As Toru Amuro walked in the base, she felt a little uncomfortable.

Although this place has always had a cold smell, today is different. Today... there seems to be a nervous and bloody smell in the air.

No...this is not an illusion...

Two members of the organization walked by carrying a gray bag. They lowered their heads, lowered their eyes, and did not make direct eye contact with anyone. Their faces were pale.

Tick.

Tick.

Red blood dripped from the bag and spread along the route they took, and the smell of rust continued to emit.

Amuro Toru's heart tightened suddenly, as if a big stone was pressing down on him. The blood was flowing rapidly in his blood vessels, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his palms.

Someone died?

Has an undercover agent been discovered?

He paused, his eyes drifted away from the bloodstains, and walked straight forward until he reached the gathering room.

A stronger smell of blood hit his face.

On the floor, a large amount of bright red liquid tells the story that a person died here not long ago after struggling painfully for a long time. Then the body was dragged out, and a clear bloody handprint can be seen on the leg of the table.

Two peripheral members were kneeling on the ground and wiping. Their faces were extremely pale, but their eyes showed a bit of numbness.

Toru Amuro turned away from looking at these people and asked the person next to him: "Do you know what happened this sudden summons?"

Next to him is a silver-haired woman named Curaçao, with eyes with different pupils and a somewhat foreign appearance. Toru Amuro has worked with her several times and knows that although this woman looks weak and charming, she is actually very skilled.

He is superb, very capable, and is Rum's confidant.

Curacao shook his head, then handed over a mask and said: "Put it on."

"mask?"

"Yes, there will be a lot of people today." Curacao said, but without any further explanation, after giving the mask to Tohru Amuro, he turned around and walked aside to sit down, obviously not wanting to pay attention to him.

Toru Amuro was also used to her expressionless look. When he saw the situation, he said nothing more, put on his mask, and leaned aside to wait while analyzing everything that had just happened from the clues in the room.

There were gradually more people in the room - gin, Belmode, kiel, vodka, Ireland, Chianti...

Some people he knew, and he knew their identities even though they were wearing masks, not to mention some people--such as Chianti or Gin--who had no intention of hiding them at all.

But there are more people who are very unfamiliar. From their body shape to the way they walk, there is no familiar element. Some of them even seem to have not undergone any training. Amuro Toru is very sure that he has never seen those people at the base before. Obviously,

These people are different from the action personnel. They probably have normal, ordinary identities in society. Some of them may even be high-level officials in the government, so even formal members of the organization cannot easily know their identities.

When everyone saw the bloodstains, some walked over as if they didn't see anything, others paused for a moment and seemed to be observing, but no one asked anything in particular, and all the members showed an indifferent appearance.

Twenty or thirty people arrived one after another, almost all the chairs in the room were filled. At this moment, Toru Amuro suddenly realized: all the official members of the black organization in Tokyo - or most of them - should be in this room.

Inside.

Tohru Amuro had a sudden thought: If the police launched a raid at this time, how many crows could be caught?

But this is impossible.

Before coming in, he put down all the communication devices on his body, and he didn't bring any of the small props provided by the police that could record audio, video, or make emergency reports. Because Toru Amuro knew very well that even if he was suspected by the organization, he would still have

There is no chance to defend yourself. If you are found with something like that on your body, you will truly die without a burial.

Amuro Toru's heart was beating very fast. He pinched his palms to calm himself down as quickly as possible. At the same time, he silently observed the people present, especially those who covered their faces and felt strange.

——Among them...could...could there be one or two...even high-ranking police officers?

He looked at everyone with the utmost vigilance and suspicion, like a machine watching with cold eyes.

Some people were talking softly. It was obvious that they didn't know the reason why they were suddenly called. However, if the organization summoned so many people, something big must have happened. Everyone knew this in their hearts. Even if they waited for a long time, no one raised any questions.

He would complain about something or complain with a politeness that would put to shame those members who often get into fights in parliament.

