Entertaining Children

  Chapter 713 Suspected Robber Woman

  "This set of jewelry was specially borrowed by Danny to match the costume of my main show at this press conference. It shouldn't be kept in the safe forever?" Yin Xi smiled.

"In order to avoid accidents, Danny also specially hired two security guards for this set of jewelry," Yin Xi made a nuisance to a corner of the backstage, then covered his mouth and whispered, "People also bring guns, otherwise you think Would I agree with you so easily to come to this conference?"

   Xiao Yao looked in the direction of Yin Xi’s mouth, and found that two more men in jackets appeared in the backstage at some point. But after seeing their appearance, Xiao Yao was a little surprised and said, "Which two are professional security personnel?"

  Among the two people standing in the corner, the black man has gray hair and beard and looks almost sixty years old. Another white man is a middle-aged man, but his open jacket reveals a big belly that is not much worse than that of a pregnant woman who is five or six months pregnant. In appearance, these two are more like building administrators than professional security personnel.

"No way," Yin Xi smiled bitterly. "There are many big-name celebrities in New York Fashion Week. Recently, the private security business in New York has been on the rise, and Danny is not particularly wealthy. For this conference, he has spent almost all his savings. , Only these two can be invited. However, the press conference will rarely become the target of criminals. He invited these two to come to serve as a deterrent."

   "Although it is said that people are not good-looking, since they are used as a facade and deterrent, will these two have a deterrent effect?" Xiao Yao shook his head.

  Thinking about it, Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and dialed out a call.

   "Hi, Tim, this is Yang, do you remember me?" Xiao Yao immediately greeted with a smile after the call was connected.

   "Of course, how could I forget you?" Tim Haggis smiled on the other end of the phone.

   "Great," Xiao Yao said happily, "Are you still in the New York branch? Are you working now?"

"Of course I'm still in New York, and I'm not on duty now." Tim Haggis said, "Are you still in New York? I heard from the boss two days ago and you asked about the case of the past year. Did you want to find a personal bodyguard again? ? If it is you, I am willing to work overtime, but the premise is that I have to get the approval of the bureau and the boss."

"No, no, I'm not looking for you to be my bodyguard, I don't need it!" Xiao Yao smiled, "Since you are not working, I would like to invite you to come to a fashion show. The address is in the West District of Zhongcheng The Emerald Palace on Ninth Avenue, call me after you come, and I will bring you in. It’s free! After the end, I will invite you to have a drink. You helped me a lot last time, and I walked in a hurry. , I haven't thanked you well yet. Would you like to give me this opportunity to express my gratitude to you?"

   "You invite me to drink? You seem to have not reached the legal drinking age?" Tim Haggis deliberately said.

"Come on, are there few people under the age of 21 in the United States who have ever drunk? Besides, I am from Huaxia. We don't have a legal drinking age in Huaxia." Xiao Yao said, "I used to be at Keith Craig's house. I have also drunk. If you are worried, I can invite you to a restaurant or hotel bar. I invite you to drink, and I drink non-alcoholic beverages by myself."

   "Well, I don't care about drinking or anything, but I'm happy to see you again!" Tim Haggis smiled, "I have called the address a few times, and I will be there in about half an hour."

   "The press conference will start in ten minutes." Xiao Yao said, "But it doesn't matter. Call me when you arrive, and I will pick you up. You can also come in halfway."

   "Okay, see you then." Tim Haggis said he was about to hang up.

   "Wait," Xiao Yao hurriedly said, "Better bring your police badge and gun. You can carry these things with you even if you are not on duty, right?"

  "Why do I bring those to the press conference?" Tim Haggis asked suspiciously, "Are there any dangers? The boss said that Mary was not in the United States 99%."

"No, I'm not worried about Mary." Xiao Yao said, "It's just that the model of the main show at this press conference is one of my sisters. She doesn't believe that I have a friend of an FBI agent in the United States, so I want you to bring Put on the police badge and gun, and prove it to her then."

   "Haha," Tim Haggis laughed, "I'm still guessing why you called me suddenly, because I wanted to show off in front of others. Well, as you wish!"

   "Thank you, see you later." With that, Xiao Yao hung up the phone.

   "Hey, come here for a free professional!" Xiao Yao proudly raised the phone in his hand to Yin Xi.

  "Professionals?" Yin Xi recalled the content of Xiao Yao's phone call, and then reacted, "Do you still know someone from the FBI?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "Unfortunately, I didn't expect that otherwise, he could come with us and protect the whole process. But he will arrive in half an hour later, and it is almost the same as you wearing this set of jewelry. At that time. When he is there, I will feel more at ease."

