【Quan Zhen】According to the script, we should kiss now?

【23】

In the next few days, Sena did not mention the plan again. He said to You Mu that the matter of persuading his companions is up to him, and it is enough for You Jun to concentrate on preparing.When meeting Sena on campus every day, Yuki always wanted to express his concern, but he was afraid that his inquiry would seem too urgent and utilitarian, so he could only say some pleasantries in the end.Sena's expression became more and more hurried, and he didn't even take the initiative to invite him out to play, and he didn't have time to accompany him to study in the library.

It would be a lie to say that he is not disappointed, but this is also an opportunity for Yuki, he can focus on those preparations that Sena cannot know about.Sometimes, he also chooses to go to the theater to watch a movie. He has watched almost all the movies that have been released. There is no shortage of warmth and happy endings, but what makes him feel uneasy is more tragedy.He sat in the theater chair, watched the pictures on the screen freeze and disappear, thinking about how to get a happy ending if it were him.

Walking out of the screening hall, he saw the unchanging NPC conductor in a daze with nothing to do. The poster light box behind her had replaced most of the off-shelf films, revealing pale lights. Only the knights and sages in the corners were still stubbornly posting Hikaru, as if reminding Yuki, you haven't finished reading our story yet.

Suddenly, he walked towards the ticket counter.The system reminded him {It's time to go home}, but You Mu ignored the line of words in front of him, striding across.

The NPC looked at the returning customers in surprise, and said in a businesslike manner: "Hi, today's session is over."

The system is still sending reminders to him: {Tomorrow will carry out the task, it is time to go home and rest. }

Yuki pointed to the only poster behind the conductor that hadn't been removed: "I want to book two premiere tickets." He paused and added:

"The best seats, please."

At the last moment before the mission started, Sena suddenly called Yuki, and after expressing the senior's honest concern for the junior, he said: "It's cold, you should close the windows and remember to keep warm." hang up the phone.

Yuki was puzzled, he had never opened the window of the bedroom balcony, but Sena would never say a word of meaningless concern at such a time.He checked the locks of the windows, and found that one was ajar, and a paper crane with folded wings was stuck in the window.

He unfolded the Thousand Paper Crane, and the paper was blank except for the messy creases.

Sena's unclear words echoed in his mind. Yuki rushed into the kitchen and turned on the stove. The small stove fire formed a warm circle. He placed the origami on top of the flame. Soon, a text written with lemonade jumped onto the paper. .

Undoubtedly, it was the latest plan Sena devised to match his decision.

Finally, it's time for the masquerade show again.Yuki followed Sena's instructions and wore a simple and neat down jacket with a black hoodie inside, looking low-key and reliable.

After successfully passing the security review, Yuki walked into the familiar venue again.This time, he was no longer the costume designer who replaced the tutor, but the maintenance personnel of the technical department hired to maintain the order of the venue, and was responsible for regularly checking the lighting and audio equipment to avoid accidents.

Sena used the spare time in the past few days to find out the plane structure of the entire building. He spent a little time getting the circuit diagram. For some reason, this new office building that is still for rent has such a strict security system. Even with Yuki providing technical support, it took Sena a lot of time.In addition to the hardware facilities, Sena also used disguise to sneak into the background staff, copied a master key, and listened to some dirty gossip between the organizer and the model.The model Yuki originally wanted to replace was a rookie who was supported by the organizer, with rich resources and good treatment. Even the real priceless mask in this show was given to this newcomer to wear. The organizer's preference for him is evident .

But since Yuki insists on staying behind the scenes and no one pretends to be a rookie, the surly model is a potential ticking time bomb, and Sena must keep an eye on him—and the treasure on his nose.

"Mr. Pocky, are you in?"

Sena's voice came from the wireless earphones. He seemed to be in the busy and noisy backstage, and the makeup artist's loud complaints could be heard from time to time.

"Yeah." Yuki responded shortly, although he got the master key, but this time without Sena's response, he had to sneak into the master control room entirely by himself.Now even the field of vision had turned into a tense stealth mode, and he had to be vigilant at all times, but any lingering in a certain place for a long time would arouse the suspicion of the security personnel.

He was reviewing the plan on the origami in his mind. Sena helped him buy a sound engineer first. The man was gambler and owed debts. Delegate more work to Youmu, in the euphemistic name of accumulating experience.

