Ke Xue World: The Confrontation between Black and Red

“Why, are you planning to make Hojo-kun the topic of this special criminal conference?

Karasuma Soshin chuckled, with a hint of genuine smile on his face just right.

"That's a good idea. I think with so many excellent police officers involved, Hojo-kun should be rescued soon."

Karasuma Sounobu knew since yesterday afternoon that Yuki Sanada would attend the special criminal meeting held by the Metropolitan Police Department today.

After the special plane arrived in Tokyo, Karasuma Soshin, who had obtained the communication equipment, received the news from Xiliul at the first time.

He not only knew that the meeting would be held in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department building, but also that it would be chaired by the head of the Metropolitan Police Department, Director Shiraba.

It is also known that the members attending the meeting include not only the heads of the criminal departments of various regions, but also elite criminal police from various places.

For example, the brother of Scottish Morobushi Kagemitsu, Nagano Prefectural Police Inspector Morobushi Takaaki.

As for the purpose of convening this special criminal meeting, it was ostensibly to discuss the high crime rate in Japan.

But Karasuma Soshin saw clearly that the reason why this criminal meeting was held at this time was actually to select a team for Sanada Masahiko, the open executor of the Tianxi plan who would soon be in place.

As a secret executor, Rei Furuya has been in position for many years. Even though he needs to keep his identity secret as an undercover agent, the entire Zero Group obeys his orders.

In addition, the authority and status of Group Zero is already above that of ordinary police officers, and those senior officials who don't like it can only hinder the promotion of the leader of Group Zero to a higher rank.

But it's different for Masahiko Sanada. The only one he can really use is STA.

His background as a police officer and his professional status made it easy for him to be promoted to the position of Chief of the First Section of the Security Department with the rank of Superintendent of Police.

But this is just a preliminary ticket to enter the upper echelons of the Metropolitan Police Department.

There is still a long way to go if we want to truly sit at the table and gain the right to speak from those corrupt and conservative senior executives.

However, it is far from enough to rely on just one STA for all these.

Therefore, the reformist leaders who were well aware of this convened a special criminal meeting and specifically asked the heads of the criminal departments of various regions to bring their elite detectives.

It is called exchanging experiences.

In fact, these elite criminal police are the real target of this special criminal conference.

Karasuma Soshin looked at Hojo Yoshinori, who was the person who pushed for the convening of the Special Criminal Council behind the scenes and was now standing in front of him and deliberately brought up this matter.

He said calmly:

"Besides, if that's the case, there's no need for me to stay.

When it comes to solving cases, those experienced and excellent detectives are definitely much more professional than someone like me who doesn’t know how to reason.”

The priest looked at Hojo Renmune and Karasuma Soshin in confusion.

I don't understand why Hojo Yoshimune would try to keep a young master of a chaebol at this time.

The others who didn't know Karasuma Soshin's identity had the same idea.

However, people like Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara who knew that Karasuma Soshin was Whiskey became more and more suspicious.

Chairman Hojo's attitude is not right.

If he didn't know that Karasuma Soshin was the core cadre of the transnational criminal group Black Organization, why would he deliberately let him stay?

If he knew, why would he have this attitude?

Just as everyone was thinking about different things, the police officer in charge of logging into the website said in surprise:

"Inspector Kazami, it says here that you also need to log in with your account and password."

Everyone looked at the priest in unison, and then heard the priest reply in a gentle tone:

"I have given you all the clues. I think with your reasoning ability, it should be easy to crack the account password."

Hojo Yoshihito looked at the priest with angry eyes, wishing he could put a knife to the priest's neck and force him to tell him all the account passwords.

Jinpei Matsuda had the same idea.

Just then, Yuya Kazami's cell phone suddenly rang.

A few seconds after the call was connected, Feng Jianyuya suddenly widened his eyes and shouted into the phone in disbelief:

"What did you say!!!"

Kenji Hagiwara noticed that the priest had a smile on his face again, and he immediately realized that it was the priest's doing again.

After hanging up the phone, Yuya Kazami did not immediately tell others the latest information he had just received, but went straight to the TV in the lounge.

No way.

