Chapter 43 Breaking Into the Den of Thieves

Seeing Kaiba carefully getting back into the cabin from outside the helicopter, Hayato found him funny. Although you look cool when you grab the helicopter with one hand, you look quite embarrassed when you crawl back after showing off.

Under the watchful eyes of countless duelists attracted by the news released in advance, the helicopter flew away with Kaiba and Hayato, who had finished showing off. On the helicopter, Kaiba bit into a piece of lozenge, put on the headset for talking on the helicopter, and said to Hayato: "I'm curious, where did you get the information? I obviously got it directly from Even within the group, we haven’t found any accurate information.”

Hayato didn't say anything, and made gestures with his hands on his neck, which caused Kaiba to roll his eyes in disgust: "Huh, just pretending, just don't want to tell me the channels you use to collect intelligence. The excuse of 'predicting the future' is simply not good enough for me." Consider yourself a fool!”

With a cold snort, Kaiba turned his head and looked out the window, ignoring Hayato's helpless hand spread.

He really wasn't lying on this point. The person they were going to find next was really the information he got from Isis.

He was attacked by Gurus' men at the Egyptian Cultural Relics Touring Exhibition Hall. He learned that someone in his Kaiba Group actually dared to use public money for personal gain, leaked the experimental duel disk that should have been destroyed to the outside world, and even traded it to Gurus. Help, Kaiba was furious.

He had overhauled the Haima Group inside and out, but what annoyed him was that he couldn't find anything wrong with the Haima Group under investigation, let alone those traitors and commercial spies. Not even a single person could be found who took advantage of his position to enrich himself.

is it possible? The Haima Group is not a charitable group. Its predecessor was a hugely profitable arms group. All of its people are extremely honest? Kaiba is not a three-year-old kid who can be deceived so easily.

Then, there is only one answer. Even if the five bosses who seemingly supported the entire Kaiba Group's personnel network were eliminated, the Kaiba Group was no longer the one-man shop of Seto Kaiba, and the employees under him each had their own thoughts. The worst thing to think about is that the Haima Group has long been quietly infiltrated by a certain force!

Kaiba likes to play cards and kill others, but he doesn't like to have his things taken away. At this moment, Hayato found him and told him that he knew the spies within the Kaiba Group. Although not all, he at least knew who was from Gurus.

The helicopter was hovering somewhere. Kaiba, carrying nothing but a pair of special reinforced duel disks specially designed for him, jumped straight down from a height of about six to seven meters and landed like a superhero. Behind him, Hayato descended steadily along the lowered ladder.

"Let me tell you, don't your knees hurt? Okay, it's nothing." Seeing Kaima changing from a squatting position to a standing position without any lull in his walking steps, Hayato also understood the answer to his question. It's a seahorse after all, isn't it? Not to mention jumping out of a plane, he can even throw cards with his hands to cut wires, and is known as Kaiba, Giant Mountain Superpower, and Seto.

"Are the people you mentioned staying here?" Kaiba frowned as he looked at the card shop in front of him. Although the store in front of me is closed, judging from the sign in front of the door, this store is a professional card store certified by Haima Group.

According to the rules of the upcoming "Duel City", if you want to participate in this festival of duel monsters, you need to meet two conditions. One is a deck containing at least 40 cards, including rare cards, to screen out those who do not have powerful cards to prevent them from fishing in troubled waters.

The second is the duel plate issued by the Kaiba Group. Only duelists with a certain level in the Kaiba Group's database are eligible to obtain the duel plate. The levels of duelists are divided into 12 levels by Kaiba based on the levels of duel monsters. Duelists with level 8 and above can get duel discs for free, duelists with level 6 and above can pay to buy them at a discount, and duelists with level 4 and above need to Pay the full amount.

As for duelists below level 4? Kaiba left them with a rating of trash, not even qualified to get a duel disk. By the way, Jonouchi was specially marked as Level 1 by Kaiba, and had an exclusive level title of "Mortal Bones". This guy Kaiba, if you don't know it, is actually a guy with quite a bad taste.

Of course, duel disks cannot be purchased everywhere. You need to prove your duelist level at a professional card store specially certified by the Kaiba Group. Such card stores are found throughout Doshino City. There are only ten of them, and very detailed inspections were conducted before certification.

Unfortunately, Mr. Shuangliu's Turtle Game House is not among these ten. Even Yuga's Black Crown Game Store was not selected because the types of games sold were too complicated.

"At least based on the information I obtained, the other people are just suspects. The possibility that the manager of this store is someone from the Grus organization is as high as 1000%." ​​Hayato looked at the sign of the card store in front of him.

