"Mr. Stewart, I'm White River."

Late at night, in a telephone office in Paris that was still open, Bai Heqing called Stewart's phone number.

On the bench not far behind him, Mary was sitting, her eyes wary of the movements around her.

The two did not go back to the apartment that had been used as a contact point by MI6, after all, if Andrew was really the head of MI6 in Paris, it was likely that these contact points would have been under surveillance, and the two were no different from being caught in the net.

Therefore, the public long-distance telephone has become the only way for the two to contact Stewart at the moment.

"White River?"

Hearing Bai Heqing's voice, Stewart on the other end of the phone was visibly relieved.

"Young man, you can be considered to have appeared...... You don't know how many calls the old man Hatoyama called me throughout the day of your disappearance.

Every time I picked up the phone, he had to ask me if I had found it, and then throw those trash words at me over the phone, just a few minutes before your call, I had just calmed his temper again...... Thank God, now I don't have to listen to his trash anymore.

Okay, without further ado, now tell me young man, what exactly did you encounter before? Did something happen to Mary? ”

"Thank you for your concern, Mary and I are fine, but we did have some troublesome things before......"

Considering that this is not something that can be said on a pay phone, Bai Heqing made a vague hint.

"Isn't it inconvenient to say?"

Stewart immediately understood what he meant, and on the other end of the phone, there was a sudden sound of pulling drawers and flipping through papers.

"Tell me where you are now."

"Paris No. 1 Telephone Bureau." Shirakawa cleared the road.

"First Telephone Bureau? It just so happens that there is a suitable stronghold in the street near there, Baihe, you write down the location, and I will give you another number, and now this number is not needed, you can call me again when you go there.

Rest assured, I'm the only one who knows about that stronghold, and it's very safe, and no one will come and disturb me. ”

Stewart emphasized the last sentence in particular.

"Yes, I'll be in touch with you soon."

Noting down the location and number, Shirakawa hung up the phone and turned to look at Mary behind her.

"How?" Getting up from the bench, Mary hurriedly asked.

"The director gave us an address and told us to go there and contact him again." Leaving the telephone office with Mary, Shirakawa Kiyoshi replied.

"Is it also MI6's stronghold in Paris? Will it ...... there?"

"No, it won't." Knowing what she was worried about, Bai Heqing explained: "This stronghold is only known to the director himself, and it is not under Andrew's control. ”

"Okay."

Under the cover of darkness, the two soon arrived at the address given by Stewart, which was also a vacant apartment.

After removing the apartment key glued to the bottom of the potted plant in the doorway, the two opened the door and walked inside.

"Watch around."

Throwing the small pistol he had snatched from the dock to Mary, Shirakawa locked the door and walked towards the study of the apartment.

"Hmm."

In the dark room, Mary walked to the window with a gun and looked at the street below.

As Stewart said before, Shirakawa Kiyoshi activated the mechanism behind the bookshelf in the study and opened a small secret room.

In the corner of the secret room is a landline.

Picking up the microphone, Bai Heqing dialed the phone number that Stewart had just given him.

"Young man, you're moving fast." The call was quickly connected, and Stewart said with a smile.

"How? Interested in coming to MI6? ”

"Mr. Stewart, you're laughing." Bai Heqing politely refused.

"Haha! Just kidding, even if you want to, young man, I don't think the old man in Hatoyama will let go.

Okay, let's not talk about it, let's talk about it, what happened to you in the past two days? ”

"Yes, yesterday afternoon, Mary received a temporary assignment from her superior......"

Over the phone, Shirakawa Kiyoshi explained in detail what he and Mary had experienced from yesterday to today, including what happened on the docks and Andrew.

However, he concealed details related to the Black Rose, saying only that he and Mary avoided the search of the French mafia by hiding in a ship.

As for the way they learned that Andrew was the head of MI6 in Paris, they were also grafted onto the mafia boss Harry, who had already been killed.

"Andrew......"

When Stewart heard this, he was suddenly silent, and after a long time, he spoke: "Baihe, the information you got is not wrong, the head of the Paris station of MI6 is indeed called Andrew, and he does have the identity of a businessman on the bright side......

You mean, he has a smuggling deal with the French mafia? ”

"Yes, according to the information that Mary investigated before, the French mafia who cooperated with Andrew is named Harry, and the two have been carrying out illegal smuggling transactions of cultural relics from various countries in the past few years, and the antiquities smuggling case I came to London to investigate this time seems to be involved with them.

After Mary's whereabouts were revealed, Andrew quickly became aware of her identity as an MI6 agent and sent snipers to kill us......"

"Your visa to Paris is exactly what I asked Andrew to contact the French authorities to expedite for you, and the agent sent from London happened to be at the scene of his meeting with those mafia......

I think it was these two coincidences that led him to the idea of killing you in horror when London was investigating his miscalculation......

The French mafia in Paris has been searching for your whereabouts everywhere for the past two days, and I thought you were in some conflict with them, but now it seems that Andrew wants to use the hands of these mafias to get rid of you two......"

Sighing softly, Stewart continued:

"White River, this matter is my negligence, Andrew has been in contact with the French mafia for many years, and MI6 has actually heard about it all the time, just because his ability as an agent is okay, plus he has not done anything too excessive, so London has not pursued this matter too much.

It's just that I didn't expect him to be so bold that he even dared to attack his own colleagues!

This is a serious violation of MI6 discipline, and it stands to reason that I should have had the Intelligence Department investigate now and wait for enough evidence before secretly escorting him back to London for sentencing.

But I guess, that's not what Baihe was calling me for, right? ”

Stewart asked with a smile, as if he had guessed the true purpose of Shirakawa Kiyoshi's call.

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(End of chapter)