Chapter 211 Winter is Coming

Kasugawa Shugo looked at Hagiwara Kenji, and they both thought of the angry face of their mutual friend.

"Uh..." The curly-haired police officer who was originally righteous took off the words "I'm here" on his head and replaced them with "Let's see", "Or...but..."

He paused, and still lowered his head in compromise and sighed, "Then go back and find out the situation first... huh?"

"Click——"

The subtle sound of the mechanical rotation instantly made Kasugawa Shugo's next words stuck in his throat. He widened his eyes and turned his head to look at the secret door that he pushed open.

It was just a crack just now. When he spoke, he slightly exerted force on his hand, pushing the one-finger-wide crack to about two fingers wide. Immediately, a sound of gears turning came from the bottom of the wall.

"Hey... no way..." Hagiwara Kenji twitched his mouth. He carefully stretched out a hand, trying to touch the door. When his knuckles just touched the wall, he felt a shock under his feet.

The next second, the man's eyes blurred and he felt dizzy. When he finally came back to his senses from the dizziness, he held the wall with his hands to stabilize his body and looked around. The scene in front of him had already changed.

The bright corridor had long since disappeared, replaced by bare walls without any decorations and covered with metal. After suddenly falling into darkness, he couldn't see anything for a few seconds. Only after he adjusted himself could he barely see the outline of the things in front of him with the faint light that came from nowhere.

Hagiwara Kenji immediately went to check on Kasugawa Shugo.

The guy who was inconvenient to move in a wheelchair was fine. It seemed that they had triggered some mechanism, causing the ground in the corridor to rotate and move horizontally directly into the secret passage.

"I can only tell them about this situation first..."

Hagiwara Kenji murmured, lowering his voice a little in this dark and silent environment. He covered his face and spoke again after a while, "...Will Xiao Zhenping believe that we really got in accidentally?"

The curly-haired police officer who first triggered the agency looked at him and said righteously, "But we really were careless."

"Do you think the two of us have any credibility with him?" Hagiwara Kenji said in a low voice helplessly, "My reputation was cleared seven years ago, as for yours..."

Recalling the other party's various operations in the past few years, he narrowed his eyes and slowly added the rest of the words, "I don't need to say more, right?"

"I think my reputation is still very..." Kasugawa Shugo muttered, and he felt guilty about the latter part. He lowered his head and coughed twice, then said, "Since we are here, let's give him a message first."

The two looked around and moved a little in the opposite direction of the passage where something seemed to be in the dim light. Hagiwara Kenji simply squatted down at the corner, took off his earrings, and pressed the connector skillfully.

The signal in the tunnel was very poor, or it could be said that the signal in the entire manor was not very good. He dialed several times before finally dialing. After the two of them finished talking about what happened, there was silence on the other side for several seconds.

"......Huh?!"

The next second, the two people who were huddled in front of the earring-shaped communicator were frightened by the sound. Kasugawa Shugo quickly put his fingers to his mouth and said "huh" several times to make the person on the other side lower his voice.

Just from the tone of voice, they could imagine the veins bulging on the face of Matsuda Jinpei on the other side.

On the other side of the phone, the man with black curly hair almost crushed the bottle of water in his hand. He had just properly hidden the ** and a series of equipment brought up by Amuro Toru into his dinner suit. Before he had time to ask his companions who had arrived at the dinner earlier than him through the communicator, the two guys over there directly threw themselves into an unknown secret passage.

"Are you kids?" Jinpei Matsuda gritted his teeth for a long time, and finally couldn't help but curse out this sentence.

Just going to have a meal has to grope around on the way to the departure agency, which is no better than running around and causing trouble!

Listening to the two guys opposite muttering for a while, and finally pulling out the excuse of "just because of good luck", Jinpei Matsuda's eyebrows jumped, and when he was about to say something else, he felt a knock on the door in the corridor.

He immediately put the earrings that he had been holding in his hand back on his earlobe, and moved to the door with light steps. The two guys who were arguing on the other end seemed to understand that something was wrong and stopped making any sound.

After the communication and the room were quiet, the sound from the corridor became clearer. Matsuda Jinpei moved to the door and looked through the cat's eye. He saw a black and white figure in the corridor not far away.

The waiter in black and white uniform knocked on the door of the room far away and informed the guests in the room in a voice without any fluctuation to remember to attend the dinner on time, as if he was not going to let anyone be absent.

"I'll go to the dinner first." The man reached out and pressed his throbbing eyebrows, and said in a low voice in annoyance, "You two find a way to get out, and don't make a mess in there." "

Got it--"

As expected, the other end remembered the two people's long-drawn answers in unison. Although he intuitively felt that the answers of these two people had no credibility, Matsuda Jinpei could only turn off the contactor first and walked out before the waiter knocked on his door, so as to avoid giving the waiter, who was most likely a member of the organization, a chance to observe the situation inside the room when opening the door.