Suddenly, there was a soft click, and all the sounds disappeared like waves at ebb.

A door on the side was opened, and two peripheral members carried a body bag and hurried out.

——How many people have been eliminated?

Everyone looked at each other, most of them feeling a little uneasy.

Then, two more men in black walked out of the side door. They turned on the projection of the room, and a black crow pattern suddenly appeared on the white curtain, and then turned into a dark room, with people sitting in the darkness.

people.

He was also wearing a mask, so everyone couldn't see clearly what he looked like. They couldn't even tell whether he was tall or short, fat or thin, or whether he was a boy or a girl. They could only hear a strange voice that had changed his voice and said: "Everyone, I am Rum."

"Today, the purpose of gathering you all is very simple - to hunt shadow cats!"

Then, a picture of a castle appeared on the screen, which was the Twilight Pavilion that had been constantly on the news in the past few days.

Rum slowly recounted what happened before——

Gold appears.

Organizational arrangements.

The process of intermediate transfer.

The somewhat weird Daoxiang Village.

Everyone’s activities during this period.

The gold and some jewelry mysteriously disappeared while the vehicle was driving.

The results of the subsequent investigation of the village and all those involved.

And... some clues discovered from the surveillance during the re-investigation.

A man walked leisurely in the corridors of the castle with his hands in his pockets, looking left and right, and occasionally reaching out to touch the walls, as if he was curious about everything.

He wore thin gloves on his hands. He seemed to be wearing a high school uniform, and he was carrying a backpack. He seemed to be a student visiting the castle. Even his exposed face was very young, as if he was a young man. She is fifteen or sixteen years old and even has some baby fat on her cheeks.

The boy was handsome and had bright eyes. Apart from the fact that he was wandering around in the middle of the night without turning on the lights, there seemed to be nothing special about him.

Just when everyone was thinking this, they suddenly saw the young man raising his head, as if he had just realized that there was a camera here. Everyone felt that his eyes were looking directly at them, as if the person on the screen could really see them.

The young man smiled, and his attitude was particularly calm. He jumped up on the window sill nearby, grabbed the window frame with one hand, and pointed to his forehead, which seemed to be an obscene salute. Then he fell back, as if he had jumped off the building. He disappeared from the window like a suicide.

Someone couldn't help but scream, as if they were worried that the young man would die from this.

"This is the only person who appeared in the castle after our layout was completed. What exactly he did in the Dusk Pavilion is still unknown, because this person avoided most of the cameras, and the only one who caught him was As you can see from the video just now, he seems to have been photographed by us on purpose."

"Is that boy the Shadow Cat?" A woman said: "I'm not doubting your judgment. It's just that in terms of age... he is too young and looks like a child. Even if he is related to the Shadow Cat , he should be just a peripheral member, right?"

"Don't look down on anyone just because of their appearance." Belmode said in a false voice: "As far as I know, even Gin suffered a loss at the hands of that young man just now! Right, Gin?"

Gin's eyes became even colder when his scars were uncovered in public: "Huh! I'll kill that guy sooner or later."

The silver-haired man didn't wear a mask, and just sat in the middle carelessly. Everyone subconsciously kept a distance from him, whether out of fear or awe.

"Whether he is related to Shadow Cat or not, you will know after watching the second video." Rum continued, and the member standing in front played the next video.

This video was very shaken, and it was obviously edited. It changed scenes three times in less than ten seconds.

"This is a picture taken by the mini cameras carried by all participating members before this operation, and the important parts have been cut out," Rum said later.

Everyone soon discovered that one person appeared in all the video clips - that is, the boy from before - mainly because he was marked with a red circle in every video clip. However, it was not possible to capture it every time. A complete person sometimes only has one arm, a back or a fleeting shadow.

