"Dear San Francisco Tower, I'm here for Deep Blue Airlines' temporary flight 31, requesting landing instructions. ”

"The tower received, agree to the landing request of Deep Blue Temporary Flight 31, please land in five minutes, please note that your landing time is only ten minutes, otherwise there will be the next plane to kick your ass!"

As the flight and the airport tower talked, a Boeing 737 appeared over San Francisco International Airport five minutes later and landed steadily on the runway. When the flight stopped, a passenger ladder car drove up the passenger elevator, the cabin door opened, and two Chinese people walked down the escalator, these two Chinese were none other than Zhou Ming and Zhang Lin from Brighton, and the current time was eight o'clock in the morning San Francisco time.

Got on the airport shuttle bus, Zhou Ming turned on his mobile phone and called Mark Mark, the chairman of Deep Blue Airlines, to thank him, because in accordance with the relevant regulations on air transport safety, all passenger flights are not allowed to take off after midnight at night, and only temporarily arranged special flights are no longer listed, so Mark Mark, the chairman of Deep Blue Airlines, sold Zhou Ming's face very happily, after all, Zhou Ming has been the largest investor of Deep Blue Airlines for a long time.

Zhou Ming's car was not brought with him, he and Zhang Lin were at the airport where they left by taxi, and their driver was a very talkative black man.

When Zhou Ming and Zhang Lin got into the car, he preemptively said: "Chinese, don't talk first, let me guess, you must be going to Chinatown, right?"

Although there was some surprise, Zhou Ming still smiled and nodded yes, and the black man also stepped on the accelerator happily and said: "I guess that's it, we have a lot of Chinese in San Francisco, it is said that one in every four San Franciscans will be Chinese, and I have also seen your Chinatown, it is simply another completely different world, too beautiful and amazing!"

"Yes? Can you tell us about San Francisco's Chinatown? I'm curious, too. Zhou Ming said.

The black man glanced back at Zhou Ming, who was sitting in the back seat, and said, "Hey buddy, it seems that you are coming to San Francisco for the first time, so I will simply introduce you to the whole city of San Francisco." ”

Zhou Ming nodded yes, and then the black man turned on the CD player in the car, and then used their unique musical talent to introduce Zhou Ming to the whole of San Francisco in the way of rap.

In fact, Zhou Ming had already flipped through the information before he came and had a certain understanding of San Francisco, but after listening to the introduction of this black friend, he had a more intuitive understanding.

The whole of San Francisco is the north and south of the two peninsulas that extend into the bay, connected by a Golden Gate Bridge, and the name San Francisco was originally because of the discovery of gold mines, with a huge gold rush to establish and develop the city;

The most prosperous area of San Francisco is basically on the peninsula in the south, the airport is next to San Francisco Bay, the southernmost part of South San Francisco, and Zhou Ming's Chinatown is also called Chinatown, which is on the northeast corner of downtown San Francisco, next to the financial district. In other words, Zhou Ming and the others need to travel longitudinally through the entire South San Francisco to get to their destination.

After an hour and a half, Zhou Ming and Zhang Lin finally arrived at their destination, as introduced in the tourist brochure, at the door of San Francisco's Chinatown hung four big characters for the world, the buildings inside are also very rich in Chinese characteristics, and there are a lot of merchants hanging flags and lanterns on both sides of the road.

However, there is a very strange thing here, many of the buildings have strange layouts, for example, Zhou Ming and they crossed a street, the first floor is a barber shop, and the second floor is a Mazu Temple. This is because Chinatown is close to the most prosperous financial district, and it can be said that every inch of land is at a premium, so Chinatown can continue to build high-rise buildings on the basis of not being able to develop horizontally, because the first and second floors are very likely to be built half a century apart, so there will be these very puzzling layouts.

Although this was amazing, Zhou Ming didn't have the leisure to study, and finally the car stopped at a street corner under Zhang Lin's guidance.

It is a relatively narrow street, lined with buildings in the style of half a century ago, perhaps due to width and layout problems, with a sign at the entrance of the street that prohibits vehicles.

Zhou Ming looked up at the houses on both sides and asked Zhang Lin, "Are you sure it's here?"

Zhang Lin nodded and said, "According to my technical tracking, as long as the number you gave me and the map in our hands are fine, then I won't be mistaken." ”

Zhou Ming spread his hands: "However, the problem is that I can't be sure if there is a problem with these two points." ”

Then Zhou Ming's eyes became serious again: "But now even Sister Muqing and her family can't contact her, I finally received her news, I still have to give it a try." ”

Zhou Ming said this, he remembered two days ago, at that time it was a critical moment to prepare to sue the materials of forty-five investment companies such as the Caribbean, and suddenly received a call from Su Han in the evening, Zhou Ming thought that she was going to come to the United States again, because this is what she has to say every time she calls, she misses herself too much, if it weren't for the industry and parents she left behind in China, I'm afraid she would have come over without hesitation.

But this time she didn't say it, but told Zhou Ming that she had received a strange message, which was a transnational paging message: Zhou Ming, help me, I am Tang Ran.

