Chapter 180 Death Game: You Are Also One of the Chips
It was still early for the dinner to start, so Toru Amuro planned to take a walk around the island.
He invited Lin Xi to join her, but she refused.
"Go by yourself. Take this—" She threw an earphone to Amuro Toru, "Keep in touch at any time."
"?"
Amuro Toru took it, wondering how she brought it in.
I clearly didn't bring any luggage.
Lin Xi sighed and turned over lazily: "Don't run too far. If you encounter any problems that cannot be solved, I will help you."
Amuro Toru was a little helpless: "Is this okay? Didn't you just say that Gin wanted you to find the seller of 'Dark Night Baron'..."
Lin Xi: "I'm just a salted fish. If I can find it, I'll find it. If I can't, forget it."
"Oh, by the way... could you please go out and observe the environment more and plan our escape route?"
Toru Amuro: "?"
He stopped in his tracks: "...Why?"
I just got here and haven't even seen the shadow of the target. Why are you thinking of running away?
Lin Xi: "Bourbon, look at you, you haven't read enough detective novels."
"A mysterious island, an auction, layers of security checks, a closed environment with no signal..."
"Ten people on an island could make a movie called 'And Then There Were None.'" (Note 1)
"Looking at the situation now, there are at least fifty people on this island. This might not just be a serial murder case, you know what I mean?"
The beautiful woman leaned against the bed with a calm expression. Her words seemed to be spoken casually, but Amuro Toru did not dare to ignore them.
"You're saying..." He twitched his index finger at his side, "someone might die at this auction?"
Lin Xi stared at the huge, full-length mirror in the room. "I didn't say that. I just said, if I were the screenwriter, I'd probably arrange the plot this way."
Amuro Toru slowly exhaled: "You'd better pray that your guess doesn't come true. We are unarmed now, and we haven't brought any decent weapons with us..."
"Who said there isn't one?" Lin Xi smiled and took out Toru Amuro's service pistol from under the pillow like a magic trick.
"I'm not one to follow someone else's script. It's only fair if the stakes are raised."
"To be honest, you are also one of the bargaining chips, Bourbon."
"Really..." Amuro Toru took the gun, "I'll keep an eye on it."
This guy is really sick, treating reality as fiction.
But how did she get the gun in there?
They had just passed the metal detector...
.
corridor.
Toru Amuro walked along the path outside the lounge and went inside.
The ventilation facilities above your head are very complete, so you won’t feel stuffy even underground.
only……
Toru Amuro looked at the buildings around him and felt a little strange.
Walking into the narrow passage from the lounge, there is actually a larger interior space.
The oval-shaped venue, with a radius of several hundred meters, is almost a smaller version of the Colosseum in Rome. The oval in the middle is surrounded by sloping auditoriums. Amuro Toru walked out of the passage next to the auditorium. (Note 2)
Constructing such a structure is a huge undertaking, requiring enormous amounts of money and manpower, and even on the Izu Islands, far inland, it would take a while for it to be completed.
But Toru Amuro had never heard of any large-scale construction activities here before.
Could it be a relic left over from ancient times?
He guessed so.
He was about to walk in, but his ears moved slightly, and the faint sound of voices not far away made him stop.
That thing... I've heard of it... ahem, it was... taken action.
A young voice said this.
His voice sounded a little weak, as if he was sick, and coughs were interspersed between his words.
real?
The other voice was stronger and more mature, and seemed a little excited at this time. The question was clearly heard by Toru Amuro.
I have to...
But after being excited, he seemed to realize his loss of composure, and his voice became much lower, so Toru Amuro could only hear it vaguely.
The young voice coughed a few times.
...is here too, you can...
After hearing the young man's proposal, the person on the other side fell into silence for a long time.
Finally he said: If I have the chance, I will.
This was the clearest sentence Amuro Toru had ever heard.
After saying this, the conversation between the two seemed to have come to an end. The sound of words was replaced by the sound of approaching footsteps, and Amuro Toru hid behind the audience seats lightly.
Amuro Toru came out only after the footsteps faded away.
He thought about the conversation between the two and found that there was no valuable information in it.
I just remember the special timbre of the young and sick voice and the strong and mature voice.
He walked forward, preparing to go down to the open space to take a look, when he suddenly heard footsteps next to the audience seats. This time, the footsteps were so fast that Toru Amuro had no chance to dodge.
"You...Mr. Konggu, what are you doing here?"
The young boy stared with his lavender eyes, which were different from those of ordinary people. Although he still maintained respect in his words, he had already made preparations for attacking with his body.
"Oh, it's you. The room is too stuffy, I want to go out and relax." Amuro Toru smiled, "Does your auction not allow guests to take a walk?"
