Li Chuan shook his head helplessly: "Aren't you afraid that he will retaliate against you?"
"Do you think he won't hold grudges or take revenge on us because of what happened on Haiya Island?" Su Qin shrugged his shoulders, his face indifferent: "Anyway, he has offended him, so this is not a step away. Besides, the two bodyguards around him are ours Man, I will still make this calculation."
The two walked into the banquet hall, and Ms. Sibojia was cutting the cake in the middle of the stage. Kaffir, as Ms. Sibojia's friend for many years, helped her cut the cake together.
One is the pinnacle of the Chinese fashion circle, and the other is the pinnacle of the European and American fashion circles. Kaffir has celebrated the 30th birthday of Si Baijia in a row, which shows the profound friendship between them. After the cake was cut, the projection behind Si Baijia showed her favorite works in the exhibition hall on the first floor.
This work was magnified several times on the projection, and the gorgeous style caused an uproar among the crowd.
Li Chuan put his arms around Su Qin's waist, looked at the work like everyone else in the banquet hall, lowered his head and almost bit her ear and said, "Your works are very bold in style."
Although Su Qin's designs have always been trendy and avant-garde, there has never been a work with such a bold style. Su Qin's design this time is very indulgent, but under the constraints of Chu Ming, it just happened not to exceed the critical point.
Chu Ming gave a lot of suggestions for this design. While retaining Su Qin's personal style, he added his own suggestions for modern fashion.
The success of this work is not due to Su Qin alone, but also to Chu Ming.
Si Baijia's birthday party was attended by the media, and all the big names in the Chinese fashion industry gathered here. It can be said that the designers whose works are selected by Si Baijia every year can attract attention in the circle, and the emerging designers who win the jackpot every year can not only get a considerable amount of entry fee from D&M, but also have other benefits. The company spent a lot of money to poach this cutting-edge designer.
Being able to stand out at Sibojia's birthday party is more valuable than winning a domestic design award. Su Qin's works can be selected, which means that she has firmly stepped into the Chinese fashion circle.
When Su Qin's information was revealed, everyone was shocked by the 18-year-old designer, and they all understood why Su Qin was favored by Chu Ming.
Chu Ming walked towards Su Qin with a red wine glass, glanced at Li Chuan who was hugging the girl's waist, and turned his gaze back to her: "Tomorrow, you may receive job invitations from many companies, hold on tight, D&M is your best choice right now." A good development platform, even if they give you double or ten times the entry signing bonus, you have to hold on."
Su Qinchong frowned at Chu Ming: "I know Master."
Chu Ming said again: "Let's go, come with me to say hello to Ms. Sibojia and Mr. Kaffir."
"Yeah." Su Qin turned around and hugged Li Chuan, and after making out with him face to face, resting his chin on the man's shoulder, he whispered, "Mr. Li, go and accompany grandma, I'll go socialize with Master first."
The girl's breath splashed on the man's neck, and his heart felt soft and itchy as if scratched by a cat's paw.
After Su Qin and Chu Ming left, Li Chuan went to the buffet area to get a plate and some snacks. He thought that Su Qin hadn't eaten until now, so when she came back from the entertainment later, he would bring some food to pad her stomach.
Su Qin's stomach is not very good, and she drank alcohol on an empty stomach, fearing that her stomach would feel uncomfortable.
Li Chuan met Kiyoshi Tanaka who was also in the dining area, and the other party looked at him very unfriendlyly, turned around and left when he saw him.
Kiyoshi Tanaka only just found out Li Chuan's identity, they are not from the same circle. But Li Chuan is different from Chu Ming, and he is not easy to provoke. For a man like Li Chuan, I am afraid that the more you provoke him, the more coquettish he will be.
He can't move Li Chuan, but what is Su Qin? How dare a little designer play tricks on him
Kiyoshi Tanaka couldn't swallow that breath, nor could he forget the shame of being forced to call Su Qin "mother" that day. He beckoned to Bai Yu, the bodyguard behind him, and whispered to him in Japanese: "After the banquet tonight, go and find out where that girl lives."
Bai Yu nodded and said yes in Japanese.
Xu Hang and Bai Yu looked at each other, thinking that the old man Kiyoshi Tanaka might want to attack Su Qin. They followed Kiyoshi Tanaka all the way tonight. Kiyoshi Tanaka had in-depth exchanges with 15 people, five of them were "perverts" who were already on the list, and the remaining six "perverts" with unknown names must also be here Among fifteen people.
