Chapter 116: The Last Meeting on the Eve of the Rainstorm (asking for monthly tickets)
It was six o'clock in the morning of July 19th, Japan time. The second machine, Xia Pingzhuo, woke up from the mattress on the floor, sat up drowsily, and rubbed his forehead.
Looking up, I saw Oda Takikage standing at the stairs of the attic.
The two-meter-tall ninja butler looked at Xia Ping and Ayase Origami who were sleeping in the attic and said:
"Miss, Mr. Xia Pingzhou, I just received news: the head of the group has arrived in Tokyo."
Has the team leader arrived?
Ji Minghuan's heart moved slightly. He didn't expect to hear good news so early in the morning.
He thought with interest: "I want to see what kind of monster the leader of this monster brigade is. If he has any connection with the Salvation Society, that would be even better."
Hearing Oda Takikage's voice, Ayase Origami slowly woke up from the bed by the window sill. She lowered her eyes to look at the thin quilt covering her body, and then looked at the "Haiku Collection Quilt" hanging on the shelf.
Then he stretched out his slender hand, turned the quilt of paper pages into individual pages, put them together into a book again, and then held them in his palm.
Holding the haiku collection, she sat up from the bed, was silent for a while, raised her empty eyes and looked at Oda Takikage:
"When do we assemble?"
Oda Takikage adjusted his reading glasses and said slowly, "At 8:00 p.m. on the 20th, all members of the brigade will assemble on top of an abandoned building in Shinjuku, Tokyo. He has already sent the specific address to the hacker. This is a direct order from the head of the brigade."
He paused, then looked down at Xia Pingzhou: "The operation is about to begin. It's best not to go out for the next day."
Ji Minghuan nodded: "No problem, my Sky Drive has been upgraded to the second level anyway."
Just then, he received a message from the hacker.
[Hacker: No. 12, this is tomorrow's meeting place, don't die too quickly. ]
"I also hope that I won't die too quickly..."
Ji Minghuan laughed at himself in his heart, and then synchronized his consciousness with the No. 1 machine.
At the same time, Unit No. 1 Gu Wenyu woke up from his bed in the Roppongi Hotel.
As usual, he used a restraint to take the cup, toothbrush and towel from the toilet, washed his face and brushed his teeth, then followed the path he remembered to the front of the Qing Benhua Hotel and waited there on time.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Su Zimai and Ke Qirui finally left the hotel.
He followed Su Zimai and Ke Qirui. This time, they were not heading to the beach villa, but to a huge skyscraper. This was one of the assets of the Amemiya family.
They walked into the building and took a glass-walled elevator.
Hei Pupa anticipated that they would board this elevator, so he kept the restraints transparent and lay on top of the glass curtain wall. He went up with the elevator and looked down quietly at the two people inside the elevator car.
Ke Qirui pressed the elevator's operating panel, and soon the elevator arrived at the 15th floor.
The two of them entered one of the meeting rooms and closed the door. Black Pupa was hung upside down under the ceiling, with the transparent restraints pressed against the wall. The senses of the restraints penetrated like a rainstorm, allowing him to observe the situation inside.
The four Japanese people, Sakura Takeshi, Huihara Ritsu, Kagami Mori, and Fuyuyama Nobunaga, were already waiting in the meeting room;
After Ke Qirui and Su Zimai arrived, Xu Sanyan and Lin Zhengquan from the Ghost Train Group also arrived soon;
Lan Hu was the last to arrive. He was silent the whole time and seemed to be worried about something.
Then Ke Qirui relayed the information he had obtained from Hei Pupa, but did not reveal who his collaborator was.
It’s just that the authenticity of this information is not low, otherwise it cannot explain why the White Crow Brigade was able to escape unscathed from so many blatant operations.
"That's the information I got yesterday. There is probably someone with the ability to 'open doors' among the members of the brigade. If he is among us, he can open a door at the auction site and let the members of the brigade in one after another."
At this point, Ke Qirui looked up at Ying Wu and asked, "May I ask how can you ensure that members of the White Crow Brigade will not infiltrate the guests and bodyguards?"
Yingwu answered firmly: "Please rest assured about this. All the bodyguards who appeared in this auction are veterans of the guard team who participated in the last Tokyo auction. We can check the history of each of them in the real database, and there is no possibility of any fraud."
She paused. "Even if the members of the brigade have powerful hacking skills and are able to tamper with or disguise a personnel file in our network database, it will be meaningless because we use the personnel files stored in reality."
Ke Qirui asked without hesitation: "What if a member of the brigade disguises himself as one of them?"
Yingwu said, "Of course we will take precautions against this situation. On the day of the auction, we will strictly check whether every person entering the venue is wearing a face mask and whether their appearance and voice match those in the file. If we find anything wrong, we will immediately intercept the person at the entrance and will never allow the enemy to sneak into the auction site."
Huiyuan Ritsu adjusted his round-frame glasses and added, "At that time, Nobunaga Fuyuyama and I will lead a group of bodyguards to personally check the problem of the human face mask."
Ke Qirui thought for a moment and asked again, "You said that all the members of the bodyguard team this time are from the garrison of the previous auction, so what if the members of the brigade have participated in it?"
"No." Yingwu shook his head. "The last auction held in Tokyo went on normally without any problems. If the members of the brigade had infiltrated the bodyguards of the last auction, why didn't they attack the last auction? This doesn't fit the logic of these bandits at all."
