Ke Xue World: The Confrontation between Black and Red

the next morning,

A ray of sunlight penetrated the clouds and awakened Vladivostok from the darkness under the snow.

At around eight o'clock, Karasuma Soshin, who had changed his clothes and restored his original appearance but with blonde hair and blue eyes, came to the underground garage.

Last night, before arriving at the airport.

He used Johnnie Walker's identity authority to retrieve an ordinary black snow off-road vehicle.

After rejecting the friendly offer from the airport VIP lounge receptionist who took orders from a certain family.

Karasuma Soshin found the snow off-road vehicle that had been prepared long ago in the underground parking lot of the airport.

Then drove the car out of the airport underground parking lot.

When he drove out of the airport's underground parking lot, the person behind the scenes who was interested in keeping an eye on Karasuma Soshin's whereabouts naturally arranged for someone to follow him.

But not long after Karasuma Soshin drove out, more than a dozen snow-capped off-road vehicles that not only looked exactly the same but even had the same license plates suddenly appeared around the following vehicle.

While blocking the tracker's vision, one of the cars slid sideways and crashed straight into the tracking vehicle.

The snow off-road vehicle in front of the tracking vehicle braked at the right time.

A man-made car accident directly forced the tracking vehicle to stop.

Before the person in charge of tracking could take out his phone to report to his superiors, the car window next to him was shot through by someone. The bullet grazed the tracker's head and penetrated the glass on the other side.

Then, a tightly wrapped hand violently broke the entire car window and covered the follower's face with a towel containing drugs.

After confirming that the drug was effective, the man, who was covered tightly all over his body, let go of his hand.

Then he opened the car door, took away the communication device from the tracker, pulled out the car key and threw it aside.

The howling winter night wind blew into the car, instantly turning the unconscious tracker's face three shades paler.

But the man didn't care. He quickly got back into the car and drove away.

Other vehicles of the same model and brand followed closely behind, finally dispersing at one intersection after another, quietly hiding in the increasing traffic flow.

It was already past midnight and snowflakes were falling from the sky again.

Apart from passengers catching flights or getting off planes, there were very few cars going that road.

Fortunately, there were still flights landing at the airport at that time, and a person who was rushing to catch a plane noticed that there was a person lying in a car that had been hit hard on the side of the road.

In addition, the stalker himself was wrapped quite thickly and was relatively resistant to cold.

That's why he didn't freeze to death in the temperature of minus 20 or 30 degrees Celsius.

But even if the tracker managed to save his life, his respiratory system would be severely damaged due to long-term coma and frostbite, and he could be said to be completely useless.

During this period, Karasuma Soshin exchanged cars with a man who was driving another snow off-road vehicle.

Then they drove all the way towards the gambling district and finally arrived at a private residence not far from the gambling district in the early morning.

Passing the snow off-road vehicle that he drove last night, Karasuma Soshin walked to an old black Chevrolet and opened the driver's seat.

Eight fifty-five,

Vermouth, dressed as a classic Goose girl, arrives at the gate of Crystal Palace, the largest casino in Vladivostok's gambling district.

Vermouth with blonde hair and gray eyes is not conspicuous here.

Because everywhere here are Goose girls with beautiful, fair features and exquisite dress.

In this bright weather, it seems as if there is a fake sun hanging in the sky.

Compared to Vermouth who was wrapped in a thick long coat.

Many Rose girls were dressed very coolly before entering the warm buildings.

The sunlight made their bright smiling faces shine especially brightly.

At first glance it seems to be a warm spring day.

But when you look around, you'll see white snow piled up on the roofs of the buildings and on both sides of the road, and the stinging winter wind blowing on your face.

This illusion was soon broken.

Walking to a street lamp not far from the entrance of the Crystal Palace,

Vermouth took out her cell phone and was about to call Karasuma Soshin when she heard the sound of footsteps on the snow slowly approaching her from behind.

Vermouth felt something and put down her phone and turned around to take a look.

In the sunlight, a young man with short light blond hair, light blue eyes, and sharp and handsome features was walking towards him.

"You look like a natural born Goose."