   "I asked you to go back to China, but you didn't listen, but did you find a bodyguard for me?" Yin Xi looked at Xiao Yao and said.

  This set of jewelry is not Yin Xi’s. If it is robbed, it is not Yin Xi’s responsibility. But the jewelry is worn on Yin Xi most of the time. If anyone really wants to grab it, it is likely that the jewelry is still on Yin Xi, and it is likely to cause some damage to Yin Xi, so Xiao Yao finds an FBI The intention of the agent to come is also obvious.

"After your catwalk is over, I will bring him backstage." Xiao Yao didn't answer, and changed the subject, "When the press conference is over, you return the jewelry to Danny and go back to the hotel by yourself. I and Tim will go for a drink. After that, let him take me back to his hotel. Tim is an FBI agent with a gun. With him, you shouldn't worry about my safety, right?"

   "Hey~" Yin Xi sighed and waved his hand, "Just do whatever you want."

   "Well, I'll go to the bathroom." Xiao Yao touched his nose, and went off again.

   Xiao Yao left the performance hall of the press conference and followed the signs to the bathroom. When he brushed past a white young woman in a silver dress with long straight black hair in the hallway, Xiao Yao suddenly felt a sense of deja vu, so he immediately stopped and looked back.

  When the two passed by just now, they both saw each other's faces. If they are really acquaintances, even if they don't remember it for a while, they should subconsciously look back at them. But when Xiao Yao looked back, he found that the young woman didn't turn her head like he did, she turned and walked into the performance hall of the press conference. Xiao Yao regarded it as his own illusion, shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, and went on to the bathroom.

  When Xiao Yao came back from the bathroom, the press conference was about to begin. At this time, the warm-up music was playing on the speakers at the conference site. The audience had long been allowed to enter the venue, and the audience seats were almost full. Xiao Yao went into the backstage and looked at Yin Xi, and when he found nothing unusual, he went to the auditorium in the front performance hall and took a seat.

  The layout of this conference is the same as the layout of most fashion conference performance venues. It is also a T stage in the middle of the show for models. The audience seats are arranged around the middle T stage, which is very close. Xiao Yao's seat is the first row closest to the T stage on the right side of the straight section of the T stage, so after Xiao Yao sits down, he can clearly see the first two rows of auditoriums on the other side of the T stage opposite. The faces of the audience. When Xiao Yao looked up, he found that the young woman who had met in the corridor to the bathroom was sitting right across from him, and in the first row. It's just that she tilted her head to look to the side at this time, Xiao Yao could only see her profile.

  Even though it was only a side face, Xiao Yao felt a familiar feeling again in his heart. He raised the camera in his hand, pressed the shutter at the young woman on the opposite side, and took a picture of her side face.

  The light at the press conference site is relatively dark. If you want to take a clear picture, you generally need to turn on the flash. When Xiao Yao took photos, he also turned on the flash. The young woman felt the flashlight on the opposite side, and turned her head naturally to look over. She also happened to see Xiao Yao who had just lowered her hands holding the camera and showed her face.

  The young woman obviously noticed the sneak shots that Xiao Yao didn't intend to cover, but there was no angry expression on her face. Instead, she smiled at Xiao Yao.

  Xiao Yao also knew that the other party had discovered her behavior, raised the camera in his hand, and politely smiled back, but he recalled this smile that made him feel more familiar.

  "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this Daniel Oort's personal brand launch!" Before Xiao Yao remembered, the music on the live audio stopped and the voice of the host resembling a narration sounded.

  At the beginning of the press conference, Xiao Yao also closed his mind a little and turned his attention to the passageway where the model appeared.

  The background music of the press conference sounded, and the models wearing the costumes to be displayed also appeared one after another and walked onto the runway.

The eyes of the spectators sitting in the audience seats on both sides of the T stage are all following the models walking on the T stage. Therefore, as a model appears on the catwalk, the audiences in these two areas also move from left to right or from left to right again and again. Turning his head from right to left. Every time when Xiao Yao, who was sitting in this area, turned his head, he could not help but take another look at the young white woman in the audience seat opposite. As he saw more and more times, Xiao Yao thought of The sense of familiarity became stronger and stronger, but he couldn't remember when and where he had met that woman, and even more couldn't remember who that woman was.

  When the whole catwalk lasted for more than ten minutes, the background music in the live sound of the press conference changed, and there was a sound of a plane taking off. There was a flash of inspiration in Xiao Yao's mind, and the whole person almost jumped out of his seat in fright. Xiao Yao finally wanted to understand why he felt familiar with that young woman. He found that the woman was very much like the female robber under the alias Mary who escaped from the single hijacking case last year.

