"Damn, I called Tim backstage just now, why is there no signal when I leave the performance hall now?" Seeing that the signal displayed on the mobile phone screen was a slash line, Xiao Yao immediately felt that something was wrong.

Xiao Yao, who felt that something was wrong, did not immediately turn around and go back to the performance hall of the press conference, but continued to walk towards the gate of the "Emerald Palace".

The "Emerald Palace" is a building that looks like a three-story building from the outside, with several different performance halls inside. Although there was only one event in this place tonight, Daniel Ault's press conference was only used in one of the performance halls, and there was still some distance from the performance hall to the gate of the "Emerald Palace". Xiao Yao slowed down his steps and cautiously walked to the hall at the gate.

When he reached the end of the corridor that was about to enter the hall, Xiao Yao stopped and quietly poked his head out of the corner to look in the direction of the door.

At the gate of the "Emerald Palace" stood two middle-aged men who looked powerful, and each of them grabbed the door handle on one side and slowly closed the door of the "Emerald Palace". The two of them were facing away from Xiao Yao at this time, and Xiao Yao couldn't see their looks. However, Xiao Yao saw something that surprised him even more - behind these two people, they were each carrying a swarthy assault rifle.

"Damn!" Xiao Yao shouted in his heart, quickly retracted his head, leaned his body against the wall, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"You're here to watch, I'll go tell Mary that it's time to do it. When Xiao Yao was at a loss, he suddenly heard a man's voice from the door, and then there were footsteps coming to this side of the corridor.

The voice spoke Spanish, and Xiao Yao understood Spanish. The hall at the door is very wide, and when you walk into the corridor from the hall, you may not necessarily turn near the corner, Xiao Yao may not have a chance to ambush, and there is another person standing at the door, so the movement in such a close place can't escape the ears of the person who stayed at the door. Xiao Yao heard the sound of talking and footsteps, so he could only choose to avoid it for the time being, and immediately quietly ran to the other end of the corridor.

At this time, Xiao Yao was basically sure that the female audience in the performance hall just now was indeed Mary. Alan Hal said that the police had determined that Mary had fled to Mexico, and that the man at the door spoke Spanish and mentioned Mary's name, most likely a new associate Mary had found after she went to Mexico.

After escaping from the corner of the corridor connecting the hall, Xiao Yao did not go back to the performance hall of the press conference, but found an empty room with no lights diagonally opposite the door of the performance hall of the press conference, and secretly opened the door a crack, quietly observing the door of the performance hall.

Xiao Yao didn't think about rushing back to the performance hall to restrain Mary, but he wasn't sure if Mary had a gun on her, whether there were any other accomplices in the performance hall, and whether he could successfully get close to Mary, so he didn't choose this too risky approach. Although there is still Yin in the performance hall, judging from the performance on the plane last year, Xiao Yao feels that Mary does not seem to be a person who likes to kill innocents indiscriminately. If she is seeking money, it should not endanger the lives of those people in the performance hall, and if she wants to retaliate, the target should be herself, then hiding first is the most appropriate way at present.

In the performance hall of the press conference, Yin walked out of the backstage aisle wearing the set of jewelry worth eight million dollars and stood on the catwalk. Seeing an empty seat in the audience next to the middle of the catwalk and finding that Xiao Yao was not there, Yin's brows furrowed. But the catwalk performance is underway, and now is not the time to find out where Xiao Yao went, so Yin quickly adjusted his expression and slowly walked to the front of the catwalk with the sound of background music.

When Yin walked to the runway and posed a few times and walked back, the door of the performance hall was gently pushed open, and the man with an assault rifle on his back entered the performance hall, closed the door of the performance hall again, and stood at the door with an assault rifle. Since the runway was the main show of tonight's show, whether it was clothing, jewelry or models, it was the highlight of tonight's show, so the man who entered the performance hall with a gun was not immediately spotted.

The man with the gun didn't deliberately make any unusual noises to attract attention. According to their plan, he didn't need to do anything to remind everyone in the performance hall of his arrival.

