Chapter 118 Heavy Rain, Tokyo, Bloody Auction (Part 2)
Inside the auction venue of the Mirror World at 11:30 pm on July 20th in Tokyo, Japan.
There was still 30 minutes left before the underground auction officially started. Rows of seats under the magnificent crystal chandelier were filled with people.
There were about a hundred guests in total, and they were all in place at this time.
Each guest is a well-known figure in the underworld, coming to bid on behalf of their family, but the real person in power will not appear at this banquet.
Black Pupa controlled the restraint belt incarnation, resting his elbows on the seat, quietly observing his surroundings with his eyes.
Soon his eyes were fixed on a young man wearing a Zhongshan suit and with a slicked-back hair.
The young man was wearing sunglasses, resting his fist on his cheek and tilting his head to take a nap. He had been sleeping for a full hour since just now. Compared with the other guests present, the behavior of this young man in a Zhongshan suit was really out of place.
Hei Pu vaguely remembered that the young man in the Zhongshan suit entered the auction venue an hour and a half ago - that is to say, the young man in the Zhongshan suit spent more than half of his time at the auction venue sleeping.
And there is no sign of waking up yet, as if he has fallen asleep in his seat.
"Could this be the guy that Ke Qirui mentioned, 'one man can kill half of the brigade'?"
The black pupa scratched his chin and thought in his heart.
He controlled the restraints to stand up, passed the gazes of the guests, and walked towards the young man in the Zhongshan suit.
Then he pretended to fall, raised his hand in panic, and held the shoulders of the young man in the Zhongshan suit. The black restraints flew out from his sleeves and stung the young man's neck like a snake.
But suddenly, a faint golden light spread from the neck of the young man in the Zhongshan suit, bouncing the restraint back.
"What the hell is that..."
Hei Pupa raised his eyebrows, controlled the restraint belt incarnation to stabilize his body, glanced at the restraint belt retracted into his sleeves, then raised his head and looked at the young man in the Chinese tunic suit again.
The young man's face was still peaceful and he was sleeping soundly. There was no sign of any reaction from him.
Looking at this scene, Hei Pupa thought to himself: "It is basically certain that this is the person Ke Qirui mentioned."
"But this is too much. He can defend against my restraints even when sleeping like this. Is he from the Lake Hunters or the Saviors? Should I sacrifice my restraints incarnation here to see if I can break through his defense?"
"Forget it, let's just wait and see what happens."
Thinking of this, he controlled the restraint avatar to walk towards the cheongsam woman, took a bottle of coconut water from the plate the woman was holding, and then returned to his seat.
Just as he sat down, a man in a floral shirt came over and sat next to him.
The man in the flowered shirt grinned and whispered to the incarnation of the restraints, "Mr. Fujimoto, it's been really busy these past few days... Some big names that you don't usually see have come out."
The restraint incarnation adjusted the details of his throat and coughed twice: "Yeah..."
The man in the flowered shirt tapped the armrest with his fingers and said excitedly:
"The last underground auction was held three years ago, on July 21, just like this year. At that time, the eight major underworld families also heard that the White Crow Brigade would take action against the auction, so they were fully armed. But in the end, nothing happened, which made the elders laugh at this so-called robber group."
At this point, the man snorted twice, "This time it's so grand that even the Blue Arc is invited here. The people above think that the White Crow Brigade will be as cowardly as last time."
The restraint incarnation scratched his chin and thought for a moment: "Do you think... the White Crow Brigade may have set their sights on other items from the last auction?"
The man in the flowered shirt smiled and said disapprovingly:
"How is that possible? Those robbers only care about money. There are so many priceless items on the stage, but they didn't touch any of them, let alone anything else that could tempt them."
The restraint belt incarnation nodded: "That's true. Those greedy and stupid bandits are only that tolerant."
He looked up at the clock in the auction venue. The hour hand had turned another quarter of a circle. There were only fifteen minutes left before the auction officially began.
Black Pupa divided the defense forces of the two auction venues in his mind:
Real auction venue: 50 bodyguards with special powers and 50 armed bodyguards, disguised as important members of a mafia family, sat inside the auction venue, waiting for the White Crow Brigade to appear.
In addition, six members of the core bodyguard team are inside the actual auction venue: Yingwu, Ke Qirui, Su Zimai, Xu Sanyan, Lin Zhengquan, and Dongshan Nobunaga.
Mirror Auction House: 100 high-ranking members of the mafia families, a napping young man in a Zhongshan suit (suspected to be a member of the Lake Hunter or Salvation Society), and the Red Dragon Li Qingping.
Then there are the three members of the core bodyguard team: Aoi, Kagami, and Ritsu Haibara.
What makes Hei Pupa more curious is: where is Father Ghost Zhong hiding now?
