Chapter 379: Hidden in the City
Surveillance footage was retrieved, and Dr. Hawke was not seen in the frame. Nie Zuo and Dai Jian came to the conclusion that Dr. Hawke arrived directly at the phone booth by car, got off at the blind spot of the surveillance, and entered the phone booth. That meant Dr. Hawke's location was quite far from the phone booth.
Doesn't it make sense? No, it makes sense, the road surveillance locks a car. The car disappeared from point A, did not enter point B, and appeared at point B more than four minutes later. The blind spots at points A and B are only ten meters, so there is a good chance that Dr. Hawke is inside this silver car, although they deliberately chose the location to monitor the blind spot to make calls, but the car still exposed his whereabouts.
Chasing the car, the car appeared from the old port of Marseille, and there was no point in pursuing it again, it could not be found, it should be that the car was parked in the blind spot of monitoring. The car is pursued to the phone booth, where the car appears in the place where it disappears.
The old port of Marseille is not old, but also the essence of Marseille, there are countless fishing boats and yachts at the dock, and there are many local people who go out to sea to fish in the early morning, and there is a fish trading market nearby. There are private houses and apartment hotels, and there are many tourists. Some tourists go out to sea with the fishermen, while others go fishing right by the harbor. There's even a fishing boat hotel where the fishing boat has been converted.
"There are more people in this place." Dai Jian is still familiar with Marseille, and called up the picture: "The seaside buildings are very dense, there are many tourists, many local residents, and many fishermen. β
It's a beautiful place, and there are boats lined up neatly on the sea, most of which are small and medium-sized modern boats, which can be used as fishing boats or yachts. There are also ships decorated with three masts. At the pier location, a row of people were fishing, and it was very lively. There is also the famous Old Port Hotel located 200 meters from the sea, and as soon as you open the window, you can see the ships on the sea, which is pleasing to the eye.
There are hundreds of buildings to the left and right and behind the Old Port Hotel, with private residences and apartment hotels, all of which are not very high. It's so hard to find someone in this place. Jacques said: "We can't go to people with photos, we'll startle snakes." At present, our advantage is that the shadow company only guards against the police, but not against us. β
Dai Jian said: "Zhao Ang hasn't arrived yet?" β
Nie Zuo replied: "No, halfway through the flight, I made a forced landing again, and there was a six-month-old pregnant woman on the plane who was in danger, and he is now in Pakistan." β
"Hopefully he will be able to arrive in France within sixty days, otherwise the visa will expire." Dai Jian was a little gloating: "Fortunately, I didn't go with him." β
Nie Zuo said: "Let's get down to business, since Hawke is haunted." Someone must have seen him. Which approach are we going to take? Take the photos and look for them, and if we find the clues first, then we take the initiative. If it was a startling snake, then Hawke would definitely be gone. Although the shadow company does not directly contact them, there will definitely be people from them on the periphery. β
Dai Jian nodded: "My suggestion is to find a car, not someone, to find this car." Unless this car is a special car for Hawke to go out, as long as we find this car, squat. Someone will definitely use this car. β
Jacques was in a good mood: "I learned a lot this time, so I'm going to prepare." β
Dai Jian reminded: "We go at high speed, and taking the plane will leave traces." β
Jacques nodded: "Of course, we will leave tomorrow morning." β
"Tomorrow morning?"
Jacques smiled, "It's the weekend. (I saw something in the group.) It is said that a murderer went to the police station to turn himself in after killing people on the weekend, but the police did not believe him and told him to turn himself in on Monday. οΌ
"Of course, there's no rush anyway." Nie Zuo and Dai Jian laughed. It's hard for people, the escort in Paris basically doesn't go to work on weekends. Let's hope Dr. Hawke is the same.
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The Vieux Port of Marseille is best known for the Γle d'If, located two kilometres from the Old Port. The Assault Island was filmed in the context of the island of Yve. The Isle of Yves is a prison and is known as the most impossible prison to escape. Now it has become a tourist attraction for tourists.
However, the three of them are not here to travel, but to do things. All three of them are considered celebrities, in comparison Dai Jian is the least famous in the local area, Jacques is French, and Nie Zuo is famous in the black and white confrontation. However, because Dai Jian had been undercover in France and lived in Marseille for some time, in order to avoid being discovered by acquaintances, the three of them still took a car to find the target vehicle first.
The target vehicle disappeared into the fish market, and compared to the market in City A, there are still fewer fish market stalls, and there are fewer people who actually buy fish, after all, the old port is mostly tourists. The buildings of the Old Port are actually not very distinctive, and they are still a bit old-fashioned, square, like apartment buildings, and not tall.
Walking in the opposite direction towards the pier, the fewer tourists there are, and the more locals there are. The central area of the Old Port also has famous shopping malls, a luxury street and much more. Public surveillance in France is relatively scarce, and there is no seamless urban surveillance arrangement like in the United States. There are a lot of blind spots in monitoring.