"But, but, that place isn't open to guests yet." Tsukijiang Feng's momentum was weakened by Amuro Toru's question. "If you want to take a walk, please walk in the corridor and don't come near here... We've put up a sign here."
Amuro Toru shrugged, glanced at the "No Trespassing" sign beside him, and said without blushing, "I'm sorry, I didn't see the sign when I first came in."
The young man was a little indignant and muttered something, but he still bent down with good manners and bowed: "Sir, please go back this way."
Amuro Toru let out a click of his tongue and looked Yue Jiangfeng up and down before taking a step forward, playing the role of a lover who was taking advantage of the power of others very vividly.
But when he was about to pass the boy, he was stopped by him.
"Wait—" Yue Jiang Feng stared at Amuro Toru's waist, "Why do you have a weapon on you?"
The polite boy didn't even use honorifics this time. He grabbed Amuro Toru's sleeve, and his aggressiveness showed under his well-mannered appearance.
Amuro Toru froze.
Before leaving, he put the gun that Lin Xi returned to him on his waist.
This dress is not suitable for concealing a gun... the hem is too short...
If I had known, I would have put the gun in the lounge.
He stopped, his mind racing, and said, "Huh? Aren't you meddling too much? I'm just a small waiter... Let me go quickly. Sayuri is still waiting for me to come back."
He prayed in his heart that Lin Xi was not doing anything else, but was paying attention to the headset they used to communicate.
Kong Gu Yang was found to be in possession of a deadly weapon. This was not something he could handle alone, and it had to be solved by Mizutani Sayuri, who brought Kong Gu Yang in.
Yue Jiangfeng gripped his sleeve even tighter: "No! Where did your weapon come from? You clearly had nothing on you when you came in!"
An impatient expression appeared on Amuro Toru's face: "Really! You said you don't have it, then you don't have it. You said you want to hand it over, so do you have to hand it over? Quickly let go of my sleeve! This is the clothes that Sayuri gave me. If it is torn, are you going to compensate me?!"
Yue Jiangfeng: "But——"
"Afeng. What are you doing? Don't be rude to the guests."
A voice came from the corridor.
A tall, gorgeously dressed woman in high heels walked out of the corridor.
She has fair skin, a high nose bridge, and neatly cut short hair that reaches her neck.
The most eye-catching thing is her eyes - a light purple, the same strange eye color as Yue Jiangfeng.
Seeing the person coming, Yue Jiangfeng finally let go of his hand.
But Toru Amuro's attention was not here.
He looked at Lin Xi, who was walking towards him with the woman, and his teeth couldn't help but chatter.
Then he shouted, "Sayuri!"
"I went out for a walk, and this guy wouldn't let me go! Look, the clothes you gave me have been deformed by him!"
He walked to Lin Xi, showed her his sleeves that were pulled a little deformed, and subtly leaned his waist towards Lin Xi.
Lin Xi smiled lightly: "What happened?"
The woman standing next to her also looked at Yue Jiangfeng, waiting for the boy's explanation.
Yue Jiangfeng pursed his lips, seeming a little aggrieved, but still explained the situation to the short-haired woman under her gaze.
He emphasized that Toru Amuro had broken into the oval venue, and had somehow evaded security checks and brought weapons in - Toru Amuro snorted heavily when he heard this.
"Weapon?" Lin Xi snapped open her fan and covered her red lips: "Ayang, could it be that you got it from there?"
Several people looked at her.
"'There'?" the short-haired woman repeated.
"That's the room." Lin Xi said lazily, "When Ayang and I arrived, we saw someone moving the collected weapons there."
"My goodness, the security at your auction is truly deplorable. Even A-Yang can easily get his hands on a weapon. I can't believe we can be guaranteed safe here. Don't you agree, A-Yang?"
Amuro Toru cooperated: "That's right!"
The short-haired woman and Yue Jiangfeng looked at each other.
She knew the room Sayuri Mizutani was talking about. It was the storage room where security guards kept weapons after confiscating them from guests.
It was indeed not far from the guest lounge. It made sense that Mizutani's lover had passed by and taken a weapon while the security guards were changing shifts, but...
Isn’t this a bit too coincidental?
That room has surveillance, but...
The short-haired woman glanced at Yue Jiangfeng.
But now she can't check the surveillance.
Sayuri Mizutani and her little lover now seem to be no easy task.
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(Note 1: And Then There Were None: A novel by Agatha Christie, telling the story of a serial murder case that took place on a deserted island.)
(Note 2: The Colosseum: Covering an area of approximately 20,000 square meters, it was the largest amphitheater in ancient Rome and was built between 72 and 82 AD.)
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