Xu Hang used the excuse of going to the toilet to send a text message to Su Qin, telling her to be careful when she went back. Su Qin turned on the phone and looked at it.
After Ms. Si Baijia left, Kiyoshi Tanaka came over to toast with Su Qin and Chu Ming.
When Chu Ming saw Kiyoshi Tanaka, his eyes were full of anger, and when he was about to lose his temper, Su Qin grabbed his clothes and said in a low voice, "Master."
Kiyoshi Tanaka glanced at Su Qin, his eyes fell back on Chu Ming, and said with a joke in Japanese: "Mr. Chu, you are safe here. Hey, I heard that Mr. Chu made a fuss at the Paris police station and was detained for ten days. True or false?"
Chu Ming frowned, suppressing his nausea, and said, "Then which result does Mr. Tanaka want to hear?"
Kiyoshi Tanaka: "I heard that Mr. Chu lost his brother, have you found him now?"
At the mention of this, Chu Ming clenched his fists. This man was simply reminding his brother of what had happened. Once he thought of what the man in front of him had done to his younger brother, his anger was about to burst out. Chu Ming is a very rational person, but in this matter, he obviously cannot be rational. I believe that it is impossible for anyone to be rational in this situation.
Su Qin couldn't understand what Kiyoshi Tanaka was saying, but she noticed that the veins on Chu Ming's forehead were protruding, and she clenched her fists tightly. Seeing this, Su Qin stood in front of Chu Ming, met Uedanaka Kiyoshi's gaze, and said with a small voice that only the two of them could hear, "My dear son, why didn't you say hello when you saw your mother? What did you say? My master is so angry?"
This time it was Kiyoshi Tanaka who was angry, he roared "Baga".
He usually has a gentle and modest image, but in reality he is irritable and irritable. This was the second time he was insulted by Su Qin tonight. Impulsively, he grabbed the girl's slender neck with both hands.
Su Qin grabbed the man's wrist with both hands, without struggling, or even any resistance.
Kiyoshi Tanaka woke up immediately, and when he wanted to withdraw his hand, the girl firmly grabbed his hand, not giving him a chance to let go.
The girl's strength was greater than he had imagined, and when she was exerting strength, the tight lines on her arms could be clearly seen. In the eyes of others, Su Qin was trying to pull the man's hand away, but in fact, she was holding the man's hand, making the man pinch her neck tightly.
He wanted to let go, but Su Qin didn't give him any chance.
In order to prevent Chu Ming from having a chance to help her, Su Qin pretended to be struggling and bumped Chu Ming behind him.
The movement here attracted the attention of the people around them, and they slowly gathered towards them. Kiyoshi Tanaka quickly understood what Su Qin wanted to do. He didn't have both hands to use, he couldn't pull back his hand, and he couldn't push Su Qin away, so he kicked Su Qin away in a hurry. With this kick, Kiyoshi Tanaka immediately regretted it.
He got caught!
Su Qin fell to the ground, clutching his stomach and curling up into a ball. Chu Ming didn't quite see Su Qin's small movements just now, thinking that she was grabbing Kiyoshi Tanaka's wrist and trying to break Kiyoshi Tanaka's hand, but he didn't expect that she was holding Kiyoshi Tanaka's hand to prevent Tanaka from letting go.
Chu Ming knelt down to help Su Qin get up, but the girl tugged at her sleeve and gave him a hint. Chu Ming immediately came back to his senses, and seized the opportunity to scold Tanaka: "Mr. Tanaka, what do you mean?"
A lady in the crowd helped Su Qin up. Su Qin sat up clutching his lower abdomen, and questioned Tanaka with tears in his eyes: "Mr. Tanaka, we just have different design concepts, why are you doing this to me?"
As Su Qin spoke, he lifted his chin, and a red mark was clearly visible on his fair neck.
Su Qin's face was pale, and he looked at Kiyoshi Tanaka with innocent and pitiful eyes. The people around you talk to each other, and the woman who helped Su Qin get up accused Tanaka: "Mr. Tanaka, you are too much. Even if there is a dispute because of the design concept, you are so cruel to a girl in such a public place." Hand, isn't it too much?"
