At the same time, a group of people were holding a meeting in a conference room at the Manila Police Headquarters in Ten Thousand Islands County. But unlike Gordon's twenty-minute speed breakup meeting, the atmosphere in the conference room at this moment can be described as "dignified".
The initiator and host of the meeting is Kuriyama Hashio, who is from the Kuriyama family and is currently the deputy director of the Southeast Asia branch of iOS. Judging from the genetic relationship, he is the second brother of Kuriyama Shinkei, the contemporary patriarch of the Kuriyama family, and the second uncle of Kuriyama Yoshiko.
The second son of the Li family made his first appearance on the night of September 3rd when he took over the task of tracking down the whereabouts of the missing former guard - Caiflin Alice from Kim Valariello. It is now the third day of searching. Kuriyama Kashio and his men have searched several cities along the Manila Bay, but still found nothing.
Of course, we all know that Caiflin was taken away from Wandao County by Wei Nan and Master Lu long ago. No matter how hard Kuriyama Baixiong searched the mountains and seas on Luzon Island, it was just a matter of chance.
But Kuriyama Kashio himself doesn’t know this, so he is currently in the conference room and furious:
"Three days! Three days have passed! Why haven't we found it yet?"
"Did UMS get laid off and stop working? No! As soon as Cavelin Alice shows up in the city, the surveillance network should detect her immediately! Tell me! Is it because the people in your network surveillance department are not doing things well? Missed it Did you get the signal from the optical brain?"
"And you guys from the Anti-Chacha Division! There are many blind spots around Manila Bay where there is no network surveillance and UMS has no place to operate, so a lot of manpower is needed to investigate! You are not slacking off for me, are you?!"
Kuriyama Kashio, who lost his mind, had no regard for face and logic, and was madly engaging in self-contradictory spiels; several key personnel of the iOS Southeast Asia branch were also silently enduring his anger. After all, after Hardy Hurd's death, Deputy Minister Kuriyama Kashio became the biggest boss of the entire branch. At the same time, he was also the only ghost-level ability user in the department, so he naturally spoke with confidence.
It is not difficult to understand Kuriyama Kashio's anger. It was simply because he had a premonition that his wishful thinking would most likely fail. Originally, Kuriyama Kashiwao was very ambitious and planned to take advantage of the infighting within the Chapman family to capture the lost sheltered Cavelyn Alice. Once this wanted criminal is brought to justice, he will have the witness to impeach Hardy Hurd for seeking power for personal gain and having improper transactions with Terry Chapman. It will be easy to take down this official minister.
Although the plan could not keep up with the change, Hardy Hurd died on the beach of Manila Bay without any explanation, and the stumbling block that blocked Kuriyama Kashio's rise to the top was strangely removed. After learning the news, Kuriyama Kashio was naturally overjoyed, but he felt that he should seriously investigate the truth behind Hardy Hurd's death. This is definitely not because Kuriyama Kashio cares about the friendship between his colleagues, but because he believes that the cause of his boss's death must be found out by his own family, so that it can be justified. Otherwise, if the iOS headquarters directly parachuted a high-ranking official to investigate the case, and then he would be directly appointed as the branch director after the case was revealed, wouldn't he have wasted a great opportunity?
Kuriyama Kashio is a typical person who has no shortage of small cleverness but zero great wisdom. He had no experience in solving crimes. After a rough understanding of what happened before Hardy Hurd's death, he boldly and firmly concluded that the murderer of the minister must be Cavelyn Alice!
His analysis was as follows: the minister and Catherine knew each other; the minister’s death occurred in Manila Bay, and Catherine happened to be there at the time; after the minister’s death, Catherine also disappeared. What is this called? Flee in fear of crime! That’s it! The murderer is her!
