Chapter 93 A fruitful journey

The festival lasted until two in the morning. Akai Shuichi, who finally had a rest, opened the door silently. The moment he entered the room, he saw a black-robed man wearing a devil mask sitting on the bed. He did not react at all, but walked straight into the bathroom, unbuttoned his priest robe, took off the cross coffin necklace, and threw it into the sink.

"If it was an assassination, you would have died long ago." Toru Amuro took off his mask and spoke sarcastically.

"If it was an assassination attempt, you would have died long ago. It's really not easy that your injuries allow you to jump around until now." Akai Shuichi continued to take off his clothes, and only felt relieved after making sure that everything on his body was soaked in water.

Noticing Akai Shuichi's actions, Amuro Toru took out a badge from his pocket. Following his movements, a trace of blood was drawn from the wound on his body. He couldn't help but start coughing, "Ahem, it seems that you also know what dangerous item you are wearing. This little thing is really powerful."

"Have you ever seen it burn?" Akai Shuichi frowned. Who did the people from the Fire Spirit Cult kill again?

"Burn it up, cough cough, so its effect is to burn it up?" Amuro Toru coughed and squinted at the badge in his hand, "Is this little thing?"

...This is really a boomerang. I used the cold reading method for one day, and now it is used by someone else.

Akai Shuichi frowned and stepped forward, snatched the badge from Amuro Toru's hand, and threw it into the pool. "The power of this thing when it burns is much greater than you think. I've seen people get completely ignited and burned to death."

A flash of doubt crossed Toru Amuro's face, "Your skills are so advanced?" Has technology advanced to this point?

Akai Shuichi was stunned. Bourbon could say this, which proved that he didn't know that some unscientific things happened in the world. So, Scotland didn't recognize Bourbon? Bourbon didn't know that Scotland had been resurrected.

So there is only one reason why Scotland did not recognize Bourbon but recognized him. Scotland could not guarantee that the interests of the god of death were consistent with those of humans, but he himself had to be bound to the god of death. If they really went to the opposite side, Scotland was worried that Bourbon would bear the psychological burden of killing his friend.

This is really not good news, a real god of death, but His position is unclear.

However, since the God of Death is still willing to let Scotland rescue people, it proves that He has no intention of leaning towards the Fire Spirit Cult, and they can still talk.

"Not everything needs to be solved with technology." Shuichi Akai hinted that there was a high probability that some unscientific things would happen on the ship later, and he hoped that Bourbon would be mentally prepared.

Hearing this, Amuro Toru was full of doubts. If he couldn't use technology, what else could he use? Could he pray to God? He looked at me like a fool: "You are an undercover in a cult. Hey, is there something wrong with your brain? Hey, how can you say such a thing?"

Akai Shuichi rubbed his brows. How should he explain these things to an objective materialist? "Forget it, just think of them as having advanced technology." It didn't affect the explanation anyway, "This thing can burn a person to death if it catches fire."

Amuro Toru lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, "What are the conditions for ignition? Ahem, I originally thought it was just a very minor fire, probably the level of a lighter. Ahem, because I saw someone in the recovery room below the deck, ahem, burning a body. He poured a lot of gasoline, then took out a badge and threw it on, and the body started to burn."

"Is that the corpse you hung under room 1003?" Seeing that Amuro Toru was going to talk for a long time, Akai Shuichi simply sat over.

Amuro Toru moved aside to make room for Akai Shuichi, "Yes, I came on board because of the organization. Ahem, a simple mission, but three members of the organization died, and a code member is missing."

"But the weird thing is, I saw the missing code member on the ship. He was working as a bartender. Isn't that weird? Ahem, so I followed him. He seemed to have a good relationship with Tsuchiya Yoshiki, and Tsuchiya Yoshiki happened to be next to my room. Ahem, after I entered room 1003, I found an iPad that looked a bit problematic. The content inside was encrypted three times."

"According to the plan, the Fire Spirit Cult planned to create a fire, ahem, to make Tsuchiya Yoshiki the only lucky person to survive on the entire ship, ahem, so that Dream of Hope would become more famous. Later, Tsuchiya Yoshiki died, so I had to take Dream of Hope away to prevent them from finding a second person to continue the plan."

"You should have guessed what happened next. I was ambushed. I didn't fight back, but I was stabbed several times." Amuro Toru shrugged, "Ahem, I can only say that although I don't know why, he just hid me in the cleaning truck and moved me to the recycling room."

"When I woke up again, I saw a person burning, ahem, Mr. Kikuchi. That's why I hung the body under room 1003, ahem, no matter what, these murderers must know each other, and they are closely related to the Fire Spirit Cult."

Before he finished speaking, Amuro Toru pulled out a pistol from under his robe, quickly put it against Akai Shuichi's forehead, narrowed his eyes and threatened: "Now, FBI, please tell me, how much do you know about the Fire Spirit Cult? I heard that the FBI intervened in the follow-up investigation of the Sanno Festival and cleared out the Fire Spirit Holy Son Cult. Why?"

Akai Shuichi raised his hands in surrender, "Are you sure you want to fight me with your injuries?"

Amuro Toru sneered, "I gave myself two injections of adrenaline, so I can get a shot if I want."

