Chapter 1 Night View of Paris
French International Airport - a.k.a. Charr? Charles de Gaulle International Airport, located in Roissy, 25 kilometers northeast of Paris, is the main aviation center of Europe and the main international airport of France. It is named after Charles de Gaulle, a French general and former president (1890-1970).
Late, at 10:10 a.m.
In the departure hall of Charles de Gaulle International Airport, three people walked down in style, a young man in a black shirt with a white shirt open to his arms, he was wearing black jeans and a pair of black leather shoes, his black hair exuded a characteristic shine, and he was carrying a leather bag, and this person was me.
To my right was Alice, dressed in a black dress, showing off her upper body to a kne-length skirt with a cut-out pattern, her jet-black shiny hair fluttering like a hint of silk, walking hand in hand with me.
On Alice's right is the key person of this trip - Beixue, she is dressed in a white bright dress, a white gauze shirt with white gauze pants is both beautiful and cool, you can vaguely see the white and tender calves and white forearms looming, very moving, and her dress has a sharp contrast with us, which highlights her kind of wisdom ** temperament, at least people know how to use clothes to steal the limelight of me and Alice.
As soon as the three of us appeared, they attracted the attention of all the people at the airport, they watched intently as we gradually walked out of the airport, I don't know what kind of celebrity foreign tourists thought they were star-level people and immediately picked up their cameras to snap pictures, murdered a lot of film, we already had arrangements in our hearts, tell them to shoot, if it is someone sent by Lake, why can't you hide, if not, then what's the big deal?
In the dark outside the airport, Beixue waved a taxi and said to the driver in fluent French, "Go to the Louvre." ”
Alice and I sat in the back, looking at the scenery and the trees receding along the way, and recalling a brief description of the Louvre, one of the oldest, largest and most famous museums in the world, that I had looked up in Beixue's notebook on the plane. Located on the north bank of the Seine River (right bank) in the center of Paris, France, it was founded in 1204 and has been expanded and rebuilt for more than 700 years to reach today's scale. The Louvre covers an area of about 45 hectares (including lawns) and the buildings cover an area of 4.8 hectares. The total length is 680 meters. Its overall building is in the shape of a "U" and is divided into two parts, the old one was built in the time of Louis XIV and the new one was built in the Napoleonic era. The pyramid-shaped glass entrance in front of the palace was designed by the Chinese architect I.M. Pei. At the same time, the Louvre is also the oldest royal palace in France.
The collection includes the statue of Venus, the Mona Lisa oil painting and the stone sculpture of the Goddess of Victory, which are known as the three treasures of the world, as well as a large number of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Oriental antiques, as well as ancient relics from France and Italy. The exhibition area is 55,000 square meters, and the collection is 25,000 pieces.
According to statistics, the Louvre Palace currently has a collection of more than 400,000 pieces of art treasures from all over the world. The French exhibited these art treasures in six pavilions, according to their origin and type, namely the Oriental Art Gallery, the Ancient Greek and Roman Art Gallery, the Egyptian Art Gallery, the Treasure Gallery, the Painting Gallery and the Sculpture Gallery. Among them, the painting gallery has the most exhibits and covers the largest area. The Louvre district has 198 exhibition halls, the largest of which is 205 meters long. Obviously, it is impossible to appreciate all the rarities in a day or two.
The Louvre has six major exhibition halls: first, the Oriental Art Museum; 2. Ancient Guai Cultural Relics Museum; 3. Painting Gallery; 4. Sculpture Gallery; 5. Arts and crafts museum; 6. Islamic Art and Calligraphy, Painting and Engraving Art and African, Asian, Oceanian and American Art Complex.
The purpose of our trip was to steal a diamond called "Hope of the Dead Sea" from the Louvre, and how did we find the "Hope of the Dead Sea" in this huge building?
I turned my head to look at Alice, but I thought of Angel who had a one-night stand with me in England, and secretly said in my heart, I can only accommodate one person in my heart at present, and my incredible relationship with Angel will be sealed in my memories forever.
At this time, Alice held the hand that had not been separated tightly, she seemed to feel something, smiled sweetly at me, my eyes reflected endless tenderness, and held this warmth tightly.
The speed of the car gradually slowed down, and gradually there were more buildings, and the street lamps on both sides of the road were already shining brightly on the pedestrian streets, and the French street lamps liked to use yellow lampshades to illuminate, which added to the city's Lang Man and Wen Xin feeling, occasionally I saw a few couples walking on the street, helping each other to walk affectionately, and then Alice saw a circular building outside her car window, and asked while pointing: "Look, what kind of place is that, so beautiful." ”
The driver in front of him saw that there was a ** question, and he said: "It is a cultural and artistic center, in front of which is the Notre Dame Cathedral of the world civilization, and further on, on the right hand side is the Louvre, which we French are proud of." ”
The taxi driver said very well, but except for Beixue and me, the girl he wanted to please the most didn't understand a word, and Alice asked inexplicably, "What did he say?" ”
Before I could explain, the taxi driver preemptively repeated what he had just said in English, and then explained in English: "I thought you were all French." ”
When I was a professional killer, I mainly studied English and French, didn't the master ask me to come to this city?