Everyone recognized Su Qin and immediately helped her speak. This girl is not only the cutting-edge designer selected by Si Baijia, but also Chu Ming's apprentice. Whether it is from the standpoint of the weak or the standpoint of business, they should also speak for Su Qin.
"Not gentlemanly, too much."
"Mr. Tanaka, your behavior has involved intentional harm, which is very bad."
"Handling a lady on such an occasion, Mr. Tanaka, your behavior today is not a gentleman, nor does it give the owner here a face."
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Facing everyone's condemnation, Kiyoshi Tanaka raised his hand angrily and pointed at Su Qin, saying in English that he was wronged, accused Su Qin, and deliberately slandered him.
Someone in the crowd originally excused him, saying that he was drunk. But after he clearly explained how Su Qin framed him, no one helped him to excuse him, and they were all afraid of being provoked.
Originally, Tanaka excused this matter by being drunk, and an apology would be over. But no one expected that a man in his forties would actually get entangled with a little girl, and his bad and childish behavior was completely inconsistent with usual. The more he defended Su Qin's slander with others, the more people disbelieved him, and even felt that his character was worrying and his behavior was childish.
The red marks on the girl's neck were real, and they also saw him kick the girl down with their own eyes. Could it be false
Tanaka Kiyoshi was irritable and irritable, and Su Qin hit him seven inches, intentionally provoking him and making him lose all his usual sanity in front of others. The more pitiful Su Qin pretended to be, the angrier Tanaka became. He remembered how humiliated he had been by this girl calling him his son, and he grew even more furious.
Kiyoshi Tanaka is the owner of a well-known children's clothing brand in Japan. He is worth a lot of money and has a large scale. This children's clothing brand was originally owned by his father, and he took over the brand after his father passed away.
Because of his poor management, their children's clothing is far from what it used to be. But the skinny camel was bigger than a horse, and he still got the invitation letter for Si Baijia's birthday party by virtue of the name of this children's clothing brand.
Seeing the situation here, Ms. Si Baijia brought the security personnel over. After getting a general understanding of what happened, Si Bojia immediately asked the security personnel to throw Kiyoshi Tanaka out, and told him that he would not want to see Tanaka whenever she was around in the future.
When Li Chuan came over, this place was already over. He handed the dinner plate to Su Qin, bent down to look at her neck that had been pinched with red marks, and there was anger in his eyes, and he felt so distressed that he wanted to chop off the old man's hand.
Tanaka was kicked out of Si Baijia's mansion. On his way home, he received dozens of text messages of condolences. Tanaka thought of the grievance at the banquet just now, and wished he could tear that woman apart.
His reputation is completely rotten, and the carefully maintained character design has completely collapsed.
After Tanaka returned to the villa, he went straight into the study.
About an hour later, he came out of the study, completely different from him who was furious and gratuitous just now, he was refreshed and seemed to be in a good mood, as if he had experienced some happy event.
Kiyoshi Tanaka went back to his bedroom to rest. According to the usual habit, Xu Hang and Bai Yu took turns to watch at his door.
Xu Hang left the servants on the second floor, opened the door of the study with a stolen key, and let Bai Yu go in to investigate.
Bai Yu searched around in the study, but found nothing. He supported the bookcase with his hands, and found that there were pulleys under the bookcase, which were very easy to move. He only used 20% of his strength to push, and the bookcase slid forward, revealing a sliding door behind it.
Bai Yu carefully unlocked the sliding door and pushed it open. There were actually stairs going down inside. Bai Yu stepped in, and the voice-activated light inside immediately turned on. He carefully descended the thirteen steps, and there was indeed a hidden cave inside.
The atmosphere in this basement is erotic purple, with no windows and only two exhaust vents. There is no furniture in it, there is a bathtub filled with water and four iron cages, each of which houses a young boy, with iron chains on their hands and black cloth around their eyes, so they cannot see anything .
One of the boys, also about thirteen, was naked, with bleeding wounds that had obviously been inflicted not long ago.
Abusive paraphernalia hung on the walls, and the place had a disgusting and chilling vibe. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Bai Yu would never believe that in such a civilized society, he would see such a scene in a rich man's house, and he would never believe that someone would lock up a child like an animal.
No wonder that old beast in Tanaka was elated when he walked out of the study just now, and he vented his anger on a group of children.