"Are you going to die?" Akai Shuichi frowned. "Giving yourself adrenaline at this time is no different from seeking death."

"You said that as if I can survive without fighting." Amuro Toru smiled sarcastically, "Anyway, I will take you away before I die, FBI, answer my questions quickly."

Akai Shuichi shrugged helplessly: "Okay, okay, this is not a very complicated matter. The reason why the FBI cleared out the Fire Spirit Holy Son Church is because I was an undercover agent in the Fire Spirit Church, and the mission the bishop gave me at the time was this. I have to complete this mission to become a deacon."

Amuro Toru pulled the corner of his mouth and pointed the gun forward again, "It seems that you didn't do a good job. You are still a broken priest now. Okay, I can believe you. But can you explain why the other FBI on the ship still knows nothing about everything? You didn't tell the FBI about it, right?"

Akai Shuichi was silent for a moment, and finally explained, "Because they have hundreds of thousands of believers, and each of them has a badge. I said, I have seen someone burned to death in front of my eyes. Do you think I should take the gamble? To bet that the burning to death was just a magic trick, a scam?"

Amuro Toru was also silent. He confirmed Akai Shuichi's expression, then slowly put down the gun, "Is what you said true?"

Akai Shuichi pointed at the badge and said, "You can try it. I can tell you... um... forget it. If I tell you, you'll think I'm crazy. Let me do it."

He walked to the pool, picked up the badge, and placed it in the empty bathtub. He clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and silently said, "Spirit of selfless love, I offer you this sacrifice. Please guide the soul of the ignorant and let it go to you."

As the silent recitation ended, the badge suddenly burst into flames, and the flames instantly swept the entire bathtub, dyeing the surroundings red. Akai Shuichi quickly stepped back and turned on the faucet, and the water quickly put out the flames.

"...Your skills are so advanced?" Toru Amuro looked at the scene in shock. This fire plus some combustible materials was indeed enough to burn a person to death.

I've already said that it can't be explained by science. Akai Shuichi rubbed his brow helplessly, "When I first saw it, I was as shocked as you are."

"So what are the conditions for ignition?" Amuro Toru thought about it and the only thing he remembered was that the other party just made a gesture of putting his hands together.

…

Akai Shuichi answered with gritted teeth, "Pray..."

"…So, there's really something wrong with your brain?" Toru Amuro looked at Akai Shuichi with an expression of concern for a mentally retarded person.

Shuichi Akai knew that he would be considered a psychopath if he said it out loud, so he held his forehead helplessly, "Remember the saying in the organization? We are both God and the devil, because we want to reverse the flow of time and bring the dead back to life. There's nothing scientific about this saying, right? And what the organization does, where is the science?"

"What the Fire Spirit Cult does is actually similar to what this sentence said. If the way an organization practices this sentence is through experiments, then the Fire Spirit Cult is a belief. They plan to sacrifice everyone on the ship, offer sacrifices to the Spirit God, summon the Spirit God to descend to the world, and build a new world. In the new world, all the dead will be resurrected, and everyone will be happy."

Amuro Toru thought silently for a while before he spoke: "In fact, the Dream of Hope was given to Tsuchiya Yoshiki by the organization. Now think about it, there is no reason for the Fire Spirit Cult to give birth to the legend of the Dream of Hope. It is only possible that the organization created the legend of the Dream of Hope in order to make money or for some other reason. Therefore, the plan of the Dream of Hope was formulated by the organization, but the one who executed it was the Fire Spirit Cult."

"The relationship between the Fire Spirit Cult and the organization seems to be very good...but I have never heard of the relationship between them..."

Shuichi Akai obviously didn't expect such heavyweight intelligence. "I did think that their goals were similar, and there might be a connection. But I really haven't heard of any connection between them. It seems that the connection between them is a higher-level connection, and it is information known by a small number of people."

Amuro Toru lowered his eyes, but even Gin didn't know about this. Moreover, three members of the organization died, all of them were done by the Fire Spirit Cult, and no one in the organization went to tell the Fire Spirit Cult. The connection between them was probably more private, for example, an intelligence network that belonged only to the Boss.

Amuro Toru had no intention of sharing this information with Akai Shuichi, "But at the moment, apart from the missing codename member, no one else from the organization is on the ship. Our only enemy is the Fire Spirit Cult."

"By the way, does this badge really only burn when you pray? I just released one for Miss Suzuki, so I have to take it back quickly."

Akai Shuichi shrugged. "Then you don't have to worry. I guarantee that when she comes to see me, there will be no badge in her bag. Also, I advise you to throw all the badges on you into the sea. I can't guarantee that there are other ways besides silent recitation. I can't even guarantee that silent recitation is effective. If I were sure, I would have notified the FBI to take away the badges of the believers."

Amuro Toru frowned and thought for a moment, "I saw you guys were preaching, how many badges did you give out?"

“…”

Noticing Akai Shuichi's silence, Amuro Toru's heart skipped a beat, "Don't tell me there are 100."

“…”

"Five hundred?"

Akai Shuichi looked away guiltily: "One for each person... I mean... everyone on the ship."

Amuro Toru's eyes went dark, and he gritted his teeth and said, "FBI, I will take you with me before I die!"