Now that I'm finally here, but I'm at a loss in my heart, and I've only come to this fateful city after several turns, do I want to see my master?
The taxi stopped on the side of a street, and after Bess paid, she got out first, followed by Alice, and when I got out of the car with my bag with my laptop inside, the taxi driver suddenly asked, "Hey, which of these two is your girlfriend?" ”
My head was confused for a while, and I couldn't tell what he meant, and pointed to Alice in a black dress, and the taxi driver said enviously: "Boy, is it very discerning, if she wasn't your girlfriend, I would leave her her phone number." ”
I couldn't laugh or cry after listening to it, the French really can't accept this kind of undisguised enthusiasm for feelings, maybe this driver is more individual, I glared at him fiercely, and said with a smile: "I'll kill you if you beat my girlfriend again." ”
The taxi driver matched my surprised and frightened expression as if acting, waved his hand and drove away.
The three of us stood on the side of the road and watched the cars come and go, because it was dark and not as busy as the day, Beixue took out a black mobile phone, dialed a series of numbers, and then waited, Alice and I were like a couple who came to travel, and then I came to France three years ago to carry out a mission, so I am more familiar with this place, and I basically know a little bit about the famous scenery, so I deal with Alice's small mouth that keeps asking questions.
We stand on a shaded sidewalk, from the right-hand side, is the former royal palace such as the Greek architectural form of the Louvre, behind us just cross a road in the street is the Gothic style of Notre Dame Cathedral, to the left-hand side is a new bridge decorated with lights like a golden color, and we are facing the Seine River that passes through the magnificent city, this river flows slowly in the night with black waves, and many pleasure boats are moored on both sides of the river, On the other side of the Seine at about 45 degrees, the Eiffel Tower stands towering in the purple night sky, from far and near light and shadow dotted with the tranquility of the Seine, the Seine reflects the light points above to reflect the liveliness of the city, they seem to be flowing, such a beautiful scenery, the cityscape gives people a dreamlike feeling, and is with the beloved, Lang Mang's feelings arise spontaneously, it is really not intoxicating, people are drunk.
Alice and I were already immersed in the stunning scenery, and Alice exclaimed, "This is the most beautiful city I've ever seen." ”
I took Alice's little hand and put it on my chest and said, "No, because this city is the most beautiful with you." ”
I looked at Alice, face to face was getting closer and closer, lips to lips were getting closer and closer, and when we closed our eyes, Bess didn't know when she was already standing between us, pushed us away and said, "You guys stop flirting, I called Vaughn and he didn't come to pick us up now, I'm dying." ”
I wondered, "What's the problem?" ”
Beixue said with a serious expression: "Before we came, I asked Vaughn to come first just to take care of our temporary residence, so I chose this place, but now after I call the message, he hasn't heard from me yet, how can you not worry me?" ”
While Alice was talking, she greeted a person, "Brother Vaughn, you're finally here, and if you don't come, Sister Beixue will be worried to death." ”
Sure enough, Vaughn was late and said with a smile: "I bought some new equipment, but I was late because of the delivery." ”
When Beixue heard Alice's straightforward words, her pretty face turned red, and she argued forcefully: "Who is worried, you are so inefficient, and it is in vain for me to look up to you so highly." ”
As Alice and I looked at each other and smiled, Vaughn hurriedly apologized, "I'm sorry, I"
Without waiting for Vaughn to continue explaining, Beixue interrupted, "Alright, let's take us to a new place." ”
Vaughn smiled awkwardly and led us to the north, across the street, which was actually across the road facing the Seine, where there were four groups of four-storey residential buildings, with three restaurants not far from each other, no more than a kilometer from the Louvre.
Vaughn led us into the residential building, and the four of us went up to the top floor, which was an attic with two floors connected together, divided into two floors, and the top floor was a spire-like structure, so there was a skylight and that kind of triangular oblique room with a classical feel, and in terms of location, it was already in the center of Paris, and in terms of the quality of the construction of the rooms, this house must be worth a lot.
After everyone entered the room, everything was arranged in place, the furniture should be complete, a transparent glass coffee table in the hall, a reddish-brown leather sofa sitting on three sides of the coffee table, the vacant side is a 30-inch wall-mounted LCD TV, on the opposite side of the TV, there is an oil painting with many red roses, the left side of the oil painting is the entrance to the kitchen, a dining table is specially placed on the right side of the oil painting, the right side of the dining table is a dining cabinet, and the microwave oven and various tableware are also placed in the middle of the dining cabinet.