The four boys heard footsteps, thought it was Tanaka, subconsciously shrank back, and their hearts were full of fear.
Bai Yu had no choice but to hold back his anger. He took out his mobile phone to take pictures of everything here, and walked out of the study quietly.
It was almost eleven o'clock after the dinner party, and Su Qin went home together in Li Chuan's car.
On the way, the vigilant driver said, "Mr. Li, there is a car following us."
Li Chuan said: "Find a way to get rid of it."
The driver lived up to his high hopes and managed to get rid of the following vehicle after turning three streets.
Since there is a driver in the car, Su Qin is not easy to say anything. After returning home, Su Qin took a shower, changed his clothes and walked into Li Chuan's study, before complaining to him, "This Kiyoshi Tanaka, does he really want to take revenge on me? I'm curious, what method does he want to use."
"Don't underestimate him." Li Chuan held the girl's hand and said, "You are too risky tonight. You are not allowed to do this kind of thing that hurts others."
Su Qin was wearing pink pig pajamas, wiped his wet hair, and said: "I'm fine, I pinched it myself, and it has nothing to do with him. Kiyoshi Tanaka is not an idiot, why would he want to really strangle me? Probably I couldn't stand me calling him son, so he stretched out his hand to pinch me on impulse, but when he reacted and wanted to withdraw his hand, I held him down. But I still didn't expect that my strength could actually restrain a man. It seems The training in the past six months has paid off.”
In the past, Su Qin lived in a rented house, so it was not very convenient to exercise. After moving here in Li Chuan, his gym has a complete range of equipment, which is convenient for her to keep fit. Li Chuan has a dedicated personal fitness trainer and muay thai coach. After Su Qin moved in, his coach became to serve Su Qin all the way.
While sorting out the documents, Li Chuan teased the girl: "You are so small, a strong man can easily pinch your throat."
"Ms. Li, I'm also very strong." Su Qin clenched his fists, hooked his arms, and deliberately showed off his arm muscles to him, "Look."
The girl's arms are thin, but when she squeezes her fist and exerts force on her whole arm, her muscles are tight and beautiful. Li Chuan didn't raise his head, and continued to sort out the documents on the desk, saying, "When your arms become as thick as mine, come talk to me about being strong again. Your thin monkey-like physique can be blown away by the wind."
Su Qin's vanity to show off her figure was aroused. She walked to Li Chuan's desk, put her palm on the table, made a "bang" sound, and then lifted her blouse to reveal her belly.
As soon as Li Chuan raised his eyes, he saw the girl's vest line, and stretched out his hand to pinch her tight waist: "Girl, you are playing with fire."
Su Qin made a face at him, pulled his collar down again, and leaned over to show the man the ravine: "Man, do you still dare to laugh at me for being a skinny monkey?"
Li Chuan: "..."
Before Su Qin could straighten her waist, the man grabbed her arm and moved forward, and she sat on the man's lap. Li Chuan hugged her and kissed her, pried open her teeth, and began to entangle with her.
The man breathed heavily, and his breath became hotter and hotter.
Su Qin was wearing a sleeveless loose vest and a short skirt that didn't reach the knees. The man's hand was originally on her leg, but he slowly moved it up dishonestly.
The man's palm moved upwards, and the higher it went, the faster her heart beat, and she felt goosebumps all over her body when touched by the man. She felt that if this went on like this, sooner or later she would lose her defense. She wanted to push him away, but she couldn't stop, she enjoyed the man's kiss very much.
She hooked the man's neck with her hands, and clamped his palm with her legs, preventing him from making the next move. But Li Chuan picked her up and put her whole body on the desk.
Su Qin's short skirt has been lifted up by him, revealing the little pink triangle inside. Su Qin felt cooler than ever before, rolled his eyes and said, "Mr. Li, wouldn't it be better for you to just help me take off the skirt?"
Sure enough, the man pulled down her skirt and took it off for her.
Su Qin: "..." Couldn't he hear that she was mocking her? She wants him to stop
Su Qin's cheeks were flushed, and he grabbed the man's ears and said, "Mr. Li, be colder. If this continues, I will soon lose control—"
Before he finished speaking, the man kissed her again, leaned over, and pressed her against the desk to kiss her.
