In the ward, just when Kudo Yusaku wanted to get up and prepare to leave, Bai Herui's cell phone placed aside suddenly rang.
A small vibrating sound rang in the room. Bai Herui looked at the caller ID on his mobile phone with a slightly stern look, as if this call was not among his predictions.
But in the end, he did not show any further intelligence, picked up the phone and answered the call.
"Master Rui..."
On the phone was the voice of the old butler of the Karasuma family. His voice was trembling, as if something extremely terrifying had happened to him.
"What happened?" Bai Herui frowned slightly and asked in a confused tone.
In his memory, this was the first time he had seen such a panicked attitude from the old housekeeper.
"Yes, it's the head of the family..." The old housekeeper just said these few words, and his tone was so stumbling that he could no longer speak.
And just these few words gave Bai Herui a bad feeling in his heart.
"What's wrong with him?" His voice gradually became colder, and he asked again.
On the side, Kudo Yusaku, who had originally planned to leave, heard this and watched this reaction, which was very rare for Bai Herui, with a curious expression.
【What happened? 】
"The head of the family... died of illness..." Even through the phone, he felt the pressure from Bai Herui, and the housekeeper finally said these words with difficulty.
Karasuma Renye passed away from illness.
When Bai Herui heard this, his pupils shrank suddenly.
In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and various speculations and ideas emerged and then disappeared.
"when?"
"It's less than an hour, Master Rui, I..."
"Well, I understand."
Without letting the housekeeper continue, Bai Herui interrupted him.
After the initial shock, the expression on his face had returned to normal, and he said calmly:
"This matter is no small matter, but I still have some things to deal with right now. When I come back, you can tell me what happened in detail.
Now, you go as soon as possible to inform your mother and Xiaoying that they are back. Before that, you must control all the people who know about it, block the news, and don't spread it. I don't need to teach you what to do specifically. Do you understand? "
Renye Karasuma died of illness.
This was completely out of his plan. Due to his extremely keen intuition, Bai Herui felt something strange in his heart the moment he heard the news.
Why at this point in time?
He didn't have any too sad emotions in his heart. After all, in Bai Herui's memory, his grandfather had always been the representative of coldness and seriousness, a creature of pure profit to the extreme. There was not too much depth between the two. emotions.
Therefore, Bai Herui was more surprised and surprised by Karasuma Renye's death, but not too sad.
The thinking pattern he had developed over a long period of time also allowed him to quickly get rid of this emotion after a brief shock.
After all, although Renye Karasuma is gone, the Karasuma Group is still there.
Xiaoying is the heir to the Karasuma Group designated by Renye Karasuma during her lifetime. At this critical moment, she must come back as soon as possible, and her mother and Jing must also inform them of the news.
As for whether there was something fishy in Renya Karasuma's death, and a series of things that should be done after that, although these are also important, Shirakawa Rui has other things that must be done at the moment.
"Yes, yes..." Bai Herui's calm tone seemed to restore the old butler's calmness. He nodded over the phone and said:
"Master Rui, please come back as soon as possible. I won't be able to hold you down for too long on my own..."
"Ok, I know."
After a simple reply, Bai Herui hung up the phone.
He put down his phone, quickly adjusted his mood, and then looked at Kudo Yusaku who was still sitting next to the hospital bed.
"Xiao Rui, what happened?" Kudo Yusaku asked first.
Bai Herui's phone call with the old housekeeper just now gave him some guesses, but at the same time Bai Herui's extremely calm expression made him unsure...
"Uncle Kudo, you should have a communicator on you, right?" However, Bai Herui did not answer him, but asked instead.
His tone was still as calm as water, but it made the hearts of Kudo Yusaku and the FBI agent listening in his earphones jump.
Obviously, they all know what the "communicator" Bai Herui refers to.
"Let's turn it off for now. What I'm going to say next involves the internal affairs of the Karasuma family. It's not convenient for outsiders to know about it at the moment."
Before Kudo Yusaku could answer, Shirakawa Rui spoke again.
He didn't give Kudo Yusaku a chance to refuse. While talking, he quickly sent a text message with the content "Thirty seconds" to a certain number on his mobile phone, then opened the cabinet drawer nearby and took out an interference device, turn on the switch.
In an instant, Kudo Yusaku only felt a buzzing sound from the earphones hidden in his ears, and his communication with the FBI was cut off.
"I just got the news that the head of the family passed away from illness."
The kind and gentle attitude before was completely gone, Bai Herui suddenly said.
To be honest, the tone of his voice now is not much different from before, but maybe the way he speaks has changed, so it gives people a completely different feeling.
Before the butler's phone call, Bai Herui did not show any aggression or dominance in his words, so he gave people the impression of being very talkative and gentle.
After this phone call, although Bai Herui's tone did not change much, the content of his words became obviously tougher. In just a few sentences, he did not give Kudo Yusaku any room to choose or think. .
In the blink of an eye, he went from the nephew "Rui" in Kudo Yusaku's words to the helmsman of the Karasuma Group for the past ten years.
"This news surprises me."
Bai Herui didn't care about Kudo Yusaku's inner thoughts. He lowered his head slightly, looked at the small tea table in front of him, and said slowly:
"Because this timing is too coincidental."
"What a coincidence?"
Kudo Yusaku keenly caught the flaw in his words, which was not a flaw, and suddenly frowned.
After hearing the news of Karasuma Renya's death, Kudo Yusaku's first reaction was only surprise, but Shirakawa Rui would actually say "coincidence"?
Why does he think this way? What prompted him to make this judgment?
For a moment, an ominous premonition surged rapidly in Kudo Yusaku's heart.
However, this time, Bai Herui had no intention of explaining at all. He turned to look at Kudo Yusaku and asked very directly:
"Uncle Kudo, please tell me, did you do this?"
"Xiao Rui, you..."
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Kudo Yusaku was stunned for a moment.
With a bang in his mind, he suddenly understood the true meaning of the "coincidence" in Bai Herui's words.
He looked at Bai Herui in disbelief and asked, "Are the things you said to me before all lies?"
If he goes by his previous guess, Shirakawa Kiyoshi is Regel, the Karasuma family is the force behind the organization, and Renye Karasuma, the head of the Karasuma family, is most likely the one who has never shown up in the organization. Mysterious boss.
If we take this as a benchmark, then the big phone call that Bai Herui had with him just now turned into a wonderful performance to deceive him and the FBI, so as to clear the name of the Karasuma family and his parents.
If this is the case, it can perfectly explain Bai Herui's meaning of "coincidence".
After all, I had just planned to clear my family's name. As the organization's biggest villain, Renya Karasuma, who had not been captured by the FBI, suddenly died of illness with such a secret?
How could such a coincidence happen in this world?
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(End of chapter)
