Chapter 3 The First Player

Saikai Haruto's voice was gentle and cheerful, but Furuya Rei and Asahina Kazuma's eyelids jumped when they heard it.

Yokohama is indeed very close, but it is much more dangerous.

"Go to Yokohama?" Furiya Rei asked in surprise, then frowned and looked at Gin: "Gin, you got the wrong person, right? I'm just an intelligence officer with no combat power. You asked me to go to Yokohama and protect Cointreau's safety..."

He paused for a moment and continued, "Given the current situation in Yokohama, are you sure it would be more appropriate for you to go?"

Yokohama is a special place. It has been a "concession" for many years and is not completely under the jurisdiction of the Japanese government. The situation there is quite chaotic, with mafia rampant and unique supernatural powers. Even if the government wants to rectify it, it has no way to start.

Asahina Kazuma followed with an innocent look, trying to shift the blame to me: "I'm just an ordinary sniper. How about you find someone else, brother? I think Lei's skills are much better than mine."

Could this Yokohama be the one who collaborated with Fumino? Wouldn't it be inappropriate for these Conan people who don't have any special abilities to go to the set? Would they really be able to come out alive? Even Furuya Rei doesn't seem to want to go.

He looked at Gin with sincerity, hoping that Gin could see through his inner plea and replace Akai Shuichi with him.

Gin gave them a cold look and said, "Lei and I have other tasks to do."

Xi Haiqingdou kindly comforted them: "Don't worry, although Yokohama is dangerous, this mission is not that dangerous. Besides you, there are other people on this mission, so nothing will go wrong. As for changing people..."

He stretched out his tone, his voice was not loud but it could not be refused, "I think you will receive news from the boss tomorrow at the latest?"

The implication is that it is impossible to change people.

——What a joke, they are the main "target" of his mission, and the rest are just incidental to him. How could he possibly replace the "protagonist"?

"Oh, we're almost there. This is it, right?"

As they were about to reach their destination, he changed the subject and parked the car skillfully.

Asahina Kazuma and Furuya Rei opened the car door and looked around. They were near the safe house they had prepared for this operation. "Yes, it's right here."

Rolling down the car window, Xi Haiqing Dou spoke again: "Oh, right, wait a minute."

He reached out and threw three boxes over, then said with a smile, "I'll trouble you to hand them over to Scotland. Inside is a new cell phone with a locator installed. It also contains my contact information. If you have any questions, you can always contact me. I'll let you know the time of the mission in two days."

Through the faint moonlight and car lights above his head, Fūya Rei finally saw Cointreau's face clearly.

If one could only look at his appearance, no one would guess that such a handsome, seemingly powerless and even a little sickly harmless young man would be a cadre-level figure in the Black Organization. Only the occasional indifference in his golden eyes made him look a little difficult to approach.

But his features seemed to be more three-dimensional and profound than those of ordinary people... Rei Furuya guessed that Cointreau might have some European ancestry?

His face also looked paler than that of ordinary people, which made the faint dark circles under his eyes particularly obvious.

"Location?" Raising his hand and taking the box steadily, Fūya Ling raised his eyebrows, and the smile on his lips faded a little: "To put it another way, is it also surveillance?"

"Bourbon, why do you think so?" Saikai Haruto looked at him in surprise, "Installing a positioning system in a mobile phone is not the best option for surveillance for me."

He narrowed his eyes and explained gently, "The positioning inside is two-way. I have one here too. You can also see the approximate location of others on it. The positioning is to better ensure the safety of me and you."

Although it is not known whether he believed it or not, Furuya Rei certainly acted as if he believed it.

He smiled brilliantly again and apologized sincerely, "So that's how it is. Sorry, as an intelligence officer, I can't help but have some suspicions like this. Jundu, you should understand, right?"

Xi Haiqing Dou also smiled back: "Of course."

At the same time, I laughed in my heart: [Really, doesn't Furuya Rei think that he, who didn't forget to plant a bug on me before getting off the bus, has no right to criticize me? This statement is really not convincing. ]

In his mind, the voice that responded to him was a mechanical and cold voice that could not be distinguished between male and female, but could clearly be heard to be calm: [Isn't it normal for him? Anyway, these things are of no use to you, the host. ]

Saikai Haruto thought for a moment and said, "System, you are right." After all, this is Furuya Rei who claims that "his lover is Japan."

As a good undercover agent of the New Century Public Security Bureau and a well-known black organization that mixes water with fake wine, although throwing a wiretap on a strange "organization colleague" whom he met for the first time sounds quite illegal and disorderly, it is indeed reasonable.

After all, "Furiya Rei" is a public security officer, but "Bourbon" is a member of a black organization roaming in the black zone.

Anyway, in the Black Organization, this kind of thing is not considered to be that out of the ordinary... because the other people are not that normal either.

Haruto Saikai was originally just an ordinary college student in the three-dimensional world. One day, he died unexpectedly while saving someone. Fortunately, he got a vest system after his death, and he only needed to complete the task to be truly resurrected.

