Chapter 95 Cecil's Ambition [VIP]
The fact that Karasuma Renya's voice could be heard coming from the loudspeaker meant that he was still in the house, but it was unclear which room he was in.
Cheng You quickly took out his phone and sent his location to Furuya Rei. Then he searched around the office and found several handguns. He picked up two of them, loaded them with bullets, and immediately rushed out, firing wildly at the bodyguards who came to arrest him.
He blocked the bodyguards, destroyed the surveillance cameras, and searched each room. Karasuma Renya was probably watching the surveillance footage; judging from the layout of the house, the monitoring room should be on a basement floor.
Cheng retreated as he went down the stairs.
He was facing a tightly closed iron door. He could have easily shot the doorknob and destroyed the door, but he didn't.
Cheng You knocked on the iron gate and said with a smile, "Open the door, Karasuma Renya. Didn't you want to know why the potion didn't work on me?"
"Click—" The door opened a crack.
Cheng didn't go in immediately. Instead, he hooked the doorknob with his gun. As soon as the door moved, gunshots rang out from inside.
Cheng listened to the gunshots, identified the gun model and its magazine, and after confirming that the other party was reloading, he immediately rushed in. As he expected, Karasuma Renya was accompanied by several bodyguards.
He reacted faster than the bodyguards, taking them out with a few shots. Cheng then locked the door behind him.
Karasuma Renya sat leisurely in his chair, showing no fear. He had a head of white hair and was over fifty years old, but his appearance remained that of a middle-aged man.
Cheng You: "You have no way out now, aren't you afraid?"
Karasuma Renya laughed loudly: "Afraid? Why should I be afraid? I'm over a hundred years old, and there's nothing I'm afraid of in my life. You're an undercover agent. I never expected the Red Team to have such a powerful undercover agent."
“You’re wrong,” Cheng You retorted decisively. “The powerful one isn’t me, but every friend behind me. They’re developing the antidote, infiltrating enemy territory, and diligently searching for every clue. You think they’re doing it for me? No, they’re doing it for justice!”
"Justice will prevail."
Cheng raised his pistol and pointed it at Karasuma Renya's head: "Do you have any last words?"
“I just want to pursue a more perfect world! Don’t you think so? Don’t you think it’s a very enjoyable thing to make others afraid? If others fear you and worship you, isn’t such a world perfect for you?” Karasuma Renya said.
"Do you have any friends? Do you have any close friends?" Cheng replied coldly.
"You—" These words successfully enraged Karasuma Renya, who lunged at Cheng You like a madman, "I've lived to this age, I don't care about those things anymore!"
Cheng fired a shot into the other man's leg: "Really? You don't care, yet you're acting like this?"
Karasuma Renya, unwilling to back down, insisted on getting to the bottom of things with Cheng You: "My friends are all dead, it's not that I have no friends?!"
"Don't you have any close friends who are older than you?" Cheng asked. "There are so many young people in the organization, but all you care about is power and fame. You've never thought of treating anyone as your peer."
Karasuma Renya was bleeding profusely from a bullet wound to his leg, and he lay on the ground, barely clinging to life.
Before long, Furuya Rei arrived with his men. Cheng You thought they arrived quite quickly. Furuya Rei said that this was one of the places they had speculated about, but it was some distance away from here.
The police arrested Karasuma Renya.
This rat, who had been active in the shadows of Japan for nearly a hundred years, finally met his end.
The police searched Karasuma Renya's room again, but found very little useful information. Most of the documents were mission completion reports submitted by members of the organization and the history of the Black Organization's rise to power.
After Cheng You returned to the organization, Gin and Kujo Kosuke were waiting for him in the lounge. Upon seeing Cheng You, Gin immediately sent a message to the organization stating that the new boss of the Black Organization was Potter.
Rei Furuya and the Public Security Bureau are busy investigating the mission reports of the Black Organization members; they need to take some completely wicked people to prison.
Rei Furuya: "Although Gin and Kujo are now considered your people, they will also face legal consequences once the research institute is destroyed."
Cheng nodded: "I understand."
Three days later, news of the Black Organization changing its BOSS spread on the Gray Fox Assassin's website.
Some say the newly appointed BOSS is a young man, but ruthless, and eliminated several old members as soon as he took office.
