Ke Xue World: The Confrontation between Black and Red

Conan and the others will probably never forget the scene at that time.

If possible, they would like to dig that embarrassing memory out of their minds and send it on a rocket to outer space, never to return in this lifetime.

The hotel manager woke up to the cries of people crying and staring blankly at the public lounge area in the moonlight, which was in a mess, as if a hurricane had passed through it.

He then glanced at Conan and the others who were standing in the rest area and looking at him with embarrassed expressions.

After realizing that everything he had seen before was not a dream, the hotel manager rolled his eyes and fell down again amidst a chorus of shouts and cries.

Finally, a female hotel manager stepped forward and took control of the situation.

After learning the general story from Conan and others, the female supervisor called the police and dispatched people to check the hotel surveillance to find the whereabouts of the man in short boots and the man with a knife, as well as the trace of the food cart that was pushed away by the man with a knife.

At the same time, at Conan's suggestion, she asked the hotel's room service staff to verify the identity information of all guests on the ninth floor by asking them if they had lost any valuables.

The Fukuoka police who received the report arrived just as quickly as last time.

After gaining a preliminary understanding of the situation on the scene and knowing the ins and outs of the incident.

The Fukuoka police, who had seen the tragic situation in the public rest area on the ninth floor clearly, cast glances with mixed emotions such as shock and confusion at Conan and the others in the corner.

Feeling this gaze constantly lingering on them, Kogoro Mouri and others looked up at the sky and down at the ground, but did not dare to raise their heads and make eye contact.

Some were studying the slippers on their feet, some were admiring the exquisite paintings on the wall, and some were staring at the gaps between the floor tiles very seriously, hoping to find a larger crack so they could crawl into it.

Ooka Hongye, who lived on the ninth floor and rushed over with her butler after receiving the news, looked at the messy public rest area and glanced at Conan and the others one by one.

Finally, his unhappy look fell on the hotel manager who was still asleep on the sofa in the corner.

"Wake him up."

Ichi Muwo, who was following behind Ooka Hongye, responded and walked up to the hotel manager, raised his hand and pinched his philtrum hard.

"hiss!"

The hotel manager woke up slowly, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he was so frightened by Yi Zhi Wuwo in front of him that he jumped up from the sofa.

He recognized the man in front of him as the butler accompanying the heir to the Ooka Group.

Then, his previous memories came back to his mind again, and he suddenly remembered the scene he saw before he fainted.

After seeing Ooka Hongye standing next to Ichi Wuwo with a cold face and angry eyes, he hurriedly began to explain.

He directly and indirectly put the blame on his subordinates and people like Kogoro Mori.

He described himself as someone who was innocently implicated.

However, after hearing the whole story, Ooka Hongye did not intend to reveal it easily.

As early as after the previous hotel murder case, she had asked the hotel manager to strengthen the hotel's security management. Once an accident occurred, it must be handled immediately to ensure the safety of the guests.

But now another attack has happened in the hotel. Not only did the hotel manager arrive late and fainted twice in succession, he also completely shifted the blame after his subordinate supervisor held up the situation.

Ooka Hongye looked at the hotel manager who was still making excuses. The anger on her face gradually subsided, but her eyes grew colder.

The hotel manager, who was observing Ooka Momiji's expression as he spoke, suddenly felt uneasy and his voice involuntarily lowered while he was explaining.

At this time,

Following the room service staff, Hattori Heiji checked all the guests on the ninth floor and returned to the public lounge area, bringing back two pieces of news.

One good news, one bad news.

The good news is that the tenants on the ninth floor did not lose any valuables.

The bad news is that nothing was lost, but a person was lost.

As for why we can be sure that the missing person is the one who is missing, and not one of the two attackers just now.

It's very simple, because the missing person is a child who is only five or six years old.

Of course it couldn't be one of the two tall and strong attackers.

Yuanshan Heye muttered to himself:

There is no good news here, there is clearly only one bad news.

Conan, who was standing by, had become serious when he saw Utsunomiya Hiroshi, a man with a gloomy face, and three bodyguards following Hattori Heiji.