"RPG Hobby" & "Trading Card" means RPG Hobby and card trading place. Compared with the childlike Turtle Game House and the enthusiastic Black Crown Game Store, this card store is obviously much more utilitarian.

Instead of shouting stupidly, Hayato opened the door of the card store on his own. After Hayato walked into the store, he found that the shelves in the store were filled with all kinds of beautifully packaged cards, including many such as Rare and expensive cards such as [Dragon Killing Sword] and [Dark Leopard Warrior].

"The cards in the store are just laid out like this, and no one is looking after them?" Kaiba frowned in confusion and picked up a [Sapphire Dragon] on the shelf next to him. This level 4 dragon monster has an attack power of 1900, which is second to none among low-level monsters. Even if you are as picky as Kaiba, you will not mind having this monster in your deck.

But on the shelf, he actually saw more than ten copies of [Sapphire Dragon].

"Did this store rob a collector of rare cards? How come there are so many such rare cards?"

Hayato glanced at the [Sapphire Dragon] in Kaiba's hand, took it, smiled coldly, and tore off the card and its outer packaging in Kaiba's surprised eyes? !

"What are you doing?" Kaiba remembered that when he tore off that old guy Sugoroku Muto's [Blue Eyes], both Yugi and Hayato were very angry, but Hayato, who had been brainwashing him that "cards have psychic powers", now actually Take the initiative to tear up the card?

"Rare cards appear in piles, and the owner of this card shop cannot be ignorant. He just puts these cards at the entrance and exit where they are most likely to be stolen. Isn't the answer still obvious, Seth? "Hayato pointed coldly at the pile of [Sapphire Dragon] cards that Kaiba had been observing before, "These are simply fake cards."

"These [Sapphire Dragon] are actually fake cards?" Kaiba's tone was a little angry, but to his surprise, Hayato actually shook his head.

Hayato looked around and made a clenched fist gesture: "All the cards here are fake. No doubt, I just have a unique method of detecting counterfeiting."

The principle is actually very simple. Hayato just opens his system [Store], then jumps to the card recycling function, and chooses to recycle all the cards sold in this card shop. The feedback the system gave him was that they were all fake cards.

Good guy, there is no real thing among the fakes. Hayato suspects that if this store continues to open in the future, it might engage in a "fake one, pay ten" thing and give eleven fake cards. The name of the store was so hard to pronounce that Hayato had already thought of a new name for him, so he decided to call it Xixi.

"Hmph, that's really annoying." Kaiba snorted, a little embarrassed that he didn't recognize the fake card just now. It doesn't matter if you can't tell the difference yourself. The key is that Hayato is just looking at the cards through the package just like him. How does he judge the real card and the fake card.

Ignoring the piles of counterfeit cards, Hayato bypassed the shelves and walked straight to the cashier at the back of the card store. As he walked, he said to Kaiba: "By the way Seth, have you done any research on the layout of the store? "

Kaiba crossed his arms and remained silent, not answering Hayato's question. When you think about this kind of question, you will know that he is Seto Kaiba, not a worker in a mall, how could he study such boring things?

But Hayato didn't expect Kaiba to answer, so he just asked casually. Turning over, he jumped into the empty cashier counter and said to himself: "In a shopping mall, the most popular and best-selling goods should be placed at the back, so that if customers want to buy That product needs to travel the longest distance. On the road, the possibility that customers will like a certain product will be maximized."

"The cashier counter of the store needs to be placed at the entrance, not only to prevent people from skipping the bill without paying, but also to receive the customers who come in as soon as possible."

As Hayato spoke, he leaned down and groped in front of the cashier. With a "Desktop Cleaning Master" move, he swept away the scattered pens, notes, and table tops, leaving only a fixed computer. display.

"I see." Hayato had said it so straightforwardly, and Kaiba naturally understood what Hayato meant. This store completely violates the normal store layout. The most popular products are placed at the entrance, while the cashier, which is always occupied, is placed at the very back of the store.

There may be some secret hidden in the location of this cashier counter, so it is always guarded and uses rare cards to attract customers' attention to prevent them from lingering in the depths of the store.

Hayato's hand fumbled around the bottom of the computer screen a few times, and a smile appeared on his face: "I found it, it's really Lucky."

He pressed lightly with his fingers, and at the same time, the wall against which the cashier stood suddenly moved and slowly slid open to both sides, revealing an entrance.

"Please, President Kaiba~" Hayato smiled and pushed open the barrier at the entrance to the cashier for Kaiba.

Kaiba was not polite. He walked to the open entrance and said coldly: "Follow closely, Hayato Kobayashi. I won't bother to save you."

The two walked into the entrance one after the other. Behind them, the sliding wall slowly closed.