Except for the computer, Li Chuan swept away all the odds and ends on the desk. Li Chuan tore off his tie and threw it on the chair, and unbuttoned his shirt one by one.
Su Qin was lying on the desk, and when the man came over, he put his foot on the man's chest and warned: "Mr. Li, let's calm down."
Li Chuan grabbed the girl's ankles, separated her legs, lay on her body, and kissed her tight abdomen.
He admitted that Su Qin's vest line is indeed very beautiful.
In the previous life, Su Qin was soft and fragrant all over. And Su Qin in this life is healthy and compact.
Li Chuan's kiss gradually went below the navel, Su Qin grabbed his hair.
Even if Mr. Li could hold it back, his young body couldn't hold it back either. He buried his face in the girl's chest and whispered, "Susu, we can take safety measures."
Su Qin finally compromised and didn't want to wrong him anymore.
Fortunately, the two took precautions. They were worried that they might not be able to bear it one day, so they put condoms and contraceptives at home.
Li Chuan carried Su Qin back to his room, and turned on a light by the bed to study his girlfriend's body.
It was Su Qin's first time, and when he went in, he scratched the man's arm in pain.
On the wedding night in the previous life, Su Qin was on top. But this time, Li Chuan was on top.
After tossing for the first time, Su Qin fell asleep. However, Professor Li turned into an old beast, who woke her up abruptly at one or two o'clock in the morning, pestering her for another round.
Su Qin was exhausted by the man.
A twenty-four-year-old man is at the peak of his body. Su Qin remembered that Li Chuan was thirty-five years old in his previous life, and he asked her five times a night before giving up.
The next morning, Su Qin woke up at ten o'clock. She rubbed her messy hair and looked at the time, feeling lucky that she didn't go to work today, otherwise she would be late.
Li Chuan slept face to face on the bed, with the quilt covering his buttocks, exposing his strong and tight back. The man has a waist and a strong waist. It is a pity that this figure is not suitable for a model. She took the pen on the bedside table, lay down on the bed, and created art on the man's waist.
Draw two big eyes through his waist.
The man tossed all night last night, and now he slept soundly, unaware of Su Qin's behavior.
Su Qin got dressed, sat down in front of the dressing table and turned on the laptop. She opened the notebook on the dressing table, logged in to QQ habitually, checked her emails, and then saw Bai Yu's emails among the emails from many headhunting companies.
A short text from Bai Yu, followed by a few photos.
After quickly scanning, Su Qin returned to the bed with the notebook in his arms, and slapped the man on the back: "Mr. Li, wake up."
The man rolled over and pulled the pillow over his head.
Su Qin patted his face again, and the wake-up call still failed. She simply yelled "on fire" in the man's ear, and the man sat up almost reflexively, pulled the thin blanket to wrap his lower body, picked Su Qin from the bed with one hand and carried him on his shoulder, walked to the window and opened the window, and put Su Qin Send down the life-saving slide outside the window.
Su Qin slid from the slide to the garden with the computer in his arms, and met the aunt who was mowing the lawn in the garden.
Auntie and Su Qin looked up at the second floor at the same time. The man was standing in the window wrapped in a thin blanket, and finally came back to his senses. He sent Su Qin down the slide only to find that the house wasn't on fire at all.
The auntie coughed twice, thinking that Mr. Li is very good at playing, and he actually sent his girlfriend to play on the slide early in the morning
Su Qin went back to the upstairs bedroom with the computer in his arms, closed the door, and showed him the message from Bai Yu. She frowned and said, "This Kiyoshi Tanaka is far more beastly than we imagined. Can he do whatever he wants with money? Bai Yu's side stays put and doesn't want to startle the enemy. Teacher Li, look, how do we arrange it now?"
Last night, Xu Hang and Bai Yu narrowed down the six unknown "perverts" to 15 people, and the information verification will not exceed 3 days at most. They now need the complete list of the eleven people. If Tanaka is arrested at this time, it will definitely scare the snake and make the other ten people be more vigilant.
Tanaka imprisoned four boys, and the other ten people must have been involved in illegal imprisonment. If you try to scare the snake out at this time, and try to rescue the illegally imprisoned child from other "perverts", I'm afraid it will only be more difficult.
"Our original intention of approaching Kiyoshi Tanaka was to lure snakes out of their holes, but now is not the best time. There should be more than these four imprisoned. If they want to do it, they have to do this well. A group of wolves, only one is impossible. Rest easy."
