"Why is it a shogi game?" Bourbon asked with a strong head and raised his hand.
This meeting is an intelligence feast for undercover agents. Regardless of the tit-for-tat confrontation between the two forces or the content mentioned in the meeting, they are all valuable.
"Unknown at the moment."
Rum looked at the position of Bourbon. There were only two people separated from Brandy. No matter how he looked at it, they were the latter's absolute confidants. Was he being instructed to speak out at this time?
"I know."
When he was doubtful, Asakura added leisurely.
"Because Pandora was given to him by one of his shogi player friends before he died. The purpose of holding the chess tournament is to find an owner for the gem who is not inferior to that friend in terms of shogi skills."
"You know a lot." Lampi smiled as he was robbed of the conversation.
"I can't help it. Who made Kiel my subordinate? It makes sense to conduct an exclusive interview afterwards." Asakura did not hide it, and simply shared the source and content of the intelligence.
However, his generous performance was undoubtedly extremely annoying in Rum's eyes.
"By the way, his shogi player friend's name is Haneda Koji."
As soon as the name came out, Rum's face completely stiffened.
It was because of this person that he was caught and exiled to Africa. Now he finally came back with the help of "cocoon" technology, but this name appeared in front of him again - it was too much of a coincidence.
"If you know, then it's up to you to explain it to us."
Rum was startled. He suspected that the coincidence in front of him might be a trap set by Brandy, with the purpose of repeating the impeachment against him in previous years. With this thought, he decided to wait and see what happened, take a look at Brandy's actions and then consider how to deal with it.
"Let me tell you, is it okay?" Asakura glanced around all the members around the conference table, taking in all their expressions at the moment, either vigilant or reverent, and each person had their own plans hidden in their hearts. .
After a moment, he laughed happily: "Then I will do it."
"First of all, sort out the timeline. Almost sixteen years ago, on the eve of leaving for the United States, Haneda Koji gave Pandora, which he obtained through unknown means, to the gem collector in the show, and then died in the United States."
"Maybe while giving away the gems, Haneda Koji said something to the collector, which caused him to link Haneda Koji's death to the group of gem hunters."
"Over the years, he has been secretly pursuing it, but the harvest is slim. After all, the group of gem hunters disappeared for some reasons in the past few years. By the way, some cadres who joined later did not know about this, so I will briefly explain it. , some of the reasons here refer to me.”
In order to integrate the underground world order of the island country, those animals were the inevitable nails in the process, and Asakura Shin went to remove them.
With this casual tone, the expressions of the people present changed in several ways.
"Now, they are active again. The reason is temporarily unknown. I only know that their strength has grown a lot."
"And their reactivation coincided with the mysterious disappearance of Haneda Hideyoshi some time ago. This seemed to allow the collector to grab a clue. He confirmed that the murderer who killed Haneda Koji was now targeting his family. The chess game was just It’s an attractive guise, but the real purpose is to avenge your friends.”
Asakura really talked about a series of things.
"You mean, everything is just a coincidence?" Rum didn't believe it. Suspicious people never believed in coincidences.
"Of course it's just a coincidence, because Haneda Hideyoshi is in my hands." Asakura Makoto dropped another bombshell news.
The emergence of this news almost confirmed Rum's speculation that all this was a trap set by Brandy, but he then thought that if this was a trap, then there was no need for Brandy to say it now.
"The reason for arresting him?" After thinking about it, he still wanted to test it more.
"He is the adopted son of the Haneda family, and his true identity is Akai Hideyoshi." At this point, Asakura looked at where Gin was. Seeing that he had no special reaction, he shrugged and continued, "There is an undercover agent right under his nose. My family, if I don’t catch it, I feel a little sorry for the door-to-door service.”
Under Asakura Makoto's tireless smear campaign, Gin's insistence on Akai Shuichi was much less, and there were so many shameful gangsters who failed to use relatives and friends, which was really a bit embarrassing.
What's more, now that he has become a child... Gin will not be soft-hearted towards children, but to specifically beat and torture opponents who are less than his waist height - it is even more embarrassing.
Rum couldn't figure out the purpose of the brandy.
He observed Asakura's demeanor, trying to find any trace of lying, but there was no trace... The rationality of licking blood in the underground world told him that Brandy should not lie, but the failed sensibility bang bang The ground beat, reminding him of his tragic defeat at the hands of Brandy...
It is natural that the loser cannot see the winner's flaws.
In fact, the organization does not need Pandora urgently. The gem that can make people live forever sounds dreamy, but in reality it is just a hot potato in the hand.
The condition for using this gem is a comet, and a comet... is not something that can be summoned at any time. In other words, in the period before the comet comes, whoever gets Pandora will lose it. , whoever will be attacked by the group.
This truth is something that all smart people would like to understand.
But... just because you can imagine it doesn't mean you can endure it.
The area that Rum is responsible for is using "cocoons" to free humans from their sick bodies and allow their consciousness to live in a virtual world - something that sounds beautiful, but is actually not as useful as imagined.
The consciousness lives in the virtual world, and the real body will still age. Only people like Boss, whose bodies have stopped natural aging, can stay in the virtual world forever.
And this is also the limit that Rum can reach.
Compared with reality, the virtual world is not perfect. The novelty may make people immersed in it when it is first born, but over time, the novelty fades away and the desire for reality becomes more intense.
But it is not easy to make further progress in the virtual world: more refined modeling, more perfect programs, more advanced hardware, etc... These things cannot be solved by finding a group of engineers to work behind closed doors.
If you want to improve, you must either gather the wisdom of countless people over time; or find a genius and use the power of Ke Xue... Unfortunately, this genius lives in the hands of Asakura Makoto Live a fulfilling and peaceful life.
The research has reached a bottleneck, and knowing that he may not be Brandy's opponent, the choice Rum can make is very limited - seize Pandora's Stone and give it to the boss.
