"So what the hell are you going to do?!" After listening to Yu Xiaochun's story of encountering a female thief at a five-star hotel in Vung Tau, Vietnam, Yang Yiming finally couldn't help but exclaim on the other end of the phone.

"Hey, what else can I do?"

"What do you mean by hi?" Yu Xiaochun's sigh couldn't help but make Yang Yiming even more worried about his experience after being robbed.

"It's just helpless." Yu Xiaochun sighed again, and then said slowly, "Expecting the police in Vung Tau, Vietnam, to help me solve the case is even more difficult than recruiting LeBron James." The policeman hastily put my information on a paper form and asked me to sign it, and it never showed up again. I went to the police station once to look for him, but he wasn't there. When I asked the other policemen, they either didn't understand English, or they told me that their cases were handled by their own people, and that no one else had the right to interrogate. ”

"Why do you need someone to be in charge?"

"It is said that I studied the United States. A police detective who is responsible for a number of separate cases. Unless it is a major homicide or organized crime, a task force will be set up to cooperate with each other, and under normal circumstances, it is a special person who will work on the case..."

"Understood. But I almost forgot one thing just now - didn't you even have your clothes stolen? How do you get out? Yang Yiming suddenly came back to his senses and asked.

"I asked the hotel to borrow a dress. You can't be so upset by such a trivial thing - clothes are really a small thing compared to other things. What's more, there was a case of a female thief stealing from a guest in broad daylight in a five-star hotel, and in order to appease the guests, it is always the minimum to find a dress for me to wear. ”

"Hmm. That's right. Yang Yiming nodded approvingly.

"But the rest of the story didn't go so well. If the police can't solve the case, I can't get anything back from me. Yu Xiaochun seemed to have finally found the person to confide in, and he poured bitter water into his head: "Although the hotel still allows me to live in a room for free, I have no money to pay the bill, in fact, I am like a thief who has been caught and imprisoned for stealing things, and I can't leave the hotel for a day." Eat and drink Lazar. If you want to have money, you must first retrieve your documents and reissue your credit card (Vung Tau does not yet support mobile payment). Fortunately, our embassy was kind enough to promise to give me a temporary visa as soon as possible – as long as I could provide proof of identity. Once again, we are caught up in the strange proposition that proves 'I am who I am'. For example, if I could have provided my ID card or driver's license, it would have been much easier for me to reissue my passport. But I even had my ID stolen. Then I had an idea and thought that the hotel had kept a copy of my passport when I checked in..."

"With a photocopy, you can do this redone?"

"Of course it's not that simple!" Yu Xiaochun continued his complaints, "A copy of my passport is not enough to prove that I am actually the person above, right?" ”

Yang Yiming was speechless when asked. Strictly speaking, there is no problem with the embassy's question, even if the information on the copy of the passport can correspond to all of Yu Xiaochun's personal information, including his whereabouts to Vietnam, air tickets and hotel booking information, but no one can prove that the 'Yu Xiaochun' in front of him who has nothing to do is the one on the copy. It could be someone who looks very similar to the photo - not to mention, how many people actually look like the photo on their ID?!

"How do you prove that?"

"It's an endless loop. After I made a lot of mistakes, the embassy finally agreed to send my recent photos back to China for confirmation by the neighborhood office or the police where my household registration is located. ”

"Street office? And now there are still such units?! Yang Yiming heard the absurdity of this matter.

"Absolutely. Don't underestimate the street office, get married, have children, get a household registration, and get divorced, but you can't do without it. Yu Xiaochun said to Yang Yiming. But it is really absurd for me to be abroad, and to find the most down-to-earth and grassroots organization thousands of miles away to confirm my identity. I'm still in my hometown – what if the neighborhood office doesn't recognize my photo? It's impossible for them to know everyone in the jurisdiction, especially since I've been away from home for so many years. But in order to solve this absurd proposition, the embassy still sent a copy of my passport and my latest photo to the neighborhood office of my hometown. I waited anxiously for two days, finally! ”

"What's finally going on?"

"Finally, the street office was in charge, and after two days, I sent an email back to the real embassy, saying, 'After visiting, I was confirmed to be the person in the photocopy'. They were in charge and retrieved my ID card for me and sent it over. ”

"So the passport problem is solved?" Yang Yiming couldn't wait to ask the result.

"It's just the first step." Yu Xiaochun sighed, "The embassy confirmed my identity and helped me reissue my passport." However, even if the replacement passport is expedited, it will take three working days. Until the new passport was issued, I had to continue to be trapped in the hotel, and I was simply undocumented. I can't make a phone call, and I can't contact anyone. There's no phone, damn it's changed, and you have to send a verification code to your mobile phone number for a second confirmation, I can't log in alive or dead, and it's useless to call the official customer service. Without a passport, communication is not possible, and travel is restricted. Even if I had online banking, I couldn't buy a plane ticket and I couldn't get out. There is no way to settle the hotel's bill. Living in this era, it is the first time that I feel that I am in such a prosperous place, but it is like wandering on an isolated island..."

"You didn't try to contact me!" Yang Yiming complained.

"I tried—I emailed you, several!" Yu Xiaochun's complaints were even more violent.

"Mail! Who else will send an email this year..."

"I also tried Weibo private messages..."

"You usually take care of the Weibo account for me." Yang Yiming suddenly felt the sense of isolation that Yu Xiaochun said.

"That's what I said." Yu Xiaochun sighed for the last time, "I think you're probably busy with the preseason and don't have time to check Weibo private messages by yourself..."

"The point is, there are so many people who send me private messages every day! I can't see it at all, so I don't want to see it. ”

"Hmm." Yu Xiaochun said, "And the strangest thing is that even those who can contact you suddenly lose their news." Meritis, Nina, none of them knew where they had gone. I sent Meritis several emails and she didn't reply to me. I remember that she usually had to check her email every day. ”

"Maybe it's really too much preparation for pre-season. Even I haven't had a full sentence with her in days. As for Nina, so many players have to fight for the new season to adjust to the best physical condition, and her work is scheduled from morning to midnight..."

"I'm the only one trapped here." Yu Xiaochun said stupidly. In his mind, he may have really felt sorry that he missed out on this pre-season incident.

"But the good thing is that you can finally come back now."

"That's right!"

"Passport finished?"

"That's right. The ticket has also been bought, and it will fly to the United States in a while. ”

"How did you find the phone?"

"Don't worry about it, I've got someone to ask anyway." Yu Xiaochun actually found Scott Jr. by email, who has a huge database of all the player's information, so it is natural to look up a phone number.

"That's good, then Koharu, come back quickly. Just in time for the last few games of the playoffs! ”

"That's right, there's more important things!"

"Huh?"

"I'm going to go back and make sure with Rockets management about your goals for this season, have you forgotten?"

"Of course not—then when you come back!" Yang Yiming hung up the phone, and suddenly felt more confident.