"This set of jewelry was specially borrowed by Danny for me to wear on the catwalk in order to match the outfit of my main show at this press conference, and it can't be kept in the safe all the time, right?" Yin Xi smiled.

"In order to avoid accidents, Danny also specially hired two security guards for this set of jewelry," Yin Xi pouted to a corner of the backstage, and then covered his mouth and whispered, "People also bring guns, otherwise you think I would be so easy to agree to you to come to this press conference?"

Xiao Yao looked in the direction of Yin Xi's mouth and found that there were two more men in jackets in the background at some point. But after seeing their appearance clearly, Xiao Yao said with some surprise: "Those two are professional security personnel?"

Of the two standing in the corner, the black man had gray hair and beard, and looked to be almost sixty years old. The other white man was middle-aged, but his open jacket showed a big belly not much worse than that of a pregnant woman who was five or six months pregnant. Outwardly, both of them are more like building keepers than professional security guards.

"No way," Yin Xi smiled bitterly, "There are a lot of big-name stars at New York Fashion Week, and the private security business in New York has been on the rise recently, and Danny is not particularly rich. For this press conference, he has spent almost all his savings, and he can only invite these two. However, press conferences rarely become targets for criminals, and his invitation to these two is only to serve as a façade and serve as a deterrent. ”

"Although it is said that people should not be disguised, but since they are used as a façade and a deterrent, will these two have a deterrent effect?" Xiao Yao shook his head.

After thinking about it, Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and dialed a call.

"Hi Tim, I'm Yang, remember me?" the phone was connected, and Xiao Yao immediately greeted with a smile.

"Of course, how could I have forgotten you?" said Tim Haggis on the other end of the line, smiling.

"Great," Xiao Yao said happily, "Are you still in the New York branch?

"Of course I'm still in New York, and I'm not on duty right now. Tim Haggis said, "Are you still in New York? I heard from your boss two days ago about last year's case, do you want to find a personal bodyguard again? If it were you, I would be willing to work overtime, but only if the bureau and the boss agreed." ”

"No, no, no, I'm not looking for you to be my bodyguard, I don't need to!" Xiao Yao smiled, "Since you're not working, I want to invite you to come to a fashion show." The address is the Emerald Palace on Ninth Avenue in Midtown West, call me when you come, I'll take you in, it's free! I'll ask you for a drink after that. You helped me a lot last time, and I left in a hurry, so I haven't thanked you properly, would you like to give me this opportunity to express my gratitude to you?"

"You're inviting me to drink? You don't think you're of legal drinking age, are you?" said Tim Haggis deliberately.

"Come on, are there still few people under the age of 21 in the United States who have ever drunk alcohol? Besides, I'm from China, and we don't have a legal drinking age in China. Xiao Yao said, "I used to drink at Keith Craig's house. If you're worried, I can invite you to a restaurant or a hotel bar, and I'll invite you to drink and I'll drink non-alcoholic beverages myself. ”

"Well, I don't care about drinking or anything, but I'd love to see you again!" laughed Tim Haggis, "I'll be there in about half an hour." ”

"The press conference will start in 10 minutes. Xiao Yao said, "But it doesn't matter, call me when you arrive, I'll pick you up, and you can enter the venue halfway." ”

"Okay, see you then. Tim Haggis said and was about to hang up.

"Wait," Xiao Yao hurriedly said, "It's best to bring your police badge and gun, these things you can carry with you even when you're not on duty, right?"

"Why do you bring those with you to the conference?" wondered Tim Haggis, "is there any danger? The boss said that Mary was 99 percent out of the United States." ”

"No, I'm not worried about Mary. Xiao Yao said, "It's just that the model for the main show at this press conference is one of my sisters, and she doesn't believe that I have a friend of an FBI agent in the United States, so I want you to bring a police badge and a gun to prove to her when the time comes." ”

"Haha," laughed Tim Haggis, "I'm still wondering why you called me out of the blue, because you wanted to show off in front of others." Well, as you wish!"

"Thanks, see you later. With that, Xiao Yao hung up the phone.

"Hey, hey, here's a free professional!" Xiao Yao proudly raised the mobile phone in his hand to Yin Xi.

"Professionals?" Yin Xi recalled the content of Xiao Yao's phone call, and then reacted, "Do you still know someone from the FBI?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "It's a pity that I didn't expect it a long time ago, otherwise I could let him come with us and protect the whole process." But he'll be there half an hour later, and it's about time you'll show up wearing this jewelry. When the time comes, I will feel more at ease to have him here. ”

"I asked you to go back to China, but you didn't listen, but instead helped me find a bodyguard?" Yin Xi looked at Xiao Yao and said.

