Chapter 47: Warehouse Skeletons
As the head of MI5, Mark is now in a state of panic. He knows the whole story of Liang Xi's shooting, but he didn't expect Liu Zhen from the anti-powder team to request witness protection for Liang Xi. Liu Zhen's reason was very good. Yesterday, Liang Xi helped their anti-powder team catch a traitor, and last night someone broke into Liang Xi's apartment. It was obviously a revenge against Liang Xi by the traitor's accomplices.
Threatening witnesses is a bad thing. The prosecutor will definitely send the drunkard case back to the Metropolitan Police for a comprehensive re-investigation and urge the Metropolitan Police to send the best detectives to investigate the case. This situation made Mark very anxious. Once the special agent with independent investigation power intervened in the case investigation, sooner or later, Sand Dune would be dug out. So Mark had no choice but to find a scapegoat.
The scapegoat with the gunshot wound could not be found for a while, so he had to let his own people take the bullet. The scapegoat admitted that he had broken into the house and robbed Mark of the blood sample for testing. The case was settled in two days.
The criminal gang and the Dune Operation Group have been left speechless and suffered a great loss. The Dune Operation Group has not yet figured out why Liang Xi appeared in Maria Hospital so many times.
Mark's worry is not groundless. John was killed because he helped a big shot to find out Angela's identity. The target of the Dune Operation Group is someone that Angela may have won over. As John's adopted son, Liang Xi is likely to be hired by this big shot to investigate certain people and things. But Mark doesn't want to find the answer from Liang Xi anymore because it's too dangerous.
Another problem is Karin. She has to have dinner with her parents on the third day after being shot. She can skip the dinner, but since her parents are in London, they must meet. Even if Karin is busy with work, her parents can visit her in the hospital. Therefore, Karin must pass this level. Coincidentally, Baker called Karin to tell her that the damn Liang Xi would also attend the dinner.
After Mark and Karin talked, he thought that Liang Xi was very likely to find out Karin's injuries. What should she do if she couldn't escape? Karin had to pretend to fall down the stairs and put a plaster cast on her thigh. On the one hand, she could hide the gunshot wound, and on the other hand, she could avoid the dinner.
Although Liang Xi would occasionally think of the other piece of glass, in essence, he had avenged both pieces of glass.
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With the 24-hour translation work reward from Liu Zhen, Liang Xi began to feel proud. He went to the mall and bought himself a few decent clothes and a briefcase. He bought a gift for Mary, had his car serviced, filled up the gas tank, and even bought himself a tiramisu for a midnight snack.
Although it was a pity that Karin was not present at the dinner due to injury, Liang Xi still had dinner with Karin's parents as Baker's friend. Under Baker's commission, Liang Xi accompanied Karin's parents as a tour guide for a day in London. When sending Karin's parents to the plane, Karin's parents expressed their gratitude to Liang Xi. They liked this polite and honest young man very much and intended to let Karin and Liang Xi have more contact. Baker disagreed. He believed that even if they were his own parents, they could not bully their friends like this, so he told his parents to give up the idea.
Eat with Baker, eat with Mary, eat alone, stay in the detective agency to read books, and swim occasionally. Once I close my eyes, the days pass by in a dull manner, without criminal gangs or intruders.
The three weeks of peace were broken by Bobby, and it was time for Bobby to see ghosts once or twice a month. It is only natural to pay back debts. This can also be considered hunger marketing. Every day after work, the boss downstairs always treats you to crayfish. After a week, he stopped treating you, but you got into the habit of eating crayfish while watching TV series. This is the truth, but it is not logical, unless the crayfish in this store is irreplaceable. In order to get a good price for the sixth time, Liang Xi decided to become Bobby's irreplaceable candidate in the field of seeing ghosts in the future. By then, let alone five hundred, ten thousand, or even one hundred thousand, Bobby, you will have to pay.
This is not extortion, this is the value of talent.
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Two bulletproof bodyguard cars escorted the Beetle to today's haunted place: the distribution warehouse. The distribution warehouse can be said to be the ancestor of blind boxes, and its history can be traced back to the last century. Warehouses are usually rented to individuals, enterprises, and companies. When individuals, enterprises, and companies go bankrupt or their assets are frozen, the items in the warehouse will be auctioned. The most exciting thing about the auction is that the auctioneer is a third-party commission. They did not estimate the goods in the warehouse, but simply listed what was in the warehouse. A group of people holding banknotes bid at the door of the warehouse, and the successful bidder could get all the items.
In this century, the situation has changed greatly. In order to protect the rights of debtors and auctioneers, the items in the warehouse are usually counted and estimated. However, there are always many strange things in the warehouse, such as car engines from 50 years ago, airplane models from 30 years ago, feces from two days ago, etc. It is difficult to estimate the exact price of these things. Therefore, the auctioneer will publish the auction information through the Internet, and the buyers will bid online after reading the information.
The warehouses are rented by different people, and no one knows what is inside. Perhaps warehouse 1 contains wooden boards, warehouse 2 contains cars, and warehouse 3 contains air. The purpose of renting is also different. Some people rent it to store old things after getting married, and some people rent it to store the remains of the deceased.
The distribution warehouse we are going to today is in the north of London. There are two residential communities, apartment buildings and villas, as well as commercial office buildings. There is also an eye hospital and a dental hospital nearby. There are also bars, restaurants, hotels, police stations, and fire stations. There are more than 500 warehouses, each with an area of 30 square meters. 20 warehouses form a row, and 40 warehouses form a unit. Two rows of warehouses are back to back and share a wall. There are driveways in front and behind.
Liang Xi followed the bodyguard car to the middle lane between Unit 4 and Unit 5. Almost all warehouses use rolling doors, and the rolling doors of several warehouses are half-open, indicating that they are currently vacant.
Bobby handed Liang Xi an emergency pager: "Press and hold the red button for two seconds to send a distress signal. Press and hold the blue button to talk to my bodyguard. Drive the car to warehouse 430."
Bobby pressed the remote control to open the shutter door of warehouse 430 and picked up the pager: "You guys go and have a rest."
"Yes, sir." Two bodyguard cars left.
Liang Xi drove into the house, Bobby lowered the shutter door, Liang Xi pushed open the small door in the warehouse and walked out, he put his hands on his hips and looked back : "Is this place haunted?" This place is so neat and clean, how could it be haunted? To put it bluntly, there is no place for ghosts to hide. You are too coping with your mental illness.
Bobby pointed to a house facing the road, a hundred meters away from the warehouse: "The night before yesterday, the male owner of this house called the police, saying that his child witnessed the situation and he didn't know what to say."
After the patrol arrived, they chatted with the five-year-old boy for a while. The boy said he saw a man in black clothes appear at the driveway of warehouse No. 4-5, staggering and looking drunk. So the boy took a telescope and was surprised to find that the man's feet were half a meter above the ground. It was more like floating than walking. When he was about to take a closer look, the man turned his head and the boy saw a skull head. He was so scared that he immediately got into bed. Because of the big movement, the milk cup was knocked over. After asking his parents, they called the police.
