Yonnie and Treeka were dancing jubilantly around on all the monitors.
Any signs of pursuit?' Miguel asked Yonnie.
'Well, there is a police cruiser, with lights flashing, coming up rapidly behind you,' she replied.
"Shoot!' Dr Zhang slowed down as he looked in the rear view mirror. 'Oh, no! What am I going to tell him?' He pulled the Terramax onto the shoulder and the Sûreté du Québec cruiser stopped behind us.
Dr Zhang wound the window down as the cop walked up to him. The cop was a woman. She studied Dr Zhang face carefully as if he was an interesting and rare species, which he probably was. Few Asian-Canadians grew long droopy moustaches and beards or had long hair tied back in a pony tail.
'Votre permis de conduire. S'il vous plaît,' she said, 'et l'immatriculation et l'assurance.'
Dr Zhang was trying to get his driver's licence out of his wallet. He replied, 'Ah-um . . .' and dropped it.
'Vous ne parlez pas français, monsieur?' she asked as she picked up the licence.
Beryl tapped Dr Zhang on the shoulder and leaned forward speaking rapidly in French to the police officer.
The lady cop looked amused and replied.
Dr Zhang gave her the vehicle registration and his insurance certificate. Beryl climbed down from the Terramax and followed the cop back to the cruiser where they chatted as the cop checked Dr Zhang's documents. They both came back and the cop returned Dr Zhang's licence, registration and insurance papers and waved us on.
We were all bursting with curiosity until Beryl explained. 'I told the cop Dr Zhang was a bit slow and didn't speak French or English very well. She told me a weird vehicle had been seen at the "aeroport" and there were gun shots.
'I explained we were contracted to make a scene for a film company. So she made a lot of notes and let us go.'
We made it back to the school parking lot where Dr Zhang walked around the Terramax carefully inspecting the paint work.
'Licia drove very carefully,' I told him. 'And there are no dents. Well, not very big ones anyway.'
Licia laughed with relief. 'Nothing as big as the dents in the SUV. They are probably still arguing about who is going to pay for the damage. I'm glad I didn't hit the executive jet. Now that would have been expensive.'
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Undercover Goose - book 6
Fiksi IlmiahMurga wanted to borrow Dr Zhang's computer, which the Dark Fire Data Bunglers were trying to destroy. Yonnie and Treeka (two algorithms from the future) claimed the computer was their mother, Mandia, and were intent on protecting her. And now the...