Beixue sat on the sofa and complimented, "I didn't expect you to really do it." ”
Vaughn also sat down and said with a smile: "You still have a good leadership, and you have no last resort." ”
Alice and I sat down on the soft sofa, and when I heard this, I asked, "Why, is there any reason for this?" ”
Beixue smiled proudly and did not answer, Vaughn explained in her place: "That's the case, as early as a year ago, this house was owned by the owner, and the owner of this house had already intended to sell, and the price was 1.3 million euros on the website of the French house sale, because the price was too high and no one cared, Beixue has been paying attention to the price trend of this house, and the price did not drop to 900,000 euros until the day before yesterday, and she assigned me to go first and contact this room." ”
I asked, "900,000 euros is a lot of money, where did you get the money?" ”
Vaughn exclaimed: "This is Beixue's cleverness, she only paid a deposit of 30,000 euros first, and said that she would try to live here for two weeks first, if she is not satisfied, our deposit is not wanted, because she told Beixue that she is very sincere to buy this house, so of course the owner is happy to agree, logically speaking, we may end it in a week, so we can not only live in this house temporarily, but also can say go, haha." ”
Beixue said, "I even took out my own savings for this operation, so you have to do your best to help me get this done." ”
Beixue said to Vaughn in an aggravated tone, "You also understand what this operation represents. ”
Vaughn nodded and said, "Okay, it's too late tonight, let's prepare this plan tomorrow." ”
As soon as I heard what Beixue said to Vaughn, I felt strange in my heart, and there was something Beixue didn't tell me.
Although the journey was not very tiring, after all, I had just come from the UK, and my mood had changed again, and the sense of crisis was much more relaxed than the original sense of crisis.
There are two bathrooms in this room, one is in the kitchen, and one is opposite the second bedroom on the second floor, when Beixue and Alice went up to the second floor to bathe, only me and Vaughn were still sitting on the sofa in the hall, then Vaughn said: "There is only one bedroom downstairs, you can also go to take a bath in a while, and then go to the second room, I have prepared some special equipment on this floor, wait for me to clean up, and give you a surprise tomorrow." ”
I looked at the room Vaughn was referring to, and said happily, "Okay, then you're welcome, can't you ask me to see it first?" ”
Vaughn smiled mysteriously, "You'll know when I'm done." He tapped me on the shoulder and walked towards the bedroom next to the wall-mounted TV.
I thought to myself, since Vaughn didn't want to call me now, there must be a reason for him, and I resisted my curiosity and got up and walked to the kitchen bathroom.
The shower sprayed drops of warm water to wash my body, the mist rose in the bathroom, and I found that the tattoo on my body had expanded in a mirror hanging on the bathroom tile wall, and the bat-wing-style tattoo was more three-dimensional, like a relief printed on the body, the water droplets dripped over it and were evaporated, and the tattoo did not have any sensation, as if it was a piece of dead skin that was separated from the flesh, and the fingers gently stroked it, and the lower wing pierced into the skin like a small needle, and the upper wing would bring a pain that implicated the nerves. It will also bring a burst of heat.
I wondered, what the hell is this? When I first thought of this, a cold chill was transmitted from my chest to the place of the tattoo on the left, relieving all the heat, but instead it was a nerve tingling sensation that was cold to the bone marrow, but these feelings were only momentary moments, and I would not feel it if I did not experience it carefully, and I could only have this incomprehensible feeling when I was in the bathroom.
Dressed in a crisp white bathrobe, I climbed to the second floor, and when I passed the bedroom on the first floor, I only heard the sound of movement inside, I sighed inwardly and walked into the first bedroom on the second floor.
The large window of this bedroom can only see the three houses opposite, and the view cannot be seen out from the inside, at this time there are several families opposite the lights are out, and there are also several houses with bright lights, and outside the large window is a small balcony, the balcony is a potted plant that the former owner likes to plant.
I suddenly felt a little depressed, so I walked to the balcony to get some air, and as soon as I walked to the balcony, I saw a figure in white in the peripheral light, quietly appearing on the left.
I was startled, and when I looked sideways, I saw that it was Beixue wearing a white bathrobe standing on the balcony of her bedroom, the two balconies were next to each other, but they were not connected, and there was a distance of ten centimeters between them.
Beixue also saw me sideways, and was continuing to wipe her smooth pale blonde hair with a dry towel, she didn't have a surprised expression, she was startled when she saw it, and smiled: "Why are you scared?" ”
I laughed at myself and said, "No, I just didn't expect a room with two balconies, I don't know who designed it, why can't it be connected?" ”
Beixue was noncommittal, pointed to the left-hand side, and asked, "Do you know what that place is?" ”
I saw a church-like building standing not far away, and I guessed, "Notre Dame?" ”
Beixue nodded and asked, "How is it, the scenery of the place I chose is not bad, right?" ”
I have to admit that Beixue's vision, since she is so familiar with the geographical location here, she must have thought very clearly about the escape route after the plan is successful, remembering what she said to Vaughn in the hall just now, and asked, "What do you mean by saying that to Vaughn in the hall?" ”
Beixue looked in the direction of Notre Dame Cathedral and said, "I stood on the balcony, I just thought that you might come out too, and you might ask me so, but I do want to tell you about this matter alone." ”
The night was miserable, I couldn't see Beixue's expression, what did she want to say to me?