When Yin walked in front of Mary, the music suddenly stopped, and at the same time, the colorful lights that created the effect went out, and all the headlights in the performance hall were turned on, and the scene suddenly became quiet and bright.

"Hell!"

"What's wrong?"

"Ah~"

The sudden change in sound and light made people in the performance hall think that there was an equipment problem or a performance accident, and they began to complain and discuss, and many people also subconsciously turned their heads to look. At this time, everyone quickly found the man standing at the door with a gun. Seeing the assault rifle in the man's hand, many people immediately screamed in fright.

Seeing that the door of the performance hall was blocked by a man with a gun, some people got up and wanted to run backstage in the opposite direction to the door of the performance hall. Everyone knows that there is a back door on the back side of the back that serves as a staff passage.

The man with the gun standing in the doorway still didn't move, just looked at the crowd in the performance hall. When the scene looked like it was about to go into chaos, Mary stood up from the audience. She also had a pistol in her hand at some point, and raised her arm to fire a shot at the ceiling of the performance hall.

"Bang!" the sound of gunfire overcame the screams of the crowd, and the screaming crowd was immediately frightened to stop their voices, and those who wanted to escape backstage also stopped their movements in fright, and turned their heads to look at Mary who was shooting in the audience.

"Quiet, and don't move!" Mary ordered loudly, strode onto the catwalk, stood beside Yin, pointed the pistol in her hand at Yin on the catwalk, turned her head to look around the audience on the catwalk and said, "This is a robbery! Obedient people can survive, and if anyone messes around, we don't mind killing." ”

After Mary's words fell, a group of people came out of the passage leading to the backstage, including Daniel Ault, the head of the brand show, and the models who had just appeared and those who had not appeared, as well as some other staff who looked like costume artists and makeup artists, and at the back was one of the two armed guards hired by Daniel Ault, a black man in his sixties.

The old black man had a pistol in his hand and raised his muzzle at the people who came out in front of him. Looking at this situation, he was obviously in a group with the two robbers, and he took all the people in the background out according to the plan agreed in advance. As for the other middle-aged white man, he should have stayed at the back door of the backstage staff passage to guard the door.

"Don't move, and when our dad comes to you, please hand over all your valuables such as cash and jewelry. After seeing the old black man drive the people who came out of the background into the crowd, Mary pointed to the old black man and announced, "As long as you are smart and cooperative enough, do not resist, and do not hide your belongings, I guarantee that you will not be harmed." ”

After Mary finished speaking, the old black man took out a black flannel bag, walked to the crowd in the performance hall, and collected valuables from those present one by one.

"The most important thing is you, my dear. Seeing the old black man getting to work, Mary turned her gaze to Yin on the catwalk, handed a lady's handbag in her hand and said, "Now please remove the "blue droplets" from your neck and ears and put them in the flannel pocket in your bag." They are very valuable, please be careful with your movements!" "The jewelry on Yin's body is their main target this time, and Mary is of course here by herself.

Yin had never experienced such a thing, looking at the muzzle of the black hole in front of him, his face was already pale with fright, it was already very good to be able to hold on without collapsing to the ground, where would he dare to resist? Hearing Mary's words, Yin immediately stretched out his trembling hands and took off the set of jewelry on his body, put it into the flannel pocket in Mary's bag, and then put the flannel bag into the lady's bag, and handed the bag back to Mary.

Taking back the bag containing the "blue droplets", Mary breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned and looked at an empty seat in front of her, turned to the man at the door and said, "Jose, there is a Chinese boy who doesn't know when he went out, he should go to the bathroom, go find him! ”

"No," the man with the assault rifle at the door shook his head and refused, "If he is clever enough, I'm afraid he would have gone into hiding after hearing the sound of your shot just now, and it would be too much trouble to find!"

"The front and back doors are guarded by our people, he can't get out of here! We have set up signal jammers, the people here can't call the police, we have already controlled the scene, and there is time, we can definitely find him!" Mary said.

