"Why do you want to come with me?"

The next morning, at the airport in Paris, France, Mary walked in the waiting hall with a suitcase in a huff, and behind her, Bai Heqing, who was also carrying a suitcase and looking as calm as ever.

"I'm sorry." Bai Heqing listened to her complaints and replied.

At this time, visas were still required to travel from the UK to France, but with the help of MI6, this was quickly resolved.

After the phone call just last night, Bai Heqing and Mary got short-term visas to France this morning, and incidentally received Stewart's activity funds for the two.

"I'm not blaming you......"

Slowing down a little and waiting for Bai Ha Qing to walk side by side with her, Mary sighed softly.

"I just didn't expect the director to do things so casually, obviously my French is only for some simple daily communication, why did he call me over? Could it be because I took Baihe to my house to call? ”

Mary lifted her hand and touched her chin, and she felt as if she had discovered the truth.

"So the director feels like we're on good terms? Think I'm the right choice? ”

Mary was also well aware that the purpose of her accompanying Shirakawa to Paris was to act as his interpreter and help him recover the stolen artifacts as soon as possible.

Under such a premise, instead of finding another agent who Bai Heqing didn't know to come over and run in again, it was better to directly let Mary, who had been working with Bai Heqing all day, follow.

"It's a possibility." Bai Heqing thought about it and nodded in agreement.

"Alas......"

Mary wasn't the kind of person to complain all the time, and after sighing again, she raised her hand and patted her face to pick herself up again.

"Okay, cheer up, we're here anyway, then let's get those relics back as soon as possible!"

The sooner it is resolved, she will be able to go back to the UK sooner.

"Hmm." As if infected by her energetic appearance, Bai Heqing smiled and nodded.

"Then how about we go find a hotel to stay in, and then go to the Louvre?" Mary suggested.

"Okay."

“……”

It's not hard to find a hotel in a city like Paris that is often filled with foreign tourists, especially since Marie and Shirakawa Kiyoshi don't have much to offer.

Easily, the two found a small hotel at a reasonable price near the north bank of the Seine in the center of Paris.

It is also relatively close to the Louvre.

With Stewart's financial backing, the slightly arrogant duo each booked a room, and then went to the Louvre together.

As the most popular museum in France and possibly Europe, the Louvre is still crowded with visitors, even if it's not peak season.

The Louvre's accessible floors are roughly divided into four floors, one basement and three above ground.

After entering from the glass pyramid in the middle to the second basement floor to complete a series of operations such as buying tickets, you can take the elevator from the triangle of the pyramid hall to enter the three main pavilions of the Louvre from the basement level: the Denon Pavilion, the Sully Pavilion and the Richelieu Pavilion.

However, this is not to say that the Louvre is limited to the glass pyramid.

On the contrary, there are actually quite a few entrances and exits to the Louvre, and they are all evenly distributed in all directions of the Louvre, and these convenient entrances and exits have greatly facilitated the theft of Black Rose tonight.

Of course, it was not without good news for Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary.

The information that the Black Rose would appear at the Louvre tonight to commit the theft of antiquities has been informed in advance by the Metropolitan Police of Paris.

Although the Paris police did not share this information with the public in order to minimize the social impact, inside the Louvre, both Bai Heqing and Marie noticed many plainclothes police officers disguised as tourists.

"It seems that the Paris police are also very serious about that mysterious thief......"

On the second floor of the Louvre, standing in front of the famous "Mona Lisa's smile", Mary spoke.

"Hmm." Bai He nodded and answered, his response was always concise, and he wouldn't say a word more if he could say less.

And for his habit, Mary is almost used to it.

"Walking all the way up from the first floor, I noticed that there were already nearly thirty plainclothes people." She spoke again.

"Twenty-eight."

Bai Heqing added for her.

"And most of them are located near the entrances and exits of each floor."

Perhaps having been in front of the Mona Lisa for too long, both of them noticed that some plainclothes policemen roaming around had begun to look at them with suspicion.

In order not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, the two turned around and walked together towards the third floor of the Louvre.

"What are you going to do? Do you want to cooperate with the Paris police? Mary asked.

"It's too much trouble." Bai Heqing shook his head and said, "It's more convenient to act alone." ”

Both he and Marie are foreigners in France, and even if Shirakawa Kiyoshi can use the identity of the Japanese police to endorse him, it may be difficult to gain the trust of the Paris police.

When the time comes, let alone investigate together, it will be good if you can not be restricted by the Paris police.

And from a personal point of view, Bai Heqing actually trusts his own ability more than cooperating with these unknown police officers.

"Is this the artifact that Black Rose announced to steal tonight?"

Coming to a booth on the third floor of the Louvre, Bai Heqing looked at the jade statue in the booth and asked.

This is a jade statue from the Big Rabbit, which is said to have been looted from the Big Rabbit by the French government during the war of the last century, and has been kept in the Louvre ever since.

The carving of this jade statue is extremely exquisite, and it has a high artistic value, since last week, the Louvre has issued an announcement that it will be on public display for a week, and today is the last day.

"It's it." Mary nodded back.

That's what Black Rose is aiming for tonight, and because of that, there are so many more plainclothes police officers in the neighborhood than anywhere else in the Louvre.

The policemen mingled with the surrounding tourists, wandering around the exhibition hall, keeping an eye on the surrounding visitors, so that neither Shirakawa Kiyoshi nor Mary dared to get too close to the booth where the jade statue was located.

"You two, you must be tourists from abroad, right? Is it your first time at the Louvre? ”

However, although the two were already very restrained, they were still noticed by the extremely sensitive plainclothes police around them.

A female staff member suddenly walked over and looked at the two with a smile.

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(End of chapter)