There's no way Gui Zhong could have mixed in with the guests, otherwise he would have no uniform to wear if a fight broke out.
Moreover, he would be subject to a thorough physical examination and iris intelligent authentication to enter the auction venue. Unless the underworld gave him an admission ticket, he would be stopped outside.
At the same time, in the real auction venue, Ke Qirui, wearing a windbreaker and holding a pipe in her mouth, stood with her back against the wall at the entrance, and Su Zimai stood beside her.
Seeing Ying Wu approaching slowly, Ke Qirui took off his pipe and said to her:
"Ms. Yingwu, Xu Sanyan has deployed fog men in every corner of the fifth floor, even in the toilet. If his fog men find a suspicious person, he will notify me immediately, and I will give you feedback immediately."
"OK."
Yingwu held the hilt of the knife and nodded, then walked out the door.
Su Zimai looked at her back and said, "Why do I feel that the White Crow Brigade will not be fooled by this trick?"
She frowned and continued, "What if they headed straight for the mirror world, and there were only a few guards in the mirror, and they took away the goods without restraint?"
"Don't worry." Ke Qirui lowered his head and leaned close to his pipe, took a light puff of smoke, and said calmly: "One of the guests in the mirror world is an acquaintance of mine."
"Your acquaintance?"
Ke Qirui nodded. "The old president contacted me a few days ago and kept it a secret. He said that an old acquaintance of mine from Lake Hunter was attending the auction."
"Lake Hunter?" Su Zimai murmured, and immediately raised his eyebrows, with a hint of surprise in his eyes, "Is it the world's number one exorcist organization comparable to Rainbow Wing?"
"Yeah, and then I guessed it right away. After all, among the four people from Lake Hunt, only one greedy little cat would be interested in the items in this auction."
Ke Qirui put away his pipe while speaking, pulled the corner of his lips, and continued: "One of the four people in Lake Hunting, the counterfeiter [Zhou Jiuya], Tianqu is Tonggu Compass. Zhou Jiuya is the heir of the Northern Song Dynasty mechanical art, and his apparent identity is a Hong Kong antique counterfeiter.
"Zhou Jiuya has always been interested in antiques. There should be something he's interested in on the auction list this time, otherwise this damn thing wouldn't have come all the way to Japan."
Su Zimai was stunned for a moment, then said, "Then the people of the White Crow Brigade are doomed? Didn't you say that everyone in the Lake Hunter is comparable to the Rainbow Wing? Then they are at least at the disaster level."
"If it hadn't rained today, the people of the White Crow Brigade would have been doomed." Ke Qirui shrugged.
"What's the meaning?"
"Because of the president... I have known Zhou Jiuya since I was a child. We can be considered childhood sweethearts. His Sky Drive is very special and is affected by the weather. So since he was a child, Zhou Jiuya would suffer from narcolepsy every time it rained. In serious cases, he would collapse on the bed and sleep for a day or two."
At this point, Ke Qirui sighed, "It happened to be a rainy day today, I guess Zhou Jiuya should have started to feel sleepy in his seat by now."
"What should we do then?"
"If the White Crow Brigade attacks, he will wake up naturally." Ke Qirui smiled, "If he wakes up, I think the brigade will most likely be wiped out; if he doesn't wake up, then we will proceed as usual."
She paused and said, "If we are defeated, I will let the Train Demon and the Movie Demon buy time and let Blue Arc send you away as soon as possible. Blue Arc is fast enough. No one should be faster than him in the Quasi-Disaster Level. So even if we can't gain the upper hand, it is still more than enough to escape from the venue."
"But what if Blue Arc doesn't want to run?"
"Mr. Blue Arc is not a man who loves fighting."
"By the way... that Zhou Jiuya you just mentioned is really weird!" Su Zimai said with a sigh, "When it rains, he turns into a sleeping pig. What kind of god is this? How can he be selected to become a member of the Lake Hunt?"
Ke Qirui explained slowly, "A powerful Sky Drive must be accompanied by huge limitations. You have to pay a price for everything you want. The price Zhou Jiuya paid is that his physical condition will be greatly affected by the local weather."
"Okay, I get it. And the captain..." Su Zimai raised his head and stared at her, "Why didn't you tell me before that you knew someone of this level?"
"You didn't ask me."
Ke Qirui took a puff of cigarette and touched Su Zimai's head without turning back.
Su Zimai rolled his eyes at her and looked up at the huge clock in the auction venue.
"Only ten minutes left..." she murmured.
"Follow me closely." Ke Qirui said calmly, "Xu Sanyan and Lin Zhengquan are a team of two. They have been working together for many years. They can advance or retreat when encountering danger. Don't worry about them."
At the same time, inside an abandoned building a few hundred meters away from the Amemiya Building.
The team members had said before that the team leader would explain the action plan to them five minutes before the action began.