After handing over to the absent-minded sound engineer, Yuki logically obtained the flow sheet that should have been in charge of the other party.He used the form to enter the electronic control room, where there was only a taciturn colleague, wearing a huge headset, who was indifferent to Yuki's every move.He sat in front of the controller, tapped the wireless headset, and asked softly, Aki-san?

The other end said concisely: "Makeup is on."

That was a secret signal between the two, which meant that Sena had already contacted the rookie model, and the other party did not suspect anything, and everything went well.

Yuki felt relieved and began to pretend to adjust the equalizer.The show was about to start soon, and he could hear the noise of the make-up backstage gradually weakening through the earphones, and Sena seemed to have walked into a quiet lounge.

"There's 'Do Not Disturb the Idle People' hanging on the door. Don't you have eyes? Stupid—is that you?"

Yuki heard someone talking to Sena, the voice was a little strange.Sena skillfully switched to the model's voice, and comforted her in a doting tone: "I knew you would come back here before going on stage, did you miss me?"

Silently imagining the scene of Sena saying nasty words with a flattering face, Yuki shuddered fiercely.He rubbed his upper arms in vain, and listened breathlessly to the conversation between Sena and the rookie in the lounge.

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You Mu pushed the sound volume of a certain line to the maximum, and a deafening accompaniment and the host's excited opening remarks came from the lounge on the headset.

When You Mu heard someone cursing in a low voice, he felt relieved for no reason.After the loud closing sound of the door, Sena's lazy voice sounded again, but this time it was no longer the model's voice.

"The music came just in time."

"Please don't delay important tasks because of trivial matters." Yuki said sternly.

"For the sake of the mission, it is inevitable to make necessary sacrifices occasionally."

What a irritating tone, of course Yuki didn't know that his brows were tightly knit together, he clenched his fists and said mechanically: "Excuse me for being stupid, but I can enjoy it even if I can't do 'sacrifice'."

"Until just now, I didn't feel 'fun', but..." Sena's voice suddenly became very light, he walked out of the lounge, the music faded, and the surroundings were filled with noise, "Are you jealous just now? ?”

"No." Yuki blurted out almost instinctively.

He vaguely heard Sena's chuckle, not pinching his throat to imitate the greasy voice of the model, but the relieved and satisfied laughter he often heard.

"You're right, I'm really enjoying it now."

"..." You Mu pouted at the dark air in front of him.He felt so stupid that he would worry about someone like Sena Izumi, why worry about him?Afraid that he would be robbed by a strange model and eat tofu?Afraid that his identity would be exposed by the other party?There is absolutely no need for this kind of guy who will only make him feel aggrieved and angry, there is nothing to worry about at all!

The first round of catwalks wore classical Venetian masks, which was considered a warm-up show, so the requirements for lantern music were not complicated.After setting everything up, Yuki glanced at the lighting engineer sitting at the other end, whose head was about to be buried in the keyboard.

{Mission Update: Infiltrate the main control room. }

It's time to change the battlefield, Yuki leaves the armchair lightly, the UI at the edge of the field of vision has changed into a nervous stealth mode again, a small yellow arrow points to the back of the field of vision, indicating that the lighting engineer has not yet noticed and has not entered the alert state.

But the moment Yuki's finger clasped the doorknob, the little arrow turned red.

"where are you going?"

This is the first time Youmu heard the man speak, the latter is still arched and listless, but his eyes are as shrewd as a mouse.

"I..." You Mufei quickly glanced at the lines prompted by the system, "Go to senior, it's time to change shifts."

The other party acquiesced to his reason, turned around and returned to a lifeless look.

Walking out of the electronic control room, the lights outside flickered on and off, trying to create a mysterious atmosphere that catered to the mask style.This is a good thing for Yuki, it allows him to quickly go around to another door inconspicuously, take out the master key confidently, and open the door.

Although neither he nor Sena had been able to inquire about this room beforehand, they could have a rough guess about the structure of the main control room based on the ground plan and circuit diagrams.

Different from the dark and narrow electronic control room, the main control room is bright and spacious, full of sophisticated equipment, but only one person is busy - his original partner was also "handled" by Sena in advance, and he fell into a drunken fan last night Unconscious, I'm afraid I still haven't woken up yet.Hearing the sound of the door opening, the man turned his head vigilantly, but before he could see the face of the comer, he was knocked down by Youmu's tranquilizing dart.In order to ensure the accuracy of throwing darts, Youmu has been practicing his skills in the video game city recently. As a game expert, such small games are not difficult for him.

