Huo Shaoheng stood next to the gate at the entrance of the airport and watched the large airport baggage handling area as people came and went.
Uniformed military police led military dogs through the crowd. It was obvious that what attracted them were Asian men who were as tall as Huo Shaoheng.
Huo Shaoheng now looked like a mixed-race white man with a high nose and blue eyes. The military police probably wouldn't notice him, but the military dogs might not.
Being able to use military dogs meant that someone had obtained something with Huo Shaoheng's scent and trained the military dogs to search for him.
Huo Shaoheng's gaze was deep and obscure as he looked at the military dogs shuttling through the crowd. His brows gradually furrowed.
Seeing military dogs, logically speaking, meant that a traitor had obtained something related to him and let the military dogs familiarize themselves with it …
But he had been abroad for more than a month, almost two months. What scent could be retained for so long?
Even if they obtained the clothes or daily necessities he had left in the country, after washing and storing them, the residual smell on them would be almost negligible. It would be impossible for the military dogs to detect them and track him based on the negligible smell.
Huo Shaoheng himself had a detailed understanding of military dogs. As far as he knew, there was no military dog in the world with such a sensitive nose.
He put his hands in his trouser pockets and looked at the military dogs with a blank expression for a while. Finally, he decided to take the risk and give it a try.
He wanted to see if his reasoning was correct or if the military dogs' noses were really out of this world.
Like the people around him, Huo Shaoheng also put on a pair of sunglasses and walked into the airport.
He went to the United Airlines counter and pretended to look at the flight schedule. He squinted for a while.
Then he turned around and saw everyone lined up in front of the automatic check-in machine with their tickets in hand.
Huo Shaoheng took out his wallet and walked forward unhurriedly as if he was looking for a ticket.
Suddenly, he felt a slight twitch on the back of his neck, as if something was staring at him.
Huo Shaoheng didn't turn around and immediately understood that a military dog was staring at him …
This was really too puzzling.
Huo Shaoheng was puzzled as he maintained his pace and walked through the crowd. At the same time, he opened a cigar box and took out a fat cigar. He tore open the wrapper and sprinkled the tobacco inside on the ground.
The smell of the cigar could slightly disrupt the military dogs' sense of smell. The confusion wouldn't last long, but it was enough for Huo Shaoheng to leave the airport lobby and walk back to where he had come from.
The pressure on the back of his neck disappeared, and he looked back. Sure enough, there was a strong German Shepherd circling the place where he had just been standing. There were also traces of cigar smoke on the ground, which was very obvious on the clean, reflective ground.
Huo Shaoheng used this method to let his pursuers know that he was here.
Although he wasn't caught by the military dogs on the spot, the cigar smoke was still visible to an expert.
If the military dogs' target was Huo Shaoheng, and someone had used cigar smoke to disrupt the military dogs' sense of smell at the airport, then there was only one conclusion: their target — Huo Shaoheng — had appeared at the airport.
Huo Shaoheng didn't stay any longer. Instead, he called a cab and retraced his steps. He picked up his car from the train station parking lot in New Jersey and drove back to his high-class rented apartment.
The trackers in New York probably hadn't thought of searching the area around New York yet.
Huo Shaoheng's continued appearance in New York City had largely confused them.
After returning to his room, Huo Shaoheng washed up quickly and began to think about what was going on with the military dogs.
This phenomenon couldn't even be explained by a mole.
How did the other party get his scent to train these military dogs?
Also, the other party already had an effective way of searching for military dogs, so his disguise wouldn't be very useful.
Because dogs couldn't see faces, they could only distinguish smells.
Huo Shaoheng thought about it in the apartment all night, but still couldn't figure out how the other party had done it.
But it didn't matter that he couldn't figure out the reason, as long as he could deal with the military dogs.
The next day, Huo Shaoheng didn't go into the city again. Instead, he went to the nearby Macy's department store and bought some different scents of perfume. He mixed a perfume that smelled like fox odor and carried it with him.
This scent could greatly mask his own scent and affect the military dogs' sense of smell.
When he went into the city a few days later, he found that the military dogs were no longer limited to the airport, but could be seen in many places in New York City.
It must have been hard on them …
Huo Shaoheng's heart didn't waver, and he even wanted to laugh.
He almost swaggered past the military dogs, but none of them paid any special attention to him.
The streets of New York were extremely hot in the summer, and the German Shepherds stretched out their tongues and panted under the sun, but they still dutifully searched for every possible person and place.
Huo Shaoheng came to the smoking area in front of a skyscraper, took out a cigar, lit it, and took a few puffs. He didn't stare at the military dogs nearby, but he kept watching them from the corner of his eye.
Not long after, the uniformed military police left the block with the military dogs and continued to search other blocks.
Huo Shaoheng blew out a smoke ring in the direction they left, almost wanting to whistle.
But it was just a thought.
Making a sound at this time would be asking for trouble.
He threw the cigar into a nearby trash can, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and slowly walked the streets of New York in the middle of summer.
Manhattan's Fifth Avenue gathered the world's top luxury stores.
Half of the people who came and went here were rich and powerful, and the other half were people who served these rich and powerful people.
Huo Shaoheng stopped in front of the Hermes flagship store.
He still remembered Gu Nianzhi's favorite Hermes scarves.
There were only two months left, and it would be her birthday again.
This time, he would probably have to buy some Hermes scarves as a birthday present.
Huo Shaoheng didn't go in, but only looked at the fall and winter new products in the window.
Among them, there was a blue scarf with Van Gogh's "Starry Night" printed on it, which should be Gu Nianzhi's favorite.
Huo Shaoheng planned to find a way to buy one from Hermes's main European store after returning to his apartment and send it back to her country.
That would also confuse the people in the country.
After leaving the Hermes flagship store, Huo Shaoheng wandered leisurely on Fifth Avenue.
He was surrounded by people from all over the world who came to shop.
There was a rich lady from the Middle East with a black veil over her head and a Hermes platinum bag on her arm.
There was a gorgeous woman wearing a backless sundress, high heels, sunglasses, and red lipstick on her lips as she walked into a Rolls-Royce parked on the side of the street.
There were also some people who came here to travel with their families. Older parents, younger children, and even grandchildren who were only a few years old held hands and walked under the Manhattan sun.
Not far in front of him was a beautiful woman wearing a Chanel suit. She was holding a pretty little girl who looked like a doll in one hand and pushing a stroller in the other.
The woman's Chanel suit was somewhat similar to the one Gu Nianzhi had bought before. Her figure was also as slender and delicate as Gu Nianzhi's. Huo Shaoheng couldn't help looking at her a few more times.
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