Although Xiao Yao still remembers the appearance of the robber, the female robber at the time had golden curly hair, and the woman on the opposite side had long straight black hair at this time, and it was in contrast with the face seen on the plane at the time. When she got up, her eyebrows became more slender, her lips looked thicker, and her cheeks were slightly thinner. So when Xiao Yao first saw it, she just felt familiar, but couldn't remember it.

The color and straightness of the hair can be changed. The thickness of the eyebrows and the thickness of the lips can also be changed by makeup. She doesn't even need to wear a wig or plastic surgery, just change these three places, plus the cheek part after more than a year. Normal changes in fat and thin can give people a completely different feeling.

  If it hadn’t been for the recent troubles caused by the case last year, Xiao Yao had unconsciously recalled the appearance of the female robber many times, and he would not have a familiar feeling. After hearing the reminder of the airplane sound in the background music, Xiao Yao superimposed the two faces in his heart for comparison. Only then did he find that the faces, eyes, nose, mouth and ears of the two are surprisingly consistent. Through his familiarity with makeup effects, he changed the makeup of the woman’s eyebrows and lipstick, and changed the straightness of the hair color. Xiao Yao judged that the woman was probably the robber Mary who escaped in the plane robbery last year. .

  There was no photo of the robber who escaped in that case. The police wanted only a hand-painted portrait of Xiao Yao, and it has disappeared for more than a year. The public has long forgotten her image. The media are speculating about gossip news, but they are not trying to help the police solve the case, so even if the case of last year was brought up again by the media reporters because of the recent exposure that Xiao Yao was the man who subdued the plane robber, everyone is also interested. Xiao Yao is not the female robber who escaped in the case of the year, and few media have republished the wanted portrait of the year.

Under the current situation, if the external image is really changed, it is not unbelievable that the female robber Mary dared to show her face, so Xiao Yao discovered that the young woman sitting opposite looked like a female robber. Only when she was the gangster, she had a shocked expression and almost jumped up in fright.

   Seeing the woman on the opposite side look over, Xiao Yao quickly suppressed the surprised expression on his face, turned his head to look at the model at the end of the runway, and at the same time, he quickly calculated in his heart.

   "If that woman is really the robber who escaped back then, what is the purpose of her appearing here?"

  Come for yourself? Although it has been more than a year, as Yin Xi said, a woman has strong resilience, is easy to get into the horns, and has a strong vengeance, so it is not impossible for her to appear here to retaliate against herself. But if she is a woman, if she doesn't have a gun in her hand, she doesn't bother her at all. If you have a gun in your hand, it seems that just now in the hallway is the best mobile phone meeting. Now in such a crowded situation, she can easily find a shield, as long as the first shot fails to hit herself, after the chaos on the scene, she has no possibility of hurting herself again.

   "If it didn't come for yourself? It came for money."

  Xiao Yao remembers hearing that Alan Hal said that the female robber was a member of a robbery gang and robbed a jewelry store and a bank.

"But this is neither a jewelry store nor a bank. Wait, jewelry!" Xiao Yao suddenly remembered the set of jewelry on Yin Xi's makeup table. "A jewelry worth eight million dollars, if it succeeds, is comparable to robbing a bank and Ordinary jewelry shops are even more cost-effective!"

   Thinking of this, Xiao Yao could no longer sit still, quietly got up, and slipped out of the performance hall of the press conference.

   Xiao Yao’s first reaction was to go backstage to find Yin Xi. In the final analysis, it was only Xiao Yao's suspicion and speculation that the woman was the robber Mary who had escaped, and he did not have any substantive evidence. If I find that there is a female audience in the audience who looks like a robber and asks to interrupt the press conference and ask Yin Xi to leave immediately, neither Yin Xi nor Daniel Oort will agree.

  In the absence of a better way, Xiao Yao can only hope that Tim Haggis will come soon and let him secretly stare at the woman after bringing Tim Haggis into the field. In order to save time, Xiao Yao quietly left the performance hall of the press conference and went to the gate to wait and greet Tim Haggis.

  On the way out of the performance hall to the gate of the "Emerald Palace", Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and prepared to call Alan Hal. Although it is only my own suspicion, this suspicion should be worthy of the police's investigation of the woman. A briefing with Alan Hall can also make Tim Haggis' behavior after arrival more justified.

  However, what made Xiao Yao feel very strange was that when he took out the phone, he found that there was no signal on the phone.

  (End of this chapter)