Youmu locked the door, said sorry in his heart, then tied up the sleeping passer-by A, and moved him to the back where the lights couldn't find the controller.

It didn't take much time to obtain the management authority of the main computer, and soon, Youmu got his wish and saw the screens of all the monitors inside and outside the venue.To his surprise, there were many guards standing guard in the corridors outside the venue. They were not security personnel hired by the office building or the organizer itself, and they were like plainclothes policemen—you can tell from their words, deeds and demeanor.Yuki recalled the first week, when Sena turned into a monster thief on the stage, the police responded very quickly. It is true that the monster thief will give a notice before the mission, but the police force at that time was too sufficient, and even guessed them The escape route was as if he had read the script and laid an ambush early.

Looking at the venue, there were also many burly security personnel standing there. These were recruited by the organizers themselves, and they had never been handed over to the police, so they might be able to take advantage of them.

After mastering the highest management authority, Youmu began to automatically search for potentially useful information in the computer.This is just out of the hacker's professional habit of turning all unknowns into knowns. At this moment, his mind is not on collecting information, but on the surveillance video that captured Sena.The second catwalk has already started, and Sena is still staying in a secluded corner, and a certain possessive newcomer model is not there, so this is the time to communicate with him about the progress.

He knocked on the earphones, which was the signal for the communication to be turned on, and he saw Sena in the screen straighten up slightly.

"New track switched."

What Yuki said was still a secret signal.Sena's demeanor didn't change much, she just raised her eyes to look at the surveillance camera, a strange face seemed to be looking straight at him through the screen, with a faint smile on her lips.

The computer at hand suddenly made a "beep" sound, and Youmu hurriedly looked at it. The search software listed the information found, most of which were transaction accounts and informal contracts. Before Youmu finished reading, several photos popped up. The pictures are full of horrific scenes of slaughtering animals. Even though the corpses are so devastated that it is difficult to identify them, Yuki vaguely guesses what these pictures mean.

Illegal smuggling and slaughter of rare animals, this beautiful masquerade show is actually a hypocritical shell of underground trade, just like a gorgeous mask that covers an ugly face, but it is just to conceal people's eyes and ears.Even all the exquisite masks on this show are made by peeling off the animal fur, removing the flesh and bones, and carving out the marrow.

The blood seemed to be drained from the heart, and the brain rushed to the top of the head. Yumu slammed his fingers on the keyboard, he never expected that such a cruel tragedy would be involved behind the task of stealing the mask.He didn't even have time to respond to Sena's call, and his eyes were locked on the latest deciphered document. One party was the director of the show organizer company, and the other party was only a mess of garbled characters. Going back further, Yuki found that all the benefits were huge. A large proportion flowed into an unknown account, and this strong sense of sight reminded him of a ledger that recorded countless criminal evidence.

Suddenly, a strange thought came to him, and he shuddered, his whole body chilled by his terrible and ridiculous thought.

"Answer me, Yu-kun!" Sena's growl brought him back to his senses, but before he could answer, he was startled by the click of the door lock and gasped.

The first thing to get out of the door was the hem of an expensive mink fur coat, followed by a scarred man wearing sunglasses. He noticed the young man in the middle of the room, and seemed a little surprised and interested.

"A lighting engineer suddenly told me that there was a suspicious person in the venue. I didn't expect it to be true."

You Mu's hand is hidden behind his back, he also has a spare dart, but he dare not use it lightly.

"I'm the only one who has the key to this room, and you must get my permission to enter. Where did you come from, you sneaky kitty?"

"Yu——I'll be right over!" Sena, who hadn't received a response for a long time, obviously didn't want to stay where she was. He heard a strange man's voice, which was cold and low, and even he, a monster thief who had experienced many battles, felt shuddering.You must not let You Jun stay alone with this kind of person, he thought anxiously, wishing he could teleport to You Mu's side.

Yuki swallowed, trying not to tremble too obviously.He didn't expect things to unfold like this at all. In fact, he was still lingering in his mind with the horrific information he had just deciphered from the computer.He knew he was careless, and even forgot to pay attention to the surveillance screen outside the door.