Li Chuan's plan was to wait for the identity of the remaining six people to be verified, and then let the police search the homes of the remaining ten people while arresting Tanaka. If the illegally imprisoned children can be found like the Tanaka family, this group of people will be convicted.
Li Chuan and Su Qin waited for this list for three full days.
On the third night, they finally lived up to their expectations and got the list.
There are a total of eleven people above, except for the three rich second-generation Su Qin who are not very familiar, the names of the others seem to be engraved into her bones, and they are all people she is familiar with and can no longer be familiar with.
Well-known photographers, philanthropists, designers, the founder of a women's clothing brand... are all big shots with a lot of money.
The so-called upper-class society produced so much dregs at once, and Su Qin's three views were completely destroyed. If these things weren't hard evidence, she really couldn't believe that those people who usually look normal would do such insidious and wicked things.
Su Qin and Li Chuan submitted all the evidence to the police. Zhang Zhang is still in charge of this case, and he deployed this arrest operation according to Li Chuan's way of thinking. They had evidence in hand, applied for a search warrant, and rushed into their home at the same time when none of the eleven people were prepared.
Kiyoshi Tanaka was about to enter the study when a group of policemen rushed in. Faced with the police swarming into his house, he had no idea what happened.
By the time he reacted, the police had already brought out the four teenagers from his study.
Kiyoshi Tanaka was arrested.
For the remaining ten people, the police found the illegally detained children from their homes. In the home of the philanthropist, six boys were found, four of whom were foreigners.
On the night after the police successfully arrested him, someone anonymously posted in Tianya:
——"Fashion Circle Plays Excitement, Suspected of Illegal Imprisonment"
The person who posted the post was a paparazzi who had followed the philanthropist for a long time. When the police went in to arrest people today, he was at the door and happened to take pictures of that scene. The philanthropist was arrested, and he later learned that there were ten other insiders who had a good relationship with the philanthropist.
There are eleven people in total, all of whom are important figures in the fashion industry, but they are collectively suspected of being illegally imprisoned.
The identities and brief introductions of the eleven people were revealed in detail in this post. Netizens were outraged when they saw this post:
Floor 1: "What the hell? What's the situation? Illegal captivity? All the rescued are boys? Why are there still little blond-haired and blue-eyed foreign boys? Where are their parents?"
Floor 2: "Illegally detained children were found in the homes of eleven people. They are all men. Why are these boys imprisoned? I hope it's not what I thought. I hope it's just that I watch too much TVB."
Floor 3: "No way? Qin Yang is a well-known philanthropist in the circle! He is the editor-in-chief of "Men's Fashion", how could he do illegal activities? Someone must have framed him. It wasn't rumored on the Internet that someone robbed him of his editor-in-chief Is it? It must have been created by a competitor, trying to pull him down from the altar."
4th floor: "3rd floor. Framed? Framed your mother! Framed can put children in his house casually? Wake up. You can't live by yourself. The extravagant life of the rich is always beyond your imagination."
Floor 5: "Go to your motherfucker! My male god would do this kind of thing? You fucking make it up! Are you jealous? You deserve to be a paparazzi for the rest of your life!"
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In the post, because of this exposure, everything was said, and some netizens even thought it was all fabricated.
Qin Yang is a well-known philanthropist. He donates a lot of money to impoverished mountainous areas every year. He is a typical rich and low-key man. How could he do such immoral things? Isn't this self-destructive future
What are they doing it for? Is it exciting
That's right, they did this only for stimulation.
When Chu Ming came back from the meeting, he saw the news printed on his desk that the eleven people had been arrested.
He glanced at the little girl who was working hard in the office, and put the news in the drawer. Chu Ming sat in his office and looked at Su Qin for a while before he came back to his senses.
The police have solid evidence, and none of these eleven people can deny it. In order to protect their own interests, they began to bite dogs and put all the responsibility on Tanaka.
Under the guidance of the police, Kiyoshi Tanaka confessed to the transnational human trafficking group that he was connected with.
Tanaka said that he didn't know who the leader of this group was. Every time he connected with him was an American named "Fox" who often haunted Paris. Customers in China like to find him, and he can guarantee the safe delivery of "goods" to their destinations.