But until this moment, Xia Pingzhou still had not seen the leader in the abandoned building.
Turning my head and looking around, I saw that the other members were all doing their own things, as if it was an ordinary night, except that the rain outside was a little heavier.
So he continued to play Gobang with Ayase Origami out of boredom, using pencils to play back and forth. So far, they have played no less than ten games, and Ayase Origami has won most of the games, and Xia Pingzhu deliberately let her win.
At this moment, Jack the Ripper suddenly spoke, breaking the silence that shrouded the abandoned building.
She looked at Xia Pingzhou and said, "By the way... Newbie, you can also ask the leader about the matter about the 'Contracted Devil' mentioned earlier. He will give you advice."
Xia Ping Zhu was playing Gobang with Ayase Origami. When he heard what the Ripper said, he looked up and asked:
"But isn't the leader a superpower?"
"The captain is an exorcist," the Ripper replied decisively.
Xia Pingzhou was stunned, turned his head to look at Ayase Origami, and asked in a questioning tone: "Then let me ask you, is the leader an exorcist or a psychic?"
Yesterday, Ayase Origami clearly told him that the leader was a person with special abilities, and that his abilities were related to "Crow", but today he heard another version from the Ripper.
Ayase Origami was thinking carefully about her next move, and manipulated the newspaper beside her to form a line of text in mid-air:
"Captain, can't we be both?"
"Both?"
Looking at the words pieced together on the pages, Xia Pingzhou was stunned for a moment.
"Yes." The Ripper swung the dark red knife upwards and caught the spinning handle. "The captain is a one in a billion outlier. He is both a superpower... and an exorcist."
She paused, "That is, the captain said that my Sky Drive does not need a contracted demon, so I am too lazy to do it."
"As expected of an old member, he is able to receive guidance from the leader." Andrew sighed while wiping his sniper rifle.
Lan Duoduo rolled his eyes at him and said, "Come on, with the captain's personality, no matter how long he has been in the brigade, as long as you ask him, he will definitely answer you."
"I was just kidding..." Andrew blew on the sniper rifle.
When did you join the tour group?
Xia Pingzhou muttered to himself, and suddenly his face changed, as if he remembered something. He drew a cross on the Gomoku square with a pencil and asked Ayase Origami:
"By the way, when did you join the brigade?"
"Three years ago, on July 21st." Ayase Origami said expressionlessly, "Takikage and I are the same."
"July 21, three years ago?"
Xia Pingzhou remained calm on the surface, but he was suddenly shocked in his heart.
Isn't that just...
The time when the last Tokyo underground auction started!
In other words... Ayase Origami was still a gangster at the time, and she attended the auction with her family.
And then... members of the brigade approached her at that auction?
Thinking of this, a conclusion quickly emerged in Xia Pingzhou's mind: "Members of the brigade sneaked into the last auction, but their target was not the goods in the auction at all, but the eldest daughter of the Ayase family."
"The leader wanted to use this auction to contact Ayase Origami and bring her into the brigade, and he succeeded. So, the White Crow Brigade did not attack the last auction because - they had already got what they wanted at the auction."
"And the leader... most likely also infiltrated the bodyguard team of the previous auction."
At this moment, Xia Pingzhou suddenly recalled the conversation he heard in the conference room yesterday using the body of the black pupa.
Ke Qirui: "May I ask how you can ensure that members of the White Crow Brigade will not infiltrate the guests and bodyguards?"
Yingwu: "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."
Xia Pingzhou was stunned for a second, then suddenly realized, and thought secretly in his heart:
"I was wondering why the leader hasn't shown up at this point in time. It turns out he has already joined the auction's bodyguard team."
Thinking of this, he quickly synchronized his consciousness with the black pupa.
Black Pupa opened his eyes in the Maybach, picked up his cell phone, and sent messages to Lan Hu and Ke Qirui at the same time.
[Black Pupa: The auction will start in three minutes, so let me reveal an interesting fact.]
[Black Pupa: The leader of the brigade is hiding among you.]
[Black Pupa: The leader is not only a supernatural being, but also an exorcist. He used the guise of an exorcist and his experience as a bodyguard at the last auction to deceive Yingwu and others.]
[Black Pupa: The reason why the leader did not take action against the previous auction was because he had already obtained what he wanted - that was the eldest daughter of the Ayase family who participated in that auction: "Ayase Origami." ]
[Black Pupa: From the beginning, the leader wanted not the merchandise at the last auction, but to bring Ayase Origami into the group. He found an opportunity to contact Ayase Origami at the auction, and afterwards, Ayase Origami and Oda Takikage betrayed the family together.]
[Black Pupa: I have helped you here, I think you should have guessed who the leader is. ]
[Black Pupa: Take care of yourself, Mr. Blue Arc.]
(End of this chapter)
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