Chapter 862 The Missing Black Feather Robber
“Beep—Beep——”
As the sound from the receiver continued to lengthen, the phone number of “Escape King” was found. Araki's originally relaxed expression slowly turned serious.
A moment later, as the dialing time limit was reached, the phone jumped to the automatic answering machine.
Obviously, the possibility of contacting the escape king by phone is very slim.
"Ah, he's probably on the way already." Hamano Toshiya didn't care, and waved his hand, "I'm sure he won't be at home when he goes out, so we'll have to wait for a while. Before that, let's have some fun by ourselves. "
"Well, everyone, you can go to your room to prepare the bed. I don't come to the villa here very often. Although the guest room has been cleaned, you still need to get the daily necessities and decorate them yourself. "Aragi hung up the receiver, and the subtle uneasiness in his heart disappeared as the monotonous tone disappeared, "My helper Sukam and I went to prepare dinner."
We came from Tokyo. The road is indeed not easy to walk, and the weather today is average. It is not a big problem and has little impact on the activities.
"Wouldn't it be hard for two people to prepare meals for so many people?" Mao Lilan blinked and considered whether he should go to the kitchen to help.
"No problem. Many of the ingredients have been processed in advance. Just make them briefly and it will be ready soon." Huang Yi waved his hands indifferently, "The chairman is not here, so I will be the main organizer. As a human being, of course I must fulfill these obligations.”
Mao Lilan was still hesitating, but Suzuki Sonoko had already grabbed her hand and pulled her up without any explanation: "Okay, let's go, Xiaolan, we can live in the same house today..."
Now this There are a total of 6 men in the house. Except for Karasawa and Toru Amuro who are her acquaintances, the other few people make her feel very uncomfortable. She now wants to seize the time to escape from these people.
Toru Amuro untied the scarf around his neck. From the corner of his eye, he noticed that Karasawa started chatting with several other people attending the party. He immediately adjusted the expression on his face and put on the not sincere expression. smile.
Since the imposter matter has not been clarified, he now wants to speak as a disciple of the magic user, and it is necessary to know more about this group of people before his secret is exposed.
How should I put it? Even if today’s gathering is indeed a matter of Suzuki Sonoko’s impromptu initiative and short notice, and Karasawa said that he ran to the Metropolitan Police Department, in fact, he just came back from another direction in Tokyo. It is impossible. Anticipating the current itinerary, he still instinctively became alert, feeling that there might be something going on at this gathering.
It's not that he doesn't trust Tang Ze, on the contrary, it's that he trusts Tang Ze too much.
Tang Ze does not fight unprepared battles at all. Basically, in any incident he takes great pains to participate in, there will be more or less problems, and only a few people will survive.
He himself, who knew nothing about this, should still have the vigilance of an intelligence officer and pay close attention to the situation of this group of people in this building.
Watching Toru Amuro walking away with high spirits, Karasawa no longer pretended to participate in the chat, but moved slowly and slipped to the window on the first floor without leaving a trace. , and stood together with the Doi Tucker tree, which was leaning on the window edge with a bored look on its face.
Seeing Karasawa's expression that was a bit unbeatable, Kuroba Kaito wanted to roll his eyes, but in the end he took a step closer and said a sentence from the corner of his mouth: "Why did you come here? Those two A girl, and that dark-skinned conspirator came with me... Aren’t you tired?”
To this day, although Kuroba Kaito cannot say that he knows the whereabouts of the Phantom Thieves of the Heart, he still has some idea of their general movements.
Because when these strange thieves were chatting and talking nonsense, they had no intention of avoiding him.
Phantom Thief Line is a communication software specially developed by Noah's Ark for the Phantom Thieves. The network used is a special cognitive enhanced version specially provided by Noah. Even if the mobile phone has no network at all, it can still work as usual. Discover After realizing this, Kuroba Kaito couldn't help but pay attention to their group chat.
Theoretically, since there is a group with him as an outside member, they must also have their own internal group, but as their number increases day by day, there are also people like Kyosuke Haga who only With the appearance of half-staffed members, it was inevitable that Kidd's group would naturally develop into a casual chat group.