It cannot be said that Kuriyama Kashio's logic is far-fetched. At least 80% of the people in the iOS Southeast Asia branch agree with this hypothesis and list Cavelin Alice as the number one suspect. But now, Kuriyama Kashio deeply regrets that he should not have categorically affirmed Kai
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Flynn is the murderer. Because the latter disappeared without leaving any clues, Kuriyama Kashio's dream of solving the case in a short period of time came to nothing; and his previous heroic words of "I will not stop until I catch Kevlin" were too full. If you try to give up at this time, even if you slap him in the face like crazy, this approach will appear to be too mean. You will definitely not escape the fate of being criticized by your subordinates, saying that you are eating Hardy Hurd's human blood steamed buns.
The reason why he takes food appearance into consideration is because Kuriyama Kashio has plans to work hard in Southeast Asia. This does not mean that he is "happy here but does not miss the cherry blossoms", but Kuriyama Kashio knows in his heart that his eldest brother will probably not give him the chance to return to his homeland.
Like the Chapman family, thirteen years ago, the Kuriyama family entrenched in the Kanto area of Sakura County also ushered in a struggle among the heirs. However, this internal fight was not an evenly matched contest. Kuriyama Shinkei easily defeated his two younger brothers, Kuriyama Kashio and Kuriyama Hatyo, and after taking control of the power, he "exiled" these two people. The Kuriyama family.
Although Kuriyama Kashio is now very arrogant and can scold all his subordinates like the third grandson, when Hardy Hurd was still alive, Kuriyama Kashio was just an unemployed and marginalized figure, and his subordinates were only interested in There is an errand-like respect in it. This kind of situation where the father does not care for the mother and does not love the mother also happened to Kuriyama Kyuyo.
Because he had been sitting on the bench in the iOS Southeast Asia branch, Kuriyama Kashio was sitting on the bench, and he actually survived two ministers, and pushed himself from the tiger level to the ghost level, and was promoted to deputy minister. And because he had no share in missions and meritorious services, and the corresponding work-related injuries and deaths had nothing to do with him, Kuriyama Kashio lived peacefully for thirteen years.
If Kuriyama Kashio is a salty fish who regards "laying flat" as his life creed, then he has undoubtedly been very successful. But it is a pity that Kuriyama Kashio is an ambitious man. He knows that he may never be his elder brother's opponent, so he decided to create a new world elsewhere.
How could Kuriyama Kashio not be angry when he saw that the position of the powerful leader of the iOS Southeast Asia branch that he longed for day and night was about to fly away? How not to be annoyed? There was nothing he could do about it, so he had to continue to use his subordinates as a punching bag.
After about ten minutes, Kuriyama Kashio finally got tired of scolding and stopped to rest and prepare to score twice later. While he was taking a drink of water to catch his breath, a squadron leader named Eiji Kataoka of the Anti-Chacha Division spoke in time:
"Minister Kuriyama, please calm down. I know you are so angry because you are eager to avenge the former minister, but in my opinion, there is no need to rush into capturing Cavelin Alice. .”
"Oh, why?"
Kuriyama Kashio was listening carefully to Kataoka's opinions. Firstly, it was because the latter found a pretty good excuse for his irritability and rudeness, and to smooth things over for his gaffe; secondly, it was because of this Kataoka Eiji. The identity is not simple. He had been following Kuriyama Kashio since Sakura County, and he was a loyal veteran who never left him even if they were both exiled by the family. Therefore, Kuriyama Kashio could not accept what Eiji Kataoka said, but he would never not listen.
"Minister, you have also read the file and you know that Caiflin's nickname is Shadow Swordsman, and she can sneak into any shadow freely. If she relies on this method to avoid being traced by the UMS system, then her colleagues in the Network Supervision Department have no clues. , and it’s explained.”
"Well, indeed." Kuriyama Kashio nodded, admitting that what Kataoka said made some sense: "Well, since Cavelin is particularly good at hiding and escaping, how do we know her whereabouts?"
Kataoka Eiji lowered his head deeply, as if he didn't dare to look into Kuriyama Kashio's eyes: "Minister, my subordinates believe that even if they know the whereabouts of Caiflin, given the current conditions of the branch, it will be difficult to Arrest him."