Although it was only a short nine words, it made Su Han feel that something was wrong, and she immediately called Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming was very surprised by this news, because he hadn't contacted her for a long time since he left Nanjiang, so Zhou Ming could understand why she asked for help through Su Han, but he didn't understand why she was looking for help from herself.

Zhou Ming was very strange, but at that time, he was at the critical moment of preparing materials, so Zhou Ming put this matter aside first, and it was not until Lin Muqing mentioned the news of Tang Ran's running away from home to Zhou Ming two days later, Zhou Ming suddenly remembered this matter.

This is also the most important reason why Zhou Ming insisted on coming to San Francisco in person!

Zhou Ming doesn't think that a simple family conflict, the girl's willfulness to run away from home, she will have to make such a big detour to find herself for help, and if she just runs away from home, she doesn't need to go abroad at all, run to a place where she has only been once.

At the same time, in order to avoid Lin Muqing's too much worry, Zhou Ming didn't tell her, not only because he was afraid that she would be jealous, but also on the other hand, that is, Zhou Ming's hunch, when he heard Tang Ran's matter, he always had a feeling that this matter was not as simple as it seemed on the surface, since the first time he answered Su Han's phone, and the second time after listening to Lin Muqing, this feeling became stronger and stronger.

Zhou Ming didn't know what this feeling was, in order to verify, he could only come to San Francisco as soon as possible, which is why he was unwilling to wait until the next day, after arranging everything in Brighton, he asked Deep Blue Airlines to arrange a special flight after midnight.

Of course, Zhou Ming was not blind when he came over, when he put down Tang Ran's matter first, he asked Zhang Lin to track down the number that Su Han received a pager, and Zhang Lin found out through his technical means that it was a family phone number belonging to San Francisco.

It is precisely for this reason that Zhou Ming came here as soon as he arrived in San Francisco, hoping to find Tang Ran through this clue; even if Tang Ran is not here now, at least he knows that she has been here and has something to do with this family, so he can also get other clues through this family, otherwise there is no clue at all, and it is no less difficult to find a person among the 850,000 people in San Francisco than to land on the moon.

"No. 12 Zhangjia Lane, look at this house number should be not far from the street. ”

Zhou Ming was about to walk into the alley, but suddenly heard a terrible siren sounding, Zhou Ming looked back, only to see two police cars roaring over and stopping at the mouth of Zhangjia Alley, and then the four policemen got out of the car and walked into the alley.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Ming's heart was suddenly shrouded in a very ominous premonition, so he and Zhang Lin immediately ran into the alley, and sure enough, the four policemen finally arrived at No. 12 Zhangjia Lane, they were making notes, and a young Chinese girl was talking to them emotionally.

"It's true, my friend was kidnapped, and I had dinner with her last night, but she disappeared this morning!" said the girl.

But the four white policemen didn't care: "Well, according to your description, although I don't deny the possibility of kidnapping, I think it's more likely that she just went out to eat and forgot to come back, because the food in your Chinatown is really good." ”

"It's impossible!" the girl denied, "because my friend she's only here for a tourist, she's not familiar with this place, and she doesn't even speak English well, so how can she just run out of town with a greedy mouth?

The policeman waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, I see, do you have any other evidence? Did any kidnappers call you and extort ransom or anything else? If it's just what you're saying now, then to hell with it!"

The girl thought for a while and nodded, "Yes, I have other evidence, it was three days ago, she paged her friend for help, I thought she was playing a prank, but now I think she must have encountered someone threatening, so she will ask for help, and now she must have been kidnapped! We haven't received the kidnapper's call yet, but there will definitely be in the future, she must have been kidnapped!"

"Okay, I'll talk about it when you get the kidnapping call, but before that I suggest you go to the psychiatric for a check-up, maybe you don't have this friend at all. ”

After the policeman finished speaking, he closed his notebook, and then turned to leave, and the girl hurriedly grabbed the policeman's arm and said, "Mr. Officer, please believe me, my friend has really been kidnapped......

That's all the girl's words say, because the policeman pulled out a gun and put it in her head.

"I'm telling you, there's no kidnapping here, and if you get caught up in it, I can tell you to be a police attacker, you know, Chinese bitch!" the white cop said with some annoyance.

The girl was so frightened that she immediately let go of her hand, and the four white policemen laughed and left.

Zhou Ming frowned and looked at this scene, and only after the police left did Zhou Ming step forward, Zhang Lin also carried the bag back to his body, just now under Zhou Ming's order, he was ready, if those white policemen did anything excessive, he would do it, although Zhou Ming just arrived in San Francisco and didn't want to cause trouble, but when he met his compatriots, he still might know Tang Ran's clues, and he still had to take care of it.

"Hello, do you know Tang Ran?" Zhou Ming asked the girl.

Facing Zhou Ming, who suddenly appeared, the girl was taken aback, but when she heard Tang Ran's name, she nodded busily and said, "That's right, I know Tang Ran, she has been kidnapped now, you must help her......"

But after saying that, she realized that Zhou Ming was not a policeman, so she asked with a puzzled face: "May I ask who you are?"

"I'm the one she's asking for help. Zhou Ming said.