cards. But the worse thing was yet to come. Then she found that the passport in her bag was gone, and she was about to get it. It was time to go home for the New Year, and her air tickets had already been booked. She would not be able to board the plane without her passport.
If Hayase Asuka saw it right, her wallet was still lying quietly in the small bag on her shoulder before she picked up the Polaroid, and the only person who had physical contact with her during the following period was Kumamoto Bear.
Less than three minutes after the other party left, Zhang Heng said to Hayase Asuka who was about to cry, "Wait for me here and don't wander around. I'll be back soon."
After saying that, Zhang Heng chased the Kumamon in the direction where he left. However, he ran to the end of the corridor but never saw the shadow of the Kumamon. Logically speaking, it would be impossible based on the speed at which the Kumamon was moving in a doll suit. After running further, Zhang Heng stopped a few passers-by and asked them if they had seen a Kumamon.
He also specially selected people coming from different directions to ask, but the answers he got were without exception that he had not seen it.
That Kumamon seemed to have evaporated out of thin air.
Later, Zhang Heng saw the service desk not far away and ran over.
"Sorry, sir, I have no right to disclose to you the personal information of our part-time staff in the mall." The guide there felt that Zhang Heng was more like a prisoner and said nervously.
"Then do you think that when the police and media come, and it becomes known all over the city, in newspapers and online, you will hold similar events in the future and other people's first reaction will be to take care of their wallets first, or do you think you should do it now? If we catch the person and retrieve the wallet, we can not call the police, or would it be more beneficial to you not to contact the media after calling the police?" Zhang Heng asked, "Don't say I didn't remind you, he just left a few minutes ago, it's very big Probably hasn’t left the mall yet.”
Probably frightened by someone's momentum, the conductor swallowed and said, "Please wait a moment, I will ask our leader for instructions."
Half a minute later she put down the phone and said, "Sir, I just asked the colleague in charge and he said that our mall did not hire anyone to dress up as a Kumamon bear to attract customers today."
"What about the stores in your mall? Have they hired anyone?"
"I don't know about that." However, the guide hesitated and added, "But usually if there is such an activity, the merchants will report it to us..."
However, before she could finish her words, she saw Zhang Heng's figure rushing towards the escalator on the other side.
While the guide was talking, Zhang Heng discovered the Kumamoto Bear again on the second floor. Not only did the latter show no signs of trying to escape, but he calmly squatted outside the only store and teased her. A little girl of six or seven years old.
It used the same method to hug the little girl, then changed it into a lollipop and gave it to the girl, and then touched the girl's head.
At this time, Zhang Heng had already jumped off the half-filled escalator amidst a chorus of exclamations.
It only took him more than ten seconds to go down from the fifth floor to the second floor. With his feet firmly on the ground, he stared blankly at the two girls drinking milk tea not far away. Then the girls seemed to have thought of something and excitedly took out their mobile phones. , wanted to record this scene that was like a stunt performance, but Zhang Heng stopped playing and jumped on the elevator and ran towards Only on the opposite side.
The straight-line distance between the two sides is not far, but there is a hollow patio in the middle. Zhang Heng has to walk half a circle along the corridor to get through.
The Kumamon obviously noticed him, but he didn't show any signs of panic. He just stood in front of the store and looked at Zhang Heng with his arms crossed. The big gaping mouth and two rouges of blush made him look particularly shabby. beat.