Noticing the astonished looks from all around, Vermouth looked at Karasuma Soshin, whose appearance, hair and eye color were highly matched, as if he was born to look like this.

He praised softly with a smile on his face.

Karasuma Soshin replied casually:

"You look like one, too."

"Really? Why do all the men I meet have such an incomprehensible sense of romance?"

Vermouth complained in a normal tone.

“You promised to come out with me, but you didn’t even want to smile at me.

It's as if I forced you to come."

As she spoke, under the gazes of countless people, Vermouth reached out and held onto Karasuma Soshin's arm.

They look like a perfect match.

"Let's go, find a place to sit down. I'm freezing to death waiting for you."

Vermouth complained as she took Karasuma Soshin to the shopping mall next to the Crystal Palace.

Karasuma Soshin was dragged away without saying a word, with a hint of impatience between his brows, but he still did not break free from Vermouth's hand.

As soon as Vermouth entered the mall, she quickly determined her identity and dragged Karasuma Soshin into the coffee shop on the third floor.

After ordering the food, she said in a very arrogant manner that she had something private to discuss with her fiancé.

Tell the coffee shop staff not to come near here after serving the food, and not to arrange other customers here.

As he said this, he threw out a stack of bills, indicating that it was a tip for the clerk.

The clerk looked at the thickness of the bills and thought that it was early in the morning and not many people would come, so he happily agreed.

And turned up the volume of the music playing in the cafe.

After briefly recounting her arrival in Vladivostok yesterday, Vermouth went on to talk about the intelligence she had obtained afterwards.

The blocking of news channels and the monitoring of every outsider arriving in Vladivostok from the outside world happened ten days ago.

The person who did this was not a certain person or a certain force.

Judging from the known clues, at least four or five forces are involved behind this incident.

And behind these forces, there are even bigger forces involved.

Vermouth has not yet found anything deeper.

The highest leader of the organization's intelligence branch in Elose is Pasazi.

But now, not only is there no news from Passazi, he has disappeared more completely than Gin, and the group of people under him are like a kite with a cut string.

I contacted Rum personally, but there was no response at all.

All the information Vermouth has obtained now was obtained bit by bit from the underground black market.

Even so, she didn't dare to be too conspicuous, lest the person behind the scenes had eyes in the underground black market and noticed her traces.

This is the first time in all these years that Vermouth has experienced the feeling of being restricted.

After saying this, she turned her gaze to Karasuma Soshin and asked him if he had any clues about Gin's disappearance.

Before this, all Vermouth knew was that Gin was missing, and the news was spread by Vodka.

And she needs to go to Vladivostok to be responsible for intelligence support tasks.

Of course, this was only her secondary mission.

Her main task is to investigate the whereabouts of Pasazi and find out what happened in this branch.

Why does it feel like we have all gone to another world together?

Based on the intelligence she had traded from Brandy.

The only thing that is certain now is that the last time Pasazi appeared before his disappearance was in Vladivostok.

His disappearance and the collective loss of contact with the intelligence team's branch in El Rose are closely related to Gin's disappearance.

The tense and dangerous situation in Vladivostok today is closely related to the fact that Vodka reported Gin's disappearance to the organization yesterday at noon.

before this,

The people behind the scenes did not treat the foreign tourists who came to Vladivostok from outside to the point where there were eyes everywhere and it made people feel scalp tingling.

Obviously, the focus of everything now is the mission that led to Gin's disappearance.

However, only core cadres are qualified to know the content of the mission that Gin carried out before his disappearance.

Ever since the failure of the joint mission involving the gold leaf bounty, Vermouth has never received such a mission again.

Of course, this is because there have always been very few tasks of this kind that only core cadres can take on.

But more importantly, it was that failure that made Karasuma Renye feel that Vermouth was not worthy of being used.

So when Vermouth was unaware, Karasuma Renya sealed the hole that was originally opened for Vermouth.

Although Vermouth only had S-level authority in the past, her authority over intelligence was sometimes comparable to that of Rum, who was once a core cadre.

For tasks like those that only core cadres can take the lead in, even if she doesn't know all the contents, she still understands the general situation.