So, Kidd not only roughly knew that this group of people went to a certain suburban mansion to commit a crime, oh no, to "correct the hidden evil", but he also knew that after the incident, the people in the group There is another new person, I wonder if they picked it up again.
Who would have thought that when he prepared his disguise according to his wishes and came to the party with the narrow-minded mood of teasing a little girl, preparing to perform a trick, he was caught off guard and saw Tang Ze's face, and couldn't help but instinctively feel pain in his liver.
Damn it, before meeting the people in the Phantom Thieves, X-alloy was obviously a very rare thing, and he never thought that one day things would evolve into someone chasing him with gold nuggets all day long, asking for him Speed up the progress and figure out where his father is as soon as possible...
Obviously everyone pays the money and delivers the goods, why do you act like you are Party A...
"Why am I so tired? I am very energetic. As you know, I have a special constitution." Tang Ze also had a calm expression on his face, and turned his head to talk to Doi Tucker Tree as if naturally. But it's very playful.
Kuroba Kaito finally rolled his eyes after holding it in for a long time.
He didn't know very well what the Phantom Thieves of Heart were about, but Tang Ze, who could distinguish X alloy with the naked eye, was definitely not an ordinary person. Ordinary people couldn't do those shocking operations, so he still had this special physique. It's really hard to argue with that.
"I just followed them around. You know, there are always many things around Detective-kun that I can't refuse." Karasawa shrugged, "It's you, why are you hanging out in a group of magician enthusiasts? You came here specially to attend some kind of party, in disguise. Why, there are treasures you are interested in here too?”
Hearing this question, Kuroba Kaito blinked twice and quickly covered his face. With a look on his face, he said calmly: "What else could it be because of? There aren't many things that interest me."
Tang Ze, who knew in advance that the party was tricky, sorted out his interpersonal relationships in his mind.
The original intention of this party was indeed an offline gathering of netizens, but some of them came with different intentions, for the sake of the older generation magician who died during the performance. elder.
Kuroba Kaito's purpose of coming to participate should be similar to this person. As the son of Kuroba Toichi, he also knows a lot of seniors in the industry, but the distance between them is slightly different.
But now that Kuroba Kaito has said so, then he came here not just to see why the deceased senior’s online account became active again, but...
< br>Tang Ze, who was thinking quickly, quickly came to a rather subtle conclusion. "Do you want to pay attention to your father's news in these online groups? Or do you think your father's situation is related to the magic industry?" Tangze tilted his head, although he used the question sentence, but in fact the answer to this question has been anticipated.
Kuroba Kaito chose to inherit his father's mantle and became a magician and a phantom thief. Over the years, although he looked cool and arrogant, he was active under the eyes of the police and brought everyone together. He acted like a carefree lawless maniac, but hidden beneath these appearances, he himself was not having an easy life.
He has many identities, but only Kuroba Kaito, an ordinary high school student, is his own life. Apart from that, he is confused by the mystery of his father's fake death and disappearance, and chases him all day long. Among the shadows that will turn back.
Kaitan Kidd is far from being as unrestrained as he appears.
“After all, my father’s public identity is a world-renowned magician, and he faked his death and escaped during a world-famous performance. I will always pay attention to things in related circles. Outside this circle, After so many years, no one will continue to pay attention to his situation." Kuroba Kaito turned his head, looked at the thin frost on the grass outside the window, and narrated plainly, "And, you know, there is a part. The X-alloy is indeed in the hands of the magician."
Although he has never come into contact with the famous magic master, the case of Kuroyukimoto Yasu has indeed inspired Kuroba Kaito a lot, especially Tang. Ze reminded him at that time that X alloy, as a metal with special radiation or force field, has an impact on human consciousness. It can be used to make magic props with twice the result with half the effort.
Later, he secretly tried to understand the teachings of Tang Ze's parents. Based on his own experience, he felt that the opposite might be true.
It just so happened that he really needed more professional people to confirm these things. Now that he met the lingering Tang Ze, he might as well ask again.