As soon as these words were spoken, Kuriyama Kashio realized why Kataoka had lowered his head and pretended to be cowardly. It turned out that what he meant by this was that his fighting ability was at a loss.
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Not on the stage.
Kuriyama Kashio asked himself, Kataoka's words were really true. His superpowers were not combat-type abilities, and he had never practiced fists, kicks, swords, guns, swords or halberds in so many years. Since even Hardy Hurd was no match for Caiflin in a duel, if it were him, he would only be defeated faster and more unbearably.
Although there are several tiger-level and a dozen human-level soldiers in the ios Southeast Asia branch, as well as hundreds of well-trained ordinary soldiers, the probability of a group fight is not high for a target that is very capable of escaping, such as capturing Caiflin. Not much, only Kuriyama Kashio of the same level could catch up with her. In this case, it is another one-on-one unfavorable situation.
Kuriyama Kashio is just eager for power and will not lose his mind. His own safety must be the first priority. So he just said "hmm" to show that he knew how much he weighed and how heavy he was.
Kataoka Eiji suddenly felt relieved and raised his head again: "Boss Kuriyama, this line of Caiflin is already a dead end, so my subordinates thought, why not change the idea?"
"Change your thinking? What do you mean?" Kuriyama Kashio didn't understand Kataoka's hint, forcing the latter to explain it thoroughly in front of everyone.
"...Minister, we have been tracking down the first suspect, Caiflin, for the past two days, but if we think about it carefully, there is no direct or indirect evidence pointing to her."
Hearing this, Kuriyama Kashio's eyes lit up in an instant: "That's right! Kataoka, you are right, it made me suddenly enlightened!"
Kuriyama Kashio's body has a profound imprint of the rigid thinking that belongs to Sakuragun County. He is far from being as flexible as his fellow countryman Eiji Kataoka. He never thought that he could change the track. Anyway, Kuriyama Kashio just wants to be the detective who catches the murderer. He doesn't care who the murderer is. If that's the case, then why did he kill the hard-to-kill Kevlin who was the murderer? Aren't you asking for trouble?
What’s even better is that other hypotheses about Hardy Hurd’s death were put forward by Eiji Kataoka, an “outsider”, not him. Although this is just a fig leaf at best, it doesn't let that dirty thing be exposed after all, right?
"Okay, I decided to adopt Kataoka's suggestion and change our approach to handling the case." Kuriyama Kashio said hypocritically: "First, let's start checking the old minister's social relationships to see if anyone has any old grudges with him."
"clear!"
Everyone else in the room, without exception, secretly breathed a sigh of relief and rushed out of the conference room, leaving only Kuriyama Kashio still sitting in his original position.
"Hoo~~"
Kuriyama Kashio's mood finally returned to normal. Although it is still very difficult to change the target to take the blame, after all, Hardy Hurd himself is a ghost-level strong man, and the person who can kill him is definitely not someone Kuriyama Kashio can just find a cat or a dog to talk back to and settle the case. But after all, in terms of operating space, it is much more realistic than letting Kuriyama Kashio go shopping with Cavelin. The former's decision on this plan is also the next best thing.
"After I get the post of branch director, I will clean up the department and try to turn the ios Southeast Asia branch into my personal weapon." Although the position is not yet in his possession, Kuriyama Kashio is. I have already imagined what will happen after being promoted to an official position: "If the business goes well, will I return to the family within five years and snatch Kuriyama Shinkei's seat..."
Kuriyama Kashio, who had a huge appetite, could not imagine at this moment that the title of iOS Southeast Asia Branch Director that he longed for was "gifted" to him by his niece Kuriyama Yoshiko, asking Lu Yin.
And, it won’t be five years, it will be soon. Kuriyama Kashio met the "Return of the King" and returned to Osaka as a gift to the two people who gave him the official position.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. The price of the gift given by fate has already been secretly marked. At this time, Lu Yin, who was far away in Ying County, was already preparing to accept the repayment of Kuriyama Kashio with interest without the parties knowing anything about it.
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