Sometimes she would go to Butler Karasuma to inquire about information, and Butler Karasuma would tell her some things that only core cadres were qualified to know, but which did not involve the core.

But now, I have lost this special treatment, and now I am in a fog and have no direction to go, and the situation is full of crises.

Vermouth, who has no one at her disposal, would have been so sure that the task of finding and bringing back Gin would have fallen into the hands of Karasuma Soshin.

I had suggested to Karasuma Renya that this task be given to Rum.

Of course even if she dared to bring it up, Uramaru Renya wouldn't dare to respond.

There are only three core cadres left now.

One who is missing is the target of this mission.

Another Brandy, not to mention that he was trained according to the standards of commercial white gloves since he was a child, he has never done such a task that requires personal risk.

Now that it is almost the end of the year, it is no exaggeration to say that the logistics team has a mountain of work to do.

Various documents and materials poured towards Brandy like snowflakes.

The day is either spent reviewing documents or attending various annual summary meetings online while reviewing documents.

The entire logistics team, whether it is the senior management or the middle and lower management, are all busy.

Calculate data, collect funds, and do year-end accounting...

Even if you are not a civilian logistics staff, don't expect to have an easy time at this time.

Not to mention Brandy, who is the head of the logistics team.

With this calculation, there is only one core cadre left who can be sent to deal with this matter.

Transfer Rum over for intelligence support and let him investigate the matter.

It's a suitable profession, but what's the difference between this and leaving a alive and kicking prey in front of a hungry beast?

Karasuma Renye had no doubt that he would succeed as long as he dared to transfer Rum over.

The news of Rum's death was received at noon that day.

A thorough death, the kind that will be 100% turned into dust and scattered into ashes.

And his adopted son would certainly reply to him with confidence that Rum is no longer a core cadre, and transferring him here is a tacit consent.

Although Rum is now only a basic tool in Karasuma Renya's heart, Rum is still needed to balance the intelligence team.

He also didn't intend to hand the person over so quickly.

So, after much selection, it was finally Vermouth who received the task.

Karasuma Soshin already knew about this, but he did not intend to tell Gin about his mission in detail.

After the coffee and corresponding meals were served, the cafe clerk returned to the front desk.

Amid the elegant and lyrical music, Karasuma Soshin picked up the steaming coffee but did not drink it.

A mist with a strong smell of coffee slowly rose up, hiding his now light blue eyes behind it.

"Find Vodka first. Gin left him a clue."

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(Not related to the main text, just for fun)

Mini-theater 1: Main World Card-drawing Movie-Gin's Weakness (VI)

Knowing this earlier is priceless. Yueyawan’s only feeling at this moment is regret.

He really regretted it, regretting why he chose to take a day off today and wear these shoes.

If he had known that he would encounter such a nosy external consciousness and expose him, he would definitely choose other shoes.

Even those pairs of shoes that match the police uniforms and are so ugly.

On the black side,

The members of the Black Organization, led by Rum, all looked unhappy.

After all, no one would feel good if they were mocked like this.

Vodka, who had been so confident before, huddled quietly aside, not daring to say a word, and only dared to glance at Gin furtively.

Chianti, who was hot-tempered and heartless, started to quarrel with Yueyawan who was sitting on the red team.

When she found that the other party didn't even glance at her, she became even more furious.

If it weren't for the spatial constraints, she would definitely show that kid some of my power.

Chianti was thinking indignantly, but Vermouth poured hot oil on the fire at the right time.

"Well, Chianti, they didn't mention you by name, so why do you have to take it personally?"

This tactic of provoking is quite effective for Chianti.

But before she could get angry again, Gin, who had been silent all this time, spoke up:

"Chianti, shut up."

A trace of pity flashed across Vermouth's eyes.

On the red side seat,

Toru Amuro kept thinking about the information about the first place in the professional group, but when he recalled the information in recent years, he did not find any that matched.

Conan became more and more convinced that the relationship between Gin and Getsugamaru was unusual, and Akai Shuichi confirmed that the weakness of Gin mentioned in the card was Getsugamaru who was currently sitting in the red seat.

Amidst everyone's different thoughts, the content on the screen continued to play.