The mask can hide the expression on the face to a certain extent, but it makes the action of observing the surroundings more obscure. As soon as he arrived at the banquet, he observed everything from top to bottom. Except for the strange masks on everyone's face, the equipment here is no different from the banquets held by these people he had seen before.

Matsuda Jinpei quickly found Maori Kogoro who was very conspicuous in the crowd. The famous detective who always wore a blue suit was standing next to the long table of self-service cold food. The man who usually accepted the free food and drinks at the banquet had almost nothing on the plate in his hand this time.

Even the usually nervous Maori detective became serious. In this atmosphere, he didn't dare to touch the food in the banquet hall, not to mention those high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen who were already vigilant. Most of the people attending the banquet just stood at the side of the venue with their hands full of wine, quietly and vigilantly observing the situation around them, and even kept their voices low when chatting.

Amuro Toru changed into a waiter uniform that was different from last night, and occasionally delivered drinks to other people in the banquet hall with a tray. The black curly-haired police officer casually put his hands in his pockets and used his other hand to casually tap the metal earrings on his earlobes twice. The waiter not far away paused, and hid behind the long decorative curtains under the pretext of going to the table in the corner to get drinks. "How is the situation over there?"

Matsuda Jinpei instantly recalled the two guys who were still in the secret passage. He used the wine glass to cover his lips and whispered this to the other party.

"......Huh?" The person on the other side raised almost the same question as he had just heard. After a long time, the public security officer who had digested the news said unhappily, "These two guys are really good at causing trouble."

Amuro Toru rubbed his forehead helplessly, and muttered in his heart that it was really hard for Matsuda Jinpei to take care of these two people. "I didn't expect there was a secret passage here... But from the current situation, it might be safer there than the banquet."

Matsuda Jinpei frowned.

"I don't have any news right now." After a brief silence, the waiter moved to another position before speaking again, "The original plan is almost completely messed up, and there is no contact from Rum, except..." "

What?"

"He called Cointreau away this morning." Recalling what Cointreau said in the morning that he had a temporary mission, Toru Amuro's expression became a little more serious, "I just told the little detective about the situation."

"Hey...that guy is not going to start right here, is he?"

"No, it shouldn't happen. Rum is always cautious in his actions. And we are not the only ones who want to contact the outside world at any time."

Many people who came to the banquet had their own backup plans. Even though there were many devices on this island that blocked the outside world and interfered with communications, there were still great risks. Rum would definitely make sure that these people would not take the initiative to contact the outside world before taking action.

He tried to contact the Public Security Headquarters in the afternoon, but because of signal interference, they could only receive weak signals. Even if they managed to lock the range of this strange island through the source of the signal transmission, they were still limited by the severe storms at sea in the past few days and could not provide timely support. Unable to locate, limited communication and no support, they had to take things one step at a time. It can only be said that Rum was extremely cautious. Even he, who was considered the second-in-command of Rum, was guarded against in this way.

Unable to stay in the corner for too long, Matsuda Jinpei responded with a few words and quickly cut off the communication. He put the untouched wine in his hand on the tray of a passing waiter and saw a bright color from a distance.

He squinted his eyes and finally saw the source of the light across the crowd. It was the huge chandelier hanging from the ceiling of the banquet hall that reflected the light on the earrings due to the angle. The black-haired man who was originally standing under the light moved slightly backwards, and the bright color just now disappeared completely.

As if sensing the sight, Tsukiyama Asari tucked his hair behind his ears and glanced over here from a distance. As he turned his head, the earrings of a somewhat exaggerated style swung under his earlobe and flashed a faint reflection.

It was the one that was given to Kasugawa Shugo before. It was estimated that the guy was severely ridiculed by Hagiwara Kenji just after trying on the earrings that looked strange on him. Then, he used this as an excuse to hand over the very important communication device to Tsukiyama Asari to prevent any changes or accidents.

Before he could look over there a few more times, the scene in front of him darkened. Someone turned off the lights in the hall, and even the curtains around him slowly closed automatically.

As the lights dimmed, the already strong smell of incense in the banquet hall became even stronger. Matsuda Jinpei quickly held his breath. The boy in a suit in the distance wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin to block out the smell of incense. He also reached out and pulled the corner of the clothes of the man in front of him, indicating that he should hold his breath as well.

Tsukiyama Asari reached behind him and held the boy's hand that was pulling the corner of his clothes. After carefully holding his breath, he focused his eyes on the front. In

the banquet hall, the already tense atmosphere was almost frozen because of the suddenly drawn curtains and dimmed lights. However, the person who walked onto the stage in the front seemed not to feel this atmosphere at all, and walked slowly to the front of the microphone.

The black-haired man saw that the man's hands were not steady, as if he had just received this task and was unprepared to speak at the banquet.

"Please be patient, guests."

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Thank you for reading .

During the holiday, I went through the outline again. The original scenes on the ship were basically changed, so I felt that the original chapter name was not suitable, so I changed it to w. This