When Hattori Heiji said that someone was missing, Conan suddenly realized the small square shadow he had seen coming from behind the white cloth of the dining car under the floor lamp.

It was a box with a child inside.

And that child was the one who had just been attacked two days ago, and he was the only child left in the team besides him - A Mian.

This time, Hattori Heiji did not continue to conceal the fact that A Mian had been attacked before, but told the Fukuoka police everything.

Ooka Hongye, who heard all of this not far away, did not expect that there would be someone from the Utsunomiya family among the contestants this time.

With a flash of surprise in his eyes, he winked at Yizhi Wuwo beside him.

After a while, the police officers who were involved in retrieving surveillance footage and searching for the whereabouts of the attacker and the food truck also brought bad news one after another.

The hotel's corridor surveillance was tampered with, and the elevator surveillance was secretly cut off during that period.

After a thorough search of the entire hotel, they finally found a food truck in the basement garage.

And a blank red leaf prayer note with nothing written on it and only a golden leaf drawn on it.

As a family member of a missing person, Utsunomiya Hiroshi saw the red leaf prayer letter.

While others were speculating about the gold leaf mark on the letter, Utsunomiya Hiroshi's fingertips trembled slightly and thoughts continued to surge in his mind.

After thinking and hesitating for a while, Utsunomiya Hiroshi, under the watchful eyes of Conan and others, told Inspector Murashita that he wanted to go back to his room to rest on the grounds that it was getting late, and that he could ask the bodyguard beside him if he had any questions.

In an instant, several suspicious glances passed over him.

But Utsunomiya Hiroshi did not react. Without waiting for Inspector Murashita to make corrections, he turned and left with two of the bodyguards.

"What kind of person is this? Instead of rushing to find the lost child, he is in a hurry to go back to sleep."

Looking at Utsunomiya Hiroshi's back disappearing at the end of the hotel corridor, Suzuki Sonoko's eyes were full of contempt and disgust.

She came out of the room with Toyama Kazuha and came to the public lounge area only after the police arrived at the hotel.

Although he did not witness the fight between Kogoro Mori and the attacker with his own eyes, after seeing the mess at the scene and hearing from Conan and the others that the attacker had poisoned weapons in his hands.

Suzuki Sonoko also guessed that the two attackers would be difficult to deal with.

Therefore, Suzuki Sonoko felt even more disgusted with Utsunomiya Hiroshi, who only cared about himself and didn't care about his nephew's life or death at all.

The case ended here. After collecting clues at the scene and understanding all the information, the police left the hotel with this information and proceeded to the next stage of investigation.

Kogoro Mouri, who was extremely sleepy, immediately said that he wanted to go back and catch up on his sleep.

Hattori Heiji, who wanted to follow up on the police's further investigation, was directly rejected by Inspector Murashita, and the others had no choice but to return to their rooms first.

Of all people, Ooka Momiji was the last tenant on the ninth floor to leave the common lounge area.

Ever since the hotel manager learned that a guest was kidnapped in the hotel, he knew that he would be in trouble this time. Cold sweat kept breaking out on his forehead, but he didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe it off.

I can only let the sparse hair on my head become wet and greasy again.

"From now on, you are no longer the person in charge of this hotel."

Ooka Momiji calmly informed the hotel manager of the decision.

Without waiting for the hotel manager to speak, Ooka Hongye turned around and came to the female manager who had reported the matter to her before and who had stabilized the situation this time, with a much gentler expression:

“You handled what happened tonight very well.

So from now on, you are the new person in charge of this hotel.

I believe that this hotel will be better in your hands than in that rubbish."

The female supervisor who was promoted was very excited, but she immediately calmed down and said firmly:

"Please rest assured, Miss Hongye, I will definitely not let you down."

Ooka Hongye nodded, turning a deaf ear to the various pleas from the former hotel manager who was stopped by Ichi Muga, and ordered:

"Get this sorted out as quickly as possible."

After saying that, he raised his foot and walked towards the corridor.

Seeing this, Yi Zhi Wuwo also followed.