Conan watched in shock as Yuya Kazami turned on the TV and switched the channel to a midday news channel.

Then everyone clearly saw the figure of Hojo Shuya appear on the TV screen that was supposed to be broadcasting the noon news.

In the pitch-black background, Hojo Shuya, dressed in a white suit, had his eyes closed and his hands and feet tied tightly with ropes to a high-backed wooden chair.

A beam of white light shining from above his head made his figure extremely clear.

In the upper right corner of the screen is a string of ambiguous countdown numbers.

Conan checked the time on his watch and calculated the time when the countdown would end.

"It's one o'clock in the afternoon."

Seeing his son's figure appear on the TV screen, the extremely frightened Hojo Yoshihito could no longer suppress the anger in his heart.

He, who was originally standing next to Hojo Lianzong, rushed directly to the priest, grabbed the priest's black priest robe, and shouted almost roaring:

"What are you going to do? If you have anything to say, come to me..."

“It’s simple. I just want to play a game with you. As long as you win, Hojo Shuya will be safe.

As for how to play the game, you will find out once you log in.

Of course, it would be best if it were before the countdown ends.”

The priest gave the reminder with a smile on his face, but his expression changed drastically the next second.

Matsuda Jinpei stepped hard on the priest's foot and said without any apology:

"I'm sorry. I was dizzy and didn't stand steadily. I accidentally stepped on you. I'll take you to the next room to rest and see a doctor."

The priest, who felt like his toes were broken, took a deep breath and looked at Matsuda Jinpei with a bad look on his face, and quickly refused:

"No... no need."

If I follow you to the next door, you will beat me to death.

The countdown on the TV screen continued to tick, and this brief interlude was soon replaced by busyness and anxiety.

Yoshihito Hojo looked at his son with his eyes closed on the TV screen, and then looked at Conan and others who were discussing login accounts and passwords around the tablet computer.

He paced around the room anxiously, but was afraid of disturbing these people, so he walked very lightly.

The priest who was severely kicked by Matsuda Jinpei turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as he was able to sit on a sofa instead of standing.

The sofa is located in a corner, and there is a man named Jinpei Matsuda guarding it with a stern look on his face.

Karasuma Soshin finally stayed in the lounge, but not because of Hojo Yoshinori's request, but because something happened in the inner hall.

Jinpei Matsuda had stayed up all night and led his men to search the entire Chizuru Mansion, but no trace of the bomb was found.

But it does not exist on dead buildings, but it exists on living people.

Not long after Hojo Lianzong and others moved to the lounge, several waiters in the inner hall suddenly locked the door and windows of the inner hall.

The police officer realized something was wrong and just as he pulled out his gun, he saw the waiters revealing the bombs in their vests without any fear.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense.

Therefore, the agenda of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's special criminal meeting really became how to rescue the trapped guests in Chizuru Mansion.

And save Hojo Shuya, who appeared on TV screens and became known to thousands of households.

Now the people in the lounge are roughly divided into three groups.

A group of people, including Kogoro Mouri and Conan, sat in front of the computer, pondering over their account numbers and passwords.

A group led by Hojo Lianzong, while remotely connecting with the participants of the Special Criminal Conference of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, was studying the topographic map of Chizuru Mansion on how to rescue the trapped guests.

The remaining group couldn't find anything in common, so they just put it together.

Hojo Yoshihito was worried about his son and his wife, but he didn't dare to disturb his father who was discussing important matters, so he walked from one end to the other and back again.

His footprints are all over the lounge.

The priest sat quietly on the sofa, his eyes fixed on the TV, his face full of anticipation.

Karasuma Soshin also found a sofa in the corner and sat down, but he neither watched TV nor paid attention to the remote connection with Hojo Liansong.

Instead, he stared silently at the pattern of the carpet in front of his toes, looking completely indifferent.

But this lounge is so small that even though there were discussions and phone calls all around him, he could still clearly hear a familiar voice from the other end of the remote connection.

Using his utmost willpower to suppress the subconscious urge to look up, Karasuma Soshin blinked silently, and maintained his indifferent posture of sitting quietly with his eyes downcast until the short remote video call ended.

