"Then I'll rest assured, Mr. Detective, you are worthy of courage and foresight, but it's a pity that now you are my prisoner."

"Only by holding me in your hands can you be reassured?" Markovsky laughed.

"You mean if I leave the ship, you'll be able to leave?" Bai Lang also smiled.

"Of course."

"I'm afraid it's not easy, this boat is full of my people, I just need to say a word, they can tie me up with chains."

"I have a lot of strength."

"They'll also throw you into the ocean."

"Swimming happens to be my forte."

"You're so stubborn." Bai Lang laughed, "So I think that if you stay in Dongzhou, it will greatly hinder my actions, so I have to send you back as a gift, although you may not be happy to do so." But considering that you are really not very hospitable, I had to take some measures......"

"Listen up, Mr. Shiraro!"

"Thank you so much for that."

Shirahiro called the captain and the two sailors, and asked them to search Markovsky's body first, and then find a rope to tie Markovsky hand and foot to an iron bed.

"I'm sorry, I have to be wronged, it won't be too long, bear with me!"

Bai Lang asked: "Captain, you must be as thoughtful as possible to entertain Mr. Markovsky, send a few more people to come and have a look, don't wronged the guests, this is our honored guest." What time is it?"

"2:05."

"Okay, when did you get to Beigang in Country Y?"

"At the usual pace, it's nine hours later, at 11 p.m."

"We're not in a hurry, we can drive slower and spend 11 hours."

"Why?"

"There is a shift from Beigang at 1 a.m. to Dongzhou at 8 a.m., and you must send Mr. Markovsky ashore after it has set sail, otherwise Mr. Markovsky will take this ship at once and return to Dongzhou at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, and he will be entangled with me. So make sure you arrive at Southampton after 1pm tomorrow. Do you understand?

"Alright, let's meet later, goodbye! Mr. Markovsky, next year...... No, maybe I'll see you in hell later! ”

"No, it's tomorrow!" Markovsky was still smiling.

Bai Lang smiled indifferently and walked out of the captain's room.

A few minutes later, Shirarou's car and the speedboat Haiyan both started, and they each headed in opposite directions.

Not long after, the speedboat left the mouth of the Dongjiang River and sailed into the sea, and although Markovsky was tied to the bed, he fell asleep peacefully, and made a slight snoring sound.

On this day, in a large apartment in Dongzhou City, two households were moving at the same time, people were moving in and out, moving and lifting, and the situation was chaotic.

The two families hired a total of 12 wagons to load their belongings, and it was not until 11 o'clock that they were cleaned up.

"It's finally a matter of mind."

Shirahiro sat on a bench on the sidewalk of the street, smoking a cigarette leisurely.

Next to him was a woman dressed as a proprietress reading a newspaper, and a little boy was playing not far away, looking like her son.

Bai Lang's eyes looked around casually, but his mouth whispered, "Where is Wu Changhao?"

"I went out at 9 o'clock in the morning." The same is true of the woman, her eyes fixed on the newspaper and her mouth whispering an answer.

"Where's it?"

"Bureau of Security."

"Is it a person?"

"Yes."

"Was there a telegram last night?"

"Nope."

"Does that family trust you?"

"Yes, I try my best to be courteous to Mrs. Wu Changhao, she has regarded me as a confidant, and told me everything in the family, even Wu Changhao's affairs I have heard a lot.

"Okay, I'll meet here at 11 o'clock every day from now on, waiting for the new notice."

Bai Lang got up and left, found a restaurant for lunch, returned to his original apartment, and said to the caretaker of the apartment:

"I seem to have forgotten something in my room, can I use the key to go back and see?" He went up to the fifth floor, walked into the vacated house, went straight to the original study, turned the faucet of the gas pipe next to the stove, put a small flute-shaped object on it, and blew it with his mouth, and a whistle sounded in the pipe immediately in response. He leaned close to the pipe and whispered:

Zhu Xin, what's the situation with you?"

Zhu Xin was the family that moved with him, and they didn't have much contact with each other.

"Nope."

"Then I'll go up."

Bai Lang turned his hand on a notch in the marble closet, and in the blink of an eye, the slate moved silently, and a hole appeared, and along the chimney of the furnace wall, he climbed the ladder up to the sixth floor, where the mechanism was the same as the fifth floor, and he removed the slate and walked out. Zhu Xin was waiting for him outside.

"Is everything packed up here?"

"It's all taken care of."

"What about the others?"

"Three of them are out in the wind."

"There are no suspicious people on the street, are they?"

"No, sir."

"Very good, I'll leave in 10 minutes, you guys come along, and if you find a suspicious person or suspicious situation, notify me immediately."

"Don't worry, I'll ring the bell whenever there's a situation."

The two of them returned to Bai Lang's original room on the fifth floor and restored the mechanism to its original state.

Bai Lang looked at this mechanism, and said to his subordinates with some pride: "Ah, look at these mechanisms, alarm bell call tubes, secret passages, all masterpieces, things that only appear on the stage, we have them all here!" I really want to know what kind of expressions Markovsky and Wu Changhao had when they saw this. ”

"When they see these masterpieces of yours, they will admire you even more, and your fame will be louder, so let them promote it for you!"

"It's not necessary, it's just a pity that these facilities are left here and not used, and when we get to a new place, we will reinstall them, but it will be more discreet and more convenient. We had to give up here, and that's all thanks to Markovsky! ”

"Markovsky can't come back, you don't have to worry anymore."

"Well, if he can't catch up with the shift at 1 o'clock in the middle of the night, he will not be able to return to Dongzhou until tonight at the earliest, and by the time he arrives in Dongzhou, we will already be safe, but we have to be careful, he is like a hunting dog, once he bites you, he will not let go, sooner or later we will fight, but that is already a matter for later."

"Miss Yi Luoqi's arrangement?"

"I went to pick her up an hour later, and she was too frightened to go home these days, and I wanted to specialize

The door accompanies her, you go and prepare first, loading the luggage and furniture are all small tasks, you take care of it on the side. ”

"Okay, I'll go down first."

Zhu Xin went down the stairs. Bai Lang reluctantly turned around the room again, picked up a piece of chalk on the ground, and wrote the following sentence on the black siding of the dining room:

The gentleman thief Hakuro lived here for the first five years of the 20th century

"Haha, I really don't know what Markovsky and Wu Changhao will think when they see these words. That must be fun! However, I won't wait for you to come, goodbye, where I helped me a lot! ”

He just turned around to leave, when suddenly the alarm bell rang, ringing twice in a row, this is the alarm signal from the sixth floor, the situation is urgent.