Without anyone to stop them, the former person in charge hurried forward, wanting to take this opportunity to catch up with Ooka Hongye and beg for mercy.

Then he was stopped by the hotel security called over by the new person in charge.

"This is a floor that only hotel employees and VIP guests can enter. Get this person who has nothing to do with our hotel out immediately."

The former hotel manager never expected that this woman, who in the past had only allowed him to insult her at will and had never dared to resist no matter how he rubbed her, would actually dare to do this to him.

The furious former hotel manager wanted to step forward and teach her a lesson, but was then hit with an electric baton by the hotel security.

Finally, he was dragged out like a dead dog by two burly hotel security guards.

The new person in charge's act of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys completely intimidated the other hotel managers.

Therefore, faced with the subsequent orderly instructions and orders from the new person in charge, none of these people dared to raise any objections.

the other side,

Just as the hotel staff began to work overtime overnight to clean and tidy up the public lounge area, replace various layouts and furnishings, and directly change its style.

After returning to the hotel room, Hiroshi Utsunomiya took out his mobile phone and made a call with a cold expression.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to have known that he would make this call at this time. The ringing lasted less than two seconds before the call was answered.

But the person on the other end of the phone did not speak, just waited quietly for Utsunomiya Hiroshi to explain his purpose.

Utsunomiya Hiroshi didn't know how to start for a while. He was speechless for a long time, and finally said in a hoarse voice:

"A Mian is just a child, a kindergarten kid, he doesn't know anything."

"So, you want me to let him go, right?"

A deep and calm voice came from the other end of the phone. The voice was very soft, but it made Utsunomiya Hiroshi subconsciously clench his fists.

“But, if one day, he finds out that his father’s death is indirectly related to you, his uncle, won’t he hate you?

Or are you so soft-hearted that you want to keep a future enemy by your side."

"A Mian won't know. I will keep it a secret from him forever."

There was a pleading tone in Utsunomiya Hiroshi's voice.

The deep voice answered his plea with a hint of contempt:

"Hiroshi, Shoichi is dead. As long as that child dies, you will be the most legitimate and unquestionable heir of the Utsunomiya family. You will have your own bloodline descendants in the future.

What I admired and valued most about you was your ruthlessness. But now, you have become so soft-hearted just because of a child.

You have to know that once the real treasure map returns to Kenji Utsunomiya, he will know that Shoichi's death is related to you.

When the person who cracked the secret code left by Zhengyi without even needing a secret book meets him, neither you nor I will survive."

Utsunomiya Hiroshi sneered softly, with a hint of collapse and madness:

"You killed my eldest brother. I didn't ask you to do this, and I never thought of becoming the heir of the Utsunomiya family by this means."

“But it’s come to this, hasn’t it?

Bozhi, you have no way out. Ever since Zhengyi learned the secret, you and I have no way out. We can only move forward. "

Utsunomiya Hiroshi lowered his head, and the hair hanging down in front of his forehead hid the bitterness and self-mockery on his face.

Yes, he has no way out.

But he simply couldn't bear to watch A Mian die.

His eldest brother died because of him, and A Mian was his only blood relative left in this world. He really couldn't do it.

"A Mian will not hinder us. On the contrary, once A Mian dies, we will never have the chance to find the mysterious confidant of Big Brother.

By then, even if we get the treasure map and get rid of the member of the Black Organization who cracked the secret code left by Big Brother, Big Brother's mysterious confidant will definitely become a big threat to us."

In response to Utsunomiya Hiroshi's words, Canghou's voice suddenly became happy:

"Don't worry. I did this to force that person to show up. Others may not understand what the prayer letter means, but Zhengyi's confidant must know."

After saying this, the deep voice paused, and then he began to soothe in a gentle tone:

“Forget it, if you really can’t bear to part with A Mian, then find out Zhengyi’s confidant and deal with him, get the treasure map, and get rid of the person who cracked the secret code.

Just keep him abroad under an assumed name."

Utsunomiya Hiroshi was silent for a while, and finally agreed.

"it is good."