Cheng You: Actually, he was arrested by the police, but we can't expose the fact that the organization has dealings with the police, so he has to take the blame. Yes, I am ruthless and vicious!
Several days passed without any news from the research institute. Yuichi's research had yielded results: a drug that could instantly weaken Cecil's resistance had been completed. After a few more experiments to ensure its effectiveness, it could be used with confidence.
Cheng Youhe, Morofushi Kagemitsu, Furuya Rei, and Kudo Shinichi were discussing in the room how to lure Cecil out.
Cheng You suddenly had an idea. He asked, "Do you have any dark basements here?"
Rei Furuya asked in confusion, "Yes, what do you want to do?"
Cheng smiled wickedly, "Cecil is looking for me, right? Let's take a picture to lure him out."
Cecil from the research institute had naturally heard about the Black Organization, and he asked his subordinates, "Have you found any trace of Cheng You yet?"
The subordinate answered tremblingly, "We can't find anyone around him anymore; it seems they're being protected by the police."
Cecil angrily smashed a glass bottle: "Useless! You can't even find one person?! The Black Organization dared to snatch people from the police! You can't do anything?!"
Just then, a subordinate ran over excitedly with a phone in hand: "Boss! Boss! We have news about that kid!"
As he spoke, he handed the phone to Cecil.
The phone screen displays the homepage of Grey Fox Killer Dark Network, where the most popular post reads:
Dear members of the research institute, hello! I am the newly appointed BOSS of the Black Organization. I was very sad that you didn't send us a cooperation letter last time. But it's okay, after all, the previous boss was an old man who didn't know how to be flexible.
Now that I've taken office, I'd like to talk to you about cooperation.
I admire you all.
As for sincerity? I heard you're looking for someone, and that person is in my hands.
Don't believe me? Message me privately, and I'll send you pictures as proof.
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Cecil was furious after reading the post: "This tone is clearly provocative! Cooperation? They obviously want to recruit us as their subordinates!"
After calming down, Cecil used one of his subordinates' accounts to privately message the poster on the website.
The other party immediately sent a picture.
Cecil immediately recognized Cheng You in the picture and clenched his fist: "I've finally found you."
He examined the photograph carefully.
In the picture, on a dark and narrow cement floor, Cheng You is kneeling on the ground, one hand cuffed to the wall, staring fiercely at the person taking the picture.
This stubbornness is just like Cheng You's attitude towards dying together with him that day.
Cecil sent the photo to his assistant, Yoshioka Yuki: "Check if there are any post-production composite elements in this."
After his assistant left, Cecil fell into deep thought. Logically speaking, such obvious technical means as post-production synthesis should be easy to detect, so the other party had no reason to do so.
Cecil continued communicating with the new boss of the Black Organization: "You've given me Cheng You, what do you need me to do?"
The other party replied: "You're too kind. Since it's a collaboration, I will naturally fulfill my ally's needs. However, I would like to ask you to meet at the Mihana Center Building in three days to discuss the details of the collaboration."
Cecil replied warily: "A get-together? Can you guarantee our safety? Last time we cooperated, I didn't invite the Black Organization, but they went and cooperated directly with the Red Team."
The other party replied: "First, I am the new BOSS of the Black Organization, so naturally I won't cooperate with the Red Team like that old man."
He replied again: "I personally prefer face-to-face meetings. After all, who knows who's behind the screen when discussing cooperation over a phone? We're people who do big things; meeting in person is a minor issue, and we'll probably need to do it often in the future."
Cecil began to hesitate.
A short while later, assistant Yoshioka Yuki returned after analyzing the photo: "Boss, the technical department says this photo wasn't digitally composited using any technology."
"Hmm." Cecil desperately wanted to capture Cheng You; with him, she and he would have a chance to make a comeback. But meeting the new boss of the Black Organization still carried risks.
It was already night when Cheng You and Youyi were eating a family bucket that Furuya Zero had brought from outside.
Shinichi Kudo and Hiromitsu Morofushi were looking at the Grey Fox Killer's dark web private message page on the computer.
Yagami Kamisama and Akai Shuichi were in the room that the Public Security Bureau had prepared for the FBI. Kudo and the Public Security Bureau were going to talk about Cecil, and they were afraid that talking about it in front of him would trigger bad memories for Yagami Kamisama.
