According to the information on the card, the next target of the Black Rose is the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, and the time to do so is tomorrow night.

This also means that Mary and Shirakawa Kiyoshi will have to go abroad if they want to continue chasing, and they must go abroad as soon as possible.

This may be a bit of a hassle for Shirakawa Kiyoshi, after all, he himself came from Japan to England, and now he has to go through a bunch of formalities to go to France, and Mary is relatively much simpler, after all, she is a ......

No, it may not be simple.

The reason is straightforward, to put it mildly...... She is not very well paid.

Since entering college, Mary has not asked her family for money anymore, except when she can't make ends meet, she basically works while studying in college to earn tuition and living expenses.

And the way she works is to be a detective.

Speaking of pride, Mary is still very confident in her reasoning ability, and a few years ago she was a well-known college student detective in London.

Just when Mary's own detective career was thriving, someone from MI6 came to the door.

Her excellent reasoning skills made these people want to absorb her into the MI6 Division and train her to be an excellent spy agent.

In the context of the Cold War at this time, this position is still very popular, and it can basically be said to be an iron rice bowl.

In this way, after discussing with her family, Mary finally decided to give up the profession of detective and embrace the iron rice bowl of MI6 instead.

After a short period of relevant skills training, Mary became an honorable MI6 rookie agent with excellent results some time ago, that is, the kind that does not pay well and often runs outside.

This is also normal, newcomers, they all have to be experienced.

So at this juncture, she is really not very rich, and it is okay to maintain daily expenses, but if she wants to go abroad, she will ......

"Are you still going to Paris?"

It's getting late, and Mary and Shirakawa Kiyoshi are eating ramen at a roadside stall on a remote street in London's East End.

This is a roadside ramen stall set up by a Japanese who has lived in the UK for a long time, and the ramen chef is a middle-aged uncle with a shiny bald head.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of street stall is not allowed in the city of London, especially foreigners.

The main reason is that this kind of roadside stall does not pay taxes, and secondly, it also affects the city's appearance, which is simply no benefit to the government, once caught by the people of the London Police, it is to invite them to the bureau to drink coffee.

But what is not normal is that this is the East End, a famous poor area in London, and it is too normal for this kind of roadside stalls that do not conform to the laws and regulations of the city to appear in this relatively chaotic place before the vigorous rectification later.

Mary used to treat herself to the occasional stroll after work late at night, after all, British recipes are really rubbish......

"Hmm." Sitting at a small table with Mary, Shirakawa nodded.

"The artifacts stolen by the Black Rose will be returned to the country where they belonged after a while, White River, and my advice is that you don't have to chase it to Paris, because it's not really necessary." Mary persuaded.

In her opinion, Black Rose would have sent the cultural relics back anyway, and it would be a complete waste of time for Bai Heqing to continue chasing after her.

"Nope."

understood what she meant, but Bai Heqing still shook his head and rejected her.

"I have to bring these artifacts back with my own hands."

"Why?" Mary asked, confused.

However, Bai Heqing did not answer her question immediately.

He looked down at the nicks on the small table in front of him, and was silent for a long time before he spoke.

"Bringing back the stolen artifacts with my own hands is a task I have to complete on this trip."

Mary was very smart, and when she heard Bai Heqing's somewhat inexplicable words, she immediately reacted.

"It's ...... The task given to you by your head of the family? She asked tentatively.

Japan is a typical gatekeeper politics, and according to the information obtained by the major, Shirakawa seems to have a close relationship with one of the families.

She had already guessed that Bai Heqing's trip to London might be the "merit book" specially stuffed to him by the head of the family.

The Japanese side is estimated to have prepared everything related to it, just waiting for Bai Heqing to go back with those stolen cultural relics to build momentum for him.

And if he can't bring back those cultural relics, this will be an intolerable defeat not only for Bai Heqing himself, but also for the family standing behind him.

"Hmm." Bai He nodded, acquiescing to her guess.

"Here comes the ramen~"

At this moment, the ramen chef came over with two bowls of ramen and placed them on the table.

"I'm sorry." Mary was silent for a moment, picked up her chopsticks, and said, "I can't go to Paris with you. ”

Regardless of the economic issues, if Bai Heqing was going to Paris next, then MI6 would have no reason to spy on him anymore, and she naturally had no reason to follow Bai Heqing again.

"There's no need to apologize." Bai Heqing shook his head lightly and said, "You have helped me a lot today, without you, the progress of the case would not be so smooth." ”

"You're welcome."

Mary replied, taking a hard sip of the ramen in the bowl and letting out a long sigh of relief.

After a tiring day, it tastes fragrant.

"But speaking of which, Shirakawa, you actually surprised me quite a bit today." Mary said suddenly.

"Why do you say that?" Bai Heqing asked, he took the chopsticks and chewed slowly.

Compared with Mary's slightly heroic eating, he is much more gentle.

"Because when you cleaned up the mafia in the bar this morning, you were very ruthless, I thought you were the kind of cold-blooded man, but I didn't expect you to do such things as helping the old man catch cats and bring lost children home, I was really surprised......," Mary said with a smile.

may be thinking that the two are about to separate, and she speaks a lot more openly.

“…… Well. ”

Hearing her words, Bai Heqing's hand holding chopsticks suddenly paused, and he opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something.

"Your feelings are not wrong, under normal circumstances, I don't want to do these things."

"Huh?" Mary looked at him curiously.

"For me, in addition to my normal duties, it is actually a very troublesome thing to help those elderly people and children."

Shirakawa replied honestly.

"It's just that someone wants me to do it, and I don't want to disappoint her."

Bai Heqing's sentence uses the female "she", which reminds Mary of his small book written by women at first glance.

There was some curiosity in her heart, but after hesitation, Mary still didn't ask.

"There is an old saying in the East that a gentleman does not care about his deeds."

After sucking the ramen in the bowl in two bites, Mary smiled and said, "No matter what Shirakawa thinks in your heart, at least you did, didn't you?" ”

At that time, Mary didn't really realize that Shirakawa Kiyoshi was not really good, but someone wanted him to be good, so he showed it.

And such a person can easily go astray.

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(End of chapter)