The boy's dress in the video was different from before. At first, he was wearing a straw hat and plain clothes, standing next to a strange doll; in a later scene, the straw hat disappeared and turned into a blue one. Hat, sitting with a group of dolls at the waiting station, there seemed to be a smile on his face. After a few scenes flashed, the boy suddenly changed into black clothes and stood among the many members of the organization, without any sense of disobedience. , it seemed that no one else in the group noticed that there was an extra person beside him, and the young man stood together in perfect harmony with everyone.

Many members of criminal organizations suddenly felt a cold air rushing from the soles of their feet to Tianling Gai. Looking at the bright smile in the freeze-frame, goosebumps appeared all over their bodies!

this……

Is this some kind of supernatural story?!

Could it be that it was not humans who stole the gold, but ghosts?

Gin had murderous intent in his eyes.

Belmod smiled amusedly, his eyes lingering on the young face, as if he was looking for something.

Toru Amuro leaned forward involuntarily, staring at the video that had ended, puzzled - why? How on earth was it done?

He did not believe that all the members had betrayed at that time. The loyalty of those who could be taken by Rum to recover hundreds of billions of gold, even if they were peripheral members, was absolutely guaranteed.

But no one noticed the problem...

"Boss Rum, was one of the members cooperating with him to hide?" someone asked.

Rum said: "No, after investigation, no internal conspiracies were found among the members at the time."

"Is there not one?" Another person said: "Even if it is an internal agent, in order to save his life at this time, he will definitely not admit it! I think we still need to investigate more carefully."

"I'm pretty sure."

"All right……"

Everyone thought of the blood stains and body bags they saw when they entered the door, and understood a little bit, so they stopped asking questions.

Rum asked: "Bourbon, what do you think?"

Everyone looked over at once.

Amuro Toru thought for a while and then said cautiously: "If it weren't for someone's cooperation, I can only think of one possibility - he should have used a cover-up trick to constantly divert or deceive other people's attention... But this is better than that guy

It's even more incredible if it's a ghost. I can't imagine anyone in the world being able to do this. To hide it from the eyes of more than a dozen people requires not only extremely superb skills, but also incredible luck. To entrust such an important action to

By luck, it’s unlikely.”

After listening, many people present nodded silently.

Although this conjecture is still unbelievable, it does provide a possibility. After thinking carefully for a long time, everyone gradually recognized Toru Amuro's conjecture.

Because I can't think of a better explanation - it can't really be a ghost or invisibility, right?

Speaking of which, Kaitou Kidd seems to often play the same trick, suddenly appearing or disappearing in the eyes of the police. Have these guys who like to be Kaitou Kidd learned ninjutsu?

"No matter what tricks he played, we can ask him clearly after we catch the guy." Rum said: "The point is... after this video, he completely disappeared, even if it was a shoe or a finger

The tip was not even photographed. Less than ten minutes after the vehicle set off, the gold began to disappear."

During the subsequent interrogation, Rum learned that in fact, the member who took the initiative to report that "the car became lighter" was not the first to find something wrong. An experienced driver can easily detect the weight of the vehicle body from the state of acceleration and deceleration.

changes, not to mention the huge changes between full load and no load.

But after they found out, no one dared to speak out. It wasn't until the fool mentioned it that Rum discovered the problem.

But by this time it was too late, all the gold in the car was gone. The organization had never experienced such a heavy loss!

Shadowcat...Shadowcat!

Rum recited the name silently, gritting his teeth with hatred in his heart.

"Boss Rum, how much gold is missing?" Vodka asked curiously.

Rum was silent for a while, then he held back his heartache and replied: "At least seven or eight tons."

Suddenly there was a sound of breathing in the room.

Seven or eight tons of gold!

Then there must be hundreds of billions?

There are many rich people in the popular sense among the people here, but none of them have ever seen so much gold. Now they almost became the assets of the organization, but they were stolen by that guy???

Can't forgive!!!

"Seven or eight tons of gold disappeared while the vehicle was driving?" Toru Amuro asked, "Which section of the road was it on? Is there a mechanism on the road?"

"I sent someone to check, but no." A man in black in front replied. It seemed that he was one of the people responsible for the investigation.