In terms of the system, to put it simply, the world it is in is actually a two-dimensional world derived from various types of animation works. However, some minor problems occurred in the process of the world's growth. Not only can they be observed by the three-dimensional world in the form of comics on the [forum], but some people living in other dimensions have mistakenly entered it under various different "disguises" and mistakenly regarded it as a virtual game world.

However, the mistaken entry of "players" from other worlds will bring irreversible damage to this world over time, not to mention that there are many "players" who let themselves go in this world.

Therefore, in order to save itself, this world also created a vest system and found an external aid, Xi Haiqing Dou, to drive all these people back.

On the premise of sending the player away, as long as Xi Haiqing Dou can satisfy his vest to appear in the comics on the three-dimensional forum and get the top three in the popularity ranking three times in total, the system can help him revive in the three-dimensional world.

However, what is slightly different from other vest systems is that the vests in his system not only rely on luck and forum popularity to draw cards, and their strengths are uncertain, but also because of insufficient energy, the first few vests require Saikai Haruto to grow from a juvenile body...

How young is he? For example, the vest of "Cointreau" is actually 26 years old this year, but when Saikai Haruto put on the vest, he was just 6 years old - that is to say, he has lived in this world with this identity for a full 20 years, and all this time is real.

System: [Host, don't you want to throw away this eavesdropping device? ]

Xi Hai Qing Dou smiled slightly: [No need, I will scare him for fun when the time comes. ]

"You're not leaving yet?"

Gin frowned and asked him, what is this guy daydreaming about for no reason?

Xi Haiqing Dou thought for a moment and said, "I will leave this car at the base tonight and make some minor modifications. You can ask Vodka to drive it back tomorrow afternoon."

"Got it." Gin responded simply.

Before leaving, she did not forget to ask him one more question: "Didn't you take your medicine today?" her tone was firm.

"…I told you it's nothing."

Xi Haiqing Dou's expression froze.

[Tong, do you think Gin is scolding me by saying this? ]

The system answered honestly: [Host, you really didn't take your medicine today. ]

Xi Haiqing Dou: [Things like cold medicine... it doesn't matter whether you take it or not, right? And it's been so long, I should be able to recover on my own. ]

System: […It seems so?]

Saikai Haruto: [This body can't be completely healthy anyway. Even if the cold is cured, there will be other problems. It doesn't matter.]

When he first came to this world and put on the vest of Cointreau, "Yuyuan Qianqiu" was only six years old. It was not an easy task for a child to survive quickly in the Black Organization.

Unfortunately, due to his bad luck and insufficient system energy, the other skill or item cards he drew were basically disposable cards or useless cards that did not help him much at the time.

Therefore, after careful consideration, and also to pave the way for his future identity, Xi Haiqing Dou exchanged the health of this vest for the skill of [Gun God] a long time ago.

The skill description of [Gun God] is as follows: 700 yards? That's it? From 10 meters to 2000 meters, all truths are within your range, and life and death, glory and decline are all in your hands. *

...In fact, he has reason to suspect that this skill means he is secretly dissing someone.

This skill ensures that as long as he has a gun in hand, he can basically kill everyone in the field. In exchange, Cointreau's body is always in an "unhealthy" state and cannot be completely healed.

Of course, although this is what they say, humans are always the best at taking advantage of loopholes... Cancer and serious illness can be said to be "unhealthy", and aren't colds, fevers, and hypoglycemia also "unhealthy" states? Anyway, the description of this exchange does not provide any specific explanation.

Therefore, Xi Haiqing Dou felt that it didn't matter to him whether he took those medicines or not - "Cointreau" always had some effects anyway, and when one was cured, there was another, there was no difference.

However, despite saying this, under the system's constant nagging, he was still honest and bought a few bags of medicine at a nearby convenience store when he returned to the organization's base.

Then, he unexpectedly encountered... a robbery case.

The other party suddenly attacked him when he was walking out of the convenience store. He looked like a child. Because he was too fast, too dark, and had a weak presence, Xi Haiqingdou was unable to react immediately after his phone, wallet, and other things were taken away. He was stunned for a moment: [System, am I being robbed? ]

The system's voice was as mechanical and cold as ever, but it suddenly sounded a bit more sarcastic to him: [Host, you were indeed robbed by an unknown passerby.]

Since this character is not relevant to the plot, the system did not pay much attention to him at first.

He was strangely silent for a moment.

As a senior member of the famous villain organization Black Organization and Gin's partner of many years, he could be robbed by an unknown passerby. Is this really reasonable?

It's a hellish joke comparable to "Kudo Shinichi was reported to have had a child out of wedlock, Conan".

Haruto Nishimi threw the other things into Gin's Porsche, then opened the door, got in, inserted the key and prepared to start the engine.

【Locate the robber? 】

If someone dares to steal his things, should he say that the person is too brave or is just tired of living?

[At the left corner of the street ahead... However,] the system paused for a moment, [Host, he has been subdued... by Matsuda Jinpei who was passing by.]

Jinpei Matsuda? What a coincidence to meet him here... Is his luck too good today? The police academy team met two of them in one day?

Xi Haiqingdou paused, and the next moment, someone knocked on the car window from outside: "Hey, open the window. Is what this guy stole yours?"