Ryuzaki had another late-night snack with Cheng Youyou, and even told Furuya Rei, "Next time you can bring some desserts."
Rei Furuya nodded: "Okay. But you've been eating a lot of desserts lately."
Ryuzaki smiled and said, "Hehe, the thought that this long-standing stalemate between the red and black teams will finally come to an end soon makes me very happy, and it makes me hungry."
Rei Furuya: "Great, after this is over, some dessert shops will open again. You can go there often then." He whispered in Ryuzaki's ear, "Just don't go bankrupt."
Shinichi Kudo looked at the chat page; the other party hadn't replied for a long time.
“Are you sure Cecil will agree?” he asked.
Yuichi: "I can't be completely sure, but it's about 80% likely. He's an ambitious person."
Shinichi Kudo: "Then why is Cheng You so attractive to Cecil? Is it just for revenge? That doesn't seem like him."
Only Yuichi knew that Cheng You was also a former test subject, and Cecil's most successful one. Cecil believed that obtaining Cheng You was equivalent to obtaining an invincible weapon, and that he would eventually make a comeback.
Yu said, "Perhaps Cecil has also taken notice of the new Black Organization boss, Potter. He's met Potter, and Brother Cheng said he wasn't very impressive when he was Potter. He probably thinks that if Potter can be the Black Organization boss, so can he."
Shinichi Kudo suddenly thought, "I remember Cecil asked Li Hua to investigate the people in the photos. We can use that to provoke him again. I can reply: 'I have already found out who the people in the photos you asked me to investigate a month and a half ago.'"
Cecil replied shortly after: "Okay. But I want you to bring Cheng You and the other two people in the photos to see me."
Cheng Youhe is in the other two photos? Thankfully, he didn't mention the three photos.
Yu, who was passing by, glanced at the message and relaxed.
Shinichi Kudo repeated this sentence in its entirety.
Cheng nodded: "Okay. Regarding Night God's visit, we'll find someone capable to impersonate him."
Three days later, at the central building of Beika Town.
Cecil first sent his assistant, Yoshioka Yuki, with a group of people to observe around the building. Yoshioka Yuki had been tested and had extremely strong counter-surveillance capabilities. After confirming that there were no snipers or people lying in ambush within a hundred miles of the building, Cecil and a group of bodyguards entered the agreed underground conference room from the building.
Upon opening the door, Gin and Kujo Kosuke were seated inside the meeting room.
Cecil: "Where's your new boss?" He was a little suspicious. "You guys were supposed to be the previous boss's confidants. Why did you defect to the new guy so quickly?" His tone was full of sarcasm.
Gin gave him a cold look and then looked away.
Kujo Kosuke glanced at him indifferently, gentlemanly straightening his sleeves, and calmly asked Gin, "Can someone like this be called a gentleman?"
There are often rumors in the organization that Cecil is a gentleman of mixed Western and Japanese descent, and as the young master of the group, Kujo naturally wants to see what kind of gentleman they are talking about.
Now that I've seen it, I can't help but feel contempt.
Cecil snorted and sat down in the head seat of the conference room.
Gin and Kujo Kosuke completely ignored him.
Only cowards care about such empty symbols.
At 9 p.m., a Cayenne pulled up in front of the building. Cheng You, dressed in a black suit, got out of the car. He had disguised himself as Li Hua, wearing sunglasses and carrying a scepter with a hidden weapon.
Behind them followed Shinichi Kudo and Yuichi, who had returned to their original forms.
The building had been emptied of all its staff. Yuichi noticed Yoshioka Yuki standing guard at the door and whispered, "Cecil sent Yoshioka Yuki to guard the door. He must be very cautious, afraid that you might bring the Red Team here."
Cheng You didn't care. After all, the Red Team had already deduced the location based on Cecil's direction and then went to raid the research institute's lair.
Several highly capable members of the Red Team have infiltrated the building disguised as staff members.
This time, Cecil has no way to escape.
A note from the author:
Why didn't the research institute arrest Cheng You from the police?
A: Because they don't have a model worker like Gin. (not really)
The finale will be released tomorrow at 9 AM, along with a side story about everyone playing Werewolf and who the undercover agent is!
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