"Look carefully, you have beautiful eyes and good facial features. If you are a model, you must be great," the man said slowly, looking at him carefully, "Surprised? Disguise is the same as a mask. Disguise, your disguise technique is very powerful, I was almost deceived."

Just as Yuki was desperately contemplating words, two options for introduction appeared in front of his eyes: {ask for help; solve it by yourself}

Before Yuki could think about it, a small line of words appeared under the option: {Warning: This is a key divergence point, the player will switch to "bystander mode", and cannot be manipulated at will. From this option, the file cannot be loaded and reopened . }

Yuki read the reminder several times, and his brain seemed to calm down a little.He stared at the line of text, and suddenly had a premonition that this was the last option of the Phantom Thief Line, which determined whether he could break into the true ending.Recalling all kinds of daily life, Yuki, who was ignorant of hackers' ideas at first, is now gradually able to understand the other party's mood.

He thought of the phrase "I believe in you" that Sena said, his trembling body slowly calmed down, warm blood flowed back to his cold limbs, and the tall and fierce man in front of him didn't seem so scary anymore.

He took a deep breath and said softly, "Fix it yourself."

As soon as the words fell, Yuki raised his hand uncontrollably, and turned off his own wireless earphone while the mink man made a defensive gesture.

For a moment, Sena's panting and the loud background music disappeared.The silence was monotonous and abrupt, Yuki could even hear his own heart beating.

"For the last show, the real treasure is the mask of your favorite model," he heard his own voice echoing in the empty control room, dry and unfamiliar, "if you don't want to see it stolen by a monster , might as well listen to my humble opinion."

Sena rushed over almost as soon as the communication was cut off.According to Yuki's intention, the ermine man deliberately did not close the door, and the caring phantom thief rushed in without any doubts, and met the strange man pinching Yuki's chin and wrapping his arms around his waist, with an ambiguous gesture.

"Let him go!"

Like an angry cheetah dispossessed, Sena hurls darts and cards.It's a pity that the opponent was already prepared, and when he twisted his body, he used You Mu, who was a circle smaller than him, as a shield.Sena's expression froze, and he had no choice but to throw off the long whip immediately, knocking down all the darts that were about to pierce Yuki's skin.

Kaitou is not suitable for direct confrontation, but how can Sena see Yuki fall into the enemy's hands, he draws out the knife hidden in his cuff, and waits for an opportunity to approach, but the mink man is very insidious, pinching Yuki's arm and trapping him in front of myself.

"The security system has been destroyed by us, and you alone can't resist it for long." Sena stabilized her voice, trying to shake the other party's mind.

The man hiding behind You Mu laughed: "Leave this to yourself."

Sena frowned, the internal signal of the venue was blocked, blocking all external signals, he was unable to contact his fellow monster thieves, and Yuki cut off the call again. At this moment, he could only hear the monotonous electrical noise and knew nothing about the change.

Just when he was concentrating on the enemy in front of him, a blade brushed past Sena's ear, and he barely escaped, but fell into a trap covered with steel wires, unable to move an inch.

"You're quite athletic, as expected of a Phantom Thief." The familiar voice attracted Sena and Yuki to look at him, and it turned out to be a newcomer model with scantily clad clothes. The blade between his fingers shone coldly. "I really want to 'do' it with you."

Sena's cheek was cut by the blade, and the blood flowed down, like a shocking wild plum in the winter snow.He stared at the model coldly, his thin lips pursed into a line.

The ermine man laughed out of satisfaction: "If you don't want to see your little lover get hurt, just stay still."

His broad palm squeezed Yuki's arm tightly, the young man hummed softly in pain, Sena's expression became even worse, and he sneered: "What do you want to do with us, hand it over to the police outside?"

"I'm not good at thinking about this kind of thing. What to do with you, I'll leave it to your little lover."

As the man spoke, he pushed Yuki. Like a death row prisoner sent to the guillotine, he looked helplessly and hopelessly at Sena in the corner, watching thousands of stars disappear in the ice-blue deep sea, turning into Dead glacier.

"Yu..." Despair flashed across Sena's face for the first time.

"I'm sorry," Yumu said dully, as if all his emotions had been stripped from his chest, leaving only an empty shell, and his tone remained undulating, "Please hand over Quan—Mr. Phantom Thief to the police."

-TBC-