Kuroba Kaito considered his words and talked about what he had gained from X-alloy these days. Karasawa held his chin and listened patiently without saying a word, slowly thinking about the possibilities.
"...So, what you mean is that you are more inclined to believe that X alloy is actually a special man-made metal." Karasawa concluded, "Utensils not made of this alloy are more likely to attract people. Attention, but because magicians have used these specialty props for many years and used them to complete too many successful deceptions, giving these artifacts specialness in a conceptual sense?"
"Yes. That's what I think." Kuroba Kaito snapped his fingers and tapped Tang Ze's collar.
When Karasawa was a joker, this was where the K-shaped brooch on his scarf was.
"The piece in your hand may be a bit special, but you also know their origins for the others. Just like those of your parents, doctrines? Or concepts? In short, it is the same as described by those mysterious things. It may be more Close to a 'crystallization of cognition', rather than an existing exact product."
"Well, it makes sense..." Tangze pondered this somewhat new perspective and nodded slowly.
Others don’t know it, but Tangze knows very well that the world he lives in is different from the normal real world. In this world, the boundary between cognition and reality has been broken. The bottom of the subway is probably no longer there at all. What secret treasure of the collective subconscious exists.
If X Alloy and the Holy Grail are indeed products of the same nature, then since the Holy Grail is likely to have been broken, then maybe the truth should be that the broken Holy Grail has already been integrated into the world. With the changes in people's cognition , the surge of thoughts appears in this world in different forms.
If the cognitive fraud created by magicians has a similar effect, then there will be an explanation for the famous magician Kuroba Toichi being targeted by an organization and then suddenly disappearing during the performance. .
"Maybe your father's 'Shenyin' is really related to my father's research." Tang Ze said thoughtfully.
"...Huh? You don't want to say that my father's inexplicable disappearance is caused by your father, right?" Kuroba Kaito's mouth twitched twice, "This world is really... "Is there such a bloody development?"
"Of course not." Tang Ze gave him a particularly obvious eye roll, "What are you thinking about?" , but he is not the inventor, it is a phenomenon first, followed by research and explanation. What I mean is that your father's situation may not be simply to avoid his enemies and fake his death, or he may have suffered some accident, so that there is no news until now. , He, maybe..."
Tang Ze lowered his head hesitantly and glanced at the program on his phone.
There, the logo of the Omniscient Eye of Different World Navigation is eye-catching and shining.
"Maybe, he just really can't come back, rather than not wanting to come back."
"...I also hope that what you said is true." Kuroba Kaito curled his lips and pushed the window open. He opened a gap, felt the chill coming from there, and whispered, "If dad really can't come back, I can forgive him a little. It's too much, in front of a child..."
Karazawa paused, raised his hand, and patted Kuroba Kaito's shoulders comfortingly after being disguised.
He can somewhat understand the other party's complicated mood.
If Black Feather Robber is actually able to move freely and contact his family and children, but for some strange reasons he has avoided seeing him for many years and has no news at all, what will happen to those who have worked hard for so many years to investigate the truth about his disappearance? For Kuroba Kaito, it was actually a blow.
Kuroba Kaito has not been active as Phantom Thief Kid for a long time, but he actually lacks neither skills nor psychological quality, and is already a top Phantom Thief far beyond industry standards.
If there is really something about him that is immature, it is that his heart does not belong to the Phantom Thieves. Although he is equally playful and witty, and also hopes to play some fancy tricks, his heart is far stronger than that of the previous generation. Kaitou Kidd needs to be soft but also firm.
I didn’t come here to be a thief, I came here to save my father...
Thinking of this, Karasawa patted Kuroba Kaito’s shoulder and back again.
“You’ve made all kinds of preparations anyway, right? Little things, the best way to eliminate fear is to face it, right, red herring?”
"Huh? Hey, I already told you that's not what I meant by this name! How on earth do you know me... and how did you learn English? Red herrings are escape props used to confuse hounds' sense of smell. By extension In order to divert focus and attention, in the magic world, this is a special technique and a type of prop, okay? What's your expression? Hey, don't laugh, Tang Ze——!"
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