Special Criminal Conference Venue,

She is the only female head of the Criminal Department among Japan's 47 prefectures.

Yuki Sanada attracted a lot of attention from the moment she entered the venue.

After half of the meeting, Yuki Sanada successfully proved to others with her performance and strength that she, the head of the Criminal Division, was not just a figurehead.

But after the remote video call ended, Yuki Sanada became unusually silent.

Everyone else thought she was thinking about the case, but she was the only one who knew that was not the case.

Ever since she learned that the Hojo family was going to hold a wedding banquet for the heir, she had been wondering whether the Karasuma family would send someone to attend, and whether the person attending would be the heir who had just returned home this spring.

Could it be that this was a child she hadn't seen for eleven years?

Most of the time, Yuuki Sanada doesn't deliberately think about these questions, but it always appears in her mind from time to time.

Especially when she learned that a vicious kidnapping incident had occurred at Chizuru Mansion, the heir of the Hojo family had been deliberately kidnapped, and a large number of guests were held hostage by waiters with bombs tied to their bodies.

The only thought in her mind was that her child was in danger.

At that moment, she wished more than ever that her Yuegamaru was not in Qianzuru Mansion.

The flow of time has always had its own rules and has never been deviated by human will.

When everyone is worried, anxious, or busy looking for clues.

The countdown on the TV screen quietly reached the last ten minutes.

Conan and others have deduced that the clue is on the card that came with the tricolor lilies that Hojo Liansong received for the first time.

But after studying the cards for a long time, they still found nothing.

On the other hand, the negotiations between the police and the kidnapper's waiters in the inner hall were not ideal either.

The kidnappers and waiters did not respond to any questions from the police, and made no demands or appeals.

Like a puppet with a clockwork spring.

In addition to preventing the guests from leaving the inner hall, the kidnappers did not restrict the guests' hands and feet, nor did they take away their communication equipment to prevent them from contacting the outside world.

Time was approaching one point every second, and the countdown on the TV screen slowly moved to five minutes.

After glancing at the computer screen and seeing the account and password boxes return to being blank again, Kenji Hagiwara looked at the two cards, one black and one red, on the table, and suddenly an idea flashed through his mind.

"Try it with the color names on those two cards."

The white account and password box, the black and red cards, which add up to three colors: black, white and red.

The crisp sound of keyboard tapping ended with the pressing of the Enter key.

The countdown on the TV screen froze the moment the Enter key was pressed.

"Success!"

There was a sudden cheer in the lounge.

Hojo Yoshihito was so excited that he cried with joy, and tears suddenly flowed out of his eyes.

The priest's face didn't look very good.

To mislead police and detectives into thinking the answer was in the words on the card.

When he prepared the cards, he deliberately wrote a lot of words that looked like riddles on the black cards.

I didn't expect that someone really didn't fall for it.

I caught a glimpse of the priest's face, which instantly darkened, and the smile that never appeared again, and the regret that flashed across his eyes.

Karasuma Soshin withdrew his gaze and focused on the TV screen in the distance.

It looks like the first one is out, and it's the second one's turn.

In the quiet TV, a sudden sigh instantly attracted everyone's attention.

The cheers in the lounge suddenly stopped.

Everyone stared at the TV screen intently.

"As expected of a police officer who can crack the Thirty-Two Colors case, he easily defeated that loser at Three O'clock."

The priest known as Three Points had a gloomy expression on his face, staring at the TV screen as if he was looking at an irreconcilable enemy.

He wished he could use the TV or the Internet to stab the person who mocked him with the electronic voice into a sieve.

Three o'clock?

What do you mean, time?

Conan, who caught this code name, quickly began to think about the meaning of this code name.

"First of all, let me be here and congratulate you on winning the first round of the game."

On the TV screen, there appeared a black scoreboard and a red scoreboard, both showing zero points.

As the electronic sound fell, the red scoreboard turned back a page and the number on the scoreboard turned into 1.

"Secondly, since you won the first game, as a reward for the winner, you will get to decide what to play in this round.

Then, please start drawing the games for this round."

Three balloon patterns suddenly appeared on the TV screen.

One red, one white, and one black.

And on the live broadcast page that the public security logged into, an input box appeared.