She paused. “Based on this, I think our current staff can be trusted.”
Ke Qirui nodded: "So, has the final location of the auction been decided?"
"The underworld has already decided that they will select one of the three buildings of the Amemiya family as the venue for the auction. The specific location will be announced on the 20th. At that time, the Mirror Guard will build an entrance to the 'Mirror Auction' on the same floor of that building, and the real auction will be held in the mirror world."
At this point, Yingwu took a deep breath and said, "This is the content of the final meeting. All that's left is... just to prepare for the battle."
Ke Qirui took out the pipe from his pocket, put it in his mouth, and said nonchalantly:
"I hope everything goes well."
Huihara Ritsu nodded, narrowed his eyes slightly, and his eyes were bright behind his round-framed glasses: "I hope that this time... we can take down all those evil people who have been so arrogant for so long."
"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
After Lan Hu finished speaking, he left the meeting room without looking back, leaving only a cold back.
Everyone looked at Lan Hu's back, and no one knew what was wrong with this superstar of the era.
After a moment, Ying Wu broke the silence and said, "Then we will leave first. We still need to make a final check on the members of the bodyguard team. We will check the nearly fifty elite superpower troops one by one, observe their superpower performance, and ensure that no one slips through the net."
After saying that, Yingwu led the other three people out of the meeting room.
"Xu Sanyan, die slowly." Lin Zhengquan patted Xu Sanyan on the shoulder.
"Who do you think you are talking to?" Xu Sanyan sneered, "You should think about what to do with our little sister." As he said that, he turned his head and looked at Su Zimai beside him.
"Who do you say is the kid sister?"
Su Zimai glanced coldly at the two grown men, and they immediately shut up.
Ke Qirui thought for a while and suddenly said, "I don't know why, but I always feel like there's something strange going on."
"What's so strange?" Su Zimai asked.
"It's hard to describe the feeling of disobedience." Ke Qirui shook his head.
She thought about it, then sent a message to Hei Pupa on her cell phone as she walked out of the meeting room.
At present, the only person who might know the movements of the White Crow Brigade is Hei Pupa, who has a cooperative relationship with Xia Pingzhou.
【Ke Qirui: Let’s meet now. 】
[Black Pupa: Of course, you choose the location. By the way, we can't rule out the possibility that our text messages are being read by the members of the brigade. Well, you know, so it's best to be in a place that only we know.]
[Ke Qirui: Then didn’t they also hear about the members’ abilities that you revealed to me via text message last night?]
[Black Pupa: Of course... Although I feel a little sorry for you, from my personal perspective, I would naturally want to attract the attention of the leader.]
[Black Pupa: He would be a good collaborator for me. If he can take this opportunity to notice me, it would definitely be a good thing.]
Ke Qirui looked at the text message in silence for a long time, then typed and sent the message.
【Ke Qirui: The place where we first met. 】
Then she raised her head and looked at the three people beside her: "You go first, I'll go find someone."
Not long after, Shiba Park, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
Ke Qirui stopped and looked up at a huge, pitch-black insect pupa hanging upside down under the ginkgo tree. He asked, "How many team members' abilities do you know?"
"Eleven." Black Pupa crawled out of the chrysalis, holding a copy of Infernal Affairs in his hand. "So, what do you want from me?"
"Have any members of the group infiltrated our bodyguard team?" Ke Qirui asked straight to the point.
"As far as I know, no members of the brigade have infiltrated your group," said Hei Pupa, "Except the captain, of course."
Ke Qirui raised his eyebrows and looked at Hei Pupa from under the shadow of his hat brim: "In other words... the only one who could have infiltrated us is the leader you don't know?"
"right."
Ke Qirui thought for a moment and asked again: "According to our intelligence, the leader of the White Crow Brigade is a person with special abilities, and his ability is related to 'controlling crows'. Is this a trick?"
Black Pupa shook his head: "No problem, although I know very little about the leader, my limited information can prove that this is correct."
When he was chatting with Ayase Origami yesterday, he mentioned what the captain's ability was. Ayase Origami was too lazy to say more, but she also mentioned it and said it was related to "crows".
"That's good."
Ke Qirui thought about the core bodyguards and found that only Blue Arc and Yingwu had superpowers. It was impossible for the leader of the White Crow Brigade to disguise himself as Blue Arc or Yingwu and sneak into them. This was too absurd.
"Good luck with your operation."
The black pupa hung upside down under the tree and saluted her.
Ke Qirui was silent for a moment, then said, "Tell Xia Pingzhou for me that if he shows up at the auction with the members of the brigade, then... no one will hold back on him."
She paused and said, "The goal of the bodyguard team is to wipe out the White Crow Brigade. There is an absolute monster hidden among the guests of the auction. If this monster takes action, I think it will not be a problem to annihilate half of the brigade. And currently only Su Zimai and I know that Xia Pingzhou is an undercover agent, so... before the operation begins, now may be his last chance to escape from the White Crow Brigade."
Black Pupa looked directly into Ke Qirui's eyes and spoke slowly, word by word:
"I'll tell him. Good-bye, Miss Ke."
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure disappeared into Zhi Park. Ke Qirui looked up, ginkgo leaves were fluttering, and the sound of cicadas was deafening.
(End of this chapter)
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