This set of jewelry is not Yin Xi's, and if it is robbed, it is not Yin Xi's responsibility. But the jewelry is worn on Yin Xi most of the time, if someone really wants to grab it, it is likely that when the jewelry is still on Yin Xi's body, it is also likely to cause some damage to Yin Xi, so Xiao Yao's intention to find an FBI agent to come over is also obvious.

"After your catwalk, I'll bring him backstage. Xiao Yao didn't answer, and changed the subject, "When the press conference is over, you will go back to the hotel by yourself after you return the jewelry to Danny, I will go to drink with Tim, and let him send me back to his hotel when it is over." Tim is an FBI agent with a gun, and with him, you shouldn't have to worry about my safety, right?"

"Alas~" Yin Xi sighed, waved his hand and said, "You can do whatever you say." ”

"Well, I'll go to the bathroom. Xiao Yao touched his nose and slipped away again.

Xiao Yao left the performance hall of the press conference and followed the sign to the bathroom. As he passed by a young white woman in a silver dress with long straight black hair in the hallway, Xiao Yao suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu, and immediately stopped and looked back.

The two of them saw each other's faces when they passed by just now, and if they were really acquaintances, even if they didn't think about it for a while, they should subconsciously look back twice. But when Xiao Yao looked back, he found that the young woman did not look back at all like him, and directly turned around and walked into the performance hall of the press conference. Xiao Yao also regarded it as his own delusion, shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, and continued to go to the bathroom.

By the time Xiao Yao came back from the bathroom, the press conference was about to start. At this time, warm-up music was playing in the stereo at the press conference, and the audience had already been allowed to enter, and the audience was almost full. Xiao Yao went backstage to look at Yin Xi, and after finding that there was nothing abnormal, he went to the audience in the front performance hall and sat down.

The show's set-up was the same as that of most fashion shows, with a catwalk for models in the middle and a seating in the audience arranged around the catwalk in the middle, which was very close. Xiao Yao's seat is in the first row closest to the catwalk on the right side of the middle of the straight section of the catwalk, so after Xiao Yao sits down, he can clearly see the faces of the audience in the first two rows of the audience seats on the other side of the catwalk. And when Xiao Yao looked up, he found that the young woman he had met in the corridor to the bathroom was sitting opposite him, also in the first row. It's just that she turned her head to look to the side at this time, and Xiao Yao could only see her side face.

Although it was only a side face, Xiao Yao felt a familiar feeling in his heart again, so he raised the camera in his hand, pressed the shutter on the young woman opposite, and took a picture of her side face.

The light at the press conference is relatively dim, and in order to take clear photos, you generally need to turn on the flash. When Xiao Yao took pictures, he also turned on the flash. The young woman felt the illumination of the flash on the opposite side, and naturally turned her head to look, and just happened to see Xiao Yao, who had just lowered his hands holding the camera, revealing his face.

The young woman obviously noticed that Xiao Yao didn't intend to cover up the candid filming, but there was no angry expression on her face, but she smiled at Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao also knew that the other party had discovered her behavior, raised the camera in his hand, and politely smiled back, but in his mind he recalled this smile that made him feel more familiar.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Daniel Aort's personal brand launch!" Xiao Yao didn't think about it, when the music in the live stereo stopped, and the voice-over voice of the host sounded.

At the beginning of the press conference, Xiao Yao also collected his thoughts a little and turned his attention to the entrance of the passage where the model appeared.

The background music of the press conference sounded, and the models wearing the costumes to be displayed also appeared one after another and walked onto the runway.

The eyes of the audience sitting on both sides of the catwalk were all looking for the models walking on the catwalk, so as the models appeared on the catwalk, the audience in these two areas also turned their heads from left to right or from right to left again and again. Xiao Yao, who was sitting in this area, couldn't help but glance at the young white woman in the audience across every time he turned his head, and as he saw more and more times, the sense of familiarity in Xiao Yao's heart became stronger and stronger, but he couldn't remember when and where he had seen the woman, and he couldn't remember who the woman was.

When the whole catwalk lasted for about ten minutes, the background music in the sound of the press conference changed to a moment, and the sound of an airplane taking off appeared. Xiao Yao had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he was so frightened that he almost jumped up from his seat. Xiao Yao finally figured out why he felt familiar with the young woman, and he found that the woman was very much like the female robber who escaped from the single hijacking last year, under the pseudonym Mary.