"Then...did you encounter any special cars on the way? Maybe some mechanism was used to transfer to other cars while driving." Toru Amuro asked again.

"No, there were only a few cars that crossed paths with the organization's trucks, but we have investigated the car owners' information and found no problems. Of course, more detailed investigations are needed in the future."

"Then how did the gold get lost?" Someone spread his hands and said, "It's impossible that the gold grew wings and flew by itself, right?"

The man in black said calmly and without anger: "This is also a direction of our investigation."

He waved his hand, and soon a younger member came out with a lot of information, and each person was given one copy. Rum said: "All the details and investigation process are written in these materials, you can take them back."

Look slowly. Regarding the mysterious boy who appeared, the information that has been investigated so far is on page seven..."

"...Kurosawa Formation?" Someone turned to that page and said softly.

"Yes, he once called himself by this name, but it was most likely a fake name." The man in black glanced at Gin and saw that the silver-haired killer's face was so gloomy that it could drip.

Rum finally said: "I don't think I need to remind you of the organization's confidentiality requirements. The purpose of gathering everyone this time is very simple: first, to retrieve the gold; second, to find out the true identity of Shadow Cat or..."

"Kill him!"

…………………………

late at night.

Toru Amuro simply edited the contents of the black organization's meeting and sent it out. At the same time, he asked his subordinate Yuya Kazami to investigate a few people whose characteristics he remembered.

After finishing his work, he opened the information again.

Although Rum emphasized the need to keep it secret, everyone knew that the organization was about to be infiltrated by undercover agents from various countries. Since the news was known to dozens of people, it was only a matter of time before it spread.

Maybe the organization doesn't care about this either.

The boss and Rum should also want to use the power of all parties to find the traces of the Shadow Cat as soon as possible. It doesn't really matter who finds it, maybe because no matter who the opponent is, the organization is confident that they can get the gold.

After all, the winery's unscrupulous style will make it easier to achieve its goals than the intelligence organizations of various countries that are restricted by various rules and regulations.

——Except Shadowcat.

That guy is an existence that is even more deviant than the organization.

After reading the information over and over again more than a dozen times, Toru Amuro still didn't know how to pull off this trick, but he believed that there must be a way to do it - just like those magic tricks, it was so magical that it seemed like magic in the eyes of the audience.

Behind the performance, there is actually just a simple mechanism.

This must be the same!

but……

The investigation organized by the organization has actually been very detailed and complete. It can even detail every vehicle and the passengers in the vehicle that went up and down the mountain during that period, all the terrain, vegetation and buildings on the way down the mountain, the records of everyone in Daoxiang Village from birth, the organization and even

The road was blown up, and it turned out that there was no hidden passageway on the road.

They even considered the more outrageous aliens and ghosts. Some people went to the nearby area to look for witnesses of crop circles or flying saucers (they were defrauded by locals out of tens of thousands of yen), and others looked for

Come to the famous psychic master and wander around the mountain road to check the traces of the "eight million gods" passing by.

Toru Amuro:......

Just by looking at this information, he could imagine the scene of a group of demons dancing on that road.

But the organization has reached this point. Even Toru Amuro doesn't know what else to investigate now. But hundreds of billions of gold... If this gold is used by the country, how much can be done?!

The blond young man poured himself a large cup of black coffee without sugar, which was so bitter that it scared him away from sleep. He turned on the computer and started to check all the reports on the Dusk Pavilion during this period.

——It’s better to ask for leave from your part-time job tomorrow... If you go to the site and have a look, you might be able to find something...

As long as it is done, it will definitely leave traces. He can guess some clues about Kaito Kidd's performance, and the performance of Kaito Shadowcat is no exception...

Shadowcat…

Toru Amuro suddenly remembered the familiarity he had felt from Shadow Cat's video before.

No...it's just an illusion...

The undercover police officer stayed for a while, feeling confused. After a long time, he finally sent an email——
Chapter completed!