Hong Kong

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Kathy awoke. A heavy fog blotted out the landscape.

-- So far she still hasn't told me where we are.

-- In the province of Xian," the count reported as if it were such a thing.

-- Don't tell me. I want to go and see the terracotta warriors," said the young woman, understanding where they were.

-- It will be a long time before they are discovered.

-- Damn it," she said, receiving a cup of tea.

I

-- I'm very hungry," Mei To complained.

-- There are several of us around here who are also hungry. Let's move closer. If things get tough we have the automatic pistol and a box of ammunition.

The girl immediately began to walk towards the group, watching the morning sun dissipate the fog.

-- Wait for me, you have no idea who these people might be," said Thomas, running after her with the heavy backpacks.

II

The group saw the two coming.

Riding on his horse Qiang Ling saw them coming and made a restraining movement towards his warriors.

He laughed loudly and pointing to the two coming, looking at Kathy he said.

-- Unquestionably a woman's hair has more strength than an oxen team.

Kathy looked at where the count was pointing and her astonishment knew no bounds.

-- Calm down," said the Count to his warriors, "It is a lover who has come to claim his bride.

Finally the girl and the man arrived at the camp, while from his horse Qiang Ling looked at him.

-- You brought her without his permission," Thomas accused the Count and pointed to the girl, then looked at Kathy, "Why did this man dress you like that? And where are we?

-- These are my lands. Miss Kathy is my guest. And since you have doubts I can give you my word of honor to the parties with rights, that you have been treated according to your dignity-- looking at Mei To-- You are not going to tell me that the teenager is the daughter of both.

-- My name is Mei To and I have come to find a man who dresses similar to you who desecrated my virginity.

-- He has no rights over me," said Kathy, feeling electricity in her stomach, mad with happiness to see Thomas there; understanding that not even the horses believed her.

The Count for a moment was under the impact of the news given by Mei To, then understanding who it was about, he breathed in and said.

-- I swear by the power of the gods that I will collect this affront. Hang Hing, you will answer for this.

They all bowed to the count's promise.

Thomas looked at Kathy and approached . Many questions about her feelings were asked. Now, gazing at the girl, without makeup, dressed as she was and in the middle of the lonely, cold meadow, he had no doubt that he was looking at a girl with porcelain skin, extremely beautiful...and desirable...highly desirable.

-- Have they treated you well," he asked, bringing his mouth close to her ear, so that there would be no doubt in the minds of those present as to who was the rooster in the barnyard.

-- Yes," she said, feeling herself falling into the spiral of his presence; feeling him undressing her with his gaze, she mused, totally melted, "you are very transparent in your gaze, you know you have no right over me.

-- I don't intend to dominate me in a single one of my instincts.

-- It's not like you think. You do it because you're basic in the extreme.

-- Well, I'm here to reassure myself.

-- Why did you bring her here? He asked, referring to the teenage girl.

-- Because the one who outraged her is here...

Kathy looked at him directly; and really Thomas was a poisonous and malignant trap...Rival of magnitude of whoever... And she appreciated that he came for her. She understood that he wanted everything from her..... All of it... In parts or all at once...

-- Why did everyone laugh when we approached?

-- The count told them that a woman's hair had more strength than an ox team.

-- He didn't get a letter wrong," Thomas told her intensely, so that she understood without any doubt what her hairs were that made him jump out of the doorway.

A throat clearing brought them back to reality. Everyone was looking at them and the cook was staring at them with a plate of rice in each hand.

-- Breakfast... I hope there are chicken lumpias," said Thomas, receiving the plates of food.

#$#$#

Melissa Feng, at 25 years old, had already read "The Retired Zacharias Sanchez" and "T'zu Hsi". I thought she deserved to live an adventure equivalent to Noa de Haro or Isabel Steller.

She wasn't. She was a young Hong Kong uniformed policewoman who had seen very little action in her career. Nothing important. Traffic tickets. Dealing with the occasional drunk and the occasional misguided tourist.

He was on patrol on his moped and received a request to go take notes at Kowlong Hospital for a confusing incident recorded by the security cameras in one of the wards.

The entire police force was overwhelmed by other events; and it was up to her to take notes, videos and then some superior would hand them over to the corresponding department.

She accepted the order and went to the hospital.

After a while, together with the security supervisor, she saw the first video.

A handsome nurse's assistant was clearly in the process of courting a girl. Then another very handsome man also appeared. Another camera recorded the man lying on a gurney on one side of the hallway. The interns were checking him out. Then the man would take the loaded girl and they would jump into the void.

Another video with a different date showed the handsome nursing intern, a bearded man in old-fashioned clothes appeared. Then the old-fashioned dressed man was running, the nurse was chasing him. Another camera showed the man jumping into the void. Then a commotion in a room, the nurse and others attending to the emergency happening in the room.

Then another video showed a teenage girl with a school bag leaving the room where the emergency occurred, the young nurse trainee with a huge hiking backpack. Unexpectedly, the handsome nurse picked up the loaded girl. She struggled to run with all that weight and they jumped over the balcony.

Melissa watched the videos and couldn't help but be amazed.

-- Have there been other similar situations?

-- No. All the other videos just show the work routine," the supervisor reported.

-- What are these people's names?

-- The nurse trainee is named Thomas Zhao, the nurse trainee is named Kathy Hung, the teenager is a patient named Mei To. The two men have no admission record and appear directly in the ward.

Melissa adjusted her glasses and watched the videos again.... That was a case... A real case... Nothing to do with a p********e's fight over a client, nor a minor car crash while parking.

II

30 minutes later he passed his report online to the office. He took a video of the possible impact site. The security cameras in the exterior areas showed nothing! It was a case! She was the first authority to make it official; she could ask questions and stay on top of it.

-- Of course I'll keep an eye on it," she said to herself as she turned on her electric scooter to continue her activities.

He registered the names and got their addresses. Each was at one end of town.

Thomas Zhao had a driver's license, passport, lived in his father Ken Zhao's luxurious residence; coincidentally the residence with all his belongings had just been foreclosed and Ken Zhao for no reason had vanished via New York, he appeared to have no debts and the Securities and Exchange Commission had no alerts on him.

Kathy Hung's name appeared on the sale of some antique thing; then she had gone crazy buying what was and wasn't, rented an apartment .... and vanished, into the arms of the first stranger over the hospital balcony.

The teenager Mei To was the daughter of a 30-year-old pornographic actress, who was found dismembered the day before Mei To was admitted to the hospital. The girl was admitted as a r**e victim. They had no housing records. She was the girl who jumped off the balcony in the arms of the lover.

-- This has neither head nor tail -- whispered the girl at ten o'clock at night, while she was having a hamburger dinner with some Mcrefugiados in a Macdonals near her residence...

She knew a detective would be assigned, overloaded with cases; if nothing else happened, it would be filed. She didn't have much to do. She could try in her spare time...it was little...but she could do it.....