Although Xiao Yao still remembered the appearance of the robber, the female robber at that time had golden curly hair, and the woman opposite was a long black straight hair at this time, and compared with the face she saw on the plane at that time, her eyebrows became more slender, her lips looked thicker, and her cheeks were slightly thinner, so Xiao Yao only felt familiar when she first saw her, but she couldn't remember it.

The color and straightness of the hair can be changed, the thickness and length of the eyebrows and the thickness of the lips can also be changed by makeup, she doesn't even have to wear a wig and plastic surgery, just change these three places, plus the normal fat and thin changes in the cheek part after more than a year, it can give people a completely different feeling.

If it weren't for the fact that he had been troubled by last year's case recently, Xiao Yao unconsciously recalled the appearance of the female robber many times, and he would not have a familiar feeling. After hearing the sound of the airplane in the background music, Xiao Yao overlapped the two faces in his heart for comparison, and finally found that the face shape, eyes, nose, mouth and ears and other parts that are not easy to change are surprisingly consistent, and then through his familiarity with the makeup effect, he changed the makeup of the woman's eyebrows and lipstick at this time in his heart, and changed the straightness of the hair color, Xiao Yao judged that the woman was likely to be the robber Mary who escaped in the plane robbery last year.

There was no photo of the robber who escaped in that case, and the police wanted nothing more than a hand-painted portrait of Xiao Yao, and she disappeared for more than a year, and the public's image of her has long been forgotten. The media is hyping gossip news, but it doesn't want to help the police solve the case, so even if last year's case was brought up by media reporters because it was recently revealed that Xiao Yao was the one who subdued the plane robber, everyone was interested in Xiao Yao instead of the escaped female robber in the case that year, and few media re-released the wanted portrait of that year.

In this situation now, if the external image has really changed, it is not too incredible that the female robber Mary dares to show her face, so Xiao Yao will have a shocked expression on his face when he finds that the young woman sitting opposite is very similar to the female robber Mary, and he almost jumped up in fright.

Seeing the woman opposite, Xiao Yao quickly suppressed the surprised expression on his face, turned his head to look at the model at the end of the catwalk, and at the same time quickly calculated in his heart.

"If that woman is really the robber who escaped back then, then what is the purpose of her presence here?"

Although more than a year has passed, as Yin Xi said, women are resilient, easy to drill horns, and have a strong sense of revenge, so it is not impossible for her to appear here to take revenge on herself. But she is a woman, and if she doesn't have a gun in her hand, she won't be scared of her at all. If you have a gun in your hand, it seems that just now in the hallway is the best opportunity to get your hands dirty. In such a crowded place now, it is easy for her to find a shield, as long as the first shot misses herself, after the chaos of the scene, it is impossible for her to hurt herself again.

"If it's not for yourself? it's for money. ”

Xiao Yao remembers hearing Alan Hal say that the female robber was a member of a robbery gang that robbed jewelry stores and banks.

"But this is neither a jewelry store nor a bank, wait, jewelry!" Xiao Yao suddenly remembered the set of jewelry on Yin Xi's makeup table, "Jewelry worth eight million US dollars, if you succeed, it is much more cost-effective than robbing a bank and an ordinary jewelry store!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Yao couldn't sit still anymore, got up quietly, and slipped out of the performance hall of the press conference.

Xiao Yao's first reaction was to go backstage to find Yin Xi. But in the final analysis, it was only Xiao Yao's suspicion and speculation that the woman was the escaped robber, and he did not have any substantial evidence. If he found that there was a female audience member in the audience who looked like a robber and asked to interrupt the press conference and let Yin Xi and himself leave immediately, neither Yin Xi nor Daniel Ault would definitely agree.

In the absence of a better way, Xiao Yao could only hope that Tim Haggis would arrive soon, and bring Tim Haggis into the arena to let him secretly keep an eye on the woman. In order to save time, Xiao Yao quietly left the performance hall of the press conference and went to the gate to wait and greet Tim Haggis.

On the way out of the performance hall to the gate of the "Jade Palace", Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and prepared to call Alan Hal to say something. Although it is only his own suspicion, this suspicion should be worthy of some investigation by the police, and reporting to Alan Hare can also make Tim Haggis's behavior more justified when he arrives.

However, what made Xiao Yao feel very different was that when he took out his mobile phone, he found that there was no signal on the phone.