Chris was a very common name in Western countries. Even though it had made quite a splash recently, Fatty and Skinny could hardly have connected the young Asian man before them with the "master thief Chris" topping the trending searches.
After using a name for decades, a person could not simply change it overnight. Besides, Chris was bold and full of himself.
He believed that, with the sweeping changes he had undergone, nobody could track him down by a name alone unless the Ghost Captain himself wanted to find him. So he had boldly kept his real name.
Chris slipped into his false identity with remarkable ease. Before becoming Rio Tinto's CEO, he had served as its Asia president and lived in Beijing for a time. He spoke fluent Chinese, so communicating with the two presented no... uh, all right, there were still a few obstacles.
Their accents gave Chris a headache. He could only listen with his full attention, piecing together context, filling in the blanks, and making educated guesses as he struggled to understand them.
Seeing how attentively Chris listened made the two like him even more. After chatting about everything under the sun for a while, the three soon looked like old buddies.
With Chris deliberately befriending them, the trip became an outing for three.
Naturally, Chris had not sought them out because he was bored and wanted a couple of travel companions. A group of three Asians was safer for him. Nobody would imagine that this Asian trio concealed Chris, the notorious master thief who had originally been a Westerner.
The whole world was looking for him now. Some wanted to collect debts, some coveted his wealth, and others simply wanted to make their names by finding him. In terms of value, Chris was unquestionably the