Parking to the side, Jacques draws his finger on the tablet, he starts with the vanishing point of the target car, and then evades the surveillance, using the blind spot of the surveillance to see where the car can go. The result is that there are so many possibilities, maybe you can't go far into the garage, maybe ...... God knows where to go.
It was six o'clock in the afternoon, Nie Zuo looked at a sneaky man on the side of the street, Dai Jian looked over, and said: "Marseille is also known as the European drug supermarket, the old port is good, and there are more drug dealers in other places." In some lively neighborhoods, the daily drug turnover is 40,000 or 50,000 euros, and because of the high profits, there are often criminal groups fighting to grab business territory. Local gangs are also very rampant. When the French prime minister arrived in Marseille, residents called the police to report several masked gunmen roaming the streets. When the police arrived, the other party not only did not escape, but even picked up an assault rifle and shot at the police. This gang is a criminal syndicate, and they are ready to go and grab land in broad daylight. Marseille is a gathering place for illegal immigrants, and the law and order in any country where illegal immigrants gather is very chaotic. This phenomenon is particularly acute in the northern district of Marseille.
City A has also had a large number of African illegal immigrants enter the city, once the number reached 400,000, most of them are employed by Africans who have legal procedures to come to City A, and when you look at the black area, you can rarely see locals, and the law and order has deteriorated. Because of the revelation of a siege of a police station, the city government was pressured to ignore the accusations of the international community and prioritize the protection of local citizens and carried out the largest cleanup. Some foreign media said that most of these illegal immigrants are from war countries, and they hope that City A can shelter and take them in. The mayor replied that I am the mayor, not the humanitarian presidency of the United Nations, and that the interests of the citizens must be prioritized. City A adopts a typical policy of being the outside and soft on the inside. And it is a commercial government, and unless a sister city suffers a disaster, it never makes a free donation to the outside world, let alone an interest-free loan. The mayor made it very clear that this money is not his personal money, but the money of the people of City A, and it is lent out to earn benefits. Otherwise, where will the first-class education, pension, medical and other benefits in City A come from?
The three of them chatted about the current situation, but Jacques disagreed, believing that City A did not have the courage to be an international city. Nie Zuo told Jacques that City A has the best security in the world's commercial cities, and he feels very happy as a citizen of City A.
"That's for the evening newspaper." A high school student on a bicycle and wearing a helmet delivers a newspaper. Stop, grab the newspaper, throw it away, and walk away. It doesn't matter if it's a villa or an apartment, it's the same action anyway.
Jacques said: "There are a lot of work-study high school students who deliver newspapers, and some residents order newspapers that they don't read because they want to take care of these high school students to support themselves. The time when the target vehicle disappeared was 7 o'clock in the morning, which is the time to deliver the morning newspaper. β
Nie Zuo said: "There are so many cars, you may not remember it, right?" β
Dai Jian said: "I think we can ask, ask high school students if there is no possibility of revealing our intentions, there is still a certain opportunity." β
Jacques nodded: "You can try, let's find a place to rest first, I am responsible for this matter, I have a classmate in the Old Port Middle School." β
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Depart the Old Port and check into a hotel, where Jacques departs. I didn't come back until 12 o'clock in the evening. He brought back one good news and two bad news. The bad news is that the newsboy didn't care about the target car, and the good news is that the newsboy has met Li Fei's sister-in-law.
"I've seen this woman, I delivered the evening newspaper near an apartment building, and I felt something in my neck. When I took it out, it was a melon seed shell, and the ground was full of melon seed shells. Looking up, there was a woman on the fifth floor leaning against the window and munching on melon seeds. I said I was dissatisfied, and the woman looked at me and closed the window. β
This is what the newsboy said to Jacques.
Dai Jian asked excitedly, "Which position?" β
"Twelfth Street." Jacques opened the 12th Street, this street is an apartment street, there are many residents, most of the apartments here are rented, there are private property rental buildings, there are also government industry rental buildings for low-income people. There are 7-storey public housing buildings neatly arranged across the street from 12th Street, and there are a total of 32 buildings on the left and right.
"Which one?"
"I don't know, he can't remember what happened for a few days."
"South or North?"
"I don't know." Jacques smiled wryly: "This is another piece of bad news that I brought back." He said it was the fifth floor, but I suspect it was the fourth or sixth floor, so I don't remember it clearly. However, there is a way to narrow it down. β
Dai Jian asked, "How to shrink." β
Jacques looked at the French on the computer map and circled the twelve buildings with the mouse: "These twelve are government apartments, for bankrupts, or low-income people." Although the occupancy rate is only 80%, the management is relatively strict, and each building has cleaning staff and janitors hired by the government. So these twelve buildings can be ruled out first. β
Jacques said: "I asked the technician to check the housing information, these six buildings can also be ruled out, these six buildings belong to the University of Marseille, and live in international students, graduate students, and graduates who have not found a job after graduation." The remaining 14 buildings are all rented out by private individuals. Some people rent these houses for accommodation, some use them as warehouses, some use their apartments as office space, and so on. I'm not at all surprised if someone rents an entire building, or one of the floors, without registering information. β
Hidden in the city...... (To be continued......)