Chapter Twenty-Three: The Man in the Top Hat (I)

"Okay, the money has arrived," the man in the top hat replied, glancing at the balance on his phone, "that sculpture is made of combustible material, and when it is ignited, it will directly cause a spatial projection...... In addition, there is not only one such sculpture, and it is said that there are thirteen such sculptures in total, which were dropped along with the mysterious instruments that are now in Antarctica. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoAntarctica's mysterious instruments were broken, and thirteen sculptures were dropped around the world...... This auction item is the fifth of them, and the remaining seven have not yet been discovered," the man in the top hat said to Zhou Yuan as he walked, "By the way...... When ignited, this thing destroys everything within a radius of about five meters, which has the same effect as a spatial projection. So, remember to stay away from it when using it. ”

"Oh, yes......"

Zhou Yuan nodded, thinking about the sculpture he picked up. Although a few months have passed, I can still remember the general projection when I see it, and even the top hat man himself feels very familiar, but ...... However, Zhou Yuan has no impression of this sculpture at all.

If you set this sculpture on fire, you can tell with your toes that it is the human figure that is being summoned on the sculpture. If it is true as the man in the top hat said, then this sculpture is also one of the objects that Rentaro Okabe from the future sent back to the past from the future.

Rentaro Okabe probably didn't have the interest of making a statue of a beautiful girl and summoning a big man who picks his feet......

"Alright...... It's almost time. The next inspector is coming, and I have to report the anomaly now. Otherwise, I'm out of order," the man in the top hat took off the microphone pinned to the back of his top hat and put it to his lips, "inform your companions that tonight's operation is over here, evacuate." ”

"Anna-senpai."

Zhou Yuan then said.

"I hear you...... Evacuate now, Reinhardt. ”

After Zhou Yuan and Mikoto Misaka jumped out of the window where they had come before, the man in the top hat cleared his throat and pressed a button on the headset. Soon, a vague female figure appeared in the field of vision of the man in the top hat.

If Zhou Yuan was here, he would be able to recognize this person as the woman in the blurry video with Gilgamesh before.

"Major situation report, sorry for overstepping my authority to contact you urgently. I found a dozen members of our troops in hallways 1-14 and 1-5 of rooms, all stunned head-on. ”

"What about the enemy?"

Strange, electronically manipulated voices came from the indistinct female side.

"No clues were found related to the enemy...... It's possible that it has escaped. As for the situation of the soldiers, I haven't had time to check yet. ”

The man in the top hat replied.

"What about the losses?"

"Viewing ...... The boxes containing the auction items were turned over in a mess, and I don't know what was missing, but something must have been taken. ”

Zhou Yuan actually didn't leave at this time. Zhou Yuan and Mikoto Misaka were leaning against the wall outside the window of Zhou Yuan's room at this time, eavesdropping on the conversation between the top hat man and the top hat man's boss.

The man in the top hat did not betray himself a few people, but ...... From the words of the top hat man, it can be known that the top hat man is not completely honest with his own people.

First of all, the man in the top hat has the right to overstep the level of contact with the probable, or at least overtly overtly black-clawed supreme leader. As a testament to this, the voices in the large-scale combat operations of Overwatch are exactly the same as here. Obviously, although this voice has been processed, it is not a synthetic sound, which cannot be imitated by others.

And...... There's a good chance this voice is the guy who talked to Gilgamesh! You know, if Blackclaw wasn't even the leader, a guy like Gilgamesh, who was arrogant from the bottom of his bones, would never meet.

Cut...... There's definitely an image in there, so I'd love to go in and see it......

The second is that the man in the top hat mentioned the matter of "the auction items were turned into a mess". Obviously, since this sentence was said, and the other party did not doubt it, that is, he knew which rooms were auctioned items. If he knew what the auction items were, but didn't know what they were, then at least he should know the distribution of the rooms. And considering that this guy has permission to contact the leader of the Black Claw...... The man in the top hat probably knew the secret, but this guy didn't say anything about it.

Well...... However, judging from the fact that he has sold himself more than 50 million for a method of use, this guy may reveal some other news to himself in the future...... Of course, I probably have to buy it with my own money.

I really don't know what he is doing with so much money for a projection...... There are 50 million standard common currency, which is enough for him to live wantonly for a lifetime, but it is clear that this guy's purpose is much more than that.

"Well...... I don't know what this guy is thinking. That's all there is to it, let's go. ”

Zhou Yuan spread his hands and ran towards the portal outside. It will take up to twelve hours for the portal to be activated again after cutting off the energy supply, and there will be an auction tomorrow, so the portal will definitely not be cut off. In this case, it would be easy to rush back - of course, it could not be transmitted directly to the hotel, and the teleportation equipment was recorded.

"Tomorrow I estimate that there will be guards outside the portal, and it may be even more difficult to get in tomorrow."

Zhou Yuan said in the headset as he ran towards the portal.

This is very obvious, today Zhou Yuan came in from here, and went out from here, the black claw has already suffered a loss here, and it would be strange if he didn't strengthen the vigilance.

"It's okay, the portal was originally used with the idea of only using it once, and we will have other channels tomorrow," Anna replied in the earphone, "Okay, come back quickly, it is estimated that Black Claw will be checked soon." ”

There was nothing wrong with the process of returning to the hotel from the Black Claw Underground Auction, the only problem was that he could not be seen by others and left the hotel, so Zhou Yuan climbed the window back to his room with the help of Mikoto Misaka.

Soon, there was a knock on the door and I came in.

"Hello, the official operation of the Black Claw, the attack on the auction, please cooperate with me," a girl with glasses and a literary temperament walked in with a tablet in her hand, "Is Sir in the room all this time?" ”

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I have a gastrointestinal cold, I can't feel uncomfortable, and I have diarrhea...... I probably can't do it for the second time today, so let's see the situation tomorrow......