"Is this necessary, Mary?" José said, with a disgruntled expression, "Our main target is the Blue Droplet, and the things on the others are already bonus bonuses that come by the way. How much possessions can a Chinese boy have, he will never have anything of the same value as the "blue water drops"? Now that the "blue water drops" are in hand, it is better not to make any more extraneous branches, right?"

"Marie?" Although José spoke Spanish to Marie, the name "Marie" had little to do with the language, and even people who didn't know Spanish could hear it. Yin remembered that Xiao Yao mentioned that the fugitive robber in the plane robbery last year was named Mary. At this time, hearing Jose call Mary, Yin's heart jumped, and his worry and fear increased a little more. However, since she was pointed at a gun by Mary, her eyes and expressions were shocked and frightened, trembling all over, her face turned pale, and her external expression and demeanor did not change significantly.

"I'm going to find him, and it has nothing to do with him!" said Mary, "I don't want his possessions, I want his man!"

"Don't you have a crush on him, do you?" the man known as "José" teased, "After this vote, what kind of man can't you find?"

"He's an old friend of mine!" Mary said with an angry look on her face, gritting her teeth, "There are some old things between me and him that have not been resolved. Since I am so lucky to meet him here today, then I will take him away with me and find a place to "chat" with him alone!"

"Take him with you, are you crazy, I don't agree!" said the man known as "José" in surprise. Even the old black man, who was confiscating the belongings of everyone at the scene, stopped and looked at Mary strangely.

"This time, half of my share will be given to you to share, and he will be alone!" Mary looked at the two of them firmly, "After evacuating, I will take him away alone, and the rest of the matter has nothing to do with you!"

"Are you serious?" asked José in a confirmed manner.

"Of course, I promise, as long as you help me catch him so that I can take him away, half of the money I get will be yours!" Mary nodded earnestly.

There were many wealthy people in the audience at the press conference. Although no one will wear jewelry of the grade of "blue water drops", the number of people who can't stand the audience is large, and there are a lot of valuable watches on men's bodies and jewelry on women's bodies, plus the set of "blue water drops" worth eight million dollars, this time the harvest is likely to be close to 10 million dollars. As the planner and participant of the operation, Mary had the highest proportion of money after the fact, probably more than two million dollars. Mary took out half of it to be more than one million, and each of them could get two or three hundred thousand, and Jose and "Daddy" were tempted.

Jose and "Daddy" looked at each other, made eye contact, and nodded together.

"Well, for the sake of money, I'll get him as you wish!" José nodded to Mary, turned and pulled the door open, and was about to go out with his gun in hand.

"Wait!" Mary reminded again, "I heard that he is very good at fighting, you have to be careful! But he is more afraid of guns, as long as you don't get attacked by him at close quarters, hold a gun at him, and he will obey." ”

"I heard that he can fight?" Jose turned his lips and smiled, "Then when I find him, I'm going to beat him up!"

"I'm not kidding," Mary said solemnly, "and my two former partners were subdued by him alone. I don't know exactly how it went, but at that time my two partners were holding knives in their hands, he was empty-handed, and one of my partners was holding a knife to his neck, so you must not try to fight him. To be on the safe side, you can first shoot him in non-critical parts such as his hands and feet, as long as you don't hit the major arteries and let him die easily. ”

"Okay, listen to you!" José waved two fingers at his forehead and walked out of the performance hall.

The soundproofing in the performance hall is very good. Although Xiao Yao was not far from the door of the performance hall, he only heard a muffled sound when Mary fired, and he couldn't hear the sound of talking in the closed performance hall at all, and he couldn't know what was going on inside. However, the second half of the conversation between Jose and Mary took place after Jose opened the door, and Xiao Yao heard it clearly.

Xiao Yao knew Spanish, and guessed from that conversation that Mary was asking her accomplices to come out to find her. Thinking that Mary actually let her accomplices see her and shoot her hands and feet and other non-vital parts, I couldn't help but cry out in my heart.